Heavy Metal
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from TTSC or Terminator films as they all belong to James Cameron & Fox Network.
Author's Notes: Hi there I really like TTSC & thought what would it be like if John's future wife Kate Connor came back with their four year old son Kyle & interacted with all the characters. How John would feel with them being there etc. In here Kate will work at John's high school as IT teacher.
Extra Note: The Connors know about Kate & have to deal with the realization of that including John who's shocked. She tells them Cromartie's still alive & about a shipment of Coltan which has been diverted to LA. The team investigate & John & Kate get stuck inside the truck where the Coltan is. Sarah & Cameron race to find them.
Opening Titles
Sarah: In the future my son will lead mankind in a war against Skynet. A computer system programmed to destroy the world. It has sent machines back through time. Some to kill him, one to protect him. Today we fight to stop Skynet from ever been created. To change our future. To change his fate. The war to save mankind begins now.
Sarah: Previously on terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Crest View Classroom
Episode 1 we see first glimpse of Cromartie as he walks into the classroom.
Cromartie: Mr. Ferguson is ill today my name is Cromartie.
He reads out some names on the attendance register.
Cromartie: Do we have a John Reese?
John puts his hand up.
Cromartie: Excellent.
Pulling a gun from the inside of his right leg he fires it at John.
John's Room
John's talking to Sarah after they've time travelled.
John: You changed the future. You just didn't change it enough.
Kitchen
Episode 2 Sarah's talking to John & Cameron here before they go to the safe house.
Sarah: These things, they are here & they are programmed with specific missions.
IT Room
Episode 3 Kate Connor posing as Kate Walker talks to the class.
Kate: Okay class hello my name's Kate Walker.
She writes that on the white board.
School Hallway
A student down the hall calls out at something that's happening outside.
Student: Jumper! Outside the gym!
School Car Park
Cameron talks to John about the girl Jordan who's goanna jump.
Cameron: That's my new friend. The crying one from the bathroom.
John seeing Kate going up to Jordan goes forward. Cameron stops him.
John: We gotta help her--now!
Cameron looks at him serious.
Cameron: No.
Kitchen
John's talking to Sarah & Camero after Jordan's sucide.
John: I could have done something. I was right there.
Sarah: & what were you goanna do, be a hero? Get your name in the papers, your face?
John: Isn't that what I'm supposed to be a hero isn't that who I am?
Outside Andy's House
Later that evening John's shocked at the person he's just caught up with who burned Andy Goode's house.
John: Miss. Walker.
Dr Fleming's House
Agent Simpson looks down at Dr Fleming's deformed body after he's been murdered.
Agent Simpson: They took his eyes, James. They took his friggin' eyes.
Dr Lyman's Room
Dr Lyman a plastic surgeon is talking into a Dictaphone about a patient.
Dr. Lyman: Patient is female, 33. Previous lipo & breast augmentation with complications of seroma & scarring.
Hearing a noise he looks up.
Dr. Lyman: Hello?
He walks out the room & goes over to a door where he hears the noise coming from.
Dr. Lyman: Hello?
Opening it up he sees Cromartie looking on a computer & different patients faces.
Consultation Room
Sarah talks in the background as Dr Lyman walks in the room.
Sarah (monologue): When John was little, before bed, I used to read him fairy tales. One night, I read him a folk tale called the Golem Prague, the story of a clay monster made by a rabbi to protect the Jews of the city. He didn't sleep for months. I went to him tried to tell him that it wasn't real, that I'd made it all up. Somehow, that made it all worse.
Dr. Lyman: You shouldn't be back here. The office is closed.
Cromartie: You do reconstructive surgery?
Dr. Lyman: You need a consult. You'll have to call Monday.
Cromartie: I need reconstructive surgery.
Dr. Lyman: You can either just leave now or I can call the police. Your choice.
Cromartie turns round & taking of his mouth mask shows Dr. Lyman his half reconstructed face.
Sarah (monologue): What I failed to remember was that, at the end of the story, the Golem turns on its maker & kills him, as well as the rest of the town.
