Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn)’s Timeline and Summary
- Reese appears in the present in a bad way.
- The L.A. police arrives on the scene and catches Reese stealing a homeless man's pants. It's an embarrassing way to introduce yourself to the past, to say the least.
- As the police chase Reese through a convenience store, he equips himself with an overcoat and shoes. He also borrows a shotgun from an officer's cruiser.
- Reese tracks Sarah down to the Tech Noir nightclub. When the Terminator makes its move, Reese shoots it and tells Sarah to follow him if she wants to live.
- During an intense car chase, Reese tells Sarah about the future, the Terminators, and her future son's role in all of it.
- Another car chase ensues. Reese and Sarah are apprehended by the police.
- Silberman analyzes Reese and determines he is as nutty as a fruitcake. Or is that as fruity as a nut cake?
- When the Terminator attacks the police station, Reese knocks out an officer and steals his keys.
- Reese and Sarah escape the station together.
- Spending the night under an overpass, Reese tells Sarah about the future he lives in.
- The next day, Reese and Sarah check into the Tiki Motel. They spend a romantic evening there making homemade explosives…and making sweet love.
- The Terminator tracks Reese and Sarah down.
- During the escape, Reese is shot.
- Reese manages to put an explosive in the tailpipe of the tanker the Terminator is driving.
- It goes boom real good.
- Reese and Sarah escape into a factory. Reese fights the Terminator and places an explosive in the machine's endoskeleton.
- Reese is killed in the explosion. Tha-th-tha-th-that's all folks.
- In the film's final scene, it's revealed that Reese is John Connor's father.