Discussion: Why didn't John analyse Cameron's own chip ?

"I get the sense that John really doesn't want to know. He could've pressed the issue when she admitted that she lies, but he pretty much left it at that. The majority of Cameron's memory is probably a bunch of terrifying stuff from the future, anyway.

Would you want to see a video of yourself from 20 years later, in an apocalyptic future, and know exactly what you are going to do?"

"Haha, Cameron's sex-tape hidden in her central memory !"

"Why is it that every thread Cameron is mentioned in gains a sexual comment on each page?

Can someone explain it? (without the use of sexual comments)"

"A few potential reasons: (1) The group is operating with time constraints and is in constant fear of being tracked down by pursuers. They don't want Cameron down any longer than necessary lest she suddenly be required for more anti-Terminator tasks; (2) The same reason John stroked the side of her head - he's beginning to appreciate her as a new, albeit different, form of life entitled to a modicum of respect. It would be rude to needlessly endanger her "brain" by messing around with it anymore than necessary or poke around in there without her consent (I think this theme is also alluded to in the household conflicts arising from invasions of personal space - i.e. Derek in people's bedrooms and Sarah invading Derek's shower time); (3) Her neural net processor is remarkably more sophisticated than the T-888's and could not be handled by the computer equipment in John's bedroom; (4) In all of the excitement, no one considered it; or (5) a combination of some of the aforementioned factors."

"Another thing, even if she had tortured Dereck down in that basement, there would be no proof of it, or anything that happened before she was reprogrammed. Cameron says in one of the episodes that she doesn't know if she did something to him in the future because she had her "mind" scrubbed."