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Understanding the Terminator's Infiltration Unit
Kyle
All right, listen. The Terminator's an infiltration unit: part man, part machine. Underneath, it's a hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor-controlled. Fully armored, very tough. But outside, it's living human tissue: flesh, skin, hair, blood - grown for the cyborgs.
Sarah
Look, Reese. I don't know what you want from...
Kyle
Pay attention! I gotta ditch this car. The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy. But these are new, they look human. Sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him.
[parks car]
Sarah
Look, I am not stupid, you know. They cannot make things like that yet.
Kyle
Not yet, not for about 40 years.
Sarah
Are you saying it's from the future?
[disbelieving]
Kyle
One possible future. From your point of view. I don't know tech stuff.
Sarah
Then you're from the future too - is that right?
Kyle
Right.
Sarah
Right.
[sarcastically]
Kyle
Cyborgs don't feel pain. I do. Don't do that again.
[coldly]
Sarah
Just let me go!
[weakly]
Kyle
Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!
Sarah
Can you stop it?
[gasps and quivers as Reese's warning sinks in]
Kyle
I don't know. With these weapons...I don't know.
[tiredly]
Police Dispatcher
All units, all units. Gray Ford, suspect's vehicle, has been found at a parking structure at 4th and Beaudry.
[The Terminator glances at the dispatcher, then makes a U-turn and drives back the way he came]
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The Rise of Machine Intelligence
Sarah
Reese. Why me? Why does it want me?
[she and Reese have just snuck into a Cadillac]
Kyle
There was a nuclear war. A few years from now...all this...this whole place, everything...it's gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah.
Sarah
I don't understand.
Kyle
Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.
Sarah
Did you see this war?
Kyle
No. I grew up after. In the ruins... starving... hiding from H-K's.
Sarah
H-K's?
Kyle
Hunter-Killers: patrol machines built in automated factories. Most of us were rounded up, put into camps for orderly disposal. This is burned in by laser scan. Some of us were kept alive... to work... loading bodies. The disposal units ran night and day. We were that close to going out forever. But there was one man who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal motherfuckers into junk. He turned it around. He brought us back from the brink. His name is Connor. John Connor. Your son, Sarah... your unborn son.
[pulls up his right sleeve, exposing a mark; Sarah gapes in amazement]
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Your Future Is Controlled by Machines
Taglines
Your future is in its hands.
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The Indomitable Nature of The Terminator
Taglines
In the 21st century, a weapon will be invented like no other. This weapon will be powerful, versatile and indestructible. It can't be reasoned with. It can't be bargained with. It will feel no pity. No remorse. No pain. No fear. It will have only one purpose: to return to the present and prevent the future. This weapon will be called...The Terminator.
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A Call for Survival
Kyle Reese
Come with me if you want to live.
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Defiance in the Face of Danger
Sarah Connor
You're terminated, fucker!
[When Sarah proceeds to crush the terminator with a hydraulic press]
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Seeking Sarah Connor at the Police Station
Terminator
I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told she was here. Could I see her please?
Desk Sergeant
No, you can't see her. She's making a statement.
Terminator
Where is she?
Desk Sergeant
Look, it may take a while. Want to wait? There's a bench over there.
[points to bench]
Terminator
{{W|I'll be back}}!
[looks around, examining the structural integrity of the room, then looks back at him]
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A Conversation About Family and Connection
Sarah
Would you talk about something?
Kyle
What?
Sarah
I don't know. Anything. Just talk. Tell me about my son.
Kyle
He's about my height. He has your eyes.
Sarah
What's he like?
Kyle
You trust him. He's got a strength. I'd die for John Connor.
Sarah
Well, at least now I know what to name him. I don't suppose you know who the father is so I won't tell him to get lost when I meet him.
Kyle
John never said much about him. I know he dies before the war-
Sarah
Wait! I don't want to know. So, was it John that sent you here?
Kyle
I volunteered.
Sarah
Why?
Kyle
It was a chance to meet the legend... Sarah Connor. Taught her son to fight, organize, prepare from when he was a kid. When you were in hiding before the war.
Sarah
You're talking about things I haven't done yet, in the past tense. It's driving me crazy. Are you sure you have the right person?
Kyle
I'm sure.
Sarah
Oh, come on. Do I look like the mother of the future? I mean am I tough, organized? I can't even balance my checkbook! Look Reese, I didn't ask for this honor and I don't want it, any of it!
[angry, irritated]
Kyle
Your son gave me a message to give to you. He made me memorize it. "Thank you, Sarah, for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face, except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive, or I will never exist." That is all. It's a good field dressing.
[reciting; examines the bandage Sarah has put on his hand]
Sarah
You like it? It's my first.
[bitterly]
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Gun Discussion at the Pawn Shop
Terminator
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[[W:Franchi SPAS-12|The 12-gauge auto-loader]
Pawn clerk
That's Italian. You can go pump or auto.
Terminator
The ] with laser sighting.
[[W:AMT Hardballer|.45 long slide]
Pawn clerk
These are brand new; we just got them in. That's a good gun. Just touch the trigger, the beam comes on and you put the red dot where you want the bullet to go. You can't miss. Anything else?
