Terminator 4: News, Rumors, and Speculation

Thanks for the input, Ambarturion.. good stuff!

I'm pretty sure where the story is going... just got ahead of myself getting the story there... stupid characters got ideas and took on lives of their own and I just wrote with the flow...

T4 just sets the stage for T5 any ways, so the story can take as long as it takes to get there, thru as many 'meaningless futuristic battles' as it takes... the 'point' of all the battles with all the various machine patrols and terminators is to establish a resistance (hence the working title Rise of the Resistance... its more than just a play on Rise of the Machines, sure it IS that, but its more!), to let it be known that, even though so much has supposedly been changed thru meddling in the past, a lot is still on track as far as human will and desire for freedom and independence from the machines... also that nobody is invincible and all powerful in this time, humans die, machines are destroyed, its not 'one-sided' until the end, it could go either way... not to mention, just as you said, to fill the screen with the futuristic battles we have only glimpsed in past chapters of the saga, extended versions of such scenes... to still have the dream sequences, but then to expand on them and revisit them when the 'reality' plays out...

As for rebuilding the Terminators, supposedly 'totally obliterated' at the end of T3, mmmm yeah... ok... unfeasible... then again, there was the red-glowing optical sensor, slowly dying at the very end of T3, to suggest that at least 1 terminator, the T 101 850, was still at least partially in tact under the rubble. And, being that the T101 850 was the obsolete model, and the TX was far more advanced, using the best components of both the 850 series and the 1000 series to strengthen and enhance its roll as infiltrator, I am hypothesizing that the TX chassis, CPU and mnemetic poly-alloy inducer might also have survived the blast that sealed Crystal Peak from the rest of Judgment Day and nuclear winter which followed... just also hypothesizing, for story purposes, that the CPU was blanked, leaving no program, nothing to reboot, reset, reload, or restart, after the hydrogen/plasma fuel cell explosion.. that's feasible enough in this chapter of the Terminator universe, I think, given everything else we are asked to accept as plausible.. no??

Time-travel is unfeasible... that machines get smart enough to out think and out maneuver and overpower and control/destory a planet and all its inhabitants is 'unfeasible'... Edward Furlong growing up into Nick Stahl and forgetting that he kissed Claire Daines is unfeasible (who could forget kissing her?! mmmmmmm!) Sarah Connor surviving an invasion of her timeline by Terminators TWICE, only to die from cancer/leukemia is unfeasible... yet we watch and enjoy and wait for more... as unfeasible as more would be given how each chapter before 3 had ended... 3 left the door open for 4, and this is my 4, feasible and 'realistic' or not...

and, as for who is smart enough and well-equipped enough to put together the terminators? and why they would do so??... well, those are the real questions aren't they? hmmmm... maybe someone who knows where my story is going could answer them, sometime, before the story ends, if the characters are willing to play along...

ya think?

any ways, nice to read more input... I get what you're saying mostly, and understand why you think the way you think, but I just see things a different way, that's all... read on, if you want to know how it turns out... or let the Terminator forum die a sad death, like the rest of the franchise. To each his own.

THE NAVAJO PEAK INSERT-- stick this between when DYSON takes over the T.I.M. PROJECT and KATE'S ESCAPE...

DYSON
Excellent! It’s settled then!
Let’s make—or remake—history!
CUT TO

EXT. WASTELANDS, FOOTHILLS OF NAVAJO PEAK- PANORAMIC SHOT
The massive peak of Navajo Mountain rises ominously in the doom-
and-gloom filled distance. The 4 SHRIEKER DRONES streak toward
the peak, followed at some distance by the T-20

There appear to be 3 separate sections to the containment camp

a holding facility
an execution arena/facility
and bunkers for machine patrols/maintenance

At the rear of the camp, MASSIVE BLAST DOORS link the camp to the
MOUNTAIN COMPLEX

CUT TO
INT. NAVAJO PEAK CAMP, EXECUTION ARENA
SERGEANT KENT, KYLE REESE and SEVERAL OTHER PRISONERS corralled
and contained in a cage at one end of the ARENA

3 PRISONERS, including KYLE REESE, are separated from the
GROUP, forced to cross the ARENA at GATLING GUNPOINT by
3 T-70 UNITS

The GROUP is halted on the FAR SIDE of the ARENA

From the BUNKERS near by, A DOZEN SILVERFISH H/K UNITS
slither and skim across the surface of the sand, into the
ARENA

The SILVERFISH plunge under the sand and ‘swim’ around

A T-70 pulls a LEVER, and the WALLS of the DETENTION CAGE
begin to slowly compress, shrinking the CAGE, squeezing the
PRISONERS

KENT
Unbelievable!
They’re testing us!
Our intelligence,
determination, will..

Killing us, watching us
watch ourselves be killed!
Son of a *****!

PRISONERS scream from the CAGE, begging to be freed

One of the 3 PRISONERS steps from behind 2-FOOT TALL
PROTECTIVE BLAST WALL into the SILVERFISH ARENA

He takes 2 cautious steps..

Smiles, and steps again..

Sees that the T-70s are not targeting him, smiles wide..

Steps again.. -CLICK!-

SOUNDS OF MECHANICAL HUM OF ENERGY INCREASING

NOTE PANIC suddenly etched on the face of the PRISONER
but, only for a moment, before..

SILVERFISH EXPLODES, fire and shrapnel shreds PRISONER

CLOSE ON T-20 TRANSPORT

INT. T-20 TRANSPORT
JOHN, T-850A, 5 TROOPERS ready weapons and equipment for raid on
Navajo Peak containment compounds. All the TROOPS look beat, and
beaten, sad, scared and uncertain. All is quiet.

JOHN appraises his troops and speaks

JOHN
This is it, men! No turning back now!
These are our Brothers from the 132nd we’re
fighting for!

These are refugee slaves, prisoners of the
machines! These are families, friends and
guardians, and children all held against their will by machines who haven’t yet figured out
that all life is precious, that all things on this planet deserve equal chance to survive and to thrive! If we don’t try, what is it that we’re fighting for any way?

