TERMINATOR II: THE UNCENSORED AND UNABRIDGED FILMSCRIPT
PART VI
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Wakes up. All is quiet and normal. The children are still
running through the sprinkler nearby. Less than fifteen minutes
have gone by.
Bathed in sweat, Sara sits hunched over the table. Every muscle
is shaking. She is gasping. Sara struggles to breathe, running
her hand through her hair which is soaked with sweat. She can
escape from the hospital, but she can't escape from the madness
which haunts her. She looks down at the words she has carved on
the table, amid the scrawled hearts and bird-droppings. They
are: "NO FATE." Something changes in her eyes. She slams her
knife down in the table top, embedding it deeply in the words.
Then gets up suddenly and we--
CUT TO:
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A120
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LONG LENS on Sara walking toward us, striding across the
compound with grim purpose. She carries a small nylon pack and a
heavy FN FAL .308 assault rifle. Her face is an impassive mask.
She has become a terminator.
<-A120A->
JOHN LOOKS UP from his work in time to see Sara throw the rifle
behind the seat of their stolen pickup, jump in and start it.
She slams it in gear. Salceda walks up to John.
Salceda: "She said you go south with him... (he points at
Terminator)... tonight, like you planned. She will meet you
tomorrow in..."
But John is moving, running after her.
John: "Mommm!! Wait!!"
<-A120B->
MOVING WITH SARA as she leaves the compound. We see John
running after her... yelling. Can't hear his words. She looks
in the rear-view mirror but doesn't slow down.
Cut to:
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A121 Ext. Compound - Dusk / Minutes later
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John and Terminator ponder the message carved into the top of
the picnic table. Sara's knife is still imbedded there.
John: ""No fate." No fate but what we make. My father told her
this... I mean I made him memorize it, up in the future, as a
message to her-- Never mind. Okay, the whole thing goes "The
future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for
ourselves.""
Terminator: "She intends to change the future somehow."
John: "I guess, yeah--(snaps his fingers as it hits him) Oh
shit!!"
Terminator: "Dyson."
John: "Yeah, gotta be! Miles Dyson! She's gonna blow him away!
We gotta stop her."
John motions to Terminator and breaks into a run.
John: "Come on. Let's go. LET'S GO!!"
Cut to:
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A122 Int. / Ext. SARA's jeep - Dusk
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Sara speeds through the darkening desert. Expressionless. In
her dark glasses, she looks as pitiless as an insect.
Dissolve to:
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A123 Ext. highway - Night
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TRACKING WITH THE BRONCO, Terminator and John heading toward
L.A.
Terminator: "Why do you want to stop her? Killing Dyson may
prevent the war."
John: "I don't care!! There's gotta be another way. Haven't
you learned anything?! Haven't you figured out why you can't
kill people?"
Terminator is still stumped.
John: "Look, maybe you don't care if you live or die. But
everybody's not like that! Okay?! We have feelings. We hurt.
We're afraid. You gotta learn this stuff, man, I'm not kidding.
It's important."
PAN THEM BY as they pass, revealing the lights of the city
ahead.
Cut to:
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A124 EXT. DYSON'S HOUSE - NIGHT
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The house is high-tech and luxurious. Lots of glass. Dyson's
study is lit bluish with the glow from his computer monitors. He
is at the terminal, working. Where else? We see him clearly in
a long shot from an embankment behind the house.
A DARK FIGURE moves into the foreground. Rack focus to Sara as
she turns into profile. She raises the FN FAL rifle and begins
screwing the long heavy cylinder of a sound-suppressor onto the
end of the barrel.
Cut to:
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A125 Ext. Salceda's camp - Night
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SALCEDA'S DOG, teeth bared, barks a furious warning. The SOUND
of machine gun fire erupts, drowning him out. YOLANDA, clutching
a .45 Officer's Colt, sweeps Paco and Juanita up in her arms and
races away.
SALCEDA is firing an MP5K on full auto, its strobing barrel
flash lighting up the camp. CAMERA PUSHING IN ON HIM AS...
<-A125A->
THE T-1000 calmly walks toward him, unbothered by the stream of
bullets. Unhurried. Salceda, amazed, is backing toward his
truck, and the stacks of crated grenades and ammo boxes beside
it. The T-1000 keeps coming. Steps right up to Salceda, knocks
the weapon away and slams him to the ground.
