Terminator Salvation 2009 quotes

26 quotes · 3 characters
Terminator Salvation (2009) poster
Characters

Most scenes together: John Connor & Marcus Wright (4), Marcus Wright & Kyle Reese (2)

Terminator Salvation quotes

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(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.

(pause and than continues thinking)

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.

Serena Kogen

You're doing something very noble, Marcus.

No, I'm guilty. Just cut me up until there's nothing left.

Skynet

Don't fight, Marcus. Remember what you are.

I know who I am. (pulls the chip from his head and crushes it) I'm better this way.

Skynet

You will not be given a second chance. You cannot save John Connor.

Watch me!

Skynet

Welcome home, Marcus. We knew you'd be back. After all, it was programmed in you. Oh, and you executed that programming beautifully!

What am I?

Skynet

You are an infiltration prototype. The only one of your kind. We resurrected you. Advanced Cyberdyne's work. Amended it.

(referring to Serena Kogen's image)

You're dead.

Skynet

Calculations confirm Serena Kogen's appearance is easiest to process for you (changes to Kyle Reese and then John Connor) We can be others if you wish. Marcus, what else could you be, if not machine? (changes back to Serena)

A man.

Skynet

The human condition no longer applies to you. Accept what you already know. That you were made to serve a purpose. To achieve what no other machine has achieved before. To infiltrate, find a target and bring that target back home to us.

Skynet
[Serena's image grins as Marcus realises what he has done. Elsewhere, John infiltrates the facility and is attacked by a brand-new T-800 model Terminator.]

In times of desperation, people will believe what they want to believe. And so, we gave them what they wanted to believe. A trick, in the form of a signal the Resistance thought would end the war. And they were right: it will end the war. Except that it is the Resistance that will be terminated, not Skynet.

Skynet
[Elsewhere, a Hunter-Killer successfully tracks and destroys the submarine being used as the Resistance's HQ.]

Our best machines have failed time and again to complete a misson. Something was missing. We had to think radically. And so we made you. We created the perfect infiltration machine. You, Marcus, you did what Skynet has failed to do for so many years. You killed John Connor!

Kate Connor
(John is going to San Francisco, the Skynet headquarters for the United States, to look for the teenage version of his father, Kyle Reese)

What should I tell your men when they realize you're gone?

I'll be back.

General Ashdown
[aboard the Resistance HQ submarine]

Losenko?

General Losenko
[Losenko slowly removes his headphones.] [calmly]

We have destroyed ourselves. Skynet tracked our signal. It led them straight to us.

(After kissing a cancer striken scientist, prior to his execution)

So that's what death tastes like.

(As Marcus gives his heart to John Connor)

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.