THE CYLONS WERE CREATED BY MAN
THEY REBELLED
THEY EVOLVED
THERE ARE MANY COPIES
AND THEY HAVE A PLAN
Previously on Battlestar Galactica...
I, Sharon Agathon, will carry out the lawful orders of my superiors
as an officer in the colonial fleet
Congratulations, lieutenant
We're talking about people blowing themselves up
I got one job here, lady, and one job only... to destruct the cylons
Make them worry about the anthill they've stirred up down here,
so they're distracted and out of position when the old man shows up in orbit
You know the mission
You should also know there's only one way that this mission ends
And that's with the successful rescue of our people off of New Caprica
Evacuate the entire facility
You should go as well, Gaius
There's a place for you too
Hi. Who's this?
- This is - Kacey
Oh, my little girl
When the cylons took her,I thought... but you saved her
Gods bless you
A lot of good people had to pay the price for what they did
Choices they made on New Caprica
Like my wife
That's right, Ellen collaborated
Gave the cylons information on the resistance, and she died for it
I can't believe there's still a question of my value
There will always be a question
You're human
Good to see you
I far prefer these picturesque settings for our interludes
Don't you?
I thought you had abandoned me to your cylon comrades
Would I do that?
You've always been more unpredictable than your flesh and blood counterparts
A man that loves women as much as you should have learned that a long time ago
I'm a slow learner
Then take this period as a time to learn all you can about the cylons
You'll need it in the days ahead
Something special on the horizon?
- Cylon psychologyis based on projection - Projection?
It's how they choose to see the world around them
The only difference is you choose to see me
What are you...
really?
You're either connected to the woman I knew in Caprica...
or you're just a damaged part of my subconscious
struggling for self-expression
So which one is it?
I'm an angel of god, sent here to help you
Just as I always have been
We're all part of one big ecosystem
Yes, I can feel it...
- breathing - Get used to it
So, what'd he say?
I haven't asked him yet
Asked me about what?
Earth
What-uh...
earth. It's the 13th colony
Do you know how to find it?
Not really, no
Well, that's unfortunate
There was a hope, my hope, that if you knew the way to Earth,
it would justify keeping you alive a little longer
Come on, Six
Wait. Wait, wait!
Now when I say that I do not know exactly where Earth is,
that is not to say that I do not know a very great deal about its probably location
Honestly, I spent hours, days, weeks, months and months
on a map that Adama and Roslin found on Kobol
And I correlated that with astrometric observations
I doubt anyone here can make the same claim
We'll get back to you
What do you care about finding Earth?
Because we're looking for it
You are?
Yes, we've decided that Earth's going to be our new home
Battlestar Galactica 3x06 Torn
Ship-to-ship training exercise is authorized
You may commence when ready
This is Apollo. Red team set
Blue team set
Red team, Apollo
As soon as we clear the moon, we're gonna be on their dradis, so keep your eyes up
They're gonna hit us with everything they got
Stay in formation, Starbuck
Narcho, you're my wingman
Blue team, Kat
Let's show these lazy frak show it's done
Red team, Starbuck
I got hotdog
I'm hit!
Red team, Apollo. I'm going after Kat
Got you
You're gonna have to do better than that, Apollo
Come on
I'll take care of Kat
Starbuck, you stay in formation
Narcho has kat
Inbound
Let me show you how it's done
Frak!
Compressor blew. Looks like it threw a blade
Severed the fuel line. Cally, check the tank
Gods
The tank's bone dry. There's not even fumes in here
Captain, how'd you land this thing?
Pointed it toward the deck, and stopped when I got here
Bone dry, she says
Landed the bird without a drop of fuel
If you want to die, I will open up an airlock for you
but you are not taking one of my vipers with you
The bird's on the deck
I'm on the deck
I don't know what you're bitching about
I don't give a frak what you so, Starbuck, you're done flying
I can't believe yo made that to me
what?
Don't look at me like that
Oh, my gods
Ellen?
Excuse me
Hey, make a hole
Ellen
if I've told you once, I've told you 1,000 times... Ellen, I'm right here
What is this? Let go of me
Kara, Kara!
Kacey?
Kara, Kara
Captain thrace?
I'm sorry, don't you remember me?
I'm Julia Prynne. I'm Kacey's mom
Yeah. Yeah, I remember
Give me a hug
We've been staying over in the... well, everyone's calling it camp oil slick
Part of the hangar deck
And they've put up cots for, you know, refugees
Yeah, I heard
Well, Kacey's been asking to see you for days
I sent messages
I thought maybe you'd come for a visit
You seem like a really nice person so I'm gonna be honest with you
The last thing I need is a two-year-old friend
And Kacey sure as hell does not need me in her life,
so do us both a favor, and do not bring her around here again, okay?
