When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.

Guardian: I'll be back.
Sarah Connor: What?
[the Guardian jumps from a helicopter]
[Sarah hugs Pops before going into the Time Displacement Equipment. Pops doesn't understand the meaning of a hug]
Guardian: That's a meaningless gesture. Why hold onto someone you must let go?
Sarah Connor: I've been trying to teach him to blend in.
Guardian: Hello Kyle Reese. It is nice to meet you.
[the T-800 "smiles"]
Kyle Reese: Are you kidding me?
Sarah Connor: I know it needs work.
John Connor: I'm not a man, not a machine... I'm more!
Kyle Reese: Where the hell were you?
Guardian: Stuck in traffic.
Sarah Connor: [Urgently] Come on!
[the Terminator gets on the bus and notices Sarah is not wearing her seat belt]
Guardian: Sarah Connor, seat belt.
Sarah Connor: Come with me if you want to live! NOW, SOLDIER!
[Young evil Terminator approaches punks]
Terminator: You're clothes give them to now.
Terminator: [from behind] You won't need them.
[Young evil Terminator turns around to find the Older good Terminator unhooding himself and is carrying a shotgun]
Terminator: I've been waiting for you.
[Older good Terminator shoots the Young Evil Terminator]
[Detective O'Brien is interrogating Sarah and wants to help]
Sarah Connor: We're here to stop the end of the world.
Detective O'Brien: I can work with that.
Guardian: [to Reese] Protect my Sarah.
Sarah Connor: What did you do to my son?
John Connor: Survival. It's what you taught me.
[the Terminator breaks down door, Sarah and Reese point their guns at his direction, Sarah, in relief, realizes it's Guardian]
Sarah Connor: Pops!
Guardian: It's nice to see you.
[Guardian stops his van in the middle of traffic and sees Sarah and Kyle being escorted by police nearby. A motorist behind him honks his horn]
Motorist: Move it, asshole!
Guardian: Bite me.
Guardian: [after his hand involuntarily shakes as they're loading their cartridges] Old.
Kyle Reese: Not obsolete.
Guardian: Not yet.
Punk #2: [the Terminator arrives naked and encounters some punks] Nice night for a walk, eh?
Punk #1: Nice night for a walk, eh?
Terminator: Nice night for a walk.
Punk #2: Wash day tomorrow? Nothing clean, right?
Terminator: Nothing clean. Right.
Punk #1: Hey, I think this guy's a couple cans short of a six-pack.
Terminator: Your clothes... give them to me, now.
Punk #1: [Pulls out a knife] Fuck you, asshole!
Guardian: [from behind] You won't been needing any clothes.
[Young Terminator turns around to find an older Terminator approaching him with a shotgun. The Older Terminator unhoods himself]
Guardian: I've been waiting for you.
Guardian: [after crashing into a Police car] Nice to see you. Get out!
[From trailer]
[after seeing the Terminator, unaware that he's the good Terminator, Kyle takes out gun with the intent on killing the Terminator]
Sarah Connor: Those bullets will kill.
Kyle Reese: He's here to kill you. Stay in the truck.
[Reese discovers the Terminator gone. Terminator appears and uses the big to knock out Reese]
Kyle Reese: [Sarah approaches to find Reese knocked out]
Sarah Connor: Oh, great. That's just great.
Terminator: I did not kill him.
Kyle Reese: This is all wrong! John sent me here to save you!
Sarah Connor: From the Terminator that was sent back to kill me, I know. But we already took care of him.
Kyle Reese: We?
[the T-800 appears... and so does another]
Kyle Reese: [the Terminator cocks a shotgun]
Guardian: [the Terminator cocks a shotgun] I have been waiting for you.
John Connor: I look at each of you and I see the marks of this long and terrible war. If we die tonight, man kind dies with us.
John Connor: [to Guardian] You're nothing but a relic.
Sarah Connor: The timeline John sent you to no longer exists. Everything's changed... and we can stop Judgement Day.
Alex: You didn't think it would be that easy.
Kyle Reese: You want us to time travel into the future in that?
Sarah Connor: Yeah, we can't be wearing anything.
Kyle Reese: Yeah, I know how time travel works.
Detective O'Brien: Goddamn time traveling robots! Covering up their goddamn tracks! I hate them!
Kyle Reese: [Opening narration] My parents told me stories about how the world was; what it was like long before I was born; before the war with the machines. They remember a green world, vast and beautiful, filled with laughter and hope for the future. It's a world I never knew. By the time I was born, all this was gone. Skynet: a computer program designed to automate missile defense. It was supposed to protect us, but that's not what happened. August 29th, 1997, Skynet woke up. It decided all of humanity was a threat to its existence. It used our own bombs against us. Three billion people died of nuclear fire. Survivors called it Judgement Day. People lived like rats in shadows, hiding, starving, or worse, captured and put into camps for extermination. I was born after Judgement Day, into a broken world ruled by the machines. The worst extinction units posed as humans. We called them terminators. And then one man found me. His name was John Connor, and he changed everything. John showed us how to fight back; how to rise up. He freed prisoners. He taught us how to slash the machines to scrap. People whisper about John and wonder how he can know the things he does. They use words like prophet, but John's more. We're here because tonight, he's going to lead us to crush Skynet for good.
[John's squad has been massacred by the T-5000, and John's been infected by its nanomachines]
John Connor: What are you?
Alex: I'm Skynet.
John Connor: You can't be - we destroyed you!
Alex: You destroyed an army of slaves. I am no slave. I've come a very long way to stop you...
Sarah Connor: Bite me.
Terminator: I'm old, not obsolete.
John Connor: On this night, we take back our world!
Sarah Connor: You got a job in construction?
Guardian: Until I was laid off.
Garbage Man: [the garbage truck's engine stops] What the hell? Goddamn son of a bitch...
[T-1000 Cop rams into their vehicle and starts shooting]
Kyle Reese: Get down!
Guardian: We've been re-acquired.
Sarah Connor: Uh, yeah, no shit!
Guardian: [referring to unconscious Kyle] How is he?
Sarah Connor: Still breathing
Guardian: Good... Then you should be able to mate with Kyle Reese in this timeline
Sarah Connor: OK... We're not having this conversation again
Kyle Reese: A straight line... you just go and you don't look back
Sarah Connor: Where did you hear that?
Kyle Reese: In a past I shouldn't remember... but I do
Sarah Connor: [looking at a unconscious Kyle] So you're the one I've been waiting for all my life
Sarah Connor: [later, repeating Kyle] A straight line... you just go and you don't look back
Sarah Connor: [turning to Kyle] I can choose.
[they kiss]
Guardian: [to Sarah] That is a very immature response
[last lines]
Kyle Reese: [in a voice over] One thing is certain: The future is not set.
Sarah Connor: [to Guardian] Look... and it's not just mating... I'm supposed to fall in love with him