Last words in Terminator media

Following is a list of last words from Terminator films and related works.

The Terminator (1984)

• Wash day, tomorrow. Nothing clean, right?
  • Who: Punk (Brian Thompson)
  • Notes: Character sees the nude Terminator and says this line. The Terminator responds, "Nothing clean. Right." After a few seconds, the Terminator kills the punk's acquaintance. He then proceeds to punch the punk through the gut, killing him.

• Fuck you, asshole!
  • Who: Punk leader (Bill Paxton)
  • Notes: Terminator demands his clothes, but the punk simply pulls out a knife and says this line. In response, the Terminator pushes him into a gate so forcibly that it kills him.

• You can't do that.
  • Who: Pawnshop clerk (Dick Miller)
  • Notes: The Terminator is at the counter sampling a large variety of guns. He loads a shell into a shotgun, and when the shopkeeper says that he cannot do this, the Terminator replies "Wrong", and shoots him.

• Yes.
  • Who: Wrong Sarah Connor (Marianne Muellerleile)
  • Notes: Terminator comes to her house after reading her name in the phone book, believing her to be the Sarah Connor he is after. Upon her opening the door, the Terminator asks, "Sarah Connor?" The woman confirms that her name is Sarah Connor, so the Terminator breaks the door open and shoots her multiple times.

• Shoo! Go on. I'm gonna make a belt out of you!
  • Who: Ginger Ventura
  • Notes: Character goes into the kitchen late at night to make a sandwich. As she makes it, she is frightened when Sarah Connor's pet iguana knocks a few boxes off the top of the fridge. Annoyed, she says this line to him. On her way back to her room, her boyfriend Matt is thrown through the door by the Terminator, who steps into the living room and thinks Ginger is Sarah Connor. Ginger tries to run, but is shot in the back by the Terminator.

• Don't make me bust you up, man!
  • Who: Matt Buchanan (Rick Rossovich).
  • Notes: When Matt sees the Terminator, he gets into a fight, but the Terminator throws Matt through the bedroom door; he is probably dead at this point.

• Look, it may take a while. If you wanna wait, there's a bench over there.
  • Who: Sergeant Wright
  • Notes: Terminator enters police station and asks to see Sarah Connor. Wright says that she is writing a statement and he cannot see her. The Terminator patiently asks, "Where is she?" to which Wright answers with this line. The Terminator looks around for a second, then says the famous line, "I'll be back" and leaves. After a second, the Terminator returns by driving a car through the station wall and running over Sergeant Wright.

• Stay here.
• Reese! She's got to stay alive. Do whatever you have to do.
  • Who: Lt. Ed Traxler
  • Notes: Says this to Sarah Connor. He then tries to shoot the Terminator, who is attacking the police station, but is shot dead. The other quote is in a deleted scene.

• Ed...HEY!!!
  • Who: Sgt. Hal Vukovich
  • Notes: Sees Ed Traxler, who had been shot dead by the Terminator. He attempts to shoot the Terminator, but is also shot dead.

• Get out.
  • Who: The Terminator
  • Notes: His last words in the movie; said to a truck driver who accidentally ran him over. Sarah later crushes him to lifeless scrap metal in a hydraulic press.

• Come on, motherfucker!
  • Who: Kyle Reese
  • Notes: Kyle says this to the Terminator as he tries to hold him off to let Sarah escape, only to be overpowered. He then tries to destroy the Terminator with a pipe bomb, but is unable to get clear in time and dies in the explosion.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

• No, go on. There was a guy here this morning for him too.
  • Who: Janelle Voight
  • Notes: Janelle tells the visiting T-1000 that a T-800 was also looking for John that very morning. These are her last known words as later, the T-1000 terminates her off-camera and masquerades as her in the hopes of luring John to the Voight house.

• What the Hell is the Goddamn dog barking at? Hey! Shut up, you worthless piece of shit! [John Connor: The dog's really barking.] Thought you told the kid to get rid of that fucking mutt.
  • Who: Todd Voight
  • Notes: Todd is annoyed by the constant barking of John Connor's pet dog. The T-1000, disguised as Todd's wife Janelle, is talking to John on the phone. After Todd says this line, the T-1000 moves his hand to the side. A slashing sound is heard. When the T-1000 hangs up, the camera moves to the side to show Todd stabbed through the mouth by the T-1000's knife hand.

• Hey, I got a full house! [Gwen: That's great, Louis.] Must be my lucky day.
  • Who: Louis the night guard of Pescadero
  • Notes: Character bought a cup of coffee from a vending machine and looked at the playing card game on the side of the cup. The first part is spoken to the receptionist of the hospital, and the second to himself. He says this line, then turns around to find the T-1000, disguised as Louis. The T-1000 stabs Louis through the eye.

• I'm not sure...how much longer...I can...hold this.
  • Who: Miles Dyson
  • Notes: Character has been shot during the clandestine raid on Cyberdyne Systems, and is holding an explosive detonator. He drops the detonator, causing much of the Research and Development section of Cyberdyne to be destroyed.

• Damn! Are you all right?
  • Who: Truck driver
  • Notes: The T-1000 was hit by the car driven by the T-800. A truck driver sees this and asks him if he is okay, but the T-1000 stabs him through.

• Call to John now.
• John. John. [Sarah Connor: [holding shotgun] Get out of the way, John.] [John Connor: [gets out of the way] Shoot!]
  • Who: T-1000
  • Notes: While the T-1000 impersonates Sarah to kill John, John sees through the ruse and the T-800 destroys the T-1000 shortly after. The first line is the T-1000's last in its default form, spoken to Sarah while interrogating her; the second line is spoken while it is impersonating Sarah.