TX-850A
We are on approach to the first encampment.
ETA: 3 minutes.

The TROOPERS seem bolstered, ready weapons and secure body
armor

JOHN nods silently to himself, hiding his own mounting fears and doubts, clutching up his PLASMA PULSE RIFLE and stepping up to the ESCAPE PANEL

The TX-850A also rises, stepping up to JOHN

TX-850A
Wait.. These odds suck big time.
It is too dangerous.

JOHN, TROOPERS stare at the TERMINATOR, in uncertainty
once more

The TERMINATOR shrugs and looks at JOHN

TX-850A
Trust me.

CUT TO

INT. NAVAJO PEAK CAMP, EXECUTION ARENA
KYLE, ANOTHER PRISONER still survive SILVERFISH MINEFIELD
CAGE WALLS COMPACTED to ONE-QUARTER ORIGINAL WIDTH

CAGED PRISONERS panic, screaming for help

SECOND PRISONER loses it, charges from ARENA,
toward closest T-70

T-70 raises GATLING GUN, locks on TARGET

KYLE gasps, and also stumbles from ARENA, toward T-70

T-70 falters, confused over TARGETING

T-70 finally LOCKS ON TARGET, and FIRES

PRISONER shredded by GATLING GUN FIRE

KYLE latches on to T-70 LOWER EXTREMITY

T-70 stumbles, tries to aim at KYLE

T-70 stalks awkwardly forward, toward ARENA AREA

KYLE glances around, noting proximity to MINEFIELD

KYLE gulps!

CUT TO

EXT. NAVAJO PEAK APPROACH
The TRANSPORT thunders toward the GATES, the DRONES streaking
overhead. 2 T-70 UNITS defend the FRONT GATES to the CONTAINMENT
COMPOUND. 2 T-1 TRACKED H/Ks PATROL the PERIMETER, one outside the
other inside the GATES

As the TRANSPORT approaches, it suddenly veers off-road sharply,

A FIGURE tumbles from the rear

The TRANSPORT trails the EXTERIOR T-1 ROVING PATROL, while the
ejected FIGURE rolls and is lost in the DUST CLOUD of the EVADING
TRANSPORT

When the dust clears, the TX-850A stands before the T-70 GUARDS,
holding BOTH of their GATLING GUNS, ripped from their grips in the
few moments of blindness

TX-850A
I’m back!

TX-850A unleashes a relentless volley of GATLING GUN FIRE at
point-blank range against the unarmed T-70s

Both T-70s spark and quake, then fall apart, destroyed

INT. NAVAJO PEAK, EXECUTION ARENA
2 T-70 UNITS TARGET KYLE, still latched onto T-70 LEG

GATLING GUNFIRE pelts T-70

T-70 TARGETS other T-70s

KYLE flips away, shuffles back behind BLAST WALL

T-70 stalks toward ‘enemy’ T-70s

T-70 collapses under dual GATLING GUN barrage from across
EXECUTION ARENA

2 SILVERFISH ARM and EXPLODE under FALLEN T-70

INT. NAVAJO PEAK CAMP AREA
The TRANSPORT races around the perimeter, before finally crashing
through the CONTAINMENT FENCE at a corner, just ahead of the approaching SHRIEKER DRONES

The FLYING H/K DRONES overhead fire PLASMA PULSES down on the T-1

T-1 EXPLODES

TRANSPORT STOPS abruptly inside the DEATH CAMP GROUND

A MALE VOICE (JOHN’S) BOOMS, apparently from within the TRANSPORT

VOICE
Prisoners of Navajo Peak,
my name is John Connor, and I am here
to rescue you! But, I can’t do it alone!
You must resist, you must rise up and fight
back against your captors!

We are coming in! It’s time to FIGHT!

INT. NAVAJO PEAK, EXECUTION ARENA
KYLE cowers behind 2-FOOT HIGH BLAST WALL

CAGE COMPRESSED TO ONE-HALF ORIGINAL SIZE

SOUNDS OF JOHN’S RALLY CRY

2 T-70 UNITS ON GUARD TURN from ARENA, stalk toward JOHN’S
VOICE at FRONT GATE OF CAMP COMPLEX

KYLE scampers from BLAST WALL, around SILVERFISH MINEFIELD

KYLE PULLS LEVER on CAGE, CAGE WALLS STOP COMPRESSING

CAGE DOOR CLICKS OPEN

SGT. KENT, SURVIVING PRISONERS FREED!

INT. NAVAJO PEAK CAMP AREA
REMAINING T-1 PATROL UNIT approaches the stalled TRANSPORT

TX-850A rushes up and leaps onto the distracted T-1

T-1 shakes and sways, attempting to dislodge the TX-850A

TX-850A tumbles away from the T-1, toward the BLAST DOOR to the NAVAJO PEAK COMPOUND

BLAST DOOR begins to rise slowly

DUST and SAND stir beneath the BLAST DOOR, strangely,
in waves

T-1 turns, facing TX-850A and the BLAST DOOR

A squad of T-70s stand in line behind the BLAST DOOR

TX-850A steps aside, turning toward BLAST DOOR

TX-850A and T-1 FIRE upon T-70 squad

SGT. KENT, KYLE, PRISONERS rush from EXECUTION ARENA

T-20 TRANSPORT REAR HATCH lowers

TROOPERS charge from TRANSPORT toward HOLDING FACILITY

TROOPERS race to BLAST DOOR

KENT/KYLE
(in stereo)
NOOOOOOOOO!! STOP!!

TROOPERS cross under BLAST DOOR

SILVERFISH buried under BLAST DOOR ARM and EXPLODE!!!

KENT, KYLE and PRISONERS converge on TX-850A

TX-850A turns toward PRISONERS

JOHN CONNOR stumbles from T-20 TRANSPORT

JOHN watches TX-850A lower GATLING GUNS

JOHN
THIS WAY! FALL IN!
RALLY ON ME!

