Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV Series)

Pilot (2008)

Richard T. Jones: James Ellison

Quotes 

• James Ellison : Been together long?

  Charley Dixon : Six months maybe. Bit of a whirlwind.

  James Ellison : You have no idea the whirlwind.

• Charley Dixon : Why would she do that?

  James Ellison : Well, you know, Mr. Dixon, it's the robots. The ones from the future, the ones Skynet sent to kill her son, which makes total sense because, in the future, John's not only her son but

  [reading] 

  James Ellison : "the leader of the resistance, fighting artificially intelligent machines determined to annihilate the human race." Did he strike you that way? Leader of a scrappy band of rebels? Luke Skywalker type?

• James Ellison : This is just my patter, Mr. Dixon. This is just me impressing upon you that I'm not here because you lost your fiance, love of your life, and all around good-time-girl. I'm here because my boss, the United States of America, thinks Sarah Connor is a deluded, dangerous, grade-A whack-a-mole who killed a man because she believes that in the future he'll invent a computer system that declares war on the world.