"Yeah the scientist was a little to calm after seeing the machine in its true form. He must have known at some point (this point) that he would surely die at the hands of this machine. Why did he not attempt to flee from there when the terminator was baking in the bloody tub? Who knows... guess he wanted to see how things would turn out. Why did he cut open the eyes of the Terminator only to have his own removed to go in there?

Freaky..."

"First off, I'm stunned that you took the time to freeze frame on the white board and write all that down.

Nextly, the formula for epidermal growth is a moot point. It's Science Fiction. FICTION. I know that's not what you were saying and that your post was an attempt at an exploding eyeball joke. Good try.

What bothers me about the whole scene there is that the terminator knows the formula already, so what'd he need the scientist for in the first place? He was able to break into a hospital and steal the blood and plasma he needed, why not just go take the rest of what he needed and take care of himself. Terminators are programmed to repair themselves.

Also, by killing the guy that invented the formula, doesn't that kinda create a paradox? The guy hadn't perfected the formula yet, so his results weren't published. The night he perfects it, he's killed the board with the formula is damaged and unreadable so the formula never gets published. If the formula is never published then how does the Terminator know it? See the big hole there!!!! Granted this is science fiction so anything is possible, I just wish the writers would make things a bit more believable and stop leaving such gaping holes in the story..."

"... He must have known at some point (this point) that he would surely die at the hands of this machine. Why did he not attempt to flee from there when the terminator was baking in the bloody tub? Who knows... guess he wanted to see how things would turn out. Why did he cut open the eyes of the Terminator only to have his own removed to go in there?"

"I'm with Pyus on Skynet developing the skin for the Terminators; I'm not an organic chemist but the formulae looked pretty darn complicated, I'd suggest that the process involved a lot of complex reagents and catalysts that aren't easy to find; rather than take the time to hunt all the separate components down and build his own lab it was far more efficient for the Terminator to locate a researcher who was working in a similar field and hijack his setup, all he need to add was the blood which was relatively easy to obtain. I don't know if we actually saw the tub clearly when the cops found the body, may be the terminator pulled the plug? regardless I doubt CSI's would make much of it, a unique chemical mixture that no one would recognize that wouldn't help them identify the killer? It'd be be buried in the files most likely.

I did think that Scientist should have been more fearfull, and showing the scene where he cuts open the T-800 eyes after the police discover his body was clumsy, would have been just as effective, and less confusing, to show it in its proper sequence. "