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Why does the T-1000 Terminator almost always go back to the same appearance of a policeman?

By often reusing the same face and body shape, it gives itself away. Sarah Connor and John Connor would learn to recognize that face and avoid it.

It could choose many other shapes and faces that Sarah and John never recognized. It saw, touched, or interacted with a bike gang member, employees at the steel foundry, other cops, a scientist, waitresses at the cafe, and a guard at the mental hospital. It could have used any of those. (Or maybe create a whole new face? Or mix and match features and clothes from different people it met.) Seems counter-productive to use the same face every time when it is tracking down Sarah and John at the steel foundry.

The out-of-universe explanation is that Robert Patrick played the villain and the producers wanted the same actor for most scenes in order to get a consistent acting style for the T-1000. Is there an in-universe explanation?

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  • The T-800 recognised the T-1000 immediately, even though it was the first time they'd met. So I guess the T-1000 chose to keep a single face for simplicity, since it now knew about John's protector.
    – Tim
    Commented Aug 31, 2017 at 1:41
  • The T-800 recognizing the T-1000 would have nothing to do with the T-1000's appearance. The T-800 has the ability to detect another cybernetic organism because of other things such as heat signature and whatever other tools its HUD allows it have.
    – Wanting Answers
    Commented Jan 29, 2018 at 9:18

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