He looks at Dr Lyman angrily.
Cromartie: Now.
Kitchen
Sarah & John are going over the events that happened outside Andy Goode's house earlier on.
John: God I can't believe it. Miss. Walker Kate a resistance fighter.
He looks at Sarah.
John: Do you think she was the 4th one from the safe house?
Sarah: I don't know.
Cameron buts in.
Cameron: She isn't.
John looks at her.
John: How do you know?
Cameron: Because 4 men were set back not 3 & 1 woman.
Sarah senses she's lying.
Sarah: You know who she is don't you?
Cameron lies this time.
Cameron: No.
Sarah: Yes you do your lying. Tell us.
Cameron: I can't.
John: Why not?
Cameron: Because if Skynet knew she was here & that you knew she was also they'd hunt her down & kill her thus changing the future in more ways than you could imagine.
Sarah: Why she's just a woman.
Cameron: No she's not. She's John Connor's wife & 2nd in command.
John eyes widen in shock when hearing this.
John: Your joking right?
Cameron: No I am not.
John: Hang on a sec your saying Miss Walker Kate our IT teacher is actually my wife?
Cameron: In the future yes.
Sarah: Do you know why she's here? Why she wasn't with those resistance guys?
Cameron: No
John: But you knew she was my 2nd in command.
Cameron: Yes. She helped you form the resistance & pick fighters.
Sarah: How much do you know about her?
Cameron: Everything.
Sarah: Tell us.
(This's my interpretation of Katherine Brewster which goes of the events of T3 & T4)
Cameron: Katherine Brewster was born 10 years after John. Her father Robert Brewster was military which's where she learned about guns, bombs, warfare & strategy. She majored in computers & electronics & was good at fixing & programming things but she did hacking on the side stealing people's identities laundering money from huge companies getting into the White House & Pentagon downloading classified information.
John: & I employed her in the resistance?
Cameron: Her work caught your eye & you met after Judgment Day & told her everything about Skynet. She formed the resistance with you through her fathers army contacts & helped you choose fighters.
Sarah: & the marriage part?
Cameron looks at her.
Cameron: John & Kate married 5 years later & had 1 son 7 years afterwards.
John nearly dies of shock hearing that.
John: I have a son?
Cameron: Kyle Connor born 2023. Named after your father.
He thinks back to the roof scene on the day Jordan died.
John: Shit. That's who she was talking about.
Sarah: What?
John: On the roof the day Jordan died when Kate tried to talk her down Jordan asked how would she know her parents would feel upset if she died & she replied because that's what she'd feel if that happened to her little boy. She must've brought him here. But why? If she had to come back here why didn't she leave Kyle with me?
Cameron: Because you had more important things to do than look after your son.
John's shocked at that remark.
John: What? That's crazy. Nothing's more important to a father than his child.
Cameron: Not for someone who is leader of mankind & their last hope.
John: Cameron I wouldn't abandon my son for the sake of mankind.
Cameron: You wouldn't but he would.
Hearing this John can't believe it.
Sarah: Okay is there anything else?
Cameron: No.
Sarah: Okay.
John: So what do we do about her then?
Sarah: Keep an eye on her. If she's that threatening to Skynet we can't let her die otherwise the resistance won't exist.
Lounge Next Morning
Sarah comes in seeing John & Cameron ready to go out.
Sarah: Hey where you guys going?
John: Just the mall, have a look around.
Sarah: Okay. Have a good time.
The 2 are just about to leave when they hear the front doorbell go. Approaching with caution Sarah opens it seeing Kate & Kyle standing outside.
Porch
Kate: Hi uh may we come in?
Looking at them Sarah answers.
Sarah: I suppose yes.
Standing back she lets the 2 come in & closes the door. Walking into the Lounge Kate & Kyle see the others who see them.
Lounge
Kate: Hi John, Cameron.
He looks at them both.
John: Kate, Kyle.
Kate: I suppose your wondering what we're doing here after what happened at Andy's house but from the look on Cameron's face she probably told you that.
Sarah: Yes she told us about you & Kyle.
