[KayEyeDoubleDee]

I also like Ellison. Any ideas on why Cromardie didn’t kill him by the pool?

Ellison is a toaster.

In the pilot episode, there's a scene of him sitting in the shadows, and you see that his eyes glow red.

But I think that he doesn't realize yet that he's a toaster.

Of course, after tonight's episode, the gears have to be turning in his "brain", and it will only be a matter of time before he puts 2 plus 2 together.

Although Ellison might be such an advanced model that he really does have a brain.

[TiberiusClaudius]

Ellison is a toaster.

How does that square w/ the psychologist probing his leg last episode? Have you seen anything else that hints of his being a terminator?

I read somewhere that some of potential story-lines of the pilot-episode were dropped.

[TrishaSC]

Shades of Bladerunner??

[Oztrich Boy]

In the pilot episode, there's a scene of him sitting in the shadows, and you see that his eyes glow red.

But I think that he doesn't realize yet that he's a toaster.

Nope that wasn't him, it was Cromartie. The sequence was Ellison updates Sarah's FBI file with the new alias and photo he got from the Charley Dixon.
Then the scence switched to a different and scungier location, where Cromartie seems to have a computer hacked into the FBI system. Cromartie then uses that new info to track down Sarah and John. "You should have changed your alias"

[silent_jonny]

Ellison is a toaster. In the pilot episode, there's a scene of him sitting in the shadows, and you see that his eyes glow red.

But Bruce Davidson (Sarah's retired psychiatrist) drugged Ellison, tied him to a chair and stabbed him in the leg to make sure he wasn't a machine.