Review: 'Sarah Connor' - Queen's Gambit

No good deed goes unpunished ... that should have been the subtitle for this week's "Sarah Connor Chronicles," in my opinion.

Following a chess theme throughout, this week's episode follows up from the third episode, "The Turk."

Andy Goode, creator of the chess-playing computer, hasn't let Sarah destroying his machine keep him down. He's back, and he's made a new Turk that he has entered in a chess computer championship that will award the winner with a big government contract.

Andy gets to the final round only to lose to a Japanese team. That's a good thing because Cameron is standing in the wings, just waiting for Andy to win so she can finally kill him should he have won.

Meanwhile, Cromartie (now looking like George Laszlo) appears at Charlie Dixon's home passing himself off as an FBI agent. Charlie doesn't give him any answers, but his wife knows that her husband is lying when he tells Cromartie he hasn't seen his former lover.

Back at the chess competition, Sarah has decided to fill Andy in on all that's going on. Before she can do that, though, she finds Andy dead on the floor and a mysterious stranger running away from the scene. Police catch the culprit before he gets too far.

At John and Cameron's school, grieving for the student who committed suicide is taking place. A counselor calls Cameron in to talk about her grief, but being a machine, she has none. She repeats her final conversation with the student, then says she feels much better and leaves. Concerned, he calls Sarah and tells him she needs more counseling.

In prison, always-behind Agent Ellison is interrogating the culprit from Andy's murder. He becomes convinced that the prisoner knows more than he's saying, and wants him transferred into FBI custody. Before that takes place, the Terminator Trio (Sarah, John and Cameron) have discovered the distinct barcode tattoo on the culprit's arm. Sarah masquerades as a lawyer and interrogates him, only to discover he's actually Derek Reese, John's uncle and Kyle's brother. However, another Terminator is after the prisoner, and attacks during the transfer.

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