Nick Stahl credited as playing...
John Connor
- John Connor: [choking on tear gas]
- John Connor: Just leave me here. I'm not the one you want. You're wasting your time.
- Terminator: Incorrect. John Connor leads the resistance to victory.
- John Connor: How? Why? Why me?
- Terminator: You are John Connor.
- John Connor: Christ! My mom fed me that bullshit since the cradle! Look at me! I'm no leader! I never was! I'm never gonna...
- John Connor: [is choked by Terminator]
- John Connor: Let go!
- Terminator: You're right. You're not the one I want. I'm wasting my time.
- John Connor: Fuck you, you fucking machine!
- Terminator: [releases John] Better.
- John Connor: What, you were just dicking with me?
- Terminator: Anger is more useful than despair.
- John Connor: What?
- Terminator: Basic psychology is among my sub-routines.
- John Connor: By the time Skynet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms; everywhere. It was software; in cyberspace. There was no system core; it could not be shutdown. The attack began at 6:18 PM, just as he said it would. Judgment Day, the day the human race was almost destroyed by the weapons they'd built to protect themselves. I should have realized it was never our destiny to stop Judgment Day, it was merely to survive it, together. The Terminator knew; he tried to tell us, but I didn't want to hear it. Maybe the future has been written. I don't know; all I know is what the Terminator taught me; never stop fighting. And I never will. The battle has just begun.
- John Connor: No, you shouldn't exist. We took out Cyberdyne over ten years ago. We stopped Judgment Day.
- Terminator: You only postponed it. Judgment Day is inevitable.
- [John is holding a gun to his head]
- Terminator: You cannot self-terminate.
- John Connor: No, you can't. I can do anything I want. I'm a human being, not some god-damn robot.
- Terminator: [correcting him] Cybernetic organism.
- John Connor: Whatever! Either we go, and save her Dad, or so much for the Great John Conner. Because your future, my destiny, I want no part in it, I never did.
- Terminator: Based on your pupil dilation, skin temperature, and motor functions, I calculate an 83% probability that you will not pull the trigger.
- [Kate points a gun at the Terminator, threatening to shoot him]
- John Connor: [indifferently] Go ahead. See what happens.
- [Kate fires at the Terminator. To her amazement, the Terminator spits the bullet out]
- Terminator: Don't do that.
- Terminator: We must reaquire Katherine Brewster.
- John Connor: Why? What makes her so goddamn important?
- Terminator: Through her, you make contact with remnants of the U.S. military and learn how to fight Skynet, forming the core of the Resistance. Later your children will become important.
- John Connor: Whoa. What?
- Terminator: She's your wife.
- Terminator: It was Katherine Brewster who reprogrammed me and sent me back through the time displacement field.
- John Connor: Why didn't I send you back?
- Terminator: I'm not authorized to answer your questions.
- Kate Brewster: Why didn't he send you back?
- Terminator: He was dead.
- John Connor: Oh, well that sucks.
- John Connor: Tell her who I am.
- Terminator: John Connor is the leader of the worldwide resistance and last hope for mankind.
- Robert Brewster: Skynet? The virus has infected Skynet?
- John Connor: Skynet IS the virus. It's the reason everything's falling apart!
- Terminator: Skynet has become self aware. In one hour it will initiate a massive nuclear attack on its enemy.
- Robert Brewster: What enemy?
- John Connor: Us! Humans!
- Kate Brewster: John, what is he saying?
- John Connor: Judgment Day. The end of the world. It's today, three hours from now.
- Terminator: Two hours and fifty-three minutes.
- Terminator: John Connor. It is time.
- John Connor: Are you here to kill me?
- Terminator: No. You must live.
- John Connor: So... she's an anti-Terminator Terminator? You've got to be shitting me.
- Terminator: No, I am not shitting you.
- [first lines]
- John Connor: [voiceover] The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. I wish I could believe that. My name is John Connor, they tried to murder me before I was born, when I was 13 they tried again. Machines from the future. Terminators. All my life my mother told me the storm was coming, Judgment Day, the beginning of the war between man and machines. Three billion lives would vanish in an instant, and I would lead what was left of the human race to ultimate victory. It hasn't happened, no bombs fell, computers didn't take control, we stopped Judgment Day. I should feel safe, but I don't, so I live off the grid - no phone, no address, no one and nothing can find me. I've erased all connections to the past, but as hard as I try I can't erase my dreams, my nightmares.
- [the Terminator leads John and Kate into a mausoleum, where Sarah's coffin is. The Terminator opens the coffin. John stares in shock: the coffin is full with weapons]
- Terminator: Sarah Connor was cremated in Mexico. Her friends scattered her ashes in the sea. They stored these weapons in accordance with her will.
- [John sits down]
- Kate Brewster: What happened to her?
- John Connor: [quietly] Leukemia.
- Kate Brewster: I'm sorry.
- John Connor: We were living in Baja when she was diagnosed. They only gave her six months. But she fought for three years. Long enough to make sure.
- Kate Brewster: To make sure?
- John Connor: That the world didn't end.
- [John sighs and closes his eyes]
- John Connor: "Every day after this one is a gift" she told me "We made it. We're free." But I never really believed that. I guess she didn't either.
- [Kate has just destroyed a Mini Hunter-Killer with an AK-47]
- Kate Brewster: What?
- John Connor: Nothing... you remind me of my mother.
- Kate Brewster: What exactly am I in this future of yours?
- Terminator: You're John Connor's spouse and second-in-command.
- Kate Brewster: [Shaking her head, clearly not pleased to hear that] No, I...
- [looks at John]
- John Connor: What?
- Kate Brewster: [to John] You're a mess.
- John Connor: Hey, you're not exactly my type, either.
- Kate Brewster: So what's his story?
- John Connor: He's a robot from the future. Living tissue over a metal skeleton. He means you no harm.
- Kate Brewster: That's the cops. You have to pull over.
- John Connor: [sarcastically] Yeah, first chance I get.