Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton)’s Timeline and Summary
- Sarah starts her day as a waitress. It doesn't go well.
- The day keeps getting better when Sarah's date dumps her—after she's spent all afternoon primping and preening.
- Sarah decides to enjoy a personal pizza instead. At the pizzeria, she watches a news report that some guy is killing other Sarah Connors.
- Sarah heads to the night club Tech Noir and calls the police.
- The Terminator tracks Sarah down. Just as it is about to kill her, Reese appears and pumps a whole lot of shotgun shells into it.
- One dramatic car chase later, Reese dumps all the exposition on Sarah. A killer robot—sorry, cyborg—has been sent from the future to kill her to prevent her son, John Connor, from being born. Seems legit.
- Another dramatic car chase later, Sarah and Reese are caught by the police.
- Sarah stays at the police station for protection.
- The Terminator tracks Sarah down and kills everyone in the police station. Sarah and Reese escape together.
- Sarah and Reese spend the night under an overpass. Reese tells Sarah about his future and the role she'll play in it.
- The next day, Sarah and Reese hide out at the Tiki Motel and make explosives.
- Sarah and Reese get it on after Reese admits he has loved Sarah based on a picture of her John gave him. Um, creepy?
- The Terminator finds Sarah and Reese again. During yet another car chase, Reese is injured. Sarah saves him and acts as bait as he blows up the tanker truck the Terminator stole.
- The Terminator rises from the flames. Sarah and Reese escape into a factory.
- Reese sacrifices himself to blow up the Terminator, but the Terminator's upper-half chases after Sarah.
- Sarah lures the Terminator under a hydraulic press and squishes it flat.
- Later, Sarah goes into hiding in Mexico to prepare for the future she knows is coming.