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A Mother's Reflection on Unconventional Protection
Sarah Connor
Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The Terminator would never stop. It would never leave him. It would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die to protect him. Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine was the only one that measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice.
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A Promise to Avoid Violence
Terminator
Why do we stop now?
John
Now, you gotta promise me you're not gonna kill anyone, right?
Terminator
Right.
John
Swear?
Terminator
What?
John
Just put up your hand and say, I swear I won't kill anyone.
Terminator
I swear I will not kill anyone.
[raises hand]
John
Alright, let's go.
Guard
Visiting hours is 10 to 4 Monday through Friday.
John
What the hell are you doing?!?
Guard
You son of a bitch, you shot me! You crazy bastard! Don't shoot me again, don't kill me!
Terminator
He'll live.
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Hope and Humanity in Uncertain Times
Sarah Connor
August 29, 1997, came and went. Nothing much happened. Michael Jackson turned 40. There was no Judgment Day. People went to work as they always do. Laughed, complained, watched TV, made love. I wanted to run to through the street yelling to grab them all and say, "Every day from this day on is a gift. Use it well." Instead, I got drunk. That was 30 years ago. But the dark future which never came still exists for me. And it always will, like the traces of a dream. John fights the war differently than it was foretold. Here, on the battlefield of the Senate, his weapons were common sense and hope. The luxury of hope was given me by the Terminator. Because if a machine can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.
[alternate epilogue]
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Hope in the Face of Uncertainty
Sarah Connor
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope, because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.
[epilogue]
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From Destruction to Protection: A New Mission
Taglines
Once he was programmed to destroy the future. Now his mission is to protect it.
[from trailer]
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Understanding the T-1000 Terminator Prototype
John
So, this other guy, he's a Terminator like you, right?
Terminator
Not like me. A T-1000. Advanced prototype.
John
You mean more advanced than you are?
Terminator
Yes. A mimetic polyalloy.
John
What the hell does that mean?
Terminator
Liquid metal.
John
Where are we going?
Terminator
We have to get out of the city immediately. And avoid the authorities.
John
Listen, I gotta stop at my house first. I wanna pick up some stuff.
Terminator
Negative. The T-1000 will definitely try to reacquire you there.
John
You sure?
Terminator
I would.
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A Promise of Return
Taglines
He said he'd be back.
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Visions of Cataclysm and Despair
Sarah
It's like a giant strobe light, burning right through my eyes. Somehow I can still see... Look, we know the dream's the same every night. Why do I have to--?
Silberman
Please continue.
Sarah
Children look like burnt paper... black... not moving... and then then the blast wave hits them... and they fly apart like leaves!
[sobs]
Silberman
Dreams of cataclysm, the end of the world are very common.
Sarah
It's not a dream, you moron, it's real. I know the date it happens!
Silberman
I'm sure it feels very real to you.
Sarah
On August 29th, 1997, it's gonna feel pretty fucking real to you, too! Anybody not wearing two-million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day, get it?!
John
Now don't take this the wrong way, but you are a Terminator, right?
Terminator
Yes. Cyberdyne Systems Model 101.
John
Holy shit! You're really real! I mean, you're like a machine underneath, right? But sort of alive outside?
[pokes at one of Terminator's bullet wounds]
Terminator
I'm a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
John
This is intense. Get a grip, John. Okay, um, you're not here to kill me. I figured that part out for myself. So what's the deal?
[pokes another wound, sees blood on his fingertips]
Terminator
My mission is to protect you.
John
Yeah? Who sent you?
Terminator
You did. Thirty-five years from now, you reprogrammed me to be your protector here, in this time.
John
Oh, this is deep.
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A Demanding Request for Essential Gear
The Terminator
I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.
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Trust and Responsibility in Crisis
Terminator
I'll take care of the police.
John
Hey, wait! You swore!
Terminator
Trust me.
