Katherine Brewster
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| Katherine Connor | |
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| Biographical Infomation | |
| Birth: | Mid 1980's |
| Physical Description | |
| Gender: | Female |
| Hair color: | Orange |
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| Timelines: | Original Timeline
New Timeline |
| Affiliation: | Resistance |
Katherine Connor (nee Brewster) is the wife of human resistance leader, John Connor and is second in command of the Resistance during The War Against the Machines.
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Biography
Early Life
Kate grew up before the war, living in ignorance until she met John Connor. The pair attended school together, and are implied to have had a romantic encounter in their years and may have been the young girl that advised the T-1000 (disguised as a policeman) of John being at the Galleria before John disappeared mysteriously (following the events of Terminator 2). The only daughter of Lieutenant General Robert Brewster, the military director of CRS Autonomous Weapons Division, Kate's mother divorced her husband and left them when she was still at veterinary school. After finishing school, Kate went on to become a veterinarian, working at the Emery Animal Hospital, and became engaged to fiancé Scott Mason.
Assassination attempt
In 2004, her normal life was to change. Upon reacting to an animal emergency at the Emery Animal Hospital, Kate met John Connor, with whom she had previously attended school, and with whom she had experienced her very first kiss. With John Connor and a reprogrammed 850 Series Terminator, Kate managed to escape a T-X which had been sent back in time to eliminate her. Practically kidnapped by these John and the T-850, Kate learned the truth of things to come: of Skynet, and of Judgment Day. Setting off with the others to CRS to try to stop her father from activating Skynet, Kate was unsuccessful, and her father was killed by the T-X.
Judgment Day
Getting to the Crystal Peak Control and Command Center, a hardened fallout shelter facility in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for VIPs, Kate and John were able to survive Judgment Day as the nuclear missiles fell. Using the communications equipment within the facility, Kate helped John to get in touch with survivors and co-ordinate a Resistance force.
The War Against the Machines
During the war, Kate married John and became Kate Connor. She was one of the two medics in John Connor's unit prior to his promotion to be one of the Resistance leaders. She constantly begged John to allow her to be a field medic. She already knew that the men and women under her husband's command respected her as a leader as well, but she felt that she had to prove that she could also lead in battle. When she explained this to John, she also reminded him that the T-850 told them that Kate would eventually take John's place upon his termination in 2032. He still refused, prompting Kate to defy his orders to stay at the base. She instead tagged along with Barnes' squad during a battle to capture one of Skynet's facilities, the battle that would lead to John's promotion. However, shortly before the battle took place, Kate realized that she was pregnant with John's child.
Kate was a high ranking member of the staff of John's Resistance Base in 2018 and served as one of the Base's Doctors. Following his accident, Marcus Wright was brought to her and she attempted to mend his injuries - learning that he was a terminator in the process. She conducted an examination of the machine and reported to Blair Williams that John had decided to dismantle Wright rather than let him live. She also tried to reassure John that his father - Kyle Reese - would be fine despite being a target of the machines. When John decided to launch a rescue mission, she initially tried to talk him out of it, but eventually relented. After the destruction of Resistance Headquarters by Skynet, Kate ordered the mission to Skynet Central to rescue John.
By 2032, her husband was killed by a T-850. Kate did, however, manage to reprogram the machine to travel back in time to 2004 to save John. However, due to the results of T3, this eventual future may have been prevented.
Quotes
- Kate (screaming at the T-X): JUST DIE, YOU BITCH!
(John and the Terminator discussing Kate after it is revealed she is John's future wife):
- Terminator: Your confusion is not rational. She's a healthy female in prime breeding age.
- John: I think there's a little more to it than that.
- Terminator: My database does not encompass the dynamics of human pair-bonding.
Behind the Scenes
- Kate Brewster was portrayed by Claire Danes in the third film, and by Bryce Dallas Howard in the fourth.
