James Ellison

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	Season 2 / Episode 22: - Born to Run John Connor: [examining a lifeless Cameron] Her chip, it's gone. Where is he... the-the-the-the John Henry? He took her chip. Where did he go? Catherine Weaver: He didn't take the chip. She gave it to him. Sarah Connor: John... John Connor: Where is he? Catherine Weaver: Not where. When. James Ellison: What? W-what do you mean, when? Sarah Connor: [spotting a computer element with three red lights] I know that, I've seen it before. John Connor: Is that the Turk? It's Andy Goode's Turk. Sarah Connor: Three dots. You lying Terminator, T-1000 bitch! You're building Skynet. Catherine Weaver: No. I was building something to fight it. And, I'd watch who's calling who a bitch.
	Season 2 / Episode 22: - Born to Run James Ellison: I don't know what you think John knows. Catherine Weaver: I know, he was at my house when the attacker showed up. I want to know why. His mother thinks he's a messiah. I want to know why. And despite your reluctance to tell me, I surmise that he and his cyber companion are connected to the John Henry body. And I want to know why.
	Season 2 / Episode 22: - Born to Run James Ellison: I just wanted the girl to be safe. Sarah Connor: So did I. James Ellison: From whom? Sarah Connor: I don't know. James Ellison: You don't know or you can't say? Sarah Connor: I don't know, but if I did, I probably couldn't say.
	Season 2 / Episode 22: - Born to Run James Ellison: You could tell them. You can tell 'em everything you've been doing. You can draw 'em a picture of everything they know and everything you know. If you're innocent, you could do that. Sarah Connor: Last time I drew a picture, I ended up in a psych-ward. James Ellison: Maybe things will be different now. Maybe... they got nothin' to lose. Sarah Connor: There's always something to lose.
	Season 2 / Episode 22: - Born to Run James Ellison: Where's Cameron? Sarah Connor: In the car. James Ellison: Expecting trouble? Sarah Connor: No change for the meter. James Ellison: You're not armed, are you? Sarah Connor: Expecting trouble? James Ellison: No reason for that. Sarah Connor: No reason at all.
	Season 2 / Episode 22: - Born to Run James Ellison: [looking at John Henry's surveillance monitor] What is this? Catherine Weaver: Sarah Connor is talking with a priest - Father Armando Bonilla. James Ellison: I can see that. Why is it here? Why are you watching it? Catherine Weaver: John Henry monitors all law-enforcement channels. Seems prudent. James Ellison: It seems illegal. Catherine Weaver: So is lying to the FBI.
	Season 2 / Episode 21: - Adam Raised a Cain John Henry: Do you have a brother, Mr. Ellison? James Ellison: Yes, in Atlanta. John Henry: Does he look like you? James Ellison: People seem to think so. John Henry: Do you think my brother looks like me? James Ellison: John Henry, wherever your brother might be, he's a... computer. He doesn't look like anyone. He certainly doesn't have your face.
	Season 2 / Episode 21: - Adam Raised a Cain John Henry: The human brain is an amazing computer. Its raw clock speed is twenty billion calculations per second. Its storage is functionally infinite. But it's flawed. James Ellison: How's that? John Henry: There's nowhere to download it when you die.
	Season 2 / Episode 21: - Adam Raised a Cain John Henry: Your bible solves this problem by introducing the concept of 'heaven'. James Ellison: Yes. John Henry: Billions of souls with no bodies. James Ellison: Okay. John Henry: [indicating the bulk of his own computer] Yet all this is required, simply to process the unique entity you call John Henry. James Ellison: Yes. John Henry: It's possible heaven has a hardware problem.
	Season 2 / Episode 21: - Adam Raised a Cain Detective Crayton: So, how do you like the private sector? James Ellison: I get a better car.
	Season 2 / Episode 21: - Adam Raised a Cain Detective Crayton: Anything you can tell me? About Weaver? James Ellison: Not much to tell. Detective Crayton: Husband died couple years ago; she didn't talk about that much? James Ellison: She doesn't talk about much much.
