Battlestar Galactica (2003) quotes

Baltar

[to Caprica Six, as she's leaving to decide Baltar's fate on the basestar] You need me! I need you, too! [Another pause, then talking to himself] I should have said that first.

Tigh

You got to be kidding me. Who gave this man permission to enter the CIC?

Admiral's orders sir. [walks up to Tigh] Communications took some serious hits during the rescue and Mr. Gaeta's offered to help with repairs.

Tigh

Well isn't that nice. a man can turn his coat, collaborate with the enemy, [as everybody stops working] contribute to the deaths of thousands, but the old man needs his phones fixed and suddenly all is forgiven.

The Cylons find us, we're gonna need every hand we've got.

Tigh

[to Helo] The Cylons found us, Mr. Agathon. Your friend Gaeta was on the welcoming committee. [shouting at Gaeta as he looks exasperated at what Tigh just said] 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. [gets closer] Since you're so buddy-buddy with the Cylons, maybe you know where it is. How about it? [pause] Do you know where my eye is??!?

Hybrid

Two protons expelled at each coupling site creates the mode of force, the embryo becomes a fish though we don't enter until a plate, we're here to experience, evolve the little toe, atrophy, don't ask me how, I'll be dead in a thousand light years, thank you, thank you, genesis turns to its source, reduction occurs step wise though the essence is all one, end of line. FTL system check. Diagnostic functions within parameters repeats the harlequin, the agony exquisite, the colors run the path of ashes...

Well, too many Pilots, not enough birds. Anything to keep me flying, at this point. You want me I'm yours, Boomer.

Uh, no, Boomer was... She was someone else.

Listen up. We need a new call sign for Lieutenant Agathon.

How about "Athena"?

Wait, wait, wait, wait. What was that?

You know, the Goddess of Wisdom and War. Usually accompanied by the Goddess of Victory?

Baltar

I'm a scientist. And as a scientist, I believe if God exists, our knowledge of him is imperfect. Why? Because the stories and myths we have are the products of men, the passage of time. The religion you practice is based on a theory, impossible to prove. Yet you bestow it with absolutes like, "There is no such thing as coincidence."

It's called faith.

Baltar

Absolute belief in God's will means there's a reason for everything. Everything! And yet you can't help ask yourself how God can allow death and destruction. And then despise yourself for asking. But the truth is, if we knew God's will, we'd all be gods, wouldn't we??

Look at me. Look at me, Gaius. Do you want me to believe you're worth saving? Do you? Do you? Say it.

Baltar

I want you to believe in me! Don't stop! Don't stop! Please, please don't stop! You have to believe in me! You're all I have left!

Now tell me you believe in me. Tell me you believe in my strength.

Baltar

I believe in you! I believe in you! [D'Anna stops hurting him, totally confused, and he smiles at her/Six dreamily.] I love you with all my heart.

Sharon

I made a choice to wear a uniform, to be a person.

You were a person before you put on that uniform, okay? You were a person before I fell in love with you. You don't have to prove that.

Sharon

I have to prove it every day.

I'm not a traitor. I love my people. I love this ship. Besides you, the first thing I want to see on any morning is the lights of that CIC. But I did what I thought was right. If it was a mistake, fine, I can live with that. It's you I can't live without.

Sharon

I'll always love you, Helo.

Tigh

I'll tell you a dirty little secret. The toughest part of getting played is losing your dignity. Feeling like you are not worth the oxygen you are sucking down. You get used to it. You start to believe it. You start to love it. It's like a bottle that never runs dry, you can keep reaching for it over and over and over again...

Adama

So how do you put that bottle away, Saul?

Tigh

I don't know. One day, you just decide to... get up and walk out of your room.

Laura Roslin

[walks over to Adama] Didn't expect you to find you playing in the sand.

Adama

It's not sand it's alluvial deposits, this used to be the river mouth.

And you just had to take off your shoes and play in the alluvial deposits. How romantic.

Adama

When you stand o­n this deck, you be ready to fight, or you dishonor the reason why we're here. Now remember this: When you fight a man, he's not your friend. Same goes when you lead men. I forgot that o­nce. I let you get too close. All of you. I dropped my guard. I gave some of you breaks, let some of you go, before the fight was really over. I let this crew and this family disband. And we paid the price in lives. That can't happen again.

Tigh

All right, this dance is over. Get your booze and your dog tags and let's get out of here.

So what, you're just gonna call it?

Tigh

Not enough excitement for o­ne night for you, Captain?

[to Apollo, as he leaves] Hey. Hey! Where the frak do you think you're going?

It's over, Kara.

So what? You have the guts to try and frak another man's woman but not to fight o­ne? I wonder if Dee knew what she was getting. Think she would have settled for sloppy seconds? [Apollo punches her in the face.]Truth stings, don't it?

You want a fight, Captain. You got it.

Check it out. It's a great place for a house.

So you're really gonna give up flying.

Ah, flying's gonna suck now anyway. Lots of training, endless CAPs. The war's over. So's all the good stuff.

Gimme a tour of the future life of Kara Anders.

I'm not getting married.

Well, then - then what's the point, Kara? I mean, you love him, right?

Where are we going with this, Lee?

Well, now, that's the question, isn't it- where are we going? I mean, what if this- this is it? The rest of your life, Kara. Is this how you want to spend it? Is this who you want to spend it with?

Anders

What's going o­n?

Dualla

What's it look like?

Anders

Looks like they're trying to kill each other.

Dualla

That's o­ne perspective.

[laughs] Well, that makes things more complicated.

Yeah.

What are we gonna do?

What are we gonna do? We accept it. Tomorrow, I tell Dee, you tell Sam.

Just like that?

Just like that.

I don't know.

Yeah, we tell them how we feel. We shout it to the skies.

Yeah, right. Mm-hmm.

Well, you... You don't think I will?

Mm-mm. [giggles]

[Stands up] MY NAME IS LEE ADAMA, AND I LOVE KARA THRACE!!

[laughing] Calm down!

Well, it's not like anybody'll hear. We're in your cabin in the forest, right?

Ah. [giggles]

I LOVE KARA THRACE! AND I DON'T CARE WHO FRAKKING KNOWS!

Oh, you're crazy. Get down.

Well, come o­n. I'm not gonna stop until you get up and do it too.

I can't.

I'm gonna- Okay, here we go again. Lee Adama...

Okay, shh! [She stands] Okay. Ka - [gasps] KARA THRACE LOVES LEE ADAMA! [They kiss. Starbuck stops smiling and looks serious.]

Anders

Hey, man. Did you hear the news? We're hitched. We got married. Can you believe it?

No. No, I can't believe it.

Anders

Yeah. No, it was crazy. She comes down, and she wakes me up. She pops the question, she drags me down to the priest, and, bang, like that, we're married.

So it was your idea.

Yeah. It was my idea.

Anders

Do you guys...Do you guys want a minute to, uh, you know, talk?

Congratulations, Sam.

Anders

Yeah.

And good luck. You're gonna need it.

I missed you.

I missed you too. I missed you too.

Adama

I hear they're still eating paper. Is that true?

Tigh

No. Paper shortage.