Saul Tigh quotes from Battlestar Galactica (2003)

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!

Tigh

I know you're wonderin', so I'll save you the trouble; the eye is gone. They ripped it out onto the floor and showed it to me. Looked like a hard-boiled egg.

Tigh

[to Laura] You know, sometimes I think that you've got ice water in those veins, and other times I think you're just a naive little school teacher. I've sent men on suicide missions in two wars now, and let me tell you something; it don't make a Gods' damned bit of difference whether they're riding in a Viper or walking out onto a parade ground. In the end, they're just as dead. (puffs on cigarette) So take your piety and your moralizing and your high-minded principles and stick 'em some place safe till you're off this rock and you're sitting in your nice, cushy chair on Colonial One again. I've got a war to fight.

Tigh

[shouting at Gaeta] Hey! Look at me! As long as you're here, maybe you can help me out. I'm missing something. I lost it in detention. Since you're so buddy-buddy with the Cylons, maybe you know where it is. How about it? Do you know where my eye is?

Tigh

Everyone likes Gaeta so let's let him off the hook. Let's just look the other way on this one. Well, a lot of good people had to pay the price for what they did. Choices they made on New Caprica. Like my wife. [jury members are surprised] That's right. Ellen collaborated, gave the Cylons information on the Resistance and she died for it. Because that's the price of collaborating with the enemy. And I liked her a lot more than I like Gaeta.

Saul Tigh

Yeah, you point finger back far enough and some germ gets blamed for splitting in two.

Ummm. I have my flaws too.

Tigh

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

Adama

[to Tigh, who just walked in with Ellen] I was afraid she might be a Cylon, so I brought her blood over here to have it tested.

Tigh

That's why you cancelled your test.

Adama

How'd you know about that?

Tigh

[doesn't answer; to Roslin] You didn't tell me he was testing my wife.

Adama

[stares at Tigh] ...You met with the President?

Tigh

Yes! She thought you might be a Cylon!

Adama

[to Tigh] I know.

Adama

[to Kara] Go ahead.

I believed you. Believed in Earth.

Adama

What are you doing, Starbuck?

Bringing home the cat, sir.

Adama

We can talk about this.

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?

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

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.

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.

No... no, we're not doing this.

Tigh

I'm in command here, Captain!

Colonel, this is wrong.

Tigh

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

Men, lay down your weapons!

Tigh

Have you lost your frakkin' mind?

Colonel, tell these marines to fall back!

Tigh

This is mutiny. You know that.

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.

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.

Roslin

Let's go.

Tigh

That software firewall ready?

Lieutenant Felix Gaeta

Best I can make it, sir. Wish Dr. Baltar was here.

Tigh

To hell with that. I'll take your work over that shifty son of a bitch's any day.

Adama

I was on the Galactica. We were boarded the last week of the war. By the end of the war they had learned a lot. Gotten smart. Clever. They didn't head to CIC or the magazines. Two teams. One went to Secondary Damage Control and the other to Aux Fire Control. See, that's clever. Not the CIC, Auxiliary. And not the Primary DC, the Secondary.

Tigh

Why?

Adama

First team was after the fire suppression system. It tried to override our safety lockouts and vent our air into space. Kill all of us before we could get our EVA suits on. Then the second team just walks in the Aux Fire Control and turns our own guns against the ships trying to rescue us. It was smart. Clever. Almost 2,000 guys bought the farm that day.

Roslin

[to the Quorum of Twelve] Thank you all for coming. I have a statement I would like to make. The attempted military coup against the lawful government of the Colonies is illegal, ill-advised, and clearly doomed to failure. I have not resigned the Presidency, and I will fight this action with everything at my command.

Tigh

She's crazy. She's nuts! She thinks she's a prophet or some such nonsense. Go ahead and ask her, she'll tell you. Just listen to her! What was it, the...Arrow Of Apollo will open the Tomb of...Artemis, or some such nonsense.

Roslin

Everything I have done is consistent and logical. We have found Kobol, we have found the City of the Gods, and when we retrieve the Arrow, we will open the tomb of Athena, and we will find the road to Earth.

Colonel Saul Tigh

You're sweating.

It's hot in here.

Tigh

How long have you known that Lieutenant Valerii was planning to assassinate Commander Adama?

I had no idea she was planning anything of the kind.

Tigh

[reaching for a flask in his boot] You were frakking her.

I ended that weeks ago, on your orders-

Tigh

You covered for her, you lied for her...

I admit, I used bad judgment-

Tigh

...you protected her at every turn...

Colonel, I had no idea she was a Cylon! [sees that Tigh clearly disbelieves him] I would like to exercise my Article 21 rights at this time.

Tigh

[chuckles darkly] I'm sure you would. I guess you haven't heard: Cylons don't have rights.

(surprised) Cylon?! Wait a minute-!

Tigh

You know what we do with Cylons, Chief?

I'm not a Cylon!

Tigh

Roslin came up with the execution method.

I'm Galen Tyrol!

Tigh

She put a Cylon out of the airlock.

My father was a priest! My mother was an oracle! I've served on Battlestars since I was eighteen years old! Pegasus, Columbia, Atlantia, Galac-

Tigh

[shouting] Don't talk to me like you're a soldier! You are not a soldier! [more quietly] The old man always had a soft spot for you. Let him decide what to do with you.

Colonel, you've gotta believe me. I'm not a Cylon. I'd never do anything to hurt Adama. I love the old man!

Tigh

That's what your girlfriend said. [to the nearby guard] Get him the hell out of here!

Adama

Mr. Gaeta? I want to see all recon material o­n Kobol immediately in my quarters.

Felix Gaeta

[surprised] Aye, sir?

Tigh

Kobol?

Adama

Yes. I'm putting the fleet back together. I'm putting our family back together. This ends now.