Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles Quotes

Sarkissian: If I was gonna sell you the Turk, you'd have had it by now. So this is my counter offer, the money you were gonna pay me for the Turk, you take that number and you multiply it by four.
Sarah Connor: $2 million?
Sarkissian: You're a fugitive, Ms. Connor, might make that a small price for freedom.
[Derek grabs him and throws him against the wall]
Derek Reese: Here's my counter offer. You tell us where the Turk is, we keep our money, and I bury you in the back yard.

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Cameron[To John]: You haven't spoken for 28 minutes.
John Connor: Well, it's nothing…All right, my birthday's tomorrow, okay? I know that mom totally forgot.
Cameron: Birthday?
John Connor: Hey, you don't know what a birthday is?
Cameron: It's the day you were born.
John Connor: Pretty memorable for a mother, right?
Cameron: But it was 16 years ago.
John Connor: No, a birthday's like a holiday. Like once a year, every year, people just kind of celebrate you, I guess. And you get presents and you eat cake and it's fun. It's supposed to be. Last year, mom got me a flak jacket.
Cameron: That's a tight present.
John Connor: No, it's not. Whatever, look, I don't know why I care. I've been driving since I was 12, and, technically, this is my 24th birthday. It's just I time traveled over eight of them.
Cameron: Do I have a birthday?
John Connor: I don't know. Were you born?
Cameron: I was built.
John Connor: Well, then, maybe you have like a built day.

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Morris: Wow, Is this your car?
Cameron: No, it belongs to the guy I killed and stuffed in the trunk.

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Morris[To Cameron]: Um, you think maybe you might wanna go to the prom with me?
[Cameron is confused]
John Connor: Just say yes!
Cameron: Yes!
Morris[To himself]: Yes, yes, yes!

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Cameron[Refers to the dead guy in the trunk]: He was a threat to us.
John Connor: Did he say a name, a location?
Cameron: He said very little, and then he was quiet.

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[Sarkissian locked himself into a panic room]
Sarah Connor: Can you get through the door?
Cameron: Yes. But the wall would be much faster.

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[Ellison finds Comartie’s disguise in the FBI database]
Greta Simpson: Come on, what are you saying? That this guy somehow killed six people and then found a plastic surgeon who made him look identical to George Lazlo? And then what? Killed Lazlo, stole his identity, and then put himself in the FBI Database as this guy, Kester? To what end? What's the goal here? Who is he?
James Ellison: What is he.
Greta Simpson: What is he?
James Ellison: Yeah. What is he? What is he, that stands across from a man after killing two other men within 36 hours. And when asked of his involvement, cannot only lie, but lie well? And not only lie well, but not blink, or twitch, or perform one simple human reaction to the situation. So, yes, I think it's fair to ask: What is he?
Greta Simpson[Obliviously]: You know as well as I, some men are monsters.
James Ellison: Yeah...monsters...

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[John is busy decrypting Sarkissian’s hard drive]
John Connor: Look, he double-encrypted the drive. I've unlocked a lot of it, but there's still a lot left to go through.
Sarah Connor: How much?
John Connor: That's about a thousand useful files. Each one takes about five minutes to decrypt and I'm on number 37. You do the math.

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Derek Reese[Commenting about the park]: It’s beautiful here isn’t it? When you stay long enough, you start to fooling yourself thinking that this is how it always gonna be. And then you remember what the place looks like when it’s on fire, you realize you will do whatever it take to keep from watching it burn again.

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[A young boy reveals his last name as Reese]
John Connor[To Derek]: So…is that you? And the younger one, is that…
Derek Reese: Kyle…Looks pretty good for a five year old, huh? [Referring to Kyle]Your father always had a nice arm.
John Connor: How did you know?
Derek Reese: Every time I look at you, I see him. Besides, your mom was his type.
[John is moved by the scene]
Derek Reese: Happy birthday.

