They find the T living in the house. He tells them that after he killed killed young John Connor, he settled down, built a family and developed a conscience. He also discovered that he could feel when a Terminator rips a hole in the space-time continuum and sends Sarah their locations to give her purpose. Sarah assumes that Grace has been sent back in time to protect Dani because Dani will eventually give birth to a man who will lead the resistance.

But Grace eventually reveals that it is Dani who leads the resistance. In fact, Dani saves Grace as a child and becomes her surrogate mother. She also rallies humans to fight the robots. In the future, Grace, thankful to Dani for saving her life, volunteers to be augmented and sent back in time to protect Dani. The now-friendly T, Sarah, Grace and Dani fight the bad terminator.

Both Grace and the Schwarzenegger terminator sacrifice themselves in order to save Dani and Sarah. Dani and Sarah begin to prepare for the future fight against the machines. This movie rejects the notion that the time travel in the Terminator franchise happens in a closed loop, despite the fact that that closed-loop time travel logic is integral to the plot of the first Terminator movie.

Multiple characters say that they are not fated to act a certain way but can make a choice, creating a new branching timeline.

Likely, the screenwriters made a particular point of this because fans have long been confused about whether the actions in Terminator are predestined or not — and the plot points often run into the predestination paradox , which catches a time traveler in a loop of events. Dark Fate is so named exactly because the characters reject their grim, supposedly destined future.

The movie shows that Sarah Connor has changed the future with the choices she made in Terminator 2. Write to Eliana Dockterman at eliana. By Eliana Dockterman. TriStar Pictures. Related Stories. Already a print subscriber? Go here to link your subscription. Top Gun! So Far. Video Photos Top cast Edit. Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator as Terminator.

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Watch options. Storyline Edit. Sent back from a dystopian where the cold machines have conquered the entire world--to Los Angeles, the indestructible cyborg-assassin known as the "Terminator" commences his deadly mission to kill humankind's most important woman: the unsuspecting Sarah Connor. However, from the same war-torn post-apocalyptic future comes a battle-scarred defender--Kyle Reese, a brave soldier of the human Resistance Army--bent on stopping the cybernetic killer from eliminating the world's last hope.

But, the Terminator has no feelings, he doesn't sleep, and above all, he won't stop until he carries out his grim task. Does our future lie in our past?

La sua missione e una sola: distruggere, uccidere John Connor goes off the grid for the next seven years to make himself impossible to locate by any Terminators. The future is altered by time travel again. The Judgment Day is prevented, but the U. Skynet sends back the original Terminator to , and John sends Kyle, restarting the time loop. At some later point, Skynet sends the T to , and John sends the T back to stop it.

Again, this sequence is likely repeated a few times before Skynet tries yet another new tactic, messing things up by altering the past through time travel.

Sarah Connor dies in In , Dr. After crashing his motorcycle, John Nick Stahl breaks into a veterinarian office to steal antibiotics to deal with his injuries, and runs into Kate Brewster Claire Danes. The T-X arrives and attempts to kill Brewster, but she is saved by a reprogrammed T that arrives from the future to protect her. Instead, John and Kate convince the T to take them to where Skynet is being brought online by the U.

Judgment Day occurs; the pair survive but are unable to stop it. During one mission, he discovers a facility where humans are being harvested by the machines for experiments, which are the early stages of the Terminator program. The base is destroyed, with only Connor surviving. In the aftermath, Marcus Wright emerges from the facility and heads toward Los Angeles. The Resistance has a plan to attack Skynet, using a hidden signal it has discovered that shuts down Skynet machines.

Not long after, a Resistance airplane is shot down by Skynet robots and Wright finds and helps the pilot, Blair Williams Moon Bloodgood. She takes him back to a nearby Resistance base, but Wright is later wounded by a mine.

In trying to save his life, the Resistance discovers that Wright is a cyborg, a fact Wright didn't know. It turns out that the disabling signal the Resistance thought it had discovered was actually a ruse to pinpoint the command submarine, and Skynet kills the Resistance leadership.

Wright donates his own human heart to save Connor, sacrificing himself. After that, Skynet sends another T to kill John in the future and succeeds, but Kate Brewster captures and reprograms it. Terminator: Dark Fate was a sizeable box office bomb, hitting the brakes on any and all plans for the series to continue. Amid all these attempts to jump-start Terminator on the big screen, writer Josh Friedman managed a competent job of it on television. Despite their best efforts to eradicate Skynet, they continue to be relentlessly pursued through time by an army of Terminators, with reprogrammed android Cameron Summer Glau representing their best hope of survival.

The series was moderately well-received and built up an avid cult fanbase, but was cancelled after its second season — leaving an unresolved cliffhanger for viewers to agonise over. The Terminator 2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day 3. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 4. Terminator: Salvation 5. Terminator Genisys 6.

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