<-A125B->
Salceda sprawls against one of the open wooden crates. T -1000
kneels before him. Points his finger. THUNK. Salceda screams,
pinned to the crate by a two-foot steel needle through his left
lung.
T-1000: "Where is John Conner?"
Salceda: "John who?"
<-A125C->
THUNK!! Another needle slams through him. Salceda struggles to
breathe against the excruciating pain.
<-A125D->
T-1000 (almost soothingly): "I know this hurts. Where is John
Conner?"
Salceda's hand gropes in the open crate of grenades behind him.
He clutches one. Then apparently ready to cooperate he clutches
T-1000's shoulder and struggles to pull himself closer, up along
the impaling spikes.
Behind the T-1000's neck, Salceda pulls the grenade's pin with
his free hand. The spoon flies off... CLINK.
Salceda: "FUCK YOU!!"
<-A125->
The truck, Salceda, and the T-1000 vanish in a MASSIVE EXPLOSION
as the grenade sets off the other munitions. A huge ball of fire
ascends into the night.
<-A125F->
YOLANDA, huddled with her children, the .45 held before her in a
combat grip, screams as--
<-A125G->
A CHROME HEAD rolls out of the inferno and comes to rest in the
dirt, the liquid metal mouth gulping like a gaffed fish.
<-A125H->
A figure appears, silhouetted by the fire... or most of a
figure.
<-A125I->
We TRACK WITH the polished black cop shoes toward the head lying
in the dirt. A hand enters frame. The head dissolves and fuses
with the hand, like two blobs of solder running together.
<-A125J->
IN CLOSE-UP, the T-1000 rises into frame, whole again. It
trains its gaze on Yolanda and the children.
<-A125K->
She stares in shock at the thing approaching. She slowly lowers
the useless pistol. The T-1000 walks right up to her. It
reaches down and picks up little Juanita. Gives her a friendly
smile.
T-1000: "Do you know where John Conner is?"
The child mutely shakes her head no. T-1000 nods, unperturbed.
Points toward the road. Juanita follows with her eyes.
T-1000: "When they reached the main road, did they go north...
(indicating) ...or south?"
She points north. T-1000 smiles. Sets her down, unharmed.
T-1000: "Thank you for your cooperation."
With that, T-1000 turns and strides to his motorcycle parked a
few yards away. Yolanda and her children silently watch as the
Cop from Hell climbs onto the bike and and roars off into the
night.
Cut to:
(Some more omissions here, but it all seems to be quite like the
film as far as I can remember, though the entire previous scene
didn't strike me as being familiar at all - though quite full of
suspense! ED.)
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129 EXT. DYSON'S HOUSE
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With the silencer in place, Sara eases back the bolt and then
slips it forward, chambering a .308 round. Then she lies down on
the embankment. Her cheek pressed against the cool rifle-stock,
she slides one hand slowly forward to brace the heavy weapon,
taking the weight on her elbow. Her other hand slips knowingly
to the trigger.
Her expression is cold, impassive. She looks through the scope
at the man in the house. She feels nothing as she raises the
rifle.
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130 Int. Dyson house
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Dyson's kids, Danny and Blythe, are playing in the halls with a
radio-controlled off-road truck. Danny drives and Blythe
scampers after it, trying to catch it. They stop in the hall
outside Dyson's study and see him working at his terminal. Danny
puts a finger to his lips, shushing Blythe. His expression is
mischievous.
DYSON, in deep thought. The rhythmic sounds of keys as he
works. Symbols on the screen shift.
<-130A->
ON HIS BACK we see a glowing red dot appear. It is the target
dot of Sara's laser designator. It moves silently up his back
toward his head.
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131 EXT. DYSON HOUSE/ EMBANKMENT
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IN EXTREME CLOSEUP we see Sara's eye at the night-scope. TIGHT
INSERT on her finger as it tightens on the trigger, taking out
the slack. She takes a deep breath and holds it. Adjusts her
position minutely.
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132 Int. Dyson house
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The laser dot jiggles on the back of Dyson's neck and then
rises, centering on the back of his skull.
<-132A->
LOW ANGLE as Danny's Bigfoot truck roars toward us-- FILLING
FRAME. Thump. It hits Dyson's foot. He jerks, startled, and
looks down as-- POP!!
