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  • Ahahaha that ending zoom and subtitle was so unnecessary.

  • Deaths like these in shows, though rarely seen, are the most realistic and heart-wrenching. Derek's reaction to the shot is very authentic, he could possibly have added a slight twitch or something, but this is a very memorable death. Quick, to the point, move on. Just gotta move on.

  • That was probably the worst character-kill-off in television history...

  • lol aim bot

  • put a bullet to me .... a bullet in the brain pan squish hehehe - River Tam

  • This is how i want to die, Without a second to think.

  • I was thinking about unique/not unique deaths in Video Games and entertainment, and this came up as one of the best ones I've seen.

    No dramatic build up. No over exaggeration. Nothing.

    Point.

    Shoot.

    Death.

    Perfection.

  • If cromartie could aim this well in the pilot, John would be dead and the resistance would be screwed.

  • I seriously did a double take on that the first time I saw it. And then I was like, "Holy shit! They really just killed him!"

  • Perfect death, everything about this show was unique and unexpected. including a simple quick shot to the head of one of the main characters.

  • @mkrusedc Wrong. He wasn't dead. He was alive 5 minutes later in an alternate reality. Nothing about this show was unique.

  • @fjccommish That's BS and you know it. As for your other reply - I won't even bother replying to that one.

  • @WeednBone What do you mean? In the end he was still alive, in an alternate reality, when John jumped to the future.

  • @fjccommish No, the Derek Reese we know still has a bullet in his head. Alternate Derek is not our Derek, he's almost our Derek, but he isn't. The future changes when one uses timetravel and people you used to know aren't the people you used to know anymore.

  • team death match 1:0

    terminator has left the game

  • Dereck despite his awesome skills ran into an aimbot.

  • This scene still sticks out in my mind as one of the most memorable death scenes ever... a main character shot dead with no epic music, no heroic deed, no witness sobbing his name... just a quick pop in the head, and then back to the action with the other characters.

    I remember chatting with a friend while watching this episode. Then suddenly stopping, looking at the tv... each other... the tv...

    "Did they just...?"

    "Is he...?"

    "...the HELL!?"

    A very bold decision by the writers, for sure!

  • @krystalb2000 Exactly my reaction. I don't know if I've ever seen such an important character die so suddenly and unexpectedly before. But even though I was pretty shocked, I think it was a good decision by the writers. It was a soldier's death.

  • 最後の方法なのにデレクがT888に一発でしとめられるなんて初­めて視たときは相当ショック死でした

  • Looking back, I didn't want him to die. If he had prior to this episode, I thought he'd go down in a hero's death, like trying to save John, then Derek gets shot in the abdomen/chest wall and still firing, then taking the final blow to death as John watched, and feeling helpless. But seeing it again in a whole new perspective, it definitely made it real. No bullshit about it.

  • @Krypton88 well your 100% right how it was realistic, i do agree on that, but it is pretty boring if you ask me, oh well hes dead hes dead! what can i do

  • @WeednBone ( oops stupid itouch keyboard!) opinion it shouldve been that way

  • @WeednBone ya i get what your sayin but still in my

  • he should have died more epicly.... like blow himself up to defeat a terminator or die slo-mo and pull out his pistol. and i wouldve told cameron to bring the body :(

  • @dudejustponts I don't know... blow himself up... seen that... slo-mo drawing... seen that... I've seen too many cliché deaths. This one was fresh n new.

  • @dudejustponts I think that's why I liked his death...because it WASN'T done in an over the top, "epic" fashion like most shows/movies love to play it. It was done in the most realistic way possible.

    Quick, sudden and completely unexpected. it happens so fast that you have the same reactions as the rest of the characters.

  • @dudejustponts Why the show sucked - 5 minutes later he was alive in an alternate time line.

  • Derek had to die THE MOST PATHETIC death any hero has ever died. I can't believe he fought Terminators for a living. I mean damn. Even Kyle managed to blow a terminator half to hell before he died. Derek didn't even get a shot off.

    One shot in the head. Boom. Dead.

    Pathetic. No "I'll hold him, just run" or "I'll sacrifice myself for my friends".

    One shot in the head. Boom. Dead. At least Charlie died a heroic death though. I was pissed when he died! I almost stopped watching the show

  • @DarkfireSuperSonic Pathetic?

    A hero's death is the kind of death no one hears about. Death is swift and waits for no one who wants a dramatic death. He didn't hold the metal, but he actually DID sacrifice himself for his friends. If you fail to see this, one could not expect too much from you.

