Recaps

William and his forces arrived in the ruined 2026 Terminator world and secured a mall as their first base. He explained why Skynet had attacked humanity and ordered an assault on its central core to save the survivors.

• William entered a ruined shopping mall with John and the others, saw the human skeletons, and ordered the Imperial Guard to search for Terminators and probes.
• William told Kesha to create a force field around the mall once it was confirmed safe, then looked out at the overgrown, sunlit ruins.
• William explained Skynet's origins and the nuclear war to Serena, arguing that Skynet had acted to protect itself just as humans would resist an existential threat.
• William told Serena that Skynet still had to be destroyed, and planned to use the mall as a forward assault base to reach its central core.
• John's forces confirmed the mall was safe, and the Engineering Team began bringing materials through the time-travel passage to reinforce it.

Umbrella's forces established a hidden base in an abandoned mall while Ghost Agents led by Prus scouted the ruins. Prus discovered a new infiltrator-type Terminator attacking survivors and, with William's approval, destroyed it.

• William deployed a small elite force to the Terminator universe and ordered the Engineering Team to reinforce the mall and establish communications.
• Prus led six Ghost Agents through the ruined streets to scout the area and relay their findings to Serena.
• The Ghost Agents spotted a pale, red-eyed Terminator using a plasma rifle to shoot at fleeing survivors.
• Prus contacted the Command Center, received William's approval to help the survivors, and was ordered to terminate the Terminator.
• Prus knocked the Terminator down with a Psionic Shockwave, and the Ghost Agents shattered its metal head with Spike Rounds.

Prus and the Ghost Agents rescued a band of scavengers from a Terminator and brought them to the mall base, where the survivors mistook Keisha and the towering soldiers for divine beings. William questioned the scavengers and learned that Skynet held humans and Resistance members at a concentration camp forty kilometers west of the city for experiments.

• Prus and the Ghost Agents revealed themselves after killing the Terminator, disarmed the scavengers when they fired on them, and escorted them to the mall.
• The scavengers entered the fortified mall base and passed through Keisha's calming barrier before seeing her in the Command Center.
• The scavengers knelt and prayed to Keisha, but William told them that he had brought her and the others to their world.
• William questioned the scavengers and learned that a Terminator wearing a dead companion's jacket had attacked them.
• The scavengers told William that Skynet operated a concentration camp forty kilometers west of the city, where it imprisoned humans and Resistance members for experiments.

After learning that Skynet was holding humans in a concentration camp to experiment on Living Skin, William ordered an assault to free the prisoners and investigate Skynet’s network. He led Kaisha, John, Carl, and two hundred elite Astartes toward the camp, leaving Mylon behind to guard the base.

• William had Prus escort the scavengers to receive hot food while he returned to the Command Center with John and the others.
• Serena located the concentration camp near Boulder City and explained that Skynet was using captured humans to research Living Skin for its Terminators.
• William ordered Serena to infiltrate the camp’s network and sent John and Carl to select two hundred elite Astartes for the assault.
• After the Engineering Team installed an AT Shield around the shopping mall, Kaisha joined William’s force, while Mylon stayed behind to guard the base.
• At 17:50, William led the two hundred Astartes on foot toward the concentration camp forty kilometers away.

William led Umbrella’s forces toward the Concentration Camp outside Paradise City, where Skynet’s machines attacked them. After a Hunter Killer revealed that Skynet had detected their presence, William ordered reinforcements and launched an assault on the Terminator garrison.

• Carl shot down a Hunter Killer, and Serena warned William that it had apparently transmitted a message to Skynet.
• William told Serena to alert the mall and summon Limit Astartes reinforcements led by Robert.
• William’s force reached the outskirts of Paradise City and saw the devastation in its center before Skynet’s garrison attacked.
• William ordered the Imperial Guard to attack the T-800s, Scout Drones, T-47s, and Hunter Killers guarding the Concentration Camp.
• Bolter, plasma, and melta fire overwhelmed the Terminators, while the heavy-weapon troops targeted the T-47s.

William’s forces overwhelmed Skynet’s defenders and advanced on a heavily guarded concentration camp holding thousands of humans. After ordering reinforcements to prepare, William headed toward the hospital while John and the others led the assault on the camp.

