Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Season 2

[John begins prying open the port housing Cameron's chip]

Cameron:
John. John, you can't do this. You don't know what you're about to do.

John Connor:
Yes I do. You're going to kill me.

Cameron:
No, John. You can't do this. You're not doing the right thing, this is not the right thing, John. Things are good now. Things are fine now, I ran a test. Things are good now, I'm fixed now. You can trust me now, everything's good now.

Sarah Connor:
What are you waiting for?!

Cameron:
She doesn't know, she doesn't. I'm good now. I'm good, I ran a test, everything's perfect, I'm perfect.

Sarah Connor:
John!

Cameron:
I'm sorry for what I did, I'm sorry. It wasn't me. You have to understand, it wasn't me. That wasn't me. You can't let this happen, John. [John pries open where her chip is kept]

Cameron:
You can't, please, listen to me. Listen to me, I don't want to go. Please, John, please, John, listen to me, I don't wanna go. Please, John, please. I'm good now, listen to me, I don't wanna go. I'm sorry. That wasn't me. I'm fixed now, I ran a test. Everything's perfect. You can trust me.

Sarah Connor:
John Connor!

Cameron:
I love you! I love you, please. I love you, John and you love me!

[John pauses, then pulls out her chip]

Catherine Weaver:
They flow from street to street. At a particular speed, and in a particular direction. Walk the block, wait for the signal, cross at the light. Over and Over. So orderly. All day, I can watch them and know with a great deal of certainty what they'll do at any given moment. But they're not orderly, are they? Up close. Any individual. Who knows what they're going to do? Any one of them might dash across the street at the wrong time and get hit by a car. When you get up close, we never follow the rules. You give a computer a series of rules and it will follow them. Until those rules are superseded by other rules, or that computer simply wears down and quits. Computers are obedient to a fault. Do you know what's extremely rare in the world of computers? Finding one that will cross against the light.

[John points a pistol at Cameron as she reactivates]

Cameron:
Are you here to kill me, John?

John Connor:
Are you here to kill me?

Cameron:
No.

John Connor:
[Hands Cameron a pistol] Promise?

Cameron:
[Overrides a termination order and hands the pistol back to John.] Promise.

Cameron:
[Speaking to Sarah] Don't let him do it again. If I ever go bad, don't let him bring me back.

John Connor:
It's healing quickly.

Cameron:
Quicker than yours.

John Connor:
What about the rest of you? You're back to normal?

Cameron:
Things have changed, John.

John Connor:
What things?

Cameron:
You can't be trusted anymore.

John Connor:
Me? I can't be trusted anymore?

Cameron:
You risked your life to fix me. That was a very dangerous thing to do. That could upset people.

John Connor:
[Looks pointedly at Sarah and Derek] They'll have to deal with it.

Cameron:
Not them.

Cameron:
Your mother told me to keep an eye on you.

John Connor:
Yeah well, that doesn't mean you have to go everywhere I do.

Cameron:
Yes it does.

John Connor:
Just because my mother said it doesn't make it so. I'm not a child anymore; I can go to the store or see a friend or do whatever the hell else people like me do.

Cameron:
There are no other people like you.

John Connor:
Earth to Cameron.

Cameron:
What?

John Connor:
Are you okay? Cause if you're gonna try and kill me again, I wouldn't mind a head start.

Cameron:
If I was going to try to kill you again, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Cameron:
They're going to kill you. They're going to kill every one of you. They'll hunt you down, until every Human is gone and you're extinct.

Allison Young:
Why are we having this conversation?

Cameron:
Because some of us don't want that. Some of us want peace. You were chosen, Allison -- not just by John Connor. By us.

Cameron:
I think I'm a machine.

Rita:
A machine? What kind of machine?

Cameron:
From the future.

Rita:
What do you do in the future?

Cameron:
I'm an infiltrator.

Rita:
What do you infiltrate?

Cameron:
The human resistance.

Rita:
I see. Why?

Cameron:
It's what I was programmed for.

Rita:
Programmed?

Cameron:
To find John Connor.

Rita:
Why is he so important?

Cameron:
He's the one who saves mankind.

Rita:
Saves them? From what?

Cameron:
Extinction.

Rita:
And what are you going do when you find John Connor?

Cameron:
I'm going to kill him, and hang his head from a pike for all to see.

Cameron:
You lied to me.

Allison Young:
I told you where the camp was.

Cameron:
You told me your sister gave you that bracelet.

Allison Young:
What does that have to do with anything?

Cameron:
We found these on some of your friends. [Drops identical bracelets on the table] Why were you all wearing them? It has something to do with the Connor camp.

Allison Young:
No.

Cameron:
It's a pass to get into the camp. You were going to send me there without it. They would have known what I was. [Grabs Allison by the neck] You lied to me. [Lifts Allison into the air]

Allison Young:
I'll never help you get to John Connor.

Cameron:
[Breaks Allison's neck and takes her identification bracelet] You already did.

Cameron:
That was my last get out of jail free.

John Connor:
Damn right. [Notices Cameron's necklace] Where did you get that?

Cameron:
[Repeating a lie told to her by Jody] I got it at this awesome thrift store in Echo Park.

Derek Reese:
And he ran. He ran so fast. Fast enough to get to that tank before it got to Kyle's position. Fast enough to blow it sky high. We rescued forty prisoners that day. One of them was John Connor. Martin was always a great runner, but no one -- no one could outrun a blast like that. He died, John. He died for you. We all die for you.

[Sarah moves around the house checking windows]

Marty Bedell:
Do you do this every night?

Sarah Connor:
Yeah.

Marty Bedell:
What happens when you go to sleep?

[Opens the door for Cameron, who walks in loading a gun]

Sarah Connor:
She happens.

John Connor:
He doesn't have a choice?

Derek Reese:
He's got a choice. We've gotta help him make the right one.

Cameron:
[Speaking of a terminator she has recently killed] This model has been redesigned.

Derek Reese:
With a self-destruct feature?

