FAQ

Yes and no. The Terminator is, after all, simply following orders from a future John Connor. However, as the film progresses, it's clear that The Terminator has developed some form of affection for John, noted when Sarah indirectly refers to it as a father figure. The Terminator's feelings, a rare example of its free will, is on display when it tells John in the end that he "know(s) now why (John cries)". Thus, The Terminator can be seen not acting solely because of his mission, but in that he actually felt emotion and affection toward the Connors.

The T-1000's default appearance is that of Robert Patrick. The police officer he kills looked quite different from him. He simply takes the officer's uniform, gun and equipment. The T-1000 would keep this uniform as his default appearance because being disguised as a police officer offered him significant advantages in several scenarios: it could simply hide in plain sight. It also offered the opportunity to meet with John's foster parents and find out where he might have gone.

1. It exists.

"Reese didn't know about the jeopardy that John Connor was to face at age 10, and neither did Sarah. So, that was the starting point" - James Cameron (Starlog #171)

Reese couldn't know what happened after he left his time, and also couldn't be told. When Reese disappeared, John Connor knew he had to send one more protector because he knew that another assassin was sent, and this time to 1995. He alone had this knowledge. The extended T2 script, novelization and T2: Nuclear Twilight #4 comic book all depicted the scene the same way. From the script, right after Reese disappears:

FUENTES Sapper team. Set your charges. Let's blow this place back to Hell.

Connor shakes his head no. Mustering his strength.

CONNOR Not yet. There's one more thing we have to do.

After the second protector is sent, then they destroy the TDE

It is not clear when exactly Skynet sent his two terminators. It was shortly before the war was over, but when exactly is not clear. The Resistance was able to sent their protectors only after Skynet was defeated and all machines stopped functioning, in July of 2029. It was then that they could enter Skynet's facilities, access abandoned TDE and do their part.

Reese still suspected that Skynet might've sent more than one Terminator before getting destroyed. From the final shooting script of the first movie, the motel scene:

SARAH He'll find us, won't he?

REESE Probably. Sarah, if I get zeroed--

SARAH Don't say that.

REESE If I do, you have to get away, disappear without a trace. Different country, different name, everything. In case they send another one.

Yes. It was already made clear in the first movie that Skynet's fall is inevitable at that point and its last try was to try to erase Connor's existence. The war was won in 2029

CONNOR (V.O.) Skynet, being almost infinitely smart, was also infinitely tricky. It knew it was losing, so it thought of a way to rig the game...

Technicians have pulled up floor panels and tapped directly into cabling of the machine, using portable terminals that they have wheeled in. Many of the soldiers in this war against machines are technical specialists... you have to fight fire with fire.

CONNOR (V.O.) And now, though we've won the war, there is still one battle left to fight. The most important one. It will be fought in the past, almost four decades ago... before all this began...

The novelization, T2: Nuclear Twilight comic and extended script itself confirm the victory, which also allows Connor and his team to enter Skynet's facilities

The sudden silence takes the humans by surprise. They slowly emerge from their rat-warren emplacements and approach the frozen machines. We hear a voice speaking over a radio headset. It is filled with awed emotion.

HEADSET VOICE (O.S.) ... The Colorado Division confirms that Skynet has been destroyed... The war is over... I repeat, Skynet has been destroyed.

CAMERA TRACKS along the soldiers, bleeding, frostbitten, wrapped in rags... Valley Forge with better weapons. The wounded soldier in the ruins of the building cautiously approaches the chrome skeleton before him. He pushes against its chest with one finger. It topples with a crash and lies still. The soldier turns to his comrades with an idiot grin. Tears are streaming down his face. A mighty cheer goes up from the men and woman of the Last Army.

It turns out the T-1000 had been encased in a fleshy cocoon to be sent through the time machine. The plasma weapons known to be used by Terminators aren't tiny. It can't be fit within the confines of a human form that's curled into a low crouch. If the T-1000 didn't need a flesh cocoon, it could take any shape needed to accommodate a weapon, and in fact could have taken a whole Terminator with it! But with a flesh cocoon, a T-1000 couldn't realistically fit large, bulky items within itself without potentially compromising the integrity of the cocoon.

Additionally, for the same reason that humans and terminators are always transported nakedly: the time machine does not allow articles of clothing, so weapons would follow the same track.

The deleted scene of T-1000 searching John's room was specifically shot to show the audience that T-1000 doesn't see but that he senses, like an insect or Alien. He carefully touches and massages everything with the tips of his fingers. "Touch" is a key word here - it's the same way T-1000 samples objects.

