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• On the since discontinued 'Ultimate Edition' DVD, there are three versions of the film, albeit only two at the menu, the Theatrical and Special Edition versions. However, highlighting the 'Special Edition' option and keying in '82997' (August 29, 1997), will open a Extended Special Edition Option, with the T-1000 searching John's room and an Alternate ending added on and replaced. Some DVD players may need to push ENTER between each digit.
  
  
• A special edition is available on laserdisc and videocassette. This features many scenes deleted from the theatrical version before release.
  
  
• After the pre-med students peer into Sarah's room, doctor Silberman reminds the orderlies to make sure she gets her medication. They come in to give her the pills, smack her in the gut with their sticks and force the pills down her throat, then kick her while she's on the floor doubled over in pain.
  
  
• Sarah Connor has a dream where Reese (Michael Biehn) appears and warns her that THEIR son is in danger and she has to save him. They kiss and then leaves her cell. She follows him and suddenly arrives at a playground full of children and watches as they're blown away by a nuclear explosion. She wakes up.
  
  
• After the chase in the storm drain. The T-1000 walks over the bridge, into which the "big black truck" crashed. Firemen are working. Then the T-1000 steals a police car.
  
  
• After the T-1000 kills John's foster parents, he ventures outside to get the dog to shut-up. He reaches down and snatches the collar off the dog, thus killing the dog. On the collar is stamped the dog's name ''Max''. The T-1000 realizes he has been duped by John (actually the T-800 imitating John's voice) by calling the dog ''Wolfie''.
  
  
• After killing the dog, the T-1000 goes to John's room to try to find any clues as to where John might be. He stalks around the room waving his arms and ''feeling'' things on the shelves, on the walls, etc. He eventually stops in front of a poster and realizes there is something behind it. He rips it down and finds a box of mementos (pictures, and the like). This scene does not appear in the film but is added to the supplemental section "The making of T2" included in the laserdisc and video box set.
  
  
• At the abandoned gas station, Sarah and John talk with the T-800 about learning. He tells them that his CPU was switched to read-only before being sent out. Cyberdyne doesn't want them to learn too much while on their own. John asks can it be switched and he says yes. You then see the T-800's face in a ''mirror'' talking Sarah through the procedure. After the CPU is removed, the T-800 shuts-down and Sarah places it on a table. She picks up a hammer and tries to smash it to render him inoperative. John stops her and says they need him. He starts to show authority for the first time and says to Sarah, ''How am I supposed to be a world leader if my own mother won't listen to me?''
  
  
• While refueling at the gas station, John attempts to teach the T-800 to smile. He tells him that he looks like a dork because he doesn't smile. He studies a man on the phone and tries to copy him.
  
  
• Dyson is seen at home working on the Skynet chip prototype. His wife comes in and reminds him he's promised to take the kids to Raging Waters. Dyson explains to his wife what a neural net processor is and how it will change mankind for the better.
  
  
• At Enrique's house, John and the T-800 are stacking up ammunition. They start to talk about emotions and fear of death. John describes his childhood and his feelings about his mother's previous lovers.
  
  
• At Dyson's home at night, a series of restored shots show Sarah Connor assembling her weapons, thus building the tension of Sarah Connor stalking Dyson outside in his backyard.
  
  
• John and the T-800 race after Sarah to prevent her killing Dyson. The T-800 argues that getting rid of Dyson might be the best thing after all, but John replies that killing is always wrong.
  
  
• At Cyberdyne, Dyson shatters a large scale model of the Skynet chip with an axe.
  
  
• In the factory after the T-1000 is shattered by the Terminator, we see that it's beginning to lose control of its morphing. Its hand takes on black and yellow stripes when it grabs a black and yellow striped railing, and its feet squish and morph into the steel floor pattern on each step. When it morphs into Sarah Connor, John looks down and sees that the T-1000/Connor's feet have melded into the steel floor right before the real Connor begins blasting away at it.
  
  
• The supplemental section features a new ending, set in the future, where Sarah Connor is seen as an old woman in a playground filled with children.
  
  
• The UK video version is also rated "15" but, in addition to the above, there are a few more cuts: for example, the scene in an underground garage where the T-800 pulls a policemen out of a patrol car doesn't show him hitting face-first into a concrete pillar. An uncut 18-rated version is available in the UK on laserdisc.
  
  
• The UK (T1000 Edition) video release also omits one scene from the theatrical version. In the original movie and video release, during the Cyberdyne break-in sequence, Dyson and John are seen entering the security vault and smashing the glass cases to obtain the Terminator arm and CPU, John then saying "We've got Skynet by the balls now". In the T1000 Edition, we only see Dyson and John using their keys to get inside the vault before the scene cuts away.
  