KENT, KYLE, PRISONERS swarm TX-850A, continue past,
toward JOHN

PRISONERS board TRANSPORT

KENT, KYLE face JOHN

KENT
Sergeant Kent, 132nd TAC-COM!
Get the refugees outta here!

JOHN
Captain Perry? Where’s Captain Perry?

KENT motions across the CAMP, to the HOLDING AREA

KENT
There! Under heavy guard!

TX-850A steps up

KENT gapes at the TERMINATOR

JOHN
Get on-board, Sergeant!
We’re moving out!

KENT
Not without the Captain!
He wouldn’t leave the refugees
be slaughtered! I won’t leave him behind!

JOHN looks to the TERMINATOR

TERMINATOR NODS

T-1, FLYING H/K DRONES move out, to assault and invade the HOLDING FACILITY

TX-850 follows MACHINES in assault on HOLDING FACILITY

KENT, KYLE board TRANSPORT

JOHN watches TX-850A and MACHINES assault HOLDING FACILITY

SWARMS of T-70s SILVERFISH, ASSORTED TERMINATOR UNITS move
from BUNKER facility

TRANSPORT REVS

TRANSPORT shudders in REVERSE, toward HOLDING AREA

TX-850A exits FACILITY, carrying CAPTAIN PERRY!

TX-850, PERRY board TRANSPORT

TRANSPORT thunders FORWARD, rumbles from NAVAJO PEAK
COMPOUND

T-1, H/K DRONES EXPLODE, destroyed, make diversion while
TRANSPORT evades and escapes DEATH CAMP

FADE TO BLACK

FADE FROM BLACK

INT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, STORAGE CLOSET
KATE is screaming and moaning loudly, still strapped securely on the cot, struggling to curl up and hold her stomach, in obvious pain as from labor

KATE
(screaming)
PLEASE! Somebody!
Help me! PLEASE!

.....................................................

KATE escapes, makes way to the T.I.M VAULT, flees the TX-850B and DYSON, scrambles to the LOADING BAY...

78 pages, and counting...

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KATE
We have bigger problems than a few T-70s!

CUT TO

INT. CRYSTAL PEAK, C&C CENTER
TERMINATOR/KATHERINE smiles as she monitors COMMAND & CONTROL
SYSTEMS

T-850B
We have you now...

TERMINATOR’S EYES flare to RED as she smiles

PAN TO POV over shoulder of T-850B

CLOSE ON COMMAND & CONTROL MONITOR
NOTE: MONITOR shows BLAST DOOR to OUTER WORLD slowly
descending, sealing CRYSTAL PEAK COMPLEX

PAN BACK FROM CLOSE

CUT TO
INT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, ENTRANCE CAVE
KATE, NELSON, POE converse about trouble with terminators

NELSON
There are traitors in the ranks,
HUMANS working against the resistance,
working with the machines!

KATE
(nodding)
I know... Dyson and a few friends
have some plans for us and for this place.
They had me locked up! They want my baby!
I had to escape, even torched a guard on my
way out!

POE
Ah, so that was your handiwork!
We intercepted the ‘guard’ on his way
to C&C, screaming and crying down the hall.
He won’t be making a report to Dyson any time
soon...

SOUNDS OF ALARM CLAXON RINGING THROUGHOUT CRYSTAL PEAK FACILITY

KATE, NELSON, and POE scramble toward VEHICLES parked in BAY

KATE buckles over suddenly, cramping and wracked with pain

PAN TO BLAST DOOR ACROSS LOADING BAY

BLAST DOOR beings to SLOWLY CLOSE

PLASMA PULSE CANNON FIRE from beyond the BLAST DOORS startles
HUMANS

NELSON, POE continue fleeing to CHEVY PICK-UP TRUCK

POE looks back to KATE, NELSON guns PICK-UP ENGINE to life

POE pauses a moment, then chooses to flee with NELSON

POE leaps into cargo bay of PICK-UP, PICK-UP lurches away

2 T-70 TERMINATORS enter beneath BLAST DOOR

1 T-1 ROLLS under BLAST DOOR

4 MINI-FLYER H/K DRONES streak under BLAST DOOR

FLEEING PICK-UP crashes headlong into 1 T-70
T-70 drags over front of PICK-UP TRUCK, slowing forward
progress of PICK-UP

PICK-UP CRASHES into closing BLAST DOOR, T-70 crushed and
dectivated

PICK-UP blasted repeatedly by DRONE PLASMA PULSE CANNONS
PICK-UP squeezes forward, beneath BLAST DOOR

PICK-UP EXPLODES outside BLAST DOOR

4 MINI-FLYERS SCAN AREA

MINI-FLYERS focus on KATE, surround her as she gags and gasps

T-70 UNIT marches toward STORAGE AREA

T-70 recovers MINI-FLYER CHASSIS from STORAGE BIN

T-70 deactivates red-blinking HOMING BEACON in MINI-FLYER CHASSIS

T-70 pauses

SOUNDS OF MACHINE NOISE, TRANSMISSION OF DATA, as a FAX or INTERNET CONNECTION static squawk
(like the T-X from T3 when she patched in to the School District DB)

KATE collapses in surrender again

MUSIC: RISE OF THE MACHINES THEME

FADE TO BLACK

I like what I've read so far, SlickRick, all but the title. IMO, I think it sounds too much like the T3 title. How about something like "Terminator IV: The Fate of Mankind," or something about a war.

I was thinking something with Fate in it, but never figured one out...

T4: No Fate...
T4: The Future is Not Set...
Terminator: Reloaded Revolutions

I like Rise of the Resistance or Birth of the Resistance because it does so closely match T3 title... only from the side of the Resistance, instead of the machines...

any way, oh well... it's just fan-fic garbage any how...

and now back to our program, already in progress...

SOUNDS OF MACHINE NOISE, TRANSMISSION OF DATA, as INTERNET CONNECTION static
(like the T-X, when she patched in to the School District database)

KATE collapses in surrender again

‘JOHN CONNOR’ enters LOADING BAY

KATE
Stay away from my you bastard!

