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==''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'' (2008–2009)==
{{Infobox character
| name              = Sarah Connor
| series            = [[Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles|''Terminator:<br>The Sarah Connor Chronicles'']]
| image             = Sarah Connor (Lena Headey).jpg
| caption           = [[Lena Headey]] as Sarah Connor in<br>''[[Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' (2008–2009)
| first             = "[[Pilot (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)|Pilot]]" (2008)
| last              = "[[Born to Run (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)|Born to Run]]" (2009)
| based_on          = {{based on|Sarah Connor|[[James Cameron]]|[[Gale Anne Hurd]]}}
| adapted_by        = [[Josh Friedman]]
| portrayer         = [[Lena Headey]]
| significant_other = [[List of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles characters#Charley Dixon|Charley Dixon]]
| aliases           = {{ubl|Sarah Baum|Sarah Reese|Karen|Sarah Gale}}
}}
In the television series ''[[Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', an alternate sequel to the first two films, [[Lena Headey]] portrays Sarah Connor. This version of Sarah is an alternate future version of her film series counterpart; her appearances in the first two ''Terminator'' films are considered part of this continuity.

===Production background===
In November 2005, [[20th Century Fox]] announced that it would produce a television series called ''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'' featuring the adventures of the title character and her son in the years after ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day''.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Terminator Franchise Rises Again |publisher=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=November 10, 2005 |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=11940 |access-date=2007-01-16 |archive-date=2007-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930033136/http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=11940 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In November 2006, it announced that Headey had been chosen to play Sarah.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/headey-lands-connor-role-1117953533/ |title=Headey lands 'Connor' role|date=November 7, 2006|work=Variety}}</ref> The choice of Headey was criticized by several fans and critics, who said she bore no resemblance to the athletic, muscular character portrayed by Hamilton.<ref name="LAtimes">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-channel12jan12,1,2529711.story?coll=la-entnews-home-topstories%22&ctrack=1&cset=true |title=New Sarah Connor needs thick skin |first=Scott |last=Collins |work=[[The Los Angeles Times]] |date=January 11, 2008 |access-date=2008-01-12 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080330050525/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-channel12jan12,1,2529711.story?cset=true&ctrack=1&coll=la-entnews-home-topstories%22 
|archive-date=2008-03-30 }}</ref> The controversy was covered by the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'',<ref name="LAtimes" /> ''[[The Boston Herald]]'',<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jan/20/television.gender |title=Weedy action heroine under fire |quote=Fans and feminists criticize a British actress for having the wrong physique to play the star role in American TV's hit Terminator spin-off |first=David |last=Smith |publisher=[[The Observer]] |date=January 20, 2008 |access-date=2008-01-20 |location=London}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'',<ref name="Guardian" /> and an online fan group.<ref name="Guardian" />

Series creator [[Josh Friedman]] auditioned over 300 actress for the role; he said he was looking for was someone "who embodied that spirit and who was believable in that role and not just some glammed up, Hollywood, actressy thing".<ref name="ign1">{{cite web | last=Goldman | first=Eric | url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/798/798086p1.html | title=Guiding the Sarah Connor Chronicles | publisher=IGN.com |date=June 22, 2007 | access-date=2007-06-22}}</ref>

After a friend recommended English actor Lena Headey for the role, Friedman watched her audition tape and thought she was "a tough, tough woman".<ref name="ign1" /> Having seen ''[[The Terminator]]'' when she was a teenager,<ref name="ew-20080111">{{cite news |last=Svetkey | first=Benjamin | url=http://www.ew.com/article/2008/01/11/sarah-connor-t3-do-over | title='Sarah Connor Chronicles': 'T3' Rebooted | publisher=Entertainment Weekly |date=January 11, 2008 | access-date=2008-09-13}}</ref> Headey was aware of the iconic status of the character; she said, "Linda Hamilton will always be the original Sarah Connor and it's a very strong print that she's left, but hopefully people will embrace what I bring to Sarah and see it with fresh eyes".<ref name="deadbolt-2008">{{cite web | last=Rogers | first=Troy | url=http://www.thedeadbolt.com/news/102958/sarahconnor_interview.php | title=nside The Sarah Connor Chronicles with Lena Headey and James Middleton | publisher=TheDeadbolt.com | year=2008 | access-date=2008-09-13 | archive-date=2008-10-07 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007024917/http://www.thedeadbolt.com/news/102958/sarahconnor_interview.php | url-status=dead }}</ref> When asked about her approach to the role, Headey said, "I'm playing a mother who is a single parent, bringing up a teenage son, who also happens to save the world—as a byline to her life. And the way I would play that is someone who's passionate and scared and angry and a mother, all these things. So I approach that just trying to be honest within the boundaries of her&nbsp;..."<ref>{{cite web
 |url = http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/Lena%20Headey%3A%20Sarah%20Connor%20Laid%20To%20Rest/ |title = Lena Headey: Sarah Connor Laid To Rest |publisher = [[SuicideGirls.com]] |date = April 8, 2009 |access-date = 2009-04-08}}</ref>

===Season 1===

In 1999, four years after the events of the second film (Two years in the show's timeline), Sarah and John Connor are living undercover after being blamed for the murder of Miles Dyson and is engaged to paramedic [[List of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles characters#Charley Dixon|Charley Dixon]]. Fearing discovery and the certainty of a stable life, they flee again. On his first day in his new school, John is attacked by a T-888 Terminator posing as a substitute teacher called [[List of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles characters#Cromartie|Cromartie]]. He escapes with the help of [[Cameron (Terminator)|Cameron Phillips]], a Terminator that resembles a teenage girl, sent back in time by the future John to protect him. Sarah hears of the shooting and rushes to the school but is captured by Cromartie, who uses her to lure John into a trap. Again with the help of Cameron, they flee to a bank where resistance members have hidden the parts of a time machine. As Cromartie attacks them, the trio disappear into the year 2007.

