The Origins Of Cameron

The episode "Allison from Palmdale", shows a future Skynet prison camp with a human who looks like Cameron trying to escape. She is captured, and during the interrogation her name is revealed to be Allison Young, from Palmdale, and a member of the Resistance. Allison tells her interrogating Terminator about how her father promised her a silver bicycle for her next birthday, but it never came because of Judgment Day. The Terminator is then revealed to be the Cameron that travels with John and Sarah in the present. Cameron claims that she represents a dissident group of machines that want peace with the humans, but Allison doesn't believe her. Cameron gets Allison to tell her where John Connor's base is. However, Cameron discovers that one must wear a secret bracelet to enter the base, which Allison deliberately did not tell her. Cameron chokes Allison, leaving her dead or unconscious, and takes her bracelet, with the intent of infiltrating the Resistance base and killing John Connor.

Back in the present, while in a grocery store, Cameron's chip malfunctions again, this time making her forget that she's a Terminator. Cameron is brought to a police precinct and meets a runaway girl named Jody, a petty thief who takes Cameron to a Los Angeles homeless shelter. Cameron has a flashback of her time spent with Allison in the future prison camps and begins using that name. During her memory loss, Cameron exhibits genuine emotion, shedding tears while speaking to a youth counselor, believing that her mother abandoned her. When John finds her, she is enjoying a game of foosball with Jody. Cameron has no memory of who John is and shoves him into a wall. After John is forced to leave the homeless shelter by a security guard, she begins to remember who she is. In the climax of the episode she almost kills Jody, remembers John, and runs away with the Connors again. It is revealed that the person thought to be the mother of Allison Young is still pregnant and thinks that Allison would be a good name for her baby.