TERMINATOR II: THE UNCENSORED AND UNABRIDGED FILMSCRIPT
PART IV
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71 Int. Isolation floor
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The attendants at the security checkpoint look up at the monitor
as someone enters the corridor. They see Sara, holding Silberman
at syringe-point. Sara speaks to them through an intercom on the
wall. Her voice comes through the speaker.
Sara: "Open it or he'll be dead before he hits the floor."
The attendants' adrenalin levels just went off the scale. The
first attendant adamantly shakes his head no. The amperage here
is really high. The second attendant keys the intercom mike.
2nd attendant: "There's no way, Conner. Let him go."
Silberman's face is the color of suet.
Silberman: "It won't work, Sara. You're no killer. I don't
believe you'd do it."
Her voice is a deadly cold hiss.
Sara: "You're already dead, Silberman. Everybody here dies. You
know I believe that. So don't fuck with me!"
Silberman: "Open the goddamn door!"
The attendants look at one another. One of them finally hits the
solenoid button. The far door unlocks.
<-71A->
In the lockout corridor. Sara pushes Silberman ahead of her. The
nearer, barred door must be unlocked manually. One of the
attendants cautiously approaches. Nervously unlocks it.
Sara: "Step back!"
He does. She faces both of them.
Sara: "Down on the floor! Now!"
They comply. She comes through with Silberman, giving them a
wide berth. Starts backing down the hall away from them, still
holding her hostage. She's actually pulling this off.
<-71B->
Angle from behind her. What we can see, but she can't, is a
third orderly waiting just around the corner. He's poised, ready
to jump her when she comes abreast of him.
On sara backing up. She reaches the corner. The third attendant
lunges, grabbing her syringe-hand. Sara spins on the orderly and
catches him across the throat with the nightstick. He loses
interest fast, dropping to his knees and gagging. Silberman pulls
away, screaming at the top of his lungs.
Silberman: "Get her!"
They scramble up as Sara takes off like a shot around the
corner. One of them hits the panic button and ALARMS begin to
sound.
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In the isolation ward, the T-1000 is looking in at a very stoned
attendant inside the nurses' station when the alarms shriek
through the halls. It reaches into its chest and pulls out the
9mm pistol. Heads for the security entrance.
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In another corridor in the maze of the vast hospital, Sara flies
past us, her bare feet slapping on the cold tiles. The orderlies
charge after her. She's like an animal in a maze. She turns a
corner, glancing off the wall, and sprints on without slowing.
She reaches a steel door. Tries it. Locked. Footsteps like a drum
solo behind her.
She fumbles with Douglas's keys, breathing hard. Jams the master
in. The orderlies are bearing down on her at full tilt. Sara gets
the door open. Dives through. Slams it. She turns a deadbolt knob
just as the first orderly grabs the latch on the other side. He's
too late.
Sara sees them beyond the window, fumbling with their keys.
<-73A->
Sara is in another sally-port corridor. A jail-cell type barred
door is between her and the corridors of the ward beyond. She
sprints to the wall of bars, jams her key into the door. She
unlocks and pulls open this door just as she hears the latch of
the one she just came through being unlocked.
She flings herself frantically through the barred door as the
first orderly comes through behind her. She slams the bars shut.
CLANG. Her keys are dangling from the lock on the other side from
her. The orderly is racing at her, white-lipped with rage.
She reaches back through the bars, turns the key, and
purposefully snaps it off in the lock. An instant later the big
orderly slams against the door, grabbing through the bars for her
as she dances back just out of reach. He lunges against the steel
bars, unbelievably pissed off.
Sara takes off running, looking back at the frustrated
orderlies. They're shouting at each other, unable to fit their
keys into the lock -- The broken-off key tip makes it impossible
to get their keys in. Silberman shouts at them.
Silberman: "Go around, goddammit! Go around!!"
The orderlies run back the way they came, and along a cross-
corridor to another set of doors.
