Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Quotes
The Terminator: Hasta la vista, baby.
John Connor: [1:16:18] No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say "affirmative," or some shit like that. You say "no problemo." And if someone comes on to you with an attitude you say "eat me." And if you want to shine them on it's "hasta la vista, baby."
The Terminator: Hasta la vista, baby.
John Connor: Yeah but later, dickwad. And if someone gets upset you say, "chill out"! Or you can do combinations.
The Terminator: Chill out, dickwad.
John Connor: Great! See, you're getting it!
The Terminator: No problemo.
[the Terminator has promised not to kill anybody, but to get into the hospital he shoots the guard in the legs]
The Terminator: He'll live.
The Terminator: I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.
Cigar Biker: You forgot to say "please."
John Connor: Todd and Janelle are dicks, but I've gotta warn them. You got a quarter?
[the Terminator smashes into the coin bin and hands John a quarter]
Janelle Voight: [answers the phone] Hello?
John Connor: Janelle, it's me!
Janelle Voight: John?
John Connor: Yeah. Is everything all right? Are you guys okay?
Janelle Voight: Sure, honey, everything's okay. Are you all right?
John Connor: Yeah, I'm fine.
Janelle Voight: John, it's late. Honey, I was beginning to worry about you. If you hurry home, we can sit down and have dinner together. I'm making beef stew.
John Connor: [holds his hand over the phone] Something's wrong. She's never this nice.
Janelle Voight: John, where are you?
Todd Voight: [hearing Max barking outside] What the hell is that goddamn dog barking at?
Todd Voight: [shouting at Max] Hey! Shut up you worthless piece of shit!
John Connor: [to himself] The dog's really barking...
Todd Voight: Thought you were gonna tell the kid to get rid of that fucking mutt.
Janelle Voight: [uses her arm to kill Todd] John, honey, it's late. Please don't make me worry.
John Connor: [to Terminator, hand over the phone] Could it already be there?
Janelle Voight: Honey, are you okay?
The Terminator: [takes the phone from John and impersonates his voice] I'm right here. I'm fine.
Janelle Voight: Are you sure? Are you sure you're all right?
The Terminator: [to John; normal voice] What's the dog's name?
John Connor: Max.
The Terminator: [impersonating John's voice] Hey Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking. Is he all right?
Janelle Voight: Wolfie's fine, honey. Wolfie's just fine. Where are you?
The Terminator: [hangs up the phone] Your foster parents are dead.
The Terminator: Come with me if you want to live!
Sarah Connor: [voiceover] Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The terminator would never stop. It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die to protect him. Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only one who measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice.
The Terminator: Why do you cry?
John Connor: You mean people?
The Terminator: Yes.
John Connor: I don't know. We just cry. You know, when it hurts.
The Terminator: Pain causes it?
John Connor: No, it's when there's nothing wrong with you, but you hurt anyway. You get it?
The Terminator: No.
The Terminator: I know now why you cry
[wipes a tear from John's face]
The Terminator: but it's something that I can never do.
John Connor: We need to get my mother.
The Terminator: Negative. The T-1000's highest probability for success now will be to copy Sarah Connor and to wait for you to make contact with her.
John Connor: Great, but what happens to her?
The Terminator: Typically, the subject being copied is terminated.
John Connor: Shit! Why didn't you tell me? We gotta go right now!
The Terminator: Negative. She's not a mission priority.
John Connor: Fuck you! She's a priority to me!
[the T-1000 has fallen into a vat of molten steel]
John Connor: Is it dead?
The Terminator: Terminated.
[last lines]
Sarah Connor: [narrating] The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.
John Connor: We've got company.
Miles Dyson: Police?
Sarah Connor: How many?
John Connor: All of 'em, I think.
Dr. Silberman: You broke my arm!
Sarah Connor: There are 215 bones in the human body. That's one.
John Connor: The whole thing goes: The future's not set. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.
John Connor: You just can't go around killing people.
The Terminator: Why?
John Connor: What do you mean why? 'Cause you can't.
