Miles Dyson's wife and children are drawn into the present war.
LAPD Detectives Mossberg and Weatherby question Dr.
Silberman about Sarah Connor and her story of robotic
killers from the future. It's clear that Silberman is
starting to believe her now. Unfortunately for him,
Pescadero currently has him straitjacketed!
The three newly-arrived Terminators take down several
members of an L.A. street gang, taking their transportation
and weapons.
Sarah and John discover that federal agents have taken the
widowed Mrs. Dyson and her two kids to a hotel and are
interrogating her about her deceased husband and the people
he'd become involved with the night before. Meanwhile, the
T-1000 kills and assumes the identity of Karyn Stern.
Sarah and John aid the Dysons in escaping from the feds but
are brought to a stop by Detective Weatherby, who claims he
believes Sarah's story and wants to help them. Just then,
one of the T-800s drives up, kills Weatherby, and threatens the
rest.
On the cover of this issue, the graffiti on the wall says
"BODY COUNT", "AND RISING", "DAN S WAS HERE", and "MARK P".
"DAN S" and "MARK P" are references to Dan Shaheen (the
editor of the book) and Mark Paniccia (one of the
co-writers).
Page 1 of this issue is a scene of the T-800 shooting his
way through the police headquarters in
The Terminator.
Page 2 reveals that Sarah had been under Dr. Silberman's
care for the past two years before her escape from Pescadero
State Hospital in
Judgment Day.
As in
Judgment Day,
Dr. Silberman states that Sarah was administered Thorazine
in her treatments. Thorazine is the brand name of chlorpromazine in
the U.S., an antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia.
In this issue, Dr. Silberman is revealed to now be a patient
in his own hospital, straitjacketed in a holding cell. He
tells detectives Mossberg and Weatherby that he's going to
have to review his appraisal of Sarah's alleged delusional
architecture. Silberman's wavering disbelief in Sarah's
story is a thread seen in several other timeline versions of
him as well.
Notice here that Dr. Silberman has a bandage on the right
side of his neck; this is where the needle of the hypodermic
syringe filled with liquid rooter penetrated when Sarah held
him hostage during her escape from Pescadero in
Judgment Day.
On page 4, notice that the Terminators are wearing clothing
taken from the eyewitnesses from the end of
"Lost & Found" (though the
woman, being a T-1000, is just morphed into the form of the
woman and her clothing from that issue). Notice also that
Earl's clothes are much too small for the Terminator stuck
wearing them (he is seen to have traded them for one of the
gang members clothes on page 6)!
On page 7, the hotel Mrs. Dyson and her kids are at is
probably meant to be a
Holiday
Inn, judging by the portion of a sign visible that reads
"Holiday".
The green tinting on the lens view of the binoculars used by
Sarah on pages 7-8 suggest they are infrared binoculars, for
scoping through night.
In panel 3 of page 7, John is drinking a Big Gulp, the large
soda cup sold at the
7-Eleven
convenience store chain.
At the hotel, notice that young Danny Dyson is still wearing
the Minnesota Twins baseball cap he wore the night before
when Sarah ambushed the Dyson house in
Judgment Day.
On page 10, we learn that Karyn Stern (introduced in
"Lost & Found") is a Special
Operations Executive with the FBI's Simi Valley Project. The
FBI, of course, is the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, which investigates
federal crime and provides internal intelligence for the
federal government. The Simi Valley Project is presumably a
reference to NetWork Developments, a company in Simi Valley
also introduced in
"Lost & Found".
On page 11, Agent Stern states that a sclerographic assay
has shown unusual alloys in one of the smelting vats at the
steel mill. Obviously, the assay has turned up evidence of
the poly-alloy of which the original T-1000 was made (the
T-1000 was destroyed in the vat at the end of
Judgment Day). "Sclerographic"
is from the Greek "sclero" (hard) and "graphikos" (visual),
so she must be referring to an assay of hardened material
from the vat.
It's a fairly subtle visual, but notice that the morphing
blob of the female T-1000 is seen in the background of panel
1 and bottom right corner of panel 2 on page 11, just before
she takes on the form of Agent Stern in panel 3.
On page 11, the female T-1000 is said to be driving a 1994
Pontiac.
When Sarah screeches up in the SUV to rescue John and the
Dysons from the Feds, John jokingly jerks his thumb as if
hitching a ride and asks, "Libertyville?" I'm not sure what
"Libertyville" is referencing; it is the name of several
towns in the U.S., but none in California. Maybe it's just a
joking reference to freedom.
On page 16, Agent Spasky radios in that Sarah Connor and the
others are southbound on Western. This may refer to Western
Avenue in Los Angeles.
Page 17 reveals Sarah's SUV as a 1990
Nissan Pathfinder. The artwork of the vehicle is a
pretty good approximation of the actual 1990 model.
On page 17, the police dispatcher states that Sarah Connor
is wanted in connection with a Code 999 in Irvine on
Thursday. Police code 999 is often associated with a police
officer needing help urgently (at this point, you'd think
she'd be wanted for more than just that
considering a large building was destroyed by her and her
cohorts). The city of
Irvine is where
the Cyberdyne building was located in
Judgment Day.
On page 18, Spasky tells dispatch to get the police to head
off the Connors at Washington before they make the
interstate. Washington Boulevard winds through Los Angeles,
and crosses a number of interstate freeways.
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