Kate notices John looking at Kyle.
Kate: It's okay John. He knows about you & Sarah & Cameron. He's seen younger pictures of you & he knew Cameron in the future.
Sarah questions Kate.
Sarah: & how do you know her?
Cameron says this.
Cameron: She captured & reprogrammed me so John could send me back.
Sarah: Okay. Why did you burn Andy's house?
Kate: Because that's what you would've done had I not done it. I couldn't risk Skynet seeing a picture of you knowing you'd time travelled.
John speaks a little concerned.
John: & what if they saw a picture of you?
Cameron: They don't know she's travelled back.
John looks at Cameron.
John: Not yet no.
Sarah questions Kate again.
Sarah: Why did you travel back? & not with those fighters?
Kate: A terminator we reprogrammed developed a glitch. Before it could kill me he told me something other than what Cameron knew would happen to John in the past.
Sarah: Do you know what that was?
Cameron answers that.
Cameron: No I killed it before it could tell her.
John asks a question of his own.
John: How did you know I'd be in this year?
Kate: After you sent Cameron back you told me what would happen so you sent me here instead. I'm sorry I didn't tell you who I was straight away but I couldn't encase Skynet knew I'd come back.
Sarah: So why are you here now then?
Kate: The T800 that was sent back to kill you in 1999 did not die.
John goes wide eyed hearing this.
John: Cromartie's alive? How?
Kate: I've been monitoring the media for possible threats. Yesterday's, arson at an Oakland dock forced the rerouting of a shipment of refined Coltan into the port of Los Angeles.
Sarah confused at that name.
Sarah: Coltan?
Cameron explains what that is.
Cameron: A key element Skynet uses to make our endoskeleton alloy.
Sarah: That doesn't mean Cromartie's back. I blew his head off in encase you'd forgotten.
John: We do remember mom.
Getting her laptop out of her bag Kate switches it on & plugs in a usb stick by the side.
Kate: I found a news report on CNN about you time travelling forward. In the background of the video lies an endoskeleton head.
Switching on Windows Media Player she plays the film. Pausing the video she highlights the bit where the head is & zooming in enhances the picture.
Kate: There.
Seeing it Cameron talks.
Cameron: He came through. He knows we're here.
Sarah replies as if it doesn't bother her.
Sarah: It's just a head.
Kate: His chip is intact. They're programmed to repair themselves & blend in also.
Cameron confirms that.
Cameron: Kate's right he might still need Coltan for a missing piece. A leg, an arm.
Kate: He'll rebuild & continue his mission to hunt & kill you.
Sarah: I know what his mission is.
Walking away she goes into her bedroom.
Sarah's room
Opening up her wardrobe she looks for the bag with the money that got from the safe house.
Sarah: I still have the money from the safe house. We can all go south, set up across the border, off the grid.
John: Go south? But I thought you said we weren't goanna run anymore. We were goanna fight.
Sarah replies back.
Sarah: This is different.
John starts getting angry.
John: Right it is different. If Cromartie's damaged, he's vulnerable. We know where he'll be.
Cameron: A new skin means a new face. We won't know what'll he look like.
John protests at Cameron's answer.
John: But we know where he'll be. Me & Kate can hack into the port schedule no problem. We find the container & we wait. We hunt him for a change or we can run... again.
Sarah looks at Kate.
Sarah: Do you know when the ship carrying the Coltan comes in?
Kate: 10am this morning.
Sarah: Okay thanks for the information.
She walks back into the kitchen.
Kitchen
Seeing Sarah's face John's shocked.
John: Mom.
Sarah: What?
John: We can't just leave Kate out of this.
Cameron: We can't use her John. If Cromartie fought you both & killed you.
John backs up what he's said.
John: But if it weren't for her we wouldn't have known about the Coltan in the first place. 4 people's better than 3 right?
Sarah sighs admitting defeat.
Sarah: Alright she can come. Cameron get the shotguns. John the the C-4's in the bathroom under the towels.
She looks at Kate.
Sarah: I assume you have weapons of your own?
Kate: At my apartment yes.
