Kyle Reese Come with me if you wanna live!
Most-quoted character in The Terminator (1984): in 11 of its 19 quotes
Most scenes with: Sarah Connor (4)
Listen and understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear, and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.
More lines from Kyle Reese
6 quotes Kyle Reese Kyle Reese I'm here to help you.
Kyle Reese Nobody goes home. Nobody else comes through. It's just him and me.
Kyle Reese [Saying the message that John made him memorize]
Sarah, thank you. For your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face, except to tell you that the future is not set...You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive, or I will never exist.
Kyle Reese John Connor gave me a picture of you once. I didn't know why at the time. It was very old - torn, faded. You were young like you are now. You seemed just a little sad. I used to always wonder what you were thinking at that moment. I memorized every line, every curve. I came across time for you Sarah. I love you; I always have.
Kyle Reese Come with me if you want to live.
Scenes with Kyle Reese
4 scenes
Reese. Why me? Why's it want me?
Kyle Reese There was a nuclear war. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it's gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah.
I don't understand.
Kyle Reese Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.
Did you see this war?
Kyle Reese No. I grew up after. In the ruins... starving... hiding from H-K's.
H-K's?
Kyle Reese Hunter-Killers: patrol machines built in automated factories. Most of us were rounded up, put in camps for orderly disposal.
Kyle Reese [Pulls up his right sleeve, exposing a mark]
This is burned in by laser scan. Some of us were kept alive... to work... loading bodies. The disposal units ran night and day. We were that close to going out forever. But there was one man who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal mother****ers into junk. He turned it around. He brought us back from the brink. His name is Connor. John Connor. Your son, Sarah... your unborn son.
Tell me about my son.
Kyle Reese He's about my height. He has your eyes.
What's he like?
Kyle Reese You trust him. He's got a strength. I'd die for John Connor.
Well... at least now I know what to name him. I don't suppose you know who the father is, so I won't tell him to get lost when I meet him?
Kyle Reese John never said much about him. I know he dies before the war.
Wait. I don't want to know.
Dr. Silberman Why didn't you bring any weapons, something more advanced? Don't you have, uh, ray guns? Show me a piece of future technology.
Kyle You go naked. Something about the field generated by a living organism. Nothing dead will go.
Dr. Silberman Why?
Kyle [frustrated]
I didn't build the **** thing!
Dr. Silberman Okay, okay. But this cyborg, if it's metal...
Kyle Surrounded by living tissue!
Dr. Silberman Oh, right, right. [pauses the interrogation tape] This is great stuff! I could make a career out of this guy. You see how clever this part is, how it doesn't require a shred of proof? And most paranoid delusions are intricate, but this is brilliant! [resumes the interrogation tape] Why were the other two women killed?
Kyle Most of the records were lost in the war. Skynet knew almost nothing about Connor's mother. Her full name, where she lives. They just knew the city. The Terminator was just being systematic.
Dr. Silberman Uh-huh. Well, let's go back to where I was...
Kyle [interrupts]
Look! You have heard enough! I have answered your questions! Now I have to see Sarah Connor!
Dr. Silberman I'm afraid that's not up to me.
Kyle Then why am I talking to you?
Dr. Silberman Because I can help...
Kyle Who is in authority here?!
Dr. Silberman Please, I...
Kyle [interrupts again]
SHUT UP!!! [glares at the camera] You still don't get it, do you?! He'll find her! THAT'S WHAT HE DOES! THAT'S ALL HE DOES! YOU CAN'T STOP HIM! HE'LL WADE THROUGH YOU, REACH DOWN HER THROAT, AND PULL HER **** HEART OUT!!!
Ed Traxler Doc?
Kyle Aagh! LET GO OF ME--!
Dr. Silberman [pauses the interrogation tape]
Sorry.
So is Reese crazy?
Dr. Silberman In technical terminology, he's a loon.
[Kyle and Sarah escape the Terminator's assault at the police station and hide in a storm drain to tend to his wounds]
Would you talk about something?
Kyle What?
I don't know. Anything. Just talk. Tell me about my son.
Kyle He's about my height. He has your eyes.
What's he like?
Kyle You trust him. He's got a strength. I'd die for John Connor.
Well, at least now I know what to name him. I don't suppose you know who the father is so I won't tell him to get lost when I meet him.
Kyle John never said much about him. I know he dies before the war-
Wait! I don't want to know. So, was it John that sent you here?
Kyle I volunteered.
Why?
Kyle It was a chance to meet the legend... Sarah Connor. Taught her son to fight, organize, prepare from when he was a kid. When you were in hiding before the war.
You're talking about things I haven't done yet, in the past tense. It's driving me crazy. Are you sure you have the right person?
Kyle I'm sure.
[angry, irritated]
Oh, come on. Do I look like the mother of the future? I mean am I tough, organized? I can't even balance my checkbook! Look Reese, I didn't ask for this honor and I don't want it, any of it!
Kyle Your son gave me a message to give to you. He made me memorize it. [reciting] "Thank you, Sarah, for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face, except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive, or I will never exist." That is all. [examines the bandage Sarah has put on his hand] It's a good field dressing.