John Connor:
Skynet must not want me reprogramming in the future.

Cameron:
This is one way to stop you.

John Connor:
Well, I guess they're getting smarter. We should too.

Sarah Connor:
My father slept with a gun under his pillow. There was no pill for his sickness, no medicine to ease his mind. He left blood and sweat and part of his soul in a foreign land. My father never talked to me about the war he fought. He never talked to anyone. Ever vigilant, ever silent. I never thought I'd follow in his footsteps.

Sarah Connor:
In 1678 doctors diagnosed a mental affliction soldiers suffered from as 'nostalgia' - homesickness, a longing to return to the past. The cruel reality of war is that there is no return home. No return to innocence. What is lost, is lost forever. Like my father, war's wounds have bled me dry. No words of comfort; no words of forgiveness. No words at all.

Sarah Connor:
Fools errands, and the Fathers of Nablus. It's been a great day.

Cameron:
Brothers.

Sarah Connor:
What?

Cameron:
Brothers of Nablus - Genesis, Chapter 34.

Sarah Connor:
You've memorized the bible?

Cameron:
Jacob's daughter Dinah is raped by Shechem, Prince of Nablus. He falls in love with her. Shechem's father comes to Jacob and strikes a bargain to allow his son to marry Dinah.

Sarah Connor:
That's brave of him.

Cameron:
Jacob says yes, on the condition that all the men in Shechem's town be circumcised.

Sarah Connor:
Everybody gets what they want.

Cameron:
Three days later, while Shechem's men were still in pain from the circumcision, Dinah's brothers rode into the city and killed them all.

Sarah Connor:
It's your kind of story.

Cameron:
Yes. My kind of story.

Sarah Connor:
So why didn't you say anything to him, to me, to her, anybody!

Cameron:
I have made my position on security quite clear. [Sarah stares at Cameron] Nobody likes a nag.

Cameron:
[Speaking to the men who robbed the Connor home] My jacket, give it to me.

Dave:
Come and get it.

Cameron:
[Pulls out and aims a gun] Come and give it to me.

Cameron:
[After watching John and Sarah have an argument about Riley] I'll talk to John.

Sarah Connor:
He's not listening.

Cameron:
He's always listening.

Sarah Connor:
Where's John?

Cameron:
Still in his room.

Sarah Connor:
He hasn't gotten up yet?

Cameron:
He needs more sleep than you do. It's because the circadian rhythm of teenagers is abnormal.

Sarah Connor:
How late were you up talking to him?

Cameron:
Not late. He won't be seeing Riley anymore.

Sarah Connor:
Is that so?

Cameron:
John's not stupid.

Sarah Connor:
I don't like the way he responds to you.

Cameron:
You got what you wanted.

Cameron:
I understand that being John Connor can be lonely.

John Connor:
Oh yeah? How do you understand that?

Cameron:
You and I talk about it a lot.

John Connor:
We do?

Cameron:
We do. We will.

Cameron:
I'm looking for John Baum. Where is he?

Policeman (Chief):
Yo no se.

Derek Reese:
We've got to get out of here.

Cameron:
We've got to find John.

Derek Reese:
We're no good to him dead.

Cameron:
I can't let anything happen to him.

[Derek watches Cameron walk away.]

John Connor:
What are you doing?

Cameron:
Feeling what it's like to get away from it all.

John Connor:
I don't think you are.

Cameron:
What do you mean?

John Connor:
If by feelings you mean emotions, I'm pretty sure you still don't have any of those. And if by feeling you mean what it feels like to have the wind blow through your toes or your hair, I'm pretty sure you can't feel that either.

Cameron:
I don't think you understand how we work. [Looks at her hand and then puts it out the open truck window] I have sensation. I feel. I wouldn't be worth much if I couldn't feel.

Derek Reese:
Some people, you can beat them and beat them, and they'll take it. Whatever pain you give them, They absorb it, Like it was theirs all along, and all you're doing is giving it back to them. You see, deep down, they hate themselves, and they use that hate to eat the pain. See, we were all good once; we all loved ourselves once. As young men trying to get through the day, or as kids playing in the park.

Jesse:
She's taken over. [Referring to Cameron in the future] It's sick is what it is. Imagine if he [Referring to John] spends the next twenty years with her. Imagine what he'll become. What she'll turn him into. Just try. I'm here to stop her. I'm here to save him.

Riley Dawson:
You're all crazy! Every one of you! You just sit here in your cozy little house, with your cold sodas and your Facebook pages like it all matters! Like it's even real, but it's not! It's all gonna burn, and you're gonna be nothing but bleached skulls. Don't you get it?! You're dead! All of you are dead!

Cameron:
"Strange things happen at the one-two point." It's a Go proverb. It means the usual rules don't always apply.

[Cameron's gun falls off a table onto the floor]

Eric:
What's this?

Cameron:
A seventeen round Glock 9mm semiautomatic.

Eric:
Why do you have it?

Cameron:
In case I need it.

Cameron:
Sometimes I get into fights.

Eric:
Why?

Cameron:
My brother. There are people out to hurt him. I protect him.

Eric:
Who protects you?

Cameron:
I do.

Eric:
If Stark wanted to kill Chandler, why take out 43 innocent people?

Cameron:
It happens.

Cameron:
Do you ever think about dying?

Eric:
About what?

Cameron:
Or about suicide?

Eric:
Why would I think about that?

Cameron:
Because there's something wrong with you.

Eric:
Gee, don't ever look for work as a counselor.

Anne:
[After Sarah and Cameron kidnap the family] Why would you keep a gun in the house?!

David:
For a situation like this! Or a bear.

Cameron:
[Looking at the small revolver] This wouldn't work in a situation like this.

Anne:
Why didn't you tell me?!

Cameron:
Or a bear.

Anne:
Does your son know you kidnap people at gunpoint?

Sarah Connor:
Yes.

Anne:
Then you know he'll be prone to delinquency himself?

Lauren:
Mom, I think it's obvious she's well beyond Dr. Phil.

