Annihilation by SkyNet was inevitable since it was composed of cyberspace software on thousands of computers that couldn't be shut down or destroyed with explosives ("There was never any stopping it").He went into hiding posing as an Earthling named Carpenter while temporarily residing in a boarding house with a human family (single mother/widow Helen (Patricia Neal) and her son Bobby (Billy Gray)), in order to observe and understand heir Earthly lives, and also to attempt to establish contact with Earth's leading scientist Dr.) - to "oversee the collection and storage of alien and other exotic materials....Experts estimate here are over 1500 tons of exotic material scattered throughout he tri-state area." Toomes and his top employees: bearded and ignorant Jackson Brice (Logan Marshall-Green) and Herman Schultz (Bokeem Woodbine), were angered that Stark was funding Damage Control and would take heir work and profits away.In a series of confrontational closeups, he tells them of the cattle rustling and implies in a subtle exchange that his duty as newly-appointed Marshal is to find his brother's murderers.