Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV Series)

The Turk (2008)

Thomas Dekker: John Connor

Quotes 

• John Connor : Don't seem like a freak. You know what I mean, right?

  Cameron Phillips : Freak. Weirdo. Kook. Oddball. Crackpot. Strange duck. Weird potato. Nut. I've been reading the dictionary. I don't sleep.

  John Connor : Yeah, see, that's what I'm talking about. You do that, you sound like a freak.

• [John sees Cameron putting on some eyeliner] 

  John Connor : You're getting pretty good at that.

  Cameron Phillips : Thank you.

  John Connor : Still, it's not exactly brain surgery or anything. It'd be pretty funny if you were some sort of advanced cybernetic intelligence, yet stumped by a stick of eyeliner.

  Cameron Phillips : No, not brain surgery. It would have to be a lot sharper for brain surgery.

• John Connor : [about Tarissa Dyson]  How was she, surprised to see you weren't dead?

  Sarah Connor : More like disappointed.

• [from trailer] 

  Sarah Connor : How was school?

  John Connor : I didn't die, and Cameron didn't try to kill anyone. Probably the best first day ever.

• Sarah Connor : [referring to some building plans]  Ok, six ways in, six ways out. The street opens to the front here. Security's minimal. Two armed guards in the morning, four in the afternoon. And if anything goes wrong, there's a parking lot here.

  John Connor : Mom, it's high school, okay? Not Supermax. We can handle it.

• Sarah Connor : Hey. How was school?

  Cameron Phillips : I have a metal plate in my head.

  John Connor : She's gonna need a note.

  Sarah Connor : I meant you, not her.

  John Connor : Yeah, fine.

  Sarah Connor : You're not going to give me anything?

  John Connor : Oh well, we went, we learned. I didn't get killed and she didn't kill anybody. It's a pretty good first day, I think.

• Sarah Connor : She ID'd one of the safehouse photos; intern at Cyberdyne.

  John Connor : Really? What does he do now, work in a lab or build rocket guidance systems or something?

  Sarah Connor : Cell phone salesman.

  John Connor : Shut up.

  Sarah Connor : Cell phone salesman, and not a very good one.

• John Connor : So, about the cell phone guy...

  Sarah Connor : I am having dinner with him tonight.

  John Connor : Dinner? You mean like a date?

  Sarah Connor : Not a date.

  Cameron Phillips : Are you going to kill him?

  Sarah Connor : Kill him? I don't know the first thing about him.

• [John is grilling Sarah about Andy's chess playing computer, The Turk] 

  John Connor : Again, what did it look like?

  Sarah Connor : What did it look like? Who cares what it looked like? It was just a rack of computer equipment.

  John Connor : Okay, but was there obvious network access? Do you know what kind of bandwidth?

  Sarah Connor : Okay, you're joking.

  John Connor : What about power supply? Was there a cooling element, like a fan or something?

  Sarah Connor : John...

  John Connor : Mom, I'm just trying to get a sense of the horsepower. I wanna know if this thing was a dinky little homemade soapbox or if it was a full-fledged A.I. platform, capable of learning and growing and taking on other applications.

  Sarah Connor : It plays chess.

  John Connor : So did Einstein.

• John Connor : Have you ever heard of the Singularity? It's a point in time where machines become so smart that they're capable of making even smarter versions of themselves without our help. That's pretty much the time we can kiss our asses goodbye... unless we stop it.

• Cameron Phillips : I'm a bitch whore.

  John Connor : What?

  Cameron Phillips : I have a new friend.

  John Connor : Did she tell you you were a bitch whore?

  Cameron Phillips : No. She cried.

  John Connor : [completely confused]  What?

• Sarah Connor : What were you gonna do, be a hero? Get your name in the papers, your face?

  John Connor : Isn't that what I'm supposed to be? A hero? Isn't that who I am? If it's just gonna sit inside me, if it's just gonna sit in my gut, then what are we doing? What's the point? Why don't we just give it to them if we're gonna act like them.