<-132B->
His monitor screen is BLOWN OUT spraying him with glass. He
jerks back, utterly shocked... and spins to see the huge hole
blown through the window behind him. This saves him as K-THUMP!
-- the second shot blows the top of his high-backed chair into an
explosion of stuffing an inch from his head. Instinctively he
dives to the carpet as --
BLAM BLAM BLAM -- rounds blast through the window, tearing into
his desk and computer, blowing his keyboard into shrapnel.
<-132C->
With the monitor screen blown out, the room is in darkness.
Sara can't see Dyson now, down behind the desk. She puts round
after round into the heavy desk, blasting one side of it into
kindling.
<-132D->
Dyson, scared out of his mind, has his face jammed against the
carpet, terrified to move. He sees his kids in the hall.
Dyson: "Run, kids! Go! Run!"
<-132E->
IN THE HALL, TARISSA rounds the corner at a dead run. She sees
the kids running toward her and grabs them in her arms. Down the
hall, in the dark study, she sees Dyson on the floor amid the
splinters and shrapnel of the continuing fusillade.
Tarissa: "Miles! Oh my God!!"
Dyson: "Stay back!!"
<-132F->
ON THE FLOOR, Dyson flinches as chunks of wood and shattered
computer components shower down on him. He looks desperately
toward the door, but knows he'd be totally exposed. He'd never
make it.
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SARA's rifle empties with a final CLACK! She throws it down and
draws her .45 smoothly from a shoulder holster. She starts
toward the house, snapping back the slide on the pistol,
chambering a round. She is in a fast, purposeful walk, keeping
her eyes fixed on the target. She is utterly determined to kill
this man.
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FROM UNDER THE DESK Dyson can see a sliver of the back yard. He
sees Sara's feet as she strides toward him. He tenses to make a
break for the door.
Sara raises the pistol, eyes riveted ahead, controlling her
breathing. Dyson springs up in a full-tilt sprint. She tracks
him. He hooks a foot on the cord of a toppled disk-drive. BOOM!
Her shot blows apart a lamp where his head was. He hits the floor
hard, but keeps moving, scrambling forward.
Crunch of glass behind him as Sara's dark form is framed in the
blown-out floor-to-ceiling window. Dyson leaps toward the hall.
BOOM! Her second shot spins him. He hits the floor in the
hallway. Tarissa is screaming. Dyson struggles forward, stunned.
There is a .45 caliber hole clean through his left shoulder. He
smears the wall with blood as he staggers up. Looking back, he
sees the implacable figure behind him, coming on. He topples
through a doorway as --- BOOM! BOOM! Shots blowing away the
molding where he just was.
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135 EXT. DYSON HOUSE/ STREET
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Terminator and John leap from their jeep, sprinting toward the
house. The shots sound muffled from outside.
John: "Shit, we're too late!"
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136 INT. HOUSE
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Advancing with Sara we enter the living room. Tarissa has
Blythe and she's screaming at Danny, who has run back to his
collapsed father.
Tarissa: "Danny! DANNY!"
Danny: "Daaaaddddeeee!"
Danny is pulling at Dyson, crying and screaming, as his father
tries to stagger forward. Tarissa drops Blythe and runs back for
Dyson, grabbing him. Sara looms behind them with the pistol
aimed.
SARA: "Don't fucking move! Don't FUCKING MOVE!! (she swings the
gun on Tarissa) Get on the floor, bitch! Now!! Fucking down!
NOW!!"
Sara is crazy-eyed now, shaking with the intensity of the
moment. The kill has gone bad, with screaming kids and the wife
involved... things she never figured on. Tarissa drops to her
knees, terrified as she looks into the muzzle of the gun. Blythe
runs to Dyson and hugs him, wailing.
Blythe: "Don't you hurt my father!"
SARA (screaming): "Shut up, kid! Get out of the way!!"
Dyson looks up, through his pain and incomprehension. Why is
this nightmare happening? The black gun muzzle is a foot from
his face.
Dyson (gasping): "Please... let... the kids... go"
SARA: "Shut up! SHUT UP!! Motherfucker! It's all your fault!
IT'S YOUR FAULT!!"
