Terminator Genisys Page #3

so you can just lock me in a room

until I give birth to

the leader of the Resistance.

You're right.

But this... This is the only way

to stop Skynet for good.

I already said you're right.

Wait, what?

Not to '97.

Yeah, October 2017.

No, that's too late.

That's after Judgement Day.

No, you said everything's changed,

and you're right about that, too.

Sarah...

Look, I've seen a world

where the bombs never fell.

All right? The same house.

The same parents.

It was the same me, only I was...

I was home.

It was my 13th birthday.

A dream of having your family back

doesn't mean a thing.

Trust me.

Not a dream, all right? A memory.

I can't hold on to all of it, just moments,

but I was given a message.

"You can kill Skynet before it's born."

"Skynet is Genisys."

It comes online October 2017.

And when it does,

Judgement Day happens.

So you're remembering the future?

No.

The boy is

the alternate timeline version of you.

Kyle Reese is

remembering his own past,

which is our future.

That makes it so much better.

How can he be

remembering two timelines?

It is possible

if he were exposed to a nexus point

in the timeflow

when you were in the quantum field.

Can you stop him talking like that?

Is there a switch or something?

Pops, try again.

A nexus point is an event

in time of such importance

that it gives rise

to a vastly different future.

After John was attacked,

when I was in the sphere,

that's when the memories began.

John!

If John Connor were to be

killed or compromised,

it could result in the ability

to remember both pasts.

Theoretically.

Or "theoretically" his brain is scrambled

from when you hit him on the head.

Sarah!

I don't know why I'm remembering

a life I never lived.

But I know it's real.

No.

We go to 1997.

Reese, put that back!

I can't let you do this.

I don't know you.

But that is my one bullet

to fire at the heart of Skynet.

Give the chip back.

You have to trust me.

No. I don't.

You can do this.

A straight line.

You just go, and you don't look back.

Where did you hear that?

In a past I shouldn't remember.

But I do.

If we go to 2017, then what?

Skynet's a computer program.

As long as it's still being coded,

it's contained.

Once it's uploaded from the servers,

it can't be stopped.

We blow it the hell up.

Yeah. We blow it the hell up.

You think he's dead, don't you?

It doesn't matter what I think.

We do what John would,

keep going no matter what.

So we just pretend

like it never happened?

Well, it hasn't.

Not yet.

If we stop Skynet, it never will.

Trust me, all right?

If anyone could survive, John would.

Pops had all these files about

John the military leader, but...

What was he like?

The first moment I saw John,

he shot a terminator right in front of me.

I didn't even know they could be killed.

That was the first moment

in my life I felt hope.

After that, of course,

I followed him around like a stray dog.

And he taught me how to fight,

how to shoot.

Tried to show me

how to make moonshine once,

but that didn't exactly work out.

Moonshine?

Yeah. The still exploded,

and we burned our eyebrows right off.

Man, we laughed for days.

Sometimes I think

I'm the only person on the planet

that ever saw John Connor smile.

He used to tell me about you.

How strong you were, and how

you prepared him for what was coming

when no one thought

the danger was real.

How there was no one else like you,

and never would be.

Look...

I know I'm not what you expected.

But I want you to know,

I will do whatever it takes

to keep you safe.

Even if it kills me.

Anyway, that's the kind of man

your son was.

Is.

Will be. Jesus.

Time travel makes my head hurt.

Alternate timelines are not complicated.

It's merely a matter

of tracking possible futures

using an exponential growth

and decay algorithm.

Right.

There is a switch, and I will find it.

I do not understand.

Why did you not

tell Kyle Reese the truth?

I will tell him. Just not yet, okay?

Did you mate?

Can you just not say the word "mate"

to me again, like, ever?

That is a meaningless gesture.

Why hold on to someone

when you know you must let them go?

What about you?

What will you do?

Take the long way.

Prepare for your arrival in 2017.

Kyle Reese, I've seen little to indicate

that you're a fit guardian

for Sarah Connor.

You know you're not her dad, right?

You both just really need to stop this.

Just make sure you show up.

I don't want to have to

steal someone's pants again.

I have the coordinates in San Francisco.

I'll be there.

What will it be like?

You mean if it doesn't kill us both?

It'll hurt.

Hey, hey, hey.

It's okay. I got you.

It's okay. It's okay. It's all right.

I got you.

I got you. It's okay.

I got you.

Hey, a**hole! Get off the road!

Bite me.

I told you we couldn't trust him.

He'll find us. I can count on him.

How does a 9-year-old

get her own terminator?

It's okay. You don't have to tell me.

It was back in 1973.

My parents had a cabin

at Big Bear Lake.

Dad and I would always

go fishing in the morning.

Mom would wave to us from the dock.

And I was just looking at her in the...

And then the cabin exploded.

I thought the boat was sinking,

you know,

but it wasn't water

coming up from below,

it was liquid metal.

T-1000.

Dad told me to swim in a straight line,

tracing his finger across my palm.

"You can do this," he said.

"You go, and you don't look back."

His last words to me, and you...

You knew them.

How?

It's an impossible memory. I...

I just remembered

you taking my hand,

and then saying those words.

And I was just looking at you, thinking,

"She's... She's beautiful."

Sorry. I shouldn't have...

So your dad told you to go, and then...

And then I jumped in and I swam.

I made it to the dock.

And I hid under it.

Pops found me.

And he pulled me from the water.

And he said that he would

never let anyone hurt me.

He's the only person

who has always been there.

Except he's not a person.

All right? He's a human-shaped

thing that's been designed,

programmed to gain your trust.

Look, if Pops wanted me dead,

I'd be dead.

This is what they do, all right?

They infiltrate, they get close.

Your "Pops" could have directives

built in he doesn't even know about.

Just because you two don't get along...

It's not about getting along!

This is about keeping you alive.

Yeah, well, I was raised by a machine

to kill cyborgs

and survive the nuclear apocalypse.

I think I'm doing just fine, thanks.

Two naked perps

try to blow themselves up

on the freeway,

all they do is make a really big pothole.

Thank God for incompetent terrorists.

Homeland's on their way.

Good. The sooner we dump

this on them, the better.

Who called Optimus Prime?

Lieutenant! Wait up!

Wait up! Did you see it? Did you?

Hey, look, I got some frame grabs

from the overpass.

See?

It...

It's not a bomb!

Listen. That...

That sphere...

They came out of it.

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