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Sarah Connor Narratives from Season 1
 |  | Episode 1: Pilot |  |  |
| There are those who believe that a child in the womb shares his mother's dreams; her love for him, her hopes for his future. Is it told to him in pictures while he sleeps inside her? Is that why he reaches for her in that first moment and cries for her touch? But what if you'd known, since he was inside you, what his life held for him; that he would be hunted; that his fate was tied to the fate of millions? That every moment of your life will be spent keeping him alive? Would he understand why you were so hard? Why you held on so tight? Would he still reach for you if the only dream you've ever shared with him was a nightmare?... Would he know my love runs through him like blood? | |
| Every family has rules, and we had ours. Keep you head down. Keep your eyes up. Resist the urge to be seen as important or special. Know your exits. | |
| It is said that the death of any one person is the death of an entire world. Certainly for parents, the death of a child is no less than a holocaust. In the case of my son, these words are literally true. | |
| Even though we've traveled through time, bent the rules of nature, they will keep coming for him, keep trying to kill him. But until that day, it's gonna be one hell of a dogfight. |
 |  | Episode 2: Gnothi Seauton |  |  |
| 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. | |
| 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'. | |
| A new identity, a new life, a chance, you can’t put a price on that, but unlike John I was never eager for that new life to begin. I liked having no name, no story. It was the only time I got to be me. Unfortunately sometimes you have to pay for that… And the price was getting higher every day. | |
| 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. 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 instant. 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. |
 |  | Episode 3: The Turk |  |  |
| When I was in the mental hospital I became obsessed with science. Not all science actually and not really science at all. Scientists, and then only nuclear scientists. The ones who invented the bomb. Oppenheimer, Heisenberg, Fermi and Teller; pioneers, geniuses all. I read every book I could. I wanted to understand. Why couldn’t they stop? These fathers of our destruction. And why wouldn’t anybody stop them? … And if I had the chance, would I? | |
| In 1943 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg delivered a physics lecture to a packed hall in Zürich. One of the audience members was Mo Berg, an ex-professional baseball-player working as a spy for the O.S.S.. Berg’s task was to listen to the lecture and determine whether Heissenburg and the Germans were close to perfecting the atomic bomb. If Berg discovered that this was the case, he was to wait for Heissenberg outside the hall and shoot the scientist in the head… He had never killed anyone before. | |
| On July 16th, 1945, in the mountains outside of Los Alamos, New Mexico, the world's first atomic bomb exploded. The white light pierced the sky with such intensity that a blind girl claimed to see the flash from a hundred miles away. After witnessing the explosion, J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted a fragment of the Bhagavad Gita, declaring, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." His colleague, Ken Bainbridge, put it another way when he leaned close to Oppenheimer and whispered, "Now we're all sons of bitches." |
 |  | Episode 4: Heavy Metal |  |  |
| When John was little, before bed, I used to read him fairytales One night I read him a folktale called the Golem of Prague, the story of a clay monster made by a rabbi to protect the Jews of the city. What I’ve failed to remember was that at the end of the story, the Golem turns on its maker and kills him as well as the rest of the town. He didn’t sleep for months. I went to him and tried to tell him it wasn’t real, that I’d made it all up… Somehow that made it all worse. | |
| Not every version of the Golem story ends badly. In one the monster is a hero destroying all those that seek to harm its maker… In another the Golem’s maker destroys his creature before it destroys the world. | |
| The pride of man, of parents as well, makes us believe that anything we create we can control. Whether from clay or from metal, it is in the nature of us to make our own monsters. Our children are alloys, all. Built from our own imperfect flesh… We animate them with magic... And never truly know what they will do. |
 |  | Episode 5: Queen's Gambit |  |  |
| Of all the training my son received in the jungles of Central America, nothing prepared him better for combat than a game of chess. It taught him almost everything he needed to know about war…That to win, you must be patient… bold… calculating… and most of all, willing to sacrifice. | |
| When John sent Kyle Reese back to protect me, we had 2 days together. He told me about the future, about the apocalypse and the terror of a world run by machines. | |
| Kyle Reese saved my life. He gave me a son… He never told me that he had a brother… He never told me we would have family, that in our grief we are not alone. | |
| If there is a flaw in chess as a game of war, it is this. Unlike war, the rules of chess are constant; the pieces - unchangeable. You'll never win the heart of a rook or the mind of a knight. They are deaf to your arguments. And so be it… The goal of a chess game is total annihilation. But in war, even as the blood beats in your ears and you race after your enemy, there is the hope that saner minds than yours will stop you before you reach your target. In war, unlike chess, rules can be changed. Truces can be called. The greatest of enemies can become the best of friends. In war there is hope. |
 |  | Episode 6: Dungeons & Dragons |  |  |
| On the night we first met, John's father, Kyle Reese, told me words I remember to this day. He meant them as a warning. I think of them as words to live by. He told me of an apocalypse yet to come. Like a Pandora's box, he unpacked every horror, every evil, every dark thing that haunts our future. He also left me an unborn son to whom he bequeathed what remained in the box after the nightmare's fled - hope. | |
| Listen, Kyle said. Listen and understand. The machine 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. |
 |  | Episode 7: The Demon Hand |  |  |
| They say that when a person dies the soul lives on. The soul, the thing that separates us from the machines... Cameron had burnt the metal monster, 2000 degrees. I suppose they did the same to Andy. There’s nothing left of either… Nothing that told the story of who or what they were. Gone is gone… Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. When I go, bury me in the earth… Part of me died years ago with Kyle Reese, but a part of him lives on in John. If that’s not a soul, I don’t know what is. | |
| There was a time I was a hero to my son. He thought I walked on water. He knows better now… We all have weak moments; moments when we lose faith. But it is our flaws, our weaknesses that make us human. | |
| Science now performs miracles like the gods of old. Creating life from blood cells or bacteria or a spark of metal but they are perfect creatures and in that way they couldn’t be less human. There are things that machines will never do. They cannot possess Faith. They cannot commune with God... They cannot appreciate beauty. They cannot create art. If they ever learn these things, they won't have to destroy us. They'll be us. |
 |  | Episode 8: Vick's Chip |  |  |
| All of us wear masks. They can be worn out of love and the desire to remain close to those around us. To spare them from the complicated reality of our frayed psyches. We trade honesty for companionship… And in the process never truly know the hearts closest to us. | |
| So much danger in this world is hidden behind masks. We tell our children stories of good and evil, while knowing it's not that simple… True evil doesn't give us time to fight or to be afraid… We keep our heads down never bothering to look behind the masks. And in doing so we resign ourselves to terrible fates we can never see coming. |
 |  | Episode 9: What He Beheld |  |  |
| When John was little he used to sleep with his hand under my chin. At night I lay awake watching him, calm, peaceful, happy. I wanted to freeze time and let my son live in that moment forever. Well, you can’t freeze time, you can’t protect your children from the future that awaits them… The moment’s there and then… It’s gone. | |
| In 'Lord of the Flies' a group of boys slaughter a pig in the jungle, they torture it and place its head on a sharpened steak as an offering to the beast that hovers god-like over the island… The black blood drips down the pigs teeth and the boys run away…Later when one of the boys is alone he weeps, but not for the pig. The boy weeps for the end of innocence and the darkness of men’s hearts. |
| Quotes from Sarah Connor (season 1: The Demon Hand, Vick's Chip, What He Beheld) |
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