- [Derek and John are sitting in the park, eating ice cream and watching two kids playing baseball]
- Derek Reese: It's beautiful here, isn't it?
- [John nods]
- Derek Reese: When you stay long enough, you start fooling yourself into thinking that this is... how it's always gonna be. Then you remember what this place'll look like when it's on fire and... you realize you'll do whatever it takes to keep from watching it burn again.
- [the baseball lands near John. John picks it up and gives it back to the younger kid, then spots the older boy wearing a shirt with the name "Reese" on the back. John turns back to Derek stunned]
- John Connor: Is that... you?
- [realizes the implications]
- John Connor: And the younger one? Is that...?
- Derek Reese: Kyle. Throws pretty good for a five-year-old, huh? Your father always had a nice arm.
- John Connor: [shocked] How'd you know?
- Derek Reese: Every time I look at you I see him.
- [smirks]
- Derek Reese: Besides, your mom's his type.
- [with watery eyes, John watches the two young Reeses play again]
- Derek Reese: Happy birthday.
- John Connor: [referring to Kyle] What was he like?
- Derek Reese: He was just a kid when it happened. Eight years old, I was fifteen. How do you tell an eight-year-old machines have taken over the world?
- John Connor: How do you?
- Derek Reese: You don't.
- Derek Reese: So, it's your birthday.
- John Connor: How... how d'you know?
- Derek Reese: Are you kidding? I celebrated your 30th with you.
- John Connor: [smiles] How was that?
- Derek Reese: [chuckles] You got drunk as a skunk.
- [John laughs]
- Derek Reese: Come on. I'll buy you a beer.
- John Connor: I'm sixteen.
- Derek Reese: All right, I'll buy you an ice cream cone. Come on, it's your birthday. When there are things to celebrate, they should be celebrated.
- [after Cromartie has massacred the FBI SWAT team]
- Sarah Connor: [narrating] In 'Lord of the Flies', a group of boys slaughter a pig in the jungle. They torture it and place its head on a sharpened stake as an offering to the beast that hovers god-like over the island. - The black blood drips down the pig's teeth, and the boys run away. - Later, when one of the boys is alone, he weeps, but not for the pig. The boy weeps for the end of innocence, and the darkness of men's hearts.
- Sarah Connor: How are we supposed to celebrate your birthday if you're sitting in front of a computer?
- [John looks at her, surprised]
- Sarah Connor: Do you actually thought I forgot your birthday?
- John Connor: It's just, we have much more important things to think about than my stupid birthday.
- Sarah Connor: Your birthday *is* important.
- John Connor: No, it's, it's not important. Finding the Turk, stopping Skynet, Judgment Day, that's important, that's... that's our life.
- Sarah Connor: It's our mission. This is our life. If we stop caring about that, then we're lost.
- Morris: Oh wow. Is this your car?
- Cameron Phillips: No. It belongs to the guy I killed and stuffed in the trunk.
- John Connor: Hey. Where you been, Mom says we gotta get home right now. - What's up with the car?
- Morris: Cameron stuffed a dead guy in the trunk.
- Cameron Phillips: He was following us.
- Morris: Your sister's dark, bro. You're gonna love the Smiths.
- John Connor: Yeah, she's, uh, she's really Goth.
- James Ellison: "And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder. And I heard the voice of the forth beast say: 'Come and see.' And I looked. And behold, a pale horse. And his name that sat on him was Death. And Hell followed with him." The Book of Revelation.
- Charley Dixon: What is this?
- James Ellison: I've seen some things, Mr. Dixon. I've seen some things with my own eyes and heard 'em with my own ears. I've beheld. And upon my beholding, I've come to the conclusion, one new to me, might be old hat for you.
- Charley Dixon: What the hell are you talking about?
- James Ellison: Sarah Connor is alive.
- [first lines]
- [caption: April 21, 2011 - Judgment Day]
- [two kids are playing baseball]
- Sarah Connor: [narrating] When John was little, he used to sleep with his hand under my chin. At night I'd lay awake watching him, calm, peaceful, happy. I wanted to freeze time, and let my son live in that moment forever.
- [younger boy misses the ball with his bat]
- Sarah Connor: [narrating] But you can't freeze time. You can't protect your children from the future that awaits them.
- Kyle at 8: Batting's hard, Derek!
- Derek at 15: You're doing great, Kyle, just remember how I showed you: stay on top of the ball.
- Sarah Connor: [narrating] The moment's there. And then...