Novelization: "(T-1000) took in the details of the neighborhood. It wasn't just his eyes he was seeing with. His entire body registered the environment in a dozen subtle ways"

"It didn't need lights. It could sense the molecular structure of things by touch"

There's no distinction in T-1000's form - same drop or part can become a piece of leg, or an ear, nose or knee - doesn't matter

Novelization: "Sirens reached its auditory sensors, which could have been formed anywhere on its body (since every molecule had the genetic blueprints for all needed parts programmed into them), but were now in shape of human ears"

It's likely there is a T-801 to T-999. They are simply never seen or mentioned. The T-1000 was simply a brand new, advanced prototype.

The Terminator only uses deadly force when necessary. At this point, he was simply trying to obtain clothes and a vehicle and also had no weapons. It's also likely that the terminator deduced the bar was too public to go on a killing spree. Had he killed the bikers, any witnesses would go to the authorities and this would seriously hinder him at the start of his mission. However, if it just seemed like a brawl between bikers, it likely wouldn't be reported or at least dismissed as a simple fight. The Cigar Biker refused the terminator's demands and burned him with his cigar. This prompted the terminator to crush the biker's hand and throw him in to the kitchen. The next Biker hits the terminator in the back of the head with a pool cue. This would be little more than a pat on the back to the terminator. As the Terminator was still holding on to the Cigar biker at the time, he simply grabbed the Pool Cue Biker and threw him through the front window. Next the Biker with the knife stabs the terminator in the abdomen. The terminator quickly disarms him and stabs him in the shoulder, pinning him to the pool table. It's possible that the terminator did intend to kill him, and simply missed a lethal point. The terminator then goes to the kitchen to follow up with the Cigar Biker. The Biker was incapacitated and surrenders to the Terminator, so no need to kill him. Lastly was the Biker with the shotgun who tries to stop the terminator from taking the motorcycle. The Terminator likely scanned the Biker, based on pulse, temperature and pupil dilation that he wouldn't pull the trigger. (In Terminator 3, the new terminator, the T-850, makes the same sort of analysis of John Connor.)

Like Reese says in the first film, most records were lost in the war, hence the scene where the T-800 AND Reese (earlier) look in a plain phonebook for Sarah's address. Presumably things with records lost in the war would include driver's licenses or applications, government records of taxes, the database of Social Security applicants and recipients after they retired, criminal records, etc. Skynet simply didn't have the knowledge about pre-war LA residents it needed to send the first & second T-800s or the T-1K directly to Sarah or John Connor's addresses. Both arrived in the middle of the night and there aren't many people at that time who can know and/or point the way and give directions. Note that the T-1000 didn't know where the Reseda Mall is either and had to ask for directions. In an omitted scene, the girls are laughing at the T-1K for not knowing where such huge and well known mall is.

It's possible, if John re-programmed the T-800 to protect him in the past, he simply told the terminator the address of his foster home. Hence why the T-800 arrived well before the T-1000, who'd looked up John's address on the computer in the cruiser he'd stolen.

The novelization also explains that time is of no importance for the T-1000. He is in no rush at all: The target's escape meant nothing to it. The delay could only be a measurement of time. Although terminators had internal chronometers, the T-1000 did not. It was part of Skynet's new design. Knowledge of time had its uses, but in most cases of pursuit, it was an unnecessary element.

Time was only a temporary respite from inevitable.

Because it's physical proof of advanced technology from the future in a visual sense: it looks like a fantastical piece of robotic technology, possibly from the future.

Keep in mind, they had the entirety of the first terminator. There were pieces scattered all over from when it was blown up. Its upper torso was crushed in the hydraulic press. The arm was sticking out of the press and therefore was the only piece that was intact and undamaged. So that piece was spared and kept locked away. The other pieces would have been collected and would have been significant enough proof of extremely advanced technology to be studied.

In the film, it can be assumed that John was just startled by a giant, leather-clad man, holding a box of roses, walking towards him while he was trying to flee from a cop. Once the terminator opened the box that revealed a shotgun, that would spook anyone.

According to the novelization, John knew T-800's face from the newspaper clippings and knew it's probably the person responsible for the '84 police precinct massacre and the same person that his mother believed to be a Terminator.

Novelization: In an instant, John recognized the face. He had seen it many times in the newspaper clippings his mother had shown him as he was growing up. It was that guy. The crazy dude who shot up that police station. The one his mother thought was a terminator.

This is actually the police officer 1-L-19, Nick Delaney, that got his head smashed against the car by T-800 in 1984. That is why he is so shocked when he sees him - he recognizes him and also knows that this person is a cop killer from 1984.

Later on in Pescadero the detectives show pictures of T-800 to Sarah. It's possible that those are the pictures provided to them by the above mentioned officer. Some say that it can't be so because the angles are different, but that's due to the fact that the pictures were taken a long time before the actual Mall scene was shot.

The officer in both instances is played in cameo by William Wisher, who co-wrote the story and screenplay with James Cameron.