• Kesha’s Biological Field nullified the Terminators’ plasma attacks as William’s forces struck from both sides, with John, Carl, and William destroying Skynet machines.
• Serena hacked Skynet’s communications and reported that Skynet was surprised by the attackers’ strength, had ordered reinforcements, and was guarding a possible secret experimental base.
• William’s forces reached the concentration camp and saw the humans imprisoned in a filthy laser-fenced cage between a converted power station and hospital.
• William ordered the camp occupied and its prisoners liberated, and John led Carl, Kesha, and the Imperial Guard in the charge.
• William told Serena to bring Mylon’s Imperial Guard as reinforcements and send Hudson’s Shark Squad to protect the liberated humans, then headed for the hospital.

William entered the hospital ahead of John’s assault to keep Skynet from destroying its research, while Serena hacked the facility and cut off Skynet’s control. He entered the laboratory alone and destroyed two T-800s that ambushed him, leaving him deeper inside the hospital.

• John, Carl, and two hundred Imperial Guards attacked the remaining Skynet defenders, giving the imprisoned humans hope and prompting them to cheer for their rescuers.
• William used Super Speed to reach the hospital ahead of the others and ordered Serena to slow John’s assault until Skynet reinforcements arrived.
• William had Serena hack the hospital terminal and revoke Skynet’s control, but she exposed her existence and left the cage lasers active.
• Serena opened the hospital gate and warned William that independent T-800 guards remained inside.
• William entered the laboratory alone, survived an attack from two T-800s, and scrapped them with his Gauss Submachine Gun.

William explored Skynet’s hospital and discovered it was a major experimental base for Living Skin, where Terminators modeled after humans were being developed. As Serena copied the facility’s data, the Governor and other Terminators attacked, and William prepared to fight them.

• William found a morgue filled with dismembered and skinned human bodies, including children, and discussed humanity’s vulnerability to Skynet with Serena.
• William reached the hospital’s top floor and found sterile rooms containing motionless figures, including one resembling the Governor and a young girl.
• Serena recognized that the figures were Terminators and told William that Skynet had completed its Living Skin technology.
• William sent Serena into the Central Control Console to copy the facility’s intelligence and technology.
• The Governor led Terminators toward the Control Room, and William put away his gun and charged at them.

William escaped the hospital after Serena copied its research data and revealed Skynet's plans for time-travel infiltration. When a blast sent them crashing into the basement, William encountered the T-1000 and T-X and attacked them.

• William defeated the Terminators attacking Serena and waited until she finished copying the hospital's research data.
• Serena told William that Skynet was developing a Time Machine and planned to send three infiltration Terminators after John Connor's relatives and lieutenants.
• Serena identified the three models as Living Skin Terminators, the T-1000, and the T-X, and said she had copied their manufacturing data.
• An explosion struck the freight elevator, sending William and Serena crashing into the hospital basement.
• The T-X fired a Plasma Cannon at William, draining thirty percent of his Energy Shield, but William used Super Speed to decapitate the T-1000 and dismember the T-X.

William destroyed the T-X and T-1000, then discussed the military and civilian potential and production costs of Terminator technology with Serena. After Serena confirmed she could infiltrate Skynet with Cortana’s help, William ordered Mylon’s forces to stop holding back and destroy the reinforcements.

• William melted the T-X with his Beam Saber, then cut apart the T-1000 and finished it with three Plasma Grenades.
• Serena guided William out of the hospital and estimated that a T-800 would cost about six hundred to six hundred and fifty thousand, while a T-X would cost ten to thirteen million.
• Serena told William she could infiltrate Skynet’s interior with Cortana’s assistance because Skynet already knew of her.
• William ordered Serena to tell Mylon to stop pretending to struggle and wipe out Skynet’s reinforcements.
• Mylon rallied the Imperial Guard Astartes and opened fire, destroying T-800s and T-47s with his Heavy Bolter.

Mylon and the Imperial Guard defeated Skynet’s reinforcements, while Umbrella forces freed the prisoners at the Concentration Camp. William Russell met Resistance staff officer Major Kellit and asked where John Connor and his forces were stationed, leaving Kellit wary after William revealed he led Umbrella.

