Connors! The group met the reknowned one-armed scientist, the world""s foremost authority on herpetology (reptiles), who was seeking a radical solution to create a "world without weakness" hrough Cross Species Genetics (or regeneration).Plot SynopsisUnder the opening company logo and titles, the film opened in wartime Los Angeles.The disorienting opening shot was of a blinding ceiling light and sounds of accusatory voices in a dark shadowy room, and then soon after, a pull-back camera movement revealed the side of the face of tough yet vulnerable, blindfolded gumshoe detective Philip Marlowe (played by 30s musical crooner Powell in a dramatic role switch)...They""re inventing new Terminators, new ways of killing us.Skynet is planning something big.But the Resistance is planning something bigger.This is John Connor.If you""re listening to this, you are the Resistance."After jump-starting a vehicle at the observatory, Marcus"" dangerous plan (as opposed to Kyle""s idea to join up with Resistance forces to the East), was to travel north, even though the machines controlled the entire northern sector up to San Francisco...but, ""Nearer My God to Thee"".As he plays for her, the camera slowly irises out on he couple.Dark clouds loom up, and rain begins to fall.They jump off the sewer, Trina opens up her umbrella, and they walk back together o the train station in the pounding rain.A bottom-feeding lowlife who""s about to go down in flames." Lounds pleaded for his life and suggested he could be ransomed by his publisher for as much as a million.