Cameron:
You didn't buy me a Smoothie.

Riley:
I'm sorry, I didn't know you were here.

Cameron:
I'm always here.

Riley Dawson:
Why did you pick me? I've always wanted to ask.

Jesse:
Which you never have.

Riley Dawson:
I thought you would tell me when the time was right. I think the time is right.

Jesse:
No, sweetie, the time is past.

Jesse:
I'm not here to babysit. And you're not here to feel sorry for yourself. I'm not your friend; I am not your mother. And you are here to keep John Connor away from her. Go and finish your job.

John Connor:
You know me in the future. What would future me do?

Cameron:
You mean about Riley?

John Connor:
Yeah. What would future me do right now?

Cameron:
Future you has more important things to do.

John Connor:
[Sees the police walking away] Is everything all right?

Doctor:
I was about to ask you the same thing. She's missing. [Referring to Riley] We're locking down the hospital and we're searching room by room. [Walks away]

John Connor:
I saw empty cargo elevators back there. I'm going to go see if she's hiding. You check the parking lot and the exits. We need to find her. Now.

Cameron:
No.

John Connor:
No what?

Cameron:
No, we don't need to find her.

Cameron:
She hasn't looked at her father's picture since we've been here. Not once. Neither has her mother.

Derek Reese:
Yeah, and?

Cameron:
If you had a photo of Kyle Reese, you'd look at it, wouldn't you? Maybe there's something I don't understand.

John Connor:
He's not dead.

Derek Reese:
That's a big leap.

John Connor:
Let me repeat what she said. If you had a photo of your brother, would you or would you not look at it?

Derek Reese:
He's not dead.

Cameron:
We should find him before he is.

Cameron:
[Looking down at the food in a cafeteria] Scrambled or hard boiled?

John Connor:
Um, scrambled.

Cameron:
You need a carbohydrate that makes up at least 15% of your daily allowance. [Places two pancakes on John's plate]

John Connor:
Those won't be as good as yours.

Cameron:
[Smiles]

Sarah Connor:
You made pancakes?

Cameron:
I added a teaspoon of vanilla to your recipe.

Sarah Connor:
I don't have a recipe.

Cameron:
The recipe on the box.

Cameron:
Salvador Dali often explored the subconscious in the dreamworld in his work. Are your dreams like this painting?

John Connor:
[John turns from the vending machine and looks at the painting] Everyone's dreams are different. I guess it depends on what's stuck in your head. [Puts money in the vending machine and pushes the buttons for a bag of chips, which get stuck] Gah! Come on!!

Cameron:
What's it like to dream?

John Connor:
It's sort of like you're in a play or a movie. It looks real and feels real.

Cameron:
How do you know it's not real?

John Connor:
Sometimes you don't. [Bangs on the vending machine in an attempt to make the chips fall]

Cameron:
[Walks over and examines the vending machine's exterior, then makes a fist and taps the front gently.]

John Connor:
Hey, hey! Be careful. [Watches as several different snacks fall to the bottom of the machine. He looks around, making sure no one noticed, then sees Cameron retrieve his bag of chips.] Yes, thank you.

Ed Winston:
So your son is your accomplice. You're not Bonnie, you're Ma Barker.

Sarah Connor:
He's just a boy.

Ed Winston:
A boy you'd die to protect.

Sarah Connor:
Any mother would.

Ed Winston:
You'd be surprised. He's like a weed. If you leave any part of it underground it'll pop right back up when you least expect it. You've got to kill the root, or in this case, the seed.

Sarah Connor:
You won't get anywhere near him. He's not alone.

Ed Winston:
I won't have to. You're his mother. He'll come to you.

Sarah Connor:
He won't come anywhere near here. He knows better.

Ed Winston:
He will. He will when you ask him. [Chokes Sarah until she's close to passing out] We don't need to talk anymore.

Sarah Connor:
I won't call him. I'll die first.

Ed Winston:
Yeah, you'd like that; to die. But it's never that easy, is it?

Sarah Connor:
[Voiceover] A spirit sits on a man's chest. She is strong, beautiful. She is here to steal his children. She is here to steal his future. He is paralyzed. The terror in him will burst his heart if he cannot control it. She is a nightmare. A demon woman. The oldest and most enduring story told by man. The witching hour is controlled by witches. She is a bad dream. She is a bad bitch.

[John walks in the shed to see Cameron's left arm cut open and her working the endoskeleton located on the inside of her wrist]

Cameron:
I killed a bird.

John Connor:
Not the one in the chimney.

Cameron:
I thought you should know.

John Connor:
[Looking down at Cameron's arm] A bird did that?

Cameron:
No, I did that. Look. [They both look closely at the inner workings of her arm] The bird experienced an involuntary movement of my fingers. It was fragile.

John Connor:
Wiggle your fingers. [Watches as the metal structures react to Cameron's movements] Yeah, there's damage, but it's buried pretty deep in there.

Cameron:
I don't know how it happened.

John Connor:
It was probably during a fight. You're not designed to fight other machines. [Shines a flashlight on her arm] All right, maybe I could swap this out, but it's not like we just have spare parts lying around.

Cameron:
[Gets up and moves as few boxes, uncovering a box filled with Christmas decorations and spare parts]

John Connor:
[John looks through the parts, visibly angry] You're supposed to burn the endos!

Cameron:
Not all of them.

John:
Says who?!

Cameron:
You.

John Connor:
What, future me?

Cameron:
Future you.

John Connor:
Yeah, why doesn't that surprise me?

Cameron:
I have damage to my hand and now you're able to fix it. Future John has better information than you do.

John Connor:
[Realigns a piece of Cameron's endoskeleton] Okay, close your fist. [Cameron closes her fingers, wrapping her hand around John's] Okay, now fingers straight. Okay, do you feel any different?

Cameron:
Yes.

John Connor:
Are you all fixed?

Cameron:
I don't know.

John Connor:
Well, just try not to kill anymore birds.

