It had no choice. Their defense grid was smashed. We'd won.

7 seconds sound clip from the The Terminator movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:53:51 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Who was the enemy again?

- A computer defense system built for... Built for SAC-NORAD by Cyberdine systems.

- I see. And this computer thinks it can win by killing the mother of its enemy, killing him, in effect, before he's even conceived, a sort of retroactive abortion?

- That guy Silberman cracks me up.

- Last week, he had this guy in here that burned his Afghan. He screwed it first, then he set it on fire.

- Hey, shut up.

- Why didn't the computer just kill Connor then? Why this elaborate scheme with the Terminator?

- It had no choice. Their defense grid was smashed. We'd won.

- Taking out Connor then would make no difference.

- Skynet had to wipe out his entire existence.

- Is that when you captured the lab complex and found that... uh, what is it called? Uh... the time displacement equipment?

- That's right. The Terminator had already gone through.

- Connor sent me to intercept, and they blew the whole place.

[...]

The Terminator Sound Clip

The Terminator

Famous quotes from The Terminator, featuring short audio clips and sound effects.

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator T 800), Michael Biehn (Kyle Reese), Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor)

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