TERMINATOR II: THE UNCENSORED AND UNABRIDGED FILMSCRIPT
PART II
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30 Int. Corridor
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Sara staggers from her cell. Reese is already, impossibly a
hundred feet away, striding down the dim corridor. A silhouette
in a long coat, disappearing around a corner.
Sara runs after him, her bare feet slapping the cold linoleum.
Her hospital gown floats out behind her as she dream-runs along
the seemingly infinite corridor. She reaches the corner, slides
around it, and...
<-30A->
Slams right into the arms of Douglas and his three helpers.
They grab her as she struggles and screams. Then Silberman is
there, smiling soothingly. They force her down and she is pinned
to the floor, screaming. A new figure approaches... one even more
menacing.
TERMINATOR walks toward her, with heavy, measured steps.
Backlit, eyes concealed by the sunglasses, it stands over her
like the angel of death itself. It reaches down and... Takes her
hand. Lifts her up. Leads her to a door. They go through
together. Emerging into...
<-30B->
A BEAUTIFUL SUNLIT MORNING. CHILDREN are playing nearby...
sliding down slides, clambering through a jungle gym. Sara knows
this dream now... it is the worst of all her nightmares. She
starts to scream but no sound comes out.
<-30C->
THE SKY EXPLODES into WHITE LIGHT. Everything is seared by the
unholy glare, hotter than a thousand suns. The children ignite
like match heads. Sara is burning, screaming silently,
everything silent and overexposed. Terminator's flesh and
clothing are burning, silently. It grips her hand, Virgil to her
Dante in this tour of the nuclear age Inferno.
<-30D->
THE BLAST WAVE HITS... a near-solid wall of compressed air
followed by 250 mph winds. The children, charcoal statues frozen
in positions of play, explode into black leaves of ash and swirl
away. SOUND hits now, with a thunderous roar. Sara's scream
merges with the howl of the wind as the blast hits her, exploding
the flesh from her bones. Beside her, Terminator is stripped of
its burnt flesh, becoming a smoking skeleton of steel.
<-30E->
Then she wakes up... in her cell, shackled to the bed. Sunlight
hurts her eyes. She looks desperate and defeated. She knows the
war is coming. It visits her every time she closes her eyes.
Lost and alone, Sara feels all hope recede for herself and for
humanity.
Cut to:
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31 Int. Pescadero state hospital - Interview room
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TIGHT ON VIDEO SCREEN, playing a previously-recorded session.
Sara is in a strait-jacket, talking softly.
Video SARA: ..."it's... like a giant strobe light, burning right
through my eyes... but somehow I can still see. Look, you know
the dream's the same every night, why do I have to -- "
Video Silberman: "Please continue..."
<-31A->
The REAL SARA dispassionately watches herself on the screen.
Her expression is controlled. Silberman watches her watching.
They are in a brightly lit interview room. TWO ATTENDANTS stand
nearby.
<-31B->
Video SARA: "The children look like burnt paper... black, not
moving. Then the blast wave hits them and they fly apart like
leaves..."
Video Sara can't go on. Real Sara watches herself cry on tape,
her expression cold. We hear Silberman speak on the tape.
Video Silberman: "Dreams about cataclysm, or the end of the
world, are very common, Sara..."
Video Sara cuts him off, her mood shifting to sudden rage.
VIDEO SARA: "It's not just a dream. It's real, you moron! I know
the date it happens!!"
Video Silberman: "I'm sure it feels very real to you -- "
Video SARA: "On August 29th 1997 it's going to feel pretty
fucking real to you, too! Anybody not wearing number two million
sunblock is gonna have a real bad day, get it?!"
Video Silberman: "Relax now, Sara --"
Video SARA: "You think you're alive and safe, but you're already
dead. Everybody, you, him... (she gestures at the attendant)
everybody... you're all fucking dead!"
She is raving, half out of her chair. The orderly moves to
inject her with something.
VIDEO SARA: "You're the one living in a dream, Silberman, not
me! Because I know it happens. It happens!"
<-31C->
Silberman pauses the tape... freezing Sara's contorted face.
Real Sara turns away from the screen, her expression stony.
SARA: "I was afraid... and confused. I feel much better, now.
Clearer."
Silberman gives a calculated paternal smile.
Silberman: "Yes. Your attitude has been very positive lately."
Sara looks up at him. Her voice is hopeful.
SARA: "It has helped me a lot to have a goal, something to look
forward to."
