5th most-quoted character in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: in 17 of its 211 quotes Most scenes with: Catherine Weaver (4), Greta Simpson (3), Cameron (2)
Lines by James Ellison 1
[Ellison questions Charley about Sarah, while Charley tries to find Sarah’s whereabouts]
Charley Dixon [angrily]: I came down here for help, you can’t really be asking me this!
James Ellison
No, I’m not. This is just my pattern, Mr. Dixon. This is just me impressing upon you that I’m not here because you lost your fiancée, love-your-life-all-around-good-time girl. I’m here because my boss, the United States of America, thinks Sarah Connor is a deluded, dangerous grade A whack-a-mole, who killed a man because she believes that in the future, he’ll invent a computer system that will declare war on the world. [To a stunned Charley] So let’s begin with her name, I understand it’s not Connor.
[Examining the murder scene at the resistance fighter’s safe house]
James Ellison [Pointing to the electrified safe]: Oh yeah, you see this everyday. You didn’t find that curious? Why would anyone wire a safe directly into the power?
Why is the sky blue Ellison? Don’t overthink it. Those guys were druggies; they're not rocket scientists, not terrorists. Your guys sold my guys paper, my guys whack your guys to cover their tracks. Go back to your office, your desk misses you.
Man, it weirds me out more and more, we barely get a crime scene up, and the FBI is here like that, like you guys got some kind of magic power or something.
James Ellison
Computers, my friend. Log in a weird blood sample that matches one of my other cases, and then pff, I appear.
HHomicide Detective
It will put us all out of works one of these days, not that I’ll mind.
James Ellison
Don’t worry about that, always gonna need somebody to clean up.
Could it be that the apocalypse in the Book and the predictions of Sarah Connor are one of the same?
James Ellison
Um, suppose it is possible. What do you think?
Dr. Silberman [Reminiscing]: He came down the hall, this large man – I thought it was a man – until he threw the guard through the window, just like a rag doll. Not an ounce of emotion, just blank like a death mask. Then the other one came…
James Ellison
There was two of them?
SDr. Silberman
They were different. The second one was almost beautiful, perfect, like a changeling. A face of mercury.
James Ellison
What about Sarah?
SDr. Silberman
She was there, she was on the floor, and the boy was with her, he was screaming. And then the first one, the big one, I’ll never forget, he reached out his hand, and he said: "come with me if you want to live". Like God reaching out to man, like the Sistine Chapel.
If Sarah is alive, and I believe she is, we are working in a realm where much, perhaps anything is possible - robots, soldiers from the future, Skynet.
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?
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.
John Henry processes more information in a minute than we do in a lifetime. A millisecond for a supercomputer like this, it's almost like forever to us.
James Ellison
So we turn it off...
MMMatt Murch
It feels itself powered down and not instant. It experiences that moment the way we experience years.
We're starving it. It's bad enough that we let it die for like forever. John Henry has been living off the most insane of data for weeks now. It's his world...
The human brain is an amazing computer. Its raw clock speed is 20 billion calculations per second. Its storage is functionally infinite. But it's flawed.
James Ellison
How's that?
JHJohn Henry
There's no way to download it when you die.
James Ellison
Not exactly, no.
JHJohn Henry
Your Bible solves this problem by introducing a concept of Heaven.
James Ellison
Yes.
JHJohn Henry
Billions of souls with no bodies.
James Ellison
Okay.
JHJohn Henry
[Gesturing towards his server farm] Yet all this required simply to process the unique entity you call John Henry.
James Ellison
Yes.
JHJohn Henry
It's possible the Heaven has a hardware problem.
James Ellison
It's not that simple.
JHJohn Henry
I need to know what my brother is thinking, Mr. Ellison. I need to know what he plans to do. I don't want to die again.
I know he was at my house when the attacker showed up. I want to know why. His mother thinks he's a messiah. I want to know why. And despite your reluctance to tell me, I surmise that he and his cyborg companion are connected to the John Henry body, and I want to know why. Yes, she's a cyborg. Don't pretend you didn't know.
I told Ms. Weaver that you would never come without your mom. She said if that was the case I'm supposed to ask one question. She says I'm supposed to ask you. [Looks to Cameron] Will you join us? She says she hopes you'll know what that means.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles · 211 quotes
James Ellison
