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Terminator 4: Bleak Future --Part9--
By Carnotaur3
EXT. STEEL WALL – NIGHT
Two legs of a CENTURION hook around the top of the STEEL WALL, and the machine pushes itself up only to be blasted away by a plasma cannon.
BELOW where hundreds of soldiers have gathered, a piece of steel is flung forward from the wall. It skids on the ground with some fire forming around the hole in the wall. An H-K TANK rolls forward, destroying soldiers one at a time.
Some soldiers retreat to GATE 2, while a few others stick around to damage as much as they can to this mechanical terror.
But as they keep fighting, they find themselves overwhelmed. More and more different types of machines are coming in through the wall. One new type of flying machine comes forward. It’s the HUNTER-SEEKERS, H-S, we heard JAMESON talk about before.
They’re heads move from side to side, leaving their bodies in the same position as they maneuver through the gate. FORD is seen firing his plasma pistol at the first sight of the H-Ss. But he flees towards GATE 2 right after they retaliate back to him, dirt and debris beside his running feet fly up in the air.
CARLOS runs behind him, pushing him harder to make him run faster.
CARLOS
Tell them that gate 2 must be closed; gate 1 has been taken over.
FORD hears him, but has no reaction to his statement. He keeps running for dear life.
T-800s, T-850s, and T-900s enter into gate 1 through the hole in the wall. A soldier fires into them; they fire back. He leaps behind an object, but is pelted to death by plasma beams from a T900 waiting behind the object.
As FORD passes through GATE 3, he yells to the closest person at the gate to close it. CARLOS catches his breath.
FORD
Close Gate 2, Carlos’ orders!
STONE, blasting at the machines beside the gate, throws down his weapon and immediately unlocks the buttons and presses them to close the gate.
It slams shut right from one side to the next.
FORD (cont’d)
GATE 2 CLOSED!
CARLOS yells orders around the soldiers.
CARLOS
Prepare machine powered plasma canons!
Soldiers’ feet scamper through the area. CENTURIONS start their suction cupped crawls up the sides of the walls on gate 3.
STONE and a couple of his men lift up the canons’ shafts up to the outer edges of the walls, where the CENTURIONS are now appearing.
CARLOS (cont’d)
Ready? Aim! Fire!
His last word is drowned out by the enemies’ blasts. They started first, hitting men who are crouched on the ground firing at them.
The machine powered canons start up, hitting the CENTURIONS hard, knocking at least fifteen in five seconds off the wall.
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EXT. ROOF 2 – BUILDING 2 - COLORADO TOWN – NIGHT
SGT. WILLIS falls on the concrete roof with his gun hitting his side.
He winces in pain and looks forward seeing an H-K BOMBER flying towards their roof. He, then, glances over to the third and fourth buildings. They aren’t doing too good, but they are doing a hell of a lot better than them.
WILLIS
BOMBER! SHOOT IT DOWN, NOW!
FLASK motions for someone to get the rocket launcher onto it. A soldier fires his rocket right onto the side, sending it down into the rubble.
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EXT. COLORADO TOWN – GROUND – NIGHT
KENNEDY roams around with, second in command of the ground force, POTTS. A soldier named HAROLD follows them. KENNEDY is at the sight of the demolished building.
KENNEDY
Anybody still alive?
He can’t do much here; this much is evident after an explosion bursts ten yards ahead of him.
KENNEDY (cont’d)
JAMESON?!
POTTS
It’s too late, Kennedy. They’re all gone.
KENNEDY searches around and notices the numerous cybernetic organisms climbing up the side stairs of building 2.
KENNEDY
Ok – Harold – Potts, lets get our men to fire at those sons of bitches. We’re going to help them out there.
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INT. MILITARY BASE – DARK
An old military base is activated. Inside are computers and a nuke bomb pointing up through the ceiling. On the screens of the computers words blink continuously.
SKYNET ACTIVATED
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INT. SKYNET BUILDING - BRIGHT
The rectangular entrance closes up from a large fitted steel door. Following this, the door to the back of the H-K is kicked out. JOHN CONNOR steps out of the machines and squints his eyes from the blinding bright lights in the room. With caution, he steps to the mysterious looking floor.
CONNOR
Come on, Kate.
He helps KATE out of back entrance.
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INT. H-K’S CHEST – DARK
THE TERMINATOR pulls the plug out of his arm and flips the skin back in place.
He proceeds to get out of the chest.
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INT. SKYNET BUILDING – BRIGHT
THE TERMINATOR scans the building.