We see her psyching herself to pull the trigger... needing now
to hate this man she doesn't know. It's a lot harder face-to-
face. She is bathed in sweat, and it runs into her eyes.
Blinking, she wipes it fast with one hand, then gets it back on
the gun. The .45 is trembling.
TIGHT ON SARA as we see the forces at war behind her eyes. She
looks into the faces of Dyson, Tarissa, Blythe, Danny. Sara
takes a sharp breath and all the muscles in her arms contract as
she tenses to fire. But her finger won't do it. She lowers the
gun very slowly. It drops to her side in one hand.
All the breath and energy seems to go out of her. She weakly
raises her other hand in a strange gesture, like "Stay where you
are, don't move". As if, should they move, the fragile balance
might tip back the other way. She backs away from them slowly,
panting. It's as if she's backing away in terror from what she
almost did. She reaches a wall and slumps against it. Slides
down to her knees. The gun falls limply from her fingers. She
rests her cheek against the wall.
<-136A->
The front door is kicked in. Terminator steps inside. John
grabs his sleeve and pushes past him. He scopes out the situation
in two seconds... Sara, the gun, the sobbing family. John moves
to Sara while Terminator checks Dyson.
John kneels in front of his mother. She raises her head to look
at him. He sees the tears spilling down her cheeks.
John: "Mom? You okay?"
SARA: "I couldn't... oh, God. (she seems to see him for the
first time) You... came here... to stop me?"
John: "Uh huh."
She reaches out and takes his shoulders suddenly, surprising
him... drawing him to her. She hugs him and a great sob wells up
from deep inside her, from a spring she had thought long dry.
She hugs him fiercely as the sobs wrack her.
John clutches her shoulders. It is all he ever wanted.
John: "It's okay. It'll be okay. We'll figure it out."
SARA: "I love you, John. I always have."
John: "I know, Mom. I know."
TARISSA looks around at the bizarre tableau. Terminator has
wordlessly ripped open Dyson's shirt and examined the wound.
Terminator: "Clean penetration. No shattered bone. Compression
should control the loss of blood."
He takes Tarissa's hands and presses them firmly over the
entrance and exit wounds.
Terminator: "Do you have bandages?"
Dyson: "In the bathroom. Danny, can you get them for us?"
Danny nods and runs down the hall. John disengages from Sara.
She wipes at her tears, the instinct to toughen up taking over
again. But the healing moment has had its effect, nevertheless.
John walks toward Dyson and Terminator.
Dyson: "Who are you people?"
John draws the Biker's knife from Terminator's boot. Hands it
to him.
John: "Show him."
Terminator takes off his jacket to reveal bare arms. John takes
Blythe by the hand and leads her down the hall, away from what is
about to happen.
<-136B->
TIGHT ON TERMINATOR'S left forearm as the knife makes a deep
cut just below the elbow. In one smooth motion, Terminator cuts
all the way around his arm. With a second cut, he splits the
skin of the forearm from elbow to wrist.
TERMINATOR grasps the skins and strips it off his forearm like a
surgeon rips off a rubber glove. It comes off with a sucking
rip, leaving a bloody skeleton.
But the skeleton is made of bright metal, and is laced with
hydraulic actuators.
The fingers are as finely crafted as watch parts... they flex
into a fist and extend. Terminator holds it up, palm out, in
almost the exact position of the one in the vault at Cyberdyne.
HOLD ON DYSON reacting to the servo-hand in front of him. He's
seen one of these before.
Tarissa is screaming now, but he doesn't hear her.
Dyson: "My God."
Terminator: "Now listen very carefully."
(At this spot during the film, the entire group with whom I had
gone to see the film spontaneously said: "I shall say this only
once." in French say. Laughter. ED.)
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137 Int. House/ kitchen - Later
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Sara puts out her fifth cigarette. She's sitting on the
counter. John, Terminator, Dyson, and Tarissa are at the kitchen
table, under a single overhead light.
Dyson looks like that guy on the Sistine Chapel wall, the damned
soul ... eyes fixed and staring with terrifying knowledge. His
shoulder is bandaged. Terminator's arm is wrapped with a blood-
soaked bandage below the elbow. The steel forearm and hand
gleams in the harsh kitchen light. TRACKING AROUND THE TABLE as
Terminator speaks... we don't hear the words.