The Terminator: Why?
John Connor: Because you just can't, okay? Trust me on this.
John Connor: We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.
The Terminator: It's in your nature to destroy yourselves.
John Connor: Yeah. Major drag, huh?
The Terminator: Stay here. I'll be back.
John Connor: Jesus, you were gonna kill that guy.
The Terminator: Of course; I'm a Terminator.
John Connor: Are you ever afraid?
The Terminator: No.
John Connor: Not even of dying?
The Terminator: No.
John Connor: You don't feel any emotion about it one way or another?
The Terminator: No. I have to stay functional until my mission is complete. Then it doesn't matter.
John Connor: Yeah. I have to stay functional too. I'm "too important".
John Connor: [1:11:28] Can you learn stuff you haven't been programmed with so you could be... you know, more human? And not such a dork all the time?
The Terminator: My CPU is a neural-net processor; a learning computer. But Skynet presets the switch to read-only when we're sent out alone.
Sarah Connor: Doesn't want you doing too much thinking, huh?
The Terminator: No.
John Connor: Can we reset the switch?
The Terminator: Rotate the two locking cylinders counterclockwise. Do it. Now, open the port cover. Pull to break the seal. Good. Now, remove the shock dampening assembly. You can now access the CPU. Do you see it?
Sarah Connor: Yes.
The Terminator: Pull the CPU bolts space tab. Pull
John Connor: Wait a minute here. You're telling me that this thing can imitate anything it touches?
The Terminator: Anything it samples by physical contact.
John Connor: Get real, like it could disguise itself as a pack of cigarettes?
The Terminator: No, only an object of equal size.
John Connor: Then why doesn't it become a bomb or a machine gun or something to get me?
The Terminator: The T-1000 can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals in them. Moving parts. It doesn't work that way, but it can form solid metal shapes.
John Connor: Like what?
The Terminator: Knives and stabbing weapons.
T-1000: [1:10:07] Fine. Say... That's a nice bike...
John Connor: Does it hurt when you get shot?
The Terminator: I sense injuries. The data could be called "pain."
The Terminator: I'll take care of the police.
John Connor: Hey, wait! You swore!
The Terminator: [smiles] Trust me.
Sarah Connor: Children look like burnt paper. Black. Not moving. And then the blast wave hits them. And then they fly apart like leaves.
Dr. Silberman: Dreams of cataclysm, the end of the world are very common.
Sarah Connor: It's not a dream, you moron. It's real. I know the date it happens.
Dr. Silberman: I'm sure it feels real to you.
Sarah Connor: On August 29, 1997 it's gonna feel pretty fucking real to you too! Anybody not wearing two-million sunblock is gonna have a bad day. Get it?
John Connor: You know what you're doing?
The Terminator: I have detailed files on human anatomy.
Sarah Connor: I'll bet. Makes you a more efficient killer, right?
The Terminator: Correct.
John Connor: You're not here to kill me. I figured out that for myself. So what's the deal?
The Terminator: My mission is to protect you.
John Connor: Yeah? Who sent you?
The Terminator: You did. Thirty-five years from now, you reprogrammed me to be your protector here, in this time.
John Connor: Oh, this is deep.
[first lines]
Sarah Connor: [narrating] Three billion human lives ended on August 29th, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines. The computer which controlled the machines, Skynet, sent two Terminators back through time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the human resistance, John Connor, my son. The first Terminator was programmed to strike at me in the year 1984, before John was born. It failed. The second was set to strike at John himself when he was still a child. As before, the resistance was able to send a lone warrior, a protector for John. It was just a question of which one of them would reach him first.
The Terminator: [John starts to cry] What's wrong with your eyes?
John Connor: [as he hacks an ATM] Please insert your stolen card now.
T-1000: Get out.
The Terminator: [arriving at the mental hospital] Why we stop now?
John Connor: Now, you gotta promise me you're not gonna kill anyone, right?
The Terminator: Right.
John Connor: Swear?
The Terminator: What?
John Connor: Just put up your hand and say, "I swear I won't kill anyone."
