I know exactly how you feel, old friend.
Baltar. [rushes at Baltar, puts his hands around his neck and tries to strangle him]
[comes between Baltar and Commander Adama and separates the two] No, Father! Leave him to the Council!
You almost killed me! What is this madness?
[removes Baltar's pistol] You need to ask?! Selling out your own flesh and blood?!
Selling out?!! What has he told you? What great truths has Adama spoken to my back?
You mean to say you didn't arrange the destruction of our Fleet, our cities, almost every living thing in the Colonies?!
Are you completely mad?! What sane human being would do a thing like that? Adama, surely you could not have supported such lies! How could you think of me so evil? I, too, hold the seal of the Lords, and a member of the Council of Twelve! I was as much a victim as any of you. I lost everything. My family, my people. I was trapped between the President's Battlestar and my own. Captured by the Cylons, taken away like an animal, to face trial!
Apparently, they found you innocent. A friend of the Cylons!
No. I was spared to lure you into another trap through a message of peace from some new benevolent Cylon ruler.
Get him out!
Adama, wait! You must hear me out. I have been to the Cylon seat of power. It is in chaos. The Cylon forces are searching for you throughout the star system. The route back into the Cylon Empire is barely defended. One single Battlestar could take control of the Empire and bring it to its knees!
You have the tongue of an angel and the soul of a serpent!
I can prove my good intentions, that I have the power to lead you back into Cylon, supposedly as my prisoners, but, in actuality, to launch a counterattack against those demons.
What proof?
The release of one of your officers. Lieutenant Starbuck.
He's alive!
Let me show you!
At what price? Remove him, Apollo!
Father, what if he can prove what he's saying?
If they've sent him, then it is a trap.
Then why haven't they attacked?!
I cannot tell you. But our safety is not behind us with you or the Cylons. It lies somewhere out there along the path taken by the Thirteenth Tribe. The tribe that colonized the planet Earth.
Earth?! You can't be serious. That's nothing but a fable.
I believe it is as real as the existence of the Thirteenth Tribe. And the key to that tribe is here in this place, locked away somewhere. I'm certain of it.
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