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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!
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Identity Revealed in Tense Encounter
Kyle Reese
Who are you?!
John Connor
John Connor!
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Self-Destruction Leads to Skynet's Advantage
General Ashdown
Losenko?
General Losenko
We have destroyed ourselves. Skynet tracked our signal. It led them straight to us.
[calmly]
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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.
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A Call to Fight Back
Taglines
On May 21st, we fight back
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Struggle Against Machine Overload
John Connor
We've been fighting a long time. We're outnumbered by machines.
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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.
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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)
Marcus Wright
A man.
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!
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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.
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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!
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Instructions for Communication in Crisis
John Connor
(After Kate asks what she should say if his men find him gone) ].
[[w:I'll be back|I'll be back]
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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.
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Embrace the Future, Forget the Past
Taglines
Forget the past
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Beginning of the End
Taglines
The end begins
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Identity and Uncertainty in Terminator Salvation
John Connor
What are you?
Marcus Wright
I don't know.
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A Hopeful Assertion of Uniqueness
Marcus Wright
(To John Connor) I'm the only hope you have.
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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.
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The Taste of Death
Marcus Wright
(After kissing a cancer striken scientist, prior to his execution) So that's what death tastes like.
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Searching for Identity in Transformation
Marcus Wright
(On becoming a machine) I need to find who did this to me. And so did you.
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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.
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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!
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A Disappointing Future Unfolds for John Connor
John Connor
This is not the future my mother warned me about.
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The War Concludes Tonight, Regardless of Outcome
John Connor
Win or lose, the war ends tonight!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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