John left them in the house. When John was leaving his house that morning, he didn't know that he was never going to come back to it. While searching John's room, the T-1000 found the tapes from Sarah, along with all the letters, messages and pictures with her in John's room. This way he found Salceda's Ranch later on. A deleted scene seen only in the original script and storyboarded showed the T-1000 finding Salceda and torturing him for info about John, Sarah and the T-800. Since very shortly after the detectives seen in Pescadero already knew about John's foster parents being murdered, the tapes were most likely confiscated by the police.

Dyson would be the first and most important person Skynet would want to know about. Same goes for his own history/development. How, who, when, where. And he had all the records about him - the address, everything. Who knows what else T-800 said to Sarah when she said that she wants to know everything. Dyson, unlike any other casual citizen, was a major figure in Cyberdyne. That's even underlined in T2 Extreme text commentary, saying that he was such a big shot there that they allowed him the unthinkable - to have a top secret model for CPU prototype at home on his desk. And again, he is the guy who'd done it all. Out of everyone around, Skynet would be the one to know all about Dyson. Out of all people, Dyson is the first choice. So even though there are no records available post Judgment Day, Skynet has all the data about his own history and creators since he 'lived' through it and it's a part of his memory/data bank.

Novelization: Terminator searched his memory. There was a basic history of his time embedded in the circuits. Data useful as a basis for cross-reffing and scaling events in this time. Terminator gained access to it with prioritizing it as tactical information.

In the first scene shown there, as soon as Enrique and the rest come out of hiding, you can hear at least one dog barking continuously in the background. In most of the other scenes there in the desert, the T-800 is either out of sight (underground in the weapons bunker, underneath the truck), or the scenes take place after obviously quite some time has passed. By then the dogs have had time enough to get used to his presence. Also, Enrique could have trained the dogs to accept the terminator as a friend, IE, shaken hands with him, had the terminator feed them dog treats or food, spoken to the terminator in a friendly tone, any sort of friendly gesture that an owner shows to a stranger goes a long way to establish trust with a dog.

The blueprints for T-800 endoskull show something called "Telepathic Communication Implant Cores". This is most likely a device that allows terminators to communicate with each other and other futuristic Skynet machines. Since it's based on some kind of wireless signal, it's very possible that it allows terminators to sense each other's presence.

At that point, even thought he was doing his best, T-1000 failed to fool John while imitating Janelle. T2 Extreme text commentary explains that T-1000 couldn't calculate the individual behavior for human beings, and that's what the machines couldn't do and why they eventually lost the war. So before trying it again by himself, he tried to get Sarah to do it. Afterwards he does call John himself, and again he did not fool him. John suspected something immediately and stopped suddenly even before he saw real Sarah behind the fake or the boots imitating the grated floor. Another factor was that he was damaged and could not perfectly recreate with any given object anymore.

Like mentioned before, T-1000 is it's own autonomous being. Frakes' novelization says that it learns, thinks and develops on it's own. By this point the T-1000 has developed an evil and nasty personality as explained by James Cameron:

"We saw the T-1000 as an advanced prototype, an experimental Terminator that could think and have a personality"

One way or another, the future was altered by the events in T2. The novelization points out that it didn't happen the first time around, and instead, Sarah and John went into South America and waited until Judgment Day happened in 1997. Also, since Sarah and John went on record as terrorists who attacked Cyberdyne, such thing would surely be on records and Skynet would know about Cyberdyne attacks or Dyson's kidnapping by Connors. Yet, the T-1000 had no clue that they will head for Cyberdyne and only found out about it through the radio. If he'd knew it'll happen, he would wait for them there.

The last deleted scene, the original ending, showed 2029 free of war, Sarah being a grandmother and happy that her son has become a father himself and is a US senator.

The scene was cut for several reasons: the scene was too much of a contrast to the rest of the movie visually and narratively. The aged makeup on Linda Hamilton wasn't satisfactory for James Cameron either.

Yet another reason is given in T2 Extreme DVD commentary. James Cameron states that he didn't want to be so blatantly obvious in showing that it all ended well. He said the audience 'got it' without seeing the scene. That would point out that the happy ending actually did take place in the intended Cameron's story, and its also included in the novelization.

James Cameron furthermore explains:

Basically, what I wanted to say in Terminator 2 was that everything is meant to be a certain way, everything has already been written. You can call it karma or destiny, whatever. So I asked myself a hypothetical question: what if you could you grab a line of history like it's a rope stretched between two points, and just pull it out of the way? If you can pull it just a little bit out of the way then cut it at that moment, maybe you could change it and history could go in a slightly different direction. Like the catastrophe theory. If you could actually do that you would get a future that no longer exists except in the memories of the people who are here now. They have a memory of a future that will never happen, which is curious, because it defies our Newtonian view of the world. But couldn't it be possible? That became my point of departure. It's like the Terminator is an anomaly of our time because he's the only one who has memories of a time that will never exist. His particular future does not exist anymore.

