terminator : selected scenes

Subtitle	Los Angeles 2029 AD
Text	The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight...
Subtitle	Los Angeles 1984 1:52 a. m.
SCENE	Punks standing around a pay-telescope.
Punk1	Hey my turn ... Come on.
Punk2	Hey. What's wrong with this picture?
Punk1	Nice night for a walk, eh?
Terminator	Nice night for a walk.
Punk2	Washday tommorrow, nothing clean. Right.
Terminator	Nothing clean right.
Punk1	Hey, I think this guy's a couple cans short of a six pack.
Terminator	Your clothes, give them to me. NOW.
Punk1	Fuck you, asshole.
SCENE	Another dark alley
Reese	What day is it? The DATE?
Cop	12th May, Thursday
Reese	What year??
Cop	What?
Cop	He's got my gun. Let's go.
Radio voice	Lost the suspect, sir.
SCENE	T goes into gun shop
Terminator	The 12 gauge autoloader.
Storekeeper	That's Italian, you can go pump or auto.
Terminator	The .45 longslide, with laser sighting.
Storekeeper	These are brand new, we just got them in. That's a good gun. Just touch the trigger, the beam comes on and you put the red dot where you want the bullet to go. You can't miss. Anything else?
Terminator	Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.
Storekeeper	Hey, just what you see pal.
Terminator	Uzi 9mm
Storekeeper	You know your weapons buddy. Any one of these is ideal for home defense. So, which will it be?
Terminator	All.
Storekeeper	I may close early today... there's a fifteen day wait on the handguns, but the rifles you can take right now.
Storekeeper	You can't do that..
Terminator	Wrong.
SCENE	tech noir
Vulkovitch	It's her.
Traxler	Sarah Connor? It's Lt. Traxier.
Sarah	Look, Lt., don't put me on hold and don't transfer me to another dept.
Traxler	Don't worry, I won't. Now just relax. Can you tell me where you are?
Sarah	I'm in this bar called Technoir.
Traxler	Yeah, I know, it's on Pico.
Sarah	Yeah, but I don't wanna leave, I think there's a guy following me.
Traxler	Alright, now listen, Miss Connor. Now listen carefully. You're in a public place, so you'll be safe till we get there but stay visible. Don't go outside or even to the restroom. I'll have a car there in a hot minute.
SCENE	terminator chases sarah and reese out of the club
Reese	Come with me if you wanna live. COME ON.
Police officer	This is 1L19. I gotta hit and run fellony. Suspect vehicle late model grey Ford westbound on 7. He's really moving, punching lights all the way. I'm gonna need an ambulance at 7th and Broadway. Right now.
Reese	Hold on. Are you injured? Are you shot?
Reese	Do exactly what I say.
Reese	Exactly. Don't move unless I say. Don't make a sound
Reese	unless I say. Do you understand? DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
Sarah	Yes. Please don't hurt me.
Reese	I'm here to help you. I'm Reese. Sergeant Techcom DN38416 assigned to protect you. You've been targeted for termination.
Terminator	This is 1L19 westbound on Olympic, approaching Overland.
Sarah	This is a mistake. I didn't do anything.
Reese	No, but you will. It's very important that you live.
Sarah	This isn't true. How could that man just get up after you did ...
Reese	He's not a man, a machine, a terminator. Cyberdyne systems model 101.
Sarah	A machine? Like a robot?
Reese	Not a robot. A cyborg. Cybernetic organism.
Sarah	No, he was bleeding.
Reese	Just a second. Get your head down.
Reese	Alright, listen. The terminator is an infiltration unit, part man, part machine, underneath it's a hyper alloy combat chassis, microprocessor controlled, fully armoured, very tough. But outside, it's living human tissue. Flesh, skin, hair, blood - grown for the cyborgs.
Sarah	Look Reese, I don't know what you want from me
Reese	Pay attention. I gotta ditch this car. The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy. But these are new. They look human, sweat, bad breath, everything, very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him.
Sarah	Look, I am not stupid you know. They cannot make things like that yet.
Reese	Not yet, not for about 40 years.
Sarah	Are you saying it's from the future.
Reese	One possible future. From your point of view. I don't know tech stuff.
Sarah	Then you're from the future too, is that right?
Reese	Right.
Sarah	Right.
Reese	Cyborgs don't feel pain. I DO. Don't do that again.