The Terminator: [raises his hand] I swear I won't kill anyone.
The Terminator: In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.
The Terminator: Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia.
John Connor: Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now?
The Terminator: Because Skynet knows that the Russian counterattack will eliminate its enemies over here.
[One-armed and battered after confronting the T-1000]
The Terminator: I need a vacation.
John Connor: So this other guy: he's a Terminator like you, right?
The Terminator: Not like me. A T-1000, advanced prototype.
John Connor: You mean more advanced than you are?
The Terminator: Yes. A mimetic polyalloy.
John Connor: What the hell does that mean?
The Terminator: Liquid metal.
John Connor: Where are we going?
The Terminator: We have to get out of the city immediately and avoid the authorities.
John Connor: Listen, I need to stop by my house. I want to pick up some stuff before we leave.
The Terminator: Negative. The T-1000 will definitely try to reacquire you there.
John Connor: Are you sure?
The Terminator: I would.
The Terminator: Come with me if you want to live.
John Connor: We spent a lot of time in Nicaragua and places like that. For a while there, she was with this crazy ex-Green Beret guy, running guns. Then there were some other guys. She'd shack up with anybody she could learn from so she could teach me how to be this "great military leader." Then she gets busted. And it's like, "Sorry kid, your mom's a psycho. Didn't you know?" It's like everything I'd been brought up to believe was all made of bullshit. I hated her for that! But everything she said was true. She knew... and nobody believed her. Not even me.
[Dyson's personal code fails to access the computer room]
The Terminator: [raises a grenade launcher] Let me try mine.
Tim: [finds a picture of John's mother] Is that her?
John Connor: Yes.
Tim: She's pretty cool, huh?
John Connor: No, she's a complete psycho. That's why she's up at Pescadero. It's a mental hospital. Okay? She tried to blow up a computer factory, but she got shot and arrested.
Tim: No shit.
John Connor: She's a total loser.
The Terminator: [to Sarah and John while he deals with an LA SWAT team] Stay here. I'll be back.
Sarah Connor: [narrating] Dyson listened while the Terminator laid it all down: Skynet, Judgment Day, the history of things to come. It's not everyday you find out that you're responsible for three billion deaths. He took it pretty well.
Miles Dyson: [after the Terminator completes his story] I feel like I'm gonna throw up. You're judging me on things that I haven't even done yet. How are we supposed to know.
Sarah Connor: Yeah, right. How are you supposed to know? Fucking men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death and destruction...
John Connor: Mom! We need to be a little more constructive here, okay? We still have to stop this from happening, don't we?
John Connor: We got Skynet by the balls now, don't we?
Tim: Your foster parents are kinda dicks, huh?
[Lewis, the Guard buys a cup of coffee, just before he is introduced to the T-1000]
Lewis, the Guard: Hey, Gwen, you want some coffee?
Gwen: No, thanks. How 'bout a beer?
Lewis, the Guard: Yeah, right.
[examines his cup]
Lewis, the Guard: Hey, I got a full house.
Gwen: That's good, Lewis.
Lewis, the Guard: Must be my lucky day.
[Lewis turns around and the T-1000 impales his head]
The Terminator: My CPU is a neural-net processor; a learning computer. The more contact I have with humans, the more I learn.
SWAT Team Leader: You, in the window! Drop your weapon and put your hands on your head!
Police Helicopter Pilot: [the Terminator starts firing minigun] Shit! That's a damn minigun!
John Connor: [they're travelling in an ancient truck with the T-1000 hot on their heels] Step on it!
The Terminator: [the truck is only going about 65] This is the vehicle's top speed.
John Connor: I could get out and run faster than this!
[the Terminator hoists a huge gun and lopsidedly smiles]
John Connor: It's definitely you.
Dr. Silberman: It won't work, Sarah. You're no killer. I don't believe you'd do it.
Sarah Connor: You're already dead, Silberman. Everybody dies. You know I believe it, so don't fuck with me!
John Connor: Now don't take this the wrong way, but you're a Terminator, right?
