Overcome with sadness at the song being one of his brother's favorites, Marcus switched it off and barked at Star to get out of the passenger seat. He then got it working and inadvertently activated the radio, which started playing "Rooster" by Alice in Chains, much to Kyle and Star's surprise. While repairing an old Jeep, Marcus accidentally cut himself on a wire and was given a band-aid from Star. In the morning, they traveled to Griffith Observatory to find transport away from Los Angeles. He then fixed their radio, picking up a message from John Connor in the process. Here, Marcus demonstrated how to tether the shotgun to his arm to avoid losing it to an opponent. Knowing their safety had been compromised, Kyle led Marcus and Star back to their hiding place. Before they could decide on this, an HK-Aerial flew in overhead, toppling a building as it passed. At first incredulous that Marcus had no knowledge of events up to that moment, Kyle answered his questions, and Marcus expressed an interest in reaching a Skynet-controlled location. Kyle then held Marcus at gunpoint, accusing him of stealing the uniform of a Resistance fighter, but the cyborg easily disarmed him and demanded to know the date and what happened to the world. Up on the roof, Kyle's young companion, a mute girl named Star, released another trap, crushing the T-600 beneath a box car wheel assembly. It escaped by shooting off its foot, however, and promptly took chase. Following Kyle's lead, Marcus bolted for the nearby building while the T-600 struggled to free itself from a snare trap the youth had set.
Before he could be mowed down, however, Marcus was tackled to the ground by a young man called Kyle Reese who told him: " Come with me if you want to live". Perhaps believing the 600 to be another human, he called out to it, only to immediately come under fire from the machine's mini-gun. Upon arriving, Marcus observed the ruined city from atop the Hollywood banner and then descended into the streets where he encountered a Series 600 Terminator patrolling the city. After composing himself, Marcus took the clothes of a deceased Resistance fighter and started a long walk through the desert, finding a sand-caked road leading into Los Angeles. Hours after the installation had been blown, and night had fallen, Marcus awakened in the ruins of the Skynet VLA and staggered out into the rain-soaked terrain, covered with mud and disoriented, screaming in horror at the world around him. Marcus arrives in Los Angeles " What day is it? What year? What happened here?" - Marcus Wright (to Kyle Reese).ĭuring the TechCom Attack on Skynet VLA, Marcus' "corpse" was on a table, among other dead bodies. Please remove this box after the article has been cleaned up. Please improve this page in any way that you can.įor tips on improving this article, read other articles of the same type and be familiar with editing conventions on the Terminator Wiki. Skynet would later discover his body and add further enhancements to his design, completing the seemingly abandoned work of Cyberdyne Research. He was then stored in an underground facility where he would remain in stasis for 15 years as Judgment Day occurred in the world above.
Marcus' body was taken apart and converted into a unique cyborg, one that still retained his human brain and heart. It is ambiguous as to whether the injection actually killed him or simply placed him in a coma for Serena's project, however. Marcus was then strapped onto a cross-like table and shown to his weeping friends and relatives before being executed by lethal injection. He refused her request up until the day of his execution, upon which he agreed to sign it over in exchange for a final kiss. Serena Kogan, a cancer-stricken scientist who wished for him to sign over his body to her research project. During his time on Death Row, Marcus was visited repeatedly by Dr. Marcus was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death at the Longview State Correctional Facility. Marcus led a disreputable life of petty crime alongside his brother Sam, who was accidentally killed during a botched car-jacking which also saw the deaths of two cops. Marcus Wright (after kissing Serena Kogan) History Early life "So that's what death tastes like".