Silberman: "And what is that?"
As she answers, WE PULL BACK, revealing that we have been
looking through a one-way mirror from an adjacent OBSERVATION
ROOM. In the shadows of the observation room we see the interns
from the earlier rounds, and a couple of STAFF PSYCHOLOGISTS.
They smoke and make the occasional note.
SARA: "You said I could be transferred to the minimum security
wing and have visitors if I showed improvement in six months.
Well, it's been six months, and I was looking forward to seeing
my son."
Silberman: "I see. Let's go back to what you were saying about
these terminator machines. Now you think they don't exist?"
CLOSE ON SARA. Her voice sounds hollow.
SARA: "They don't exist. I see that now."
Silberman leans back, studying her. Toying with her.
Silberman: "But you've told me on many occasions about how you
crushed one in a hydraulic press."
SARA: "If I had, there would have been some evidence. They would
have found something at the factory."
Silberman: "I see. So you don't believe anymore that the company
covered it up?"
Sara shakes her head no.
Cut to:
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32 Ext. Cyberdyne systems - Day
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The corporate headquarters of a mega-electronics corporation.
An imposing cubist castle of black glass.
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33 INT. Second floor/ Elevators
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The elevator doors slide open with a whisper and MILES DYSON
strides out. Black. In his early thirties. The star of the
Special Project's division. He's brilliant, aggressive, driven.
Dyson walks down the corridor, swinging his arms... a man in a
hurry. A man with much to do. He reaches a solid security door
and zips his ELECTRONIC KEY-CARD through the scanner. The door
unlocks with a clunk. The sign next to the door reads: SPECIAL
PROJECTS DIVISION: AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY.
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34 Int. Security station
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He nods to the guards as he passes through the security
checkpoint. They can see all activities on the floor on their
bank of video monitors. He unlocks another secure door with his
card and enters--
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35 Int. Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) lab
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The lab is quite large, comprising banks of processors, disk
drives, test bays, prototype assembly areas. Extremely high
tech.
Dyson: "Greetings, troops."
He is jokingly saluted by fellow workers. Not a lab coat in
sight. This is a strictly jeans and sneakers crowd. All young and
bright. They sit at their consoles drinking Cokes and changing
technology as we know it. A young LAB ASSISTANT rushes over to
Dyson. Name tag says he's BRYANT.
Bryant: "Mr. Dyson? The materials team wants to run another test
on the uh... on it."
Dyson: "Yup. Come on. I'll get it."
Dyson produces an unusual-looking KEY from his pocket as they
stride through the lab. Bryant has to hustle to keep up.
Bryant: "Listen, Mr. Dyson, I know I haven't been here that
long, but I was wondering if you could tell me... I mean, if you
know..."
Dyson: "Know what?"
Bryant: "Well... where it came from."
Dyson: "I asked them that question once. Know what they told me?
Don't ask."
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36 Int. Vault room
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Dyson enters with Bryant. Dyson and a GUARD stand together
before what looks like a high-tech bank vault. It requires two
keys to open, like the launch controls in a nuclear silo. The
guard and Dyson insert their keys and turn them simultaneously.
Dyson then enters a passcode at a console and the vault unlocks
itself with a sequence of clunks. The door swings open and Dyson
enters. Bryant stays outside with the guard, who notes Dyson's
name and the time on a clipboard.
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37 INT. VAULT
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Dyson walks to a stainless steel cabinet and opens it. Inside is
a small artifact in a sealed container of inert-gas. IT --a
ceramic rectangle, about the size of a domino, the color of
liver. It has been shattered, painstakingly reconstructed and
mounted on a metal frame.
Dyson removes the artifact, in its inert-gas flask, and sets it
on a specially designed cart. He handles it like the Turin
shroud. Dyson closes the cabinet. Turns to the one next to it.
Opens its door. In this cabinet is a larger object... an
intricate METAL HAND AND FOREARM.
At the elbow, the metal is twisted and crushed. But the forearm
and hand are intact. Its metal surface scorched and discolored,
it stands upright in a vacuum flask, as if saluting. This is
all that remains of the terminator Sara destroyed. Dyson stares
at it, lost in thought. Then he closes the cabinet, BLACKING OUT
FRAME.
Cut to:
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38 Int. Interview room/ Observation room
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We can see through the one way mirror into the interview room
where Sara is still talking with Silberman. The OTHER
PSYCHOLOGISTS are still watching through the mirror. Reviewing
Sara's condition.