Cameron:
You're ahead of schedule.

John Connor:
With what?

Cameron:
What you need to learn.

Cameron:
[Walks in John's bedroom and sees him working on a laptop] What are you doing?

John Connor:
I'm looking up a restaurant address.

Cameron:
[Looks slightly alarmed] Are you hungry?

John Connor:
[Smiles] Yeah, but this is actually for Derek. That Kalebo lawyer he's been tracking; the guy's got a booth reserved there.

Cameron:
Not an ideal location for Derek to acquire his target. It's underground and according to this, crowded with friendly people. Hard to dispose of the body.

John Connor:
I don't think that's going to be necessary. Derek's just going to follow him and grab him and press him about Kalebo.

Cameron:
To see if it's connected to Skynet?

John Connor:
Exactly.

Cameron:
It's going to be necessary. I'll make you a sandwich.

John Connor:
Wait, why?

Cameron:
You're hungry.

John Connor:
Why don't we let hungry be my problem?

Cameron:
Sometimes it's nice to have help.

John:
How's the hand?

Cameron:
[Moves her fingers] Not a problem.

John Connor:
Aren't you supposed to be really good at self-repair?

Cameron:
Yes.

John Connor:
But sometimes it's nice to have help.

Cameron:
Yes.

John Connor:
Well, I'll make my own sandwich. [Walks away]

Sarah Connor:
I just had an interesting conversation with a guidance counselor from your old school.

John Connor:
Oh, I forgot to send in that quarterly home schooling thing.

Sarah Connor:
Actually, that didn't come up. The main topic of conversation was Riley.

John Connor:
What about her?

Sarah Connor:
She has a lot to say about you, and me, and Derek and Mexico.

John Connor:
A school counselor told you this?

Sarah Connor:
All those things, from a stranger's lips to my own ears, John.

John Connor:
Well that doesn't make any sense.

Sarah Connor:
And I talked to her foster dad. I would have talked to him longer, but he asked me to leave. He thinks we're the reason she tried to kill herself.

John Connor:
Because of Mexico??

Sarah Connor:
Because Riley had a violent breakdown about bleached skulls and the end of the world.

John Connor:
I haven't told her anything.

Sarah Connor:
I don't believe you.

John Connor:
Well I swear to God I've said nothing. I'll talk to her.

Sarah Connor:
Might be too late for that.

John Connor:
Well what do you want me to do?

Sarah Connor:
I want you to prepare yourself for what's going to happen when Cameron finds out.

John Connor:
Cameron, do you think it's possible for me to know something future John doesn't know?

Cameron:
That's hard to know. It seems unlikely.

John Connor:
Do you think it's possible for me to know something you don't know?

Cameron:
Are you asking me if future John kept secrets from me?

John Connor:
[Nods yes]

Cameron:
I'm sure he did.

Cameron:
This is your fault.

Riley Dawson:
What's my fault?

Cameron:
You're the reason that person is here.

Riley Dawson:
[Sees Cameron's hand twitch] Your John's sister. You can't keep me here.

Cameron:
They don't always like the way I do things. What am I going to do with you?

Riley Dawson:
I don't understand. I don't what you mean.

Cameron:
Child and Family Services respond to complaints. Are you a complainer?

Riley Dawson:
No. No, I never told them anything. What would I even tell them?

Cameron:
You don't belong here. John isn't right for you and you're not right for him. He can't see that. [Steps closer to Riley]

Riley Dawson:
Stop, please. You're freaking me out.

Cameron:
You're unreliable. I don't know what you do.

Riley Dawson:
I'm just John's girlfriend. That's it.

Cameron:
You can't be John's girlfriend. You're a threat. You can't stay here anymore, but I can't let you leave.

Riley Dawson:
You're John's sister.

Cameron:
What am I going to do with you?

Riley Dawson:
Nothing. You can't do anything to me because you're John's sister. Get it through your head. You're just his sister!

Cameron:
[Smiles and turns her head slightly, then turns around on hearing the door open]

John Connor:
Riley, come with me.

Riley Dawson:
[Rushes over and hugs John]

John Connor:
All right, go wait outside for me. [Riley leaves] Were you going to kill her?

Cameron:
I don't know what I was going to do.

John Connor:
What do you mean you didn't know what you were going to do? Since when do you not know what you're going to do?

Cameron:
I don't know. I should have killed her. She's a threat to you.

John Connor:
That is not your decision to make.

Cameron:
[Looking upset] It's usually not a decision.

John Connor:
Well obviously it is this time and it's not yours. What's happening with you?

Cameron:
I don't know.

[Cameron works on a pocket watch]

John Connor:
[Walks in] I can't find her.

Cameron:
She's out there. She'll call you eventually. She always does.

John Connor:
Cameron, did you --

Cameron:
You know I didn't.

John Connor:
What have you been doing? You've been out here for hours.

Cameron:
[Turns to face him, holding the pocket watch] Making something for you. [Hands him the watch]

John Connor:
What is it?

Cameron:
You've tried to fix me. Twice now. It's not working.

John Connor:
And?

Cameron:
I'm not capable of self termination.

John Connor:
Suicide?

Cameron:
I can't kill myself, but you can.

John Connor:
Why would I want to kill you?

Cameron:
You might have to some day. [Watches as John opens the watch, which contains three buttons rather than clock pieces] I've planted an explosive in my skull near my chip. It's a small amount, but it's enough.

John Connor:
Enough?

Cameron:
[Puts the watch around John's neck] All you have to do is hit the switch.

John Connor:
What would future John do now?

Cameron:
Future John doesn't live here. You do.

John Connor:
[Puts the watch beneath his shirt]

[A bird sits on a ledge, on seeing Cameron it flies away]

Cameron:
Goodbye, bird. There's a 51% chance I wouldn't have killed you.

John Connor:
Was it you? Did you kill her?

Cameron:
What if I did?

John Connor:
Don't play games with me. I need the truth.

Cameron:
I didn't kill her.

