"Negative. That is no longer my primary function, and I no longer answer to Skynet." It replies. "My current mission is one of protection. I was captured by the human resistance during the war and reprogrammed to serve as a protector to John Connor, the future leader of the resistance, before Skynet goes online." Which is certainly a sentence it just uttered!

"If time is continuing to pass normally in my own universe, then John is unguarded. The longer this situation endures, the more likely his risk of termination becomes. I cannot allow that to occur."