SARA: "So what do you think, doctor? I've shown a lot of
improvement, haven't I?"
Silberman: "You see, Sara... here's the problem. I know how
smart you are, and I think you're just telling me what I want to
hear. I don't think you really believe what you've been telling
me today."
We go tight on Sara's reaction. And we see that Silberman is
right. She was playing him and it didn't work. And she knows
she's fucked. Her tone becomes quietly pleading.
SARA: "You have to let me see my son. Please. It's very
important. He's in danger. At least let me call him --"
Silberman pins her with his sweet reptilian gaze.
Silberman: "I'm afraid not. Not for a while. I don't see any
choice but to recommend to the review board that you stay here
another six months."
Sara's eyes turn cold and lethal in one second. She knows she's
lost. She knows this guy is just playing with her, and she --
LEAPS ACROSS THE TABLE AT HIM.
SARA: "YOU SON OF BITCH!!"
Silberman jumps back and the attendants dive on her. She is
writhing and twisting like a bobcat. Silberman whips open a
drawer and pulls out a syringe. He jabs it into her as she yells.
SARA: "Goddammit. Let me go!! Silberman! You don't know what
you're doing! You fuck! You're dead! You hear me!!"
Silberman signals and the attendants drag her out. He looks at
the doctors behind the glass. Shrugs.
Silberman: "Model citizen."
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39 EXT. 7-Eleven store - DAY
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Officer X has stopped two young girls in front of a 7-Eleven.
He is leaning out the cruiser window and showing them the picture
of John. The first girl nods.
FIRST GIRL: "Yeah, he was here about fifteen minutes ago. I
think he said he was going to the Galleria."
Officer X: "The what?"
The second girl points toward a massive complex visible above
the houses several blocks away. Officer X stares at it.
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40 EXT. STREET
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Terminator cruises slowly on the bike. Scanning. He crosses an
overpass above a drainage canal and whips his head around at the
sound of a dirt-bike engine.
<-40A->
TERMINATOR POV -- of two kids on a bike down in the canal. The
IMAGE snap-zooms in. FREEZES on the driver's face. IDENT POS
flashes next to the blurry image of John.
<-40B->
Terminator wheels the Harley around, cutting onto a street which
runs parallel to the canal. Terminator hauls ass to keep John in
sight. He catches glimpses of the kid through trees and houses.
Loses him. Catches one last glimpse of him heading into the
parking garage of a large SHOPPING MALL.
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41 INT. GALLERIA - DAY
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John works his way through a crowded video arcade. Sees some
guys he knows. Stops to talk, striking a pose. Mall rats in
their element. We don't hear the dialogue.
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42 Int. Galleria parking garage
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TERMINATOR'S idling Harley shakes the parking garage walls. He
stops at a row of bikes near the escalators. John's little Honda
sits proudly with the big street bikes. Terminator parks.
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43 Int. Galleria
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OFFICER X is moving through the flow of shoppers. The place is
a zoo. He stops some kids and shows them the picture. They shrug.
<-43A->
IN A CROWDED VIDEO ARCADE JOHN is lost in an intense battle,
going for a new high score at "Missile Command". He parries
deftly as the enemy ICBMs deploy their MIRVs... the warheads
stream down... it's more than he can deal with. The world gets
nuked. Game over. He slouches away from the game, looking for
another. Bored.
RACK FOCUS to Officer X passing the entrance of the store behind
him. The cop moves on, down the concourse, out of sight. John
gets into an "Afterburner" simulator game.
<-43B->
ON TERMINATOR, walking through the crowd in slow motion.
Scanning. It moves with methodical purpose, knowing the target is
close. We see that it is, incredibly, carrying a box of LONG
STEM ROSES. Like some hopeful guy with a hot date.
<-43C->
THE COP is pointed toward the arcade by some kids hanging out at
the multi-cinema. He walks into the maze of kids engaged in
synthesized conflict. Cheap electronic sound effects blare above
the crowd noise.
<-43D->
JOHN is shooting down MiGs at Mach 2. His friend Tim slides up
next to him. Taps him on the shoulder, trying to play it cool.
Tim: "Some cop is scoping for you, dude."
John looks around the corner of the "Afterburner" ride. Sees
the cop showing a picture to some of the kids. The kids point
his way.