The Terminator: Yes. Cyberdyne Systems, Model 101.
Miles Dyson: Just let the boy go.
Sarah Connor: Shut up! Shut up, shut up, shut up! It's all your fault! Mother fucker, it's all your fault!
Miles Dyson: What?
T-1000: Are you the legal guardian of John Connor?
Todd Voight: That's right, Officer. What's he done now?
T-1000: Could I speak with him please?
Janelle Voight: You could if he were here. He just took off on his bike. So, he could be anywhere.
T-1000: Do you have a photograph of John?
Janelle Voight: Yeah, sure, hold on.
Todd Voight: Could you tell me what this is about?
T-1000: Just need to ask him a few questions.
[Janelle gives the photo to T-1000]
T-1000: He's a good looking boy. Do you mind if I keep this picture?
Janelle Voight: No, go on. There was a guy here this morning looking for him, too.
Todd Voight: Yeah, a big guy on a bike. Does that got something to do with this?
T-1000: No, I wouldn't worry about him. Thanks for your cooperation.
[from Extended Special Edition ending]
Sarah Connor: [speaks into her recorder] August 29, 1997, came and went. Nothing much happened. Michael Jackson turned 40. There was no Judgment Day. People went to work as they always do. Laughed, complained, watched TV, made love. I wanted to run to through the street yelling to grab them all and say, "Every day from this day on is a gift. Use it well." Instead, I got drunk. That was 30 years ago. But the dark future which never came still exists for me. And it always will, like the traces of a dream. John fights the way differently than it was foretold. Here, on the battlefield of the Senate his weapons are common sense and hope.
Sarah's Granddaughter: [runs up to Sarah] Tie me, Grandma. Tie me!
Sarah Connor: How's that?
Sarah's Granddaughter: Thank you, Grandma.
Sarah Connor: The luxury of hope was given to me by the Terminator. Because if a machine can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.
John Connor: [to the Terminator] This severe routine is getting old. You're acting like such a geek.
Jock: Fuck you, you little dip-shit!
John Connor: Dip-shit?
[to the Terminator]
John Connor: Put your leg down.
[to the Jock]
John Connor: Did you call moi a dip-shit?
Sarah Connor: You came here to stop me?
John Connor: Yeah, I did.
John Connor: Mom and him were only together for one night. She still loves him, I guess. I see her crying sometimes. She denies it, totally of course like she got something stuck in her eye.
John Connor: [the Terminator rips open the steering column of a car to hotwire it, John interrupts, jingling a set of keys before him] Are we learning yet?
Dr. Silberman: Good Morning, Sarah.
Sarah Connor: Good Morning, Dr. Silberman. How's the knee?
Dr. Silberman: Fine, Sarah.
Dr. Silberman: [turns to the team of doctors with him] She... uh, stabbed me in the knee cap with my pen a few weeks ago.
Sarah Connor: [armed with a hypodermic syringe inudated with drain cleaner] I'll pump him full of this shit; I swear!
Mossberg: [showing a series of photographs taken with the Terminator] These were taken by a video surveillance camera, at the Westtown police station, in 1984. He killed 17 police officers that night. Men with families, children.
Weatherby: These were taken at a mall in Receda...
[shows two new photographs of the Terminator]
Weatherby: Today.
Mossberg: Ms. Connor, we know you know who this guy is. Look, I just sat here and told you that your son is missing, that the foster parents have been murdered. We know this guy's involved. Doesn't that mean anything to you? Don't you care?
[no response from Sarah as Weatherby waves a hand in front of her eyes]
Dr. Silberman: Sorry, guys. She grows more and more disconnected from reality as time goes on.
[John Connor wants to get some things from home]
The Terminator: Negative. The T-1000 will definitely try to reacquire you there.
John Connor: You sure?
The Terminator: I would.
Miles Dyson: Hi. Um, Carl. These are friends from out of town, I'm just gonna take them upstairs and show them around.
Gibbons: Now, c'mon Mr. Dyson, you know the rules if you want to bring visitors into the lab. I need written authorization...
