Battlestar Galactica, Season 1

Tigh:
Yes, we're tired. Yes, there is no relief. Yes, the Cylons keep coming after us time after time after time. And yes, we are still expected to do our jobs!

Virtual Six:
God has a plan for you Gaius. He has a plan for everything and everyone.

Chief Tyrol:
We'll sleep when we're dead, c'mon!

[Lee orders Kara to take stimulants and she refuses]

Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace:
Why are we arguing about this?

Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama:
I have no idea.

Starbuck:
Neither do I! You're the CAG, act like one.

Apollo:
What the hell does that mean?

Starbuck:
It means that you're still acting like you're everyone's best friend. We're not friends, you're the CAG. "Be careful out there"? Our job isn't to be careful, it's to shoot Cylons out of the frakking sky! "Good Hunting" is what you say. And now one of your idiot pilot is acting like a child and refusing to take her pills. So she either says 'Yes, sir' and obeys a direct order, or you smack her in the mouth, and you drag her sorry ass down to sickbay, and you MAKE her take those pills.

[They both glare at each other for a long moment, then burst into laughter]

Apollo:
Well, I'm glad I'm not working for you.

Starbuck:
You're damn right you're glad...

Apollo:
So, do I have to smack you on the mouth, Lieutenant?

Starbuck:
No sir, I'll take my pills. [Lee holds out the drugs] Oh. Perfect... [She takes the pills, crunching loudly]

Apollo:
Carry on.

Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace:
[salutes] Yes, sir! [sees Chief Tyrol staring at him] WHAT?

Virtual Six:
Do you remember the first time you lied to a woman? Other than your mother, that is.

Baltar:
Other than my mother? Sherry Bennett. Fourth grade, on the playground, behind the band room. "If you show me yours, I'll show you mine." She did. I did not.

Adama:
There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

Number Six:
We're the children of humanity. That makes them our parents, in a sense.

Number Five/Aaron Doral:
True, but parents have to die. It's the only way children can come into their own.

Adama:
Every man has to decide for themselves which side they are on.

Lee "Apollo" Adama:
I didn't know we were picking sides. [walks off]

Adama:
That's why you haven't picked one yet.

Roslin:
You have committed me to holding elections within the year.

Apollo:
Madam President, with respect. You are serving out the remainder of President Adar's term. When that term is up, in seven months, the law says, there is an election. I only committed you to obeying the law.

Adama:
You sound like some kind of lawyer.

Roslin:
This is unacceptable.

Apollo:
I swore an oath. To defend the articles. The articles say there is an election in seven months. Now, if you are telling me we are throwing out the law, then I am not a captain, you are not a commander, and you are not the president. And I don't owe either of you a damned explanation for anything.

Roslin:
He's your son.

Adama:
He's your advisor.

Kara "Starbuck" Thrace:
Ummm. I have my flaws too.

Tigh:
The difference is, my flaws are personal, yours are professional.

Starbuck [to a group of trainees]:
Pilots call me Starbuck, you may refer to me as God.

Adama:
He said something else. That you might have been feeling guilty about something you did for Zak. What did you do for him?

Starbuck:
I don't know. You'd have to ask Lee.

Adama:
I'm asking you.

Starbuck:
Well I don't kn-I, ah...I don't really know what he was talking about, so-

Adama:
Don't fence with me, Kara. I love you like a daughter. I don't deserve that.

Starbuck:
Ummm...Zak...failed...basic flight. He wasn't a bad pilot, he just had no feel for flying...and, um, when it came to his final check ride he...busted...three of the test maneuvers, and I should have flunked him, but I didn't. The bottom line is your...son...didn't have the chops to fly a Viper...and it killed him.

Adama:
[following a flashback] You did it because you were engaged.

Starbuck:
[breaking down] Because I made a mistake...because I was just...I was so in love with him...and I let that get in the way of doing my job...and um, and he um, he just wanted it so much, and I...I didn't want to be the one who crushed him...

Adama:
Reinstate the trainees to flight status.

Starbuck:
I will...but I just want you to understand...that I-

Adama:
Do your job.

Starbuck:
Yes sir-

Adama:
And walk out of this cabin...while you still can.