Cameron suggests to Sarah their primary mission should be to stop Skynet, estimated to go online in 2011. Sarah argues against this, but Cameron tells her she would have died from cancer in 2005. The three characters try to evade discovery and find the origins of Skynet. In the third episode of the series, Sarah seeks to avoid getting cancer; she trains her body and takes vitamins and medications.

Sarah's relationship with Cameron has been repeatedly antagonistic and they share a mutual distrust. As Sarah attempts to teach Cameron the value of a human life, Cameron argues the importance of their mission to thwart Skynet's creation even if killing is necessary. During battles with Terminators programmed to kill the Connors, Sarah and Cameron often find themselves working together. Also, since Cameron is the only other person who knows of her cancer situation, Sarah often approaches her for advice in the matter.

In the episode "Queen's Gambit", she discovers that her dead lover Kyle Reese has a brother named [[List of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles characters#Derek Reese|Derek]], who is also a time-travelling Resistance agent. She hopes to save Derek from being killed by androids. Sarah tells John about his true identity and he seeks help from her former fiancé Charley Dixon to save his uncle's life. Despite her knowledge of his connection to Kyle, Sarah continues to distrust Derek because she is aware that he killed Andrew "Andy" Goode, one of the creators of Skynet. Despite their mutual distrust, there is some attraction between them.

===Season 2===
In the second season, Sarah worries about contracting and dying of cancer. She meets John's new friend Riley Dawson, and is concerned their friendship risks the family's safety from Skynet and Riley's safety. Sarah and Derek help Charley rescue his wife from Cromartie, but she dies in a bomb explosion. Sarah shelters a young boy named [[List of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles characters#Martin "Marty" Bedell (child)|Marty Bedell]] who is being hunted by a T-888 because he shares his name with a future high-ranking member of the human resistance. An attack from Margos Sarkissian leaves John traumatized. Sarah takes the blame of Sarkissian's death for John, which Derek and Cameron later discover when John and Sarah argue. their relationship changes; John cannot let go of his guilt for killing Sarkissian; Sarah realizes that she cannot always protect her son. She seeks counseling from family psychiatrist Boyd Sherman but discovers his role in Skynet's future.

Sarah is kidnapped by Cromartie, but she is rescued by John and [[List of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles characters#James Ellison|James Ellison]], an [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent who was earlier determined to bring her to justice. Along with Derek and Cameron, they plan to lure Cromartie into a nearby church; they kill and bury it and plan to destroy it later. Sarah smashes its CPU; her stress after the battle results in nightmares and sleepwalking. She visits Dr. Sherman again but is unable to be honest with him. Sarah remembers seeing a three-dotted symbol in her dreams. She has seen this before; it was left by a dying Resistance soldier in her basement. Her obsession with the symbol leads her to Dakara Systems, a technology company whose logo includes it. There, Alexander Agagi II is developing an artificial intelligence program named "Emma". Realizing she has been chasing the wrong lead, Sarah's stress becomes uncontrollable and she smashes mirrors in her bathroom. Derek thinks Sarah is losing her sanity.

At a UFO convention, which Sarah attends to investigate the three-dotted sign, she meets a woman named Eileen, who is really Alan Park, a scientist who specialized in [[Light Detection and Ranging]]. Fearing for his life he underwent [[sex reassignment surgery]]. He thinks he is being targeted by his former employer, and that [[Unidentified flying object|drone]] sightings in the [[Mojave Desert]] are a government conspiracy. Sarah takes him to a hypnotherapist named Dr. Barbara Morris, to unravel his memories to reveal the location of the facility. An assassin arrives during the session and murders Morris and Park. Sarah has recorded the session; Park's clues lead her to a warehouse. As she entered the building, she fights and apparently kills a man named Ed Winston, who has wounded her leg. Inside the warehouse, she sees three bright dots in the sky; they are hauls of a Hunter-Killer craft from the future. She kidnaps and forces a doctor to remove the bullet from her leg, and then tells Derek to destroy the evidence of her hospitalization to prevent the authorities and the machines from learning her identity and tracking her. After Derek finds her, Sarah decides to tell him about his relation to John, but he already knows. The family arrives at a company town, Charm Acres, looking for survivors of the warehouse explosion. At the end of their search, Sarah, John, Derek and Cameron see the Hunter-Killer drone.

Ed Winston has survived being shot by Sarah. Following a lead from Charm Acres, Sarah visits the factory where Winston kidnapped her and subjected her to hallucinogenic drugs to find out why she bombed the factory and the identities of her accomplices. After enduring Winston's physical and psychological torments, Sarah breaks free and attacks and shoots him in the head, killing him. She is arrested by the police, beaten up and taken to jail.

Sarah is rescued from jail by John and Cameron; she accompanies them to go see the T-1001 impersonating Catherine Weaver, where it is suggested that she is building something like Skynet, hoping to defeat it. Before Sarah can find out more, the prototype Hunter-Killer assaults the building and the group escape. In the building's basement Cameron gives her A.I. chip to Weaver's creation, which is now stored in the exhumed body of Cromartie, who takes it into the future. John finds Cameron's empty shell lying in the basement and a repeating message on the computer monitors reading, "I'm sorry, John". John discovers he cannot let her go. In an attempt to save both Cameron and Weaver's creation, both John and Catherine go to the future after the Cromartie shell, while Sarah remains in the present to continue the fight.