Dr. Silberman
The psychiatrist who wrote off Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor as delusional.
Dr. Peter Silberman is a psychiatrist who works for the state of California and with the Los Angeles Police Department. He is portrayed by Earl Boen in the first three Terminator films. In The Terminator he is brought in to question Kyle Reese, the soldier sent from the future to protect Sarah Connor, and downplays Reese's story as delusional.
Quick Facts
- Role
- Psychiatrist
- First appears
- The Terminator (1984)
- Key association
- Sarah Connor
Lore & Background
In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Silberman is the chief psychiatrist at Pescadero State Hospital, where Sarah Connor is held. Sarah briefly uses him as a hostage, threatening to inject him with poison to force his staff to release her. He is left stunned when he briefly witnesses the T-800 and the T-1000 during her escape, particularly after seeing the T-1000 morph through a barred door.
Reader's Guide
In The Terminator, Silberman leaves the police station before the Terminator's attack, briefly passing it in the corridor. By Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines he has resigned from Pescadero and become a post-trauma counsellor; he tries to comfort Kate Brewster, and flees after seeing the T-800 for himself and recognizing it as a Terminator.
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