Starbuck:
[to a downed Cylon Raider] Are you...alive?

Lee:
Why did you do this? Why did we do this?

Adama:
Kara was family. You do whatever you have to do. Sometimes you break the rules.

Lee:
And if it was me down there instead?

Adama:
You don't have to ask that.

Lee:
Are you sure?

Adama:
If it were you, we'd never leave.

Starbuck:
[narrowly avoids being hit while piloting a hijacked Raider] You idiot! Didn't anybody teach you intercept protocol?! Okay... we're gonna have to do this the hard way then.

Lee:
[chasing Starbuck] Whoa, this bastard's good! Hold still, you little...

Starbuck:
Close enough for you... Just a little... bit... closer... [Lee scores a hit] NOT THAT CLOSE!!! [pulls off a sudden brake, forcing him to overfly her]

Lee:
What the-?! I've lost him! Galactica, I repeat - he's nowhere to be seen... [Starbuck slowly approaches him from behind and stops above him] Holy... Galactica, the Cylon is now flying formation with me! Right above my head. This thing is acting weird...

Adama:
Put me through.

Lee:
[laughs at the Raider suddenly turns around] It's Starbuck!

Adama:
What?! Come again, Apollo!

Lee:
Galactica, the Cylon Raider is marked "STARBUCK". It's painted onto the frakking wing! [everyone in the CIC cheers]

Adama:
Bring it into the bay! If it does anything, take it out!

Lee:
Wilco Galactica but I tell you what, it's gotta be her. This thing's flying around with some serious attitude!

Starbuck:
Like my new toy?

Lee:
When you take a souvenir, you don't screw around...

Adama:
[to Sergeant Hadrian and her Board of Inquiry] You've lost your way, Sergeant. You've lost sight of the purpose of the law: to protect its citizens, not persecute them. Whatever we are, whatever's left of us - we're better than that. Now these proceedings are closed. You'll be transported back to your ships and we appreciate your help.

Chairman of the Board:
This is an independent board. You have no power to close our inquiries.

Adama:
This is a witch-hunt. I will not have it aboard my ship.

Adama:
[to Tyrol, after Socinus has been incarcerated] What I can't do is I can't let someone who wears this uniform get up on the witness stand and lie under oath. And that's what your man did. He either lied the first time or he lied the second time. And it doesn't matter. He's guilty, and he'll pay the price. You? You'll pay a different price. You'll have to walk out on that hangar every day knowing that one of your men is in the brig because you couldn't keep your fly zipped. You are the most experienced non-commissioned officer we have left. You keep my planes flying. I need my planes to fly.

Virtual Six:
If you would give yourself over to God's will, you'd find peace in His love like I have.

Baltar:
[trying to get her dress off] Can you help me with this zipper?

Baltar:
Are you running a glitch in the program or something? Because you say the same thing over and over again. Now I've accepted your God and all that. Can't we reboot the hard drive?

Virtual Six:
He's not my God, He is God.

Baltar:
Yeah, your God, my God, everyone's God. He's big enough for all of us, isn't He?

Baltar:
Which leads me to the inescapable conclusion that Cylons are, in the final analysis, little more than toasters... with great-looking legs.

[Roslin visits Baltar in the brig after he is accused of treason.]

Roslin:
I want to believe you. I want to believe that I haven't made such a profound error in judgment in trusting you, in asking your advice. But here's where we are, Doctor. If anyone can be a Cylon, and it's hard to tell us apart then we o­nly have o­ne thing left to trust. Our instincts, our feelings. And the moment they told me it was your face in the photo I knew I believed it. I believe you were involved in the attack... somehow. I feel it.

Baltar:
You'll forgive me, Madam President, if I don't wish to be executed based solely o­n your gut feeling.

Roslin:
May the gods have mercy o­n your soul.

Shelly Godfrey:
Dr. Amarak gave the disk to me before he died.

Baltar:
What, as opposed to after he died?

[Starbuck interrogates a captured Cylon infiltrator]

Starbuck:
Now, if you were human, you'd be just about ready to start offering up some false information about the location of the nuke. Some tiny thing that might get you a reward and maybe spare you a few minutes of this. But then I keep forgetting, you're not human. You're a machine.

