Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV Series)

What He Beheld (2008)

Thomas Dekker: John Connor

Quotes 

• [Derek and John are sitting in the park, eating ice cream and watching two kids playing baseball] 

  Derek Reese : It's beautiful here, isn't it?

  [John nods] 

  Derek Reese : When you stay long enough, you start fooling yourself into thinking that this is... how it's always gonna be. Then you remember what this place'll look like when it's on fire and... you realize you'll do whatever it takes to keep from watching it burn again.

  [the baseball lands near John. John picks it up and gives it back to the younger kid, then spots the older boy wearing a shirt with the name "Reese" on the back. John turns back to Derek stunned] 

  John Connor : Is that... you?

  [realizes the implications] 

  John Connor : And the younger one? Is that...?

  Derek Reese : Kyle. Throws pretty good for a five-year-old, huh? Your father always had a nice arm.

  John Connor : [shocked]  How'd you know?

  Derek Reese : Every time I look at you I see him.

  [smirks] 

  Derek Reese : Besides, your mom's his type.

  [with watery eyes, John watches the two young Reeses play again] 

  Derek Reese : Happy birthday.

• John Connor : [referring to Kyle]  What was he like?

  Derek Reese : He was just a kid when it happened. Eight years old, I was fifteen. How do you tell an eight-year-old machines have taken over the world?

  John Connor : How do you?

  Derek Reese : You don't.

• Derek Reese : So, it's your birthday.

  John Connor : How... how d'you know?

  Derek Reese : Are you kidding? I celebrated your 30th with you.

  John Connor : [smiles]  How was that?

  Derek Reese : [chuckles]  You got drunk as a skunk.

  [John laughs] 

  Derek Reese : Come on. I'll buy you a beer.

  John Connor : I'm sixteen.

  Derek Reese : All right, I'll buy you an ice cream cone. Come on, it's your birthday. When there are things to celebrate, they should be celebrated.

• Sarah Connor : How are we supposed to celebrate your birthday if you're sitting in front of a computer?

  [John looks at her, surprised] 

  Sarah Connor : Do you actually thought I forgot your birthday?

  John Connor : It's just, we have much more important things to think about than my stupid birthday.

  Sarah Connor : Your birthday *is* important.

  John Connor : No, it's, it's not important. Finding the Turk, stopping Skynet, Judgment Day, that's important, that's... that's our life.

  Sarah Connor : It's our mission. This is our life. If we stop caring about that, then we're lost.

• Morris : Oh wow. Is this your car?

  Cameron Phillips : No. It belongs to the guy I killed and stuffed in the trunk.

  John Connor : Hey. Where you been, Mom says we gotta get home right now. - What's up with the car?

  Morris : Cameron stuffed a dead guy in the trunk.

  Cameron Phillips : He was following us.

  Morris : Your sister's dark, bro. You're gonna love the Smiths.

  John Connor : Yeah, she's, uh, she's really Goth.

• Cameron Phillips : Do I have a birthday?

  John Connor : I don't know. Were you born?

  Cameron Phillips : I was built.

  John Connor : Well, then, maybe you have, like, a 'built-day'.

• Morris : Wait, Cameron! Hey, um... There's something I... kinda need to ask you. Um... you think maybe you might wanna go to the prom with me?

  John Connor : Just say 'yes'!

  Cameron Phillips : Yes!

• [Cameron reveals Sarkissian's dead handyman in the trunk] 

  Cameron Phillips : He was a threat to us.

  John Connor : Did he say anything, a name, a location?

  Cameron Phillips : He said very little. And then he was quiet.

• Derek Reese : Remind me again, why... why are the boys out here and the girls in there?

  John Connor : Because one of the "boys" is still wanted for murder. And one of the "girls" is harder than nuclear nails.

  Derek Reese : And the other one's a cyborg.

• John Connor : Moore's law: the guy who founded Intel said that every two years, the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles. Thirty years ago it was an observation, now it's a law. Tech industry spent billions doubling chip power.

  Derek Reese : And?

  John Connor : And, that's how we can go from a chess computer to the apocalypse in just four years.

• John Connor : I learned that a lot can happen in four years.

  Derek Reese : A lot can happen in four seconds. One minute I'm in the yard with my brother playing baseball, the next we look up and the sky is on fire.

  John Connor : Judgment Day.