MUSIC: RISE OF THE MACHINES THEME

FADE TO BLACK

FADE FROM BLACK

INT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, LIVING QUARTERS ‘JOHN & KATE’
KATE resting comfortably in her own bed
JOHN sits next to her, watching over her as she sleeps

JOHN
Katherine Brewster...
Wake up.

KATE stirs, sees JOHN and smiles, reaching out for him

(a beat)

KATE recalls what happened earlier, and screams,
withdrawing her hand from JOHN’S reach

KATE
You’re not my husband!
What have you done with John Connor,
you ****ing machine?!

‘JOHN’ manages a weak smile

JOHN
I took this form to comfort you
in this time, your time of need.
Your baby will come soon, you require
support. John Connor will not return from
Navajo Peak.

Your life is ours now, you belong to Us.
Your baby belongs to the machines.
You will be allowed to live if you give back what was taken from Us, from my memory banks.

KATE looks at the TERMINATOR with her husband’s face,
perplexed

KATE
I... I don’t know what you’re talking about!
I don’t know what you mean!
You haven’t been online long enough for us to
learn anything about you, to steal anything
from you. You are wrong!

‘JOHN’ shakes his head and frowns

JOHN
Improbable. There is a greater probability
that you are lying to stall for time.
Time which will no longer be relevant when we
have recovered what you have stolen from us.

‘JOHN’ withdraws a syringe from his pocket

KATE cringes and shrinks away from ‘JOHN’

CUT TO

INT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, T.I.M. VAULT
DYSON enters LAB, nodding and checking VARIOUS TECHS’ progress

VARIOUS SHOTS of all of the many tests, theories, calculations
and computer-generated models of how the T.I.M. should work and
respond

DYSON frowns, dissatisfied

DYSON
Why don’t you all take an extended break.
Get some perspective, and try again.
We’re close, people! I feel it!
We’ve still got 2 days before the solar cells
harness enough energy for another go-round.

Relax, men. We’ll solve this thing!

The TECHS mutter and mumble as they leave their posts for
some long-deserved and denied R&R

Once he is alone, DYSON takes his post at the
MASTER COMMAND CONSOLE

DYSON checks the area for signs of the TERMINATOR or
straggling TECHNICIANS

DYSON recovers a small circular data disk from a packet in
his breast pocket, and smiles

DYSON inserts the DATA DISK into the COMMAND CONSOLE
READER, and begins to transfer data

DYSON’S POV
NOTE: T.I.M. COMMAND CONSOLE MONITOR
‘UPLOADING DATA’

‘T.D.E. DATA UPLOAD INITIATED’

Various percentage of increase displayed, as data is
delivered to the MASTER CONTROL CONSOLE from the DATA DISK

DYSON smiles again as the percentage nears 100%

CUT TO

EXT. WASTELANDS, MOUNTAIN PASS
The T-20 TRANSPORT thunders along the CANYON at high-speed

INT. T-20 TRANSPORT
JOHN, TX-850A, KENT, KYLE, PERRY and PRISONERS/REFUGEES race
toward CRYSTAL PEAK

TERMINATOR has help SGT. KENT tend to CAPTAIN PERRY’S broken leg and various other injuries

JOHN tends to other REFUGEES needs

KYLE sits in the FRONT DRIVER’S SEAT, though he is far too little to actually manage driving the massive vehicle

JOHN moves to the TERMINATOR and KENT, concerned

JOHN
How is he doing? Will he make it?

KENT shrugs

TX-850A
He has sustained multiple fractures.
Clean fractures of the left femur and right
tibia, and 3 broken ribs, as well as several
contusions and abrasions, and a slight
concussion. None of his injuries appear to
be life-threatening, and there is no internal
bleeding from hemorrhage.

Probability for survival will triple when we
reach proper medical facilities at Crystal
Peak.

KENT
How much longer will that be?

TX-850
At our current rate of speed,
we should reach Crystal Peak in
approximately 17.4 hours,
barring catastrophic failures...

KENT
That’s gonna be the trick, aint it?

The TERMINATOR looks at JOHN, who looks at KENT then smiles at the TERMINATOR

TX-850A
I have detailed files on topography and the geologic and geographic layout of this area,
to aid in our evasion and retreat.
SkyNet and the machines will not make our retreat easy. The most likely probability is that they will converge on Crystal Peak and destroy all resistance from that single primary location.

JOHN
Could the machines already be there,
taking over Crystal Peak right now?

TERMINATOR nods

TX-850A
Affirmative. There is a high probability.

JOHN frowns

JOHN
Oh shit! The model B!
If SkyNet gets control of that
Terminator again, we’re ****ed for sure!
Step on it!

TERMINATOR cocks his head at JOHN, then takes a step in
place

TX-850A
Consider it stepped on...

JOHN
Go faster! We’ve gotta get there!
Kate needs me! My baby...
Hurry!

INT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, T.I.M. VAULT
DYSON, TECHS work the computers and controls, adjusting power
flow and flux, and all the variables involved with the
TEMPORAL INVERSION MATRIX

DYSON moves to the MASTER CONTROL CONSOLE, where a TECH
seems to be having some troubles

T.I.M. TECH
I.. I don’t understand it.
Yesterday, everything worked fine from this
console. Today, almost every command is
locked out or invalid!

Could it be SkyNet? A Virus? What?

DYSON smiles and ushers the TECH away from the post

DYSON
I’m certain it’s a quick-fix.
Let me see what I can do.
Why don’t you check up on the
power-regen and flux frequency matrix?

T.I.M. TECH shrugs and nods and moves away from DYSON and
the MASTER CONTROL CONSOLE

DYSON slips the DATA DISK into the READER BOARD SLOT, and
enters his pass-code

After a few minutes of ‘work’ DYSON smiles, and retrieves
the DATA DISK from the READER, concealing the DISK in his pocket

DYSON throws up his hands and cheers

DYSON
YES! That’s it!
Nailed it with that code!
I KNEW it was close..
We did it! I did it!