SARA (v.o.): "Dyson listened while the Terminator laid it all
down. Skynet. Judgment Day... the history of things to come. It's
not every day you find out you're responsible for 3 billion
deaths. He took it pretty well, considering..."
Terminator finishes speaking.
DYSON: "I feel like I'm gonna throw up."
He looks around at them, clutching the table like he's about to
blow away. His face, his posture, his ragged voice express soul-
wrenching terror. This is a man ripped out of normal life into
their grim world. His voice is pleading.
Dyson : "You're judging me on thing's I haven't even done yet.
Jesus. How were we supposed to know?
Sara speaks from the shadows behind them. Dyson turns to find
her looking right at him.
SARA: "Yeah. Right. How were you supposed to know? Fucking
men... all you know how to do is thrust into the world with
your... fucking ideas and your weapons. Did you know that every
gun in the world is named after a man? Colt, Browning, Smith,
Thompson, Kalashnikov... all men. Men built the hydrogen bomb,
not women... men like you thought it up. You're so creative.
You don't know what it's like to really create something... to
create a life. To feel it growing inside you. All you know how
to create is death... you fucking bastards."
John: "Mom, Mom, we need to be more constructive here. I
don't see this as a gender related issue. (to the Dysons) She's
still tense. (to Sara) We still have to figure out how to stop it
all from happening. Right?"
TARISSA: "But I thought... aren't we changing things? I mean...
right now? Changing the way it goes?"
Dyson (seizing on that): "That's right! There's no way I'm
going to finish the new processor now. Forget it. I'm out of
it. I'm quitting Cyberdyne tomorrow... I'll sell real estate, I
don't care--
SARA: "That's not good enough."
Dyson's voice is pitiful.
Dyson: "Look, whatever you want me to do, I'll do. I just want
my kids to have a chance to grow up, okay?"
Terminator: "No one must follow your work."
Dyson (thoughts racing): "Alright, yeah. You're right. We have
to destroy the stuff at the lab, the files, disk drives... and
everything I have here. Everything! I don't care."
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138 FIRE ROARING IN A METAL TRASH-BARREL
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Stacks of files are dumped onto it.
WIDER reveals we are in--
<-138A->
Ext. Dyson's backyard - Night
Terminator dumps lighter fluid liberally over the fire, which
flares up, lighting his face demonically. Sara, Dyson, Tarissa
and John return from his office with more stuff-- files, notes,
optical disks. Even his kids are carrying stuff. It all goes
into the fire. Dyson drops the prototype processor onto the
fire... his eyes hollow and distant.
He stares into the fire, watching his world burning. Then has a
sudden thought.
Dyson: "Do you know about the chip?"
SARA: "What chip?"
Dyson: "They have it in a vault at Cyberdyne... (to Terminator)
It's gotta be from the other one like you."
Terminator (to Sara): "The CPU from the first terminator."
SARA: "Son of a bitch, I knew it!"
Dyson: "They told us not to ask where they got it. I thought...
Japan... hell, I don't know. I didn't want to know."
SARA: "Those lying motherfuckers!"
Dyson: "It was scary stuff, radically advanced. It was
shattered... didn't work. But it gave us ideas. It took us in
new directions... things we would never have thought of. All this
work is based on it."
Terminator: "It must be destroyed. "
SARA (to Dyson): "Can you get us in there, past security?"
Dyson: "I think so, yeah. When?"
Dyson looks at her, Terminator, then John. Sees his answer.
Dyson: "Now? (he takes a breath) Yeah, right."
He turns to his wife. Her face is streaked with tears, but her
eyes are strong and clear. Tarissa puts her hands on his arm.
She is stunned by what she's heard, but dealing with it. She
believes them.
Tarissa: "Miles, I'm scared. Okay. But the only thing that
scares me more than you going... is you not going."
He nods. She's right.
SARA (to Terminator): "Is it safe for them here?"
TERMINATOR (to Tarissa): "Take your kids. Go to a hotel. Right
now. Don't pack. (to the others) Let's go."
Cut to:
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Ext. Highway - Night
Pavement rushing at us, lit by headlights. Beyond, darkness.
SARA (V.O.): "The future, always so clear to me, had become like
a black highway at night. We were in uncharted territory now...
making up history as we went along."