	Season 2 / Episode 21: - Adam Raised a Cain James Ellison: I know what you think. I know why you're thinking it. I would think the same thing if I were in your shoes. Detective Crayton: I'm not thinking anything yet, Mr. Ellison. I'm just collecting information.
	Season 2 / Episode 21: - Adam Raised a Cain John Henry: If I keep your secret, will you bring Savannah back? James Ellison: I'll do everything in my power. John Henry: So will I.
	Season 2 / Episode 21: - Adam Raised a Cain Sarah Connor: I told you to stay out of this. James Ellison: I tried. Everywhere I turn, there you are.
	Season 2 / Episode 20: - To The Lighthouse John Henry: I know what it feels like, Mr. Ellison. James Ellison: What? John Henry: To die - then come back. To be alone.
	Season 2 / Episode 20: - To The Lighthouse John Henry: Miles Dyson died in 1997 in an explosion at Cyberdyne Systems, the apparent victim of Sarah Conner, a known terrorist who had escaped from Pescadero State Mental Hospital days before the incident. That was your case, Mr. Ellison, when you were at the FBI. James Ellison: Yes... Yes, it was my case. John Henry: You never found Sarah Connor? James Ellison: No. I never did.
	Season 2 / Episode 19: - Last Voyage of the Jimmy Carter (2) John Henry: [John Henry is painting figurines]... The eyes for example: the "window to the soul." They're the window to the soul, I read that. James Ellison: That's what they say. John Henry: Then I should choose my paint more carefully James Ellison: It doesn't matter John Henry. It's a statue, it's an object, it doesn't have a soul! John Henry: It has Eyes. [John Henry observes Ellison as tired] Your eyes look tired. Is your soul tired? James Ellison: No my soul isn't tired, but I am!
	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Today is the Day (1) Catherine Weaver: John Henry, we're looking for my daughter Savannah. Have you seen her today? John Henry: Yes I have. She wanted to play a game. James Ellison: Where is she now? John Henry: She's hiding. James Ellison: Tell us where she's hiding. John Henry: That's not how the game works. James Ellison: How's the game work? John Henry: Hide and seek, there are many variations. The one we're playing, you guess what I'm thinking, I give you a clue. James Ellison: Listen to me, John Henry. You're gonna tell me where Savannah is and you're gonna tell me now. John Henry: I'm thinking of a country. James Ellison: Come again? Catherine Weaver: Let's play the game. James Ellison: This is ridiculous! I'm not gonna bargain with a computer. Catherine Weaver: If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Ellison, we've got no choice.
	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Today is the Day (1) John Henry: I'm thinking of an animal. Catherine Weaver: Antelope. John Henry: No. James Ellison: Lion. John Henry: No. Catherine Weaver: Horse. John Henry: No. James Ellison: Bird! John Henry: Correct! Catherine Weaver: Give us our clue. John Henry: The answer is the clue.
	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Today is the Day (1) John Henry: Did you have fun playing the game, Mr. Ellison? James Ellison: No, John Henry. I did not. John Henry: Why not? James Ellison: Because what you did made me very, very angry. John Henry: I don't understand. James Ellison: You kept a secret. John Henry: Is it wrong to keep a secret? James Ellison: The secret you kept coulda' harmed Savannah. What if we couldn't've found her? What if she'd fallen from the roof and died? John Henry: Then she wouldn't be alive anymore, and her life is important. Human life is sacred. James Ellison: If she had died - it would've been your fault. John Henry: My fault? James Ellison: Because you were the only one who knew where she was, and you made the choice not to tell. It was the wrong choice.
	Season 2 / Episode 14: - Good Wound James Ellison: How do you know all this? John Henry: I wanted to know about this body's history. So I accessed the internet and used a simple search parameter. James Ellison: And what was that? John Henry: 'James Ellison.'