<-73B->
On Sara as she rounds a corner and sees the elevators ahead. Now
she's home-free. At a full tilt sprint, she's nearly there when
the elevator doors part...
Terminator steps out... his head swivelling to face her. Sara
reacts, stricken by the image from her worst nightmares. Her eyes
go wide as momentum carries her forward. Her bare feet slip on
the slick tile. She slams to the floor, staring up at the leather
clad figure with the shotgun.
She loses all semblance of courage and some of her sanity. She's
not even aware that she is screaming, or what would be screaming
if she could get the breath to do it. In slowed down dream-time,
Sara scrambles back along the floor like a crab, spinning and
clawing her way to her feet along the wall.
She runs like the wind, like in her nightmare. If she looked
back she would have seen John step warily out of the corridor
behind Terminator. John, however, catches a glimpse of the
fleeing Sara and figures out instantly what happened.
John: "Mom!! Wait!"
Sara doesn't hear. She has clicked fully into her own
nightmare. They take off running after Sara.
<-73C->
She is pelting down the long corridor, back the way she came.
As she reaches an intersection with a cross corridor a white-clad
figure blurs from that corridor. The orderly hits her in a
flying tackle. She skids across the floor, shrieking and
struggling. The other two orderlies leap into the fray.
SARA: "No! Help me! Goddammit, it's gonna kill us all!!!"
She is shouting, pleading, trying to get them to understand what
is coming. They grab her thrashing arms and legs. They don't
even look where the out-of-control woman is pointing... back
along the corridor.
They have her pinned to the cold tiles, a ring of faces above
her. Silberman leans down to her, holding a syringe with a heavy
dose of trank. Sara cranes her neck and sees the dark silhouette
of Terminator coming up behind them. It is exactly her
nightmare. She screams in utter hopelessness.
Terminator, holding the shotgun in one hand, reaches down and
grabs one of the orderlies with his other hand. He hurls the 200
pound guy against the far wall of the corridor. SMACK! He drops
to the floor.
The other two orderlies react instantly, leaping onto the
intruder. Terminator seems to disappear for a moment under the
two big guys. Then there is an explosion of white-clad figures,
as the orderlies are flung outward like they stepped on a land
mine. One crashes through a window of safety glass and is caught
before a two-story fall by the outer steel bars. The other
crashes through an office door, splintering it into kindling.
Silberman has jumped in to hold Sara. He is grabbed by a roll
of skin at the back of his neck and lifted like a cat. The
doctor feels his feet pedaling above the ground. He looks into
the expressionless face. And it hits him. Sara was right... this
guy isn't human. He feels the fabric of his reality crumbling.
Then he feels himself flying through the air. The wall smacks
him, then the floor kicks him in the face. He decides to lie
there a second.
Sara blinks, staring up at the figure looming over her.
John kneels next to her.
John: "Mom, are you okay?"
She looks from Terminator to John. Back to Terminator. Is this
a nightmare? Or has she finally gone truly mad?
Incredibly, Terminator politely reaches its hand down to her,
offering to help her up. The last thing she ever expected to
see.
Terminator: "Come with me if you want to live."
The orderlies are stirring.
John: "It's all right, Mom. He's here to help."
Sara, in a daze, takes the huge hand in her shaking fingers.
Terminator lifts her to her feet.
<-73D->
John sees a COP standing thirty feet away, on the other side of
the wall of bars. John doesn't know what we know, but he knows
something's not right with this guy. Terminator turns to follow
John's gaze. The T-1000 has his pistol in his hand, at his side.
Terminator pushes John behind him. They start backing up.
<-73E->
The T-1000 walks forward, reaching the bars. It doesn't stop.
Its body divides like jello around the bars. As it squeezes
itself through like metal playdough, its surface reforms
perfectly on our side. We see it deform and squeeze through like
a viscous paste forced past an obstacle. Silberman has recovered
enough to be sitting up and watching this. That faint snapping
sound is his mind.