Sarah: Right.
John goes to grab the car keys but Sarah gets them first.
Sarah: Like you're goanna drive.
John: Hey it's not like I can't drive.
Sarah: Let's go.
LA Port Warehouse Later On
Conveyer cars are loading crates of Coltan onto a truck. Cameron spies what they're doing. Hiding in a corner Sarah, John & Kate are priming charges up. Cameron comes over to them.
Sarah: Cromartie?
Cameron: Not here yet. They're humans.
Sarah: Keep setting the charges.
Kate looks up from what she's doing.
Kate: If he comes for that container, he'll have to come through here. We need to place the charges at different points of the warehouse.
She reassumes what she was doing. John asks her a question.
John: Where's Kyle?
Looking back up Kate stares at him.
Kate: With a neighbour. He's safe don't worry.
Finishing them of each person goes somewhere & places a charge down. Looking over at the entrance they see a Police Officer coming in with a gun.
Sarah: Is that Cromartie? Cameron.
Seeing him John edges out but Kate grabs him back. She looks at him seriously.
Kate: Don't.
Coming out Sarah aims her shotgun at him. The Police Officer aims his handgun at her. Coming up behind Kate quickly grabs him & disarms the officer before aiming the gun at him after he's knocked out. Coming over Cameron grabs him & checks his pulse.
Cameron: He'll survive.
Sarah can't believe Cameron's response.
Sarah: He's human.
Kate looks down at the Police Officer.
Kate: Well obviously not a very strong one.
Hearing the truck start they see men get inside. The gang run behind some containers & hide. Looking over at a corner John sees some men lying on the floor in their underwear.
John: Mom. Those other guys just stole the truck.
Sarah: Cromartie has men working with him? Does that happen?
Cameron: You work with me.
The truck starts up & heads out of the warehouse. Seeing this Kate talks.
Kate: We have to follow that truck.
2nd Warehouse
The Coltan's been unloaded off the truck. Sarah, John, Kate & Cameron are seeing this through an opened window.
John: That's Coltan. If that's what you're made of, no wonder you're so dense.
Cameron: Not density. Heat resistance.
Kate explains what Cameron's saying.
Kate: T600 models had a titanium alloy endoskeleton. But it was vulnerable to heat. Coltan alloy has a higher melting point.
Sarah half laughs at Cameron & Kate.
Sarah: You know what I love about you guys? Even when you've evolved into the ultimate indestructible killing machine, you're not above self-examination & improvement. You didn't reprogram her very well there Kate.
Kate looks at Cameron.
Kate: Yeah I should've made her more human.
John laughs as Cameron just stares. A guy spray plates a number plate on the front of the truck.
Sarah: Military tags?
A guy named Carter comes out. The other men go over to him.
Carter: Leave it. We need to move. Now.
Mike looks at carter seriously.
Mike: How about we get paid now, seriously?
Another person stands up for Carter.
Worker: How about you shut up & go now?
Carter grabbing a carton of Coltan puts it onto the truck perfectly. Sarah seeing looks shocked at how unwounded Carter is.
Sarah: He's not damaged at all.
Cameron scans Carter to see if he's the same as Cromartie.
Cameron: That's not Cromartie. Endoskeleton structure points don't match. He's too short.
John's shocked at the fact of there being another terminator.
John: Another one?
Sarah replies a little confused.
Sarah: Why does he have all this? I thought these things just hunt & kill people.
Kate answers her question.
Kate: They do if that's what there programmed for otherwise they perform whatever mission they're tasked.
John: & what kind of mission is this?
Hospital Hallway
Agent Ellison's walking down the hall with a detective talking about the 6 people that have been murdered.
Detective: Man, it weird's me out more & more. We barely get a crime scene up, & the FBI is here like that. Like you guys got some kind of magic powers or something.
A cop hands him a coffee which he takes.
Detective: Thanks, Lou.
Agent Ellison continues talking.
Agent Ellison: Computers, my friend. Log in a weird blood sample that matches one of my other cases, &, poof, I appear.
