The robot finding Sarah makes no sense

Just to add, the 'cop with NO intuition whatsoever' just.. let me get this straight.

A huge, bodybuilder-looking goofball in leather jacket wearing sunglasses at night asks in what sounds like german accent and broken english in a monotone, emotionless voice about a PROTECTED WITNESS, and the cop CONFIRMS that she's in the building, and even tells what she's doing.

WHAT?

WHY?

What kind of sense does THAT make?

It still bugs me so much that the robot would flick the car lights on and off in sync with the cuts, so the cop's face is lit by the car's headlights that are turned off when we see the car..

In any case, this whole thing where the robot so easily and casually finds where Sarah is being detained makes no sense. It should've been looking at every police station in the city, and how the heck can it even know what a police station is? Just how much data does this simple terminating machine carry with it? Surely it can't carry all Skynet's intimate knowledge about infrastructures, how cities operate, the police, the fire departments and all that kind of stuff all the way down to how social structures work and how people behave and and...

This movie seems to make less sense every time I watch it.

I wish someone could write a movie that makes sense. Sigh.

Were suppose to believe based on what we've so far seen that the terminator is resourceful. It knows how too find out all kinds of things, like looking in the phone book to track Sarah Connor. It also somehow found her mothers place of residence later on. How's that? In this instance that your asking about, perhaps the terminator was somehow able to follow the police to where they took her. It is a good question, but in movies there's often much left up to our own imaginations.

It made perfect sense. This takes place in LA where the police have been defunded, so theres only 1 police station that Sarah can be at. And 30 cops is expected to be enough protection for her. As usual, you don't get it

It lied. You think an evil robot from the future has to tell the truth or something.

Some of that you just have to accept for the sake of the movie.

As far as the initial part, the last time the Terminator encountered them they were swarmed by cops, so it made sense to check with police stations to see if she was there. Saying he was told she was there was a way to get the cop to admit she was there or perhaps give away what station she might be at.

As far as the cop giving it away, I couldn't really say exactly. Sarah and Reese would have been arrested when brought in and perhaps it's possible the front clerk wasn't privy to any further details; so didn't know her current situation beyond that she was in the middle of giving a statement regarding her arrest.

And yes, a giant leather clad roid monster coming in and asking about Sarah would seemingly be suspect but having infiltrator units in the form of 250 pound Olympic body builders doesn't make much sense in the first place, so you have to pretend this guy is something you'd see as "normal". Though, it is LA. =P

If I'm thinking of the right scene, I always assumed that he just looked up where the local police station was and figured she would be taken there.

The Terminator has detailed files on L.A. police station addresses.