Derek Reese quotes from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Derek Reese

METAL! [pulls gun on her]

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.

Derek Reese

Some people, you can beat them and beat them, and they'll take it. Whatever pain you give them, They absorb it, Like it was theirs all along, and all you're doing is giving it back to them. You see, deep down, they hate themselves, and they use that hate to eat the pain. See, we were all good once; we all loved ourselves once. As young men trying to get through the day, or as kids playing in the park.

James Ellison

C'mon man, help me out. Tell me something I don't know.

Derek Reese

We're all gonna die.

Derek Reese

My brother carried your snap for luck.

Sarah Connor

Who's your brother?

Derek Reese

What does it matter? You don't know the Reese boys and you never will.

Sarah Connor

Reese boys?

Did he escape? Was he a hero?

Derek Reese

I heard he led John Connor through a slaughter house without taking a pin prick.

Oh no no no, I heard it was two slaughter houses and that he carried Connor.

It was one slaughter house...many Connors.

Derek Reese

We can save Kyle. We can save everybody. We can fix all the mistakes.

How are we gonna do that? Reese, How are we gonna do that?

Derek Reese

You're making a mistake.

Sarah Connor

How’s that?

Derek Reese

The machine’s gotta go.

Sarah Connor

This morning you had me sending her out doing our dirty work.

Derek Reese

Dirty work is all they're good for. Don’t let yourself think that you can train them like a pet, because it will be the last thing that you think.

Sarah Connor

John…

Derek Reese

John doesn’t know everything,

Sarah Connor

You should be resting.

Derek Reese

They never rest.

Derek Reese

You can’t have that thing here, can’t sleep with it here.

Derek Reese

You never know. [Pointing to Sarah’s armory] Does it help to sleep on the whole trunk?

Cameron

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Derek Reese

First you have to have a soul.

Derek Reese

What’s the status on the hand?

Sarah Connor

Got a good idea who has it.

Derek Reese

Who?

Sarah Connor

FBI Agent Ellison.

Derek Reese

The same guy who questioned me at county lockup? What, they only have one FBI agent in this town?

Sarah Connor

The only one who can put this whole thing together. From what I saw from his house, maybe he already has.

Derek Reese

You might’ve fooled them, but not me. I know you.

Cameron

I know you too.

Derek Reese

Your mom was in prison?

John Connor

Mental hospital. You go around blowing up buildings and ranting about robots, it happens.

John Connor

What are you saying?

Derek Reese

What I’m saying is what I've been saying, John. She can’t be trusted. No matter how she acts on the outside, we have no idea what’s going on in there.

John Connor

I can say that about you.

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.

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.