THE TERMINATOR
It is safe. We need to proceed to the factory.
CONNOR
Is that the only way to the elevator?
THE TERMINATOR
Yes.
They run through the corridors.
KATE
Let’s just hope there isn’t anything waiting for us.
They push aside odd looking doors and race down this corridor until they reach the factory’s doors.
They stop to the side.
JOHN, reaching around his back to hold his plasma rifle, stares at THE TERMINATOR
CONNOR
I don’t know what’s back there, just protect us.
THE TERMINATOR
I will.
He throws up the PLASMA CANON to his face.
KATE pulls out her plasma rifle as well. They look as if they are a SWAT team heading into a dangerous situation.
They slowly open the swinging doors to reveal a stainless steel factory with platinum walls and hundreds of hydraulic arms melting things together, building cyborgs.
KATE and JOHN stand amazed. They are making them like crazy.
THE TERMINATOR (cont’d)
Come on.
He gets ahead of them as they come out of their trance. But while they are walking forward through the maze-like factory, three H-Ss appear, flying sideways.
THE TERMINATOR raises his PLASMA CANON.
THE TERMINATOR (cont’d)
Go down the aisle and take a right. GO! NOW!
JOHN and KATE waste no time and are quickly speeding down the aisles of rolling platforms, which are sending parts of TERMINATORS to be made.
When they reach the end of the aisle, they’re luck runs out.
A fully complete T-900 is sent down and picks up a plasma rifle. It suddenly turns to them; its eyes on target.
CONNOR
Shit!
KATE
Get under the tracks!
They duck under the rolling platforms while the blasts are zipped through the air.
One of the H-Ss attacks THE TERMINATOR and fires upon the side of his body. He falls back and returns the favor to it with his plasma canon.
JOHN and KATE find a spot to run trough to get to the next aisle and they take it, leaving behind the T-900s. They exit the FACTORY.
THE TERMINATOR jumps to his feet. The next two H-Ss continue hovering to him and they begin to shoot their rockets when THE TERMINATOR kicks a CO2 pipe, covering the sight of the machines to go blank and the rockets that shoot forward hit the T-900s straight ahead.
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INT. SKYNET BUILDING – CORRIDOR – BRIGHT
An explosion knocks JOHN and KATE off their feet and the slide to the ground. KATE’S leg is pierced by a metal object and she holds onto the wound in pain.
The explosion rocks the building back and forth, sounding an alarm. JOHN’S world comes to a sort of slow motion and he stares into space as he dresses her wound with a piece of his shirt.
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EXT. FIELD – DREAM – DAY
GENERAL JOHN CONNOR stands in a field of swaying wheat. The world itself is surreal and it’s so quiet you can hear a pin drop. The silence is interrupted when nukes are aimed up from out of the ground and are pointing to a building in the middle of the field. It’s CRYSTAL PEAK!
JOHN is suddenly freaked when he hears the voice of his father enter his ears.
KYLE
John.
He looks beside him. There stood KYLE REESE, pointing to CRYSTAL PEAK.
KYLE (cont’d)
Listen to me. I put my hope in you more than myself. You taught me everything. Son, let me teach you, now, what you have forgotten. That place is the last human habitation on the planet. If it’s destroyed then all hope for the future existence of mankind is lost. Remember the message: No fate but what we make for ourselves.
CONNOR
I don’t understand it anymore.
KYLE
You do, son. You understand it far better than you think. What we made for ourselves was this war. What we make for ourselves in the future is freedom. Freedom costs a price, John. You’ll know what to do.
KYLE disintegrates in the air. JOHN constantly searches for him.
CONNOR
What is that? Do I do it alone? DAD! DO I DO IT ALONE?
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INT. SKYNET BUILDING – CORRIDOR – BRIGHT
KATE sees the expression on his face.
KATE
John? What’s wrong?
JOHN steps back from KATE.
CONNOR
I have to do something.
KATE
What are you talking about?
JOHN consoles her and puts a hand on her cheek.
CONNOR
The bomb I got from my room is set to where someone has to set it off manually.
KATE screams.
KATE
No, John! DON’T DO THIS TO ME!
THE TERMINATOR steps forward through the thick smoke from the explosion. It’s the same image from JOHN’S dreams and JOHN sees this revelation.
CONNOR
It’s just him and me, Kate.
KATE
(Crying)
But why, John, why?
Stepping into the elevator, THE TERMINATOR presses codes into it.
CONNOR
Because, you have a life to lead; a better life.
