Miles Dyson
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| Miles Bennet Dyson | |
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| Portrayed by: | Joe Morton Phil Morris (in TSCC photo) |
| Appearances | |
| Franchise(s): | Terminator 2: Judgment Day Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Mentioned only) |
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| First Appearance: | Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
| Details | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Age: | 35 |
| Date of Birth: | 1960 |
| Date of Death: | 1995 (aged 35) |
| Occupation: | Director of Special Projects |
| Spouse: | Tarissa Dyson |
| Children: | Danny Blythe |
| Affiliations: | Cyberdyne Systems
(Two timelines are in this article. Rember, the real cannon is in the films) |
Miles was married to Tarissa Dyson, with whom he had two children, Danny and Blythe.
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Biography
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Dr. Dyson was a cybernetics scientist and a high-ranking employee of Cyberdyne Systems Corporation as Director of Special Projects. He was tasked to create a new neural-net processor from two pieces of unknown-sourced advanced technology. The technology actually came from a ten year old crime scene from another Cyberdyne facility (The Terminator's arm and CPU from the first film). Miles worked on the project around the clock, with his colleagues at the main Cyberdyne office, where he was one of the few people who were given access to the original Terminator arm and CPU chip. He also worked at home in his office. Miles truly believed in the potential of his work, as the processor could lead to a revolutionary new brand of automated systems, a more-advanced form of artificial intelligence and making other existing computer systems obsolete in comparison. The project eventually reached the point where he nearly completed a prototype of the processor. Had the project been completed and distributed to the nation, the processor, named Skynet, would have gained self-awareness and waged a genocidal war on mankind beginning with a nuclear holocaust.
This was averted, however, when Sarah Connor, who wished to stop Skynet's attack before it began, used files from another Terminator from the future to track down Miles at his home in the hope of killing him. Sarah initially tried to kill Miles with a CAR-15 sniper rifle, but Miles evaded the bullet when he was momentarily distracted by his son, Danny. Sarah opened fire again but Miles took cover behind his desk, where the bullets, though critically damaging his computer and prototype, failed to reach him. With her rifle empty, Sarah ran into the house with a .45cal side-arm and began shooting at Miles at close-range, eventually hitting him in the shoulder and cornering him, his wife, and son. Miles asked Sarah what she wanted from him, and Sarah, enraged, vocally blamed him for everything that was to transpire without any full explanation, only prompting Miles to utter an innocent "...What?" to which Sarah broke down emotionally and could not bring herself to kill Miles in front of his wife and children when he was not even responsible for anything yet. Sarah's son John and the second Terminator arrived at that moment in response to the attack, and Terminator cut off the outer-flesh of his arm and hand exposing his cybernetic arm and hand. Miles was shocked to discover it was identical to the one in the laboratory and realized the connection to him at this point.
Sarah, John and Terminator, after Miles's wound was partially-healed and the shock of the attack had died down, explained Skynet's future and its true effects on humanity to Miles and his wife. Miles was convinced to quit Cyberdyne and said he would destroy his prototype unit, computers, disk drives, optical drives, files, notes and any other contents of his office. However, the Terminator made him realize that as long as the laboratory and technological artifacts at Cyberdyne were intact, Skynet could still exist as others would use his research and continue to create Skynet. Miles then planned to go with the Connors and the Terminator to the Cyberdyne building and destroy the research, and also sent his family into hiding. Before leaving, Tarissa agreed with Miles that Skynet had to be destroyed above all else and bid him good luck.
Miles initially hoped to enter the building undeterred and destroy the contents of the lab without opposition. But the guard refused due to the late hour of the night and lack of proper paper-work which needed to be done for access. Instead, the group forced their way in at gun-point and, after Miles helped John gather the advanced technological artifacts of the original Terminator from the high-security lab, began preparing to destroy the entire laboratory itself with a massive polydichloric euthimal bomb. Just as the bomb was ready, multiple SWAT teams arrived in response to the break in and one unit stormed the building. The team opened fire and Miles's body was riddled with bullet-wounds before he took cover.
Knowing his injuries were fatal, Miles bid the others to escape and stayed behind to trigger the bombs' remote, which would be flipped by a large piece of the Neural Net Processor model in Miles's hand; which would drop when he died. The SWAT team realized this when they cornered him at gunpoint as he lay on the ground, and promptly panicked and ran away. Miles succumbed to his injuries with a heartfelt and slow death noted by shallowed labored breathing and died a few seconds later. His lifeless hand dropped the model on the trigger, destroying the lab and a sizable portion of Cyberdyne Headquarters.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
In this alternate timeline, Miles's brave selfless act and sacrifice was only in delay of the inevitable yet to come. Though it was enough to bankrupt Cyberdyne and end any possible reconstruction of the Skynet Project by them, it was later rebuilt by Cyber Research Systems, a subsidiary of the United States Air Force who bought out Cyberdyne's remaining patents and projects; including Skynet. The final version of Skynet was ultimately created and activated by the head of CRS; General Robert Brewster, who used Miles's original research to create it, which was reconstructed and finished by Miles's oldest child Daniel.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
In this series, the continuity ignores the events of T3 and continues on directly from Terminator 2. Sarah is still living on the run, because she has been blamed for Miles' murder. His wife, son and home appear in the pilot episode of this series, and although he does not, his part in Terminator 2 is mentioned throughout the series. In the Season 2, it is revealed that his work has been used to create John Henry and another unknown Artificial Intelligence. In "Born to Run", a detective states that his son, Danny, has been missing for three months, which may be connected to the appearance of the unknown A.I.
Behind the scenes
Miles Dyson was portrayed by Joe Morton in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Phil Morris appears as the character in a photograph.
Appearances
Mentioned
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Cybernetic Dawn
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Nuclear Twilight
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- "Pilot" (Mentioned & seen in photograph only)
- "The Turk" (Grave only)
- "To the Lighthouse" (Photograph and Skynet Code mentioned by John Henry)