Number Two/Leoben Conoy:
I am more than you could ever imagine. I am God.

Starbuck:
[stifles laugh] I'm sorry, you're God? Wow... nice to meet ya. That's good, that's good. We'll give you a couple of minutes for that.

Leoben:
It's funny, isn't it? We're all God, Starbuck. All of us. I see the love that binds all living things together.

Starbuck:
Love? You don't even know what the word means.

Leoben:
I know that God loved you more than all other living creatures and you repaid His divine love with sin, with hate, corruption, evil. So then He decided to create the Cylons.

Starbuck:
The gods had nothing to do with it. We created you. Us. It was a stupid, frakked-up decision, and we have paid for it. You slaughtered my entire civilization. That is sin. That is evil. And you are evil.

Leoben:
Am I? I see the truths that float past you in the stream.

Starbuck:
Tell me where the warhead is.

Leoben:
This is not your path, Starbuck. You have a different destiny.

Starbuck:
Don't interrupt me. You see, I'm gonna dazzle you with my poor human brain. You see, I think that you're afraid. You're afraid that we're a long way from home. What if you don't transfer all the way back? What if, when you die here, you really die? It's your chance to find out if you're really god or just a bunch of circuits with a bad haircut.

Leoben:
I'm not afraid of dying.

Starbuck:
Somebody's programmed you with a fairy tale of God and streams and life ever after but, somewhere in that hard drive that you call a brain is a beeping message: "Error, error, does not compute. I don't have a soul, I have software. If I die, I'm gone."

Adama:
Manipulative. Cunning. The only problem with Leoben isn't that he lies - that would be too easy - it's that he mixes lies with truth.

Leoben:
What is the most basic article of faith? This is not all that we are. The difference between you and me is, I know what that means and you don't. I know that I'm more than this body, more than this consciousness. A part of me swims in the stream. But in truth, I'm standing on the shore. The current never takes me downstream.

Leoben:
I have a soul. I see patterns. I know you, you're damaged. You were born to a woman who believed that suffering was good for the soul, so you suffered. Your life is a testament to pain. Injuries. Accidents. Some inflicted upon others, others inflicted upon yourself. It surrounds you like a bubble. But it's not real, it's just... It's just something she put in your head. It's something that you want to believe because it means you're the problem, not the world that you live in. You want to believe it because it means that you're bad luck. You're like a cancer that needs to be removed. Because you hear her voice every day and you want her to be right.

Adama:
Madame President, we are the proud owners of the universe's first bona fide Cylon detector.

Roslin:
Well, that is great news. So... when do we begin?

Adama:
Doctor Baltar would like to start widespread testing as soon as possible, but there are some serious limitations, because he can only do one person at a time and verification takes hours.

Roslin:
So, who's going to go first?

Adama:
[thinking for a second] The test... right. I think people in sensitive positions should go first.

Roslin:
I completely agree. How about you?

Adama:
Excuse me?

Roslin:
If you're a Cylon, I'd like to know.

Adama:
If I'm a Cylon, you're really screwed. [Adama and Roslin both start laughing.]

Roslin:
Seriously, I do think you should go first. Show everyone in the fleet that they can trust the people at the top.

Adama:
Well then, maybe YOU should go first. [silence] All right... I'll go first.

[Number Five (Aaron Doral) and Number Six have trouble catching Caprica Sharon and Helo.]

Number Five:
We've searched every street, every building. They slipped through. How's that possible?

Number Six:
She thinks she loves him now. That she can't live without him. Her passion is making her more resourceful.

Number Five:
It bothers you, doesn't it?

Number Six:
We'll get them in the end.

Number Five:
No, it bothers you that you've never experienced it.

Number Six:
You saw the way Helo was when we took her away. He was pathetic.

Number Five:
I can't help wondering what it would be like to feel that intensely. Even in his anguish he seemed so alive.

Ellen Tigh:
You don't wanna frak with me, Bill. Try to remember that.

Adama:
Don't frak with me either, Ellen.