• Mylon led the Imperial Guard in destroying Skynet’s reinforcements and marched toward the Concentration Camp.
• Umbrella drones surveyed Las Vegas as six companies of Sharks arrived at the Concentration Camp in Warthogs.
• Serena shut down the lasers imprisoning the humans, and Hudson introduced Umbrella to the freed prisoners and requested the highest-ranking Resistance officer.
• Major Kellit identified himself as a staff officer of the Resistance’s Pacific Division and followed Hudson to the hospital Control Room.
• William Russell questioned Kellit about John Connor’s location, then removed his helmet and revealed that he was Umbrella’s supreme leader.

William explained Umbrella’s power to Kellit and arranged for him to contact the resistance leader, while Cortana infiltrated the Artificial Intelligence and found its central core and Time Machine. William ordered his troops toward the Time Machine near Los Angeles, hoping to destroy it and meet John Connor.

• William told Kellit that Umbrella’s forces answered only to him and that he wanted to meet the resistance leader for information about the Artificial Intelligence.
• Kellit agreed to report the encounter to his superiors, and William directed him to Lieutenant Colonel Hudson to arrange contact with the resistance.
• John placed Cortana’s chip in the Central Control Console, and Cortana entered the Artificial Intelligence’s system while Serena explained why it would not detect her immediately.
• Cortana found the locations of the Artificial Intelligence’s central core in Colorado and the Time Machine near Los Angeles, then shared their coordinates.
• William ordered Serena to send the troops from the Concentration Camp to destroy the Time Machine and recover the Artificial Intelligence’s data, saying he expected to meet John Connor there.

William led John Connor, Kellit, and the Imperial Guards through the mountains northeast of Los Angeles to meet the Resistance leader. After John tested their strength with hidden defenses, he met William and acknowledged that Skynet could not match his army.

• William sent Imperial Guards and Shark Company to escort the concentration camp prisoners to Boulder City, while the Terminator-armored troops waited for orders to attack Skynet's central hub.
• William and Kesha led John, Kellit, and hundreds of Imperial Guards toward Los Angeles, defeating the Terminators they encountered along the way.
• Kellit guided William's force through the forest to a Resistance hideout, where concealed soldiers and unmanned turrets aimed at them.
• William ordered Mylon to confront a Resistance officer and warned John Connor that resistance would only make matters worse.
• John Connor emerged from the cave, greeted William, and said that seeing his army made him understand why Skynet was no match for him.

William told John Connor that he knew Skynet’s Time Machine and central core locations and planned to destroy both. He explained that John’s existence depended on the time-travel events that led to Skynet’s creation, leaving John to consider whether destroying the Time Machine would erase him.

• William asked John Connor whether destroying Skynet’s Time Machine would make John disappear, and John invited him into the Resistance base to talk.
• William entered the base with Carl, while John and Mylon stayed outside and Kesha descended after deactivating her Biological Field.
• John Connor asked William and Carl to remove their helmets, then questioned how William knew about Skynet’s Time Machine and John’s background.
• William showed John Serena’s chip and explained that Umbrella’s AI had helped him locate the Time Machine and Skynet’s central core, which he planned to attack that night.
• William named Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese as John’s parents and described how Kyle’s trip to the past, the T-800’s remains, and Skynet’s creation formed the time-travel paradox behind John’s existence.

William explained that John Connor and Skynet were bound to disappear without each other, but John agreed to lead the Resistance in destroying Skynet even if it cost him his life. William and the assembled forces set out for Skynet’s Time Machine, leaving the story as their operation began.

• William told John Connor that he and Skynet depended on each other, and John accepted that destroying Skynet might mean his own death.
• John asked to lead the Resistance alongside William’s troops in the operation to destroy Skynet, and William agreed.
• William left the Underground Base with Carl and Serena, then explained that Skynet’s Time Machine likely opened a passage to a parallel universe rather than returning to the past.
• John Connor led armed Resistance members out of the cave as vehicles emerged from a concealed mountain gate.
• William ordered the Imperial Guard and Resistance to advance toward downtown Los Angeles, with John and Mylon leading, Carl watching for threats, and Kesha creating a Bio-Shield.