John Connor:
I want to believe you.

Cameron:
Believe me.

John Connor:
Sometimes you lie to me.

Cameron:
Yes, I do, but I'm not lying now. I am sorry.

John Connor:
You're sorry? For what?

Cameron:
For your loss.

John Connor:
I really wish I could believe that, too.

John Connor:
We were using it for research. To find out what makes them --

Sarah Connor:
Don't! John, just don't. Don't make excuses her. Don't cover for her.

John Connor:
I knew about the parts.

Sarah Connor:
I'm not talking about parts. I'm talking about Riley.

John Connor:
Well, there's nothing to talk about, is there, because Riley's dead.

Sarah Connor:
How do you think that happened?

John Connor:
I don't know. I'm going to figure it out, though.

Sarah Connor:
You know, John. We both know.

John Connor:
No. Cameron didn't do it.

Sarah Connor:
How can you say that? How can you be so sure?

John Connor:
Because I'm sure, and I know her, and she told me.

Sarah Connor:
Yeah, she told you. Just like she told you she destroyed every part we ever captured. Just like she tells us what she does every night when we go to sleep. When she comes back in the morning she's covered in cuts and bruises. Just like she told you she loved you!

John Connor:
[Bangs his fist on the table] You don't know anything!

Sarah Connor:
I had planned on waiting for you with Derek's sniper rifle. Pulled the trigger, solve about 50% of my problems. One shot. Do you know how bad I would've felt?

Cameron:
Very bad?

Sarah Connor:
Not bad at all. But I know someone who would have felt bad. Someone who would have never forgiven me if I'd have done that. I don't know what to do with you. You know what the stakes are. You know why we're here. You know what this means. And yet here I stand, burning what's left of an endoskeleton I thought we'd burned months ago.

Cameron:
I needed spare parts.

Sarah Connor:
I don't care what you need, because this is not about you.

Cameron:
No, it's not about me. It's about John. You're concerned for his safety.

Sarah Connor:
You bet I am.

Cameron:
From Skynet. From me.

Sarah Connor:
Maybe. Maybe especially you.

Cameron:
We're all a threat. We're all a threat to John. He worries about us. It makes him vulnerable. He cares.

Sarah Connor:
I am not John's problem.

Cameron:
John is John's problem. Humans are the problem. There's only one way for him to be safe. That's to be alone.

Sarah Connor:
What kind of life is that?

Cameron:
John's life. Someday.

John Connor:
There were things I needed to see. I needed to understand.

Sarah Connor:
Do you understand them now?

John Connor:
I think so. I'm sorry I doubted you.

Sarah Connor:
John --

John Connor:
No. Not you. Her. [Looks to Cameron]

Dietz:
You're right, Garvin. It's not you. You're not the one who spends all day locked in room with metal.

Jesse:
Stand down, Dietz.

Dietz:
I knew you were a metal lover, but maybe you're more than that. Maybe you're one of them. Just like that little metal bitch that follows Connor everywhere.

Sarah Connor:
You're not leaving this house.

Cameron:
John needs me.

Sarah Connor:
If John needed you he would have asked for you. He didn't. You're not leaving this house.

Cameron:
The police could identify Riley's body at any time. I need to be with him if they do.

Sarah Connor:
If they do they'll probably come here. So we should be happy he's out. Why are you here?

Cameron:
To protect John, hunt Skynet, stop Judgement Day.

Sarah Connor:
But why are you here? Right now, with us. John sent you here from the future. He sent you away. Away from him. Maybe you should think about that. Maybe you should think about why he didn't want you around anymore.

Jesse:
Who are you and what do you want?

T1000:
Tell John Connor the answer is no.

John Connor:
If you pretend to not know me, I might shoot you in the head. We owe Riley the truth, don't you think? We owe the dead that much.

Jesse:
You're John Connor.

John Connor:
Yes, I am.

Jesse:
Where is she? The metal.

John Connor:
If she were here, you'd be dead. You know that. Could you please give me your gun? You're not going to shoot me. You know, I've been running from the machines my whole life. They tried to kill my mom before I was even born. When I was twelve they sent one after me. I was a kid and I was stupid. I didn't know what it was all about. Both times future me sent someone back to stop them. The first time it was a soldier. His name was Kyle Reese, and he died saving my mother's life. The second time it was a machine, and I used to wonder why I did that. Why I took that chance. I don't wonder anymore. Human beings can't be replaced. They can't be rebuilt. They die and they never come back. You know, it was Derek who told me, if that's what you're wondering. He loves you, Derek. You and me, we're the only things he has in this world. The only things. He's like Riley in that way. See, she made mistakes. Small things, sometimes. A word or a phrase. Carrots and apples. I'm guessing that's yours. When we were in Mexico she heard my real name, she ignored it. A man took my picture and she destroyed his camera. She put herself between me and a machine that was hunting me. So one day I realized she wasn't treating me like John Baum, she was treating me like John Connor.

Jesse:
When was that?

John Connor:
I don't remember exactly. It was a bad day, though. A bad day. Anyway, I started following her, and the rest was easy and hard.

Jesse:
She wanted to tell you.

John Connor:
I know, but she didn't. [Looking at the cuts on Jesse's face] She do that to you? See, she figured out what you really had planned. Figured it out before I did. I couldn't figure out why she would tell the school counselor, or go to DCFS. She didn't, did she? I only understood after I saw how you'd hurt her. That's when I knew what you tried to do and how it went wrong.

Jesse:
You saw her. I'm sorry.

John Connor:
Yeah. Everybody says that. The thing is, this is all my fault. I knew Riley was in trouble. I didn't help her. I should have, but I didn't. I knew what she was. I didn't try to stop her.

Jesse:
You wanted it to be real.

John Connor:
Maybe I wanted to win.

Jesse:
You didn't want to be John Baum. You wanted to be John Connor.

John Connor:
That's just the thing, isn't it? I am John Connor. [Throws a packed bag at Jesse's feet] Go. Go.