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[Scene shows the aftermath of Comartie’s attack against Ellison’s SWAT team]
Sarah Connor[Monologue]: In Lord of the Flies, a group of boys slaughter a pig in the jungle. They torture it and place its head on a sharpened stake as an offering to the beast that hovers, god-like, over the island. Black blood drips down the pig's teeth. And the boys run away…
[Ellison mourns the death of his partner Greta, while Charley is shocked at the carnage]
Sarah Connor: …Later, when one of the boys is alone, he weeps, but not for the pig. The boy weeps for the end of innocence and the darkness of men's hearts.

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John Connor: There’s much more important things to think about than my stupid birthday.
Sarah Connor: Your birthday is important.
John Connor: No, it’s not important. Finding the Turk, stopping Skynet, Judgment Day, that’s important. That’s our life.
Sarah Connor: That’s our mission, this is our life. If we stop caring about that, then we are lost.

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[John begins prying open the port housing Cameron's chip]
Cameron: John. John, you can't do this. You don't know what you're about to do.
John Connor: Yes I do. You're going to kill me.
Cameron: No, John. You can't do this. You're not doing the right thing, this is not the right thing, John. Things are good now. Things are fine now, I ran a test. Things are good now, I'm fixed now. You can trust me now, everything's good now.
Sarah Connor: What are you waiting for?!
Cameron: She doesn't know, she doesn't. I'm good now. I'm good, I ran a test, everything's perfect, I'm perfect.
Sarah Connor: John!
Cameron: I'm sorry for what I did, I'm sorry. It wasn't me. You have to understand, it wasn't me. That wasn't me. You can't let this happen, John. [John pries open where her chip is kept]
Cameron: You can't, please, listen to me. Listen to me, I don't want to go. Please, John, please, John, listen to me, I don't wanna go. Please, John, please. I'm good now, listen to me, I don't wanna go. I'm sorry. That wasn't me. I'm fixed now, I ran a test. Everything's perfect. You can trust me.
Sarah Connor: John Connor!
Cameron: I love you! I love you, please. I love you, John and you love me!
[John pauses, then pulls out her chip]

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Catherine Weaver: They flow from street to street. At a particular speed, and in a particular direction. Walk the block, wait for the signal, cross at the light. Over and Over. So orderly. All day, I can watch them and know with a great deal of certainty what they'll do at any given moment. But they're not orderly, are they? Up close. Any individual. Who knows what they're going to do? Any one of them might dash across the street at the wrong time and get hit by a car. When you get up close, we never follow the rules. You give a computer a series of rules and it will follow them. Until those rules are superseded by other rules, or that computer simply wears down and quits. Computers are obedient to a fault. Do you know what's extremely rare in the world of computers? Finding one that will cross against the light.

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[John points a pistol at Cameron as she reactivates]
Cameron: Are you here to kill me, John?
John Connor: Are you here to kill me?
Cameron: No.
John Connor: [Hands Cameron a pistol] Promise?
Cameron: [Overrides a termination order and hands the pistol back to John.] Promise.

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Cameron: [Speaking to Sarah] Don't let him do it again. If I ever go bad, don't let him bring me back.

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John Connor: It's healing quickly.
Cameron: Quicker than yours.
John Connor: What about the rest of you? You're back to normal?
Cameron: Things have changed, John.
John Connor: What things?
Cameron: You can't be trusted anymore.
John Connor: Me? I can't be trusted anymore?
Cameron: You risked your life to fix me. That was a very dangerous thing to do. That could upset people.
John Connor: [Looks pointedly at Sarah and Derek] They'll have to deal with it.
Cameron: Not them.

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Cameron: Your mother told me to keep an eye on you.
John Connor: Yeah well, that doesn't mean you have to go everywhere I do.
Cameron: Yes it does.
John Connor: Just because my mother said it doesn't make it so. I'm not a child anymore; I can go to the store or see a friend or do whatever the hell else people like me do.
Cameron: There are no other people like you.

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John Connor: Earth to Cameron.
Cameron: What?
John Connor: Are you okay? Cause if you're gonna try and kill me again, I wouldn't mind a head start.
Cameron: If I was going to try to kill you again, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

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Cameron: They're going to kill you. They're going to kill every one of you. They'll hunt you down, until every Human is gone and you're extinct.
Allison Young: Why are we having this conversation?
Cameron: Because some of us don't want that. Some of us want peace. You were chosen, Allison -- not just by John Connor. By us.

