Kyle Reese [monologue at the start]
My parents told me stories about how the world was; what it was like long before I was born; before the war with the machines. They remember a green world, vast and beautiful, filled with laughter and hope for the future. It's a world I never knew. By the time I was born, all this was gone. Skynet: a computer program designed to automate missile defense. It was supposed to protect us, but that's not what happened. August 29, 1997, Skynet woke up. It decided all of humanity was a threat to its existence. It used our own bombs against us. Three billion people died in the nuclear fire. Survivors called it Judgement Day. People lived like rats in shadows, hiding, starving, or worse, captured and put into camps for extermination. I was born after Judgement Day, into a broken world ruled by the machines. The worst extinction units posed as humans. We called them Terminators. And then one man found me. His name was John Connor, and he changed everything. John showed us how to fight back; how to rise up. He freed prisoners. He taught us how to smash the machines to scrap. People whisper about John and wonder how he can know the things he does. They use words like prophet, but John's more. We're here because tonight, he's going to lead us to crush Skynet for good.
[Sarah has just rescued Reese from a T-1000]
You're Reese, right? Kyle Reese?
Kyle [in disbelief]
You're Sarah.
Yeah, I know that. You hit your head back there?
Kyle [stammering]
That--that--uh Terminator, I---I----I don't know the model-
T-1000, liquid-metal shape changer. It just needs to touch something to mimic it.
Kyle Wait, you know about Terminators? You know who I am?
You were sent to protect me by John Connor, the leader of the Resistance. My son.
Kyle I don't...understand. You can't know any of this!
But I do. Listen to me, Reese, everything's changed. The 1984 that John sent you to? It no longer exists.
Kyle No, this is all wrong, all right? John--John sent me here to save you—
—From the Terminator that was sent back to kill me, I know. But we already took care of him. [opens the doors to the back of the truck to reveal the original T-800 wrapped up in a tarp]
Kyle We? [He sees the Guardian T-800 sitting in the back of the truck]
Kyle [Reese has just been woken up from being knocked out by the Guardian]
Hey! I need answers, all right? Right now. How'd that liquid metal thing know where to intercept me? Huh? Where'd it come from? [looks at the Guardian] And who the hell's the skin job? Wha-what the hell is going on?
Sorry, we were a little busy with the whole "life and death" combat thing, and then you attacked Pops!
Kyle [looks at Sarah in disbelief]
You named it?
Hello, Kyle Reese. [The Guardian turns around to face Kyle] It is nice to meet you. [gives a creepy smile]
Kyle ...Are you kidding me?
I've been trying to teach him to blend in. [The Guardian loses his creepy smile] I know, it needs work.
Kyle It's a Terminator! The only reason it blends in is to kill humans.
Pops doesn't kill anyone! [to herself] A lot of leg wounds, though.
Kyle It looks old. I've never seen a Terminator [look] old before.
Well, the flesh they put on the cyborgs is normal human tissue. It ages.
My auditory circuits have not degraded, however. I'm old, not obsolete.
[to Kyle]
I think you hurt his feelings.
Kyle It doesn't have feelings!
He saved my life when I was nine. He's the only reason I'm alive.
I was programmed to protect Sarah Connor. I will not stop.
Kyle Yeah, programmed by who? Huh? Who sent him back?
Those files have been erased.
Kyle [sarcastically]
Oh, that's convenient.
Whoever sent him, they don't want us to know. Not me, not him, not anyone. So Skynet can't target the person who saved me.
Logically it is someone who wants Sarah Connor to live. [The Guardian spots a piece of T-1000 alloy stuck to the rear doors. He raises a shotgun and shoots it, knocking it off the truck] Old, not obsolete. [The Guardian hands his shotgun to Sarah] The T-1000 knows where we are.
[offers the shotgun to Kyle]
Make yourself useful. [promptly jerks it back from him] And don't shoot Pops.