  • @WeednBone He didn't sacrifice. He was just separated from the group and didn't get the memo that everyone was running away.

  • @DarkfireSuperSonic He died fighting for John Connor. If that isn't sacrifice, you should rethink your definition of sacrifice.

  • @WeednBone That depends on how you look at it. At the time, he wasn't with the group. You could argue that he isn't fighting just for john, but not to relive that war. But, you have a point though.

  • @DarkfireSuperSonic No, it doesn't depend on how you look at it. It is like that. In fact, in one or even multiple episodes he would die for John Connor. The way he set up a safe house and everything before he entered the show, suggests he isn't trying to stop JD.

  • @WeednBone The safe house shows that they WERE trying to stop JD. They were hunting down leads for skynet. Hell, Derek killed the past version of Andy Goode because he confessed in the future he had helped to MAKE skynet. Then in the end of season one he says to John at the park watching while watching his past self, "you would do anything to keep from watching burn again." There was something before it though. It's true that he would die for Connor though. He even says so in season 2

  • @DarkfireSuperSonic I think you're right on that one.

  • well, he would die for connor, so you are right too.

  • @DarkfireSuperSonic That makes one of us-- I absolutely *DESPISED* Derek Reese, and actually cheered when the T888 shot him. I believe my exact words were "Good fucking riddance." He was an asshole (to friend and foe alike), and seemed to serve no purpose other than to show that humans can be just as ruthless, heartless, and evil as Terminators (except Derek, like you said, was pathetic and nowhere near as badass as ANY Terminator). Should've killed him off sooner than this.

  • It took me a while to process that he actually died lol. I was eating, saw him get shot and didn't think nothing of it because it was an action scene, about a minute later I was like "WTF, did they really just kill him like that?" Haha, it sucks that he died, specially like that but it had a huge impact on me because of it and I loved it.

  • This terminator haves a really great accuaricy!

  • When I saw this on tv I thought that it had to be a dream they were in, then two weeks later the show was over and then I understood. Please bring back the show!!!

  • Death is not dramatic. It's fast, and it's cold.

    Many TV shows have had long standing characters get killed quickly, and harshly. This is just another one of them.

  • @RoyalGuard503 I disagree, it doesn't happen often enough. 99 percent of the deaths I've seen on TV were loooooooooooong blahblahblah deaths.

  • @WeednBone And a lot of the deaths that I've seen, particularly in more serious sci-fi, show death as being quick, boring, and blunt.

    The Body in Buffy the Vampire Slayers. 80% of all the deaths in Battlestar Galactica. Firefly, Weeds, and many shows over the past few years have decided to do away with dramatic deaths.

    Hell, even T:SCC did this with Charlie's death, which happened completely off screen.

  • @RoyalGuard503 Firefly: Way up Wash' death to the Preachers' or even David Krumholtz' death... Battlestar doesn't count because it's Battlestar... Weeds and Buffy are utter crap, so I wouldn't know if my life depended on it.

    Charlie wasn't really a main character. Not like Derek was.

  • @WeednBone How does BSG not count because it's BSG? It's a sci-fi show that treated itself as seriously as Terminator did. It MORE than counts.

    Sci-fi lately has been doing away with dramatic deaths. Main character or no. Derek have a sudden, brief death that was made stronger BY the fact that he was a main character. It was harsh, and we had no chance to soak it in. It's better writing and directing.

  • @RoyalGuard503 BSG sucked at such a large degree that I refuse to see it as something else than a piece of crap that should be shot down like a dog with rabies.

  • @WeednBone Right. Uh-huh. Have fun with that.

  • @RoyalGuard503 Okay, bye-bye. 

  • @RoyalGuard503 Yeah this shcoked me when I first saw it. Lost had a lot of quick deaths SPOILERS (Illana, Artz, Sayid, Ana Lucia, Danielle etc.)

  • People hated his death, but honestly, the brutal realism behind it, as well as the already buzzing anxiety from the growing situation, made his death extremely epic. The moment you saw the bullet go into his head, your heart sank, and you thought that the world was screwed. I think that's what they were trying to portray here.

    Because of that, I think it's up to par with Kyle's death.

  • I wish I could get Derek Reese's awesome looking M65 field jacket. The ones in the surplus stores are only in either camo, olive green, or black. I haven't seen one that is grayish like the one he wears. And they are slightly different (no waist cord, doesn't have inside pockets, and no zipper on the left).

  • technically he's not dead cos this derek is from the future.. and he is still alive now only hes a little child .

