Warning: If you don't want to see a few MINOR SPOILER nuggets of early info on what will go down in Season 2 of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, turn back now. Just don't say we didn't warn you.

After a successful but fractured first season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Fox recently gave the hugely fanboy friendly series a green light for a second season. Given how the writers' strike stopped Sarah Connor in her tracks just as she was finding her momentum, it was a no-brainer to think that we'd see a continuation of the explosive events that led to the season one cliffhanger.

What came out of the blue as a cool last minute surprise, The Deadbolt and a select few outlets took part in an impromptu conference call with Sarah Connor creator Josh Friedman who filled us in on what he and his crew have planned for season two, including Cameron and her possible fate, whether fans can expect more action in the second season, if he'll be focusing more on the Future War, and whether we'll ever see an "Underwater Terminator."

THE DEADBOLT: Will there be technical changes done to Cameron when she returns from the car bombing?

JOSH FRIEDMAN: [laughs] She’ll still be pretty.

THE DEADBOLT: So does that mean she’ll still be the same, physically?

JOSH FRIEDMAN: Eventually.

THE DEADBOLT: It was obvious that you were joking, but you scared me when you said earlier that Summer wasn’t coming back.

FRIEDMAN: Would I do that to you? Would I do that to me? You know, that’s one of the hard things with her - you like to beat her up, but you can’t mangle her too much. But I think that car bomb will definitely mess her up.

THE DEADBOLT: Now that you’ve been signed to another season, will there be a bigger budget for the action?

FRIEDMAN: I think we will be incorporating more action this year. It’s one of the things that the network and the studio and I have been talking about. As we were talking about the pick-up, it was sort of - how much action versus drama, or versus special effects. I think everyone is excited to try to do a bit more of everything. But it’s money, and I think that’s always the issue. You have to stay within the confines of what works economically for everybody, but I think we did some nice stuff last year. I also think that, in a weird way, if you do too much I think people kind of get bored of it; I think people like a balance. But I think this year we will try to do a bit more.

Conference call highlights:

Josh Friedman on the logistics of getting the show picked up for another season:

"I think what we do is pretty much what’s standard on all shows. It’s an opportunity for the studio and the network and a production team to sit down and sort of talk about the show and look at what we did right and what we did wrong. And how we would keep doing the right things and stop doing the wrong things. We went in and made a presentation to Kevin Riley and his team and we have a conversation on the direction we want to go. In this case we - actually about six weeks ago the writing team was all brought back on to start working on episodes. So even though we didn’t have the official pick-up, we were being paid to start working and generate stuff so that when the pick-up came we would be on schedule for a Fall debut."

Friedman on whether there were any cast and crew changes:

"Well, as everyone was wondering, we are getting rid of Summer Glau... No, I’m kidding [laughs]. Anyone who was worried that we blew her up in the end and she’s not coming back, I will reassure you, she is coming back and eventually at full force. I will say I brought the entire writing staff back, every single person from last year was brought back. I was really happy with what people did last year. In a weird way it’s like any sports team, you’re just getting [better] - consistency and continuity is a big part of it. So I think we’re looking to make as few changes as we can. We felt pretty good where we ended up. You know, we have had little drop outs where people go get other jobs, some of the crew, because our schedules are different. But on the whole, it’s pretty much the same group from last year. In terms of Brian [Austin Green], I think that character and Brian’s portrayal of it, I think people really responded to him last year and we have some stuff we’re interested in doing with him this year. One of the kind of ironies: you put someone on your show and they do a really good job and all of a sudden everyone else wants to hire them. So you sort of have to lock them up. Brian was becoming a little popular based on the show, so we moved as quickly as possible to make sure he was going to stay in Terminator-land as long as we needed him."

On whether he had to change episodes as a result of the writers' strike:

"Well, not really. In a weird way we worked up until the day of the strike. So I didn’t know for sure that there would be a strike. We worked as if we had a full season and we didn’t change anything around. Then the strike happened and, at that point, there’s nothing I can do. So it sort of is what it is. I think to the degree that things didn’t [change], I think there are two parts to it. I think that part of it is that there are things that we shot for storylines that were there which just got cut out. They were dropped for time or whatever, clarity. But there was other material that we shot and there was a decision made to take them out. And a part of it is - we had a plan for a whole season and I had certain incidents pasted out for the season and we lost them. Coming back to season two, part of the process coming back is deciding how many of those things are you going to carry over and how many of them aren’t that important. And you have all of the fans and you’re also hopefully bringing in new people. You have to prioritize what’s important because you also want to move forward. That’s been a lot of the discussion over the last month and a half about how many of those plot points do we carry over, what don’t we carry over, and how different are things going to be?"

Friedman on including more of 'The Future War' in the second season:

"I’m hoping to revisit the future war. I love the future war. I had plans last year to do a number of future war episodes. They’re expensive. I mean they’re the most expensive episodes we do and they’re the most time consuming. Certainly the CGI - you know the hardest part? Not only does CGI costs a lot of money, but it takes time and it’s hard to turn those things around on the schedule. The Future episode we did last year was shot as the last episode, even though there were three episodes after it. But we pushed it to the end and I had left for the strike and I wasn’t on the set for a single frame of the episode."

Josh Friedman on when we’ll see Underwater Terminator:

"Underwater Terminator... I do love Underwater Terminator and I believe heavily in Underwater Terminator and someone is going to have to write me a big check to do Underwater Terminator. I have a weird infatuation with Underwater Terminator and I spend a lot of time talking to people about the buoyancy level of Terminators and whether they can swim or sink, how they propel themselves and I’ve never written anything about Underwater Terminator. It’s just one of those weird hobbies that I have, trying to figure out what they do underwater and how they look. It’s dear to my heart."