Another thing worth mentioning is the fact that Sarah hired a private detective to find Kyle Reese in this altered, war-free future but he couldn't find him and Sarah eventually called off the search. It's very likely that the chain of events that led to Kyle's birth in the original future didn't happen this time around. Remember that Kyle said that he grew up after the war in the ruins. With no war it's possible that his parents haven't even met.

The conceptual artwork showed the remaining 9 inactive 101 models with the longer hair, as seen in the first movie, so it's clear that the issue of hair style change was supposed to be addressed.

There's a theory that the resistance cut his hair short to have a better access to CPU. If they cut one spot to open the port cover, naturally they had to trim the whole thing now.

Another theory that comes from T2 books is that there are variants within variants - same model may have different types of hair etc, which is unlikely since there are only 10 same looking models

Van Ling gave two explanations: 1) Skynet may put different random haircuts on infiltrators to decrease the chance of zeroing them at a glance; 2) John Connor in the future may have had the T-800 prepped to look like the one he remembered from his childhood, because that's what was supposed to happen.

The activation of the TDE , which was a gargantuan machine going down deep into the bowels of the earth, required so much energy that it caused all of Skynet's machine temporary deactivation after each power up - it required massive amount of energy to send one object.

The teaser trailer for T2, directed by Stan Winston for $150,000 shows at least part of the procedure of how a T-800 comes off an assembly line and gets his flesh grown around the endoskeleton. A T-800 endoskeleton enters a living-tissue-casting machine and the flesh of the 101 model is molded onto the steel skeleton of the terminator.

T-800 clearly states that the enemy this time is:

*T-1000 Advanced Prototype"

It's formed from a different, even more advanced metal - pollyalloy. Mimetic pollyalloy to be exact, which can be in both liquid and solid form. It's also referred to as 'liquid metal'

There is only a series number and no model designation because it doesn't have any designated appearance. As mentioned in the movie, T-1000 is a one of a kind prototype. T-1000 is so powerful that even Skynet itself feared it, and would never use it of not the circumstances.

it was fully autonomous, and barely under the allegiance of its creator, SKYNET. SKYNET had hesitated before creating this latest weapon system. There were unpredictability factors related to the liquid poly-mimetic alloy's longevity and the ability to process commands without interpolating its own priorities over those of its creator. it was so volatile a construct that only in the last throes of defeat, only when it appeared that the Resistance would finally be able to mount an offensive against the inner command components of SKYNET, even threatening the Cheyenne Mountain complex itself, did SKYNET go ahead and create the T1000. Einstein once said that God didn't play dice with the universe. SKYNET had no choice..."

The passage above also points out that T-1000 is autonomous, meaning it isn't controlled or dependent on Skynet. The reason is that it doesn't have CPU and is a brand new, completely different technology. It's almost like an artificial creature of sort, developing on it's own. It's never fully explained how T-1000 works, although it's confirmed that its built of thousands of tiny nano-bots that work together by both the novelization and James Cameron on T2 Extreme DVD commentary.

T2 Novelization:

"Sirens reached its auditory sensors, which could have been formed anywhere on its body (since every molecule had the genetic blueprints for all needed parts programmed into them), but were now in shape of human ears"

• Randall Frakes

James Cameron furthermore explains and confirms Skynet's fear of the T-1000:

"I started thinking about the film in two stages. In the first stage the future sends back a mechanical guy, essentially what The Terminator became, and the good guys send back their warrior. In the end, the mechanical guy is destroyed. But up there in the future, somewhere, they say, well, wait a minute, that didn't work; what else do we have? And the answer is something terrible, something even they're afraid of. Something they've created that they keep locked up, hidden away in a box, something they're terrified to unleash because even they don't know what the consequences will be - they being the machines, now in charge of the future.

"And that thing in the box becomes a total wild card; it could go anywhere, do anything; it's a polymorphic metal robot that is nothing more than a kind of blob. I saw it as this mercury blob that could form into anything. It's powers were almost unlimited, and even in the future, they couldn't control it.

"That scared me. Just sitting there writing the story scared me.

When physically damaged, the T-1000 is capable of reforming itself in seconds, closing up bullet holes and reattaching limbs

The concept of pain had never factored into the sensory sphere of the liquid machine. Pain was an indicator of damage to a part of the organism, but this organism didn't have parts, except on a purely molecular level and its molecules were each primitive, miniaturized versions of the total machine. If any section were parted, the separated parts would revert to liquid metal poly-alloy. The only default command implemented on the molecular level of this design was to find the main mass again and rejoin it as soon as possible. Each molecule had a range of fourteen kilometers...

The liquid metal allows it to actually reassemble if blown to pieces

"It didn't have a wafer-circuit brain to think with, instead it was something on a completely new level of artificial intelligence. The molecular brain acted like the rest of the design, a liquid, and it bubbled and seethed with cold, logical possibilities and probabilities. All of them extremely lethal and efficient."