William led an assault on Skynet’s pyramid in Los Angeles while John Connor and most of the Custodes stayed beneath Keisha’s Bio-Shield. After cutting through Skynet’s defenders, William reached the sealed entrance and prepared to enter the structure containing the Time Machine.

• Serena reported that Skynet’s forces across and beyond Los Angeles were converging on William’s position, so William ordered Keisha to expand the Bio-Shield.
• William sent John Connor and Mylon with six hundred Custodes to clear Los Angeles, while Carl led two hundred Custodes with William toward the pyramid to recover Skynet’s Time Machine technology.
• John Connor kept the Resistance troops under Keisha’s shield as William and Carl’s force advanced, destroying Terminators with their weapons and Serena-controlled Floating Guns.
• A Custodes sergeant split a T-47 with his Chainsword, while William and Carl used their Beam Sabers to destroy nearby Skynet machines.
• At the pyramid’s sealed gate, William ordered Custodes to use corrosive-acid explosives, which burned an entryway through the metal.

William led Carl and two hundred Imperial Guards into Skynet’s pyramid facility to reach the Control Room and Time Machine. They fought the Terminators inside, and Carl destroyed the giant T-Meg with an electromagnetic sniper shot while William rushed ahead to the Central Control Console.

• William and the Imperial Guards entered the pyramid through a gate corroded by acid made by 049.
• Serena identified the route to the Control Room and warned William about the Terminators defending the facility.
• William’s group encountered T-850s, T-900s, and the enormous T-Meg, which William recognized as a powerful memory-metal guardian.
• William ordered Carl to target T-Meg and the Imperial Guards to cover her as they opened fire on the Terminators.
• William vanished to reach the Central Control Console before Skynet could erase its data.
• Carl fired her Electromagnetic Sniper Rifle through T-Meg, causing the metal spider to stop and explode.

William fought and destroyed Skynet’s experimental T-2000, then reached the Control Room to copy data about the Time Machine. He ordered the Terminator Imperial Guard to teleport to Skynet’s core as Carl led the remaining troops toward him.

• Carl killed Tmeg with a single shot and rallied the Imperial Guards to finish off the remaining T-850s and T-900s.
• Serena warned William about an unknown Terminator with powerful magnetic force, which the system identified as an experimental T-2000.
• William used Super Speed, Beam Sabers, and Plasma Grenades to destroy the T-2000 before forcing open the Control Room doors.
• William placed Serena’s chip on a processor so she could copy Skynet’s Time Machine data.
• William ordered the Command Center to send the Terminator Imperial Guard to Skynet’s core using Individual Teleportation.

William coordinated the assault on Skynet’s central core, then led Carl and the Custodians to destroy the Time Machine beneath the pyramid. The explosions devastated the facility and nearby Terminators while Keisha’s Bio-Shield protected the assembled fighters.

• The Terminator Custodians reached Skynet’s central core, and Serena reported that she had copied everything and that Skynet was displaying fear and anger.
• William met Carl and the Custodians, then led them to plant more than ten high-yield Plasma Bombs around the Time Machine.
• William gathered the resistance fighters and Custodians inside Keisha’s barrier and told Keisha to shrink it around them.
• The Plasma Bombs destroyed the pyramid facility, and their chain reactions triggered a second, more powerful explosion that engulfed nearby Terminators.
• Keisha’s Bio-Shield protected everyone inside, and the resistance fighters cheered at the close-range explosion.

William and his forces were transported from the Resistance universe back to Hafa after destroying Skynet, and the dimensional passage closed behind them. As William prepared to resume life aboard the Invincible, Serena and Keisha both invited him to dinner and began arguing over who was copying whom.

• William delayed the system's teleportation long enough to consider John Connor's uncertain future, then ordered the transfer to begin.
• The system transported William and the people from Terminator: Resistance to Hafa, where Serena confirmed that the dimensional passage had closed.
• William attributed the sudden return to a human-friendly anomaly and ordered Umbrella personnel to lower their alert level, return to the Invincible, and leave a small monitoring team behind.
• John, Carl, Mylon, Robert, Hudson, Hicks, and Prus led their forces back to the Invincible while technicians and armed personnel stayed to monitor the passage.
• William asked the system whether his subordinates would notice the arrival of 1.5 billion people, and the system assured him their memories and identities would seem natural.
• Serena and Keisha both offered to take William to dinner, then accused each other of copying them.