  • @SPUD99000

    Thats true. Couldnt believe it when i first watched this episode, i think Derek is one of the best characters.

  • @BigTony86 yes i know it was a great show but it should of carryed on but they stoped it cos of some stuipd doll show . Have you seen prison break its a fantastic show if you have not plz watch it it drive u crazy

  • I dind't even se him get killed first time watching it. I thought the terminator killed some dude there. Then i saw derek and i was like WTF.

  • Wow. Kyle Reese's death in terminator was way better

  • Wow, I just watched this I am so shocked and angry, he was my favorite and he died like that!!!! :'(

  • This scene blew my mind and broke my heart- but the stark cold realism behind it shocked me the most. Though I'd love to see a grand and befitting death to any major character passing- this is one of the most starkly realistic moments on the show. Sometimes death comes quickly, unannounced and with no remorse. It is a war they are fighting, and this is what war brings.

  • I really hated how Derek died. He was a war veteran and he died too sudden. No emotion, no last words, no epic ending, no nothing. Just a hollow point to the head. He was one of my favorites.

  • @codenamevengeance

    He was a soldier and that is how soldiers actually die

  • @efxqxtyjzbl If he was gonna go out anyway, it could've been a bit more epic. It was just too sudden.

  • @codenamevengeance This WAS epic, you just seem to miss the epicness that is the death of Derek Reese.

  • When I first saw this episode and that happen I had to rewind it lol I was like what the fuck, glad they didn't do some overly dramatic standoff, which seemed to give it more impact, and realism I guess thats how a machine would do it.

  • 90210'wned

  • @cmanning525

    ha ha ha ha!!!

  • I love this scene, no drama or anything, very hardcore

  • pwn3d

  • I've never been so mad over a character dieing in a tv show in my entire life.

  • Terminators are inefficent as fuck. They're fucking computer controlled but take a million years to aim.

  • @richardmaudsley77 Tell Derek about this. I bet he'll disagree.

  • What the fuck...this is how they killed him off? No epic battle scene, no random last words or anything? Just straight shot in the head? Thats just freaking disappointing~!!!

  • biggest WTF!?!??!?!?! moment that I knew was coming in TV history for me. I knew it was coming when the show started and then it happened and i was still like "NO FUCK THAT THAT'S FUCKING GAY!"

  • @MasteroChieftan AGREE!!!

  • @TheTrashVictim I have an idea! Why don't you guys go to an actual warzone... find some guy that just got shot in the head... and see how well he uses his "last words"... Grow up, please.

  • @WeednBone Woah, ease up dude. Real life warzones are completely different to television shows, usually in television shows the major characters tend to have a show-y ending. I don't need to grow up to know that in real life people don't get that so I don't need you to tell me to grow up thanks very much.

  • @TheTrashVictim Your reply suggests that you NEED it. Thank you for your time.

  • @WeednBone Do you live on this video?

  • @MrWhiteMOl3 Yup.

  • I know I'm not going to endear myself to anyone by saying this, but personally I shed no tears when the Water Delivery Guy shot Derek in the head; I never liked the idea of the character, never liked the character, never liked *HIM* (I thought he was an asshole); and I especially didn't like how he acted around Cameron. If others like him, fine, I just never did (I actually cheered when I saw this for the first time on TV).

  • I loved this scene. I mean, I hated that the Reese we knew died, but as far as unexpected turns goes, it was one of the best I've seen on TV. Just rounding a corner, BAM, main character dies like a third rate extra. Great stuff.

  • He was John's only link to the future.

  • This show had balls.

  • Amen brother. Amen.

  • WTF HAX!!!

  • well he was seen alive in the last episode so he is not dead.

  • Well, that's because that was in a possible past of Derek. Doesn't change the fact that he will die in that mansion.

  • well if the show was given a 3rd season it would show that the reese in season 3 would have been a very different derek reese. Since connor stupidly removed himself from the time line derek and kyle would have been the leaders of a more less organized resistance. But after a few future episode he would time travel back in time with john. So it's derek but not the derek we knew.

  • Sad as it is to see Derek go, I LOVE his death. Makes me miss the show.

  • Obviously had wallhacks.

  • @jigglypiggly No auto-aim cheat.

  • That's what Derek gets for not telling the admins on a server that doesn't have respawns.

  • @CorruptedSeducer I lol'd

  • Summer got even worse treatment on "Dollhouse".

  • refreshing to see a "hero" character just die randomly like this normally he would survive for some reason or go 10 rounds in H2H combat with teh terminator or some shit and amazingly win so this was a good death.

