How did you know all this?

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Back to our heroes. Kyle Reese volunteers to go save Mama Connor, because ever since he was a little girl, John Connor has sung her praises (he was mainly trying to settle her down, yes, little rascal!). John pretends to hesitate, and then hey: come on, Kyle, we're going to send you back in time!

Kyle prepares for his mission without realizing the absurdity of these stories about buy phone number list timelines, while a member of the Resistance explains to him how it will happen.

"You won't be able to bring any weapons, Reese.
" "Oh?
" "Nothing synthetic. No clothing, and certainly no weapons, unless they're surrounded by flesh. A sort of microwave effect, if you will."

It is at this moment that John Connor's first cousin, Odin Connor, a member of the French resistance (the one who had to face Skynet's first cousin, Ciel Compta), raises a very strong eyebrow.

“Madam!
” “Yes, Odin?
” “Just one question.
” “Excuse me?
” “Well, I don’t know. The time machine and all that—it was a secret weapon, wasn’t it? So how were you able to determine its operation and its limitations within two minutes of its discovery?
” “I… well…
” “And why does this machine have an interface usable by humans if Skynet is a robot?
” “So, in fact…
” “And you know, if you can’t take anything with you that isn’t surrounded by material other than synthetic material, here: hand me that laser cannon, we’ll wrap it in ham.”

While Odin Connor is being discreetly beaten up by the Resistance, who don't really like it when anyone points out the film's inconsistencies, or the principle of the ham-rolled cannon, which lacks panache (pfff, miscreants!), Kyle gets naked and asks John Connor for details.

“  So? Is there anything special I need to know when I arrive?
” “Yes. You’ll be sent back to 1984, the year the Terminator left to kill my mother. Back then, she was a simple waitress, not the warrior she would become. Protect her. ” 

John doesn't tell Kyle that he'll become his father and die in the process: he doesn't want to break the space-time system, which has already been seriously weakened by the scenario. So Kyle climbs into the magic machine that generates a sort of ball of energy around him, and hey presto! Off to 1984!

I've always been a big fan of the idea of ​​a hyper-complex, secret, ultra-sensitive machine with giant rings and lightning bolts shooting around it, but not a single security barrier.