T-1000 is capable of perfectly copying the shape, color, and texture of anything that it touches that is of similar size or volume. The only restriction is that it cannot form "complex machines," such as "guns and explosives" because they "have chemicals, moving parts." The only weapons it can form are "solid metal shapes," such as "knives and stabbing weapons.". It's truly a perfect invention. Furthermore, it can use its ability to quickly liquefy and assume forms in innovative and surprising ways, including:

fitting through narrow openings,

morphing its human arms into solid metal tools or bladed weapons,

walking through prison bars form additional limbs

and flattening itself on the ground to hide or ambush targets. T-1000 can become a floor, wall, stool, big rock - just about anything and anybody

James Cameron: By shape-changing, the T-1000 could adapt itself into almost anything. But there had to be limits about his shape-changing. Could it turn into a Coca-Cola machine? No, because it can't change its mass. It certainly can't change its weight; weight and mass are two physical constants. But it can become things. It could not turn into a small dog because it was too big, there was too much mass, too much material. It could mimic weapons, but it couldn't mimic a weapon that would actually fire. A gun has moving parts, and there's gunpowder inside a brass shell, so it can't make itself into that.

So we said, okay, it can't make itself into a gun, but it could certainly make itself into a knife. Or something flat, like linoleum. Knowing it could be a knife, we needed to show that once or twice because it would look cool, and we figured we could fit that into several different situations.

The fact that T-1000 is composed of the new pollyalloy makes T-1000 even more resistant to hit, damage and temperatures. It's proven when he starts to melt in the molten steel - it took only few seconds for T-800 to melt and cease to function, while it took much longer for T-1000 who kept fighting and going berserk for a while before actually melting. Also, the ability to turn into liquid shape makes it impossible to be held and hard to be hit

Robert Patrick: Cameron encouraged me to think about predators in general. He said to let your mind be a sponge, and try to take cues from aspects of nature, especially bugs. He was very interested in me thinking with an instinct - this very calm, non-emotional patience. So I checked out some documentaries. He had me training with a physical trainer, working out three or four times a day.

Only a chain of circumstances allowed the defeat of the T-1000, who got terminated because he was standing in the wrong place at the wrong time, just like the assassin in the first movie. A direct hand to hand combat had left the T-800 a crawling, incapacitated, smashed junk

T- 800

Detonics M1911A1 Series 70 Hybrid pistol built with a Colt slide Winchester 1887

M79 grenade launcher MM1 grenade launcher

Handheld GE M134 Minigun Series 70 slide Colt Commando CAR-15

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T-1000:

Beretta 92FS Browning Hi-Power Mklll

MP5K

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Sarah:

Detonics M1911A1 Series 70 Hybrid pistol built with a Colt Series 70 slide Colt AR-15 Sporter II Carbine

Beretta 92FS Inox Detonics Custom 1911,

Colt AR-15 Sporter 1 Carbine Remington 870 Police Combat with Folding Stock

T - 800 drove

1990 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy FLSTF 1983 Ford LTD Crown Victoria

1979 Ford LTD Country Squire 1982 Ford Bronco

Chevrolet Step Van 1982 Chevrolet S-10

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T - 1000 drove/piloted

1987 Freightliner FLA 9664, 1987 Chevrolet Caprice 9C1,

Jetranger 1984 Kawasaki Police 1000,

Freightliner FLC 120 64,

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John drove

1990 Honda XR 100 1982 Chevrolet S-1

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Sarah drove

1979 Ford LTD Country Squire

The Terminator series is heavily based on logic and physical facts. The movie is not an 80's comedy like "Back To The Future" to do such things, that would be illogical and a complete cartoonish fantasy.

Physics tell us that there's cause and effect. If you remove the cause, the effect will not happen. But if you remove the cause AFTER the effect happened, the effect will still be there, simply because it's already a done physical object or event. There is no rule or any physical or chemical elements that would cause it to evaporate, that's just ludicrous. Going back, the effect won't happen the second time around because the cause is removed, but here and now the effect is already placed

She took his pen and stabbed him in the knee cap. Apparently, despite this incident, her behaviour was still considered overall improved.

There are a few possible explanations. 1) Skynet possesses a vast amount of records from before Judgment Day. It could have computer records from veterinary clinics and Wolfie could be the name of a dog that was registered as vaccinated or admitted for treatment. The T-800's readout may have listed Sparky or Boomer as other possible names to use. 2) Skynet could have records from police departments. Wolfie may have been the name of a trained dog in a K-9 unit. 3) Wolfie could be the name of a dog used by the future resistance to sniff out terminators. Skynet may have heard the name while listening to radio dispatches. It could have also been overheard by an active terminator infiltration unit. Or it could simply be an improvisation on the terminator's part. The logic being "Dogs go woof. Name the dog woofie"

The T-1000 could have considered the additional disguise to be advantageous in acquiring John Conner, who would easily recognize him without the helmet and glasses. By the time the T-1000 reforms in the steel mill, it no longer has these features, likely having recognized that they were pointless. The accessories also avoid any attention or scrutiny from other police who may have zeroed in on a cop riding a motorcycle with no helmet. The production explanation for this choice is that the stunt double would have needed to wear a helmet for the scene when the T-1000 hits the helicopter.

