List of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles characters

The following is a list of characters in the FOX science fiction television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a sequel to the Terminator films The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), ignoring the events of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003); including protagonists, supporting characters, and important villains.

Auldridge (introduced in "Born to Run"), portrayed by Joshua Malina, is an FBI Agent who handles difficult unsolved cases involving unusual evidence or facts. He meets with the captured Sarah Connor twice while in prison. On both occasions, he tries to get Sarah to tell him the whereabouts of her son, John Connor, but Sarah refuses to talk. He is visited by (and knows) former FBI Agent James Ellison to discuss Ellison's former case.

Martin Bedell (introduced in "Goodbye to All That"), portrayed by Will Rothhaar, plays a role in forming the core of Tech-Com using his military training and experience. In the present, Derek Reese and John Connor save him from a T-888 while he is a Cadet Captain at a military academy. In Derek's future, he participates in a mission with John of freeing Skynet's prisoners from one of its concentration camps, Century, including Kyle Reese. Years after the event on the Century workcamp, he sacrifices himself to save Kyle, John, and 39 prisoners from Skynet forces.

Marty Bedell (introduced in "Goodbye to All That"), portrayed by Billy Unger, is a child targeted by a T-888 because he shares the same name as a future hero of the Human Resistance. Remembering that two other Sarah Connors were killed in 1984 by the T-800 hunting for her, Sarah shelters and protects the boy with the guardian terminator Cameron, while John Connor and his uncle Derek Reese hunt the T-888. In the Connor home, Marty prepares a book report on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for school. Cameron suggests the novel after finding it on a shelf in their home and reminding Sarah that it was John's favorite book as a child.

Father Armando Bonilla (introduced in "Samson and Delilah"), portrayed by Carlos Sanz, is a priest to whose church Sarah and John Connor flee when escaping from a malfunctioning Cameron. He provides sanctuary to the Connors while they prepare a booby trap for Cameron, anticipating that she will be able track them down. Father Bonilla is shocked when John tries to cut into Cameron's skull to remove her chip but is quickly chased away by Sarah. Bonilla appears again in the season finale, conducting a confession to who turns out to be Chola, the lookout in Carlos' gang in the first season. They seem to have some distant family relations. Bonilla is also asked for by Sarah when she is incarcerated in LA County Lockup and gets trapped in Sarah's chamber when Cameron assaults the security to break her out.

Dr. Felicia Burnett (introduced in "The Good Wound"), portrayed by Laura Regan, treats Sarah Connor's gun wound. She is revealed to have a past with the sheriff who is investigating Sarah's shoot-out in the Kaliba warehouse. Felicia assumes that Sarah is being abused and shot by her boyfriend/husband and relates with her. Due to this empathy, Sarah confides her family secrets such as John and Kyle Reese's relations. After a failed attempt to remove the bullet from Sarah's thigh, they sneak into a hospital morgue where Felicia successfully removes it. After the operation, Derek Reese enters the room, and thinking him to be Sarah's abusive boyfriend, Felicia pulls a gun on Derek. During the stand-off, Felicia's own abusive husband steps in and coarsely orders Felicia to stand down. Overwhelmed, Felicia shoots and kills him and watches as Sarah and Derek leave.

Carlos is portrayed by Jesse Garcia (introduced in "Gnothi Seauton"). He is Enrique's nephew, and purveyor of forged documents. He calls his uncle a stool pigeon. Among those who sought his service were Sarah and John Connor, and Cameron. During a meeting with FBI Special Agent James Ellison in a deleted scene of the episode "The Turk", it is implied that Carlos also forged identification and allied documents for Derek Reese and his unit at some point after their arrival from 2027. Carlos' gang are brutally slaughtered by Margos Sarkissian's men.

Carter, portrayed by Brian Bloom, is a Terminator, whose model type is unknown. He was sent back in time to 2007 by Skynet to acquire and store a large amount of Coltan, the metal used to construct Terminators, in the episode "Heavy Metal". Carter hires various human military personnel, who are unaware of what he truly is, to assist him in his assignment. Once his mission is completed, Carter kills his humans, secures the storage area, and shuts himself down to await further orders. Cameron identifies his endoskeletal structure as different from Cromartie's. However, when John Connor accidentally is transported inside the secured storage area, he gets trapped with Carter and his men. John tries to retrieve a key from around Carter's neck without waking him up from Stand-By Mode. John tells Sarah that he isn't moving and that it is like he's sleeping. Cameron tells Sarah that Carter's on Stand-By until his next objective or is triggered awake. Cameron eventually enters the storage area to rescue John and steal the coltan, battles Carter and locks the Terminator inside.