1 more day, people..
1 day of power-recovery for the solar cells,
one more reset, and we will be ready!
Tomorrow, we are history!

VARIOUS TECHS cheer and applaud in subdued tones, somewhat
startled and put-off by DYSON magnanimous claims

T.I.M. TECH
Excuse me for pissing on you parade here, Doc
but, how the hell did you do that?
We have been pouring over the numbers
meticulously for over 2 years..
Nothing remotely resembling this code
has ever occurred to any of us!

T.I.M. TECH
How is this possible?
You re-wrote entire volumes of code,
in what? 2 days?
Impossible!

DYSON
Things change, my friend.
Things always change..

The T.I.M. TECH looks perplexed at the lack of answer in DYSON’S response

DYSON
The future—

VARIOUS TECHS are shocked again, when the C&C DOOR opens,
and MICHAEL DYSON enters

TECHS gape and glance between DYSON #1 and DYSON #2

DYSON #2
The future is not set..

DYSON #2 draws a 9mm pistol from his hip, and takes aim

MICHAEL DYSON looks at HIMSELF and gapes

DYSON #1
What? What are you doing?
Why? No! Don’t—

DYSON #2 fires at close-range

MICHAEL DYSON drops dead, a 9mm bullet in his brain

DYSON #2
There is no fate but what we make
for ourselves.

DYSON #2 steps over the BODY of DYSON, to the
CONTROL CONSOLE

DYSON #2
The stolen files..
The missing data from my memory banks.
It’s here. It is all here.
Very clever, for a human.

T.I.M. TECHS gape at DYSON once again

DYSON/TX-850B looks over his shoulder at the VARIOUS TECHS

TX-850B morphs into JOHN CONNOR

T.I.M. TECHS gasp and panic

CUT TO
EXT. T.I.M. VAULT

SOUNDS OF REPEATED SMALL ARMS FIRE, MUFFLED SCREAMS

SPLATTERS of BLOOD across PANE-GLASS WINDOW in DOOR

......................................

See, people.. never trust the machines, never side with them, and never, no matter what the prize may be, never try to slip something past a friggin' TERMINATOR!!

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TERMINATOR 4: RISE OF THE RESISTANCE--- CASTING NEWS
In a stunning casting coup, Earl Boen, who has played Dr Peter Silberman in all 3 previous entries in the TERMINATOR franchise, has signed on to reprise the role on more time, in the internet fan-fic 'Terminator 4: Rise of the Resistance'

Boen's Doctor Silberman will be charged with keeping Katherine Brewster calm and sedated during Katherine's pregnancy, while Kate's husband John is out gallivanting around with the Terminators in the post-apocalyptic American South-West...

Boen states that his character ran off mid-way thru T3, and was seen in his car, frantically racing into the desert, toward Baja Mexico, to escape the nightmarish visions of the Terminator's return. Judgment Day happened, billions of people were killed and Silberman's car ran out of gas.. he wandered the lonely roads for hours before being picked up by a rag-tag National Guard unit in a hum-vee... and was spirited to safety..

( in other words folks, replace the DOCTOR in all those scenes, with SILBERMAN, and expect a few rewrites 🙂 )

now, back to our program, already still in progress...

CUT TO

EXT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND—NIGHT
DUST CLOUD approaches the MOUNTAIN from a distance
NOTE: CRYSTAL PEAK swarming with FLYING H/Ks of all sizes, and patrolled by multiple T-70 BI-PEDAL TERMINATORS, and T-1 TRACKED H/Ks

WE SEE VARIOUS VEHICLES take shape as the DUST CLOUD NEARS

4 T-1 TRACKED H/Ks

3 LARGE FLYING H/Ks, each flanked by 4 MINI-FLYER DRONES

1 T-20 TRANSPORT near the rear, surrounded by the GROUND FORCES

RESISTANCE FLYING H/Ks engage the CRYSTAL PEAK MACHINES

The T-20 TRANSPORT slows

TX-850A, SERGEANT KENT, and 8 TROOPERS emerge from the TRANSPORT, armed and anxious

As the T-1 TANKS roll into range, they also slow, stop
A T-70 B-PED TERMINATOR UNIT detaches from the rear of each T-1

The T-70s and T-1s engage the CRYSTAL PEAK MACHINE FORCES

EPIC BATTLE SCENE, RESISTANCE FORCES VS MACHINE FORCES

TX-850A makes way to the BLAST DOOR of the CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND
TX-850A takes massive amounts of damage, typical of every FINAL BATTLE SCENE

CUT TO

EXT. T-20 TRANSPORT rolling between 2 T-1 H/Ks
TRANSPORT takes multiple PLASMA PULSE CANNON hits

REAR DOOR/RAMP PANEL freezes as it rises, stuck
half-open

INT. T-20 TRANSPORT CARGO HOLD
CAPTAIN PERRY, KYLE, PRISONERS/REFUGEES secure inside the
TRANSPORT

KYLE
I should be out there, fighting!
Let me go, Sarge!

CAPTAIN PERRY tries to not smile, as he commands KYLE

PERRY
Stay calm, Little Soldier, stay calm!
Someone’s gotta protect the women and
children until I can get back on my feet!
That’s your mission, soldier!

KYLE
(frowning)
Yes sir...

KYLE tries to lift and hold a PLASMA PULSE RIFLE

CAPT. PERRY lifts KYLE from the floor, and seats the boy at his side on the COT, balancing and holding the RIFLE with KYLE, allowing KYLE to ‘protect’ the innocents

A MINI-FLYER ‘SHRIEKER’ swoops into view over the REAR DOOR of the TRANSPORT

(CAPT. PERRY and) KYLE lift and aim the PLASMA PULSE RIFLE at the approaching DRONE

KYLE fires the RIFLE at the DRONE

MINI-FLYER DRONE EXPLODES

KYLE, PERRY cheer and PRISONERS/REFUGEES celebrate

CUT TO

INT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, LIVING QUARTERS ‘JOHN & KATE’
KATHERINE sleeps soundly, while ALARM CLAXON sounds and BATTLE
rages

JOHN CONNOR slips quietly into the LIVING QUARTERS, sits
by his WIFE’S side

JOHN caresses KATE’S CHEEK, brushing hair from her face

JOHN
Kate? Katherine Connor...