The Terminator: [the Terminator and Sarah draw their guns] I insist.
Sarah Connor: [Gibbons is trying to push the alarm button] Don't even think about it.
Sarah Connor: You're the one livin' in a fuckin' dream, Silberman! 'Cause I know when it happens! It happens!
Miles Dyson: [after swiping his card on a control panel, nothing happens] My card should access this thing.
[swipes his card several times more, nothing happens, then he tries to open it up with his hand]
Sarah Connor: What happened?
Miles Dyson: Dammit.
[checks the map screen and finds out what is going on]
Miles Dyson: The silent alarm is tripped. All of the codes are neutralized in the entire building, nothing will open anywhere now. We have to abort.
Sarah Connor: [gets in front of Dyson] No. We'll go all the way.
Moshier: Gibbons?
Moshier: [seeing the front deak empty and turning towards the bathroom]
Moshier: Gibbons, come on, man. You can't leave the desk like that!
Moshier: [opens the outer bathroom door]
Moshier: Gibbons!
Moshier: [opens the inner bathroom door, sees Gibbons tied to a urinal base and gagged]
Moshier: Oh, shit!
Lloyd: [the Terminator starts the motorcycle, Lloyd comes out the diner's door with a sawed-off 10-Gauge Winchester Lever-Action Shotgun] Can't let you take the man's wheels, son. Now, get off before I put you down.
Lloyd: [the Terminator gets off the motorcycle and walks towards Lloyd] That's it, goddamn it.
John Connor: Easy money.
Sarah Connor: [the T-1000 pursues John, Sarah, and the Terminator in a police helicopter] Chopper's coming in!
The Terminator: It's him.
Tim: [in the video arcade] I'm going to get some quarters. I'll be back.
Enrique Salceda: You're pretty famous all over the goddamn TV. Pictures of you and John, your big friend here. Cops are going nuts looking for you.
Sarah Connor: I just came for my stuff. I need clothes, food and one of your trucks.
Enrique Salceda: Hey, how about the fillings out of my fucking teeth?
Sarah Connor: Now, Enrique.
[the SWAT team finds a dying Myles Dyson holding a piece of broken tech that's rigged to set off a detonator]
Miles Dyson: I don't know how much longer I can hold this.
SWAT Team Leader: Fall back! Everybody out! Fall back now! Go! Go! Go!
John Connor: [Sarah is about to smash the Terminator's chip with a sledgehammer but John stops her] No! Don't!
Sarah Connor: Out of my way, John.
John Connor: Don't kill him.
Sarah Connor: 'It', John. Not him, 'it'.
John Connor: Okay, 'it'. But we need 'it'!
Sarah Connor: Listen to me, listen, we're better off on our own.
John Connor: But it's the only proof we have, of the future, of the war and all that!
Sarah Connor: Maybe. I don't trust it.
John Connor: But he's my friend, all right?
Sarah Connor: You don't know what it's like to try and kill one of these things, and if something goes wrong this could be our last chance so move!
John Connor: Look, Mom, If I'm supposed to be this great military leader, maybe you should listen to my leadership ideas once and a while! Cause if my own mother won't, how do you expect anyone else to?
Sarah Connor: [Sarah looks at the chip and slams the sledgehammer down, narrowly missing it] All right, play it your way.
Mother of Fighting Children: [John and The Terminator see two children playing with guns, they're mother stops them] Break it up before I wring both your necks. Now, c'mon.
The Terminator: Get down!
Miles Dyson: Imagine a jet airliner with a pilot that never gets tired, never makes mistakes, never shows up with a hangover.
[pats the model of the chip]
Miles Dyson: Meet the pilot.
[after Sarah's attacked him and is being restrained by orderlies]
Dr. Silberman: [sardonically] Model citizen.
The Terminator: [after reinserting the chip inside The Termiator's head] Was there a problem?
John Connor: No problem, none whatsoever.
Sarah Connor: [to the Terminator] So what's your story?