There is a CLINK and we see that the guard's gun has caught
against the bars... the only solid object. The T-1000 turns its
wrist and tries again, slipping the gun endwise through the gap.
<-73F->
Sara is agape. Not reacting. It's been a heavy day for her.
Terminator grabs John by the seat of his pants and hooks him up
onto his back. John grabs him around the neck. Terminator raises
the shotgun and starts backing up.
Terminator: "Go! Run!"
Sara doesn't need to be told twice. T-1000 walks toward them,
opening fire with the Browning Hi-Power. Terminator straight-
arms the 12 gauge like a pistol and FIRES. The stunned orderlies
flop face down on the floor as the corridor is filled with high-
velocity lead. One of them, stupidly running for the cross-
corridor, gets hit by the T-1000.
Terminator is hammered by several slugs, and the T-1000 is
cratered by two buckshot hits. It staggers, but comes on. In
the craters we see bright mercury before they close and reseal,
disappearing in a second.
<-73G->
Terminator makes it around the corner and breaks into a run.
Ahead, Sara is already at the elevator. Terminator and John
pile in and John slaps the button for "Garage Level".
The doors start to close. T-1000 clears the corner. Terminator
slams John and Sara back against the side walls as the T-1000
charges at them, rapid-firing the Browning. The rounds hit the
steel doors as they close. T-1000 keeps pumping them at the
closing gap.
<-73H->
Inside, they see the backside of the doors denting with the hits
that are punching holes in the other side.
<-73I->
The Browning locks open, empty. T-1000 drops it without a
glance back. The doors close. K-WHAM! The T-1000 hits them a
split second later. The elevator hasn't moved yet. SSWWIKK!
<-73J->
A sword-like blade rams in between the doors forcing them open.
Terminator jams the shotgun through the widening gap. Punches
the muzzle right INTO the T-1000's face -- BOOM!!
<-73K->
We get a glimpse of the T-1000's head blown apart by the blast.
It is hurled back. The doors close. The car descends.
<-73L->
ON THE T-1000, outside the elevator. Its head, which is blown
apart into two doughy masses lying on the shoulders, reforms
quickly. There is no trace of the injury. It sees the closed
doors and jams its hands between them, its fingertips becoming
pry-bars. It pulls the doors apart with inhuman strength...
<-73M->
...and LEAPS INTO THE OPEN SHAFT. It falls two floors and...
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74 IN THE ELEVATOR
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Our trio hears a loud THUMP on the roof. Terminator, reloading
the shotgun, looks up. Sara grabs the .45 from his waistband and
aims it at the ceiling. BEAT... Then CLANGG!! a swordlike shaft
punches through the ceiling and spears down four feet into the
elevator car. It is inches from Sara's face. She opens fire, BAM-
BAM-BAM-- right through the roof. Lightning fast the lance
withdraws and thrusts down again, slashing Terminator's jacket,
and missing John by inches. Terminator chambers a round and K-
BOOM! the 12 gauge opens a hole in the ceiling. Terminator
rocks out in a fury of firing/cocking/firing as the metal shafts
slash down again and again. Sara yells in pain as one of them
slices open her upper arm.
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75 The doors open.
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Sara pulls John out as soon as the gap is wide enough. They
emerge into the basement. We see the Harley parked nearby.
Terminator, in a rearguard action, fires another blast through
the ceiling and runs out. He throws his leg over the Harley,
kicks it to life with one powerful stroke and then whips
something out of the inner pocket of his jacket. He throws it to
John. A road flare!?
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In the elevator, the T-1000 has bashed a hole in the ceiling big
enough to... pour itself through. A massive blob of mercury
extrudes from the opening. The mass drops through the hole, down
out of frame, then comes back up into frame as Officer X.
