Saul Tigh quotes from Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Gaeta

Sir, the Cylon strike force has just turned back to their ships. Baseships are spinning up.

Tigh

They're pulling out.

Adama

I'd do the same damn thing before they change their mind. Helo, have our fighters cover our withdrawal.

Yes, sir.

Tigh

They had us. Game over. Why the hell did they let us go?

Maybe something's changed.

Roslin

Imagine, once they're gone they can't come back. Mortal enemies.

Before we blow the Hub we need to get a team in, to unbox D'Anna.

Tigh

Well no, maybe we just don't. Maybe we just forget the godsdamn Boxing Facility.

Adama

Lie to the rebels?

Tigh

Well, they're lying to us!

Colonel Saul Tigh

Bill, you gotta scrub this mission.

Admiral William Adama

What the hell are you doing here? You're supposed to be in the CIC.

Tigh

The Cylons will kill every godsdamn hostage before we put one pair of boots aboard their ship. Laura Roslin will be the next to die, Bill.

Adama

I'm looking for options. You got one?

Tigh

Yeah. I should've told you when I first found out, but I didn't have the guts.

Adama

What's wrong with you, Saul?

Tigh

You remember back at the nebula when I told you about that frakking music? I thought it was in the ship. I was wrong. It was a signal. Some kind of crazy, frakked-up Cylon signal switched me on. I can't turn it off.

Adama

[not wanting to understand] Switched you on.

Tigh

Like Boomer. I'm one of the Five.

Adama

The Five.

Tigh

One of the Cylons D'Anna's after.

Adama

[rising from his desk] Quit frakking with me. Colonel, I've known you for 30 years. When I met you, you had hair. I've never heard of a Cylon aging.

Tigh

Doesn't mean they don't. Before the attack on the Colonies, we didn't know the skinjobs existed. Turns out there's another kind of Cylon we didn't know about, and I'm one of them.

Adama

[desperate] On New Caprica, you were in captivity. They did something to you, they... An implant, a post-hypnotic suggestion that makes you feel this way. Let's go talk to Doc Cottle...

Tigh

[grabs Adama by the shoulders] Listen to me! It is not a delusion. It is not a chip in my head. I am a Cylon. I've fooled you for months now. I didn't want to, but I did.

Adama

Get your hands off of me.

Tigh

[releasing him] If I'd had the guts to airlock myself when I first found out, we wouldn't be in this mess. But that's the way out. Not this suicidal attack. I am one of the Final Five. D'Anna will back down if you threaten to flush me out an airlock.

Tigh

You'd better get back to your ship, the fleet is about to jump.

D'Anna

[Sighs] No, I'm not going. All of this is just going to happen again, and again, and again... So I'm getting off this merry-go-round. I'm gonna die here with the bones of my ancestors and it beats the hell out of being out there with Cavil. I'm gonna die in the cold and the dark before Cavil catches up with us.

Tigh

I wouldn't count the old man out. He'll find us all.

D'Anna

[Sighs] Don't you ever want to stop fighting it, Colonel? Huh? Don't you just want to stop all this?

Tigh

-And just ride the tide out to sea...

Athena tells me the upgrades should...triple the Fleet's jump capacity.

Absolutely. And that's conservative. Their technology-our technology, is way ahead of ours. Yours.

Tigh

Maybe you'd like a chart to keep it all straight?

[weakly, child-like] Thank you.

Tigh

Thank me? For what?

For the privilege of finally being able to meet my father before I die.

Tigh

You shouldn't be thanking me. I spent most of my life trying to kill your kind.

Too much confusion. [death rattle, the Eight flatlines]

Ellen Tigh

Whether you remember that life or not, at least you must understand what we were trying to do. We wanted to end the cycle of war between man and machine.

Saul Tigh

That was a bust.

Ellen

Yes, we failed, but we have a second chance now: Hera. Without her our children are going to die off one by one, just like they're dying right now in Cottle's sickbay.

I had a child. He died.

Ellen

You're wrong Saul. You have millions.

Adama

...You never let me down, Saul. I can't blame you for...being what you are. Especially since...it includes being the finest officer and friend I've ever had. The ship never let us down. So we're gonna send her off in style.

Tigh

The old man... Hmph. Ellen was right: if anyone's old around here, it's me. Two thousand years...and counting! And I still got my own teeth. [bares his teeth for Adama to see; chuckles. Adama smiles.] So, we're gonna do this, eh?

Adama

Mm-hmm.

Tigh

She was a grand old lady.

Adama

The grandest. [raises his glass] To Galactica. Best ship in the fleet.

Tigh

[clinks his glass against Adama's in toast] To Galactica.

Saul Tigh

We're mostly here. Engines, life support... There's red lines through her lateral structural members. She's broke her back, she'll never jump again.

Adama

Wherever we are is where we're gonna stay.

Roslin

Where have you taken us, Kara?

Lt Felix Gaeta

[answers phone] Combat. Understood. [hangs up; to Adama] Condition One is set. All decks report ready for action sir.

William Adama

Very well.

Col Saul Tigh

[reads reports Adama just gave him] This is a joke. The Fleet's playing a joke on you, it's a retirement prank, come on!

Adama

[glares at Tigh] I don't think so. [starts shipwide PA] This is the Commander. Moments ago, this ship received word of a Cylon attack against our homeworlds is underway. We do not know the size or the disposition or the strength of the enemy forces, but all indications point to a massive assault against the Colonial defenses. Admiral Nagala has taken personal command of the fleet aboard the Battlestar Atlantia following the complete destruction of Picon Fleet Headquarters in the first wave of the attacks. How and why doesn't really matter now. What does matter is that as of this moment, we are at war. You've trained for this. You're ready for this. Stand to your duties, trust your fellow shipmates, and we'll all get through this. Further updates as we get them. Thank you.

Adama

[sees Billy flirting with Dualla] They'd better start having babies.

Saul Tigh

Is that an order?

Adama

It may be before too long.

Permission to speak off the record?

Tigh

Granted.

You're a bastard.