Adama:
Captain Adama and Colonel Tigh are working on the plan now and I need some serious "out-of-the-box" thinking.

Starbuck:
"Out-of-the-box" is where I live.

Virtual Six:
God doesn't take sides. He only wants your love. Open your heart to Him and He will show you the way.

Adama:
If you keep running from the school yard bully, he keeps on chasing you but the moment you turn around and stop you punch him really hard in a sensitive spot. He'll think twice about coming back.

Adama:
When you are in the cockpit, you are in control. Its hard to give it up... All you can do now is wait and hope you didn't make any mistakes. Welcome to the big leagues.

[Referring to a lighter which Adama has just given him to bring him good luck on his upcoming nearly hopeless mission]

Apollo:
Dad, I'll bring it back.

Adama:
You better or I'll kick your ass, it's a good lighter.

Starbuck:
You have been selected as Caprica's delegate to the Quorum of Twelve.

Baltar:
Me? Is this some kind of joke?

Starbuck:
Guess you got the super-genius vote. No accounting for taste.

Virtual Six:
Congratulations, Doctor!

Baltar:
Thank you, um...politics is the only thing more boring than blood samples. All those interminable speeches, all that dreary pomp...!

Virtual Six:
Parties full of young women, drawn to men of power.

Baltar:
...but when the people call, you must serve.

Virtual Six:
As far as I'm concerned, you can have any woman you want. But always remember, I have your heart.

Baltar:
Yes, of course you do.

Virtual Six:
I can always rip it out of your chest if I have to.

Adama:
Politics. As exciting as war. Definitely as dangerous.

Roslin:
Though in war, you can only get killed once. In politics it can happen over and over.

Adama:
You're still standing.

Roslin:
So are you.

Adama:
And I can dance! (They start dancing together.)

[Baltar is trying to have a conversation with the president and Virtual Six at the same time.]

Virtual Six:
I don't believe you.

Roslin:
You're a genius, are you not?

Baltar:
Well quite frankly, I don't give a flying frak whether you believe me or not! Because I've had it. I am-I am tired of being pushed and prodded around like I'm some kind of toy. I'm not your plaything!

Virtual Six & Roslin:
[together] Plaything?

Baltar:
I don't work for you. And quite frankly, I don't have to sit anymore and take this kind of abuse from either of you! [Roslin and Billy look confused.] You either- either in here, either in there! Wherever it is, I don't need to take it.

[As Kara Thrace pilots the Cylon Raider in a weapons test, she contacts Commander Adama.]

Adama:
[to Kara] Go ahead.

Starbuck:
I believed you. Believed in Earth.

Adama:
What are you doing, Starbuck?

Starbuck:
Bringing home the cat, sir.

Adama:
We can talk about this.

Starbuck:
No, I don't think so.

Adama:
I want you to remember one thing. I do not regret anything that I did. Be sure that whatever you're going to do, you don't regret it later. Do you understand me?

Starbuck:
I guess we'll find out. [Executes a FTL jump to Caprica]

Apollo:
Galactica, Apollo. Starbuck has jumped away. Repeat, Starbuck has jumped away.

Tigh:
She wasn't scheduled for a jump test! Where the hell did she go?

Adama:
Home.

(From a deleted scene. Lee visits Boomer in the sickbay to encourage her to get back in the flight line.)

Lee:
We need you Boomer. You're a helluva pilot. And a good officer. I wish I had a whole squadron of Sharons.

Adama:
You don't lose control.

Apollo:
Thanks.

Adama:
No, you've got to lose control, let your instincts take over... That's why you don't win.

Roslin:
It is crazy perhaps, but that doesn't mean it isn't true.

[Commander Adama and President Roslin argue about Starbuck's unauthorized mission to Caprica.]

Adama:
[to Tigh] Bear witness, put on your headset. [to Roslin on the phone] Madam President, moments ago, Lt. Thrace took the Cylon Raider on an unscheduled and unauthorized jump.

Roslin:
Yes.

Adama:
Do you have any knowledge of this incident?

Roslin:
Let's save some time here, Commander the question you really want to ask me is whether or not I asked Lt. Thrace to take the Raider to Caprica. And the answer to your question is yes.