It seems to need just a second to get its mental act together
after doing this kind of taffy-pull with itself. It opens its
eyes and sees--
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TERMINATOR, the shotgun held in his teeth, astride the roaring
Harley twenty feet away. Terminator twists the throttle and pops
the clutch. The back tire screams on the concrete. The front
wheel lifts off the ground and the heavy bike launches in a
thundering wheelie.
Terminator gets off just before the bike hurtles into the
elevator. The Harley slams the T-1000 square and smashes it
right through the back wall of the elevator. Terminator rolls to
his feet. John strikes the flare on the concrete. Tosses it.
Terminator catches the lit flare with one hand. Levels the
shotgun with the other. With his last round he blows a big hole
in the bike's gas tank. Gas splashes everywhere, covering the
struggling T-1000. Terminator tosses the flare. KA-VOOOM!
The explosion knocks Terminator backward off his feet,
enveloping him in the fireball. He gets up, smoking, and runs
after John and Sara toward the exit ramp.
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78 AT THE EXIT RAMP
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They are partway up when a blue-and-white hospital security car
comes screeching down the other way. Without breaking stride Sara
runs right at the car. It skids to a shrieking halt. She's in
the guy's face with the .45 in both hands.
SARA: "Out of the car!!
The patrol guy is thinking what he can try when BAM! she puts a
round through the glass next to his head.
SARA: "RIGHT NOW!"
The door opens and the guy is coming out with his hands up as
Terminator arrives. The cyborg flings the rent-a-cop out of the
way and slides behind the wheel. Sara gets John into the back
seat and dives into the front passenger seat as--
<-78A->
Terminator slams the car in reverse and punches it, lighting up
the tires on the slick ramp. Terminator hands the shotgun over
his shoulder to John and tells him to reload. John pulls some
shells from the pocket of his army jacket and starts feeding them
in. Terminator powers backward up the ramp, scraping along one
wall, barely in control. Because...
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The T-1000 is running at them out of the inferno below. This guy
won't quit. Shifting from chrome mode to the cop-form as it
runs. It sprints up the ramp after the retreating car. T-1000 is
gaining.
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Terminator hands Sara another magazine for the .45. She
snatches it, drops the other out, and slaps in the new one.
Cocks the slide. The car backs along the service driveway toward
the security gate. John hands the shotgun back to Terminator. He
leans out the window and takes aim at the pursuer. The T-1000's
face is right in the headlights.
<-80A->
Terminator fires, blowing a hole in its shoulder. Shiny liquid
metal visible in the hole, which then closes.
<-80B->
Sara, half out the passenger window, opens fire. The car crashes
backward through the security barricade.
Terminator (calmly): "Hang on."
He cuts the wheel hard. The car slews into a reverse 180,
swapping ends with a screech. T-1000 is almost on them.
Terminator punches it. The car accelerates forward.
<-80C->
T-1000 leaps. Lands on the trunk. Its hand is a metal crowbar
slammed down through the trunk lid. Feet dragging on the
pavement, it slams its other hand down, punching another metal
hook into the trunk lid, pulling itself up. Terminator turns to
Sara.
Terminator: "Drive."
Terminator heaves himself half out of the driver's window. Sara
slaps her foot down on he throttle and steers from the passenger
side.
<-80D->
T-1000, fully on the car now, holds on with one hook-hand while
it slams the other into the back window, sweeping away the glass
and missing John by inches as he ducks. It draws back for another
swing, lunging forward as--
<-80E->
Terminator whips the shotgun down over the roof of the car.
Fires point-blank. Hits the T-1000's arm just above the "hand"
which anchors it to the car. The 12 gauge blows the arm apart,
severing the hook-hand.
<-80F->
T-1000 tumbles backward off the accelerating car. John looks out
the back window, his eyes wide. He sees the T-1000 roll to his
feet and continue running. But he's dropping way behind now.
Sara has the car floored and the liquid-metal killer won't catch
them on foot.
