by Ian Black

Created on: June 11, 2008

"I'll be back."
The famous saying that had Arnold Schwarzenneger known extremely well as the Skynet cybernetic organism (the terminator), returns after ten years as the T-101 exoskeleton warrior sent through a time shifting device in 2029 by the human resistance led by man's last best hope, John Connor.
John Connor (Nick Stahl), is now a young man in his early twenties, and reclused himself from huamn interaction. The film opens with a vision of what Judgment Day holds for the human race, a massive bomb falling from the sky and wiping out Los Angelese in a heat blast, signalling the first stages of Skynet's attack. Trying to run from his future and great responsibility, Connor seeks medication at an animal pharmacy, where he runs in to an old school colleague, Katherine Brewster (Claire Daines). Noticing Connor's intentions with the gun, Katherine attacks John in self-defence, and has his locked in one of the animal cages in the back room. A gun shot is fired from the reception area, where a rather uniquely designed T-X or Terminatrix (Kristanna Loken), has been sent back from the future by Skynet to kill Connor's lieutenant's and himself and Katherine Brewster.

Out in the main yard where, Katherine runs for her life, where she is thrown out of her car by the T-X. She demands to know the whereabouts of John Connor, just seconds before a large car slams in to her, freeing Brewster from the T-X's foothold. The T-101 (Arnold Schwarzenneger), finds John inside the burning animal hospital, where he informs John that it is time. John thinks he is back to kill him, as in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the original terminator sacrificed himself. Knowing their lives are in danger if they remain in the city, the terminator takes John and Katherine to a safe location. During the battle against the T-X, the terminator was wounded by a fire blast. He gets Connor to hand him a knife, where he undergoes self-reconstruction. At a burial site, John finds his mother's coffin, once known as the legendary Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), with weapons and ammunition locked inside the casket. Under heavy gun fire from the armed police, the terminator places John inside the empty coffin, and carries him safely to the car, still under fire from the police. They have to then reaquire Katherine Brewster, where John finally learns her plot roll in the future as his spouse and second in command of the human resistance against the Skynet computer systems.
Thinking she has found her betrothed,

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