- John Henry: I know what it feels like, Mr. Ellison.
- James Ellison: What?
- John Henry: To die - then come back. To be alone.
- Sarah Connor: I'm not here for Charley.
- John Connor: Okay, then why are we here?
- Sarah Connor: We're here for you. People matter, John, they're all that matters. Don't ever forget that.
- [first lines]
- Sarah Connor: When John was a child, the legends of the jungle were his fairytales. His favorite was the story of El Viejo del Monte - 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, this was his curse: to forever be vigilant, to forever protect.
- Sarah Connor: Make sure you get to the safe house before night. If you haven't been there before, it can be hard to find.
- Derek Reese: I can follow directions.
- Sarah Connor: Well, you can also make mistakes. Wouldn't want anyone else getting hurt because of 'em.
- Young John: Why're we so far from camp?
- Sarah Connor: Told you, it's part of the game.
- Young John: You mean, training.
- Sarah Connor: If we call it a game, it's more fun.
- Young John: But it's not a game!
- Sarah Connor: The point... is, listen to me.
- Young John: I always listen. You don't talk that much.
- Cameron Phillips: 33-42-31 North - the safe house coordinates. It's in the desert. You like the desert.
- Sarah Connor: Things happen out there.
- Cameron Phillips: Things happen here too.
- Matt Murch: By bad news I mean on a scale of one to ten - one being a... hangnail, ten being Katrina - this is Katrina with a hangnail. Looks like someone managed to stuff malware down the throat of the most sophisticated A.I. in human history.
- Catherine Weaver: John Henry was infiltrated? Probed?
- Matt Murch: Well, looks worse than that to me; it looks like someone out there wants to kill him.
- [Cameron has told Derek about Jesse's miscarriage]
- Derek Reese: Why'd you tell me that now?
- Cameron Phillips: 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 Phillips: I met her once.
- Derek Reese: She never told me that.
- Cameron Phillips: It seems she never told you a lot of things.
- Charley Dixon: The first week... I kept seeing her. I go to the market, she'd be there. And for a second, my heart would stop. Then I'd realize, hey, that's... that's not my wife. That's just some random woman who wears her hair in a ponytail the way Michelle used to. For a while, I stopped shopping there. But a man can only live on convenience store burritos for so long. So, I go back there now. It's gettin' better.
- Charley Dixon: When the perimeter's breached, a siren goes off. I figure I got about 60 seconds to escape by boat.
- John Connor: Boat can't stop bullets.
- Charley Dixon: Even if they sink it, I got a chance. Those bastards can't swim. I can.
- John Henry: Miles Dyson died in 1997 in an explosion at Cyberdyne Systems, the apparent victim of Sarah Conner, a known terrorist who had escaped from Pescadero State Mental Hospital days before the incident. That was your case, Mr. Ellison, when you were at the FBI.
- James Ellison: Yes... Yes, it was my case.
- John Henry: You never found Sarah Connor?
- James Ellison: No. I never did.
- [last lines]
- Derek Reese: Why'd you come in after me?
- Cameron Phillips: You know the location of the safe house... John's location. If they tortured you...
- Derek Reese: That would never happen.
- Cameron Phillips: It has before.
- Catherine Weaver: John Henry, this intelligence - your brother - what does it want?
- John Henry: He wants what we all want, Ms. Weaver: to survive.