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1995 is the year Terminator 2: Judgment Day takes place.[1]

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

June

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

June

  • 8 (Saturday)
    • A T-800 from the year 2030[5] arrives in nightly Acton, California. He goes into a bar called The Corral to acquire clothing, a motorcycle and a weapon, injuring several bikers on his way. He drives away on the motorcycle.
    • A T-1000 from the future[6] arrives in Los Angeles near the 6th street bridge. A LAPD officer arrives shortly after and is killed by the T-1000.[7] T-1000 goes to the police car and starts a search for John Connor in the Juvenile Automated Index. He learns that John was arrested for trespassing, shoplifting, vandalism and disturbing peace. He is now 10 years old and lives with his foster parents in Reseda.
    • The next morning Janelle and Todd are having trouble with John because he refuses to clean his room. John is unimpressed by instructions from his foster parents and drives away on his motorbike with his friend Tim.
    • Sarah is working out in her cell at Pescadero State Hospital when Dr. Silberman visits her to show her to some colleagues of his. He explains about the "delusions" Sarah has, about her being chased by a machine from the year 2029 and the end of the world. Sarah asks Dr. Silberman how his knee is because she stabbed him with a pen in the kneecap a few weeks ago. When he is gone Sarah is forced by a male-nurse to take her medicine, Thorazine.
    • T-1000, dressed as a police officer, arrives at the Voight's house and asks for John. Janelle gives him a photo of John but she doesn't know where he is now. Todd informs T-1000 that he is the second person asking for John today, the other man being a big guy on a motorcycle.
    • John withdraws 300 Dollar from a cash terminal, using a stolen credit card and a computer key pad. He tells Tim that he learned this from his real mother. Tim finds a picture[8] of Sarah in John's bag. John explains that his mother is a complete psycho: She tried to blow up a computer factory but got caught and is now in a mental institut. John and Tim continue on their way to the Galleria, a shopping mall.
    • Sarah has a dream about being visited by Kyle Reese in her cell. He tells her that she has to protect John because he is the target now but Sarah thinks that she has lost him. John doesn't believe her anymore. Kyle informs her that she doesn't have much time and vanishes. Sarah runs through the floors of the hospital and is suddenly outside where she sees kids on a playground. Sarah tries to warn them but her voice is gone. Suddenly a huge explosion happens. Sarah awakes in her cell.
    • Later Dr. Silberman and Sarah watch a video tape of Sarah telling about her nightmares that she has every night: A giant strobe of light is burning right into her eyes but she still can see children looking like burnt paper before a blast wave hits them and they fly apart like leaves. On tape Sarah gets angry when Dr. Silberman tells her that these are just dreams and very common. She screams that she knows the date when the end of the world will happen: August 29th, 1997[9].
    • Dr. Silberman stops the tape. Sarah seems calm and tells him that she feels much better now. Dr. Silberman confirms that her attitute has been much improved lately.[10] Sarah reminds him that he promised to send her to the minimum security wing when she would show improvement after six month and she that she could have visitors there, especially her son. Now that the six-month-period is over[11] she looks forward to see John. She says that she knows now that Terminators doesn't exist and that she never crashed one in a hydraulic press in a factory because there was no evidence for that.
    • Miles Dyson, Director of Special Projects at Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, is asked by an assistant to sign out a chip for the materials team to run another series this afternoon. The assistant is curious to know where it came from but Dyson claims that he himself has no clue. Dyson goes into a guarded vault which is secured by a steel door and opens a shelf in the wall. He takes out a glass cylinder with a chip inside. Before leaving the room again he stops at another glass cylinder, containing a metallic arm and hand.
    • Dr. Silberman tells Sarah that he knows how smart she is and that he believes she only tells him what he wants to hear. He fears that she would try to escape again when he transfers her to minimum security. Sarah asks him for permission to phone John but Dr. Silberman declines. He recommends that Sarah stays at the maximum security wing for another six months. Sarah freaks out and attacks him. Hospital staff grab and restrain her while she fights and screams.
    • T-800 is riding on his motorcycle through the streets of L.A. He sees John and Tim on their bike and identifies John with a percentage match of 99.45036 probability. He starts to follow them.
