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The T-850 Infiltrator is a Series 850 Terminator sent back from the future by Skynet, just before the destruction of Skynet Core, in order to kill Jacob Rivers, who was listed the second of Skynet's kill list as he was the messenger who gave John Connor the location of Skynet Central Core.
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Jacob Rivers. Marked for termination.
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The Infiltrator is a Series 850 unit, programmed to locate and kill Jacob Rivers. It also warned Skynet about the threat Rivers presented when it arrived from the future. The T-850 then approached the headquarters of the Resistance's Pacific Division in Pasadena, where Rivers was stationed, before it called reinforcements and accelerated the Annihilation Line to Jacob's position. Jacob saw him annihilate his Division almost single-handed.
Likely having seen Rivers flee Pasadena with a group of survivors, the Infiltrator tracked him back to an abandoned Resistance headquarters where it was spotted by another Pasadena survivor named Colin who mistook him as another scavenger, and followed it into a warehouse. It then killed Colin and waited until Rivers walked into an ambush searching for Colin but before the machine could carry out its programming, Rivers was saved by the future version of himself.
Later, the T-850 followed Rivers to the hideout that he was sharing with the group he fled Pasadena with but was again stopped by the future version of Rivers as he arrived first, giving everyone enough time to get away before blowing the building and causing it to collapse on the Infiltrator. Both the T-850 and the future Rivers survived, but this caused the Infiltrator to lose track of Rivers. It then began disrupting Resistance operations by killing two of South Division's messengers and using their radios to listen in on their communications. Disguissed as a Resistance member, it also delivered a message for the Downtown Outpost to set their defense systems to "non hostile" which made a Skynet incursion into the area much easier, and after that, he led the massive assault.
After learning the T-850 had targeted Rivers, Jessica Baron set up an ambush plan and engaged the machine. It was not only stronger than other Terminators for the current period of time, it also brought a second-generation Skynet plasma minigun to fight against its attackers. After a long and grueling battle, the T-850 was eventually defeated and taken apart for further examination. It was through this victory that the Resistance learned of the terrifying truth about how Skynet was evolving its tactics in infiltration.
At a certain point before its destruction, the T-850 possibly warned Skynet about its defeat in the near future, allowing the AI to relocate its central core to a safer place. Terminator: Resistance
Notes[]
- Chronologically, this Terminator was one of the first Infiltrator cyborgs in Resistance timeline and the only one for months. It appears to have been tracking Rivers all this time.
- In later visits to the Resistance base, the T-850's body is seen over a table, being studied by Alvin Scott, and Rivers can stole his CPU in a covert mission assigned him by Edwin Mack. However, after Skynet's forces invaded the base, the body was nowhere to be seen.
- Much later, if Jacob is successful in taking and reprogramming the T-850's CPU chip at a certain point in the game, that CPU would be used to program the T-800 Terminator that John Connor sent back into the past to protect his younger self from the T-1000.
- Its jacket is similar to those worn by the original T-800, which was taken from Mark after arriving in 1984.
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