<-80G->
John watches, in awe, as the "crowbar hand", stuck into the
trunk right in front of him, reverts to the neutral polyalloy...
a kind of thick mercury. The gray metal slides off the trunk of
the car and falls onto the road to lie there in a quivering blob
(in the film, it remains a crowbar hand, lying on the street,
ED.).
<-80H->
The car speeds off into the night. REVERSE on the T-1000,
walking now, coming right up into close up, watching the tail
lights recede. It looks down.
<-80I->
ANGLE ON BLACKTOP, tight on the liquid metal blob. Next to it
is the T-1000's shiny cop shoe. The mercury blob crawls and
rejoins the main mass, disappearing into the "shoe".
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81 Int./ Ext. Security car
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A GHOST CAR blasts out of the darkness on a long stretch of
moonlit highway. Headlights off, the Hospital Security car
punches a hole in the wind.
<-81A->
INSIDE THE SPEEDING CAR the energy is still high. The air is
blasting in the shattered windows as Terminator drives the car -
CAily by electronic night-vision. His eyes glow faintly red.
John: "Can you even see anything?"
<-81B->
TERMINATOR'S POV. A monochrome image of the highway lit bright
as day.
<-81C->
Terminator replies in a matter of fact tone.
Terminator: "Everything."
John: "Cool."
Sara looks at Terminator, still not quite believing this is
happening. But this is a different Sara than the waitress of
1984. She spends only a second or two dealing with the
unbelievable. Then she turns to John in the back seat.
SARA: "You okay?"
He nods. She reaches for John and we think she's going to hug
him. She starts to rub her hands over him and we realize she's
checking for injuries, very clinically the way a vet checks a dog
for broken bones.
He pulls away from her. He hates her always checking him,
treating him like he might break, like some piece of rare china.
John: "I said I was okay."
Sara looks at him, exasperated and stern.
SARA: "It was stupid of you to go there."
John stares at her, surprised.
SARA: "Goddammit, John, you have to be smarter than that.
You're too important! You can't risk yourself, not even for me,
do you understand? I can take care of myself. I was doing fine.
Jesus, John. You almost got yourself killed."
We see his chin quiver. He's a tough kid, but all he really
wants is for her to love him. He hasn't had enough years on the
planet yet to be the man of steel she demands.
John: "I... had to get you out of that place... I'm sorry, I..."
His face crumples. He starts to cry. Sara gives him a cold
stare.
SARA: "Stop it! Right now! You can't cry, John. Other kids
can afford to cry. You can't."
He's trying to be brave, he really is. Terminator turns and
sees the water leaking from his eyes. It doesn't make any sense
to him.
Terminator: "What is wrong with your eyes?"
John turns away, ashamed. Sara lets her breath out, realizing
how keyed up she is. She turns to Terminator, giving him a wary
once-over.
SARA: "So what's your story?"
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82 Ext. Mental hospital
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The cops have shown up, as they always do. There are black and
whites everywhere, and ambulances are arriving. Two cops and an
orderly are required to subdue poor doctor Silberman, who is
raving at the top of his lungs.
Silberman: "...it was all true and we're all going to die and
the guy changed, I saw him change!!"
It's quite pathetic.
A nurse shoots him up with a sedative. They lead him away.
<-82A->
T-1000 walks unperturbed among the milling cops. No-one notices
him. He slips into his cruiser and drives off into the night.
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83 Int. Car
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Terminator drives steadily into the black night.
SARA: "This T-1000... what happens when you shoot it?"
Terminator: "Ballistic penetration shocks it, but only for a few
seconds."
Sara thinks about that. Then.
SARA: "Can it be destroyed?"
Terminator: "Unknown."
They ride along in silence for a few seconds.
Sara sees something up ahead, some lonely neon in the blackness.
SARA: "Pull in here. We have to ditch this car."