  • They just keep killing everyone off. Charlie, His Wife, Riley, Jesse and now Derek!

    They could have at least have him go down in a firefight - it would have been more heroic :)

  • @LittleGooseWalking I agreed because just to shot him point bleak range doesn't cut it for me because he is a solider he wouldn't a little bit more kine in hearing metal sneaking up behide him.

  • Terminators are designed to INFILTRATE ie not making their footsteps sound like metal. Duh. And in case you don't know, people get shot from point blank ranged in wars all the time. This is realism at it's best.

  • When I say metal I was refered to the slang term for the terminator, and Derek was a solider and any if he was good solider he sould more kine with his sense like hearing the foot steps coming so he could dodge that bullet.For I am a son of a former Army Ranger telling you this a good solider was kine his or her senses to survied years in combat .This isn't realism for only novice solider would be shot point blank range in the head so it doesn't cut for me to see a trainted solider die that way.

  • @strangerinwhite u dont dodge bullets you move and they already were ging to miss, as for being a good soldier, doesnt mean youll survive any longer then a rookie if u get a bad run of cards, derek was a good soldier but still only human, and humans make fatal mistakes somtimes

  • @strangerinwhite infiltrators sounds like us, hes a good soldier but only human

  • wow.  derek did'nt have a chance against that terminator.

  • boom headshot!

  • I liked the character, but the show, had it been continued, could have gone on without him. Having said that it was great to see a realistic death like this. Most any other show would have dragged this out for several episodes.

  • What'd you expect? Of course one shot kills him.

    The heroic, dragged out, overly dramatic, self-sacrificing death has become a cliche. Derek's death was realistic. Even veterans get killed this way.

    He never even knew whether his killer was human or machine. There were mistakes, he was split up with everyone else-probably thinking the guy was human.

    Sarah acted like a bitch, didn't even close his eyes.

  • That's what happens when you get shot in the head.

  • derek: *swat sidestep*

    T-idk: *goes past corner - fluke shots derek without aiming. lol a very superstitious noscope - lol i kno noscope is for snipers but imaging a 50.cal noscope to the head, brain everywhere lol :)*

  • @WeednBone No I think the head would looks like a stabbed football! Ever seen a headshot? I did and never want to again..

  • @christian7433560 Well, duh, ya can't expect the SFX people to get it all right. Also, how much time will they have to spend for a ten second shot?

  • I still can't believe this show (and Reaper, and Life on Mars) was cancelled.......... but 90210 and 1 tree hill and gossip girl and melrose place and vampire diaries and other crap are still alive and kicking.

    this is bullcrap.

    RIP Derek. You were and always will be The Man.

  • I know only a few good ones are still out there like The Unit,24 but most are shit out there. I ageed with I can't belive this show cancelled I hope they don't cancelled V because I be piss as hell if they do.

  • Waow one shot and you're dead, that was lame but poor derek :(

  • It's been forever since the show ended and I still can't believe he was shot cold blooded.

  • OMG! just like that... boom! then he dead..

  • His first death is like when your first pet died, at first you didn't realize he was dead, but when he was buried in the cometary, you finally realized he wasn't coming back it was just a major shock factor.

  • Everyone should tell the SYFY channel to get off there A** and buy this show this is the perfect show to be in there lineup. Now that battlestar Galactica is done this could be there new golden egg. Come on SYFY terminator fans will love your butts forever if you do this an we are many.

  • This death was an insult they killed him like he was an extra on set. Derek deserved a heroes death. Fox was high they ment to cancel dollhouse and wrote the wrong show to get canceled. Screw you FOX you are a studio with out honor nor respect to shows or fans who watch your sorry channels.

  • The death was so shocking and memorable precisely because of how "BAM!" it was. Highly realistic too. It'll be remembered in a good way for a very long time.

  • Eh I guess we just have different opinions of it but it still was a great episode cause it made viewers remember that. None of there favorite characters were safe in the world of terminator. It would be nice to see a channel do a spin off of the Reese brothers they made them into one of the most interesting characters you want to know more about. there is allot to tell from them.

  • I think it was a huge SHOCK-factor, no heroic slomo bullshit, really had an impact on me!

    BANG, you're dead

  • poor derek :(

    i liked him.

  • which of the movies is this?

  • It's from the tv show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

  • That's sad how Derek died.

    Damn, this was such a good show!

  • i teared wen day discrved his body

    R.I.P Derek Reese u rule !!!!!!!!

  • The scene is the so Hammer and Loaded for action, but Derek had to really be death?

