1994

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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

• Sarah and John live in Baja California, Mexico. Sarah is diagnosed with leukemia. The doctors give her only six months to live.^[1]

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

• Sarah tries to blow up Cyberdyne Systems but gets shot and arrested.^[2]
• She tells the story about a human-looking machine sent from the future to kill her and about the father of her son being a soldier sent from the year 2029 to protect her. She is diagnosed with an acute schizo-affective disorder and is sent to Pescadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Dr. Silberman, who has met Sarah back in 1984, diagnoses her with depression, anxiety, violent acting-out and delusions of persecution.
• John is moved to foster parents, Janelle and Todd Voight, in Reseda, Los Angeles.^[3]

Notes

1. ↑ Established in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. John says: They only gave her (Sarah) six months. But she fought for three years. Long enough to make sure (...) that the world didn't end (in 1997). It seems odd that Sarah was diagnosed before the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day because her medical condition is never mentioned in the movie but it is not impossible.
2. ↑ Information given by John in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. There is no specific date given for Sarah attempt to blow up the building and getting caught in T2. She has been at the Pescadero State Hospital for at least six months in June 1995, placing her hospitalization in 1994 or earlier. Combined with the information that John and Sarah were living together in 1994 when she was disgnosed with leukemia (as it is statet in T3) it must have been 1994. It would even make sense: Sarah, knowing that she has only six months to live, decides to change the destiny of mankind, but fails.
3. ↑ Information from John's police record in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.