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84 EXT. SERVICE STATION - NIGHT
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A rundown gas station with a buzzing neon sign and no-one
around. They pull into the drive and slowly cruise past the
empty office. A sign in the window says CLOSED SUNDAY. They
continue around the building to the garage's back door.
AT THE GARAGE DOOR. Terminator breaks the lock on the roll-up
door and raises it. Sara pulls the security car in out of sight.
Terminator rolls the door down behind them.
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85 INT. GAS STATION 85
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Dark. Sara switches on the single drop-light. She and
Terminator look at each other. Terminator is shot-up and
bleeding, and Sara has a vicious slash in her upper arm which has
soaked her sleeve with blood.
SARA: "You look like handmade shit."
Terminator: "So do you."
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TIGHT ON FIRST AID KIT from the office, plus some not-so-oily
rags, a bottle of rubbing alcohol, a few small tools, and other
makeshift odds and ends. Terminator's hand comes into shot.
Sets down a bloody rag. Picks up a clean one.
WIDER. Sara sits on an empty crate. Terminator is beside her,
suturing her wound with some fine wire from the winding of an
alternator. Using a pair of needlenose pliers he draws the wire
through her pale skin with a delicate hand.
Terminator: "I have detailed files on human anatomy."
Sara stares into his face, inches away, fighting the pain. She
doesn't like him being this close to her to begin with, let alone
carving on her.
SARA: "I'll bet. Makes you a more efficient killer, right?"
Terminator: "Correct."
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TIGHT ON TERMINATOR'S BACK. The leather jacket is riddled with
bullet holes. Sara and John help pull it off, revealing
Terminator's broad, muscled back beneath.
WIDER. John and Sara stare in amazement. There are at least
twenty bullet holes in him. Back Arms. Legs. Fortunately
they're all 9mm. The holes are small and the damage cosmetic.
John: "Does it hurt?"
Terminator: "I sense the injuries. The data could be called
pain."
TIGHT ON SARA AND TERMINATOR. Sara starts washing the bullet
holes in his broad back with alcohol.
SARA: "Will these heal up?"
Terminator nods. She reaches into the bloody wounds with pliers
and finds the copper-jacketed bullets, flattened against his
armored endoskeleton. Pulls them out. They CLINK one by one
into a glass.
SARA That's good. Because if you can't pass for human, you
won't be much good to us.
She concentrates on removing the slugs. CLINK. CLINK.
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87 John
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John: "How long do you live. I mean last?"
Terminator: "A hundred and twenty years on my existing power
cell."
Sara nods, pulling out another slug. CLINK. The glass is
nearly full of flattened bullets. She begins to sew the holes
closed with a few wire sutures. John watches in quiet amazement,
the two warriors calmly fixing each other.
John: "Can you learn? So you can be be... you know. More
human. Not such a dork all the time."
Terminator turns toward him.
Terminator: "My CPU is a neural-net processor... a learning
computer. But Skynet presets the switch to "read only" mode when
we are sent out alone.
SARA (cynical): "Doesn't want you thinking too much, huh?"
Terminator: "No."
John: "Can we reset the switch?"
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E.C.U. OF AN X-ACTO KNIFE cutting into Terminator's scalp at the
base of his skull. His voice calmly directs Sara as she spreads
the bloody incision and locates the maintenance port for the CPU
in the chrome skull beneath.
Terminator: "Now open the port cover."
She wipes away the blood and uses the garage-mechanic's air
tools to unscrew the port cover.
<-88A->
TERMINATOR POV (DIGITIZED) as he watches her work in a mirror
they've taken from the washroom. Sara and John are standing
behind him. Her hands are covered with blood, like a surgeon's.
Terminator: "Hold the CPU by its base tab. Pull."
Following his instructions, she reaches in with a pair of
tweezers and PULLS--There is a BURST OF STATIC and the screen
goes BLACK.
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TIGHT ON JOHN AND SARA looking at what she has removed. A
reddish brown ceramic rectangle with a connector on one end.
