Derek Reese

Derek Reese
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles character
File:Reese, Derek.jpg
First appearance	1.03 "The Turk"
Created by	Josh Friedman
Portrayed by	Brian Austin Green Ryan Kelley
In-universe information
Alias	Derek Baum
Gender	Male
Title	First Lieutenant
Occupation	Soldier
Family	Kyle Reese (brother) John Connor (nephew)

Derek Thomas Reese is a fictional character in the science-fiction television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles portrayed by actor Brian Austin Green. In this continuity, he is the older brother of Kyle Reese, and thus John Connor's paternal uncle. In the resistance, he was a First Lieutenant with the 132nd S.O.C., operational specialty Tech-Com (aka The Four Horsemen). Derek Reese first appears in "Gnothi Seauton", as a barcode on an arm. His first real appearance is in "The Turk".

Biography

Childhood

Derek Reese was born in 1995 and lived a mundane life in the suburbs of Los Angeles up until the advent of Judgment Day on April 21, 2011. Kyle and Derek witnessed the launch of U.S. missiles while playing baseball in their yard. Derek took his younger brother underground for safety before the counterstrike.

Involvement in the Post-Apocalyptic War

He grew to manhood while raising his younger brother in the post-apocalyptic world ruled by Skynet. He lost Kyle to the machines in the tunnels near City Hall. By 2027, he was an active Resistance fighter living in an over-crowded bunker underground. His brother was well known for breaking out of a concentration camp with the Resistance leader John Connor. Derek was irritated by the picture of Sarah Connor that was given to his brother by John Connor though the picture was considered a good luck charm by Kyle. He had a relationship with another fighter, Jesse, after she saved him from his suicide attempt after seeing him placing a barrel of a firearm on his mouth. (portrayed by Stephanie Jacobsen).

When separated from his brother during a recon mission, Derek and the rest of his unit were captured by Skynet. Derek received his barcode brand and was held, along with the rest of his team, in a house prison camp chained to the floor for an uncertain number of days. During their time of captivity, the prisoners were led one by one down to a room in the basement. Those who were brought back were in an extremely weakened state. What happened to them was never made clear. One of Derek's team, Billy Wisher, was taken and when he came back confessed to Reese that his real name was Andy Goode and that he was one of the creators of Skynet. Goode pleaded for forgiveness for his sin but before Derek could even respond he was dragged off to the basement himself.

When the humans were mysteriously let go, Derek and his team returned to the bunker they had lived in to find it had been attacked. Other Resistance fighters then arrived and informed them that the bunker had indeed been attacked, but that Derek's brother and John Connor had been fighting a battle in Topanga Canyon for a Skynet research facility at the time. Kyle went on a secret mission with Connor inside the newly secured facility and he was never heard from again while Connor had returned. Greatly angered by the unknown fate of his brother, Derek headed back to the new Resistance base to demand answers from John Connor.

Back with the Resistance, Derek learns that Connor has started to reprogram Terminators to help fight Skynet, something that Derek is not happy about. The loss of his brother has made Derek to consider suicide once more. When one of the reprogrammed cyborgs were malfunctioning and reverted to its murderous way, Derek briefly fought the machine and intended to let it kill him, but saved by another cyborg later known as Cameron Phillips.

Finally able to get a meeting with John Connor, Derek learns from the general that Skynet has made time travel a reality after he saw the time displacement device and the plans of it The Resistance took from Skynet's Topanga facility. Connor plans to sent Resistance members to the past for setting up safehouses and other missions. Connor doesn't tell Derek about his brother's fate, but instead offers Derek a mission to be sent back 20 years to attack the very birth of Skynet as well as help a young John Connor and his mother, Sarah. This mission and the possibility of time travel renewed Derek's sense of purpose as he accepts as he'd willing to fight for a world that is not yet lost thus saving Kyle from his last mission, but also secretly intends to kill Andy Goode, hoping to stop him from creating Skynet.

Season 1

After arriving in 2007, the four man team (Sayles, Timms, Sumner, and Derek) set up a safehouse where they stashed stolen money and diamonds and begin surveying possible Skynet progenitors. Derek occasionally stop at a park during his jogging routine, for hot dogs, drinks, and watching the present-versions of himself, Kyle, and the rest of his family who are not yet perished when they were there. The team was later attacked by a T-888 ("Vick Chamberlain") after it detects them tracking its "wife"; Barbara Chamberlain, a key Skynet contributor. Derek manages to escape, but with his entire team killed, he decides to go after Andy Goode and starts to stalk him.

Derek shoots and kills Goode after a chess tournament with the Japanese . Spotting Derek leaving the room where she finds a dead Andy, Sarah goes after him and the two engage in a brief brawl before the police arrive; Sarah runs off, but Derek is arrested.

