As Tech-Com launched its final attack on the Time Displacement Facility, Skynet activated the T-800 and assigned it to travel to 1984 to terminate Sarah Connor. The Infiltrator arrived at Griffith Observatory on May 12, 1984. However, while attempting to obtain clothing, the Terminator was attacked by another T-800. The two engaged in a brutal fight, but the T-800 was ironically disabled by a direct hit to its chest from a .50 caliber sniper round fired by Sarah Connor, his intended target. To prevent future technology from altering the flow of history, Sarah and the Guardian took the deactivated T-800 with them to dismantle it.