About the size and shape of a domino. On close inspection it
appears to be made up of small cubes connected together. It is
identical to the shattered one in the vault at Cyberdyne Systems.
Now we know what it is that Miles Dyson values so highly. The
brain of a terminator.
<-89A->
WIDER. John walks around Terminator and looks at his face. Eyes
open, he is completely inert. Dead. John lifts his huge hand. The
dead servos whine sullenly as he forces them. It's like rigor
mortis. He releases the hand and it stays in the lifted position.
Sara examines the CPU chip.
John: "Can you see the pin switch?"
She ignores him. She looks at Terminator. Then back at the
chip. Then she sets it on the work table and picks up a small
sledge hammer. John realizes what she is about to do. Dives at
her as the sledge is whistling down.
John: "No!!!!"
He slaps his hand down over the chip. Sara barely stops the
sledge before smashing his fingers.
SARA: "Out of the way, John!"
John: "No! Don't kill him!"
SARA: "It, John. Not him. It."
John: "Alright, it. We need it!"
John keeps his hand right where it is.
SARA: "We're better off by ourselves."
JOHN: "But it's the only proof we have of the future...about the
war and all that.
SARA: "I don't trust it! These things are hard to kill, John,
believe me, I know. We may never have this opportunity again."
John: "Look, Mom, if I'm supposed to ever be this great leader,
you should start listening to my leadership ideas once in a
while. 'Cause if you won't, nobody else will."
Smart kid. He's got her. She nods, reluctantly. He palms the
chip and studies it minutely.
<-89B->
John takes a pin and moves the almost invisible switch to the
other position. It is now in "write" mode. Then he grimaces as
he inserts the wafer back into the slot in Terminator's skull.
<-89C->
TERMINATOR VISION flares back to life in a burst of static. The
image forms. Sara and John stand behind him in the mirror.
Terminator: "Was there a problem?"
John glances sheepishly at Sara. Then smiles at Terminator.
John: "No problem. None whatsoever."
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JOHN SLEEPING, lying on a pile of rags next to a stack of
tires. The lights are off. Sara sits nearby, crosslegged, her
back against the wall. The .45 is cradled in her lap. She looks
weary, but she won't allow herself to sleep with Terminator
present.
By the office windows, in a slash of moonlight, is Terminator.
He stands silent and still, watching the night. Only his eyes
move, tracking with the occasional car passing on the road. His
figure silhouetted and still.
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91 SAME IMAGE. Now DAYLIGHT streams in the dusty windows.
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Terminator has not moved. Faithful machine sentinel. He turns
at a sound. John stirs, waking up. He squints at the sunlight.
Sara is still awake. She gets up, wincing at the pain in her arm.
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92 Ext. gas station - Day (Later)
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John and Terminator walk to an old Chevy pickup parked behind
the garage. The day is clear but windy. Dust devils chase
themselves behind the place. The pickup is locked but Terminator
breaks the side-window with his fist and opens the door. He and
John climb in.
<-92A->
IN THE PICK UP. Terminator has this trick (which you could do
too if you had servo-driven steel fingers) where he smashes the
cowl around a steering column with one blow from the palm of his
hand. When it shatters he strips it away with a single move, and
then turns the stub of the lock-mechanism with his fingertips.
This starts the vehicle. It takes about three seconds. In
fact, he does it so quickly, the truck is running by the time
John flips down the sun visor. A set of keys drops out and John
catches them. Dangles them in front of Terminator's eyes.
John: "Are we learning yet?"
<-92B->
Sara comes out. She's found a mechanic's coverall inside, used
but fairly clean. It doesn't fit too well but it's better than
the stuff from the hospital. She's still barefoot. The sun,
which she hasn't seen in months, hurts her eyes. Terminator and
John pull up in the pickup. She gets in.
<-92C->
Terminator: "We need get as far from the city as possible."
SARA: "Just head south."
Cut to (you'll see in part V):
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