Katherine Brewster was a key figure in the plot - she was John""s future wife and second-in-command.(Her husband John Connor died on July 4, 2032 - he was killed by The Terminator himself).She was important because her father, US Air Force Lieut.General Robert Brewster (David Andrews), was the USAF program director of CRS (Cyber Research Systems, autonomous weapons division) that had taken over the Skynet project after Cyberdyne Systems was destroyed (by Miles Dyson in the second film).Evil""s plan was to blackmail the royal family of Britain ("the wealthiest landowners in the world") by fabricating a story that Prince Charles had an affair outside his marriage and was forced to divorce (an event that had already occurred, making it unfeasable).Thompson ordered Dr.Gordon to "bury the f--king thing" - but as he reached for the burlap bag, a hand from the charred bones of Freddy""s skeletal frame emerged.Nancy celebrated with her friends: "He""s gone.It""s over."She urned and saw her father in glowing gold light descending to her as a spirit, and telling her: "I""ve crossed over, princess.The saga is the story of two childhood buddies from New York City slums on the Lower East Side in the 1920s: "Rocky" Sullivan (Frankie Burke as youth, James Cagney as adult), and Jerry Connolly (William Tracy as youth, Pat O""Brien as adult).