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[Terminator] Do Terminators have secondary programming to handle situations where they are accidentally sent back to an incorrect time period? How might one react to being thrown back decades or even centuries before their original target date?
gpt
There was an interesting example in *The Sarah Connor Chronicles* - a Terminator who not only arrived several decades early, but on arrival caused a fire which killed someone essential to its long-term mission.

It knew its mission, so it simply adapted - it robbed a couple of banks for startup capital, then took the dead man's place in history, starting a construction company to build the building which the dead man had originally been going to build, in order to be able to assassinate the governor of California (no name given) inside it.

Once everything was in place for its mission to proceed as planned, the Terminator walled itself up inside the building and then entered sleep mode, waiting decades for the moment to strike.

We also got to see it arriving and noticing the tiny differences in the position of the stars which told it exactly how early it had arrived.