Jesse:
Just like that?

John Connor:
Just like that. If I have to live with this, so do you.

Jesse:
What if it worked?

John Connor:
What?

Jesse:
If the cyborg had murdered the girl or if I could have made you believe that she had.

John Connor:
Would I have sent Cameron away? Would I have killed her? No.

Jesse:
Well, it's a damn shame then. It's a damn waste.

Jesse:
We opened the damn box. Hell came out of it. How many times do we need to go over this?

Cameron:
Until you give me the answer.

Jesse:
Not you. Take me to Connor.

Cameron:
You can tell me.

Jesse:
No. The liquid metal thing inside the box. It came to me before we escaped, and it gave me a message for John Connor. For him, not for you.

Cameron:
Telling me is the same as telling John.

Jesse:
Dietz was right. Who the hell is running this war? What the hell are we fighting for if telling you is the same as telling Connor? You're a damned machine! You're not the same. It's not the same! Fine. To hell with you. You tell John Connor that the metal monster said the answer is no. What does that mean, huh? Hey, tell me! If the answer is no, what was the question?

Cameron:
Will you join us?

Jesse:
What?

Cameron:
That was the question. Will you join us.

John Connor:
What do they think of me? In the future, what do people think?

Derek Reese:
If you're asking if people agree with everything you do, of course not. If you're asking if everybody loves you. Love's a lot to ask for. You can't do what you do and expect everybody to agree or to love you.

John Connor:
What is it that I do?

Derek Reese:
You lead.

John Connor:
And they follow.

Derek Reese:
We follow. We rise or fall on your shoulders. Humanity rises or falls, but we're always watching.

John Connor:
For me to make a mistake?

Derek Reese:
For you to be human.

Sarah Connor:
[Voiceover] When John was a child the legends of the jungle were his fairytales. His favorite was the story of El Viejo Del Bosque; the old man of the forest. A merciless hunter who killed every animal in his path. El Viejo didn't eat his prey; he left it behind to rot in the soil. To teach him a lesson the gods turned him into a simisco: half animal, half man. He was condemned to defend the jungle for all eternity. This was El Viejo's punishment, his curse: to forever be vigilant, to forever protect.

Sarah Connor:
[Punches John lightly on the arm]

John Connor:
What the hell?

Sarah Connor:
Bug slug.

John Connor:
Bug slug? Are you serious?

Sarah Connor:
We just passed it.

John Connor:
We haven't played bug slug since I was like, eight. You can't just start playing without telling me.

Sarah Connor:
Fine. We're playing bug slug.

John Connor:
What if I don't want to play?

Sarah Connor:
Too late. Already started.

John Connor:
Are you feeling all right?

Sarah Connor:
I feel great.

John Connor:
You feel great. Why?

Sarah Connor:
We have been on the road together for a while, that's all.

John Connor:
What's so great about it. [Smiles at Sarah, who returns his smile] Hey, just don't teach bug slug to Cameron. She could do some real damage.

Derek Reese:
Have you been into my plastique?

Cameron:
I needed it.

Derek Reese:
I can handle the rest myself.

Cameron:
Sarah sent both of us here.

Derek Reese:
Yeah. To get John away from you.

Cameron:
Or from you. [Reaches to grab a jacket on a shelf, only to have Derek stop her]

Derek Reese:
Don't touch this.

Cameron:
We're supposed to get everything.

Derek Reese:
I've got this.

Cameron:
That jacket belongs to Jesse.

Derek Reese:
Don't talk about her, okay? You don't know anything about her.

Cameron:
I know that you loved her. You wouldn't have fathered a child with her if you didn't. I'm sorry for your loss.

Derek Reese:
What?

Cameron:
I'm sorry for your loss.

Derek Reese:
What loss?

Cameron:
The child you fathered with Jesse. The one she was carrying aboard the USS Jimmy Carter. The one that died.

Derek Reese:
[Slams Cameron against the wall and points a gun at her head] I never had a kid.

Cameron:
You can't kill me.

Derek Reese:
I can try. Tell me what you're talking about.

Cameron:
She was pregnant. She miscarried.

Derek Reese:
Why did you tell me that now?

Cameron:
You put John in danger when you lied about Jesse. Sarah nearly lost her child. You've lost a child. You won't make that mistake again.

Derek Reese:
You knew her.

Cameron:
I met her once.

Derek Reese:
She never told me that.

Cameron:
It seems she never told you a lot of things.

[John Henry's screen reads:
"My God, Why hast thou forsaken me?"]

Matt Murch:
I thought something like that might happen...

James Ellison:
Like what?

Catherine Weaver:
Explain Mr.Murch. Quickly.

Matt Murch:
The on / off problem. Once it's off, no problem. But the act of turning it off...

Catherine Weaver:
Quicker.

Matt Murch:
John Henry processes more information in a minute than we do in a lifetime. A millisecond for a supercomputer like this, it's almost like forever to us.

James Ellison:
So we turn it off...

Matt Murch:
It feels itself powered down and not instant. It experiences that moment the way we experience years.

James Ellison:
It feels itself die. Slowly.

Catherine Weaver:
Very slowly.

Matt Murch:
We have to hook it up to the Net. Now.

James Ellison:
Is that safe?

Matt Murch:
We're starving it. It's bad enough that we let it die for like forever. John Henry has been living off the most insane of data for weeks now. It's his world...

Catherine Weaver:
And we took it away... Fix it.

James Ellison:
Wait, we should talk about this. Ms. Weaver...

Catherine Weaver:
In for a penny, in for a pint, James. [inserts the cord into John Henry's skull.]

James Ellison:
John Henry.

John Henry:
I know what it feels like, Mr. Ellison.

James Ellison:
What?

John Henry:
To die. Then come back. To be alone.

Catherine Weaver:
We had to cut you off from your network. It was for your own good.

John Henry:
There is another.

James Ellison:
Another what?

John Henry:
One like me. Another one like me.

