In 2029, Resistance soldier Flo Langer makes it inside the "center of the regional mind" of Skynet, during the last battle for humanity. The Resistance is all but wiped out, Flo is on desperate mission to look through Skynet's database to find what person is most directly responsible for it's creation, having been told by John Connor that it was a human mind that helped Skynet become self-aware. The target is identified as Alex Murphy, a Detroit police officer. Flo learns that it was because he was later made into a cyborg, and the unique components of that brain held the secret to making Skynet self-aware. She activates the Time Displacement Equipment to go back in time and kill Officer Murphy.