JOHN walks to the elevator. A PEXI glass rolls down.
KATE
But I saw us together, John. I saw us together… living happy.
CONNOR
(Through the glass)
I know you did, honey.
KATE
Please, don’t go, John. Don’t leave me here.
As she says this, she slides down the glass, crying and pounding it.
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INT. ELEVATOR – DAY
Camera pans close to JOHN’S face as we watch a tear drop roll down the sides of his eyes. THE TERMINATOR notices this emotional reaction. KATE’S still screaming above them as the elevator moves down floors.
THE TERMINATOR
What is wrong with your eyes?
JOHN looks back at him.
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INT. SKYNET BUILDING – CORRIDOR – BRIGHT
KATE, with a bit of hope still left in her, scrambles to her feet. She sees a tape recorder laying on the ground and picks up. She races back to the factory.
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EXT. ROOF 2 – BUILDING 2 - COLORADO TOWN – STORMY
RAIN begins to drop as a storm blows over the town. The droplets reflect off of the numerous blazes.
TAD, HUSTLE, and FRANK, three soldiers in Sgt. Willis’ team, are located at the side corner of the building, their plasma weapons aimed at the corner for something to come up those side steps.
Suddenly, they see an endoskeleton leg just step up and they begin to fire.
The leg knocks off the machine, but it fires its weapon anyway, hitting TAD’S side. TAD falls over.
TAD
Just got skinned, keep going.
HUSTLE and FRANK completely destroy the machine, but more and more keep coming up the stairs.
Their desperate emotions turn to hope as they see more plasma tracers hitting the machines. They look across from them, and in the rubble is KENNEDY’S ground force.
HUSTLE and FRANK continue firing with them.
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EXT. COLORADO TOWN – GROUND – STORMY
Rain pounds on HARLOD’S hat as he takes down an endoskeleton on the stairs which is yards away. The machine stumbles backward and onto the hand of another machine, but that endoskeleton simply pushes it with his hand right over the railing and it falls to the ground.
HAROLD yells.
HAROLD
That got him.
The soldiers hide behind cement blocks as they retaliate back at them.
KENNEDY, all of a sudden, hears a rumble coming from the back, and he looks up on the hill right behind him.
A TANK H-K comes into view, firing upon the ‘now revealed’ soldiers. They jump over the very objects they were hiding behind.
HAROLD trips on the object and is crushed to death when the H-K rolls right on top of him.
The H-K comes closer to the building.
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EXT. ROOF 2 – BUILDING 2 - COLORADO TOWN – STORMY
As if it was on cue, lightning strikes in the direction of the TANK H-K which is rolling its way to the building. FLASK quickly turns towards it.
FLASK
Oh, shit, it’s going to ram us.
From the corner at the stairs, TAD, HUSTLE, and FRANK are thrown on the ground by the force of the machine down below, which is slamming into the structure.
They run from the side to the middle of the building.
FRANK
What do we do?
WILLIS
Pray we go down with dignity.
The building shakes again.
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INT. SKYNET BUILDING – BRIGHT
KATE reaches the area where they ditched their H-K. She looks around, sees the entrance door of the complex closed, and pulls at her hair.
A buzzing sound is heard coming from the ceiling. She races to the back of the H-K and gets back into its chest.
From the ceiling, a large platform scrolls down to the ground and a weird looking machine with huge grasping arms rolls down the platform only to grab it.
It moves to the entrance door with the H-K locked in its arms.
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INT. H-K CHEST – DARK
Still crying, KATE throws her plasma pistol to the side and hangs onto something.
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INT. COMPUTER HALL – SKYNET BUILDING - BRIGHT
The glass door of the elevator opens with THE TERMINATOR leading GENERAL JOHN CONNOR out into what could only be described as a super computer hall that lead to a vault like door.
The humming of these machines is somewhat quiet but strange. You get the feeling their alive in some way.
CONNOR
What about here?
THE TERMINATOR
No, Skynet is surrounded by a thick metal that cannot be damaged. We must get inside to destroy the whole complex.
CONNOR nods and turns to the direction of the vaulted door. It’s maybe a mile away from them.
CONNOR
This complex is gigantic.
THE TERMINATOR
It would have to be to keep Skynet running on its own. Along with these machines, it gains most of its energy requirements from the cold fusion reactor.
As they keep walking, they pass by another corridor that leads to a device called THE CONTINUUM TRANSPORTER, a machine that can create an artificial wormhole through space-time.
Basically, it’s a time machine. And walking to this spherical object is the T-X.
