A novelização oficial do T2: Judgment Day por Randall Frakes descreve o som assim:
The T-1000 took the round directly in the belly. The grenade exploded inside its body. A huge hole drilled clean through it, and ripped the torso open, peeling back, half inside out. Its center of gravity radically shifted, the T-1000 toppled off the edge into the molten steel. John ran up to Sarah and they watched in horror as the thing’s head and upper body reappeared above the molten steel.
It was screaming. A terrifying, inhuman siren of a scream, as all its molecules were searching for the right channels back into its proper structure, but the intense heat and volubility of the molten metal around it confused them.
Presumivelmente, o grito é parte da mesma resposta convulsiva que a tentativa (fútil) de encontrar uma forma que resista ao calor.