Sarah	Just let me go.
Reese	LISTEN, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
Sarah	Can you stop it?
Reese	I don't know. With these weapons, I don't know.
Radio	All units all units. Grey Ford, suspct vehicle, has been found in a parking structure at forth and poetry ...
Radio	... in location lower level all night parking garage ...
Radio	... suspect is described as a male, white, six feet, 25 years, with a green overcoat ...
Sarah	Reese, why me? Why does it want me?
Reese	There was a nuclear war, a few years from now. All this, this whole place, everything, it's gone, just gone. The survivors, here, there, nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah.
Sarah	I don't understand.
Reese	Defense network computers, new, powerful, hooked into everything Trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence, then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. It decided our fate in a microsecond. Extermination.
Sarah	Did you see this war?
Reese	No, I grew up after, in the ruins, starving, hiding from HKs.
Sarah	HKs?
Reese	Hunter killers, patrol machines, built in automated factories Most of us were rounded up, put in camps, for orderly disposal. It's burned in by laser-scan. Some of us were kept alive, to work, loading bodies. The disposal units ran night and day. We were that close to going out forever. But there was one man, who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those mutant mother fuckers into junk. He turned it around. He brought us back from the brink. His name is Connor, John Connor.
Reese	Your son Sarah, your unborn son.
Reese	Drive.
Sarah	Resse.. Reese..
Sarah	No Reese, no, no, no. They'll kill you.
Police1	You in the Cadillac. Let me see your hands now. Get out of the car. Drop to your knees.
SCENE	Interview room, Doctor Silberman interviewing Reese
Silberman	So, you're a solider, fighting for whom?
Reese	With the 132nd under Perry, from 21 to 27.
Silberman	That's the year 2027?
Reese	That's right. Then I was assigned ...
Vulkovitch	This is fucking great.
Reese	... for the last two years under John Connor.
Silberman	And who was the enemy again?
Reese	A computer defense system built for
Silberman's pager	BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, ...
Silberman	Oh damn. Sorry.
Reese	Built for SAC NORAD by Cyberdyne systems.
Silberman	I see. And this computer, thinks it can win by killing the mother of its enemy. Killing him in effect, before he's even conceived. A sort of retroactive abortion?
Vulkovitch	That guy Silberman really cracks me up. Last week he had this guy in there who burned his afghan. He screwed it first .. then he set it..
Traxler	Hey. Shut up.
Silberman	Why didn't the computers just kill Connor then? Why this elaborate scheme with the terminator?
Reese	It had no choice. Their defense grid was smashed. We'd won. Taking out Connor then would make no difference. Skynet had to wipe out his entire existance.
Silberman	Is that when you captured the lab complex and found that.. What is it called ... the time displacement equipment?
Reese	That's right. The terminator had already gone through. Connor sent me to intercept and they blew the whole place.
Silberman	Well, how are you supposed to get back?
Reese	I can't .. nobody goes home. Nobody else comes through. It's just him, and me.
SCENE	Police station, officers, doc, and Sarah are now watching the videotape of the interview.
Reese	It's just him, and me.
Silberman	Why didn't you bring any weapons, something more advanced? Don't you have ray guns?
Vulkovitch	Ray guns.
Silberman	Show me a piece of future technology.
Reese	You go naked, something about the field generated by a living organism, nothing dead will go.
Silberman	Why?
Reese	I didn't build the fucking thing!
Silberman	Okay, Okay. But this cyborg.. if it's metal..
Reese	.. SURROUNDED BY LIVING TISSUE.
Silberman	Oh, right, right.
Silberman	This is great stuff. I could make a carreer out of this guy. You see how clever this part is? How it doesn't require a shred of proof. Most paranoid delusions are intricate, but this is brilliant.
Silberman	Why were the other two women killed?
Reese	Most of the records were lost in the war. Skynet knew almost nothing about Connor's mother. Her full name.. where she lived They just knew the city. The terminator was just being systematic.
Silberman	Uh-huh. Well, lets go back to one other thing...
Reese	LOOK. You have heard enough. I have answered your questions, now I have to see Sarah Connor.
Silberman	I'm afraid that's not up to me.
Reese	Why am I talking to you?
Silberman	Because I can help you.
Reese	Who is in authority here?
Silberman	Please ...