TILT UP to reveal a rectangle of light ahead. The Cyberdyne
Building...
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139 Int. Cyberdyne systems building/ Lobby - Night
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TIGHT ON A CARD-KEY SCANNER as Dyson's hand zips his security
card through the slot in one motion. There is the sound of a
servo-lock, and--
<-139A->
DYSON enters the spacious lobby, followed by Sara, John, and
Terminator last of all. In a frontal angle, the others block
Terminator from view. THE GUARD at the front desk, GIBBONS,
looks up as Dyson moves toward him. Dyson is pale and sweaty,
but smiles warmly at the guard, speaking well before he reaches
the desk.
Dyson: "Evening, Paul. These are friends of mine from out of
town, I just thought I'd take them up and show them around."
Gibbons: "I'm sorry, Mr. Dyson. You know the rules about
visitors in the lab. I need written authoriz--"
K-CHAK! Gibbons is staring down the barrels of Sara's .45 and
Terminator's MAC 10.
Terminator: "I insist."
The guard is too stunned to move. We see that Terminator is
wearing his jacket and one black glove. Gibbons' eyes go to the
silent alarm button on the console.
SARA: "Don't even think about it."
Gibbons nods. He stays frozen. Terminator circles quickly and
gets the guard out of the chair. John pulls a roll of duct-tape
from his knapsack and tears off a piece.
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140 Int. Second floor corridor
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ELEVATOR DOORS OPEN and Terminator leads the group warily into
the corridor. They have a cart piled high with gear in nylon
bags. Dyson motions down the corridor to the right. As they
walk, he continues to fill them in--
Dyson: "The vault needs two keys to open. Mine... (holds up key)
...and one from the security station. One of the guards has it
on a chain around his neck. Here we go."
They stand in front of a wide security door. A sign above reads
SPECIAL PROJECTS DIVISION: AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY. Sara grabs
Dyson in a headlock from behind and jams the muzzle of the .45 up
against his temple. He doesn't flinch. They've talked about
this.
Terminator: "Go."
Dyson zips his key-card through the scanner and the door
unlatches.
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141 Int. Security station
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The security station is a pass-through area with a counter,
behind which are desks and a bank of monitors, showing boring
movies about empty corridors.
It's lunch-time for the graveyard shift. THREE GUARDS choke on
their egg salad sandwiches as the door bangs open and Terminator
charges into the security station with the MAC 10 leveled. Sara
drags Dyson in like a hostage, causing them to hesitate that
fateful moment.
SARA: "FREEZE!! Don't make me say it twice."
Terminator backhands the nearest guard into a file cabinet. The
guy loses some teeth and slumps. John snatches the pistol from
his holster and pockets it. Sara releases Dyson and spins the
other two around... slamming them face-down over a desk. She
kicks their legs apart, cop style. They are disarmed in
seconds. John uses heavy-duty tie-wraps, cinched very tight, to
bind their wrists. Terminator pushes them down to their knees.
Sara notices Dyson's alarmed expression.
SARA: "What?"
Dyson: "He's not here. (to the nearest guard) Where's the other
guy? The fat guy?"
Guard #1: "Elkins? He went home sick."
Dyson: "Shit. Did he leave the key?"
Guard #1: "What key?"
SARA: "The key to the vault, fuckface!! Where is it?"
Guard#1: "I don't know... I swear--"
John nods almost imperceptibly to Terminator. The guard is
slammed against the wall and lifted by his throat. Terminator's
gloved hand tightens. The guy's face bulges, going red. John
pulls at Terminator's arm, pretending to try pulling him away.
He speaks earnestly to the choking guard.
John: "Open it, man. I'm not kidding around. I can't reason
with this guy when he gets like this. I've seen him do things
made the coroner puke."
Guard #1 (barely intelligible): "Okay... okay..."
Terminator releases him. The guy coughs and looks defiantly at
the other guards.
Guard #1: "I ain't dyin' for a goddamn key. (to Sara et al) In
there. He locked it in there."
The guard nods toward a safe-like LOCKER on the wall. There is
a key-card slot with a green light next to it.
Guard #1: "Key-card's in my shirt pocket."
John winks at Terminator and shoots him a THUMBS UP. The cyborg
winks back, like he's been doing it all his life.
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