what day is it? the date.
what year?
gimme a falafel with, uh, yogurt and baco-bits.
come with me if you want to live.
hold on.
are you injured? are you shot?
do exactly what i say. exactly. don't move un- less i say. don't make a sound unless i say. do you understand?
do you understand?
i'm here to help you. reese, sergeant. tech-com, dn38416.
assigned to protect you. you've been targetted for termination.
no. but you will. it's very important that you live.
not a man. a terminator. cyber dynamics model 101.
not a robot. cyborg. cybernetic organism.
just a second. keep your head down.
good cover. alright. listen. the terminator's an infil- tration unit. part man, part machine. underneath, it's a hyperalloy combat chassis, mircoprocessor-controlled, fully armored. very tough.
but outside, it's living human tissue. flesh, skin, hair. blood. grown for the cyborgs.
pay attention. 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 'til he moved on you before i could zero him.
no. not yet. not for about forty years.
one possible future. four your point of view. i don't know the tech stuff.
right.
cyborgs don't feel pain. i do. don't. do that. again.
listen. understand. that terminator is out there. it can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with. it doesn't feel pity of remorse or fear.  and it absolutely will not stop. ever. until you are dead.
maybe. with these weapons.  i don't know.
there's so much.
there was a war. a few years from now. nuclear war. the whole thing. all this--
--everythingis gone. just gone. there were survivors. here. there. nobody knew who started it. it was the machines.
defense network computer. new. powerful. hooked into everything. trusted to run it all. they say it got smart. a new order of intelli- gence. then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. decided out fate in a microsecond. extermination.
didn't see the war. i was born after, in the ruins. grew up there. starving. hiding from the h-k's.
hunter killers. patrol machines. build in automated factories. most of us were rounded up, put in camps. for orderly disposal.
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 mother- fuckers 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.
steer!
with the one thirty second under perry, from '21 to '27--
that's right.
then i was assigned recon.  security, last two years, under john connor.
skynet. a computer defense system built for sac-norad by cyber dynamics. a modified series
yes.
it had no choice. the defensive grid was smashed. we'd taken the mainframes.  we'd won. taking out connor then would make no difference. skynet had to wipe out his entire exist- ence. we captured the lab complex. found the. what- ever it was called. the time-displacement equipment. the terminator had already gone through. they sent two of us to intercept, then zeroed the whole place. sumner didn't make it.
can't. nobody goes home. nobody else comes through. it's just him and me.
it's just him and me.
you go naked. something about the field generated by a living organism. nothing dead will go.
i didn't build the fucking thing.
surrounded by living tissue.
most official records were lost in the war. the computer knew almost nothing about connor's mother. her name. where she lived, just the city. no scanner pictures. the terminator was just being systematic.
you've heard enough. decide. are you going to release me?
then why am i talking to you? get out.
who is in authority here?
you still don't get it. he'll find her. that's what he does. all he does.
you can't stop him. he'll wade through you.
reach down her throat, and pull her fucking heart out.
sarah?
let's get off the road.
you cold?
come here.
kyle.
white light. pain. like being ripped inside out.  slowly. like being born, maybe.
i caught one, back there.
it's not bad.
it's okay. forget it.
see. missed everything. passed through the meat.
what?
about my height. he has your-- . damn. he has your eyes.
you trust him. he's got that strength. you'd die in a second for john.
john never said much about him. he dies. even before the war.
i volunteered.
it was an honor. a chance to meet the legend. sarah connor. who taught her son to fight. organize, prepare. from when he was a kid. when you were in hiding, before the war.
i'm sure.
ow! no, it's okay. it's better tight.
you'll learn.
john gave me a message for you. made me memorize it. 'sarah". this is the message.  'sarah, thank you. for your courage through the dark years. i can't help you with what you must soon face, except to tell you that the future is not set.  there is no such thing as fate, but what we make for ourselves by our own will. you must be stronger than you imagine you can be. you must survive, or i will never exist.' that's all.
good field-dressing.
sleep. it'll be light soon.
about what?
alright. you stay down by day, but at night you can move around. the h-k's use infra-red so you still have to watch out. but they're not too bright. john taught us ways to dust them them. that's when the infiltra- tors started to appear. the terminators were the newest, the worst.
we used them to spot terminators.
rad tubes?
bag some z's?
yours is over there.
aren't you afraid to be out in the open like this?
what's that?
why?
what about it?
molecular-memory.
that's the way it was told to me.
tactically dangerous. we lay low.
that's not my mission.
let's go. time to move out.
sarah!
i'm wrong here. i wasn't meant to see this.
it's. like some dream. this. this.
and you. all so. beauti- ful. it hurts, sarah. more than death.
don't you understand. it's all gone!
is this enough?
later. i'm going out for materiel. keep this.
plastique.
nitroglycerin, basically. bit more stable. i learned howto make it when i was a kid.
make sure there's none on the threads, like this. now screw the end-cap on. very gently.
that's good. now, seven more like that while i make fuses.
hot dogs?
my whole life has been combat.
not possible.
we'll head out at 0200. that gives you four hours to sleep if you want. i'll finish.
probably. sarah, if i get zeroed.
if i do, you have to get away, disappear without a trace. different country, different name, everything. in case they send another one.
no. i'm not.
good fighters.
someone?
no. never.
pain can be controlled. you disconnect it.
it's better that way.
john connor gave me a picture of you once. i never knew why. it was very old. torn. faded. you were young, like you are now. you weren't smiling. just a little sad.  i always wondered what you were thinking at that second.
i memorized every line, every curve.
sarah, i came across time for you. i love you. i always have.
i'm sorry. i shouldn't have said.
ticklish?
what are you doing?
i don't think i like this.
listen to the dogs.
light it now.
switch places with me.
sarah.
cover. our footsteps.
leave me here.
run!
run, damn it!