Editing Sarah Connor (Terminator) (section)

=== ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (1991) ===
{{See also|Terminator 2: Judgment Day}} 
Sarah and her son John ([[Edward Furlong]]) have been separated; John is now ten years old and living in a foster home with Todd and Janelle Voight, and Sarah has been institutionalized at a prison [[psychiatric hospital|hospital]] of the criminally insane. In the years since the previous film, she has become a muscled, ferocious warrior. After the death of Kyle Reese, Sarah takes his warnings and the responsibility of raising her son to heart. Her fixation on the disaster and her fanatical desire to keep John safe has made her mentally unstable and very violent, which is aggravated by her fear and hatred of the Model 101. She lives off-grid to protect herself and John. Sarah lived as an outlaw and tried to teach her son the skills he would need to lead the resistance. She is captured and sent to a psychiatric prison hospital ward (of the criminally insane) after trying to blow up a computer factory. Several times at the hospital, she has tried to improve her behavior in hope of getting to see her son, but the criminal psychologist Dr. Silberman does not believe her. Her activities and claims of fighting evil robots from the future led to her being deemed incurable.

Sarah only seemed to confirm the judgment of psychiatrists by committing acts of violence against hospital staff. She tries to escape multiple times; during her final escape attempt, Sarah encounters two Terminator models; the [[T-1000]] ([[Robert Patrick]]), a liquid metal android sent back to kill her son, and the [[Terminator (character)|Model 101]] (Schwarzenegger) that was sent back by John's future self ([[Michael Edwards (actor)|Michael Edwards]]) to protect them. When the Model 101 (or T-800) comes to the hospital ward with John, she flees in terror and is almost captured by the hospital staff, but she goes with the android who tells her "come with me if you want to live." They escape in a police car after knocking the driver unconscious. Sarah finds it nearly impossible to accept that the Model 101 is benevolent; throughout the film she remains hostile towards it. John develops a bond with it, resembling a father-son relationship. In the director's cut of the movie, Sarah has an opportunity to destroy the machine's [[central processing unit|CPU]]. She nearly does so but John persuades her that they will need its help.<ref>''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' transcript</ref>

After another horrific nightmare about [[Terminator (franchise)#Judgment Day|Judgment Day]], Sarah decides to hunt down Miles Dyson ([[Joe Morton]]), a computer researcher who works at Cyberdyne Systems and is destined to build the [[microprocessor]] that will become Skynet. However, she cannot bring herself to kill a person, realizing that doing so would make her no better than a Terminator herself. Shortly afterwards, John and the Model 101 arrive; with Dyson's help, they destroy all of his research and steal the remains of the first Terminator from the Cyberdyne lab. After the T-1000 is defeated, the Model 101 lets Sarah lower it into a vat of molten steel to destroy it, despite John's protests. Sarah finally gains respect for the Model 101 and offers her hand in friendship before its final sacrifice. Because of this event, Sarah looks to the future with renewed hope.

====Alternate ending====
The alternate ending for ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', available on the Ultimate Edition DVD and the Skynet Edition Blu-ray, shows Sarah alive and well 30 years after the primary events of the film. She is an elderly grandmother and John is a Senator in a world in which Skynet was never able to start its war on humanity.