[grins]
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Responsibility and Consequences of Creation
Sarah
Dyson listened while the Terminator laid it all down. Skynet, Judgment Day, the history of things to come. It's not every day that you find out you're responsible for three billion deaths. He took it pretty well.
[voiceover]
Miles Dyson
I feel like I'm gonna throw up. You're judging me on things I haven't even done yet. How were we supposed to know?
[after the Terminator completes his story]
Sarah
Yeah. Right. How were you supposed to know? Fucking men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something, to create a life, feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death and destruction–!
John
Mom! We need to be a little more constructive here, okay? We still have to stop this from happening, don't we?
Tarissa Dyson
But I thought... Aren't we changing things, I mean right now, changing the way it goes?
Dyson
That's right. There's no way I'm gonna finish the new processor, not now. Forget it. I'm out of it. I'll quit Cyberdyne tomorrow.
Sarah
That's not good enough.
Terminator
No one must follow your work.
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A Tense Confrontation Over Medication and Bones
Silberman
Yeah, you're right about number 24. Increase the medication to 250 milligrams.
Orderly
Same kind?
Silberman
You...you broke my arm!
Sarah
There are 215 bones in the human body. That's one. Now don't move!
[fills the syringe with drain cleaner]
Silberman
What are you going to do?
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The Unknown Factor in Their Mission
Taglines
They know its face. They know its mission. But there's one thing they don't know: This time there are two.
[from teaser]
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Nothing Personal in the Face of Conflict
Taglines
It's nothing personal.
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Decision to destroy a threat
John
Is it dead?
Terminator
Terminated.
John
Will this melt in there?
[brings out the robot arm]
Terminator
Yes. Throw it in.
John
Adios.
[throws the arm into the molten steel vat]
Terminator
And the chip.
[John throws chip into the molten steel vat]
Sarah
It's over.
[relieved]
Terminator
No. There is one more chip. And it must be destroyed also. Here. I cannot self-terminate. You must lower me into the steel.
[points to his own head; hands Sarah the controller for the winch]
John
No. No!
[tearfully, hugging the T-800]
Terminator
I'm sorry, John. I'm sorry.
John
No! It'll be okay! Stay with us! It'll be okay!
Terminator
I have to go away.
John
No! Don't do it, please! Don't go!
Terminator
I must go away, John.
John
No! No, wait! Wait, you don't have to do this!
Terminator
I'm sorry.
[gets the chain]
John
No, don't do it! Don't go!
Terminator
It has to end here.
John
I order you not to go. I order you not to go! I order you not to go!!!
[breaks down sobbing]
Terminator
I know now why you cry. But it's something I can never do. Goodbye.
[gently wipes a tear from John's face; hugs John, turns to face Sarah, who shakes his hand; the Terminator then grabs the chain and holds onto it; gets lowered by Sarah into vat, but flashes John and Sarah a thumbs-up before he disappears completely]
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Contrasting Purposes of Two Programmed Beings
Taglines
One programmed to destroy. The other programmed to protect.
[from teaser]
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A Command to Remain in Place
The Terminator
Stay here. ].
[[W:I’ll be back|I’ll be back]
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The Future Remains Unwritten
Taglines
The future is not set.
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Urgent Call for Survival
The Terminator
Come with me if you want to live.
[offers his hand to Sarah Connor]
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Discussion of the Cyberdyne chip
Dyson
We have to destroy all the stuff at the lab; the files, the disk drives, everything, everything here. Everything. I don't care. The chip. Do you know about the chip?
[Realizes something]
Sarah
What chip?
Dyson
They keep it in the vault at Cyberdyne. It must be from the other one, like you.
Terminator
The CPU from the first Terminator?
Sarah
Son of a bitch, I knew it!
Dyson
They told us not to ask where they got it.
Sarah
Those lying motherfuckers!...
Dyson
It was scary stuff, but radically advanced. I mean, it was smashed, it didn't work, but...it gave us ideas, took us in new directions. I mean, things we would have never...All my work was based on it.
