The Terminator (1984)

Linda Hamilton: Sarah Connor

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• [after Sarah tries to escape and bites Reese's hand, in a stolen car] 

  Kyle Reese : [42:46]  Cyborgs don't feel pain. I do. Don't do that again.

  Sarah Connor : [weakly]  Just let me go!

  Kyle Reese : Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!

• Sarah Connor : [to the Terminator as she's about to push a button that will crush the terminator]  You're terminated, fucker.

• Sarah Connor : [44:40]  Reese. Why me? Why does it want me?

  Kyle Reese : There was a nuclear war. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it's gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah.

  Sarah Connor : I don't understand.

  Kyle Reese : Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.

  Sarah Connor : Did you see this war?

  Kyle Reese : No. I grew up after. In the ruins... starving... hiding from H-K's.

  Sarah Connor : H-K's?

  Kyle Reese : Hunter-Killers. Patrol machines built in automated factories. Most of us were rounded up, put in camps for orderly disposal.

  [pulls up his right sleeve, exposing a mark] 

  Kyle Reese : This is burned in by laser scan. Some of us were kept alive... to work... loading bodies. The disposal units ran night and day. We were that close to going out forever. But there was one man who taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal motherfuckers into junk. He turned it around. He brought us back from the brink. His name is Connor. John Connor. Your son, Sarah... your unborn son.

• Sarah Connor : [recording a tape for her future son while sitting in her jeep at a gas station]  The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to. But I guess I've got a while yet before you're old enough to even understand the tapes. They're more for me at this point just so I can get it straight. Should I tell you about your father? Boy, that's a tough one. Will it affect your decision to send him here, knowing that he is you father? If you don't send Kyle, you can never be. God, a person can go crazy thinking about all this... I suppose I will tell you... I owe him that. Maybe it'll be enough if you know that, in the few hours we had together, we loved a lifetime's worth.

• Sarah Connor : [1:07:29]  Are you sure you have the right person?

  Kyle Reese : I'm sure.

  Sarah Connor : [angrily]  Oh, come on. Do I look like the mother of the future? I mean am I tough, organized? I can't even balance my checkbook! Look Reese, I didn't ask for this honor and I don't WANT IT, ANY OF IT!

  Kyle Reese : Your son gave me a message to give to you. He made me memorize it. Thank you Sarah for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face except to say that the future is not set.

  [reciting message] 

  Kyle Reese : Thank you, Sarah, for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face, except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive, or I will never exist.

• Kyle Reese : [in a stolen car]  The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him.

  Sarah Connor : [frustrated]  Look, I am not stupid, you know. They cannot make things like that yet.

  Kyle Reese : Not yet, not for about 40 years.

  Sarah Connor : [disbelieving]  Are you saying it's from the future?

  Kyle Reese : One possible future. From your point of view. I don't know tech stuff.

  Sarah Connor : Then you're from the future, too. Is that right?

  Kyle Reese : Right.

  Sarah Connor : Right.

• Sarah Connor : [answers the phone in Sarah and Ginger's apartment]  Hello?

  Matt Buchanan : [sitting on a chair, seductively]  First I'm gonna rip the buttons off your blouse one by one, then run my tongue down your neck to your bare, gleaming breasts. And then slowly... slowly pull your jeans off inch by inch.

  Sarah Connor : [starts laughing and covers the receiver with her hand]  Ginger, it's Matt.

  Matt Buchanan : And lick your belly in circles further and further down, and then pull your panties off with my teeth.

  Sarah Connor : [in a serious tone]  Who *is* this?

  Matt Buchanan : God. Sarah? Jesus. I'm Sorry. I thought you were... Can I talk to Ginger please?

  Sarah Connor : Sure, Bunky.

  Ginger Ventura : [takes the phone from Sarah]  Hello?

  Matt Buchanan : First I'm gonna rip the buttons off your blouse one by one...

• [last lines while sitting in her jeep at a gas station] 

  Sarah Connor : What did he just say?

  Gas Station Attendant : He said there's a storm coming in.

  Sarah Connor : [sighs]  I know.

• Sarah Connor : [checks the grocery bags Kyle has brought back to the hotel room]  What've we got? Moth balls, corn syrup, ammonia. What's for dinner?

  Kyle Reese : Plastique.

  Sarah Connor : That sounds good. What is it?

  Kyle Reese : Nitroglycerine-base; it's a bit more stable. I learned to make it when I was a kid.

• Sarah Connor : [in a room inside the police station, while sitting on a couch]  So Reese is crazy?

  Dr. Peter Silberman : In technical terminology: he's a loon.

  Lieutenant Ed Traxler : [shows a bullet-proof vest]  Sarah, this is what they call body armor. Our tac guys wear these. It can stop a 12-gauge round. This other individual must have been wearing one under his coat. Feel that. Go ahead.

  Sarah Connor : [handed the vest, she feels it]  What about when he punched through the windshield?