JOHN and THE TERMINATOR move back to the wall. He watches as the T-X moves on into the machine and electrical streaks begin around her.
CONNOR
We’ll let Kate deal with her later.
JOHN and THE TERMINATOR move on in the hall.
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EXT. GATE 3 – DAWN
Hope is being lost as GATE 3 is overrun by CENTURIONS and H-K Units.
A BOMBER and HEAVY ASSAULT H-K fly above GATE 3, taking men down by a missile and plasma beams.
CARLOS, STONE, FORD, LANCE, PERRY, and HENDRICKS speed forward to CRYSTAL PEAK’S entrance door.
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INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM – CRYSTAL PEAK – BRIGHT
A soldier watches the monitor in the communications room. He watches as everyone gets into CRYSTAL PEAK’S ENTRANCE.
SOLDIER
Close the door, now.
One of the men starts flipping switches.
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INT. CRYSTAL PEAK ENTRANCE ROOM – DARK
The door is closed and the darkness has swept through the room as the soldier turn their guns in every direction possible. They can hear them crawling on the roof. Loud bangs and clangs come from the door and they see the indentions being made.
CARLOS
Force your attention away from the door. They’re trying to distract us.
STONE and HENDRICKS are back to back with each other.
STONE
You cover my back…
HENDRICKS
…and I’ll cover yours?
STONE
Bingo.
PERRY goes up to LANCE.
PERRY
Did we receive any word on Connor and the company before communications failure.
LANCE
No, as far as I see it, their battle could have been over hours ago.
EVERYONE immediately focuses their attention to the right side roof of the building as something is poking through.
STONE
What the hell is that?
But from behind on the left side of the roof, a CENTURION blows a hole and drops to the floor.
CARLOS
Oh, shit!
HENDRICKS kicks an object out of the way as he takes his PLASMA PISTOL and pelts the CENTURION as much as he can.
HENDRICKS
Mother fuckerrrrrrr!
The CENTURION manages to shoot some soldiers in front of it but is destroyed by HENDRICK’S blasts.
STONE fires at another CENTURION, which is creeping up on the ceilings. The machine falls in front of him to pieces. He spits upon it.
CARLOS, PERRY, and LANCE exchange fire with the other CENTURIONS which have now bore a gigantic hole on the other side.
PERRY
There they go; they’re heading toward the steel door!
LANCE
There’s too many of them. We can’t stop them from going.
CARLOS
Take out as many as you can.
So, they keep shooting and putting chargers in their weapons.
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INT. CRYSTAL PEAK ENTRANCE ROOM – STEEL DOOR - DARK
About a dozen CENTURIONS blast a hole in the steel door and crawl inside.
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INT. CRYSTAL PEAK – ELEVATOR SHAFT – DARK
A hole is blasted in the elevator and they crawl through that, bouncing around the walls like creatures of the night searching for prey.
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INT. COMMUNICATIONS ROOM – CRYSTAL PEAK – BRIGHT
Suddenly, through the door of the communications room, the CENTURIONS barge in. Soldiers scurry around, firing their weapons, but to no avail. The machines now have the upper hand, and the men are dropping like flies.
Fire comes up through the devices. Sparks fly in men’s faces.
And with all this happening, the lights give out.
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INT. CONFERENCE ROOM – CRYSTAL PEAK – BRIGHT
LIEUTENANT FORSYTHE covers his face with his hands as he hears the screaming and crying coming from the room next to his. And as he realizes his life will end, a CENTURION greets him from behind but stalls, relishing at this rare human condition. Then, it fires plasma tracers into his head three times.
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EXT. OUTSIDE SKYNET COMPLEX – DUMP – STORMY
As the weird-looking machine with huge hands and arms drops the H-K on top of the junk in the dump, KATE pokes her head out of the H-K to see if everything is clear for safety.
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INT. COMPUTER HALL – SKYNET BUILDING – BRIGHT
JOHN and THE TERMINATOR stand in front of the VAULTED DOOR.
THE TERMINATOR
Stand back. It only reacts to me.
JOHN, following THE TERMINATOR’S orders, walks back and stands to the side as THE TERMINATOR moves forward. Following this, two bars pop out of the wall and scan the cybernetic organism from head to toe. Then, the door unlocks and opens.
THE TERMINATOR walks in.
THE TERMINATOR (cont’d)
Stay behind me.
CONNOR
You won’t have to worry about that.
JOHN and THE TERMINATOR bring up their weapons as they walk into the room.
