Sam Worthington's Marcus Wright is the new kid on the post-Judgment Day block in "Terminator Salvation," the success and novelty of which depends on the mystery of the character's personal history.
The decommissioned Terminator's sudden appearance should prompt a battle-hardened John Connor (Christian Bale) to beat answers out of this mysterious newcomer, the true nature of which has fans of the movie franchise speculating about.
"Complications," a season two episode of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," reveals that in the future Skynet captures members of the human resistance to study and emulate for the purposes of infiltration and termination of its targets.
Marcus Wright, whom the official movie trailer shows does not have any memory of Judgement Day, could be a sleeper agent that has learned to emulate human beings so well that he believes he is one and forgets that he is a cybernetic organism. That or Skynet does not trust Terminators with a lot of information other than on how to kill targets. Maybe "Terminator Salvation" explains why.
Or could Marcus Wright be the embodiment of Skynet itself? Maybe this is the first attempt by the computer system to reconnoiter human culture and use acquired intelligence to develop a basic blueprint from which to develop humanoid Terminators - T800s.
That would explain why John Connor says to him in the trailer, "You tried to kill my mother. You killed my father. You will not kill me." Only Skynet or the original T-800 Arnold Schwarzenegger model could be tied to that rap sheet.
"Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines" made about anything possible.
What is improbable is that Marcus Wright will tear the skin off a dead John Connor, wear it and assume command of the human resistance in order to maintain morale at the end of "Terminator Salvation," as was written in the original draft of the screenplay.
Allowing a machine to turn the tide of the war against Skynet is improbable because it would diminish the significance of human beings in the overall story and of the past three Terminator movies.
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