Battlestar Galactica (2003) · Season 4, Episode 22
“Daybreak Part 2” · Season 4, Episode 22
In this episode: William Adama (6), Galactica-Cavil (6), Gaius Baltar (3), Laura Roslin (2), Virtual Six (2), Number Six (2), Cavil (2), Virtual Baltar (2)
[The Galactica is about to jump to The Colony]
Just so there'll be no misunderstandings later... Galactica has seen a lot of history, gone through a lot of battles. This will be her last. She will not fail us if we do not fail her. If we succeed in our mission, Galactica will bring us home. If we don't... it doesn't matter anyway. Action stations!
All ahead, flank speed! In three, two, one... hit it! [Galactica drives forward and rams the Colony]
All the pieces are falling into place.
You will hold the future of Cylons and Humans in your hands.
Who will? [to each other] You see them?
[Cavil has just taken Hera hostage]
This thing is the key to my people's survival and I am not leaving without it.
Hera is not a thing. She's a child and she holds the key to humanity's survival as well.
And how do you know that?
I see angels. Angels in this very room. Now I may be mad, but that doesn't mean that I am not right. Because there is another force at work here. There's always has been. It's undeniable. We've all experienced it. Everyone in this room has witnessed events that they can't fathom, let alone explain away by rational means. Puzzles, deciphered in prophecy. Dreams given to a chosen few. Our loved ones dead ... risen. Whether we want to call that God, or Gods, or some sublime inspiration, or a divine force that we can't know or understand, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. It's here, it exists, and our two destinies are entwined in its force.
If that were true, and that is a big if, how do I know that this force has our best interests in mind? How do you know that God is on your side, Doctor?
I don't. God is not on any one's side. God is a force of nature. Beyond good and evil. Good and evil, we created those. Want to break the cycle? Break the cycle of birth, death, re-birth, destruction, escape, death. That's in our hands. In our hands only. Requires a leap of faith. Requires that we live in hope, not fear.
If I give you this girl, that means the destruction of my people. How does our extinction fit into this picture that you want to believe in?
[As Cavil's fellow Cylons are gunned down during the CIC firefight]
Frak!
[Cavil sticks his gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger]
[After Galactica jumps away from the doomed Colony]
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.
Wherever we are is where we're gonna stay.
Where have you taken us, Kara?
[Galactica is shown flying over a gray moon toward Earth--our Earth.]
[While sitting under some trees on the savanna in Africa, Bill Adama explains to Laura Roslin why they chose to name their new planet Earth.]
Earth is a dream...one we've been chasing for a long time. We've earned it. This is Earth.
[Bill Adama and Laura Roslin take their first flight on New Earth in a Raptor. They begin to admire the scenery]
So much...life...
It's a rich continent. More wildlife than all the 12 Colonies put together. Just looking for a quiet place for that cabin. Maybe a garden...I don't have much of a green thumb so I hope that you do- [sees Roslin dead; she passed away while Adama was speaking]
[Baltar to Caprica-Six on New Earth in unspoken reference about his father]
You know, I know about farming. [Sobs, Caprica-Six comforts him]
[William Adama is sitting on a high ridge, looking out on a spectacular view of the savannah. Nearby is Laura Roslin's grave, and his last spoken words in the series are to her]
I laid out the cabin today. It's gonna have an easterly view. You should see the light that we get here. When the sun comes from behind the mountains, it's almost heavenly. It reminds me of you.
[150,000 years later, in present-day New York; Virtual Six and Virtual Baltar are reading a National Geographic Magazine]
[reading] "At a scientific conference this week at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the startling announcement was made that archeologists believe they found fossilized remains of a young woman who may actually be Mitochondrial Eve. Mitochondrial Eve is the name scientists have given to the most recent common ancestor for all humans now living on Earth. She lived in what is now Tanzania, over 150,000 years ago."
[Smiles] Along with her Cylon mother, and Human father. [The two walk amongst the crowd, seemingly unnoticed]
Commercialism, decadence, technology run amok. Remind you of anything?
Take your pick. Kobol. Earth...the real Earth, before this one. Caprica before the fall.
All of this has happened before.
But the question remains, does all of this have to happen again?
This time I bet no.
[Stops] You know, I've never known you to play the optimist. Why the change of heart?
Mathematics. Law of averages. Let a complex system repeat itself long enough and eventually something surprising might occur. That, too, is in God's plan.
[Serious] You know it doesn't like that name.[Six gives Baltar a defiant look] Silly me. Silly, silly me. [The two walk arm-in-arm off into the streets.]
The Plan
[A Hybrid reports about the destruction of the Colonies]
Progress reports arriving. The farms of Aerolon are burning. The beaches of Canceron are burning. The plains of Leonis are burning. The jungles of Scorpia are burning. The pastures of Tauron are burning. The harbors of Picon are burning. The cities of Caprica are burning. The oceans of Aquaria are burning. The courthouses of Libran are burning. The forests of Virgon are burning. The Colonies of Man lie trampled at our feet.
I'm telling you. She flew a Raider. Learned how to control it from the inside. Nobody taught her how. Kara Thrace plucked that knowledge from the stream...
I don't care if she plucked puppies from God's ass!
The plan is everything blows up a week ago. All humans are dead, we Cylons all download and the universe basks in justice. However...
It didn't frakkin' happen.
One of your counterparts managed to get himself outed back on Ragnar Station.
I can't understand how he was discovered. I heard it was Dr. Baltar.
Well, no. I'm not talking about that, exactly. I'm talking about the fact that you're walking around this fleet wearing that jacket and, more importantly, that face. You're recognizable.
His jacket was burgundy. This is teal.
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