Adama:
You and I talked about this.

Roslin:
Yes, we had.

Adama:
We both decided it was a military decision.

Roslin:
My responsibility as President is, first and foremost, to protect and preserve this fleet and its future. In the end, that outweighs any other consideration. It has to.

Adama:
By taking the Raider, you've placed our people on the surface of Kobol in direct danger.

Roslin:
I'm very aware of the danger our men and women are in on Kobol. I am also deeply aware of the danger this civilization will be in if I ignore the pursuit of this arrow.

Adama:
I'm going to have to ask you for your resignation, Madam President.

Roslin:
No.

Adama:
Then I'm terminating your presidency, as of this moment.

Roslin:
Commander Adama, I will exercise the authority of this office until I am unable to do so, so if you want to stage a coup you're gonna have to come over here and arrest me.

Adama:
I don't want any blood shed.

Roslin:
Of course you don't, neither do I. Neither does the press. They're here, by the way.

Adama:
[mutters to Tigh] The press...

Roslin:
They're recording every minute.

Roslin:
This government survived the Cylon attack, it will survive William Adama.

[Colonel Tigh, Apollo, and Galactica's marines stand off against President Roslin's security team on Colonial One]

Colonel Saul Tigh:
Madam President, no one needs to get hurt here.

President Laura Roslin:
Then why don't you get off my ship, Colonel?

Tigh:
I am placing you under arrest.

[Roslin does not move]

Captain Lee "Apollo" Adama:
No... no, we're not doing this.

Tigh:
I'm in command here, Captain!

Apollo:
Colonel, this is wrong.

Tigh:
You're relieved. Fall back! Madam President, I-

[Apollo draws his sidearm and holds it to Tigh's head]

Apollo:
Men, lay down your weapons!

Tigh:
Have you lost your frakkin' mind?

Apollo:
Colonel, tell these marines to fall back!

Tigh:
This is mutiny. You know that.

Apollo:
I do and you can tell my father that I'm listening to my instincts. My instincts tell me that we cannot sacrifice democracy just because the president makes a bad decision.

Roslin:
(to her security) Put your guns down.

Apollo:
Madam... Madam President, stand back.

Roslin:
Put your gun down, Captain. I will not have bloodshed, neither your men nor my people, on the Colonial One. Put your gun down. All of you. Please, put your gun down.

[Apollo lowers his weapon, which Tigh grabs. Two marines escort Apollo out while Tigh turns to face Roslin]

Roslin:
Let's go.

[Virtual Six leads Baltar through a set of ancient ruins on Kobol]

Gaius Baltar:
I know this place.

Virtual Six:
Of course you do. [she guides him up the steps of an archway] Go inside.

[Baltar walks through and finds himself standing inside a majestic opera house. Six is waiting within; she holds out a hand to lead Baltar into the main hall]

Baltar:
I don't understand.

Virtual Six:
Life has a melody, Gaius. A rhythm of notes that become your existence once they're played in harmony with God's plan. It's time to do your part and realize your destiny.

Baltar:
Which is what exactly?

Virtual Six:
You are the guardian and protector of the new generation of God's children. The first member of our family will be with us soon, Gaius. It's time to make your choice.

Baltar:
But I don't understand what you're talking about. Really, I don't understand.

Virtual Six:
Come. See the face of the shape of things to come.

[They walk onto the opera house stage, where a glowing cradle is set. Baltar stares in wonder at its contents]

Virtual Six:
Isn't she beautiful, Gaius?

[Baltar pulls Six into a passionate kiss]

[After destroying the Cylon baseship, Boomer and Racetrack enter CIC, where Apollo is handcuffed and under guard because of his mutiny]

Commander William Adama:
Congratulations to both of you. You carried out a very difficult and dangerous mission, and you did it despite any personal misgivings you may or may not have had. And for that I'm very proud. [shakes hands with Racetrack] Thank you.

Lt. Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson:
Thank you, sir.

Lt. Sharon "Boomer" Valerii:
Thank you, sir. [extends her own arm, her hand belowscreen]

Adama:
Thank y-

[Boomer shoots Adama in the stomach with her sidearm]