At last, they've come for me. I feel their lives, their destinies spilling out before me. The denial of the one true path, played out on a world not their own, will end soon enough. Soon there will be four, glorious in awakening, struggling with the knowledge of their true selves, the pain of revelation bringing new clarity, and in the midst of confusion, he will find her. Enemies brought together by impossible longing, enemies now joined as one. The way forward at once unthinkable, yet inevitable. And the fifth, still in shadow, will claw toward the light, hungering for redemption that will only come in the howl of terrible suffering. I can see them all. The seven, now six, self-described machines who believe themselves without sin, but in time, it is sin that will consume them. They will know enmity, bitterness, the wrenching agony of the one splintering into the many, and then they will join the promised land, gathered on the wings of an angel. Not an end, but a beginning.
S3 E20Crossroads, Part 2
Come in, Major. I've been waiting for you for a long time.
You're what all this is about, aren't you? What are you?
What am I? A man? Or am I a machine? My children believe I am a god.
Are you ... a god?
I have seen things. Your life, Kendra Shaw. The things you have done. Things you felt you had to do. All leading to this moment. You wish to be forgiven, my child. ... Do you wish to be forgiven?
Yes.
Then come up closer. There's something I have to tell you. Come. [Grabs her arm] Kara Thrace will lead the human race to its end.
What?
She is the herald of the apocalypse. The harbinger of death. They must not follow her.
[The first Hybrid and Shaw, just before Shaw detonates the nuclear warhead]
As my own existence comes to a close, only to begin anew, in ways uncertain.
You're scared, aren't you, mother-frakker? You should be.
All this has happened before, and it will happen again...again...again...again...again...again...again...again...again
I've been going through Cain's log and from a tactical perspective it's hard to find fault in anything she did. Or that Kendra Shaw did.
They butchered innocent civilians, Dad. Come on. How can you ignore that?
I know that I didn't have to face any of the situations that she did. I had the President in my face, arguing for the survival of the civilian fleet. I've Colonel Tigh keeping me honest, balancing my morality and my tactics. And I had you. Now...you don't have any children, so you might not understand this, but you see yourself reflected in their eyes. And there are some things that I've thought of doing with this fleet, but I've stopped myself, because I knew I'd have to face you the following day.
S4 E3He That Believeth in Me
[After realizing he's a Cylon, Tigh hallucinates]
Saul. Saul! What the hell is wrong with you?
Nothing, Bill. [Tigh pulls out a gun and aims it at Adama.] I've never felt better in my entire life. [Tigh shoots Adama through his right eye.]
Sir, the Cylon strike force has just turned back to their ships. Baseships are spinning up.
They're pulling out.
I'd do the same damn thing before they change their mind. Helo, have our fighters cover our withdrawal.
Yes, sir.
They had us. Game over. Why the hell did they let us go?
Maybe something's changed.
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.
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.
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.
Yesterday you were facing execution. Today, you're free. Why the long face?
Oh, gee, I don't know. From President of the Colonies to this... King of fools. Probably best to be hated by everyone than loved by this lot, doomed to live out the rest of my life in this looney bin. I don't know, that might have something to do with my rather savage mood swings.
Relax Gaius. Do you think I've brought you this far to let it end here?
I need encouragement. A ray of hope about the future. An inkling.
You've got me. I'm here for you.
Please God. I'm not asking You this one last time. Don't let this child die. Has he sinned against You? He can't have sinned against You. He's not even had a life yet. How can You take him and let me live. After all I've done. Really, if You want someone to suffer, take me. We both know I deserve it. I've been selfish and weak. I have failed so many people. And I have killed. I'm not asking for Your forgiveness. I'm just asking that You spare the life of this innocent child. Don't take him. Take me. Take me, take me, please.
S4 E4Six of One
They will not harm their own.
[on Kara Thrace's words] What if she's telling the truth? She was supposed to die out there. She didn't. I can't explain it. What if she was meant to help us? And this was a--
A what? A miracle? Is that what you want to call this? Go ahead,say it. Grab your piece of the golden arrow. I want to hear admiral atheist say that a miracle happened.
You shot at her and missed at close range.
Doloxan fraks with your aim.
So does doubt.
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!
S4 E5The Ties That Bind
[reading the opening of Love and Bullets]"It started like it always did. With a body. This one was in the river, and I could tell she had once been beautiful, but this bullet and fast current had taken away from her. All we are, or that we think we are, all that we are certain about, is taken away from us. When you've worked the streets and seen what I've seen, you become more and more convinced of it every day. Caprica City has been my teacher, my mistress. From the moment I opened my eyes, she is in my blood, like cheap wine. Bitter and sweet, tinged with regret. I'll never be free of her, nor do I wanna be, for she is what I am. All that is, should always be."
Well, sometimes a benevolent tyrant is exactly what you need.
No. A tyrant craves power for its own sake. And all Laura wants is to save us all.
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.
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