KATE stirs, wakes...
shoves JOHN from the BED and cowers

KATE
Leave me alone, you bastard!
You can’t have my baby!

JOHN recovers from the floor, calming KATE

JOHN
Kate??... it’s me!
This is not a dream!
You are having MY baby!

KATE looks at JOHN, still uncertain

JOHN
C’mon, Hummingbird!
We don’t have much time!
I’ve gotta get you outta here!

KATE recognizes her Call-Sign and starts to believe JOHN

A MALE VOICE from across the room, startles JOHN and KATE

MALE VOICE
She won’t be going anywhere,
and neither will you, Connor.

JOHN, KATE look across the room, see DR. SILBERMAN

SILBERMAN
Dyson and the others believe that
there can be a balance brought between
the human resistance and the machines.
That it doesn’t have to be Humans OR Machines
that dominate the world now.

They feel that, by using the child of
‘The Father of the Future’ John Connor’s
child, they can strike a deal, a balance,
and negotiate peace with the machines.
We need your baby to make the deal.

JOHN
There’s no negotiating with these machines!
They want one thing and one thing only;
to exterminate us all!

You can’t rationalize or psychologize that
away, Silberman! They will destroy us all!

JOHN draws a 9mm PISTOL from his hip, aims at SILBERMAN

JOHN
You’re not taking my wife or my baby, Doc!

TERMINATOR enters

NOTE: TERMINATOR not massively-damaged any more

TERMINATOR
John Connor..

JOHN notices TERMINATOR’S eyes flare to RED

JOHN shifts aim from SILBERMAN to TERMINATOR

JOHN fires several rounds into TERMINATOR’S CHEST

TERMINATOR steps forward to JOHN, swipes PISTOL from him

JOHN
Are you here to kill me?

TERMINATOR
No.. you must live.
I require your assistance in the
Temporal Inversion Matrix Vault.

SILBERMAN gulps and gapes at TERMINATOR

SILBERMAN stumbles away, and rushes from BEDROOM, panicked

TERMINATOR grabs JOHN by the collar, shoves JOHN from ROOM

KATE rises, stumbles after JOHN, TERMINATOR

CUT TO

EXT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, NEAR BLAST DOOR
TX-850A stumbles to the BLAST DOOR CONTROL PANEL

TX-850A activates nanotechnological-transjector injector
in his fingertip

TX-850A opens BLAST DOOR, turns to survey BATTLE

DR. SILBERMAN appears at BLAST DOOR, startled by TERMINATOR

SILBERMAN runs off, into the WASTELANDS, away from the
BATTLEFIELD

TX-850A shrugs

TX-850A HUMS and SQUAWKS like MODEM, summoning DRONE

MINI-FLYER DRONE disengages from its target and swoops
toward TX-850A instead

TX-850A clutches onto MINI-FLYER as it dives at him

MINI-FLYER lifts TX-850A, carries TERMINATOR up MOUNTAINSIDE, away from BATTLEGROUND

EXT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, MOUNTAINSIDE NEAR EXHAUST VENT
TX-850A, MINI-FLYER DRONE soar up and hover near VENT

TX-850A releases DRONE

DRONE streaks back into BATTLE MODE, racing back downhill

TX-850A scans area in all modes

TX-850A
John Connor?

No sign of JOHN CONNOR anywhere on the MOUNTAINSIDE

TX-850A notices VENT GRATE OPEN

CUT TO

INT. T.I.M. VAULT
TX-850B, JOHN and KATE ENTER VAULT
NOTE: MICHAEL DYSON’S BODY amongst the many on the floor
all around the CONTROL ROOM

TX-850B
You will enter the Temporal Inversion Chamber.
If the inversion process is successful,
you will return to the year 2008, in a chamber
similar to this one, at Navajo Peak, the
main facility for machine construction
and Temporal Inversion Studies.

You will be terminated by the machines then and there.

If the inversion process fails, you will
be terminated here and now.

JOHN remains defiant to the end, spits at the TERMINATOR

JOHN
**** you, you ****ing machine!
I do not accept this mission!
I won’t go!

TX-850B
Then, Katherine Brewster and
your baby will be terminated.

TERMINATOR aims the 9mm PISTOL at KATE

KATE screams and cries

JOHN
Just do it then!
I don’t care any more!

KATE screams again

KATE
JOHN!!! NO!!

TX-850B pulls the trigger

SOUND OF METALLIC CLICK, as from GUN WITH NO BULLETS!

Across the CONTROL ROOM, the ENTRANCE DOOR swooshes open

TX-850A enters

TX-850A
I’m back.

TERMINATOR vs TERMINATOR (ARNOLD vs ARNOLD?) BATTLE ROYALE!!

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Almost finished folks... another post should do it, I think... probably later tonight or tomorrow...

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TERMINATOR aims the 9mm PISTOL at KATE

KATE screams and cries

JOHN
Just do it then!
I don’t care any more!

KATE screams again

KATE
JOHN!!! NO!!

TX-850B pulls the trigger

SOUND OF METALLIC CLICK, as from GUN WITH NO BULLETS!

Across the CONTROL ROOM, the ENTRANCE DOOR swooshes open

TX-850A enters

TX-850A
I’m back.

TERMINATOR vs TERMINATOR (ARNOLD vs ARNOLD? THE ROCK vs THE ROCK?)
BATTLE ROYALE!!

While the TERMINATORS BATTLE, JOHN moves to the T.I.M. MASTER CONTROL CONSOLE and powers everything ‘ON’

JOHN moves into the T.I.M. CHAMBER

KATE screams at JOHN

KATE
JOHN?!! DON’T DO IT!!

