In C890.L's battle with the police, most of the police
appear to be firing
Smith and Wesson .38 Specials. Some are armed
with shotguns. C890.L appears to be carrying an Uzi
and an M-16 (obtained from Alamo Home Defense and Hunting
Goods, where the cops have attempted to pin him down).
A receptionist at Cyberdyne tells Dudley that Dr. Hollister
is at the Ellison Valley plant. Ellison Valley appears to be
a fictional town, probably named for writer Harlan Ellison,
who sued Orion Pictures, claiming that
The Terminator was
based on his 1964 Outer Limits episode, "Soldier",
about a soldier from the future who travels back in time and
ultimately sacrifices his life fighting his future enemy in
1964 (Orion Pictures reached a settlement with Ellison for
an undisclosed amount of money and a credit in future
releases of the film).
On page 10 and onward,
C890.L seems to have lost the big horns on his metallic
skull, as they would not be able to fit under the police hat
he wears with his disguise. In
"The Enemy Within" Part 4, we see that all of the
spikes are gone except for the ones on his knuckles.
Also on page 10 and onward,
C890.L appears to be carrying two slightly different models
of Uzi submachine guns.
On page 11, a freeway sign suggests that Mary and Dudley are
on Interstate 5, with opposing exits for Park Blvd. and 4th
Ave. This indicates they may be in
San Diego, CA, which has
Park and 4th intersections in close proximity to each other
on I-5. Possibly they are heading back to Mexico.
On page 12, the gang members have a pair of fuzzy dice
hanging from the rearview mirror of their car.
The hanging of fuzzy dice from the
rear-view mirror of an automobile was popular in the U.S.
from the 1950s-80s.
The gang members each carry a different type of gun when
they ambush the "cop" (C890.L): an
Uzi, an M-16, and an unidentified type of pistol.
Ironically, on page 21, the Cyberdyne slogan is shown to be
"For the best of all possible futures."
On page 22, Sloane calls for back-up, stating he's at the
Cyberdyne plant at Ellison and Oliver. There is no such
intersection in Los Angeles or San Diego. The reference to
Ellison harkens back, of course, to the fictional Ellison
Valley mentioned earlier in this issue, site of a second Cyberdyne plant.
Also on page 22, we see that Sloane
has borrowed from the LAPD evidence
room a grenade gun; it looks similar
to (but not an exact match) to the
Hawk MM-1 grenade gun used as a tear
gas launcher by the T-800 in
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