John ducks just as the cop glances over. He slinks out the other
side of the ride and heads for the back of the store,
instinctively retreating. Sara has taught him that cops are bad
news.
THE COP scans the crowded arcade. Glimpses John, looking back
as he moves around a row of machines. Starts toward him.
JOHN sees the cop homing in and starts walking fast. Looks
back. THE COP is shoving through clots of kids. One of them is
slammed to the floor. An eddy of outrage behind the cop as he
gains speed. John breaks into a run. So does the cop. Kids
scatter like ten-pins as the cop charges after John. John sprints
through the arcade's back office and store-rooms.
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44 Int. SERVICE CORRIDOR
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John emerges through a firedoor into a long corridor which
connects to the parking garage. He's running full out, when
around the corner ahead of him comes...
TERMINATOR. Time stretches to nightmarish crawl as John tries to
brake to a stop. Terminator reaches into the box of roses.
SLOW MOTION.
The cold black steel of the SHOTGUN emerges as the box falls
open, the roses spilling to the floor. TERMINATOR'S BOOT crushes
the flowers as it moves forward.
JOHN, transfixed by terror, is trapped in the narrow featureless
shooting gallery of the corridor. THE SHOTGUN COMES UP.
Terminator expressionlessly strides forward. Jacks a round into
the chamber, slow and fluid.
John looks behind him for a place to run. Sees the cop coming
toward him, pulling his Beretta pistol. Incredibly, John
realizes the cop is aiming his gun at him! John looks back at
Terminator. He is staring into the black muzzle of the 10 gauge
now. Aimed right at his head. He realizes he's screwed. Then
something crazy happens...
Terminator: "Get down."
John instinctively ducks. Terminator pulls the trigger. KABOOM!
THE COP catches the SHOTGUN'S BLAST square in the chest just as
he fires his pistol. The pistol's shot goes wild.
TERMINATOR pumps another round into him. Then another. And
another. And another. Advancing a step each time he fires, he
empties the shotgun into the cop, blowing him backward down the
corridor. The sound is DEAFENING. Then silence.
THE COP lies still on his back.
<-44A->
Terminator is now standing right over John. They both watch as
the cop, incredibly, sits up unharmed and gets to its feet.
Terminator grabs John roughly by his jacket. Clutches the kid to
his chest then spins around as the cop opens fire with the
Beretta.
<-44B->
The "cop", who not only isn't a cop, he clearly isn't even
human, pulls the trigger so fast it almost seems like a machine-
pistol.
ON TERMINATOR'S BACK, as the 9mm slugs slam into it, punching
bloody holes in the motorcycle jacket.
A MAN emerges from a restroom and steps right between the cop
and his target. He's instantly cut down by the fusillade. JOHN
is bug-eyed with fear, but completely unscratched. Terminator's
body has blocked the bullets.
The Beretta CLACKS empty. Terminator turns at the sound.
Shoves John behind a coke machine. Drops the empty shotgun,
Starts walking toward the "cop". The empty magazine clatters to
the floor. The cop inserts another one. Snaps back the slide.
Terminator still has twenty feet to go. It doesn't break its
purposeful stride.
The cop opens fire. Bullets rake Terminator's chest. It doesn't
even flinch. Ten feet to go. BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM! Neither the
cop nor Terminator show the slightest change in expression as the
gun rips Terminator's wardrobe to shreds.
CLACK. The pistol empties again. Terminator stops two feet in
front of the cop. They appraise each other for a second.
We realize now that the cop is a terminator too. We don't know
the details yet, but let's call him the T-1000 (since that's what
he is). A newer model than the one we've come to know so well
(the 800 Series "Arnold"). This guy's an advanced prototype...
and he's got quite a few surprises.
T-1000 AND TERMINATOR size each other up. Terminator moves
first. It grabs the T-1000 in its massive hands but the T-1000
snaps back with a counter-grip. After about two seconds of
intense slamming, the walls on both sides of the corridor have
all the plaster smashed in, and the two battling machines have
blasted through the wall and disappeared.
JOHN, totally stunned by all of this, remembers to move. He
staggers to his feet. Stumble-runs toward the parking garage.
<-44C->
THIRD LEVEL CONCOURSE. A plate glass window EXPLODES and the
Terminator crashes through to the tile floor like a sack of
cement amid the screaming crowd.
<-44D->
The T-1000, swatting mannequins aside, emerges through the
broken window. Picks up the stunned Terminator by its jacket.