Detective: They're goanna put us all out of work one of these days. Not that I'll mind.
They get up to the consultation room.
Agent Ellison: Wouldn't worry about that. Always goanna need somebody to clean up.
Consultation Room
Come in they see Dr. Lyman's body on the floor after Cromartie's killed him.
Agent Ellison: So who we got here?
The detective looks at his police notes & answers.
Detective: Dr. David Lyman, plastic surgeon. Office manager found him this morning when she came to open up.
They walk round the room. The detective continues reading from his notes.
Detective: Swabbed your weird blood out of the drain. Otherwise, the place is clean. Nothing missing, no motive, zip. So what's your interest here?
Looking at Dr Lyman's body Agent Ellison answers him.
Agent Ellison: I got six guys dead, no rhyme or reason. Except some kinder blood that isn't quite blood. It's not natural. I like natural. Natural's assuring. It helps me sleep at night.
Detective: I meant more the FBI's interest.
Agent Ellison looks up at the detective.
Agent Ellison: Oh well you know the FBI. We're interested in everything.
Security Room
The detective shows CCTV video footage on a computer of Cromartie leaving the building.
Detective: So this guy... Comes in Friday night. Leaves Sunday, A.M. That's the only lead we have at the moment.
The hospital office manager comes to them with a folder of the guy Cromartie looked at on the computer.
Office Manager: I thought he looked familiar. He was a patient. We did his chin & nose last May. George Lazlo.
Outside 2nd Warehouse
Seeing Carter put on his jacket. John goes to his, Sarah & Cameron Jeep Wrangler & gets his back pack out.
John: We still have the charges. We can rig 'em at the door. Blow 'em when they try to drive out. Then Cameron & Kate can take out...
Sarah buts in with, a different idea.
Sarah: Get in the car. We're going.
She sees the look on his face.
Sarah: What? John, the plan was to hunt Cromartie. That's not Cromartie.
John gets angry.
John: So.
Sarah: So you just wanna walk in there, kick their asses & go for pancakes? It doesn't work like that. We're outnumbered.
John tries defending what he's saying.
John: We have her & Kate.
Sarah: We don't know what's going on.
She points to the warehouse.
Sarah: That thing has real estate it has employees. Who knows how many more are in there. There's 4 of us. I'm not saying we run. But we need to step back, see what's going on.
John doesn't like what she's saying.
John: So we run, in other words.
Kate explains about Sarah's concerns.
Kate: John your mom's just being cautious.
He loos at angry.
John: I don't care Kate.
Sarah points to Cameron.
Sarah: Can you tell him to get in the car?
Cameron: It's too dangerous. We should go.
John argues with Cameron.
John: It's always too dangerous! It's war. War is dangerous!
Coming up to him Kate puts her right hand on his left shoulder.
Kate: John if you die. They win.
Moving his shoulder away from her John steps backwards in disgust.
John: & how many of those things, those endoskeletons, do you think they can make out of that load of metal in there? 'Cause that's what we're talking about. It's truck full of enemy soldiers. What if they're building them right here, right now? I thought you of all people would not want that to happen.
Thinking about this, Kate answers.
Kate: No.
John: If could get myself on into the truck, we can track them by laptop.
Sarah discounts everything she's heard.
Sarah: John Connor, we're going... now.
Sarah & Cameron get inside their Jeep Wrangler whilst Kate goes to her BMW.
Cameron: 530.
Sarah: What?
Cameron: Endoskeletons. Based on the approximate volume of Coltan in this shipment. That's how many.
Hearing this Kate turning round hangs her head down.
Kate: Shit.
Looking up she sees John climbing inside the cracked open vent.
Kate: John.
She runs after him. Seeing this Sarah & Cameron get out of the car.
Sarah: John!
Kate climbs in after him through the opened vent.
Sarah: Kate.
Sarah goes to climb in also but Cameron stops her.
Sarah: Damn it.
Cameron pulls her back.
Cameron: No! If they see us, they'll find them.
Sarah replies concerned.
Sarah: But John.
Cameron: It's alright. Kate won't let anything happen to him.