Kyle Reese Tech Com under Sgt Perry DN38416 (1984)

NAME – KYLE REESE
GENDER – MALE
AGE – 27
HEIGHT – 6’
EYE COLOUR – GREEN
OCCUPATION - SOLDIER
STATUS – DECEASED 1984

Kyle Reese was born after the nuclear attacks. He was later captured by Skynet forces as a child and to survive he was forced to work in one of Skynet's concentration camps, where others are sent to their deaths. His freedom would come when a resistance movement, led by John Connor, freed him and the others from Skynet. Afterwards, Reese served in the 132nd Infantry under Justin Perry from 2021 to 2027, before transferring to Tech-Com under John Connor, someone he would come to admire and (coincidentally) consider his closest friend. Eventually, the resistance would rally enough remaining human forces to launch a successful, final assault on Skynet's central complex.
The final assault would eventually allow the human resistance to cripple Skynet, as Reese explains in The Terminator. In 2029, the resistance was able to smash through the last of Skynet's defense grids, allowing them to enter Skynet's main compound and destroy it. Skynet however would have a final, unexpected option: using experimental time displacement equipment, Skynet would send one of its most feared machines, a T-800 series Terminator, back to pre-apocalypse Los Angeles, California on May 12, 1984, to assassinate the young Sarah Connor, known to have been the mother of resistance leader John Connor, and thus prevent the birth of Connor and the success of his future rebellion.
Realizing what Skynet was attempting to do, Connor sends a soldier to intercept the Terminator. It would be Sergeant Kyle Reese who would volunteer. Once he had gone through, the time displacement equipment would be destroyed, leaving only him and the Terminator in 1984.

Arriving unarmed and not knowing what the Terminator looks like in its human disguise, Reese locates and follows Sarah Connor, shadowing her until the T-800 attempts to carry out its mission. He rescues her, warning her of the impending doom of the human race and of the future significance carried by her and her unborn son. Though initially hostile towards Reese, Sarah grows to trust and love him as he becomes the only thing between her and the Terminator. On the run from the Terminator, Reese and Sarah share a moment of intimacy, in which her son and future leader John Connor is conceived.
Having grown up in the future where the machines had all but wiped out the human race, Reese is both physically and mentally hardened. His body is scarred from action against the machines, including healed burns as a result of wounds sustained after destroying an enemy, as witnessed in a nightmare when he tries to sleep.

Though hard and battle weary, Reese had a love for Sarah Connor, a woman whom he had never met and only knew through a photo. The affection Kyle Reese felt for Sarah was based on the legend that surrounded her and on the image of her from the photograph given to him by John Connor.
Reese's life, however, is cut short when both he and Sarah are forced to confront the Terminator. After a high speed chase where he is wounded by gunfire and thinking that they destroyed the Terminator in an explosion of a fuel truck, they are again chased by the now-metal endoskeleton inside an automated factory, later revealed to be owned by Cyberdyne Systems.
Kyle turns on various mechanical equipment as visual cover while the Terminator batters its way through the door. After Sarah accidentally turns on a machine, they are discovered by the Terminator. After reaching the stairs of a footwalk, Reese tells Sarah to run for cover while Kyle tries to beat the Terminator with a metal pipe.


The Terminator knocks Kyle to the deck of the footwalk, though dazed, Reese reaches for his last homemade pipe bomb, lights it, and wedges it in between the Terminator's pelvic strut and torso. The Terminator is blown apart, and Reese is killed. The Terminator, though blown in half and missing an arm, is not destroyed. A wounded Sarah is able to find enough courage and resolve to destroy it, crushing the machine inside a mechanical press. While being taken away by paramedics soon afterward, Sarah tearfully watches as Reese's dead body is zipped up in a body bag and taken away.
Sarah stops at a gas station in the deserts of Mexico six months later, already well into her pregnancy, and is debating to herself whether or not she should ever tell John who his father is. Eventually, she decides that she will, reflecting that Kyle deserves to be remembered for his sacrifice and contribution. Although Kyle Reese died not knowing that he was John Connor's father, John himself would know. Just then a young Mexican boy takes Sarah's picture with a Kodamatic camera, and gives the developed photo to her; it is the same photo Connor would eventually give to Reese.

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