Battlestar Galactica (2003) · Season 3
[Lampkin is limping along the corridor after the trial]
Romo, one thing. When you put me on the stand, did you know what was gonna happen?
[Stops walking] I knew you were an honest man, Mister Adama. Much unlike your grandfather. [Leaves his cane, puts on his sunglasses, smiles and walks away without any limp]
[Tyrol, Tigh, Anders, and Tory are all hearing a strange music and begin putting lyrics to it]
There must be some kind of way out of here.
Said the Joker to the thief.
There's too much confusion here.
I can't get no relief.
[As the four newly-revealed Cylons aboard Galactica struggle to deal with the information, the call to action stations sounds]
[over the loudspeaker] Inbound Cylon fleet! I repeat: action stations, action stations. Set Condition One throughout the ship. This is not a drill.
Oh gods... what're we going to do?
The ship is under attack. We do our jobs. Report to your stations!
Report to stations?
My name is Saul Tigh. I am an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that's the man I want to be. And if I die today, that's the man I'll be.
[Lee sees an unknown ship close by. It turns out to be a Viper MKII, with someone familiar in the cockpit]
Hi Lee.
Kara?
[laughs] Don't freak out, it really is me. It's gonna be okay, I've been to Earth. I know where it is, and I'm gonna take us there.
[Opening Narration]
You're born, you live and you die. There are no do-overs, no second chances to make things right if you frak 'em up the first time. Not in this life anyway. [...] Like I said, you make your choices and you live with them. And in end you are those choices.
Sometimes, we have to leave people behind, so that we can go on. So that we can continue to fight. Sometimes, we have to do things that we never thought we were capable of, if only to show the enemy our will. Yesterday, you showed me that you were capable of setting aside your fear, setting aside your hesitation, and even your revulsion -- every natural inhibition that during battle can mean the difference between life and death. When you can be this for as long as you have to be, then you're a razor. This war is forcing us all to become razors because if we don't, we don't survive. And then we don't have the luxury of becoming simply human again.
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.
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.
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