    • T-1000 is driving in the police car, asking kids on the streets if they know John and where he is. He finds out that John is in the Galleria.
    • T-800 and T-1000 both arrive at the shopping mall. T-1000 asks Tim about John. Tim lies that he doesn't know John. He gets back to John and tells him that a police officer is looking for him. John tries to run away but T-1000 sees him and starts to follow.
    • John is running through employee corridors and sees the T-800 coming up to him. T-800 grabs his machine gun and John starts to run in the other direction. T-800 aims at John, calls out at him to get down and fires at the T-1000 behind John's back. T-1000 shoots at John but T-800 coverts John with his body. T-800 pushes John into a room and starts firing at T-1000 again. They fight and John escapes. T-1000 throws T-800 through a shop window and goes after John. T-800 gets up and is photograped by a shocked mall visitor.
    • John is in the parking garage and tries to start his bike when the T-1000 appears. John revs up the engine and drives away while the T-1000 follows him by foot. T-1000 jumps onto a driving truck, pulls the driver out and takes over control of the vehicle. He starts to chase John through a desiccated storm drain. T-800 can catch up to them on his motorcycle. He grabs John from his bike and puts him onto his own. The T-1000's truck finally crashes against a bridge and bursts into flames. T-800 and John drive away.
    • T-1000 walks out of the flames, forming a human body of liquid metal and transforming back into a human shape, totally undamaged.
    • John asks T-800 to stop the bike in a side street. T-800 says that John himself reprogrammed him in the future and sent him back from the year 2030 as a protector.
    • It is dark outside when John and the T-800 drive again. T-800 suggests to leave the city. They stop at a phone booth and John calls Janelle to tell her that everything is okay. While talking to her John assumes that something is wrong because Janelle is too nice to him. T-800 takes the receiver, perfectly mimicing John's voice and finds out that it is not Janelle on the line but the T-1000 impersonating her. He hangs up telling John that his foster parents are dead. John can't believe that this Terminator can imitate everything it touches.
    • After having killed Todd T-1000 transforms back into his police officer shape.
    • Police officers are with Sarah and show her pictures from a video surveillance camera, showing T-800 at the West Highland police station in 1984, and pictures showing the T-800 at a mall in Reseda, taken today. They want to know who that man is and they are sure that Sarah knows him. They tell her that her son is missing and that his foster parents have been murdered. Sarah doesn't say a word and seems totally vacantly, but when the police officers decide to go and turn their backs to her Sarah quickly grabs a clip from a folder and hides it. A male-nurse, Douglas, brings her back to her cell.
    • John tells the T-800 about his uncommon childhood and realizes that everything his mother told him was true. He orders the T-800 to help him to free Sarah from the mental institution. After an incident with two guy who first want to help John but then get nearly killed by the T-800 John orders T-800 to not kill people.
    • T-1000 arrives at the Pescadero State Hospital and is granted access.
    • Sarah is secured to her bed by Douglas but when he is gone she is able to free herself using the clip she has hidden inside her mouth.
    • T-1000 kills a night-watchman and mimics his form. He takes his gun and can go into the maximum security wing without causing a stir.
    • Sarah frees herself from her room. She attacks Douglas and knocks him down. Taking his baton she continues to walk through the corridors with caution. She knocks down another man of the medical staff and takes Dr. Silberman as a hostage.
    • T-800 and John arrive at the hospital. The guard tells them that visiting hours are over. T-800 shoots him in both knees and opens the gate.
    • Sarah, holding a syringe full with cleanser directly at Dr. Silberman's throat, arrives at the guarded exit of the maximum security wing. After hesitating for the moment the security staff opens the door and let Sarah and Dr. Silberman pass. A male-nurse attacks her shortly after from behind. Sarah can free herself and runs away, leaving Silberman behind.
    • An alarm starts to sound. Sarah is on the run but can outwit her persecuters. When she waits for an elevator to arrive the T-800 steps in front of her. In a panic Sarah turns over and runs back right into the arms of the medical staff. They throw her down to the floor while Sarah tries to crawl away. The T-800 easily fights the man and one woman who hold Sarah down. John tells his mother that the Terminator is here to protect them.
