Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

Ten years after destroying Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, John Connor has been living a nomadic life following the death of his mother, Sarah Connor, to hide from Skynet, despite a war between humans and machines not happening in 1997, as foretold. Unable to locate John in the past, Skynet sends a new Terminator model, the T-X, back in time to John’s present in Los Angeles, to instead kill his future allies in the Human Resistance. The Resistance sends a reprogrammed Terminator (a T-101 referred to as the “Terminator”) to protect the T-X’s targets, including John and his future wife, Kate Brewster.

After killing other targets, the T-X locates the pair at an animal hospital, where Kate works. John becomes the T-X’s primary target, but the Terminator helps him and Kate escape, taking them to a mausoleum where John’s mother is supposedly interred. Inside her vault, they find a weapons cache left at Sarah’s request in case Judgment Day was not averted and the Terminators returned. They escape from an armed battle with the police and fend off the pursuing T-X. The Terminator reveals that John and Sarah’s actions only delayed Judgment Day and that Skynet’s attack will occur that day; the Terminator intends to drive John and Kate to Mexico to escape the fallout when Skynet begins its nuclear attack at 6:18 p.m. John orders the Terminator to take Kate and him to see Kate’s father, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Robert Brewster. The Terminator refuses to do so, but agrees to Kate’s identical request. It explains that it killed John in the future, but Kate reprogrammed it and sent it back in time, meaning that only she can give it orders.