Sarah Connor snapshot
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Sarah gave the snapshot to her son John Connor, who carried it with him in his wallet in a plastic sleeve (Terminator 2: Judgment Day). John would carry it with him for 30 years, before giving it to one of his direct reports, Sergeant Kyle Reese. [1]
Kyle carried the photo with him for years, falling in love with Sarah. After he traveled back in time, he described his feelings for the photo to Sarah, and confessed that he often wondered what she was thinking of when it was taken. The photo is actually taken when Sarah is thinking of Reese, describing him to their unborn son, John Connor.
The Photo was shown having been destroyed by fire during a flashback showing a Terminator attack on Kyle Reese's base sometime after Judgment day, but before Kyle travels through time to save Sarah (The Terminator and TSCC "Dungeons & Dragons").
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The Sarah Connor Chronicles
As John Connor travels through time in the pilot episode, and only organic material (or things contained in organic material) can be moved through time in the Terminator universe, he does not take the photograph with him to 2007. In Episode 209: Complications, it is shown that Agent Ellison obtained it and kept it at his place, where John finds it and takes it back.
Derek Reese sees his brother carrying the photo and mentions it to Sarah Connor after he travels back in time. As a result, she realizes that Derek was the brother of the father of her child.
Quotes
- Kyle: (talking to Sarah Connor) 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... (turns to look at Sarah) I came across time for you, Sarah. I love you. I always have. (Sarah looks quietly overwhelmed and Kyle looks away). I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that.
- The Terminator
- John Connor: (John opens his wallet to put away his share of the money he stole from an ATM)
- Tim: (noticing a picture in a plastic sleeve) That her?
- John Connor: (reluctantly shows Tim the Polaroid of Sarah pregnant, in a jeep near the Mexican border) Yes.
- Tim: So she's pretty cool, huh?
- John Connor: No, she's a complete psycho. That's why she's up at Pescadero. It's a mental hospital, okay. She tried to blow up a computer factory but she got shot and arrested.
- Tim: No shit...
- John Connor: She's a total loser.
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Derek: You're prettier than your picture.
- Sarah: Picture?
- Derek: Yeah, it's actually how I clocked you. My brother carried your snap for luck.
- Sarah: Who's your brother?
- Derek: What does it matter? You don't know the Reese boys and you never will.
- Sarah Connor Chronicles, "Queen's Gambit"
- Kyle: What?
- Derek: I hate that thing.
- Kyle: It's just a picture.
- Derek: It's Connor's mother. I don't get why he'd give you that.
- Kyle: She's my lucky charm.
- Derek: That's what makes me nervous.
- Sarah Connor Chronicles, "Dungeons & Dragons"
Appearances
- The Terminator
- Terminator 2
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- "Queen's Gambit"(Mentioned only)
- "Dungeons & Dragons"
- "Complications"
- "The Good Wound"
- Terminator Salvation
Notes
- As the taking of the photograph occurs before any major timeline alterations, presumably both props used in the movies and series are meant to be the same photo from the same original timeline.
- The same location was used for the gas station that Cromartie kidnaps Michelle Dixon from in "The Mousetrap".
- The original photo (Linda Hamilton) is taken from a downward angle (by a taller photographer). However, the photo was supposedly taken by a small child, which makes the photo prop a little inaccurate.
- A scene cut from Terminator Salvation would involve Kyle Reese finding the Sarah Connor snapshot in the jacket he was wearing shortly after burying Marcus Wright; however, these scenes were cut from the final product.[2]
