Minamoto was the alias of an actor hired by Alex Akagi to scam Sarah Connor.
Season Two[]
Minamoto pretended to be a software tycoon in the presence of Sarah Connor in an effort to acquire funding for Dakara Systems' Artificial intelligence known as Emma.
Minamoto gave Sarah a fake chip, secretly supplied to him by Alex Akagi. When Sarah eventually realized she had been scammed, she had Cameron Phillips track down Minamoto and together they beat a confession out of him.