AGENT JONES: Spill it, Spitzer.

SPITZER: You’ve got nothing on me. Quit wasting your time.

AGENT JONES: We know you did it. All of it.

SPITZER: I don’t know what you’re talking about.

AGENT JONES: We have the documents, Eliot. The phone calls. The paper trail. We found the Russian one. The Asian one. The Spanish one. We followed the money Eliot, and we found what you did.

SPITZER: You found the Spanish one?

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Episode 3 of the Overthinking It podcast takes its cues from Terminator Week on the blog, and features conversations highlighting:

• The Terminator Franchise: Its Place in Cinematic History
• The Terminator Mythology
• Aaahnuld
• Paradoxes of Terminator Time Travel
• The Social Message of the Terminator Movies
• How to Survive a Terminator Attack

…and so much more. The panel includes Belinkie, Fenzel, Stokes, and Wrather.

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[Continuing Terminator Week, Matthew Belinkie imagines how John Connor's decision to send Reese back to 1984 might have come about. You'll hear this radio-drama enacted on our Terminator Week podcast, "How to Survive a Terminator Attack," to be released this Friday. —Ed.]

John: Are you sure, Walter? That’s an actual working time machine?

Walter: (he speaks in a “nerd” voice) I’m afraid so, Mr. John Connor. It looks as if, the Terminator is on its way back to May 12, 1984.

Reese: What? That’s years before Judgment Day. Why then?

John: I know why, Reese . It’s nine months before I was born.

Reese: Oh my God! That machine is going to impregnate your mother!

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