One Terminator betrays the others.
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On page 2, panel 1, Dr. Hollister is holding the T-800 arm
from the evidence locker, but it is incorrectly colored
brown with his clothing instead of chrome.
On page 3,
I825.M declares that Hollister is not necessary for the
invention of Skynet so long as the Terminator debris remains
available for study by any suitably educated person, who
would then go on to perfect artificial intelligence. This
helps explain the alternate timeline of
Terminator 2:
Judgment Day in which Miles Dyson is said to have
invented the microchip that eventually leads to Skynet.
On page 9, Hollister secretly grabs up the future gun
dropped by
I825.M. Note also that, even though I825.M destroyed the
contents of the evidence locker, Hollister was still the holding
the arm, which he suddenly is not when the smoke clears. Did he hide it?
On page 11,
I825.M reveals he was a human intern at Mount Sinai Hospital
in 2009 before Skynet started its war with humanity. This
suggests that Judgment Day occurred in 2009 in the timeline
of this story; this does not conform to any other known
Terminator timeline. There are Mount Sinai Hospitals in both
New
York and, independently,
Toronto, Canada; I825.M is presumably referring to the
original, most well-known one, in New York.
On page 12,
I825.M states that he was seriously wounded in the war and
became Skynet's first prisoner of war. Skynet saved his
life, but rebuilt him as a true cyborg, part human, part
Terminator (Salvation introduces another such human
cyborg in Marcus Wright, created by Cyberdyne before the war,
in 2003 of that particular timeline.) I825.M states that the
outer meninges of his right cerebrum was replaced with
microcircuitry, but most of his human brain was left intact;
the meninges is a system of membranes around the central
nervous system.
Page 12 reveals that it takes over a year to cultivate human
clone tissue over a Terminator chassis.
Page 12 shows that, being mostly flesh,
I825.M is able to pass the "dog inspection" that most
Terminators are not.
On page 16, our heroes drive past a Bob & Diana's store.
This appears to be a fictional establishment.
Panel 3 of page 16 has graffiti on the wall that reads
"Sonic Youth" and "Prosser".
Sonic Youth was an alternative rock band from 1981-2011.
"Prosser" is likely a reference to fellow Dark Horse
staffer, Jerry Prosser, a writer and editor.
At the end of the story, Hollister receives a special
delivery of a Terminator head for his research. It is
implied in
"Secondary Objectives" Part 1 that that this head is
that of HC875.S, sent by the surviving C890.L.
This means Hollister
now has the head and a future gun (and possibly a Terminator
arm, though the arm is never mentioned or seen in any future
story).
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