WHY WAS JOHN SPOOKED BY T-800S APPEARANCE?
According to the novelization, John knew T-800’s face from the newspaper clippings and knew it’s probably the person responsible for the ’84 Police Massacre and the same person that his mother believed to be a Terminator. Novelization: In an instant, John recognized the face. he had seen it many times in the newspaper clippings his mother had shown him as he was growing up. It was that guy. The crazy dude who shot up that police station. The one his mother thought was a terminator.