  • i wonder whats going through that terminators head when its rolling down that hill! LOL :)

  • probably, "fun dose not compute" ever notice that they never say terminator during the show, aside from the previously-on and opening sequence...oh, and the finale

  • Yea! - They have names, lol.

  • hehe, yeah. but i didn't wanna write a long comment. lazy me

  • camerons throw was better... lol

  • damn such a good Tv show.. Derek acts really good. to bad Fox decide not to make a third season.

  • i say sell it to NBC, lord knows that lonley dog of a channel needs a bone. and get back everyone from production, cast and writers.

  • 0:42 - AWESOME THROW!!!!

  • noo a way better throw at 1:39

  • I would have had him checking out the nanny, then get shot in the head after looking up at the terminator. It would have said something about how much he really does care about people, which is ultimately why he hates the machines as much as he does.

  • lol im saying why cameron didn't say to John : Wouldn't you like to write him a letter LOOOOL xD poor Derek x( !!!!!!! im sad !!!!

  • Man, such a chilling way to die. Poor Derek :(

  • What the hell was that. Derick was awesome in the series why they take himout.First Cromartie and now Derick, no wonder why the show was canceling because they took out the main stars in TSCC.

  • THE main star in TSCC was Cameron.

  • I think Sarah was - "Terminator: The SARAH Connor Chronicles" don't forget that

  • It IS "TERMINATOR - The Sarah Connor Chronicles". You should pay attention to what comes first in the title.

  • Summer glau is the main star no matter what show shes in, damn gorgeous

  • true. She is the star of every show she comes in!

    Summer Glau FTW!

  • it says you replied to my comment, but i cant find my comment haha

  • never mind, i found it

  • Awsome episode.. Why did fox cancell this show?. it was one of the best shows out there.

  • i guess people are complaining because of the way it was done the scene. he just gets killed like a fuckin extra playing a cop in the way sort of thing. but in one way very realistic and quite cold. but on the other such a well established character in my opinion deserved a bit more emotion.

  • @1988martin I think the scene is great because no one hast expected it :)

    For about 5 minutes ago I watched the scene... Most emotional in the series I think... I just thought "What da hell?"

  • GOSH DANG IT!!!

    Derek is just walking down the hall and BAM!!... he is dead!!!

    Aargh! It's soo realistic and yet completely pisses me off!! AAAAARRRRGH!!!

  • i dont see why everone's bitching 'bout the way he got blown off. fosh fiedmen said that it was going to happen, albeit more than i expected it to, but then he said/hinted that through time-travel any one could be brought back, though he died once, and that ver of him is gone his soul lives on in each rendition of him which is brought about through altering time. so i was extatic when he came back!

  • I was pissed when Derek died, but at least he died in a realistic fashion.

  • i was at my friends watching this on a 50inch HD tv (his tv is f-ing awesome). he changed channels during the first commercial. when he turned it back on i see Derek laying on the floor with a bullet in his head. i was like WTF. thats some BS. and i missed it. thank god for dvr recorders. went home and watched it over and over and over.

    Thanks for the upload!

    WE MUST HAVE SEASON 3. hearing rumors on here they might not have one.

  • no DEREK REESE KYLE REESE & ALLISON YOUNG... THEY'RE ALL STILL ALIVE... & WELL

  • damn

  • i was pissed off when i saw this. it took me some time to actually take in what just happened. but it was important to the finally that he died.

  • Can't wait to see Catherine and Cameron face each other.

  • they dont..... didnt u see the finale... and its a face off in a good way.... catherine weaver is good

  • ahhhh the reese brothers were my favorite characters in the whole movie how could derek die like that make derek die more heroic not some average cop guy who gets shot defending something

  • I know his death scene is supposed to be 'realistic'....but what a shitty way to oust a main character. =\

  • Dn't put spoilers here. I'm from Europe and haven't seen it yet.

  • AND it's Garret - NO DOUBLE T, NO E AT THE END! At least spell his f#$kin' name right.

  • u sure about that? were did u here that from?

  • I didn't hear it. I watched it.

  • he was my favorite.

    did he ask to be killed off?

  • Does anyone in his right mind ask to die?

  • okay. my fault, i should have been clearer. i meant did the actor ask to get written off or did they fire him?

  • His death was important, so the cliffhanger would be more cliffhanger... ish?

    I actually don't know - haven't heard any rumors yet.

  • Brian Austin Green signed on to another show on another network, next year.

  • Derek Reese clearly states he hasn't seen John Connor in a while, which means he won't get many scenes with John, thus he can be reduced to a mere extra.