The Terminator: Here, hold this.
[gives cop his minigun and takes the gas mask off the cop's head]
Kyle Reese: [from Deleted Scene; Sarah is sitting on her bed, asleep, until Kyle Reese wakes her] Sarah. Sarah, wake up.
Sarah Connor: [Waking up to find Kyle Reese sitting before her] Kyle. You're dead.
Kyle Reese: Where's our son, Sarah?
Sarah Connor: They took him away from me.
Kyle Reese: He's the target now.
Sarah Connor: I know.
Kyle Reese: He's all alone. You have to protect him.
Sarah Connor: I know. You tell me how I'm supposed to do that. He doesn't even believe me anymore. I've lost him.
Kyle Reese: You're strong, Sarah, stronger than you ever thought you could be.
Sarah Connor: [Crying] No.
Kyle Reese: On your feet, soldier.
[She gets up and hugs him, passionately]
Kyle Reese: I love you, Sarah. I always will.
Sarah Connor: [She kisses him, then hugs him again] I need you.
Kyle Reese: I'll always be with you.
[She kisses him again, crying more]
Kyle Reese: Remember the message. "The future is not set. There is no fate, but what we make for ourselves".
Sarah Connor: [She nods her head, still crying, and lays her head on his shoulder; they kiss once more and embrace in one last hug; She opens her eyes to find he is no longer in her arms, but now standing outside her cell door] Stay with me.
Kyle Reese: There's not much time left in the world now, Sarah.
[He turns and walks away]
Sarah Connor: [She jumps off the bed and runs outside her cell to find that Kyle is a long ways down the hallway; she begins to chase after him] Kyle, don't go!
[She continues to chase after him, turning a corner, finding he's even further down the second hallway]
Sarah Connor: KYLE!
[She chases him out of the hospital to find herself on the opposite side of a playground fence, with the hospital nowhere in sight; Sarah watches the children playing on the playground, banging on the fence, trying to warn everyone, until a bright flash of light occurs, waking Sarah up from her dream]
John Connor: [repeated line, after he hacks into the ATM machine to steal money, after he bypasses the security code to steal one of the keys to the vault inside the Cyberdyne Systems building] Easy money.
Sarah Connor: [28:36] Please. He's in great danger. He's naked without me. If I could just make a phone call.
Dr. Silberman: I'm afraid not. Not for a while. I don't see any choice to recommend to the review board that you stay here another 6 months.
John Connor: [1:08:54] I said I was OK
Sarah Connor: John, it was stupid of you to go there. God damn it you have to be smarter than that. you almost got yourself killed. What were you thinking? You cannot risk yourself even for me, do you understand? You're too important. Do you understand?
Sarah Connor: I had to get you out of that place. I'm sorry
Sarah Connor: I didn't need your help, I can take care of myself
The Terminator: What's wrong with your eyes?
Sarah Connor: [1:42:01] I love you John, I always have
John Connor: I know
Sarah Connor: [after throwing the arm and chip into the steel] It's over.
The Terminator: No. There is one more chip.
[points to his head]
The Terminator: And it must be destroyed also.
[hands her the lever]
The Terminator: Here. I cannot self-terminate. You must lower me into the steel.
John Connor: No... No!
The Terminator: I'm sorry, John.
John Connor: NO!
The Terminator: I'm sorry.
John Connor: No, it'll be okay! Stay with us! It'll be okay!
The Terminator: I have to go away.
John Connor: No, don't do it, please! Don't go!
The Terminator: I must go away, John.
John Connor: No! No, wait, wait! You don't have to do this.
The Terminator: Sorry.
John Connor: No, don't do it! Don't go!
The Terminator: It has to end here.
John Connor: I order you not to go. I order you not to go! I ORDER YOU NOT TO GO!
The Terminator: I know now why you cry, but it's something I can never do.
[John hugs the Terminator, and the Terminator shakes hands with Sarah]
The Terminator: Goodbye.
[Sarah lowers the Terminator into the steel, and the Terminator gives the two a thumbs up before its destruction]