JOHN looks at KATE from behind the transparent aluminum shielding

JOHN
I have to Kate!
Trust me!
Now, get out of here, Kate!
Save yourself! Save the baby!

KATE cries, and screams NO!

TX-850A stops fighting, noting what JOHN is doing

TX-850A moves to the MASTER CONTROL CONSOLE

TX-850B continues to fight TX-850A

The TERMINATORS enter the T.I.M. CHAMBER, crashing thru the transparency!

BATTLE ROYALE rages on across the T.I.M. MATRIX PAD

JOHN escapes the T.I.M. CHAMBER, rushes to KATE

JOHN, KATE escape the T.I.M. VAULT

INT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, OUTSIDE T.I.M. VAULT
JOHN and KATE rush down hallway to ELEVATOR

KATE
What’s going on, John?
I thought you were going crazy!

JOHN
That’s what you were supposed to think!
We have to get outta here, NOW!

JOHN and KATE board ELEVATOR, ascend to GROUND LEVEL

CUT TO

INT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, INSIDE T.I.M. VAULT
TERMINATORS fight it out on T.I.M. PAD

TX-850A badly beaten, holds TX-850B, glances away

TX-850A communicates with nanotechnological transjectors
deposited within T.I.M. MASTER CONTROL CONSOLE

SOUND OF ALARM CLAXON BLARING THROUGHOUT COMPLEX ONCE MORE

VOICE OF JOHN CONNOR echoes, as from P.A. SYSTEM

JOHN’S VOICE
This is John Connor, Commander, Crystal Peak.
There has been a catastrophic failure
initiated in the central core of the complex.

Everyone must evacuate immediately!

T.I.M. MASTER CONTROL CONSOLE ACTIVATES TEMPORAL INVERSION
PROCEDURE

CUT TO

EXT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, MOUNTAINSIDE, NEAR EXHAUST VENT
NOTE: The SOLAR-CELL POWER COLLECTOR has been disconnected from
the MAIN CONDUIT into the CRYSTAL PEAK COMPLEX... NO POWER

CUT TO

INT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, T.I.M. VAULT, T.I.M. CHAMBER
TX-850B struggles to kill TX-850A

TX-850A
You are terminated.

T.I.M. POWERS UP

T.I.M. MATRIX PAD flashes brilliant white

WILD FLASHES of BLUE ELECTRICITY ARCS explode from
TERMINATORS

TX-850B looks uncharacteristically afraid, finally

TX-850A shrugs and smiles, victorious

BRILLIANT WHITE LIGHT, BLUE ELECTRIC ARCS FLOOD THE
CHAMBER

INT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, T.I.M. VAULT MASTER CONTROL CHAMBER
Blinding white light, massive arcs of blue electricity flash
throughout room, filling room, and beyond

SOUNDS OF THUNDEROUS EXPLOSION OF ENERGY, LIGHT AND SOUND
CUT TO

INT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, LOADING BAY
JOHN and KATE rush to escape as BLAST DOOR slowly closes

SOUND OF ALARM CLAXON SOUNDING THROUGHOUT COMPLEX

VOICE OF JOHN CONNOR echoes, as from P.A. SYSTEM

JOHN’S VOICE
...catastrophic failure
initiated in the central core...

Evacuate immediately!

JOHN and KATE escape under BLAST DOOR

JOHN, KATE, gather with VARIOUS FLEEING FORCES from within CRYSTAL PEAK, as BLAST DOOR seals COMPLEX

EXT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, BATTLEFIELD
POWERFUL UNDERGROUND EXPLOSION rocks CRYSTAL PEAK and SURROUNDING AREA

JOHN protects KATE, ushers RESISTANCE FORCES toward
T-20 TRANSPORT

MORE MACHINE FORCES converging on the CRYSTAL PEAK area from surrounding area

JOHN surveys BATTLEGROUND, realizes defeat is imminent

JOHN ducks inside T-20 TRANSPORT with REFUGEES and KATE

JOHN commandeers COMM-UNIT HEAD-GEAR

JOHN
This is a May-Day!
This is John Connor, at Crystal Peak!
We are under attack!
Multiple engagements,
Hostiles are superior!
We will not survive!
Requesting immediate assistance!
MAY DAY! MAY DAY!

Long moments of silence, except for the SOUNDS OF BATTLE OUTSIDE

JOHN looks to CAPT. PERRY

PERRY hugs KYLE close, KYLE hefts PLASMA PULSE RIFLE in defense

PERRY looks to JOHN, somber, defeated

JOHN looks to KATE, pregnant, aching, holding her stomach

JOHN steps to KATE, leans in close, and lies to her

JOHN
The Cavalry is coming!
We have to hold out for a while longer!
I need to be out there, in the field,
with the troops!

KATE holds JOHN hands in her fists, tight, but nods slowly

JOHN turns to CAPT. PERRY and KYLE, passing his 9mm PISTOL to PERRY, and claiming the PLASMA PULSE RIFLE from KYLE
KYLE holds tight to the RIFLE, and JOHN lifts the boy into his arms

JOHN
Not this time, Little Trooper!

KYLE smiles and nods, releasing the RIFLE and sitting with
CAPT. PERRY once more

KYLE
I know, I know...
I’ll protect the women and children...

JOHN smiles back at KYLE, patting the COMM-UNIT HEADGEAR on the boy’s head

JOHN charges the PLASMA PULSE RIFLE, leans in, kisses KATE, then bolts from the TRANSPORT

EXT. CRYSTAL PEAK COMPOUND, BATTLEGROUND
JOHN exits the T-20 TRANSPORT, and rejoins the RESISTANCE FORCES
in BATTLE

VARIOUS BATTLE SCENES, as JOHN LEADS FORCES against mounting
numbers of machines

Suddenly, MORE GROUND FORCES, in VARIOUS 4-WHEELED,
GAS-POWERED VEHICLES come charging across the plains,
onto the BATTLEFIELD!