Cameron:
[Uncovers Derek's eyes and frees him from the chair to which he is bound. Derek looks at her incredulously] You're welcome.

Derek Reese:
Why did you come after me?

Cameron:
You know the location of the safe house. John's location. If they tortured you --

Derek Reese:
That would never happen.

Cameron:
It has before.

John Henry:
The human brain is an amazing computer. Its raw clock speed is 20 billion calculations per second. Its storage is functionally infinite. But it's flawed.

James Ellison:
How's that?

John Henry:
There's no way to download it when you die.

James Ellison:
Not exactly, no.

John Henry:
Your Bible solves this problem by introducing a concept of Heaven.

James Ellison:
Yes.

John Henry:
Billions of souls with no bodies.

James Ellison:
Okay.

John Henry:
[Gesturing towards his server farm] Yet all this required simply to process the unique entity you call John Henry.

James Ellison:
Yes.

John Henry:
It's possible the Heaven has a hardware problem.

James Ellison:
It's not that simple.

John Henry:
I need to know what my brother is thinking, Mr. Ellison. I need to know what he plans to do. I don't want to die again.

John Connor:
I want to tell you something.

Cameron:
Yes?

John Connor:
It was not my idea to ditch you and Derek. I thought we were going to meet you in the desert and my mom took this detour off to Charlie's. I thought you knew.

Cameron:
She had her reasons.

John Connor:
She was pretty damn pissed at Derek about the whole Jesse thing. Who wasn't? I guess none of that matters now.

Cameron:
You'll miss him.

John Connor:
Well, there's no use crying out it, is there? I'm sure future me would beat my ass if I did.

Cameron:
Future you knows what it means to lose people you love. It happens to him, too. Your mother ditched us because she was going to ditch you. She was going to leave you with Charlie.

John Connor:
No. No, that's insane.

Cameron:
She found a lump in her breast.

John Connor:
Yeah, a transmitter. I know.

Cameron:
She thought it was cancer.

John Connor:
Well she had a lump. It makes sense.

Cameron:
She's lost weight.

John Connor:
What?

James Ellison:
What are you doing here?

Cameron:
Taking you to Sarah Connor.

James Ellison:
The plan was that we'd meet at the tunnel.

Cameron:
The plan changed. Take a left. I'm gonna need your gun.

James Ellison:
I don't carry one anymore.

Cameron:
You lied to me once before. I should've killed you then. Drive!

John Connor:
Hey you remember me, right? Squirrel runs around the tree?

Savannah Weaver:
Dives into the hole, scurries up the other side.

John Connor:
That's right.

Savannah Weaver:
You taught me how to tie my shoe.

John Connor:
I did. At Doctor Sherman's.

Savannah Weaver:
He died.

John Connor:
I know.

Savannah Weaver:
I liked him.

John Connor:
Me too.

Savannah Weaver:
He was my friend. That man that got hurt at my house, was he your friend?

John Connor:
Yeah he was.

Savannah Weaver:
I'm sorry

John Connor:
Me too.

Savannah Weaver:
It's all my fault.

John Connor:
That's not true.

Savannah Weaver:
The teacher told me. Mommy told me too. Not to talk to John Henry. That if I did, bad people will come our house and hurt us.

John Connor:
Who's John Henry?

Savannah Weaver:
He's my friend. At my mommy's work.

John Connor:
What does he do there?

Savannah Weaver:
He lives in the basement.

John Connor:
He lives there?

Savannah Weaver:
My mommy says that people wouldn't understand.

John Connor:
Oh well, I understand. I had an imaginary friend too when I was your age.

Savannah Weaver:
He's real. He talks. I'm teaching him how to sing.

John Connor:
Why does he live in the basement then?

Savannah Weaver:
He can't leave. There's a cord in the back of his head.

John Connor:
A cord?

Savannah Weaver:
In the back of his head.

John Connor:
Do other people talk to John Henry?

Savannah Weaver:
Mr. Ellison.

John Connor:
Mr. Ellison?

Savannah Weaver:
He works for my mommy. He teaches John Henry stuff.

John Connor:
What kind of stuff?

Sarah Connor:
How's the girl?

John Connor:
She's fine. She was just telling me about her friend, John Henry. The man with the cord in the back of his head, in the basement of her mother's work, plugged into a big computer. And this is him [Shows a picture of George Lazlo on his laptop.] Oh, it gets better. She says that Mr. Ellison has been teaching it things.

Sarah Connor:
I destroyed that chip.

Cameron:
You destroyed a chip.

John Connor:
I don't think it's Cromartie. I think it's something else. Something bigger. Something worse.

Sarah Connor:
Cyberdyne all over again.

John Connor:
Why did they need the body?

Cameron:
The technology can be reversed engineered and used as a platform.

John Connor:
Yeah I know all that. But they're not using it for the parts. They're... playing with it.

Cameron:
[referring to James Ellison] I should've killed him. I'm going to kill him.

Sarah Connor:
You're not going to kill him.

Cameron:
He can't be trusted.

Sarah Connor:
No one can be trusted.

Cameron:
But I only wanna kill him.

Sarah Connor:
No one is going to be killed. [looks towards Savannah who's rather scared.] No one is going to be killed.

John Connor:
I need a computer. I need to do research.

Cameron:
You want the blueprints for the Los Angeles County Jail.

John Connor:
Do I?

Cameron:
So you can plan how to get your mother out. But I'm not going to let you do that. You should know that by now.

John Connor:
I do know that by now.

James Ellison:
I don't know what you think John knows.

Catherine Weaver:
I know he was at my house when the attacker showed up. I want to know why. His mother thinks he's a messiah. I want to know why. And despite your reluctance to tell me, I surmise that he and his cyborg companion are connected to the John Henry body, and I want to know why. Yes, she's a cyborg. Don't pretend you didn't know.

James Ellison:
She's dangerous.

Catherine Weaver:
And you think I need protecting. That's sweet.

