How did Dani-commander know of Carl?
In Terminator: Dark Fate, Dani-commander in 2042 arranged for Carl's GPS coordinates to be burned on Grace's body (before sending her back in 2020) and told her to go there in case she needed help.
Assuming that the events in 2042 belong to a slightly different timeline (in that Dani-commander did not actually have to be saved from the Rev-9 22 years prior), how did she know about Carl?
Is it assumed that Dani-2042 somehow have met Carl in her past and so in that he had a different story to what was shown in the movie?
Disclaimer: I am not holding my breath regarding Terminator time travel stories (like any other time travel) making consistent sense. After all, time travel back in time is neither theoretically possible nor even eventually/logically coherent. But I am just questioning what could possibly the creators of the movie expect the audience to think on this question, if anything.
Best Answer
In this film, the events that happen in the present do not alter the timeline in any way. I'm only referring to where the movie begins and not the previous timelines.
Dark Fate is set in a timeline that is a result of Terminator 1 and Terminator 2. The movies that came after T2 can be completely ignored.
So, in Dark Fate, we have this one timeline that has little John dying 3 years after the events of Terminator 2. The events of the movie do not alter the future in anyway. The future sends a Terminator and the humans send Grace. Both Grace and the Terminator die without changing any events of the future.
Dani will eventually meet and save young Grace. She will send Grace back with the coordinates of Carl. How does Dani know the Coordinates of Carl? Well because back in 2020 she visited those exact coordinates to run into Carl.
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Who gave Grace the coordinates?
So according to a spoiler review I've seen, the reason they find Carl is because Grace had his coordinates tattooed on her by her Sargent in the future. Considering that Dani is the future leader, she was probably the one who ordered Grace's Sargent to tattoo Carl's coordinates on Grace.Why is Dani so important in Terminator?
In true Terminator fashion, one person from our present becomes the best hope for our future against the machines, and this time it's Dani Ramos. Rather than being the mother of the savior to humanity, Terminator: Dark Fate makes Dani herself the key figure to organizing humans in order to create The Resistance.Who sent Carl Terminator?
Carl was a self-aware T-800 Terminator with a Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Infiltrator outer sheath, who was sent to kill John Connor by Skynet from the future.Who tattooed the coordinates on Grace?
It was Dani who tattooed the coordinates on Grace's body, because she had already been in that house and knew the help she was going to find there.Young Grace First Meet Dani in the Future | Terminator: Dark Fate | 4K HDR
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