John Connor quotes from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

John Connor

Well, I guess when they say you can't fight City Hall, they really mean it.

Derek Reese

Well, whoever said that didn't have as much plastique as we do.

Sarah Connor

You can't blow up City Hall.

Derek Reese

It's really not that hard.

Cameron

He’s going school to school, looking for you, trying to match your face. He’s moved on though, he won’t go back there. I wouldn’t.

John Connor

The only way I’m reassured by that is if I remember that in the core of your chip, you are just like him.

Cameron

We should be very careful with Vick's chip.

John Connor

Yeah, that's the understatement of the century.

Derek Reese

I want you to hear this in no uncertain terms. Someday, one of these things is going to kill you.

John Connor

It's not gonna be this one.

Derek Reese

Remind me again, why are the boys out here and the girls in there?

John Connor

Because one of the boys is still wanted for murder, and one of the girls is harder than nuclear nails...

Derek Reese

And the other one's a cyborg.

John Connor

...Moore's Law, the guy who founded Intel said that every two years, the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles. 30 years ago, it was an observation, now it's a law. Tech industry spent billions doubling chip power.

Derek Reese

And?

John Connor

And that's how we can go from a chess computer to the apocalypse in just four years...A lot can happen in four years.

Derek Reese

A lot can happen in four seconds. One minute I’m in the yard with my brother playing baseball, then next we look up and the sky's on fire.

John Connor

Judgment Day…what did you do?

Derek Reese

Only thing to do, took Kyle, went into the ground...

Derek Reese

He was just a kid, eight-years-old, I was 15. How do you tell an eight-year-old that machines have taken over the world?

John Connor

How do you?

Derek Reese

You don't.

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.

John Connor

Just say yes!

Cameron

Yes!

John Connor

Did he say a name, a location?

Cameron

He said very little, and then he was quiet.

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.

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.

Derek Reese

Happy birthday.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.