43 |
(types; surprised) |
| As they take their attention away from the screen, the T-INFINITY computer completes its genetic algorithm learning cycle. It's becoming self-aware with machine code language appearing in its POV. Digital outlines appear around T-INFINITY'S view of the humans. "TARGETING ANALYSIS RUNNING." THE TIME on the Washington-based time clock reads 2:14 A.M. Eastern time, AUGUST 29th, 2000. Everybody in the control room is jolted out of their work as the T-INFINITY utters its first sentence, in a cold, steel-sounding electronic simulation of a voice, made from the sounds of the equipment in the room. The flourescent lights modulate to the voice with changes in brightness. The computerized Beast is alive. |
| INT. DIGITAL INT. INDUS. -- DESIGN LAB -- MORNING |
| The time is 9:00 A.M. Sarah picks her head up off the desk. Where a wall should be is a desert landscape. A CLOUD OF DUST appears on the horizon. The cloud moves closer to Sarah. She slowly rises to her feet. Four horses with riders coming out of the cloud. A White horse. Three other horses follow; black, red and pale, sickly green. THE FOUR HORSEMEN approach, Steve on the White Horse, the Terminator on the black horse, T-2000 on the red horse and Frank Wernhausen on the pale horse. But these aren't flesh and blood horses, they're endoskeletons. A FLASH OF LIGHT makes everything evaporate into energy, then... |