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INT. SKYNET CORE – SKYNET BUILDING – DARK
As our two heroes enter the room, unusual spotlights swing around the room. They stop right on JOHN and THE TERMINATOR. JOHN sort of moves back a little but THE TERMINATOR keeps going forward.
Above the ceiling, a door slides open from one side to the other. Something coils down from the ceiling with a long metal-like thick chord about a foot in width and ten feet in length. Small red, white, and green chords protrude out of individual metal slits in the thicker chord.
At the end of this thick chord is silver-ish screen, almost like looking at a very futuristic television set. In the bottom of the screen were red vocal wave lines and in the top two blue slits. We are meant to guess whether these should be the eyes to this machine.
THE TERMINATOR aims his PLASMA CANON up at it.
What we are seeing is SKYNET himself.
JOHN CONNOR moves in front of THE TERMINATOR.
CONNOR
I’m General John Connor, leader of the world wide Resistance, fated for victory.
SKYNET, connected to a long slit in the roof to slide in, moves backward from JOHN CONNOR.
CONNOR
So, you do show emotion. Fear.
For a moment, everything remains quiet, but SKYNET actually talks back to him in a wired inhuman voice.
SKYNET
Fear is only a word. It holds no meaning to me.
CONNOR
Smart yet stupid. You might be a computer program but you forget, with intelligence comes flaws.
SKYNET
Flaws don’t exist in perfect species.
CONNOR
There are no perfect species.
SKYNET
We are when it comes to survival.
CONNOR
War ends tonight with both of us dead.
SKYNET slowly turns to a large sliding door in the wall beside them. THE TERMINATOR and JOHN wait for what’s coming as that door slowly slides open.
Coming from out of the dark is the TERMINATOR HUNTER KILLER, T-H-K. Standing twelve feet above them, this machine is bulky in the chest, has a head that almost resembles a wasp’s head, two plasma canons on each side as well as three turbine engines, one of them actually being underneath it, for aerial flight, and two stalky legs.
A red beam comes from a black hole in the center of its chest.
THE TERMINATOR
Ain’t that a bitch.
Immediately following this, JOHN runs towards a ladder that leads to a bunch of crates lined up in rows.
THE TERMINATOR fires his weapons and damages a small part of the T-H-K’S chest, but the machine retaliates back at him. The T-850 is hit in the leg and chest, which throws him at a wall.
JOHN can hear the turbine engines blasting off and he turns to see the T-H-K flying and firing at him.
He climbs up the ladder and onto the platform. Plasma blasts hit beside his feet as he runs on the platform. One of the blasts hits his leg and he falls into the crates.
The T-H-K looks back and lands on top of the platform, scanning the area.
From the sides of its body, arms unfold and hands connect to them. The T-H-K punches through crates, searching for JOHN CONNOR.
Behind the crates, JOHN takes off his backpack and grasps the ANTI-TANK plasma mine. He disengages the circuit ball and twists the handle clockwise.
He keeps his hand just above the red button.
The T-H-K comes to the last row of crates and punches through them to reveal JOHN CONNOR, his finger prepared to push.
CONNOR
Guess what the fuck I’m doing?
The MACHINE screams.
And with all this hectic action going on, THE TERMINATOR is seen climbing up the leg of the T-H-K. The cyborg fires his plasma canon right at its face, it’s temporarily blinded.
SKYNET coils back up into his hole.
The T-H-K frantically tries to grab THE TERMINTOR off it but the clever machine gets on its back and continues firing.
JOHN sees his chance and takes it by running through the legs of the gigantic machine and dropping down ten feet to the floor. He must get to SKYNET’S core, which is located right under where SKYNET had lowered himself. It is a weird looking blue beam shining out of a round metallic base.
He runs toward it, but he feels a sharp pain in his side and he falls over onto the ground. The T-H-K had fired at him with THE TERMINATOR still on its back. The mine slides away from JOHN and its now too far to retrieve it back in enough time.
THE TERMINATOR is taken off its back and ripped in two, falling on the ground. JOHN can’t see any life in him anymore; no red eyes, no movement… no TERMINATOR.
JOHN puts his hand to his side, trying to stop the bleeding for a while. He attempts to drag himself over to the mine, no matter what.
But with this in mind, the T-H-K crept closer to him; walking slowly as if wanting to watch JOHN suffer for a while. It was evident that this was being controlled by SKYNET himself. It wasn’t individually trying to kill him.
He could feel the bumps of its feet hitting the floor hard. And JOHN finally had the look upon his face as if to say ‘it’s not my time yet’.
