ERROR FILES

The timeline of the Terminator movies is complex enough for seasoned fans of the franchise, never mind casual audiences. What's more, found throughout the movies are a string of lines recited by the actors which further compound the confusion. Most of these script faux pas' likely came from earlier drafts of each of the movie's scripts and likely ended up in the final movies because of an oversight by th director and/or editor(s) or from a lack of usable alternate takes during the movies post-production.

Here you will find a run through of these scenes.

Kyle Reese vs LAPD Officer


In this scene from The Terminator shortly after arriving in 1984, Kyle Reese disarms an LAPD officer. As Reese holds the officer at gunpoint we get the following exchange:
Kyle Reese - "What day is it? The date?" 
LAPD Officer - "Twelfth, May, Thursday."
In actuality May 12th, 1984 was on a Saturday.

John Connors Exposition


In the opening scenes from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines John Connor narrates about the events prior to those depicted in the movie:
John Connor - "The future has not been written. There is no fate, but what we make for ourselves. I wish I could believe that. My name is John Connor. They tried to murder me before I was born. When I was thirteen they tried again. Machines from the future. Terminators."
Following some time after, John Connor is reunited with Kate Brewster, who upon recognizing John recalls the last time they met:
Kate Brewster - "Mike Kripke's basement." 
John Connor - "What? What does that mean?"
Kate Brewster - "You're John Connor. I'm Kate Brewster. we went to West Field Junior High together."
John Connor - "Jesus."
Kate Brewster - "What happened to you, John? Middle of eight grade you just disappeared, and there was that thing about your foster parents?"
John Connor - "Yeah, they were murdered."
As explained on the Temporal Anomalies page, the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day occurred on June 8th and June 9th, 1994, during which John Connor was 9 years old, not 13 as he recalls in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines' opening scenes and most definitely not 14-15 as Kate Brewster's recollection of them being in eighth grade would suggest. In actuality, John and Kate would have been in the third grade.

Sarah Connors Birthdate


Later in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines the reprogrammed T-850 takes John Connor and Kate Brewster to Sarah Connors grave in the mausoleum at the Green Lawn Cemetery. On the grave's plaque, it declares Sarah Connors year of birth as 1959. Sarah Connor, who Dr. Peter Silberman declared as being 29 years old shortly before she escaped from Pescadero State Hospital on June 8th, 1994 (see 1994 vs 1995), was, as explained in the Complete Chronology, actually born in 1964.

Anatomy Lesson

As part of her attempt to break out Pescadero State Hospital Sarah Connor assaults Dr, Peter Silberman, breaking his arm with a nightstick. While Sarah grabs a bottle of 'Liquid Rooter' Dr. Silberman exclaims...

Dr. Silberman - "You broke my arm!"
Sarah Connor - "There are 215 bones in the human body, that's one, now don't move!"

At birth most humans are born with 270 bones. Over the course of the first 21 years of most peoples lives some of these bones fuse together (such as with the skull) or are lost through age (such as with teeth). A human male in his sixties such as Dr. Silberman would likely have had around 206 bones, not 215.