Battlestar Galactica

[Captain Apollo enters Adama's quarters and is shocked to see him use his psychokinetic powers on a small object]

Captain Apollo:
How did you do that?

Commander Adama:
It's impolite not to make your presence known.

Captain Apollo:
I think I've finally discovered how Count Iblis has been doing these miracles and then I see you do this.

Commander Adama:
This was not a miracle. This is a simple test of mind over matter, long a key study of our military institute. I remember I used to drive your mother mad by bending eating utensils until she made me stop the practice.

Captain Apollo:
How come I never knew?

Commander Adama:
It was before you were born. It was in my early days at the institute, a special program, strictly a military study. Our life expectancy now, Cylons not withstanding, is about two hundred yahrens. We're just beginning to utilize some portion of our brains' incredible potential. Now imagine. Imagine if you will, a race of beings whose life expectancy is thousands of yahrens. A race of that kind would certainly have learned to do what we would consider to be miraculous things.

Captain Apollo:
That's what you think we're dealing with here? With Count Iblis and these strange lights?

Commander Adama:
No, not lights. The ancient Lords, who first settled on Kobol, spoke of visitations from what they, in their primitive way, referred to as angels.

Captain Apollo:
Angels?

Commander Adama:
Think of them as custodians of the universe. Advanced beings, very highly advanced, whose mandate it is to make certain that their powers are never abused by anyone of their own kind.

Captain Apollo:
And they're watching him. Meaning he's one of them.

Commander Adama:
Or was. Now the key, I believe, is to be found in that crashed ship where you discovered Iblis.

Captain Apollo:
That's just what I thought.

Commander Adama:
Now you couldn't examine your ship because of radion levels.

Captain Apollo:
But with special equipment...

Commander Adama:
All right. Now...I want you go to back there...alone. You mustn't tell anyone of this. And you must forget this conversation. Iblis will pick out your thoughts easily.

Captain Apollo:
I understand.

Commander Adama:
I hope so. This could be the most important mission of your life.

Captain Apollo:
If you run into the Count, he'll know where I've gone.

Commander Adama:
I'll crowd my mind with other thoughts. That, too, was part of the institute's investigation into telepathy.

Captain Apollo:
How is it after all this time I'm still learning things about my own father?

Commander Adama:
How is it after all this time I'm still learning things about my own son?