At the end of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sarah, John, and the terminator successfully destroy the T-1000 and the arm and computer chip from the first terminator. Sarah and John then watch as the terminator is lowered into a molten steel pit in an attempt to destroy all future technology that could be used to create Skynet. Having been blamed for the murder of Miles Dyson, both Sarah and John now find themselves alone in a very dangerous and complicated world. Fugitives from the law, they are confronted with the reality that still more enemies from the future and the present could attack at any moment.