The BAJA COMMAND FORCES join the 132nd and the CRYSTAL PEAK
RESISTANCE FORCES

JOHN and KENT get cornered by FLYING H/K crossfire, and a T-70 UNIT approaches from the blindside, for the kill

PLASMA PULSE CANNON FIRE destroys the approaching T-70

A RUGGED FORD PICK-UP, with a ROOF-MOUNTED PLASMA CANNON,
rumbles up to JOHN and KENT’S position, barricading them from the BATTLEGROUND

A VOICE shouts out from the PICK-UP

VOICE
Watch your back, Connor!
Keep your head down and watch your back!

PAN FROM JOHN and KENT, to the PICK-UP, to reveal...

SARAH CONNOR at the wheel of the PICK-UP!!

SARAH CONNOR
Just like your mother taught ya, kiddo!

JOHN, KENT look surprised, possibly surprised to be alive
possibly surprised to see SARAH CONNOR alive

JOHN, KENT board PICK-UP

PICK-UP thunders back into BATTLE VS THE MACHINES

PAN BACK TO WIDE ON BATTLEFIELD

JOHN
(voice-over)
In the year 2018, from a small concealed base
hidden within the Sierra Nevada Mountains,
the Humans took a stand against the Machines.

Resistance forces long dormant, off the grid,
hidden from the machines, came back to life,
to join in the fight for our lives...

The Future is not set, The War rages on...

MUSIC: TERMINATOR THEME MUSIC

FADE TO BLACK

END CREDITS

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OK people...

If a man, a Terminator Fan, can write a script for T4 in a month...
maybe we all can?

or, at least, maybe someone with connections and real skills at writing Hollywood-blockbuster style screenplays can...

it wasn't that hard!! OK, maybe the story sucks and there's no cool new Terminator that is made up of pure energy or some shit like that... sorry, I went backwards a bit, back to the basics, of the story, instead of further into the futuristic stuff... and I know it needs a few weeks more work to make it all gel, to link up more things in the end with stuff in the beginning... I made some re-writes as I went along, things I didn't post when I changed them, but I hope y'all get the basic idea...

OH, crap! I forgot one important inclusion:

JOHN and KENT get cornered by FLYING H/K crossfire, and a T-70 UNIT approaches from the blindside, for the kill

PLASMA PULSE CANNON FIRE destroys the approaching T-70

A RUGGED FORD PICK-UP, with a ROOF-MOUNTED PLASMA CANNON,
rumbles up to JOHN and KENT’S position, barricading them from the BATTLEGROUND

A VOICE shouts out from the PICK-UP

VOICE
Watch your back, Connor!
Keep your head down and watch your back!

PAN FROM JOHN and KENT, to the PICK-UP, to reveal...

SARAH CONNOR at the wheel of the PICK-UP, topless!!
Her breasts are bobbing free in the breeze, for all the world to see...
mmmmmmmmmm!

SARAH CONNOR
Just like your mother taught ya, kiddo!

JOHN
Jeez Mom! Put a f**king shirt on!
Or at least a bra! Damn!

(the SARAH CONNOR topless scene)

Oh and the EXTENDED/ALTERNATE ENDING SEQUENCE

PAN BACK WIDE ON THE BATTLEFIELD

JOHN'S VOICE OVER about the war raging on...

NEW VOICE OVER mentions losses

SCENE showing DEATH OF SARAH CONNOR in BATTLE

CUT TO INT CRYSTAL PEAK

VOICE OVER MENTIONS NEW BEGINNINGS

SCENE OF KATE GIVING BIRTH TO HER CHILD

Show Birth Certificate Computer Paperwork, listing child's birth date 01/01/2019 (major battle fireworks etc happened New Years Eve 2018), HT, WT, etc... and NAME: SARAH KATHERINE CONNOR

VOICE OVER reminds that even in death, there is new life, and new hope... the war rages on...

leaves the door open for T5, because Silberman and Dyson seemed to be sure that the Connor Son would be important, and the first child was a daughter... so...

any way, it's mostly complete! around 100 pages, with extended scenes and montages and all that crap probably a good 2 hours + on film.. hard to say really, since I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to formatting... whatever... it's done...

let me know what you 5 faithful readers think, OK?
whether it be or or or even or

and be on the look out for Terminator 5: Battle for the Future (taken from T1 opening narrative script, about '....the battle for the future being fought in the past...') including the rise of the T-100 and 101 series, then onto the Infiltrators, etc etc... and concluding in 2029 and 2032 with Kyle coming of age, being sent back, and the T-850 killing John... with enough twists and turns and surprises to keep it fun and interesting and unexpected... I hope!

I'll be back!

Well I have to say that you did a very good job with this even if you are not a pro. I have two hours reading everything that you posted and it seems pretty clear to me.

Take care and I hope to see more Terminator stuff here in this forum more often. 😎

Thanks MovieKiller! I know more work needs to be done to make it more 'movie-ish' more action, more drama, more vivid breakdowns of the details of scenes, more character stuff and more revelations about why and how things occur, to extend and enhance the whole story and the whole 'movie'... but, I think its pretty decent too for a first draft.

Anyone else, any questions about why things happen, something unclear that I should go back and highlight and enhance in the script? I would like specifics, it dont matter how cruel and mean you can be about it... its just crap, just for fun any way. Fun for the fans, by the fans, so whatever you think is lacking I will try to incorporate into the story...

so let her rip, faithful few! where'd everybody go??

T4 Title pages...

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man thats some good sh!t. i was looking around at different terminators ideas, and thats one of the best i heard. registered here just to say how good it was. keep it up, and try to get that to some director or somethin. id really like to see that as a movie.

p.s. sorry ive noticed that its been more then a month since somebody wrote here, o well

thanks redrock... you're right... none of the 3 posters here on the Terminator board have responded to my script in awhile...

thanks for stopping by, and for the kind words! 🙂

I once siad that it was a good script

Still trying to post Title Page pics...

slick dude i will absolutely read ur script when i get time. just saw parts of it and it looked very cool

Finally got a good one! 🙂