Number One quotes from Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Look at yourselves: millions of Twos have that nose, millions of Sixes posses that mouth, Eights share those breasts and Ones have this brain. We're mechanized copies. There's a reason the original programmers clearly felt that it is a mistake for us to contact the Final Five!

Let's review, why we're here shall we? Uh, we're supposed to bring the word of "God" to save the people, right? To save humanity from damnation, by bringing the love of "God" these poor, benighted people.

We're here because the majority of the Cylons felt that the slaughter of mankind had been a mistake.

We're here to find a new way to live in peace. As God wants us to live.

And it's been a fun ride so far. But I want to clarify our objectives. If we're bringing the word of "God", it follows that we should employ any means necessary to do so. Any means. Yes, fear is a key article of faith as I understand it, so perhaps it's time to instill a little more fear into the people's hearts and minds. Let's uh, let's execute Baltar.

Baltar

What? What?!

That's not gonna happen.

Just because he's your favorite toy shouldn't interfere with the larger issues here.

Baltar

I think that I have co-operated-

Gaius is with me. Anyone that wants to challenge that will have to deal with me.

Well it doesn't matter. If we killed him at the beginning, it might've worked. But now most humans think of him as a traitor, and might actually cheer his death.

Fine, fine. We don't kill Baltar. We round up the leaders of the insurgency and we execute them, publicly. We round up at random, groups off the street and we execute them, publicly. Send a message that the gloves are coming off, the insurgency stops now or else we start reducing the human population to a more mangeable size. I don't know, say less than a thousand.

We need to stop being butchers.

The entire point of coming here was to start a new way of life. To push past the conflict that seperated us from humans for so long.

And what has it gotten us? It's not like they welcomed us with, with, frak it, never mind. You're all living in a fantasy world, consider the irony in that! Ha ha! Delusional machines! What's the universe gonna come up with next?

Just remember, they started it.

But we're killing them, I mean truly killing them. My own sisters.

They can trust their God to watch over their immortal souls.

But what about ours?

We're machines, dear, remember. We don't have souls.

It's the Rebel Baseship. I think they're gonna attack! They're gonna blow the hub!

That would be mass murder. Death would be permanent for all of us! They've gone insane.

D'Anna

Permanent death? Well that makes this a lot more meaningful. [Snaps Number One's neck]

In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova?

Ellen Tigh

No.

No? Well, I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air.

Ellen Tigh

The five of us designed you to be as human as possible.

I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I - I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws; and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I'm a machine, and I can know much more. I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body. And why?! Because my five creators thought that "God" wanted it that way.