# Changes — Terminator 3 (2003) - Brass Monkey

Cut list from the Kdenlive timeline versus the original feature. A hole is a **source-time** window that is not on the video (or sparse audio) playlist.

**Timing caveat:** `Terminator 3 (2003) - Brass Monkey.srt` and `*.kdenlive.ass` are timed to the **cut edition** (`cut ≈ source − cumulative holes`). Label holes with `_sources/theatrical.srt` (DTS-FGT). Picture check wins. Holes 1–15 picture-verified; 16–38 from theatrical SRT.

## Intent

Removes as much Nick Stahl as possible, his narration, strip-club / T-X gag padding, Kate relationship & destiny exposition, and other T3-only clutter — plus Beastie Boys “Brass Monkey” over the caretaker cue (replacing “Dat Funky Man”; see entry after hole 23).

- Kdenlive: `Terminator 3 (2003) - Brass Monkey.kdenlive`
- Cut-timeline subs: `*.srt` / `*.kdenlive.ass` (good on the edit; **not** for hole labeling)
- Source/theatrical subs: `_sources/theatrical.srt`
- Picture holes: **38** (~15.1 min of source removed)

## Removals & additions (source times)

### 1. 00:01:52.844 – 00:02:00.792 (7.9s)

**John opening narration** (partial) — “The future has not been written…” / “My name is John Connor…” over the early open. Short bridge kept, then hole 2.

### 2. 00:02:15.432 – 00:03:55.889 (100.5s)

**Rest of John’s opening narration** (~100s) — Judgment Day / “I live off the grid” / nightmares / “I keep running.” Hole 3 then trims the wake scare (still before motorcycling).

### 3. 00:04:48.465 – 00:05:00.292 (11.8s)

**Lame scare transition** — future T-1000 scare smash-cuts to John waking; more opening narration out. **Not yet** motorcycling. (Not the T-X nude arrival — cut-SRT overlap used to mislabel this.)

### 4. 00:05:04.963 – 00:05:12.596 (7.6s)

**More John dialogue** — opening VO trim into the **motorcycling** handoff. (Not the T-X “I like your car” / Lexus take — same cut-SRT mislabel.)

### 5. 00:07:18.518 – 00:07:20.938 (2.4s)

**T-X nude arrival trim** — “Are you okay?” / rich-woman nude scare snip (2.4s inside the block, not the whole arrival).

### 6. 00:08:41.875 – 00:08:57.891 (16.0s)

**Victoria’s Secret boob FX** — T-X digital breast-expansion / lingerie morph gag.

### 7. 00:09:01.960 – 00:09:05.422 (3.5s)

**Cop-window snip** — short trim just before “I like your gun.”

### 8. 00:09:13.263 – 00:10:43.961 (90.7s)

**Big early-act bridge** (~91s) — opens on **“I like your gun”** (~00:09:14), then Kate + boyfriend shopping, military Skynet-building spoiler, Kate uncertainty + dad call. Joins on military identifying the new virus. (Strip club is holes 9–10.)

### 9. 00:14:09.509 – 00:14:14.306 (4.8s)

**Nude Schwarzenegger / “talk to the hand” strip club** — head snip of the T-850 nude arrival / stripper-club gag (continues in hole 10).

### 10. 00:14:19.228 – 00:15:21.647 (62.4s)

**Nude Schwarzenegger / “talk to the hand” strip club** (bulk) — rest of the nude arrival, stripper-club business, and gag.

### 11. 00:15:28.987 – 00:15:49.508 (20.5s)

**Funny glasses** — T-850 Elton John–style shades gag after the clothes grab.

### 12. 00:19:09.509 – 00:19:13.388 (3.9s)

**Junkies comment** — short dialogue trim (John / animal-hospital beat).

### 13. 00:20:36.787 – 00:21:07.674 (30.9s)

**Obnoxious cat-woman dialogue** — vet/clinic beat that only makes the audience want her dead; bad character programming.