Hurls him against the balcony, which shatters at the impact.
Terminator crashes through and falls two levels to the courtyard
below!
T-1000 turns without a word and heads back through the store
after John, accelerating slowly into a loping, predatory run.
<-44E->
DOWN ON THE COURTYARD. Terminator is totally still. A JAPANESE
TOURIST cautiously steps forward and takes a picture of the
body. Suddenly, Terminator's eyes snap open. The stunned tourist
backs away.
It sits up and looks around. Gets its bearings. Rises smoothly
to its feet. All servos seem to be working fine. The tourist's
camera whirs as the motor-drive runs on by itself, taking shot
after shot. The owner isn't even looking through the eyepiece,
he's so shocked.
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45 Int. Parking garage
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John is frantically pumping the kick starter of his bike, scared
shitless and the damned thing won't start. His hands are shaking
so badly he can't find the choke. He looks up to see-- The T-
1000 running down the corridor toward him. John fumbles with the
choke. The bike catches. He slams it in gear and spins the bike
out into the main aisle of the garage.
John looks back... the T-1000 is behind him, running. He twists
the throttle and guns the little bike forward. Incredibly, the
T-1000 is gaining. This nightmare isn't happening. John races
out the exit ramp, and charges right into the street.
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46 EXT. STREET
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John shoots into the busy traffic. Cuts off a BIG-RIG TOW
TRUCK. The DRIVER swears. Hits his air horn. What the driver
doesn't see is the cop, running faster than O.J. Simpson at the
airport, who emerges onto the street and runs right at his truck.
<-46A->
IN THE TRUCK. The driver hears a thump as something slams
against his door, then feels himself pulled right out. T-1000
slides in and takes his place. The truck is still rolling along
about 25 mph. T-1000 accelerates after John without missing a
beat. It can see him, up ahead, weaving through traffic.
<-46B->
Out of the garage entrance, Terminator roars onto the street on
the Harley. It accelerates after the others.
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47 EXT. FLOOD CONTROL CHANNEL
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John slides his bike down the service ramp faster than he's ever
done it before. He races along the bottom of the canal, turning
into a narrower tributary which has vertical sides.
He looks back. No sign of pursuit.
<-47A->
Suddenly he sees the sun blocked out by a great shadow. The
Kenworth tow-truck... big as house, all chrome and roaring
diesel engine... crashes through the fence and launches itself
right into the center of the canal.
It crashes down, 15 feet to the ground, going about 60, hits at
an angle and tears into the concrete wall with a hideous grinding
of metal. It ricochets back and forth between the walls then,
bellowing like a gutshot stegosaurus, it just keeps on plowing
forward, gathering speed.
<-47B->
John looks back and sees this wall of metal almost filling the
narrow concrete canal and he milks every last bit of throttle the
little bike has. The Kenworth is all muscle, tearing along the
canal like a train in a tunnel. Its big tires send up huge sheets
of muddy spray, backlit in the setting sun. It looks like some
kind of demon. And... it's gaining.
<-47C->
ABOVE THEM, on the service road running parallel, Terminator is
fighting to overtake them. It looks down and sees John with the
tow-truck from Hell catching up to him. It is only about twenty
feet behind him and still gaining.
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ANGLE IN THE CANAL, looking back past a desperate John, at the
wall of metal filling frame behind him.
<-47E->
ABOVE, Terminator cuts the bike suddenly hard to the left,
leaving the road. Hitting an earth embankment just right, it
jumps the bike into the air like Steve McQueen in "The Great
Escape" and vaults the fence bordering the canal. It slams down
at the edge of the canal and tears along, inches from the drop-
off on a dirt path, accelerating past the truck in the channel
below.
<-47F->
John hits some water and slews momentarily, losing speed. The
massive push-plate on the front of the truck slams his back
fender. Panicked, he pulls a little ahead. All this is happening
at about sixty miles an hour. Top speed for the little dirt bike.
<-47G->
SLOW MOTION as Terminator jumps the bike again.This time the
700-pound Harley sails out into space and drops into the canal.
It arcs down between the truck and John, hitting on its wheels.
It bottoms out, an explosion of sparks from under the frame. Only
the ultra-fast reflexes of a machine could keep the bike upright.
Terminator fights for control.
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It guns the throttle and the powerful bike roars up beside
John's tiny Honda. Terminator sweeps the kid off his machine with
one arm and swings him onto the Harley, in front of him. John's
Honda weaves and falls, smashed instantly under thundering tires.
