HHelo
Symbols matter. Uniforms, flags, banners - even mascots. They're like pieces of your heart that you can see.
S3 E2Precipice
[before going to the rescue mission on New Caprica, to Adama] Can I ask you a question? How do you know? I mean, how do you really know that you can trust me?
I don't. That's what trust is.
[after Roslin apologizes for slapping Tigh in a heated moment]
You see, little things like that don't really matter anymore. In fact, not too frakking much does matter anymore. I got one job here, lady: to keep the Cylons preoccupied with the hornets' nest they've stirred up down here so they're off-balance and out of position when the Old Man shows up in orbit. The bombings? They got the Cylons' attention, they really got their attention, and I am not giving that up.
We are talking about people blowing themselves up.
You know, sometimes I think that you've got ice water in those veins, and other times I think you're just a naïve 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.
S3 E3Exodus, Part 1
I'll see you at the rendezvous point.
Eighteen hours. Try not to be late.
I'm getting old; I'm a little slow, but I'll be there.
Gods, I wish I could talk you out of this...
You can't. You tried.
You know, Dad, um...
Don't. Don't make me cry on my own hangar deck.
[The Galactica is preparing to jump to New Caprica and begin the rescue]
This is the Admiral. You've heard the news, you know the mission. You should also know there is only one way that this mission ends: and that's with the successful rescue of our people, off of New Caprica. Look around you. Take a good look at the men and women that stand next to you. Remember their faces, for one day you will tell your children and your grandchildren that you served with such men and women as the universe has never seen. And together, you'll accomplish the feat that will be told and retold down through the ages, and find immortality as only the gods once knew. I'm proud to serve with you. Good hunting.
S3 E4Exodus, Part 2
What would you have us do, Gaius?
Leave. Pack up your centurions, and go. Please. Go.
And then what? What would you do if we really just left you here? You'd live out your lives in peace and never trouble yourselves with thoughts of us again? Or would you raise your children with stories of the Cylon, the mechanical slaves who once did your bidding, only to turn against you? Killers who committed genocide against your race, the occupiers of this city until we just ran away? Would you tell them to tell the story to their children, and to their children's children, and nurse a dream of vengeance down through the years so that one day they could just go out into the stars and hunt the Cylon once more?
Blood for blood ...has to stop one day.
[Hot Dog preparing to launch his Viper while the Galactica freefalls through New Caprica's atmosphere]
BCBrendan "Hot Dog" Costanza
Well... this oughta be different.
[in the CIC of the heavily damaged Battlestar Pegasus]
Set main batteries to auto-fire cycle B! Lock engines ahead flank! [into announcement system] This is the Commander: abandon ship, abandon ship! All hands, abandon ship. Report to evac Raptors and jump to rendezvous point! Good work, and I'll see you on the other side.
All right, people, let's move! Out! Let's go! [turns to see Apollo lingering at his station] You too, Commander.
Yes, sir. [starts to leave, but pauses to take one last look at the CIC; addressing the ship herself] Thank you.
I guess you didn't understand my orders.
I never could read your handwriting.
You did it. You brought them home Saul.
[holding back his tears] Not all of them.
[in theGalactica CIC, as four Cylon baseships attack]
[to a crewman at a terminal] Pass up the cord! Connect the other side right away!
AKCaptain Aaron Kelly
We've lost maneuvering thrusters!
KACaptain Karl "Helo" Agathon
Can't take any more hits to port or we're looking at explosive decompression, sections 36 to 48!
Jump drives? [Helo grimly shakes his head and sadly lowers his gaze to the floor] Then that's it. It's been an honor.
S3 E5Collaborators
Don't make me angry, Gaius.
You wouldn't like her when she's angry.
I've always wanted you.
Oh no.
What?
I'm dreaming, aren't I?
Yes, you are. [kisses him]
[In the mess room, Gaeta just tried to explain to Starbuck his role as a Resistance source while working for Baltar. All the while, crew members walk out of the hall, not interested in his monologue]
You're right Felix, you're a frakking hero.
[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?
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.
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