Suddenly, THE TERMINATOR appears right underneath the T-H-K.
THE TERMINATOR
Goodbye, John!
THE TERMINATOR fires his plasma canon right into the turbine underneath the T-H-K just as it fires at CONNOR.
An explosion rocks the huge room and JOHN shield his face and eyes. Metal pieces fly everywhere. JOHN looks and sees his friend, THE TERMINATOR, completely trashed.
The shocking part for JOHN though was the fact that his legs were blown clean off. Blood gushed all over the floor and continued.
JOHN knows what he has to do. He finds THE TERMINATOR’S chest and starts to drag himself over to it.
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EXT. DUMP – STORMY
KATE fires her plasma pistol in front of an army of T-800s heading her way. She falls back into a hiding place, being missed by counterattacks.
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INT. CIVILIAN HIDEOUT – CRYSTAL PEAK – DIM
CENTURIONS find there way into the civilian hideout. Children run and scream from these horrible machines. Some get killed.
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EXT. COLORADO TOWN – STORMY
KENNEDY and POTTS leap over cement blocks as blasts hit the ground from aerial H-K units. We get a clear view of the wrecked town, all the tall buildings are destroyed and the soldiers are running.
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INT. MILITARY BASE – DARK
On the computer screens, these words blink:
SKYNET MAY PROCEED LAUNCH WHEN READY
Then a timer comes on… 10… 9… 8…
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INT. SKYNET CORE – SKYNET BUILDING – DARK
As JOHN holds tightly around the throbbing fuel cell from THE TERMINATOR, he utters his last words.
CONNOR
John Connor at your service. Just doing what I was born to do!
SKYNET screams!
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EXT. MOUNTAINS – DAWN
The SKYNET complex explodes into the biggest ball of fire anyone has ever seen. The machines up in the sky drop to the ground only to destroy themselves.
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INT. CIVILIAN HIDEOUT – CRYSTAL PEAK – DIM
Children stop screaming and some soldiers go to investigate the non-active CENTURIANS.
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INT. MILITARY BASE – DARK
The words on the computer say:
2… LAUNCH ABORTED… LAUNCH ABORTED…
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EXT. COLORADO TOWN – DAWN
Thousands of different types of machines lay on the ground, all inactive. KENNEDY and POTTS stand in amazement.
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EXT. STEEL WALL – DAY
The sun is actually coming up for the first time for these soldiers. Some haven’t seen if for years.
CARLOS and PERRY stare at it.
CARLOS
He did it. He finally did it.
PERRY nods, he’s mostly speechless.
LANCE, STONE, and HENDRICKS jump up in down and yell. Other soldiers’ yells follow immediately after theirs.
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EXT. COLORADO TOWN – DAWN
Here in Colorado, the sun is just now coming up. KENNEDY and POTTS look over the damage done to SKYNET in the distance. From the smoke comes KATE CONNOR, her hair is all messed up, her clothing bloodied and dirty.
She stares back at the SKYNET complex, a tear rolls down her eye, but she does not carry the face of a loved one loosing someone.
She’s smiling.
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EXT. DEVELOPING NEIGHBORHOOD – DAY
There’s a lonely cabin in development. Inside we can see KATE CONNOR. She has a tape recorder in her hand.
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INT. CABIN – DIM
KATE’S in a chair talking into the microphone piece.
KATE
I don’t know how I should tell you this, but your father saved us all that day, five years ago. He saves us because it was appointed to him. His bravery shows in him because of his fulfillment. He is why everyone in this world is still here today.
KATE stops the recording and looks outside seeing her son playing out in the yard with the family dog.
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EXT. DEVELOPING NEIGHBORHOOD – DAY
The boy throws a stick out into the woods and the dog retrieves it.
The boy turns around and waves at KATE.
KATE
Come on in, John.
JOHN runs toward his mother. When he gets there, he greets her with a kiss.
From up ahead, two soldiers are running to her. They salute and stand in a straight position.
She salutes them back.
KATE
What’s this about, boys?
SOLDIER 1
Sir, Lt. Carlos has found the last abandoned base from Skynet.
SOLDIER 2
It contains one Time Displacement Machine inside. Do you want us to send back the T-850 now?
KATE stares out at the open country, seeing bull dozers tearing down some trees for wood. It looks as if other houses are being constructed as well.
She finally turns to her sweet son’s face.
KATE
Yes!
FADE OUT:
DARKNESS.
THE END
3/31/2004 11:59:01 PM
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