2029, a desolate future. Machines have taken over the world and mankind has been ravished to the point of extinction. A small fraction of resistance still remains but it's only a matter of time before the machines finally win. A cyborg assassin known as the terminator has been sent into the past to assassinate the mother  who's destined to give birth to the leader of the rebellion. John Connor, leader & ultimately humanity's last hope for survival sends his trusted friend Kyle Reese into the past as well to intercept and prevent the terminator's assassination. What follows is a hunter-prey thriller that was to be recognized not only as Terminator back in the 80's but as a perpetual paradox that will continually shift and change events for the main characters.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day has us jump ahead a few years where Sarah Connor is now locked in a mental asylum after years of ranting about an apocalyptic future where machines take over the earth. Her son John Connor is a teenage delinquent who rebels against his foster parents and has on numerous occasions broken the law. This time a stronger, faster, shape-shifting terminator has been sent back in time but this time he's sent back to terminate the rebellion leader himself while he's still a defenseless teenager. The John Connor of 2029 sees no alternative but to send back a terminator of his own but this one being programmed to protect him rather than kill him.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines opened in 2000 and shows us a very different John Connor. Despite surviving his last brush with last cyborg assassin when he was just a teenager, he's been reduced to a paranoid wreck, a drifter, moving from one place to another, leaving no solid evidence or documentation of his existence. Nothing's changed.  A sphere of light and another terminator walks thru from the distant future and into his time, deadlier and even more cunning than the last assassin. This time to eliminate all the