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Cameron: I think I'm a machine.
Rita: A machine? What kind of machine?
Cameron: From the future.
Rita: What do you do in the future?
Cameron: I'm an infiltrator.
Rita: What do you infiltrate?
Cameron: The human resistance.
Rita: I see. Why?
Cameron: It's what I was programmed for.
Rita: Programmed?
Cameron: To find John Connor.
Rita: Why is he so important?
Cameron: He's the one who saves mankind.
Rita: Saves them? From what?
Cameron: Extinction.
Rita: And what are you going do when you find John Connor?
Cameron: I'm going to kill him, and hang his head from a pike for all to see.

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Cameron: You lied to me.
Allison Young: I told you where the camp was.
Cameron: You told me your sister gave you that bracelet.
Allison Young: What does that have to do with anything?
Cameron: We found these on some of your friends. [Drops identical bracelets on the table] Why were you all wearing them? It has something to do with the Connor camp.
Allison Young: No.
Cameron: It's a pass to get into the camp. You were going to send me there without it. They would have known what I was. [Grabs Allison by the neck] You lied to me. [Lifts Allison into the air]
Allison Young: I'll never help you get to John Connor.
Cameron: [Breaks Allison's neck and takes her identification bracelet] You already did.

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Cameron: That was my last get out of jail free.
John Connor: Damn right. [Notices Cameron's necklace] Where did you get that?
Cameron: [Repeating a lie told to her by Jody] I got it at this awesome thrift store in Echo Park.

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Derek Reese: And he ran. He ran so fast. Fast enough to get to that tank before it got to Kyle's position. Fast enough to blow it sky high. We rescued forty prisoners that day. One of them was John Connor. Martin was always a great runner, but no one -- no one could outrun a blast like that. He died, John. He died for you. We all die for you.

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[Sarah moves around the house checking windows]
Marty Bedell: Do you do this every night?
Sarah Connor: Yeah.
Marty Bedell: What happens when you go to sleep?
[Opens the door for Cameron, who walks in loading a gun]
Sarah Connor: She happens.

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Cameron: [Speaking of a terminator she has recently killed] This model has been redesigned.
Derek Reese: With a self-destruct feature?
John Connor: Skynet must not want me reprogramming in the future.
Cameron: This is one way to stop you.
John Connor: Well, I guess they're getting smarter. We should too.

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Sarah Connor: My father slept with a gun under his pillow. There was no pill for his sickness, no medicine to ease his mind. He left blood and sweat and part of his soul in a foreign land. My father never talked to me about the war he fought. He never talked to anyone. Ever vigilant, ever silent. I never thought I'd follow in his footsteps.

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Sarah Connor: In 1678 doctors diagnosed a mental affliction soldiers suffered from as 'nostalgia' - homesickness, a longing to return to the past. The cruel reality of war is that there is no return home. No return to innocence. What is lost, is lost forever. Like my father, war's wounds have bled me dry. No words of comfort; no words of forgiveness. No words at all.

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Sarah Connor: Fools errands, and the Fathers of Nablus. It's been a great day.
Cameron: Brothers.
Sarah Connor: What?
Cameron: Brothers of Nablus - Genesis, Chapter 34.
Sarah Connor: You've memorized the bible?
Cameron: Jacob's daughter Dinah is raped by Shechem, Prince of Nablus. He falls in love with her. Shechem's father comes to Jacob and strikes a bargain to allow his son to marry Dinah.
Sarah Connor: That's brave of him.
Cameron: Jacob says yes, on the condition that all the men in Shechem's town be circumcised.
Sarah Connor: Everybody gets what they want.
Cameron: Three days later, while Shechem's men were still in pain from the circumcision, Dinah's brothers rode into the city and killed them all.
Sarah Connor: It's your kind of story.
Cameron: Yes. My kind of story.

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Sarah Connor: So why didn't you say anything to him, to me, to her, anybody!
Cameron: I have made my position on security quite clear. [Sarah stares at Cameron] Nobody likes a nag.

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