- Sarah Connor: Tell me what you need.
- Alex: Last night I would have said, a hundred thousand dollars and a little patience. This morning I need ten times that and a miracle.
- Sarah Connor: That's a hell of a morning.
- Sarah Connor: You need more than I have, Mr. Akagi.
- Alex: Call me Alex.
- Sarah Connor: Sorry, Alex.
- Alex: I'm sorry too, Ms. Gale.
- Sarah Connor: Call me Sarah.
- Catherine Weaver: We call the project 'Babylon'. It's a sophisticated computer program - an artificial intelligence. During the blackout, the AI reserved generator power for itself, and in doing so shut down the building's other systems.
- James Ellison: This AI - it has control over the building?
- Catherine Weaver: You make it sound like a monster movie. The facility in the AI are interconnected only to the extend that the AI needs the facility's resources to help it grow.
- James Ellison: And does 'growing' involve allowing the agonizing death of an otherwise healthy man?
- Catherine Weaver: I don't know what his intentions were.
- James Ellison: Intentions? Now it does sound like a monster movie.
- James Ellison: [about John Henry, the AI] It has no feeling for what it did. It has no opinion. That's what it's telling you. Sure, you taught it procedures, you taught it rules; but it's got no ethics, no morals. Whether it had any feeling about Dr. Sherman shouldn't matter. If you had taught it to value Sherman's life. Someone killed the man. And it wasn't John Henry. Excuse me.
- [about to leave]
- Catherine Weaver: What would you teach it? What would you teach it if you could?
- James Ellison: You want to teach it commands? Start with the first Ten.
- Alex: The air force has been interested in AI applications for a long time now, as far back as the '80s.
- Sarah Connor: Strange you call the '80s 'far back'.
- Alex: I know, isn't it? You a music fan? That's how I mark the decade. For me, the '80s will always be Duran Duran.
- Derek Reese: I came here to fight a war. To do whatever it takes to stop Skynet - now, today. If we're gonna do this, there's no more room for secrets. If there is anything that you haven't told me, I need to hear it now.
- Jesse: Remember when we were stationed at Serrano Point? That whole time... I was using your toothbrush.
- Derek Reese: The one in my mess can?
- Jesse: M-hm.
- Derek Reese: I wasn't using that to brush my teeth.
- Riley Dawson: [about a poster on her wall] It's not a poster of a bear. It's a poster of a fish being caught by a bear. Just swiped out of the water, totally at random... Do the other fish even care? Do they even notice? No. They just keep swimming, like nothing happened. Cos nothing important did.
- Riley Dawson: You're all crazy - everyone of you! You just sit here in your cozy little house, with your cold sodas and your Facebook pages like it all matters, like it's even real, but it's not. It's all gonna burn, and you're gonna be nothing but bleached skulls. Don't you get it? You're dead! All of you are dead!
- Cameron Phillips: [about the money] It's not enough.
- Sarah Connor: [counting diamonds] What will be enough?
- Cameron Phillips: [looks over the money and diamonds] Everything.
- Sarah Connor: Everything then.
- [she adds all the diamonds to the money]
- Cameron Phillips: You're certain?
- Sarah Connor: Certain is a luxury.
- Sarah Connor: It all adds up: the dots, the AI, the air force, the chip...
- Derek Reese: They're nothing. Listen to yourself. First it's the dots, then the AI, now it's the chip. Whatever you've needed it to be, that's what it is. You got played, it happens. Welcome to the human race.
- [Riley knocks on the door, and John opens]
- John Connor: Knocking? How not like you.
- Riley Dawson: Sarcasm? How not like you. Oh, wait, that's exactly like you.
- Catherine Weaver: In folklore, John Henry raced a steam drill through a mountain. One man alone challenged the machine, armed with an iron hammer. They say he was born with it in his hand.
- James Ellison: His heart gave out, he died, I know.
- Catherine Weaver: John Henry defeated the machine. But he couldn't stop progress.