  
• The UK Network version has a few more changes. This special edition has all extra scenes mentioned above (except the alternate ending).
  • There is a short extra scene where you can see Sarah picking the lock of her cell just before the scene where the guard feels lucky at the coffee-machine.
  • In the armory in the desert Sarah warns her friend Enrique to get away.In the armory itself John talks to the T-800 and asks if he was ever afraid.
  • The drive to Dyson's house to stop Sarah has extra dialogue where John tells the T-800 that killing is wrong.
  • At Cyberdyne an extra scene that shows Sarah, Dyson and the T-800 collecting things and putting them next to the explosives.
  • The end-credits have an additional section covering the 'Special Edition'. This includes Michael Biehn in 'Additional Cast'.
  
  
  
• In the Spanish version "Hasta la vista, baby" was changed to "Sayonara, baby" to keep the humorous sense of the phrase.
  
  
• The version shown on ABC May 15, 1994, alters the following:
  • Omission of the scene in the bar where Arnold twists the man's arm and pins him to the pool table
  • Robert Patrick's nudity is obscured by strategically-placed silhouettes
  • Omission of the man who's shot by the T-1000's gunfire in the lobby
  • The orderly who licks Linda Hamilton is only hit with the night stick once in the TV version
  • Arnold only shoots the guard outside the institution once in the legs
  • Omission of the shot showing the blade going through the foster father's mouth
  • Nearly all profanities (including "hell" and "damn") deleted or dubbed over.
  
  
  
• The version shown on the WB deletes all explicit profanity. Also deleted are the shots of the T-1000's spike impaling the guard through the eye, the foster father's death (it simply cuts to the shot where the blade is pulled out), the trucker getting impaled by the T-1000s blade, the biker getting the knife stabbed into him, Robert Patrick's nudity, and the guards do not spurt blood when shot in the knees. The version shown on the Sci-fi channel has deleted Robert Patrick's nudity and edits out the profanity quite well. All though it leaves the spike impalement scenes in it deletes the scene where the T-800 stabs the biker and breaks his arm.
  
  
• On the WB broadcast, the word "dips**t" has been redubbed "dipstick."
  
  
• In the storyboards section on the Ultimate Edition DVD, there is evidence of an early scripted scene. Set right in the beginning of the movie, it shows various battle scenes of the war until in one of them, a terminator who is aiming his gun at a soldier suddenly shuts down (we see the red glow in his eye fading out), as do the others and the several hoverships and tanks. This early draft actually described soldiers penetrating skynet and destroying it, finding the terminator factory with many terminators in both skeleton and disguised form (Arnold's), and eventually sending both Kyle Reese and the reprogammed T-800 (good Arnold) back to the past.
  
  
• The Australian theatrical release of T2 contained many of the scenes that would eventually make it onto the special edition. These included the dream sequence with Reese (but not Sarah being beaten up by the guards) and the malfunctioning of the T1000 in the steel works factory and even the alternate ending with Sarah as an older woman and John with a child of his own playing in the park. However the rental video release and subsequent home video releases were all the standard version.
  
  
• T2: Extreme DVD contains three versions of the film: the "extreme" (director's cut extended) version, and the theatrical version are on the first DVD. A special 1600x1200 Windows Media Video version is on the second DVD that can only be played on a VERY fast computer with DVD reader. The first DVD also has most of the deleted scenes accessible via the "interactive mode" as a part of the menu. Such deleted scenes includes "T1000 searches John's Room", "Alternate Older Sarah Ending", and tons of commentary from producer, director, special effects, composer, sound editor, and more. There are even storyboards for the various sequences that never made it to film, such as the "soldiers enter Skynet room found time machine", "alternate dream where playground is a launch facility", the "T1000 found Salceda camp" scene, and more.
  
  
• The UK (T1000 Edition) features a dialogue change: as the police arrive at the Cyberdyne building during the break-in, we see a shot from inside a police car. In the original theatrical and video cut, this features the voice of a female officer over the radio giving details about the suspects involved, including one who is wanted over the deaths of police officers in 1984 (The Terminator's attack on the police station in the original movie). This is in fact a continuation of the radio message that the T-1000 hears just after he arrives at Dyson's house. Since a scene has been added at this point in the Special Edition (Dyson smashing the CPU model), this dialogue is replaced with the voice of one of the officers in the vehicle asking for reconfirmation of the name and location of the breakin.
  
  
• The British Board of Film Classification requested some cuts before giving the film a "15" certificate in the UK (prior to it being passed uncut for the Special Edition DVD). For the cinema version edits were made to reduce the blows delivered to the security guard by Sarah with the wooden broom handle. The video versions were cut by a further 18 secs with edits to gunshots and blows including a reduction in the knee-capping scenes, closeups of stab wounds and a shortening to the scene of Sarah lock-picking. All the cuts were fully waived in 2001.
  
  

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