Terminator
Phased ] in the 40-watt range.
[[w:plasma weapon|plasma rifle]
Pawn clerk
Hey, just what you see, pal.
Terminator
The ].
[looks around; [W:Uzi|Uzi 9mm]
Pawn clerk
You know your weapons, buddy. Any one of these is ideal for home defense. So uh, which will it be?
Terminator
All.
[pointing shotgun towards the door]
Pawn clerk
I may close early today. There's a... 15-day wait on the handguns, but the rifles you can take right now. You can't do that.
[takes out forms; sees the Terminator loading a shell into the shotgun]
Terminator
Wrong.
[shoots and kills the clerk]
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The Final Battle Against Machines Begins Tonight
Taglines
The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight...
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Creating Our Own Destiny
Misattributed
There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.
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Endless Nightmare of an Undying Threat
Taglines
The thing that won't die, in the nightmare that won't end.
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Struggling to Communicate with the Future
Sarah
Tape 7, November 10...Where was I? What's difficult is trying to decide what to tell you and what not to. But I guess I have a while before you're old enough to understand these tapes. They're more for me at this point just so that I can get it straight.
Sarah
¿Gasolina, por favor?
Gas Station Clerk
¿Cuánto?
Sarah
Llena el tanque.
Gas Station Clerk
Fill er up! ¡Sí!
Sarah
Should I tell you about your father? Boy, that's a tough one. Will it affect your decision to send him here, knowing that he is your father? If you don't send Kyle, you can never be. God, a person could go crazy thinking about this. I suppose I will tell you. I owe him that. Maybe it'll help if you know that, in the few hours we had together, we loved a lifetime's worth.
[recording; stops recording because a boy has just taken a Polaroid picture of her]
Boy
Usted es muy hermosa, señora, y tengo apena decirle que me dé cinco dólares americanos, pero si no, mi padre me va a pegar.
Sarah
What did he just say?
[to clerk]
Gas Station Clerk
He says you're very beautiful, señora, and he's ashamed to ask you for five American dollars for his picture - but if he doesn't, his father will beat him.
Sarah
Pretty good hustle, kid. Cuatro.
[raises four fingers]
Boy
¡Sí, sí! Gracias. ¡Miren, miren! ¡Allá! ¡Viene una tormenta!
[accepts two two-dollar bills; leaves, but calls back a warning]
Sarah
What did he just say?
[to clerk]
Gas Station Clerk
He said there's a storm coming in.
Sarah
I know.
[contemplatively]
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Misattributed Quote from The Terminator Explained
Misattributed
* Although John Connor recalls this as part of the message his future self had given to Kyle Reese to pass along to Sarah Connor in ], and a version of this line appears in , Kyle Reese never actually recites this line in the film.
[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day; http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Terminator.html some script drafts]
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The Creation of the Terminator Explained
Taglines
In the Year of Darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet devised the ultimate plan. They would reshape the Future by changing the Past. The plan required something that felt no pity. No pain. No fear. Something unstoppable. They created the Terminator.
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A Time Traveler's Mission to Protect the Past
Taglines
It came from a war-torn future to destroy the past. Its target: an ordinary woman - Sarah Connor. Her only ally: another traveler through time.
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Discussion of Time Travel Limitations
Dr. Silberman
Why didn't you bring any weapons, something more advanced? Don't you have, uh, ray guns? Show me a piece of future technology.
Kyle
You go naked. Something about the field generated by a living organism. Nothing dead will go.
Dr. Silberman
Why?
Kyle
I didn't build the fucking thing!
[frustrated]
Dr. Silberman
Okay, okay. But this cyborg, if it's metal...
Kyle
Surrounded by living tissue!
Dr. Silberman
Oh, right, right. This is great stuff! I could make a career out of this guy. You see how clever this part is, how it doesn't require a shred of proof? And most paranoid delusions are intricate, but this is brilliant! Why were the other two women killed?
[pauses the interrogation tape; resumes the interrogation tape]
Kyle
Most of the records were lost in the war. Skynet knew almost nothing about Connor's mother. Her full name, where she lives. They just knew the city. The Terminator was just being systematic.
Dr. Silberman
Uh-huh. Well, let's go back to where I was...
Kyle
Look! You have heard enough! I have answered your questions! Now I have to see Sarah Connor!
[interrupts]
Dr. Silberman
I'm afraid that's not up to me.
Kyle
Then why am I talking to you?
Dr. Silberman
Because I can help...
Kyle
Who is in authority here?!
Dr. Silberman
Please, I...
Kyle
SHUT UP!!! You still don't get it, do you?! He'll find her! THAT'S WHAT HE DOES! THAT'S ALL HE DOES! YOU CAN'T STOP HIM! HE'LL WADE THROUGH YOU, REACH DOWN HER THROAT, AND PULL HER FUCKING HEART OUT!!!
[interrupts again; glares at the camera]
Ed Traxler
Doc?
Kyle
Aagh! LET GO OF ME--!
Dr. Silberman
Sorry.
[pauses the interrogation tape]
Sarah
So is Reese crazy?
Dr. Silberman
In technical terminology, he's a loon.
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