    • T-1000 appears on the scene, easily steeping through a barred door. T-800, Sarah and John run away. They make their way to the parking garage and force a police officer to give them his car. T-1000 follows them but is not fast enough. When they are out of reach Sarah grabs John who thinks that his mother wants to hug him but is clearly disappointed when he realizes that she is just checking for injuries. Sarah is angry that John went for her because it was too dangerous and he is too important.
    • The trio stops at a storage depot. T-800 stiches up Sarah's wound on her back and she removes the bullets from with body with a pair of nippers. John wants to know if the Terminator can learn things. T-800 informs him that his CPU is a neutral-net processor, a learning computer, but it doesn't work because Skynet is blocking it. John wants to reset the switch. Sarah takes out the CPU which is inside of the T-800's head. T-800 is shut down. Sarah wants to destroy the CPU because she can't trust a machine but John prevents it. He says that they need him and that Sarah should listen to his decision. Sarah agrees but is not too happy. After having reset the switch John puts the CPU back into its place and the system starts again.
  • 9 (Sunday)[12]
    • The next morning the T-800 is shorting a car. Sarah says that they have to get as far away from the city as possible, towards the south. The three of them get in the car and they start to drive.
    • Sarah wants to know how Skynet gets built and who is responsible for it. T-800 tells her about Miles Dyson. He will create a revolutionary microprossecor in a few months from now and Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems in three years.[13] Stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers to fly unmanned and with a perfect operational record. On August 4th, 1997, Skynet goes online. It begins to learn at a geometric rate. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time, August 29th. The shut-down of Skynet fails. It launches its nuclear missiles against targets in Russia. The Russians strike back.
    • Sarah demands to get all the information that T-800 has about Dyson.
    • Miles Dyson is at his home working on his computer. His wife, Tarissa, reminds him that he promised to take the kids, Danny and Blythe, to a water theme park today. Miles hesitates because he is busy working on a neural-net processor, a self-thinking and learning computer, and he is close to a breakthrough. He tries to share his vision about unmanned flying airplanes with his wife but she reminds him that his family loves him and needs him. Finally Miles switches off his computer and is hugged by his son and daughter.
    • John, Sarah and T-800 drive through the desert and arrive at a deserted-looking place with house-trailers, big satellite dishes and an exploited helicopter. Sarah calls out for Enrique who greets her with his weapon aiming at her. Being an old friend of her and John they hug each other. John introduces T-800 as "Uncle Bob". Enrique tells Sarah that he saw her, John and "Bob" on the TV because the police is looking for them. Sarah explains that she came to take her stuff, some food and a truck.
    • T-800 and John are looking for weapons in an arsenal underground which was installed by Sarah. Sarah works on a broken-down truck and tells Enrique that she will cross the border to Mexico at night, advising him to do the same. John tells T-800 about the guys his mother met prior to her hospitalization and how she scared them off by telling them about Judgment Day and John being the futur world leader. He wishes that he could have met his dad and T-800 responds that he will.
    • Sarah dreams again about the kids on the playground. He screams to them but no one hears her. She sees herself, dressed as a waitness[14], playing with a much younger John. A nuclear explosion sets everything on fire, a blast wave pushes through the streets of L.A., destroying everything. Sarah awakes, shaking.
    • Later Sarah, dressed in military clothing and with a bag full of weapons, gets in the truck and drives away. John, not knowing what is happening, runs after her. Enrique tells him to continue south and that Sarah will meet them tomorrow.
    • John finds the words NO FATE carved in a wooden table by Sarah. T-800 reasons that Sarah tries to change the future. John thinks that his mother wants to kill Dyson. They start to follow her.
    • Sarah arrives at Miles Dyson's house. She sees him sitting at his computer, his back turned to her. Like a sniper she tries to shot him in the head but Miles is distracted for a second and the bullet misses the target. Sarah fires into the room without stopping but Miles can take cover under his desk. When Miles sees Sarah approaching him he tries to run. Sarah shoots him in the shoulder and he falls to the ground. Danny, Miles son, throws himself over him and begs Sarah not to kill his dad. Sarah orders Tarissa to get on the floor and tells Danny to get out of the way. Miles pushes Danny away from him and begs Sarah to let his son go. Sarah says to Dyson that it's all his fault but she is unable to pull the trigger.