Agent Ellison visits Derek in jail and tells him about blood evidence that connects Andy's murder and the murders at the safehouse, but Derek refuses to tell him anything. Sarah Connor also sees Derek in jail and confronts him about killing Andy Goode, but he denies that he was the one who killed him. Sarah realizes he's Kyle Reese's brother and her son's only other living relative when he gives her his name and mentions that Kyle carried a photo of her around as a good luck charm. John, Cameron, and Sarah break Derek out of his prison transport, but not before having to fight Vick, who is hunting Derek. Cameron succeeds in disabling the Terminator with help from John and they escape, but not before Derek is shot and badly wounded.

Derek makes a full recovery from his gunshot wound thanks to the combined effort of paramedic Charley Dixon and John, who has a same blood type, and he is accepted into the Connors' household. He's helping them in their fight against Skynet and participating in missions, though he is intentionally kept in the dark about John's parentage. He openly distrusts and despises Cameron, believing her to be a double agent of Skynet, despite all evidence to the contrary (though, because of Cameron's unexplained behavior, some of his suspicions may prove to be valid). He's also has a antagonistic relationship with Sarah of their opposing approaches to their respective mission of stopping Skynet and its machines as well as their importance in John's life

By the first season finale, Derek reveals that he knows his brother was John's father, as he sees John as having some resemblance to Kyle ("Every time I look at you, I see him") and Sarah was the kind of woman that Kyle liked. Derek begins trying to become a father figure to his nephew on his brother's behalf. As a birthday present, he takes John to a park where they see the present-day versions of himself and Kyle playing baseball, and John is moved to tears at finally being able to see his biological father in the flesh. Afterwards, Derek and John begin their relationship as uncle and nephew, but keep Sarah in the dark of it.

Season 2

Learning of the fire at the Connor residence, Derek disguises himself as a fireman and retrieves Sarkissian's hard drive from the wreckage, spotting Charley at the scene. He and Charley then go in search of Sarah and John, Derek commenting on Charley's marriage and his motives. They eventually find them in an old warehouse where John has disabled a dangerous Cameron. Derek tries to convince John to destroy Cameron, but is met with opposition from the traumatized teen.

John eventually agrees, however, and they take Cameron to a remote location where Derek pours thermite all over her. Derek is shocked when John re-inserts Cameron's chip and watches in horror as he hands her his gun as a sign of faith. When Cameron proves herself trustworthy again, Derek is visibly frustrated and glares at the machine as John sets fire to a stripped car.

In the next episode, Derek helps Cameron and Sarah break into the nuclear power plant that would become a base for Tech-Com in the future and prevent an Infiltrator from overloading the reactor.

Days later, Charley calls John's cell phone, desperately asking for the Connors' help. After Sarah and Derek meet up with Charley, he gives them the scoop on his situation: his wife has been kidnapped by Cromartie and he needs their help to rescue her. Derek fervently disagrees going to rescue her, suggesting that Cromartie has already killed her and is impersonating her voice. Regardless, Derek tells Charley to call her and ask her something that she and Charley would intimately know. After Charley confirms that it is really her, she gives details on where she is being held.

At the abandoned house, Derek goes around the area looking out for Cromartie while Sarah and Charley attempt to save Michelle. Derek soon discovers a cell phone tapper and a cell phone wired to a bomb inside the cell tower outside. Derek orders everyone outside just as the bomb goes off, bringing the tower down on the house; Sarah, Derek, and Charley escape unharmed, but Michelle is mortally wounded by the bomb's shrapnel. While he, the Connors, and Cameron do not attend her funeral, they do mourn her death at the dinner table.

Derek recently took a job offered by General Hobbs of the United States military at Presidio Alto Military Academy to train young cadets under the alias as Lieutenant Derek Baum of US military, in an effort to protect Martin Bedell, who would play a role in forming The Resistance, from a T-888. His headstrong attitude and telling stories of his war experiences make most of the young cadets in his care afraid of him, and finding those who think of wars as games offend him. Only John, who's also enrolled, and Bedell, admire Derek.

Derek recently reunited with his lover, Jesse, who has followed him without the authorization from the Resistance after an incident involving one of the reprogrammed Skynet agents. She claimed that she want to be with Derek, but underneath her hotel bed was a collection of photos suggesting that she has been watching him for months with John Connor, implying that she may have other intention. He also expressed a fatherly concern to Sarah over John's welfare after an incident involving one of the family's weapons, suggesting that John may have contemplate suicide to escape the violences and guilts in his life, which Sarah's unwilling to believe that her son have any problems emotionally.

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