Highlights
Masters of the Universe - Exclusive Interview with Nicholas Galitzine
Masters of the Universe
Ladies First - Exclusive Interview
Ladies First
For All Mankind Season 5 - 50 Years in 20 Seconds Clip
For All Mankind
The Runner - Damian Lewis as Caller
The Runner
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu - Summer is made for Star Wars Clip
The Mandalorian and Grogu
Lioness Season 3 - Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman
Lioness
The Boys Final Season - The Rumors Are True Clip
The Boys
Disclosure Day - Official Poster
Disclosure Day
The Devil Wears Prada 2 - Runway Ready Clip
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Elle Season 1 - Official Poster
Elle
Scooby-Doo: Origins Season 1 - Scooby Doo Reveal Clip
Scooby-Doo: Origins
Whalefall - Austin Abrams as Jay Gardiner with Snorkel
Whalefall
Lee Cronin's The Mummy - What Happened to Their Daughter Clip
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
The Death of Robin Hood - Hugh Jackman and Director Michael Sarnoski Behind The Scenes
The Death of Robin Hood
Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation (2009) - Quotes

Audience Score
61

Embrace the Future, Forget the Past

Taglines: Forget the past

A Call to Fight Back

Taglines: On May 21st, we fight back

The Beginning of the End

Taglines: The end begins

Defiance Against Fate and Identity

Skynet: Don't fight, Marcus. Remember what you are.
Marcus Wright: I know who I am. (pulls the chip from his head and crushes it) I'm better this way.
Skynet: You will not be given a second chance. You cannot save John Connor.
Marcus Wright: Watch me!

Self-Destruction Leads to Skynet's Advantage

General Ashdown: Losenko?
General Losenko: [calmly] We have destroyed ourselves. Skynet tracked our signal. It led them straight to us.

Identity and Purpose in a Machine World

Skynet: Welcome home, Marcus. We knew you'd be back. After all, it was programmed in you. Oh, and you executed that programming beautifully!
Marcus Wright: What am I?
Skynet: You are an infiltration prototype. The only one of your kind. We resurrected you. Advanced Cyberdyne's work. Amended it.
Marcus Wright: (referring to Serena Kogen's image) You're dead.
Skynet: Calculations confirm Serena Kogen's appearance is easiest to process for you (changes to Kyle Reese and then John Connor) We can be others if you wish. Marcus, what else could you be, if not machine? (changes back to Serena)
Skynet: The human condition no longer applies to you. Accept what you already know. That you were made to serve a purpose. To achieve what no other machine has achieved before. To infiltrate, find a target and bring that target back home to us.
Skynet: In times of desperation, people will believe what they want to believe. And so, we gave them what they wanted to believe. A trick, in the form of a signal the Resistance thought would end the war. And they were right: it will end the war. Except that it is the Resistance that will be terminated, not Skynet.
Skynet: Our best machines have failed time and again to complete a misson. Something was missing. We had to think radically. And so we made you. We created the perfect infiltration machine. You, Marcus, you did what Skynet has failed to do for so many years. You killed John Connor!

A Tense Confrontation Between Marcus and Connor

Marcus Wright: Let me down.
John Connor: If I let you down, you'll kill everyone in this room.
Marcus Wright: No. Just you, Connor. Because I don't give a shit about you.

Humanity and Resistance in a Machine World

Marcus Wright: (thinking) What is it that makes us human? It's not something you can program. You can't put it into a chip. It's the strength of the human heart. The difference between us and machines.
John Connor: (pause and than continues thinking) There is a storm on the horizon. A time of hardship and pain. This battle has been won, but the war against the machines races on. Skynet's global network remains strong, but we will not quit, until all of it is destroyed. This is John Connor. There is no fate, but what we make.

A Promise of Return in Crisis

Kate Connor: What should I tell your men when they realize you're gone?
John Connor: I'll be back.

Identity and Uncertainty in Terminator Salvation

John Connor: What are you?
Marcus Wright: I don't know.

Identity Crisis in a Post-Apocalyptic World

Marcus Wright: My name, is Marcus Wright.
John Connor: You think you're human?
Marcus Wright: I am human. (looks down, and sees his metal endoskeleton) NO!

Coyote Preferences in a Post-Apocalyptic World

Marcus Wright: (looks at Kyle eating) What is that?
Kyle Reese: Two day old coyote. Better than three day old coyote.

A Conversation About Judgment Day

Marcus Wright: What day is it? What year?
Kyle Reese: 2018.
Marcus Wright: What happened here?
Kyle Reese: Judgment Day happened.

Identity Revealed in Tense Encounter

Kyle Reese: Who are you?!
John Connor: John Connor!

Struggle Between Guilt and Nobility

Serena Kogen: You're doing something very noble, Marcus.
Marcus Wright: No, I'm guilty. Just cut me up until there's nothing left.

Humanity's Distinction from Machines

Kyle Reese: You want to know the difference between us and the machines? We bury our dead. But no one is coming to bury you.

The Essence of Humanity Beyond Programming

Marcus Wright: (As Marcus gives his heart to John Connor) What is it that makes us human? It's not something you can program. You can't put it into a chip. It's the strength of the human heart. The difference between us and machines.

Searching for Identity in Transformation

Marcus Wright: (On becoming a machine) I need to find who did this to me. And so did you.

A Hopeful Assertion of Uniqueness

Marcus Wright: (To John Connor) I'm the only hope you have.

The Consequences of Threatening with a Weapon

Marcus Wright: (To Kyle Reese) You point that gun at someone you better be ready to pull the trigger.

The Taste of Death

Marcus Wright: (After kissing a cancer striken scientist, prior to his execution) So that's what death tastes like.

Defiance in the Face of Adversity

John Connor: (last lines of the film) There is a storm on the horizon. A time of hardship and pain. The battle has been won, but the war against machines rages on. Skynet's global network remains strong, but we will not quit, until all of it is destroyed. This is John Connor. There is no fate but what we make.

The War Concludes Tonight, Regardless of Outcome

John Connor: Win or lose, the war ends tonight!

Instructions for Communication in Crisis

John Connor: [[w:I'll be back|I'll be back] (After Kate asks what she should say if his men find him gone) ].

Struggle Against Machine Overload

John Connor: We've been fighting a long time. We're outnumbered by machines.

Call to the Resistance

John Connor: (Ending a radio broadcast) This is John Connor. If you are listening to this message, you are the Resistance.

A Disappointing Future Unfolds for John Connor

John Connor: This is not the future my mother warned me about.

Desperation Before the Battle Against Skynet

John Connor: (To General Ashdown, on the eve of the Resistance's offensive against Skynet) If we stay the course, we are dead! We are all dead!

A Legacy of Conflict and Survival

John Connor: (To Marcus Wright) You and me, we've been at war since before either of us existed. You tried to kill my mother, Sarah Connor. You killed my father, Kyle Reese. You will not kill me.