    • John and T-800 arrive at the scene. Sarah is sitting on the floor, shocked about what she nearly did. John hugs her and Sarah breaks out in tears. T-800 checks out Miles' wound, it's a clean penetration and not life-threatening. John takes Danny out of the room and tell T-800 to show Miles and Tarissa who he is. T-800 cuts into the flesh of his arm and pulls the flesh away, showing the metallic skeleton. While Tarissa looks at it in total terror Miles realizes what it is that he sees. T-800 tells them about Skynet, Judgment Day and Miles' future responsibility for 3 billion deaths. Miles says that he will quit Cyderdyne immediately but realizes that this is not enough: Everything in the lab has to be destroyed so no one can follow his work. He tells them about the chip they had found, the CPU from the other T-800 that Sarah had crashed in 1984: It was smashed and didn't work, but it was also radically advanced and gave him ideas and took him in new directions. T-800 orders Miles to get them to the lab now.
    • Miles, Sarah, John and T-800 arrive at the Cyberdyne Systems building, 2144 Kramer street. The night-watchman, Carl Gibbons, refuses to let them in. T-800 and Sarah aim their guns at him. They dump Carl in a bathroom where he is found shortly after by a colleague who then sounds an silent alarm.
    • Further inside the building Miles is denied access into a room because the silent alarm has neutralized all the codes. John unpackes his computer key pad and starts working on cracking the code.
    • The two night-watchmen inform the police via phone that they think it's the guy from the mall who is now inside the building with the woman from the hospital.
    • T-800 forces their way into the lab by using a grenade launcher. They start to destroy computers and disks and burning files.
    • T-1000 arrives at Miles' house and sees documents burning in a trash can. He hears about the incident at the Cyberdyne building via police radio and that one supect has been identified as Sarah Connor.
    • An armada of police cars arrive at the Cyberdyne building. John is able to crack the code and receives access to the key for the vault. He sees a police helicopter flying around the building and the police cars at the entrance. Sarah and T-800 prepare explosives with a remote control detonator. T-800 takes care of the police: He fires with his mini-gun and the grenade launcher at the police cars without hurting one man.
    • Miles and John gain access to the vault by using Miles' own key and the one that John took earlier. John takes the CPU and the metallic arm, saying that they now have Skynet by the balls.
    • A SWAT team arrives and starts entering the building. They immediately start to shoot at Miles who falls to the ground. Sarah is able to take cover under a desk but is trapped in the room. T-800 breaks through a wall and takes Sarah out.
    • The SWAT team approchaes Miles. He was shot several times and is now sitting on the floor, shaking and holding the detonator in his hand. When he says that he can't hold it much longer the SWAT team starts to pull out. Miles dies and lets the detonator drop down. The whole floor explodes.
    • Sarah, T-800 and John are in an elevator when the explosion happens. They arrive at the ground floor where police officers are waiting for them. They shot gas containers at them. Sarah uses a gas mask for her and John to breathe. T-800 starts walking towards the police and is heavily shot at. He disables them by shooting at their kneecaps. He goes outside, fires gas containers at the police and takes a police truck. He drives through the entrance door back into the building and lets Sarah and John get inside the truck.
    • T-1000 is driving his motorcycle inside the Cyberdyne building looking for John. He sees the police truck depart from the building. When the police helicopter is flying by T-1000 starts the engine and drives through the window, jumping at the helicopter. T-1000 transforms into liquid metal, slides into the helicopter and transforms back to his human form. He orders the pilot to get out which he does immediately and falls down to the ground.
    • T-1000 starts to chase the police truck with the helicopter. Sarah starts to fire at the helicopter but gets shot in the leg. T-800 can destroy the helicopter but their truck also breaks down. T-1000 emerges from the wreckage and starts to follow them with a large truck full of liquid nitrogen. Sarah, T-800 and John try to flee in another car but they are to slow and get drive against by the truck. John, who is now driving, leaves the highway on a ramp and drives on a factory site of a steel mill. T-800 can sto the large truck but it cants over and breaks in two halfs. The liquid nitrogen leaks into the steel mill.
    • The T-800 destroys the T-1000.
    • Sarah Connor destroys the T-800, since it is unable to self-terminate.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Background