The Harley roars ahead. It hits eighty. Ahead is an overpass,
and supporting it is an abutment which bisects the canal into two
channels. The Harley thunders into one channel, which is
essentially a short tunnel.
<-47I->
The truck can't fit on either side. Neither can it stop, at
that speed. Tires locked, it slides on the muddy concrete and
piles into the concreted abutment at seventy.
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Terminator and John emerge from the tunnel, looking back to see
a fireball blasting through behind them as the truck's side-tanks
explode.
Terminator stops the Harley. John peers around its body to see
the destruction. A burning wheel wobbles out of the tunnel and
flops in the mud. Terminator revs the bike and they roar away,
down the canal, disappearing around a bend.
<-47K->
ANGLE ON THE FIRE, as a column of black smoke rises from the
overpass. Smoke boils from the tunnel as well, and inside it is a
solid wall of flame. A figure appears in the fire. Just an
outline. Walking slowly... calmly. The figure emerges from the
flames.
It is human-shaped but far from human. A smooth chrome man. Not
a servomechanism like Terminator is underneath, with its complex
hydraulics and cables... this thing is a featureless, liquid
chrome surface, bending seamlessly at knees and elbows as it
walks. It reminds us of mercury. A mercury man. Its face is
simple, unformed. Unruffled by thousand degree heat, it walks
toward us. With each step detail returns. First the shapes and
lines of its clothing emerge from the liquid chrome surface, then
finer details... buttons, facial features, ears...
<-47K->
But it's still all chrome. With its last step, the color returns
to everything. It is the cop again... handsome young face, blond
hair, moustache. Icy eyes. It stops and looks around.
It is a perfect chameleon. A liquid metal robot. A killing
machine with the ultimate skills of mimicry for infiltration of
human society.
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ANGLE NEARBY, as several police cruisers and a fire truck pull
up T-1000 climbs out of the canal behind them. More cops arrive.
T-1000 blends in perfectly. There are always cops at disasters
and scenes of violence. We now see why its choice of protective
mimicry is so perfect. It walks among the other cops unnoticed.
Gets into one of the squad cars. Starts it and drives away.
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48 EXT. SIDE STREET - DUSK
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Terminator, with John in front of him, on the Harley roars down
the empty street. John cranes his neck around to get a look at
the person/thing he is riding with. The image is strangely
reminiscent of father/son, out for an evening ride.
John is still shaking from the experience of what just happened
and he's just a ten year old kid, but he's also the John Conner
who will someday rise to greatness, and we see a bit of that in
him even now.
John: "Whoa... time out. Stop the bike!"
Terminator immediately complies. He leans the bike into a turn.
They head into a nearby alley.
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49 EXT. ALLEY
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Terminator and John roll into the alley and come to a stop. John
slides off the gas tank. Terminator impassively stares at him.
John checks him out. Tentatively speaks.
John: "Now don't take this the wrong way, but you are a
terminator, right?"
Terminator: "Yes. Cyberdyne Systems, Model 101."
John: "No way!"
John touches Terminator's skin. Then the blood on his jacket.
His mind overloads as the reality of it hits him.
John: "Holy shit... you're really real! I mean... whoah!"
(stepping back)
"You're, uh... like a machine underneath, right... but sort of
alive outside?"
Terminator: "I'm a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a
metal endoskeleton."
John: "This is intense. Get a grip, John. Okay, uh... you're not
here to kill me... I figured that part out for myself. So what's
the deal?
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 gives him an amazed look.
John: "This is deep."
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50 EXT. Street - NIGHT
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John and Terminator on the bike again, weaving through the side
streets. They blend into the evening traffic. In the darkness,
Terminator's wounds are not readily visible. John cranes his head
up and back.
John: "So this other guy? He's a terminator too, right, like
you?"
Terminator: "Not like me. A T-1000. Advanced prototype. A
mimetic polyalloy."
John: "What's that mean?"
Terminator: "Liquid metal."
John: "Radical."
Terminator: "You are targeted for termination. The T-1000 will
not stop until it completes its mission. Ever."
John mulls that over.
John: "Where we going?"
Terminator: "We have to leave the city, immediately. And avoid
the authorities."
John: "Can I stop by my house?"
Terminator: "Negative. The T-1000 will definitely try to
reacquire you there."
John: "You sure?"
Terminator: "I would."
Cut to... (see part III)
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