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153 INT. DIVISION HQ/INTERROGATION ROOM - NIGHT 153
The room is small, furnished with only a table and two chairs. Reese, his arms handcuffed behind him, sits opposite Dr. Silberman. Behind Silberman is a large mirror. A DETECTIVE leans against the wall.
SILBERMAN So. You're a soldier. Fighting for whom?
REESE With the One Thirty Second under Perry, from '21 to '27—
SILBERMAN (interrupting) The year 2027?
154 INT. OBSERVATION ROOM 154 Traxler and Vukovich are seated in the dark room, watching Reese, B.G., through the two-way mirror. Just behind the glass is a VIDEO CAMERA ON A TRIPOD, aimed at Reese, and a CART holding a SMALL MONITOR and VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDER.
REESE (through speaker) That's right.
VUKOVICH (quietly, to Traxler) This is fucking great.
155 INT. INTERROGATION ROOM - NIGHT 155
REESE Then I was assigned Recon/Security, last two years, under John Connor.
SILBERMAN And who was the enemy?
REESE SKYNET. A computer defense system built for SAC-NORAD by Cyberdyne Systems. A modified Series 4800.
SILBERMAN (gravely) I see. And this... computer, thinks it can win by killing the mother of its enemy, killing him, in effect, before he is even conceived? A sort of retroactive abortion?
REESE Yes.
156 INT, OBSERVATION BOOTH - NIGHT 156 Vukovich snorts and grins.
VUKOVICH That Silberman just cracks me up, (pause) He had this guy in here last week who set his Afghan on fire. Screwed it first, then set it on—
TRAXLER (leaning forward) Shut up.
157 INT. INTERROGATION ROOM - NIGHT 157
REESE ...it had no choice. The defensive grid was smashed. We'd taken the mainframes... We'd won. Taking out Connor then would make no difference. Skynet had to wipe out his entire existence. We captured the lab complex. Found the...whatever it was called...the time-displacement equipment. The Terminator had already gone through. They sent two of us to intercept, then zeroed the whole place. Sumner didn't make it.
SILBERMAN Then how are you supposed to get back?
REESE Can't. Nobody goes home. Nobody else comes through. It's just him and me.
SILBERMAN (recorded) Why didn't you bring any weapons? Something more advanced. Don't you have ray guns?
Vukovich, standing in the back, grins and nudges Silberman, who nods appreciatively.
TIGHT ON REESE'S RECORDED IMAGE glares at Silberman.
ON SARAH as Silberman's voice is heard.
SILBERMAN (recorded) Show me a piece of future technology.
REESE (recorded/controlling his hostility) You go naked. Something about the field generated by a living organism. Nothing dead will go.
SILBERMAN (recorded) Why?
REESE (recorded) I didn't build the fucking thing.
SILBERMAN (recorded) Okay. Okay. But this... (consults his notes) cyborg...if it's metal —
REESE (recorded) Surrounded by living tissue.
SILBERMAN (recorded) Of course.
(The real Silberman put the tape on "PAUSE".)
SILBERMAN (excited) This is great stuff. I could make a career out of this guy. You see how clever this part is...how it doesn't require a shred of proof. Most paranoid delusions are intricate...but this is brilliant. He starts the tape again.
SILBERMAN (recorded) Why were the other two women killed?
REESE (recorded) Most records were lost in the war. Skynet knew almost nothing about Connor's mother. Her name. Where she lived, just the city. No scanner pictures. The Terminator was just being systematic.
C.U. - REESE, ON SCREEN as he goes on. REESE (recorded/continuing) You've heard enough. Decide. Are you going to release me?
SILBERMAN (recorded) I'm afraid that's not up to me.
REESE (recorded/voice rising) Then why am I talking to you? Get out!
ON SARAH, DOLLYING SLOWLY IN TO C.U. as we hear Reese begin to shout.
SILBERMAN (recorded) I can help you—
REESE Who is in authority here?
C.U. REESE, ON SCREEN as he looks straight at the camera.
REESE (recorded) You still don't get it. He'll find her. That's what he does. All he does...
MEDIUM ON TRAXLER gesturing to Silberman, who is near the machine, to kill it.
REESE (recorded, continuing) You can't stop him. He'll wade through you...
C.U. - REESE, ON SCREEN rising partway out of his chair, yelling:
REESE (recorded, continuing) ...reach down her throat, and pull her fucking heart out... The screen goes black. Traxler has cut off the tape.
SILBERMAN (glancing around) Sorry.
C.U. - SARAH staring at the empty screen.
SARAH (turning) So Reese is crazy.
SILBERMAN In technical terminology, he's a loon.
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