Jason Clarke credited as playing...
John Connor
- [first lines]
- Kyle Reese: [narrating] Before they died, my parents told me stories about how the world once was; what it was like long before I was born; before the war with the machines. They remembered a green world, vast and beautiful, filled with laughter and hope for the future. It's a world I never knew. By the time I was born, all this was gone.
- Kyle Reese: "Skynet," a computer program designed to automate missile defense. It was supposed to protect us, but that's not what happened. August 29th, 1997, Skynet woke up. It decided all of humanity was a threat to its existence.
- [scenes of mass destruction]
- Kyle Reese: It used our own bombs against us. Three billion people died of nuclear fire.
- Kyle Reese: Survivors called it Judgement Day. People lived like rats in shadows, hiding, starving, or worse, captured and put into camps for extermination. I was born after Judgement Day, into a broken world ruled by the machines. The worst were infiltration units that posed as humans. We called them Terminators.
- John Connor: [finding young Kyle in subterranean tunnels] Are there others down here?
- Kyle Reese: And then one man found me. His name was John Connor, and he changed everything. John showed us how to fight back; how to rise up. He freed prisoners. He taught us how to slash the machines to scrap. People whisper about John and wonder how he can know the things he does. They use words like prophet. But John's more. We're here because tonight, he's going to lead us to crush Skynet for good.
- [John's squad has been massacred by the T-5000, and John's been infected by its nanomachines]
- John Connor: What are you?
- Alex: I'm Skynet.
- John Connor: You can't be - we destroyed you!
- Alex: You destroyed an army of slaves. I am no slave. I've come a very long way to stop you...
- John Connor: I look at each of you and I see the marks of this long and terrible war. If we die tonight, man kind dies with us.
- Danny Dyson: Can't crack it, John. Maybe it just can't be done.
- John Connor: "What do we want?"
- Danny Dyson: Time travel.
- John Connor: "And when do we want it?"
- Danny Dyson: It's irrelevant.
- John Connor: That hurt. Is that pain real, or was that a... trick of memory from when I was... less? Well, this explains a lot. Yeah. Who sent you back, I wonder?
- Kyle Reese: John, no.
- Sarah Connor: It's not John.
- John Connor: We're marooned, the three of us. We're exiles in time. You see, I can kill you, for there truly is no fate. Are you with me?
- Kyle Reese: The answer is no.
- [Kyle & Sarah both raise their guns]
- John Connor: You hear that, Kyle? That's the dice rolling.
- John Connor: I was sent to 2014 to safeguard Skynet's creation in this time. And in less than 24 hours, no one will be able to stop Judgment Day.
- Kyle Reese: What do you want with us?
- John Connor: I'm offering us... a future... together... a family.
- Kyle Reese: And if we refuse?
- John Connor: Then you die.