  Detective Hal Vukovich : He was probably on PCP. Broke every bone in his hand and wouldn't feel it for hours. There was this guy once, you see this scar?

  [Traxler interrupts him by handing him back the vest] 

  Detective Hal Vukovich : Thank you.

• Kyle Reese : [in a stolen car, while being chased by the police and the terminator]  All right, listen. The Terminator's an infiltration unit: part man, part machine. Underneath, it's a hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor-controlled. Fully armored; very tough. But outside, it's living human tissue: flesh, skin, hair, blood - grown for the cyborgs.

  Sarah Connor : Look, Reese, I don't know what you want from...

  Kyle Reese : Pay attention! I gotta ditch this car.

• Sarah Connor : [in a motel room]  Kyle, the women in your time, what are they like?

  Kyle Reese : Good fighters.

  Sarah Connor : That's not what I meant. Was there someone special?

  Kyle Reese : Someone?

  Sarah Connor : A girl, you know.

  Kyle Reese : No. Never.

  Sarah Connor : Never? I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. So much pain.

  Kyle Reese : Pain can be controlled - you just disconnect it.

  Sarah Connor : So you feel nothing?

• Sarah Connor : [in a stolen car]  What's it like when you go through time?

  Kyle Reese : White light. Pain. It's like being born, maybe.

• Sarah Connor : [12:44]  Guard it for me, big buns.

• Sarah Connor : [in a stolen car, while being chased by the police and the terminator]  This is a mistake. I haven't done anything.

  Kyle Reese : No, but you will. It's very important that you live.

  Sarah Connor : This isn't true. How could that man just get up after you just...

  Kyle Reese : He's not a man - a machine. Terminator, Cyberdyne Systems Model 101.

  Sarah Connor : A machine? Like a robot?

  Kyle Reese : Not a robot. A cyborg. Cybernetic organism.

  Sarah Connor : No, he was bleeding.

  Kyle Reese : Just a second. Keep your head down!

• Lieutenant Ed Traxler : [51:12]  Sarah... .Sarah, this is Dr. Silberman

  Dr. Peter Silberman : Hi, Sarah

  Sarah Connor : [51:23]  You're a doctor?

  Dr. Peter Silberman : [yawning]  Criminal psychologist.

  Sarah Connor : Is Reese crazy?

  Sarah Connor : Well, that's what we're gonna find out.

  [clicks his pen] 

• Kyle Reese : Sleep. It'll be light soon.

  Sarah Connor : Okay. Talk some more.

  Kyle Reese : About what?

  Sarah Connor : About where you're from.

  Kyle Reese : All right. You stay down by day, but at night, you can move around. The H-K's use infrared so you still have to watch out. But they're not too bright. John taught us ways to dust them. That's when the infiltrators started to appear. The Terminators were the newest and the worst...

• Sarah Connor : [awakens from a dream while hiding inside a cave not from the road]  I was dreaming about dogs.

  Kyle Reese : We used them to spot Terminators.

  Sarah Connor : Your world... it's pretty terrifying.

• Sarah Connor : [hiding inside a cave not from the road]  Tell me about my son.

  Kyle Reese : He's about my height. He has your eyes.

  Sarah Connor : What's he like?

  Kyle Reese : You trust him. He's got a strength. I'd die for John Connor.

  Sarah Connor : Well... at least now I know what to name him. I don't suppose you know who the father is, so I won't tell him to get lost when I meet him?

  Kyle Reese : John never said much about him. I know he dies before the war.

  Sarah Connor : Wait. I don't want to know.

• Sarah Connor : I'm on my break, Chuck. Carla's got my station.

  Nancy : Sarah, come here! It's about you. I mean, sort of. This is so incredible, You're not gonna believe this, Sit down, You are going to love this.

  Sarah Connor : What?

  TV Anchorwoman : ...has been compiled from several witnesses. Once again, Sarah Connor, thirty-five, mother of two... brutally shot to death in her home this afternoon.

  Nancy : You're dead, honey.

• Ginger Ventura : [23:36]  That bum. So what if he has a Porsche? He can't treat you like this. It's Friday night, for Christ's sake.

  Sarah Connor : [slumping]  I'll live.

  Ginger Ventura : I'll break his kneecaps.

• Sarah Connor : [1:16:50]  I love you, Mom.

  The Terminator : [mimicking mother's voice]  I love you, too, sweetheart.

• Sarah Connor : [Assembling pipe bombs with Kyle]  It must've been a fun childhood.

• Sarah Connor : [crying]  Listen. are you sure it's them? I mean, maybe I should look at the bodies.

• Sarah Connor : [40:08]  This isn't true. How could that man just get up after you...

  Kyle Reese : Not a man, a machine. A terminator. Cyberdine Systems model 101

  Sarah Connor : A machine? Like, a robot?

  Kyle Reese : Not a robot. Cyborg. Cybernetic organism

  Sarah Connor : No. He was bleeding