You know, there are days that I really hate this job.
S4 E14A Disquiet Follows My Soul
I don't know anything about being a father.
It sucks... except the parts that don't.
S4 E15The Oath
[Gaeta's marines take control of CIC, killing Private Jaffe in the process]
Admiral Adama, I am removing you from command of this ship and I am taking you into custody on the charge of treason.
You swore an oath when you put that uniform on. You pledged to defend this ship and her crew.
[furiously] You swore the same allegiance! What happened to your oath? For seven years, I have done my frakking job and for what? [indicates Colonel Saul Tigh] To take orders from a Cylon? To let machines network our ship? No, you... you are not the leader you were when we started. You're just a sad old man who has let his heart and his affection for a Cylon cloud his judgment.
I want you all to understand this! If you do this, there will be no forgiveness. No amnesty. This boy [referring to Jaffe] died honoring his uniform. You, you'll die with nothing.
[Starbuck shoots a Marine just before he can execute Lee Adama]
KTKara "Starbuck" Thrace
Take it from someone who died once: it's no fun. Let him go.
HMHamish "Skulls" McCall
Frak you.
[shoots McCall and draws a second gun]I can do this all day. Who's next? Racetrack? Conner?
[Adama and Tigh are escorted to the brig by two Marines]
[to the Marine walking behind him] It's Neward, isn't it?
PNPrivate Neward
That's right, sir.
I thought I remembered you. Marine. You put it on the line when we took New Caprica.
NNeward
It got pretty hairy down there-
PMPrivate Maldonaldo
Hey! Screw the war stories!
I remember you too, Maldonaldo. Big mouth. Not much of a soldier. That doesn't matter, because when this is over, there's gonna be a reckoning. And live or die, it's how you act today that's gonna matter. [abruptly stops walking and turns to face Neward] So what's it gonna be, Neward?
NNeward
[hesitantly] Admiral, don't do this.
I'll be damned if I'm gonna let a guy like you run me off my own ship. You want to shoot? Go on. Let's see if you've got a pair.
NNeward
I don't want to- [Adama punches him in the face]
[Roslin addresses the fleet]
Women and men of the fleet. This is your president. We have come to a crossroads in our long and painful journey. Of all the decisions that I have had to make since assuming the presidency, none was more frightening or more difficult than agreeing to this alliance with the Cylons. But we have come to a crossroads in our long and painful journey. Cylons and humans have been at war for generations; we know nothing else. And we have been locked in a struggle that has seen both sides suffer unspeakable loss. But with our supplies running low and our options limited, our former enemies may represent our last, perhaps our only hope. To those in the fleet and in Galactica who would reject this alliance, I am asking you. No, I am begging you to reconsider and place your trust back in those who have brought you this far, and to reject those traitors who would use your fear of the Cylons to destroy Colonial civilization a...
S4 E16Blood on the Scales
[a recaptured Adama is escorted by Marines to the CIC]
Welcome back. I had a feeling you wouldn't be on that Raptor.
I care too much for this ship to let it be overrun by rats.
(sarcastically) Right. If only you cared as much about the people on it...
You have no frakkin' idea-
Well then show me! You want to save some lives? Get on the radio and call Roslin. Tell her to come back and surrender.
No.
I'll ask you one more time, Admiral.
"Admiral?" "Admiral?" [reaches up to undo his rank insignia] You're the admiral now. So you call up Roslin. Make her laugh. [tosses his insignia onto the command panel]
[Romo Lampkin is brought in for Adama's "trial"]
The Admiral is charged with treason, desertion, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and gross dereliction of duty. The punishment for these crimes is death by firing squad. [looks at Lampkin]
RLRomo Lampkin
Well, I'm not a very good shot.
[over wireless] This is Tom Zarek, President of the Twelve Colonies. It's over Laura. Saul Tigh was killed attempting to escape. Bill Adama was tried and found guilty of his crimes. A firing squad executed him this morning. It's done, Laura. You want to think about the people of this fleet now, and surrender.
[with building fury] No. Not now. Not ever! Do you hear me!? I will use every cannon, every bomb, every bullet, every weapon I have down to my own eye teeth to end you! I swear it. I'm coming for all of you!
[Gaeta shares a last cigar and conversation with Baltar]
I suppose a long time ago, it was... architecture. There was a year there where I scribbled floor plans on everything. Dining room table, patio tiles, rare books... drove my parents crazy.
How old were you?
I dunno. Uh, eight, maybe? Nine? [chuckles] I tell you one thing, though. I had some pretty frakking amazing ideas. Restaurants shaped like food. Hm? [chuckles again] Oh, gods, there'd be buildings and stairways... everything, everything had to have a stairway. [refills Baltar's cup of coffee] Spoils of war. [sighs] When I was older, then it became medicine, engineering, photography. Think I would've made a better architect than any of those, though. And then I discovered science and I... thought I was really, really good at it. Until I met you.
[fighting back tears] Felix...
[shakes his head] No. And please, no religion. [pauses] I'm fine with how things have worked out. Really, Gaius, I am. I... I just hope... I hope that... people realize, eventually, who I am.
I know who you are, Felix. I know who you are.
[Felix Gaeta and Tom Zarek are about to be executed by a firing squad]
Ready! Aim!
[looks down at the stump of his leg, which has to this point caused him constant pain, until it ends] It stopped...
Fire!
S4 E17No Exit
In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova?
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.
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.
Among bright stars, I'm lost. There's a new tide. And all the forgotten faces, all the forgotten children, we seek the great forgotten language...
Yeah, you point finger back far enough and some germ gets blamed for splitting in two.
S4 E18Deadlock
[Ellen Tigh emerges from the Raptor]
[with Starbuck standing right next to him] How many dead chicks are out there?
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