- Derek at 15: [Kyle hits the ball] Yes!
- Kyle at 8: Yes, finally!
- Sarah Connor: [narrating] ... it's gone.
- [distant explosions]
- Kyle at 8: Fireworks! Cool!
- [looking up they see the nuclear bombs streaking across the sky]
- Derek Reese: [grabs Sarkissian, pushes him against the wall and levels a gun to his head] Here's my counter-offer: You tell us where the Turk is, we keep our money, and I bury you in the backyard.
- Fake Sarkissian: [chuckles] Well, you listen to me. If I don't walk out of here in ten minutes, my people are instructed to call the FBI, and tell 'em everything I know.
- Sarah Connor: Your people?
- Fake Sarkissian: Yeah. My people. Same people who are watching your son. He's on a field trip, isn't he? With his class? Science Museum, I believe.
- Derek Reese: [smiles] Your people have no idea what they're walking into.
- [the Connor group walks up to the cafe manager nonchalantly]
- Derek Reese: Where is he?
- Cafe Manager: Who?
- [Sarah reaches over the counter and slams the manager's head down on the desk]
- Sarah Connor: He. Need I repeat?
- [the manager meekly points to the back room]
- [Sarkissian is holding a gun to John's throat and Derek walks onto the scene with his gun on a little girl]
- Derek Reese: Let him go.
- Fake Sarkissian: Not my kid.
- Derek Reese: Not mine either.
- [caption: April 21, 2011: Judgement Day]
- [two kids are playing baseball]
- Sarah Connor: [narrating] When John was little he used to sleep with his hand under my chin. At night I lay watching him, calm, peaceful, happy. I wanted to freeze time and let my son live in that moment forever.
- [younger boy misses the ball with his bat]
- Sarah Connor: [narrating] But you can't freeze time. You can't protect your children from the future that awaits them.
- Kyle at 8: Batting's hard Derek!
- Derek at 15: You're doing great Kyle, just remember how I showed you, stay on top of the ball.
- Sarah Connor: [narrating] The moment's there. And then...
- Derek at 15: [Kyle hits the ball] Yes!
- Kyle at 8: Yes, finally!
- Sarah Connor: [narrating] ... it's gone.
- [distant explosions]
- Kyle at 8: Fireworks, cool!
- [looking up they see the planes carrying nuclear bombs]
- Cameron Phillips: Do I have a birthday?
- John Connor: I don't know. Were you born?
- Cameron Phillips: I was built.
- John Connor: Well, then, maybe you have, like, a 'built-day'.
- Morris: Wait, Cameron! Hey, um... There's something I... kinda need to ask you. Um... you think maybe you might wanna go to the prom with me?
- John Connor: Just say 'yes'!
- Cameron Phillips: Yes!
- Agent Greta Simpson: Kester?
- James Ellison: Yeah, that's what he likes to call himself when he's out trick-or-treating in his FBI costume.
- Agent Greta Simpson: George Lazlo's a better actor than we thought.
- James Ellison: That's not Lazlo.
- Agent Greta Simpson: James, are we looking at the same picture here? This is your guy. It's Lazlo.
- James Ellison: The blood doesn't match.
- Agent Greta Simpson: Come on, what're you sayin', 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?
- James Ellison: *What* is he?
- Agent Greta Simpson: "What is he"?
- James Ellison: 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?
- Agent Greta Simpson: You know as well as I - some men are monsters.
- James Ellison: Yeah. Monsters.
- Agent Greta Simpson: Let's go get him.
- [Sarah and Derek are looking out for Sarkissian when two policemen appear]
- Sarah Connor: We have to go.
- Derek Reese: We came here for the Turk.
- Sarah Connor: We can't get it if we're in prison.
- [Cameron reveals Sarkissian's dead handyman in the trunk]
- Cameron Phillips: He was a threat to us.
- John Connor: Did he say anything, a name, a location?
- Cameron Phillips: He said very little. And then he was quiet.
- Derek Reese: [about the diamonds] Those are from the safehouse I set up, so technically, they're mine.
- Sarah Connor: Well, I'm guessing you stole 'em. So technically, they're evidence in a felony.
- Derek Reese: Remind me again, why... 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. Thirty 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.
- John Connor: I learned that 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, the next we look up and the sky is on fire.
- John Connor: Judgment Day.
- [last lines]
- Johnny Cash: [voice-over, from "The Man Comes Around"] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts. And I looked and behold, a pale horse. And his name that sat on him was Death. And Hell followed with him.