在终结者2：审判日的结尾，Sarah击败了从未来派遣至此，意图杀死她才十几岁的儿子John的终结者。Sarah和John发现自己孤身与一个异常危险与复杂的世界。逃避法律的追究，她们面对的现实就是，仍然有来自未来、现今的更多的敌人在伺机攻击她们。
终结者外传讲述了在Sarah停止逃亡并展开对一项超进化技术敌人的反击，而此敌人意欲夺取她的性命，甚或整个世界。她的儿子，15岁的John Connor，了解到他或许就是未来人类的救世主，但还没有准备好接受命中注定属于他的领导地位。John发现自己不可自拔的迷恋上Cameron，他所在高中的一位谜一般的学生，其后来被证明不仅仅是他的红颜知己，更承担了Sarah与John无畏的保护者的角色。他们的旅途上不仅有来自未来的威胁，还有一位机智并坚韧的FBI探员，James Ellison,其后来成为强有力的盟友。
The Terminator franchise arrives on TV with this serial drama. The series picks up a year after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor (Thomas Dekker and Lena Headey) hiding from the government. After two years in one place Sarah decides they need a change of scenery and in doing so they expose themselves to FBI Agent James Ellison (Richard T. Jones) and Skynet's army of Terminators including Cameron Phillips (Summer Glau) a reprogrammed Terminator sent to protect John. She informs them that Judgment Day was not stopped and will take place in 2011. John convinces Sarah to stop hiding and fight so Cameron takes them to a time machine the resistance has set up to take them to the year Skynet was created 2007
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