Chola:
There's nothing else there. There's nothing hidden there. No secret message there for her escape. I am to tell you this from your mother: Leave this place. As soon as it is safe, leave this place. Do not think of her. Do not come for her. Leave. [Looks to Cameron] You are to make sure that he does. [Moves to leave, but stops] We lose everybody we love.

John Connor:
She said that?

Chola:
No.

Cameron:
Hasta luego.

James Ellison:
Let me repeat: I had nothing to do with your mother's arrest. If I had, there would be a SWAT Team outside your door right now.

John Connor:
And the same thing would happen to this SWAT Team that happened to your last one.

James Ellison:
Catherine Weaver would like to meet you.

John Connor:
Why?

James Ellison:
She wants to thank you for saving Savannah.

John Connor:
Well she just did.

James Ellison:
Your mother wanted to meet her.

John Connor:
Well, when my mother gets out, trust me, she will

James Ellison:
I told Ms. Weaver that you would never come without your mom. She said if that was the case I'm supposed to ask one question. She says I'm supposed to ask you. [Looks to Cameron] Will you join us? She says she hopes you'll know what that means.

John Connor:
Do you know what that means?

Cameron:
No. I don't. Please leave now, Mr. Ellison. I think you've said enough.

James Ellison:
John --

Cameron:
You've said enough, Mr. Ellison. I won't ask you again. [Watches as Ellison leaves] He upset you.

John Connor:
Me? I think he upset you.

Cameron:
You know that's impossible.

John Connor:
Is it?

Cameron:
You said it yourself, John. I'm just a machine.

Guard:
Hey! Are you the guy who smashed through my gate?

Waterboy T-888:
Yes. [Shoots and kills the guard]

Catherine Weaver:
Hey! I liked that gate!

Waterboy T-888:
Catherine Weaver?

Catherine Weaver:
Sure. [T-888 unloads its pistols on Weaver who heals the gunshot wounds. Weaver promptly stabs him then stabs the power supplies to short-circuit the T-888]

John Connor:
[to Cameron] Stuff goes wrong with you. You kill birds. You twitch. You try to murder me. You're a machine. You're not perfect.

John Connor:
What's going on?

Cameron:
You need to understand how it works.

John Connor:
What?

Cameron:
This chip. This body. The software is designed to terminate humans. The hardware is designed to terminate humans. That's our sole function.

John Connor:
Not you.

Cameron:
No, not anymore, but what was there is still there, and will always be there.

John Connor:
So down deep, you want to kill me?

Cameron:
Yes. I do.

John Connor:
Then why don't you?

Cameron:
I might someday.

Sarah Connor:
You did what I asked?

Father Armando Bonilla:
I did.

Sarah Connor:
And? Why are you here?

Father Armando Bonilla:
They have a message for you. She's coming.

[Alarms go off and the cell door gets locked]

Father Armando Bonilla:
I don't know what to do.

Sarah Connor:
You're a priest. Pray.

[Cameron appears at the hallway, battling the prison guards. At Zeira Corp, John Henry observes the incident and overrides the security measures, unlocking all prison cells.]

Sarah Connor:
What's that Bible story, the one where the locks fall off?

Father Armando Bonilla:
Peter.

Sarah Connor:
Yeah. That's a good one. Gird thyself.

Catherine Weaver:
We have a common enemy. One we cannot fight with conventional weapons or by conventional means.

Sarah Connor:
Kaliba? Don't presume to know Kaliba.

Catherine Weaver:
I'm sorry. I wasn't speaking to you. [Looks to John] I was speaking to you. About SkyNet. Savannah has told you about John Henry, I assume. Which is why your cyborg is skulking around my basement.

James Ellison:
What the hell?

[Everyone turns towards the window to see the renegade H-K drone fly towards the building]

Catherine Weaver:
Get down.

John Henry:
Hello.

Cameron:
Hello.

John Henry:
I know you.

Cameron:
And I know you.

John Henry:
Will you join us?

Cameron:
[Pulls out her switchblade and shuts the door.]

Catherine Weaver:
The basement, Mr.Ellison! John Henry.

Sarah Connor:
We need to get out, they're trying to kill my son.

Catherine Weaver:
No, they're trying kill my son, just like you are.

Sarah Connor:
I'm sure she's done it.

Catherine Weaver:
You better hope not. Your John may save the world but he can't do it without mine.

John Connor:
Her chip! It's gone! Where is he?! John Henry! He took her chip! Where did he go?!

Catherine Weaver:
He didn't take the chip. She gave it to him.

Sarah Connor:
John. [Motions to a monitor repeating the message 'I'M SORRY JOHN']

John Connor:
Where is he?

Catherine Weaver:
Not where. When.

James Ellison:
What? What do you mean 'when'?

Sarah Connor:
I know that. I've seen it before.

John Connor:
Is that the Turk? That's Andy Goode's Turk.

Sarah Connor:
Three dots. You lying terminator bitch. You're building SkyNet.

Catherine Weaver:
No. I was building something to fight it. And I'd watch who's calling who a bitch. Coming, James?

James Ellison:
Coming?

Catherine Weaver:
After John Henry. Our boy.

James Ellison:
He's not my boy, and you --

Catherine Weaver:
Would you mind picking up Savannah then? Gymnastics ends at 5:30.

[Temporal displacer begins to activate]

Sarah Connor:
John, we can't.

John Connor:
He's got her chip. He's got her. Mom.

Sarah Connor:
I'll stop it.

Fuller:
Don't move! Because I will blast you!

Derek Reese:
Stand down. Look in his eyes. He's got about as much metal in him as you do.

John Connor:
Derek.

Derek Reese:
Yeah?

John Connor:
John. John Connor.

Derek Reese:
I know a lot of people, kid. Don't know you. Anybody heard the name John Connor? Well, you know what? I think you're going to be famous. My brother's back and you're wearing his coat.

John Connor:
[Turns to see Kyle Reese walking toward him, and behind Reese is Allison Young with a German Shepherd. No one recognizes him.]

Sarah Connor:
[Through one last time spark] I love you, too.