• I know now why you cry. [touches John's tear] But it's something I can never do. [he and John hug] Goodbye.
  • Who: T-800
  • Notes: Character sacrifices itself by descending into molten metal so that Cyberdyne Systems cannot study its parts to continue their research that will lead to a nuclear apocalypse.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

• Oh, my God! Are you okay? Do you want me to call 911?
  • Who: Rich Lady
  • Note: Character sees the nude T-X approaching her. The T-X states, "I like this car" and kills the lady, taking the car.

• What?
  • Who: Unnamed police officer
  • Note: Pulls the T-X over for driving too fast. She looks at gun and says, "I like this gun". The officer says this in surprise. The T-X presumably kills him, as she is seen with his gun later.

• Yeah, that's me.
  • Who: Jose Barrera
  • Notes: T-X searches for John Connor's future lieutenants, so she searches for Barrera. She drives up to the drive thru of Jim's Burgers. Jose asks for her meal order over the drive-thru speaker. The T-X asks, "Jose Barrera?", to which he confirms. The T-X drives to the pick up window and looks at Jose's name tag, which has his name on it. After reading it, the T-X shoots him dead.

• Um...I'm Bill. My sister's upstairs. Is there something wrong?
  • Who: William "Bill" Anderson
  • Notes: When he opens the door, the T-X, who is standing there, asks, "Elizabeth and William Anderson?" William says this line. After he says it, the T-X pushes him onto the floor and shoots him dead.

• Is that you, baby? Did you just get in?
  • Who: Scott Mason
  • Note: Scott hears a noise and wakes up. He says this line, thinking that Kate has returned from the vets office, but he sees that it is the T-X. Then T-X kills him offscreen, causing blood to spurt onto a picture.

• John Connor was here. Where is he? Where did he go?
• Daddy!
  • Who: The T-X
  • Note: Impersonates Katherine Brewster to get close to her father. A little while later, the T-101 shoves his remaining power cell into the T-X's mouth, where it explodes, killing them both. The first line are her last words in her regular form, spoken to Kate. This second line is said while impersonating her, and it is also her last line.

• I opened Pandora's Box.
  • Who: General Robert Brewster
  • Note: Character was shot three times by the T-X as one of the possible hostiles to Skynet, and gives John and Kate a codebook. He says this line to Kate, apologizing for causing Judgement Day to occur. He is then finished off by missile that flies into his office.

• You are terminated.
  • Who: T-850
  • Notes: Character pulls out its power cell and uses it to cause a massive explosion that destroys itself and the T-X.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008-2009)

• Hey, where are you going?!
  • Who: Dmitri Simkov
  • Episode: "The Demon Hand"
  • Notes: The Mafia guns down Dmitri (who owes them money) and his sister, while Cameron, the terminator, walks away.

• I'm looking for John Connor.
  • Who: Cromartie
  • Episode: "Complications"
  • Notes: Said to James Ellison shortly before being destroyed in a hail of gunfire.

Terminator Salvation (2009)

• Losenko?
  • Who: General Ashdown
  • Notes: The character speaks to his fellow general before their submarine is destroyed by HK torpedo, killing them all.

• We have destroyed ourselves. Skynet tracked our signal. It led them straight to us.
  • Who: General Losenko
  • Notes: The character speaks to his fellow general before their submarine is destroyed by HK torpedo, killing them all.

• 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.
  • Who: Marcus Wright
  • Notes: The character is a hybrid machine/human and is thinking as he slips under the anaesthetic to die and donate his heart to John Connor.

Terminator Genisys (2015)

• Your clothes. Give them to me. Now.
  • Who: Young T-800
  • Notes: These words were said to three punks when old T-800 suddenly appeared. Both Terminators then engaged in brutal fight which ended with young T-800 being deactivated by Sarah who shot from a .50 caliber sniper at it. Later it was reanimated by T-1000 with a drop of mimetic polyalloy before its head was blown off by Kyle Reese. The remains of young T-800 were then dissolved in the acid bath.

• May 12, 1984. The day you arrived.
• He's mimicking. Shoot him.
  • Who: T-1000
  • Notes: The first is the T-1000's last line in its default form, spoken to Kyle Reese. The second line is spoken to Sarah while impersonating Kyle. Sarah then destroys T-1000 by shooting acid containers at the ceiling, which dissolved it.

• Mr. Connor?
  • Who: Security guard
  • Notes: The character is surprised to see John Connor who then kills him by stabbing him through.

• NO!
  • Who: John Connor/T-3000
  • Notes: John screams this as he is being disintegrated by prototype time machine energy field.

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

• Take her. Save her.
  • Who: Diego Ramos (Diego Boneta)
  • Notes: The character has been impaled by a piece of rebar after a car chase.

• I know she's a stranger to you. Why not just let me have her?
  • Who: Rev-9 (Gabriel Luna)
  • Notes: The character attempts to convince the protagonists hand over Dani Ramos, his target.

• I'm not.
  • Who: Grace (Mackenzie Davis)
  • Notes: The character says this to Dani Ramos as Dani says she's sorry while cutting open Grace's abdomen to retrieve her power source.

• For John.
  • Who: T-800/Carl (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
  • Notes: The character says this to Sarah Connor as he sacrifices himself to destroy the Rev-9.