Why did the Terminator run away.
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bigsoundp — 9 years ago(January 07, 2017 10:12 PM)
The car chase that ends with the cars crashing into the wall, and Kyle being arrested.
When the cops look in the other car, the Terminator is gone.
Did he run away? Why would he do that?
That always bugged me. He showed in the movie that he wouldn't let a few police get in his way of killing Sarah. He shot up a whole station.
And the end showed that it didn't matter how banged up he might get, he still kept going after her.
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Minus_The_Beer — 9 years ago(January 08, 2017 12:21 PM)
It would have compromised his mission. While battling the police, Kyle and Sarah could've escaped and gotten ahead of him. By disappearing and ambushing the police station later, he takes them by surprise and has them backed into a corner, thus strengthening his odds.
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Kruleworld — 9 years ago(January 12, 2017 11:59 PM)
The answer is simple: so they police won't believe their story. it's a common trope in horror movies.
Remember in Alien3, Ripley can't convince the prison warden that the alien is real, and he doesn't believe her until he's killed by it.
"He's dusted, busted and disgusted, but he's ok" -
bozo_500 — 9 years ago(January 14, 2017 03:43 AM)
the state the terminator was in in the hotel room is the answer.
the terminator will have calculated its damage could prevent it successfully killing Sarah in front on Kyle and the cops who will no doubt have been opening fire on it.. (like only a 47% chance of successfully terminating her in his damaged state so better to try again when fully repaired when it can mount a surprise attack).also maybe it might not have been immediately certain of all the damage to its systems and had to get away to run diagnostics etc to determine its damage as if it had tried to terminate sarah right then and then it could've found something not functioning correctly (and all the cops and kyle would've tried to prevent it too) -
Thomas-FordJr-1 — 9 years ago(January 27, 2017 05:34 PM)
- It was damaged, like the previous poster said.
- It could afford to leave the scene, and acquire them later, because it knew where they would be(with the Police in some station).
- If the cops weren't there during the crash, and Kyle and Sarah just took off running, the Terminator would have definitely went after them(damaged or not).
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soggybottom — 6 years ago(September 19, 2019 05:24 PM)
They needed more time for Reese to provide us with more exposition and to develop a relationship with Sarah.
Another obvious question is: Why didn't Reese bash the Terminator's skull (CPU) in after shooting him through the glass window? He should've "terminated" him right then and there when he had the chance.
And the obvious answer to that is: Then we would have a really-short movie, and the patrons would all be demanding their money back! -
degree7 — 4 years ago(March 08, 2022 09:54 AM)
Wasn’t it shown in later movies that the CPU is sealed inside some kind of protective cylinder within the hyperalloy endoskull? I think he would have needed high grade explosives or a hydraulic press to crush its head (which they accomplished with at the end)