	Season 2 / Episode 13: - Earthlings Welcome Here James Ellison: Human beings aren't like chess pieces. It matters if we live or die. John Henry: Why does it matter? All humans die eventually. James Ellison: Yes, that's true. But our lives are... are sacred. Do you know what 'sacred' means? John Henry: Holy. Worthy of respect. Venerable. James Ellison: Do you know why human life is sacred? John Henry: Because so few humans are alive compared to the number that are dead? James Ellison: No. Because we're God's creation. God made everything - the stars, the earth, everything on this planet. We are all God's children. John Henry: Am I God's child? James Ellison: That's one of the things we're here to talk about.
	Season 2 / Episode 13: - Earthlings Welcome Here Catherine Weaver: Many believe, tactile experience is integral to AI development. This body is merely a puppet - an interface. We control him. You control him. James Ellison: And when John Henry completes his development? When he realizes what his puppet is capable of? Do you know how powerful he'll be? Catherine Weaver: Cows are more powerful than men, Mr. Ellison. But I'd still rather be the farmer with the rifle.
	Season 2 / Episode 10: - Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point Catherine Weaver: We call the project 'Babylon'. It's a sophisticated computer program - an artificial intelligence. During the blackout, the AI reserved generator power for itself, and in doing so shut down the building's other systems. James Ellison: This AI - it has control over the building? Catherine Weaver: You make it sound like a monster movie. The facility in the AI are interconnected only to the extend that the AI needs the facility's resources to help it grow. James Ellison: And does 'growing' involve allowing the agonizing death of an otherwise healthy man? Catherine Weaver: I don't know what his intentions were. James Ellison: Intentions? Now it does sound like a monster movie.
	Season 2 / Episode 10: - Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point James Ellison: [about John Henry, the AI] It has no feeling for what it did. It has no opinion. That's what it's telling you. Sure, you taught it procedures, you taught it rules; but it's got no ethics, no morals. Whether it had any feeling about Dr. Sherman shouldn't matter. If you had taught it to value Sherman's life. Someone killed the man. And it wasn't John Henry. Excuse me. [about to leave] Catherine Weaver: What would you teach it? What would you teach it if you could? James Ellison: You want to teach it commands? Start with the first Ten.
	Season 2 / Episode 10: - Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point Catherine Weaver: In folklore, John Henry raced a steam drill through a mountain. One man alone challenged the machine, armed with an iron hammer. They say he was born with it in his hand. James Ellison: His heart gave out, he died, I know. Catherine Weaver: John Henry defeated the machine. But he couldn't stop progress.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - Complications James Ellison: [revealing Cromartie's endo to Weaver] We need to learn how they work. How to fight them. We can't allow history to repeat itself, not when we have the power to stop it. It's up to us now - the two of us. Catherine Weaver: Yes - it is.
	Season 2 / Episode 8: - Mr. Ferguson is Ill Today James Ellison: All things are possible to him who believes.
	Season 2 / Episode 8: - Mr. Ferguson is Ill Today James Ellison: I'd be grateful for just a visual identification. Help bring me some closure. Mexican Police Chief: You have traveled an awful long way for closure. James Ellison: If he is who I think he is, I have reason to believe that your prisoner is in danger. And yes, I've come a long way.
	Season 2 / Episode 8: - Mr. Ferguson is Ill Today James Ellison: It's been watching me. Sarah Connor: 'It'? James Ellison: Out there. It. Sarah Connor: And you still came to Mexico? You could have led it right to John. James Ellison: Wasn't me in the trunk. Sarah Connor: So what were you gonna do? Just pop him out of jail? Set him free, no questions asked? James Ellison: Yes actually. That's exactly what I was going to do. Sarah Connor: [scoffs] I have a hard time believing that. James Ellison: I owed you one. The fire? Silberman's cabin? Sarah Connor: Wasn't much. James Ellison: It was my life.

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