While the T-1000 is not covered in human tissue like the T-800, it is able to mimic hair and other fine details. To mimic the texture of skin, its nano-technology would have to imitate skin cells at a microscopic level as well as the composition of those cells. If the T-1000 was intended to replace the T-800 infiltration units, it is likely that Skynet sought to design it with this level of detail. However, given that the T-1000 has superior weapon capabilities and other sophisticated features, realistic skin texture was probably not prioritized when it was created.

The out-of-universe answer is bringing back Arnold Schwarzenegger to reprise his role as the Terminator.

As for the in-universe answer, fans can only theorize:

1. Probably the T-800 was the most updated model the resistance could reprogram and send back -- there were no other options available to them. They sent the T-800 back and hoped for the best.

2. Other fans claim that T-800 was a model Sara was familiar with, for better or for worse.

3. A deeper theory says adult John Connor from 2029 sends this model on purpose, because he remembered it from his childhood (read about ontological paradox for a better understanding). This theory may have support in the novelization on the movie.

This question is tricky. The fact the same model failed in 1984 had nothing to do with the resistance's choice. The resistance took other factors in consideration.

It's obvious that during the future war that the Human Resistance managed to capture a Terminator (The T-101) and they programmed the T-101 and upon learning the T-1000 was sent back in time to kill him when he was 10-years-old, John Connor decided to take the risk and believed the T-101 was his best chance of protecting his younger self from the T-1000 and sent the T-101 to 1995 to protect him from the T-1000.

In the original script, there was a scene depicting Reese's mission and him being sent back in time with Skynet's displacement machine. After he's sent back, one of his unit members asks him if they're mission is completed. John tells him they have one more mission to engage and he walks into the terminator production area and selects a T-101 to reprogram and send back right after Reese.

Sarah Connor is a former waitress gone mad. In 1984, a T-800 Terminator was sent back from the future to kill her in order to prevent her from giving birth to her son John whom in the future leads the human resistance against Skynet. After her bodyguard, rebel warrior Kyle Reese died and The Terminator was destroyed. Sarah fell pregnant with John and gave birth to him. However, Sarah attempted to blow up a computer factory, but failed and was arrested and was put in the Pescadero State Hospital for the Criminal Insane which Dr. Peter Silberman diagnosed her with acute schizo-affective disorder and disbelieves Sarah's story about The Terminator and the impending Judgement Day and John was put into foster care.

When it comes to this movie, not so much.

The phrase had been used before, i.e. Jody Watley used it in the 1987 song {looking for a new love}.

Some people claim this quote should not be included in AFI's top 100 movie quotes of all times, for its lack of originilaity.

Other people argue that the quote may not be original, but the movie made it popular at a worldwide level. Likewise the phrase "I'll be back" is not exactly original. But it became iconic thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger/The Terminator.

The T-1000 didn't so much look surprised. More likely just realising this meant the resistance had sent a protector for John. Now he knows he has an obstacle to remove from his path in order to complete his objective.

In a deleted scene, Sarah & John turn on a switch in his CPU that allows the terminator to learn. John later teaches the T-800 to sound more human and casual. It works to a limited amount.

John is an angsty teenager with a troubled upbringing. He postures to his friend that he looks down on his mother and her issues. It also makes him look harder, like a kid brought up to be tough and able to handle himself. But secretly he probably still loves her and misses her. As John confides in the Terminator "It's like everything I was brought up to believe was bullshit. I *hated* her for that. But everything she said was true, and nobody believed her. Not even me."

We likely don't see every conversation they had. He likely went in to more detail at another point. Once she was convinced that he was telling the truth.

Incarcerated at Pescadero State Hospital, a detention center for the criminally insane, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) is forced to break out in order to protect her son John (Edward Furlong), now 10 years old. Meanwhile, John is being targeted by two more Terminators, one (Robert Patrick) sent by Skynet to kill him and the other (Arnold Schwarzenegger) sent by the Resistance to protect him.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the second movie in the Terminator franchise. It was preceded by The Terminator (1984) and followed by Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009), Terminator Genisys (2015), and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). There are also two TV series: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008) and Terminator Zero (2024). The screenplay for Terminator 2 was written by Canadian filmmaker James Cameron (who also wrote the screenplay for the first movie) along with American screenwriter William Wisher Jr. However, the movie was novelized in 1991 by science fiction writer Randall Frakes.

