Kara Thrace quotes from Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Kara Thrace

Did you see Ellen and Tigh on the wing of that bird? It's like watching my parents make out.

Ummm. I have my flaws too.

Tigh

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

Admiral Helena Cain

(to her Executive Officer, Colonel Fisk) Jack, I want to transfer a detachment of marines to Galactica and I want you to hand-pick them. Completely reliable. Completely loyal. Razors.

Commander William Adama

I have a mission for you, Kara.

Anything for you. You know that.

Adama

Don't accept too quickly. You won't like this one. I don't like it, but I've decided that it has to be done.

Cain

I'm transferring you to Galactica as well. I'll tell Adama that you're there to be my eyes and ears. He'll hate it. He'll think you're my spy and try to freeze you out of decision-making, but he'll accept it. Now I want you to stay in CIC throughout the attack. Stay with Adama.

Adama

After the attack is completed and you've accounted for your pilots, I want you to land your bird on the Pegasus and report directly to CIC. You'll take Lee with you. He'll watch your back.

Cain

Position Marines in key areas throughout the ship and keep a squad posted just outside CIC.

Adama

There'll be the normal chaos and emotional high after the attack.

Cain

They'll be slapping each other on the back, celebrating the victory.

Adama

That'll keep their guard down.

Cain

Security will be lax.

Adama

I will ask for you on the wireless.

Cain

I will call you directly and when I have you on the line, and you hear me give the command "Execute Case Orange"...

Adama

When you hear me say "Downfall"...

Cain

...you are to signal the Marines to terminate Adama's command. Starting with Adama.

Adama

...I want you to pull out your weapon and shoot Admiral Cain in the head.

See, there's nothing so terrible about death, when you finally face it...it's beautiful. You're free now... to become who you really are.

Kara

[smiling] You're not Leoben.

Never said I was. I'm here to prepare you to pass through the next door. To discover what hovers in the space between life and death.

Thrace

When I woke up orbiting Earth I just figured it's some crazy dream. I went in following the heavy raider. I mean maybe the Cylons pulled me out of the suit.. Captured me, brainwashed me. On Caprica they experimented on me. I mean did they take pieces of me.. Is it possible that they grew me, another me in a petri dish.. Implanted me with the memories or it with the memories, or.. I don't know.

No, no no no. Hey, no. Kara, no. Listen to me. If you're a Cylon, then you've been one from the beginning.

Thrace

Like Boomer. Spend my entire life thinking I'm one thing..

..And then you wake up one day and discover you're another. Still doesn't change who you really are. Still doesn't change the fact that I love you, no matter what.

Thrace

You are a better person than I am because if I found out that you're a Cylon I'd put a bullet between your eyes.

You know, some of us actually volunteered for this mission.

Thrace

"Some" meaning you. Because that's what this is about, Sam. You know what the deal is, with us, with our marriage? It didn't make much sense to begin with. Makes even less now.

I don't buy that. I don't think you believe a single, frakking word you're saying. You're just scared. (indicates his and Kara's matching arm tattoos) You see that, mhh? You see this? Remember those? You remember when we got 'em? That's what's real, ok. That's part of who we are. That is a part of what you are, whether you will admit it or not.

Thrace

Dumb motherfrakker. I only married you because it was safe and it was easy, Sam. And you were just pathetic enough to go along with it. So get the frak out! [She shoves him out] Sam, get out! Get out! Leave, come on! Get out! [Anders takes her by the arms and holds her. They are almost kissing] I don't want to fight, Sam. I wanna frak. You don't get it, do you? I'm not the same girl you married. All I wanna do right now is frak. Really frak, like it's the end of the world and nothing else matters. So come on, Sam, make me feel something. I dare you. [Anders shoves her away, then gives her a second shove onto the bunk bed]

If you've got an explanation for this, now's the time.

Leoben

I don't have one. I was wrong...about Earth.

Kara

Your Hybrid told me something. Said that I was the harbinger of death, that I would lead us all to our end.

Leoben

She told you that? [Leoben runs away]

Is it true? Is it true? If that's me lying there, then what am I?? What am I?! What am I?

Take it from someone who died once: it's no fun. Let him go.

Frak you.

[shoots McCall and draws a second gun]I can do this all day. Who's next? Racetrack? Conner?