John himself is second on the list, with Kyle Reese as their Number One target. The Resistance has also intercepted a transmission from Skynet: a kill list warning that all the Resistance leaders will be dead in four days. John volunteers to test the signal on progressively more advanced machines. The leaders are unhappy with him but tell him they have discovered a hidden frequency that could potentially shut down Skynet for good. While there, he meets with General Ashdown and tells him what he'd found and that Skynet was more advanced than it should be. He is denied a meeting with the Resistance leaders, but jumps out of the chopper and swims down to the Resistance Headquarters - which is located on a submarine. John is picked up a short time afterward and requests to be taken to Resistance Headquarters. He is suddenly attacked by a damaged T-600 and barely destroys it before it can kill him.

John sees a large mushroom cloud over the holding facility and realizes his entire unit is dead.

A large explosion occurs right where he and his unit entered the holding facility and his chopper crashes. He sees a large Skynet Transport taking off and flies after it in a helicopter. Connor is ordered to the surface to check on the troops guarding their transportation and finds they've all been killed. However, he discovers computerized schematics for a new enemy to the Resistance - the Series 800 Terminator, which should've been produced in the year 2026. Connor would leave after having infiltrated the base to try to rescue several prisoners being taken to the Skynet Central in San Francisco. In 2018, John Connor participates in a major Resistance assault a Skynet VLA network in order to obtain classified data vital to the machines and rescue the prisoners there. Afterward, he is put to death by lethal injection. He agrees to do so in exchange for a kiss. Serena Kogan from Cyberdyne Systems Genetics Division to donate his organs and tissue for what she believes will be a noble cause (the future of humanity). In 2003, a death row inmate named Marcus Wright at the Longview Correctional Facility in Texas meets with representative Dr.

5.1 Scenes featured in the Extended version.

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