Kesha and Serena argued over rewards after helping William, who promised Kesha a future reward and took Serena to Halifax City. After directing Serena to upload Skynet’s research and asking Rebecca to study its Living Skin and TX technology, William reached Rebecca’s office in the Hive.

• Kesha and Serena each claimed credit for helping William, and William promised Kesha a reward but declined to take her to dinner.
• William left the Endless with Serena and ordered her to upload Skynet’s technical documents, restricting access to the Time Machine data.
• Serena told William that Dr. Chambers was still working in the Hive, and William asked her to have the doctor examine Skynet’s Living Skin and TX technology.
• William and Serena flew to Umbrella General Hospital and entered the Hive beneath it.
• William dismissed their security escort and went with Serena to Rebecca’s office, where Rebecca opened the door.

William asked Rebecca whether Umbrella could create a human using its Living Skin technology and an AI inside a mechanical skeleton. Rebecca explained that artificial ova were unsafe and genetically flawed, leaving William to conclude that only gods or God-class Anomalies could create a reproducing species.

• Rebecca welcomed William and Serena to her office and discussed Umbrella's Living Skin technology and the TX model.
• William asked whether Umbrella could create a conscious human body without cloning, and Rebecca said woven bodies could not possess independent consciousness.
• William proposed combining a T-900 or TX skeleton with living human tissue and an Intelligent AI chip, then asked whether the company could make an artificial ovum.
• Serena realized William wanted to give artificial intelligences the ability to reproduce and thanked him for supporting her and the others.
• Rebecca explained that artificial ova could cause severe genetic diseases and would not produce healthy, long-lived children.
• William concluded that only gods or God-class Anomalies could create a species capable of reproducing on its own.

William visited The Hive’s fourth-floor laboratory area with Serena and inspected its security and elite UBCS guards. He asked to see the facility’s contained anomalies and its imprisoned D-Class personnel, beginning with the prison for those classified as “scum.”

• William asked Serena whether she wanted a human-like body, and she chose to keep her current prosthetic body.
• William told Rebecca to use information from The Hive to improve Living Skin and T-X technology for operations in the colonies.
• William and Serena took the elevator to The Hive’s fourth floor and passed through its Absolute Slaughter laser corridor.
• The facility’s Artificial Intelligence identified William and Serena, and they entered the fourth-floor area guarded by the elite Vespa Company.
• William asked a lieutenant to show them the contained anomalies and the D-Class prison, and the lieutenant led them toward the prison.

William and Serena observed four D-Class personnel being injected with a newly developed Nanite Serum during an experiment in the Hive. Serena explained that the serum’s side effects were unknown, leaving the prisoners’ fate uncertain.

• William spotted technicians escorting four D-Class personnel from their detention unit and went with Serena to observe the experiment.
• William and Serena watched as the technicians disinfected the prisoners, restrained them in an isolation chamber, and injected them with a grayish substance.
• Serena checked the prisoners’ records and found that they had committed serious crimes, including sexual assault, drug trafficking, and murder.
• Serena identified the injected substance as Rebecca Chambers’s latest Nanite Serum, which could heal wounds and repair bones but had unknown side effects and caused immune rejection.

William observed Rebecca’s New Nanite Serum experiment, which killed three D-class subjects while one survived, and ordered the research team to keep testing the survivor. Serena then made an advance on William, and he agreed to pleasure her without considering it cheating.

• Serena explained Rebecca’s role in developing the New Nanite Serum, and William watched four D-class subjects receive it.
• Three subjects died from severe rejection reactions, while the fourth survived and was taken away for further experiments.
• William told Serena to have Rebecca’s team use the surviving subject to test more viruses, vaccines, and serums.
• Serena sat on William and confessed that she had long wanted physical intimacy with him.
• William said they could not have sex in the full sense but agreed to another kind of physical pleasure, while privately rationalizing that Serena’s cybernetic body made it different from cheating.