Memorable quotes for
Terminator Salvation (2009) More at IMDbPro »

[from trailer]
John Connor: I knew it. I knew it was coming. But this is not the future my mother warned me about. And in this future, I don't know if we can win this war. This is John Connor.

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[from trailer]
Kyle Reese: Come with me if you want to live.

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[from trailer]
John Connor: Win or lose, this war ends tonight!

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John Connor: [to Marcus] You and me, we've been at war since before either of us even existed. You tried killing my mother, Sarah Connor. You killed my father, Kyle Reese. You will not kill me.

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John Connor: The devil's hands have been busy. What is it?
Kate Connor: It's real flesh and blood, though it seems to heal itself quickly. The heart is human and very powerful. The brain, too, but with a chip interface.
Marcus Wright: What have you done to me?
Kate Connor: It has a hybrid nervous system. One human cortex, one machine.
Marcus Wright: Blair, what have they done?
John Connor: Who built you?
Marcus Wright: My name is Marcus Wright.
John Connor: You think you're human?
Marcus Wright: I am human.

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[from trailer]
Marcus Wright: What day is it? What year?
Kyle Reese: 2018.
Marcus Wright: What happened here?
Kyle Reese: Judgment Day happened.

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John Connor: Skynet has Kyle Reese.
General Ashdown: Then that is his fate.
John Connor: No, it's our fate. I have to save him. He is the key. The key to the future, to the past. Without him, we lose everything.
General Ashdown: No, you stay the course!
John Connor: If we stay the course, we are dead! WE ARE ALL DEAD!
General Ashdown: As of this moment, soldier, you are relieved of your command. You are no longer a part of this Resistance.
[Ashdown switches off comm]
Barnes: I didn't catch that last statement.
Comms Officer: Neither did I.

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John Connor: [from trailer] We've been fighting a long time. We are out numbered by machines. Working around the clock,without quit. Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are listening to this,you are the resistance.

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John Connor: Why'd you do it?
Blair Williams: I saw a man, not a machine.

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Marcus Wright: So that's what death tastes like.

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Dr. Serena Kogan: Don't fight, Marcus. Remember what you are.
Marcus Wright: I know what I am.
[tears out hardware link from his cortex]
Marcus Wright: I'm better this way.
Dr. Serena Kogan: You will not be given a second chance. You cannot save John Connor.
Marcus Wright: Watch me.

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Kate Connor: What should I tell your men when they find out you're gone?
John Connor: I'll be back.

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Marcus Wright: [Kyle is eating something] What is that?
Kyle Reese: Two day old coyote. It's better than three day old coyote.

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Marcus Wright: If you're going to point a gun, you'd better be ready to pull the trigger.
Kyle Reese: [later, repeating Marcus] If you're going to point a gun, you'd better be ready to pull the trigger.

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Kyle Reese: John Connor... We gotta find this guy.

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Kyle Reese: [a car radio suddenly starts and Kyle hears music for the first time] What is that?
Marcus Wright: Something my brother used to listen to.

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Marcus Wright: Now, let me down.
John Connor: If I let you down,you'll kill everyone in this room.
Marcus Wright: Just you Connor. Because I don't give a shit about you.

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John Connor: [points gun at Reese] What's your name?
Kyle Reese: Kyle Reese.

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Kyle Reese: [to Marcus] You want to know the difference between us and machines? We bury our dead. But no one is coming to bury you.

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[after Marcus helps John defeat the Hydrobots, John Connor turns and points his gun at him]
John Connor: They know what you are, even if you don't.
Marcus Wright: Enough! That gun ain't gonna stop shit!
John Connor: Nobody's shot you in the heart, and I see that thing beating a mile a minute!
Marcus Wright: [Suddenly cautious] Kyle Reese. He's in Skynet. You do that, he's dead. I can get you in.
John Connor: [pauses] How?
[Marcus steps forward into the light. His face is half-mangled, revealing a metal skull underneath]
Marcus Wright: Look at me.
John Connor: That's why I don't trust you.
Marcus Wright: I'm the only hope you have.
[pauses]
Marcus Wright: I need to find who did this to me. So do you.

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[last lines]
Marcus Wright: [thinking] What is it that makes us human? It's not something you can program. You can't put it into a chip. It's the strength of the human heart. The difference between us and machines.
John Connor: [pause]
[continues thinking]
John Connor: There is a storm on the horizon. A time of hardship and pain. This battle has been won, but the war against the machines races on. Skynet's global network remains strong, but we will not quit, until all of it is destroyed. This is John Connor. There is no fate, but what we make.

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[first lines]
Dr. Serena Kogan: Marcus. How are you?
Marcus Wright: Ask me in an hour.

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