The first Terminator film takes place in May 1984. According to information provided at the beginning of the movie, it is now 1994, but John was born on 28 February 1985 and is currently 10 years old. If the latter is the case, it contradicts the T-800's claim that it was sent back 35 years in time (from 2029), which would place the events of the film in 1994. Another piece of information that adds to the contradiction is provided when the T-800 states, "in three years Cyberdyne will...", which indicates the film takes place three years before Judgement Day (which occurs on 29 August 1997), again implying 1994.

So, there are three explanations: (1) the logical (i.e. computationally-sound) and precise T-800 has an inaccurate awareness of the date to which it has time-traveled by citing by implication a present date figure that falls at least year short of what is accurate, (2) John is inaccurate about his own age by citing it at most a year higher (implying that he is 9 years old), or (3) the T-800 expresses positive numbers rounded to the nearest integer (meaning that a number as low as 2½ would be rendered as a "three"). Any combination of the of the aforementioned possibilities could also be a possibility. The third case implies that the film is set within days of John's tenth birthday, such that Judgement Day occurs less than 2½ years (or 30 months) afterward, but more important than Judgment Day, in this question, is Skynet's birthday (4 August 1997, its "online" date), leaving us to conclude that most likely John exaggerated his age by a few weeks. The problem with the implications of the third explanation of course is the non-cold winter weather even for the southern Californian climate. John having characteristics of a child older than nine years old is related to this question yet a whole other can of worms.

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The T-1000 is liquid metal, and only living human tissue will go through the time machine. The T-800 can go through because the metal endoskeleton is surrounded by human tissue. But the movie leaves some mystery as to what the machine actually is. When in its human form, the T-1000 might actually mimic human flesh. However, since the film really never specifically expands on the situation, it's considered a plot hole. Reese states in the original film that it has something to do with the field generated by a living organism, which is probably bioelectromagnetism, but doesn't elaborate further. That doesn't necessarily mean that only human or animal tissue can travel through time intact. It may mean that anything (machines included) that generates the proper kind of field can time travel. Since the T-1000 is so far advanced, it may generate the right type of field (that Reese was talking about) that earlier models could not without human flesh. Another possibility is that the T-1000 was outfitted with a simple layer of epidermis just before it was sent back through time. T-800s have a complete, fully functional skin with blood supply to keep the epidermis in shape and to ensure that wounds will heal, in order to keep the Terminator passable as a human. However, all the T-1000 may need is a simple layer of skin without blood vessels or other components of human flesh to get him across time, which he can dispose of after time-travel. Technically, we never really see in what state he arrived, and there was some time, maybe up to half a minute or so, between the electrical disturbances from the time-travel and T-1000's first on-screen appearance, where he kills the police officer. Perhaps he shed the skin in that short time. It's also possible that over time, Skynet was able to advance the technology of the time machine allowing it to send anything through, whether it has living tissue or not.

No. The T-1000 would have killed and copied the clothing of the first adult male with whom he came into contact. It just so happened that person was a police officer investigating the electrical disturbance caused by the T-1000 transportation, which worked to his advantage in many instances.

1. trespassing, 2. shoplifting, 3. disturbing the peace, 4. vandalism (seen on the police computer when the T-1000 looks him up).

Reese believed that once the Resistance had used the Time Displacement Field to send him back to 1984, it had been destroyed by his fellow soldiers. This information is described in the prologue of the official Terminator 2 novel where the original script can be read. However, after Reese was sent back in time, his unit (including an older John Connor) found liquid metal residue in Skynet's factories. It is implied that the T-1000 is an experimental unit at this point and that even Skynet is not fully sure of whether or not it can be controlled (due to how advanced it is, it may actually be more intelligent than Skynet, and has the potential to turn on its master). It is only to be activated as an act of desperation or a last resort should the humans actually destroy Skynet. John then decides to send a reprogrammed T-800 back to wherever the liquid metal creation was sent before destroying the Time Displacement equipment. One must also keep in mind that during the events of the first Terminator film, Reese and Sarah are only together for around 48 hours. Reese does not have a great deal of time to give a full description of future events and the full extent of the enemy's arsenal, and he is not even aware of the T-1000's existence (as it is a secret weapon). John Connor is the only one that is aware of it, and only because it was sent back in time to kill him. Why he could not himself have given this knowledge to Reese before the time journey depends upon the (as yet unproven) way in which time travel to the past would work, i.e. if there would be multiple, revised iterations of events, or if all events would piece together into a single continuity. An early T2 script (which can be read in Terminator 2: Judgment Day: The Book of the Film - An Illustrated Screenplay) also contained a comparable opening scene in the future, where the human resistance defeats the machines, enters the Skynet building, and sends Reese to the past. After he is gone, the men want to blow up the Time Displacement equipment, but John Connor tells them there is still one more thing to do. He goes into a cold storage room where several inactive T-800 Terminators are stored; one is already missing (an Arnold model). John looks at another, knowing he still needs to send this one to protect himself in the past. This scene was never shot for budgetary and other reasons.

