Cromartie is a fictional cyborg terminator sent back from the future to kill John Connor in the 2008 Fox Broadcasting television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. He is portrayed by Owain Yeoman in the premiere episode and Garret Dillahunt thereafter.^[1] Josh Friedman (born 1967) is an American screenwriter best known as the writer of the 2005 adaptation of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds. ... Owain Yeoman (born 2 July 1978) is a Welsh actor who starred in two canceled series, The Nine and Kitchen Confidential. ... Garret Dillahunt as Jack McCall Garret Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964 in Alameda, California) is an American actor who began his career on Broadway but later began pursuing film and television roles. ... Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ... For other uses, see Cyborg (disambiguation). ... An 800-series terminator endoskeleton, a robot-only version of the cyborg played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. ... For other persons named John Connor, see John Connor (disambiguation). ... The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Owain Yeoman (born 2 July 1978) is a Welsh actor who starred in two canceled series, The Nine and Kitchen Confidential. ... Garret Dillahunt as Jack McCall Garret Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964 in Alameda, California) is an American actor who began his career on Broadway but later began pursuing film and television roles. ...

According to the FOX site recap of "The Turk", Cromartie's model number is the T-888.^[2] In "Heavy Metal", when Cameron is scanning Cromartie's head in the video footage, her head-up display identifies it as a model T-888. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

In the "Pilot", he is a substitute teacher in the high school class that John is attending in 1999 and identifies himself as "Cromartie". During roll call, he removes a pistol that was concealed under his flesh and when John acknowledges his attendance, he attempts to kill John. John escapes due to the timely intervention of Cameron Phillips. He follows them home and engages Cameron in battle again. Unable to destroy him, Cameron instead shocks him with a live wire, incapacitating him for two minutes. For other senses of this term, see roll call (disambiguation). ...

Cromartie eventually tracks John, Sarah and Cameron to a bank vault, demonstrating his model's immense strength by tearing apart the vault door with his bare hands. Intercepting them right before they travel to 2007, he ends up shot by an energy rifle that was hidden in the vault.

It is later revealed, however, that he survived, although his biological covering was destroyed, and his head separated from his body. The head is found by a salvager. The head is able to reactivate the body and able to guide it to its position. After killing the salvager and reattaching the head to its body, the Cromartie terminator, under heavy disguise, searches for new biological covering.

His search leads him to a medical scientist, Dr. Flemming, who specializes in cellular growth. When Cromartie shows him a formula that would create artificial flesh at an exponential rate, Dr. Flemming is eager to complete the task. However, after the cyborg receives his new flesh covering, he kills the scientist and takes his eyes to cover his own.

Cromartie later seeks the aid of a plastic surgeon, Dr. David Lyman, to build him a new face. After scanning through pictures of all of Dr. Lyman's patients, he chooses the face of George Lazlo, since he is a 92% structural match. He later kills Dr. Lyman and Lazlo, and takes over Lazlo's identity.

Cromartie later masquerades as FBI agent Robert Kester, and uses his false credentials to find Sarah and John. However, Agent James Ellison finds out, and attempts to capture him with a SWAT team. The entire team is killed except for Ellison, who is left face to face with Cromartie in a final showdown. When Ellison lowers his gun in resignation, Cromartie simply walks away without firing.

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