Jesse quotes from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Jesse

She's taken over. [Referring to Cameron in the future] It's sick is what it is. Imagine if he [Referring to John] spends the next twenty years with her. Imagine what he'll become. What she'll turn him into. Just try. I'm here to stop her. I'm here to save him.

Jesse

I'm not here to babysit. And you're not here to feel sorry for yourself. I'm not your friend; I am not your mother. And you are here to keep John Connor away from her. Go and finish your job.

Riley Dawson

Why did you pick me? I've always wanted to ask.

Jesse

Which you never have.

Riley Dawson

I thought you would tell me when the time was right. I think the time is right.

Jesse

No, sweetie, the time is past.

You're right, Garvin. It's not you. You're not the one who spends all day locked in room with metal.

Jesse

Stand down, Dietz.

I knew you were a metal lover, but maybe you're more than that. Maybe you're one of them. Just like that little metal bitch that follows Connor everywhere.

Jesse

Who are you and what do you want?

Tell John Connor the answer is no.

John Connor

If you pretend to not know me, I might shoot you in the head. We owe Riley the truth, don't you think? We owe the dead that much.

Jesse

You're John Connor.

John Connor

Yes, I am.

Jesse

Where is she? The metal.

John Connor

If she were here, you'd be dead. You know that. Could you please give me your gun? You're not going to shoot me. You know, I've been running from the machines my whole life. They tried to kill my mom before I was even born. When I was twelve they sent one after me. I was a kid and I was stupid. I didn't know what it was all about. Both times future me sent someone back to stop them. The first time it was a soldier. His name was Kyle Reese, and he died saving my mother's life. The second time it was a machine, and I used to wonder why I did that. Why I took that chance. I don't wonder anymore. Human beings can't be replaced. They can't be rebuilt. They die and they never come back. You know, it wasn't Derek who told me, if that's what you're wondering. He loves you, Derek. You and me, we're the only things he has in this world. The only things. He's like Riley in that way. See, she made mistakes. Small things, sometimes. A word or a phrase. Carrots and apples. I'm guessing that's yours. When we were in Mexico she heard my real name, she ignored it. A man took my picture and she destroyed his camera. She put herself between me and a machine that was hunting me. So one day I realized she wasn't treating me like John Baum, she was treating me like John Connor.

Jesse

When was that?

John Connor

I don't remember exactly. It was a bad day, though. A bad day. Anyway, I started following her, and the rest was easy and hard.

Jesse

She wanted to tell you.

John Connor

I know, but she didn't. [Looking at the cuts on Jesse's face] She do that to you? See, she figured out what you really had planned. Figured it out before I did. I couldn't figure out why she would tell the school counselor, or go to DCFS. She didn't, did she? I only understood after I saw how you'd hurt her. That's when I knew what you tried to do and how it went wrong.

Jesse

You saw her. I'm sorry.

John Connor

Yeah. Everybody says that. The thing is, this is all my fault. I knew Riley was in trouble. I didn't help her. I should have, but I didn't. I knew what she was. I didn't try to stop her.

Jesse

You wanted it to be real.

John Connor

Maybe I wanted to win.

Jesse

You didn't want to be John Baum. You wanted to be John Connor.

John Connor

That's just the thing, isn't it? I am John Connor. [Throws a packed bag at Jesse's feet] Go. Go.

Jesse

Just like that?

John Connor

Just like that. If I have to live with this, so do you.

Jesse

What if it worked?

John Connor

What?

Jesse

If the cyborg had murdered the girl or if I could have made you believe that she had.

John Connor

Would I have sent Cameron away? Would I have killed her? No.

Jesse

Well, it's a damn shame then. It's a damn waste.

Jesse

We opened the damn box. Hell came out of it. How many times do we need to go over this?

Cameron

Until you give me the answer.

Jesse

Not you. Take me to Connor.

Cameron

You can tell me.

Jesse

No. The liquid metal thing inside the box. It came to me before we escaped, and it gave me a message for John Connor. For him, not for you.

Cameron

Telling me is the same as telling John.

Jesse

Dietz was right. Who the hell is running this war? What the hell are we fighting for if telling you is the same as telling Connor? You're a damned machine! You're not the same. It's not the same! Fine. To hell with you. You tell John Connor that the metal monster said the answer is no. What does that mean, huh? Hey, tell me! If the answer is no, what was the question?

Cameron

Will you join us?

Jesse

What?

Cameron

That was the question. Will you join us.