### 14. 00:21:18.477 – 00:21:26.610 (8.1s)

**Mike Kripke’s basement** — “we made out in Mike Kripke’s basement” / junior-high reminisce.

### 15. 00:25:56.223 – 00:26:01.752 (5.5s)

**Plot-hole bargain (setup)** — Kate: “If I tell you, will you let me go?” / T-X: “Yes.” Payoff in hole 16.

### 16. 00:26:12.012 – 00:26:16.016 (4.0s)

**Plot-hole bargain (payoff)** — Kate: “You said that you'd let me go.” / T-X: “I lied.”

### 17. 00:31:39.873 – 00:31:49.466 (9.6s)

**Cemetery caretaker / company-car rant** — “Look what you did to my car” / “Get your ass out of the car.”

### 18. 00:31:56.390 – 00:32:02.544 (6.2s)

**Kidnapping / backseat panic** — Kate yelling for help while T-850 drives off.

### 19. 00:38:23.273 – 00:38:41.541 (18.3s)

**Post-knockout check** — “No sign of brain trauma” / “Yeah, I'm fine, thanks.”

### 20. 00:41:15.682 – 00:41:32.574 (16.9s)

**Particularly cringy T-X exposition** — “You'll find a way to destroy her” (did he read the script?) plus obsolete T-850 vs faster/smarter T-X lecture.

### 21. 00:41:40.958 – 00:41:51.677 (10.7s)

**“Anti-Terminator Terminator” gag** — “So she's an anti-Terminator Terminator?” / “You've gotta be shitting me.”

### 22. 00:42:15.390 – 00:42:18.268 (2.9s)

**Cage / “Let me out” snip.**

### 23. 00:42:33.784 – 00:42:42.292 (8.5s)

**Radio dead-air beat** — “Man, this is wack” / every station out.

### Brass Monkey add — 00:42:38.355 – 00:43:30.098 (~51.7s)

**Add** Beastie Boys **“Brass Monkey”** (`ost/Brass Monkey.mp3`) over the dead-radio / gas-station caretaker stretch; **replaces** theatrical **“Dat Funky Man”** (not the early strip-club “talk to the hand”). Overlaps hole 23, covers caretaker “Are you gonna pay for that?” and **“Talk to the hand.”** (~00:43:14); ends ~00:43:30 before jerky / “You're kidnapping me.”

### 24. 00:45:07.090 – 00:47:15.599 (128.5s)

**Kate/John destiny + Kripke make-out reminisce** (~2.1 min) — fiancé talk, “something terrible has to happen,” Mike Kripke’s basement / “we hooked up” coincidence speech.

### 25. 00:47:24.900 – 00:47:55.264 (30.4s)

**Scott homecoming** — T-X-as-Scott “Hon? Did you just get in?” (and surrounding beat).

### 26. 00:50:06.506 – 00:50:45.837 (39.3s)

**Sarah / leukemia / Baja** — mom fought long enough “to make sure the world didn't end.”

### 27. 00:52:23.649 – 00:53:21.688 (58.0s)

**TX / John “not the one you want” psych** — leave-me-here despair, then “Anger is more useful than despair.” (Not the “cash only” / “I can't get a line” beat — that’s later.)

### 28. 00:53:44.503 – 00:53:51.051 (6.5s)

TBD (silent) — confirm on picture.

### 29. 00:56:28.278 – 00:56:35.702 (7.4s)

**Future kids / “She's your wife.”**

### 30. 01:01:43.126 – 01:02:09.134 (26.0s)

**Breeding-age / pair-bonding** — John doubts Kate destiny; T-850 has no pair-bond data.

### 31. 01:04:38.872 – 01:05:26.485 (47.6s)

**“Fuck my destiny” / gun-to-head** — cannot self-terminate; 83% he won’t pull the trigger.

### 32. 01:05:44.878 – 01:05:53.470 (8.6s)

TBD (silent) — confirm on picture.

### 33. 01:07:15.265 – 01:07:39.039 (23.8s)

**Kate = spouse / second-in-command** — future-role dump + “you're not exactly my type.”

### 34. 01:10:20.604 – 01:10:51.301 (30.7s)

**Kripke basement (again) + levity** — first-kiss reminisce; “Your levity is good… fear of death.”

### 35. 01:22:30.781 – 01:22:41.375 (10.6s)

**“You remind me of my mother.”**

### 36. 01:24:27.778 – 01:24:31.198 (3.4s)

**“Just die, you bitch!”**

### 37. 01:31:20.979 – 01:31:33.742 (12.8s)

TBD (silent) — confirm on picture.

### 38. 01:37:55.055 – 01:38:11.470 (16.4s)

**Crystal Peak empty** — “Goddamn it!” / “There's nothing here!”