According to the Cameron-Wisher original script draft and the official novelization by Randall Frakes, as well as creative consultant Van Ling, there were hundreds of different-looking T-800 terminators in Skynet's Terminator storage facility. However, the adult Connor went looking specifically for the model of Terminators that he remembered protecting him when he was ten years old. By sending back his father Kyle Reese and the protector Terminator, John was fulfilling his role in the predestination paradox (causal loop). When John entered the Terminator Cold Storage Facility to locate the deactivated "Arnold" model, Frakes writes: John panned his light around. There were hundreds of men and women, in rows of ten. Within each row, the bodies were absolutely identical. John quickly walked along the synthetic bodies to the end of a row and hesitated. He scanned the faces. No, not there. Then he gazed down the other row. All the same. Strange to him. Then...he turned to another row and stopped. It was filled with identical, familiar faces. The broad, brutally handsome features sent a shock of recognition through John. It was him.   Both from the official Terminator 2 companion book and on the special edition T2 DVD, James Cameron and Stan Winston state that an unfilmed part of the script involved the rebels in 2029 destroying Skynet but finding a chamber where the T-800 Model 101 terminators were built. This chamber housed a sophisticated assembly line where the terminator parts were transported to a central point. Here they were welded together, programmed and placed inside a press that coated the outside of the endoskeleton with a organic tissue. The point of this sequence was to show how the rebels managed to not only find the Terminators but also the time displacement equipment that they could use to send back the reprogrammed cyborg. This sequence was ultimately excised from the movie due to financial constraints, but Stan Winston liked it so much that he recreated it for the first teaser trailer for T2, released one year before T2's July 1991 release.

Here are some clues from the official novel as to the nature of its design: (1) "It didn't have a wafer-circuit brain to think with. It was something on a completely new level of artificial intelligence. The molecular brain acts like the rest of the thing, a liquid. And now it bubbled with possibilities. All of them lethal." [page 101], (2) "The concept of pain had never factored into the sensory sphere of the liquid machine. Pain was an indicator of damage to a part of the organism. But this 'organism' didn't have parts, except on the molecular level. And its molecules were each primitive, miniaturized versions of the total machine. If any section parted, the separated halves would revert to metal poly-alloy. The only default command it had in molecular memory was to find the main mass again and rejoin it. Each molecule had a range of fourteen kilometres." [page 132], and (3) "Skynet itself had hesitated before making this latest weapon. There were unpredictability factors related to the thing's longevity and ability to process commands without interpolating its own priorities. It was so volatile a construct, that only in the last throes of utter defeat, when the plug was about to be pulled, had Skynet sent the terminators through time to change the outcome of the war. And only in the very last micro-second before shutdown, had the hypercomputer sent the T-1000... Skynet had no choice." [page 178] In short, the T-1000 has microscopic feedback control centers in every part of its mass, and they work together roughly like a wireless cluster computing network.

The T-1000 has at least three hand-to-hand encounters with the T-800. At no point does it seem to have a direct understanding of how to efficiently disable it. The reasons behind this are not known, but there are several common suggestions:

1. The T-1000 is a prototype and has incomplete programming about T-800 design/anatomy.

2. The T-1000 simply wasn't designed or programmed to fight other terminators.

3. T-800s in general are not easy to kill and as such, there may very well not be a simple, quick, "efficient," way to simply destroy one. Their fuel cells are located in their abdominal area, but this location is heavily protected with thick armor. The same has to be true for their chip in their cranium. If bullets from most high powered rifles and handguns are unable to penetrate these areas, its unlikely a T-1000 would be able to stab through the armor either. Conflictingly a knife can penetrate armour designed to minimise bullet damage such as a bullet proof vest. A T-800 will have full military grade armour but this was pierced because the stabbing weapon had behind it the immense force generated by the T-1000 when it targeted the fuel cells. A human would unlikely manage to do the same although a purpose built bolt for a high power crossbow is feasible. It's assumed the T-1000 was unaware the T-800 had an alternative power supply.

4. The T-1000's primary objective is to kill John Connor, not eliminate every threat that may interfere with this mission. Getting away, or delaying your enemy's advance, can be just as effective. Also, every moment spent fighting the T-800 gives John more time to escape. Losing track of him hinders its mission considerably. However, it is noteworthy that in the final hand-to-hand battle in the steel mill, the T-1000 did engage in a lengthy fight with the T-800. It may have allowed some time to do this thinking that it is unlikely that John would be able to get away under the current setting.

5. The T-800 may be considered an "inferior model" but it clearly has considerable strength and abilities. The superiority spoken of may refer to total life span, the ability to change its form, less physical damage from bullet impacts, etc. Consider a knife vs. a gun. A gun may be superior, but a knife can still do a great deal of damage, even penetrating material which bullets can not.