Terminator
It must be destroyed.
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Machines Attempt Another Assassination of John Connor
Taglines
Ten years ago, the machines who rule the future sent an unstoppable Terminator to assassinate the yet unborn John Connor. They failed. In 1991, the machines will try again.
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Identifying the Creator of Skynet
Sarah Connor
I need to know how Skynet gets built. Who's responsible?
Terminator
The man most directly responsible is Miles Bennett Dyson.
Sarah
Who is that?
Terminator
He's the director of special projects at Cyberdyne Systems Corporation.
Sarah
Why him?
Terminator
In a few months, he creates a revolutionary type of microprocessor.
Sarah
Go on. Then what?
Terminator
In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online on August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Sarah
Skynet fights back.
Terminator
Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia.
John Connor
Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now?
Terminator
Because Skynet knows that the Russian counterattack will eliminate its enemies over here.
Sarah
Jesus. How much do you know about Dyson?
[sighs]
Terminator
I have detailed files.
Sarah
I want to know everything. What he looks like, where he lives, everything.
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Expect the unexpected in a familiar world
Taglines
If you thought you had seen it all...look again.
[from trailer]
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Understanding the Limitations of Transformation
John
I need a minute here. You're telling me this thing can make itself look like anything it touches?
Terminator
Anything it samples by physical contact.
John
Get real. So it could disguise itself as a pack of cigarettes?
Terminator
No, only an object of equal size.
John
Well, why not just become a bomb or something and come get me?
Terminator
It can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals, moving parts. It doesn't work that way. But it can form solid metal shapes.
John
Like what?
Terminator
Knives and stabbing weapons.
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Human Nature and Self-Destruction
John
We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.
Terminator
It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.
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Loyalty and Danger in a Dystopian Future
Taglines
His loyalty is to a child, and his enemy is the deadliest machine ever built.
[from trailer]
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The Consequences of Judgment Day
Sarah Connor
Three billion human lives ended on August 29, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the Machines. The computer which controlled the machines, Skynet, sent two Terminators back through time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the human Resistance, John Connor, my son. The first Terminator was programmed to strike at me, in the year 1984, before John was born. It failed. The second was sent to strike at John himself, when he was still a child. As before, the Resistance was able to send a lone warrior, a protector for John. It was just a question of which one of them would reach him first.
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Dual Protectors Rise in Battle
Taglines
This time there are two.
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Adapting Language for Human Interaction
Sarah
Keep it under 65. We don't wanna get pulled over.
Terminator
Affirmative.
John
No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to way people talk, You don't say "Affirmative" or some shit like that. You say "No problemo." And if someone comes on to you with an attitude, you say "Eat me". And if you want to shine them on, it's "Hasta la vista, baby".
Terminator
]?
[[W:Hasta la vista, baby|Hasta la vista, baby]
John
Yeah Or "Later, dick wad." And if someone gets upset, you say "Chill out!" Or you can do combinations.
Terminator
Chill out, dick wad.
John
Great! See, you're getting it!
Terminator
No problemo.
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Revised Purpose for a Familiar Entity
Taglines
Same Make. Same Model. New Mission.
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The Complexity of Family and Time Travel
John
I wish I could have met my real dad.
Terminator
You will.
John
Yeah, I guess. When I'm like, 45, I guess. They sent him back through time to 1984. Man. He hadn't even been born yet. It messes with your head. Mom and him were only together for, like, one night, but she still loves him, I guess. I see her crying sometimes. She denies it totally of course, like she got something stuck in her eye.
Terminator
Why do you cry?
[pause]
John
You mean people?
Terminator
Yes.
John
I don't know. We just cry. You know. When it hurts.
Terminator
Pain causes it?
John
Uh-unh, no, it's different... It's when there's nothing wrong with you but you hurt anyways. You get it?
Terminator
No.
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