Reese	Shut up. You still don't get it, do you. He'll find her. That's what he does. That's all he does. You can't stop him. He'll wade through you, reach down her throat, and pull her fucking heart out.
SCENE	At police station desk.
Silberman	Goodnight.
Desk sergeant	Goodnight.
Pager	BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, ...
Terminator	I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told that she's here. Could I see her please?
Desk sergeant	No. You can't see her, she's making a statement.
Terminator	Where is she?
Desk sergeant	Look, it may take awhile. If you want to wait, there's a bench over there.
Terminator	I'll be back.
Voice	Is it a terrorist or something?
SCENE	Car out of fuel.
Radio	KFLB newstime 4:36. In the top story of the hour, the largest single law enforcement mobilization in California history is currently under way. Police in five southern counties are engaged in a massive manhunt for an unidentified ...
Reese	Take this.. Alright, let's get this off the road.
Reese	You cold?
Sarah	Freezing.
Sarah	Reese. You got a first name?
Reese	Kyle.
Sarah	Kyle, what's it like when you go through time?
Reese	White light. Pain. It's like being born, maybe.
Sarah	Oh my god.
Reese	I caught one back there.
Sarah	You mean you got shot?
Reese	It's not bad.
Sarah	Well, we gotta get you to a doctor.
Reese	It's ok, forget it.
Sarah	What do you mean, "forget it"? Are you crazy? Take this off. Jesus.
Reese	It passed right through the vein.
Sarah	Oh .. this is gonna make me puke. Would you just talk about somehting.
Reese	What?
Sarah	I don't know, anything. Just talk. Tell me about my son.
Reese	He's about my height. He has your eyes.
Sarah	What's he like?
Reese	You trust him. He's got a strength. I'd die for John Connor.
Sarah	At least now I know what to name him.
Sarah	I don't suppose you know who the father is, so I won't tell him to get lost, when I meet him?
Reese	John never said much about him. I know he dies before the war.
Sarah	Wait! I don't want to know. So, was it John that sent you here?
Reese	I volunteered.
Sarah	Why?
Reese	It was a chance to meet the legend: Sarah Connor. Taught her son to fight, organize, prepare from when he was a kid when you were in hiding, before the war.
Sarah	You're talking about things I haven't done yet in the past tense. It's driving me crazy. Are you sure you have the right person?
Reese	I'm sure.
Sarah	Come on. Do I look like the mother of the future. I mean am I tough, organized? I can't even balance my checkbook. Look, Reese, I didn't ask for this honor, and I don't want it, any of it.
Reese	Your son gave me a message to give to you. Made me memorize it. Thank you Sarah for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive or I will never exist. That's all. It's a good field dressing.
Sarah	You like it? It's my first
Reese	Get some sleep. It'll be light soon.
Sarah	Okay. Talk to me some more.
Reese	About what?
Sarah	Tell me about where you're from.
Reese	Alright. You stay down by day, but at night you can move around. You still have to be careful because the HKs use infra red. They're not too bright. John taught us ways to dust them. Till the infiltraters started to appear. Terminators were the newest - the worst.
SCENE	future
Radio voice	...traversing your sector in search mode seven five zero meters north your position.
Reese	Let's go. REESE DN384 ...
Guard	Right.. let him in.
Voice	Terminator. Terminator.
SCENE	T's apt.
Landlord	Hey buddy.. got a dead cat in there or what?
Terminator	Fuck you, asshole.
Person in hallway	God damn!
SCENE	Motel
Sarah	He'll find us, won't he?
Reese	Probably.
Sarah	It'll never be over, will it? Look at me, I'm shaking, some legend huh? You must be pretty disappointed.
Reese	No. I'm not.
Sarah	Kyle, the women in your time. What are they like?
Reese	Good fighters.
Sarah	That's not what I meant. Was there someone special?
Reese	Someone?
Sarah	A girl, you know?
Reese	No, never.
Sarah	Never? I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. So much pain.
Reese	Pain can be controlled. You just disconnect it.
Sarah	So you feel nothing.
Reese	John Connor gave me a picture of you once. I didn't know why at the time. It was very old, torn, faded. You were young like you are now. You seemed just a little sad. I used to always wonder what you were thinking at that moment. I memorized every line, every curve. I came across time for you, Sarah. I love you, I always have. I shouldn't have said that.
SCENE	final battle in the computer factory
Sarah	You're terminated, fucker.

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