Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV Series)

Gnothi Seauton (2008)

Lena Headey: Sarah Connor

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• Sarah Connor : Did John, the future John, send you back to help me jump over my death? Is everything else a lie?

  Cameron Phillips : No. He sent us here to fight. But you're the best fighter he knows.

  Sarah Connor : I'm sure that's not -

  Cameron Phillips : The best.

• Sarah Connor : [after being told about 9/11]  I cannot imagine the apocalypse. No matter what Kyle Reese told me, or others who have come back, I cannot imagine three billion dead. I can imagine planes hitting buildings and I can imagine fire. If I would have witnessed it, if I would have been here, I'm sure I would have thought the end was near. I'm sure I would have thought 'we have failed'.

• Sarah Connor : The kid snuck out when we were gone. Won't look me in the eye, his shoes are wet with grass. Don't need to be a tin man to figure that one out, just a mom.

• Sarah Connor : [narrates]  A wise man once said, "know thyself". Easier said than done. I've had nine aliases, twenty-three jobs, spoken four languages, and spent three years in a mental hospital for speaking the truth. At least when I was there I could use my real name. Through it all, I've always known who I am and why I'm here. Protect my son. Prepare him for the future.

• Sarah Connor : Now, after three days, you tell me there are other people here?

  Cameron Phillips : Resistance fighters.

  Sarah Connor : Resistance fighters, humans, sent back from the future by John. And what? Are they manning some kind of apocalyptic paramilitary convenience store filled with fake IDs and guns and money?

• Sarah Connor : These resistance fighters... they know you?

  Cameron Phillips : They've seen me before.

• Sarah Connor : Why jump at all? Why not stay in the past? I had seven more years to get ready. To get him ready.

  Cameron Phillips : No, you wouldn't have.

  Sarah Connor : Why not?

  Cameron Phillips : Because you died; two years ago, December 4, 2005. You died.

• Cameron Phillips : Skynet doesn't know you're here. There's no directive to hunt you.

  John Connor : So if I was to walk right by one...

  Cameron Phillips : They'll walk right by you. They don't know what you look like.

  John Connor : That's really awesome.

  Sarah Connor : And what if they found out who he was? Would they all know what to do then?

  Cameron Phillips : They do.

  Sarah Connor : Awesome.

• Sarah Connor : It's not so bad being a Connor.

  John Connor : That's easy for you to say.

  Sarah Connor : Is it?

• Sarah Connor : [to Cameron]  You all put back together, Tin Man?

• Sarah Connor : Were you gonna kill that cop? Don't answer that, don't want to know. We need rules. Are you supposed to take orders or something like that?

  Cameron Phillips : I do, from John.

  Sarah Connor : From John. So, if I tell John to forbid you -

  Cameron Phillips : Not this John.

  Sarah Connor : Not this John. Aren't they the same?

  Cameron Phillips : Not yet.

• Cameron Phillips : John has a high level of stress.

  Sarah Connor : Genetics are a bitch.

• Sarah Connor : [to Cameron]  Do what you do, girly.

• Cameron Phillips : I know what the Tin Man is. He needed a heart. The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in nineteen hundred, first published -

  Sarah Connor : I know all about The Wizard Of Oz. When John was little I -

  Cameron Phillips : You read it to him over and over again, in Spanish. He never told you, but it was one of his favorite things that you did. He used to talk about it a lot.

• Sarah Connor : How do you know what I would and would not do? You don't know me! You don't know me! And you don't know my son. Not John. Not my John. You don't know what I would and wouldn't do. *I* don't even know what I would and wouldn't do. I don't know anything anymore. I don't even remember what my name is.

  Cameron Phillips : Sarah Connor.

• Sarah Connor : [end of episode narration]  "Know thyself." John once told me it's inscribed over the entrance to the temple of Apollo. The entire quote is "Know thyself and thou shall know all the mysteries of the gods and the universe." That's quite a mouthful. My version is this: "Know thyself because what else is there to know?" People hide secrets. Time is a lie. The material world can disappear in an instance. It has, and it will again. Our identities change. Our names, the way we look, how we act and speak. We're shapeshifters. There is no control, no constant, no shelter, but the love of family and the body God gave us. And we can only hope that will always be enough.

• Sarah Connor : Know thyself. John once told me it's inscribed on the front of the Temple of Apollo. The entire quote is: "Know thyself, and thou shall know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe." It's quite a mouthful.

• Sarah Connor : How was school?

  John Connor : Well, I didn't get killed, and she didn't kill anyone... I'd say it was a good day.