The Terminator 2 novelization gives the latter date specifically as "June 9, 1992, Sunday", despite the fact that June 9th is not a Sunday in 1992 or 1995 (it is a Sunday in 1991 and 1996). Note, the script/novel writers made the same mistake in The Terminator, setting the weekdays on the dates when the script was written instead of when it takes place.

In Terminator 3 (set in June 2003 [DVD timeline] or 2004 [on-screen HUD]) John Connor states that Terminator 2 took place "ten years ago", which would set the film in 1993 or 1994.

The Terminator 3 DVD timeline states that Terminator 2 happened on June 8–9, 1995.

According to the back-story of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the events of Terminator 2 happened on June 8–9, 1997.

References

  1. ↑ The year 1995 is strongly implied by John's police file which states that he was born February 28th, 1985, and is now 10 years old and the fact that it is summertime. This is contradicted by the T-800's later statement that Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems in three years which only would make sense if it is 1994.
  2. ↑ Stated by Dr. Silberman.
  3. ↑ Information from John's police record.
  4. ↑ Established in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
  5. ↑ T-800 says: 35 years from now you reprogrammed me to be your protector here, in this time. As it is 1995 the T-800 comes from the year 2030.
  6. ↑ No specific date is given. Sarah only says: The computer which controlled the machines, Skynet, sent two terminators back through time and we see the war in 2029, presuming that this is the time the T-1000 came from but it would be illogical because we know (from The Terminator) that a T-800 was sent from 2029 to 1984. Why would Skynet send an out-dated modell to kill Sarah Connor when the T-1000 was already invented in the same year? It is more likely that the T-1000 comes from the year 2030, the same year that the second T-800 comes from.
  7. ↑ The police officer gives the location via radio transmission
  8. ↑ The one which was made in 1984 at a gas station when Sarah was pregnant
  9. ↑ Sarah knows the exact date for Judgment Day. How does she know? She could have been told by Kyle Reese only, but in The Terminator he only tells her: There was a nuclear war ... A few years from now. Well, maybe he specified this later in a scene that was not shown...
  10. ↑ This is an odd statement because Sarah stabbed him in the kneecap just a few weeks ago.
  11. ↑ It is early June 1995, meaning Sarah was taken to the hospital in 1994 or earlier.
  12. ↑ Tarissa Dyson says that it's Sunday. June 9th was not a Sunday in 1995 (it was a Friday) but it was a Sunday in 1991, the year the movie was actually shot. The same mistake with mixing up weekdays and dates happened in The Terminator.
  13. ↑ This is inaccurate. Three years later would be 1998, after Judgment Day. "Two years from now" would be accurate.
  14. ↑ The way Sarah was dressed in 1984 at the beginning of The Terminator.
  15. ↑ According to events established in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles "What He Beheld".
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