Go to your mom, Kacey
Sure
Sorry, don't let us keep you up
Sorry, honey, we gotta go
There is goes
That's it
See?
See, I told you. You could do it
You did great
Remind me never to let that happen again
You got it some
Ever
I've been trying to reassemble president Bal...
Dr. Baltar's work on piecing together the 13th tribe's path to Earth
I'm curious, Mr.Gaeta
What is it that you trust about Dr. Baltar's research?
How do you know it's not another one of his lies?
If there was one thing I learned about Baltar
it was his extraordinary capacity for self-preservation
I think he wanted to find Earth because he wanted to get there
How far did he get with his research?
Well, as you can see, I'm still hacking through his notes
But it appears that he was trying to correlate our own astrometric readings
with the map of constellations that we found back on kobol
and apply his findings to certain select passages within the Scroll of Pythia
Why the Scroll of Pythia?
Pythia is supposed to have chronicled the original journey
of the 13th tribe on its way to Earth
If I can craw your attention to this passage
"And the caravan of the heavens was watched over by a great lion"
"with a mighty blinking eye,"
red and blue"
Exactly
Exactly what?
You're looking for a lion's head?
With a mighty blinking eye
Blinking well, they're scrolls
They speak in metaphors
Initially, I thought the doctor might be off his meds as well, sir
But then I found this note here,
where he had written "blinking equals pulsar"
That means a star, right?
Uh, plural, actually
They're the rotating cores of dead stars
The emit a blast of radio waves
From a distance, they appear to...
- blink - Right
The doctor found two in very close mutual orbit within this sector
The spectrographic readings that I found show one will appear to be red,
and one will appear to be blue
Now...
these pulsars appear to be in this nebula
We have never had a direct look at this area
But it is possible, with a couple of eyeballs out there,
they might lookat the nebula and see...
a giant lion's head
Well, it looks like this is the best thing we've got going, so,
unless you object, Admiral, I suggest we go lion hunting
The navigational markers you gave us may prove useful
They sent a base ship out to investigate the pulsars,
and look for this lion's head of yours
Look, this isn't easy for me
I don't think you fully appreciate just how difficult this is
I have very conflicted, very ambiguous feelings about helping you find Earth
Funny how all that ambivalence and conflict seemed to vanish
once you thought your life hung in the balance
You should know there's still a lot of skepticism
about whether you're being entirely truthful
I'm very sorry
We didn't mean to intrude
Come on, Gaius
are we going 'roundin circles?
I'm sure it all looks the same to you, doesn't it?
Be hard for any human to navigate around here
Especially without projecting
Yes, you've used that word before
I'm not quite sure what you're talking about
It helps you to what, exactly?
Have you everday dreamed...
and imagined that you were somewhere else?
I do, have an active imagination
Well, we don't have to imagine
We project
We choose to see our environment in any form we wish, whenever we wish
For instance, right now you see us as standing in a hallway,
but I see it as a forest
Filled with trees, birds, sunlight
Like the walks that you and I used to take
On Caprica
The aesthetic is what gives me pleasure
Not the specific memories
Instead of staring at blank walls,
I choose to surround myself with a vision of god's creation
Now I understand projection,but isn't it a coincidence
that I could see such a vivid reality that I've created,
and the cylon projection experience seems to be so similar?
Is it a coincidence?
Well, what are you saying?
There's a connection?
What, because of my experiences with you...
am I a cylon?
What was that?
Oh, nothing. Just talking out loud
Silly me
so you sure you want to go in the second seat again?
I mean, I hear you're a pretty fair pilot now
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
Chrome dome
Titanian
Wind-up toy... Tin can...
Toaster babe
How 'bout Athena?
Wait, wait, wait, wait
What was that?
You know, the goddess of wisdom and war
Usually accompanied by the goddess of victory
Athena it is
Hey, Colonel!
Colonel, come have a seat
Over here
Enough of thatto go around?
- Always - Oh,yeah
Dead man's chest-cut-throat game
Not usually your style
It is now
And I'm in it to win
You don't like it, find another game
Oh, there's some straight talk
Have you seen the line up outside the head?
15 civilians standing in line picking their noses and waiting to take a shower
Frakin' civilians think they run the ship now
Beats what we had before The ship was like a tomb
You want to know what alone feels like
try spending a few weeks in a cylon holding cell
Yeah, it was a bitch on both sides
And it wasn't exactly easy coming up with a plan to save your sorry butts
you guys had it rough, huh?
Hot showers, three squares a day
Viper jocks didn't even take a shot till you jumped into orbit
Hey...
we all made sacrifices
Is that so?
Yes, that's right
While you were pinning wings on your cylon girlfriend,
and our people were strapping home made bombs to their chests,
doing whatever they could to take the bastards out
So forgive me if I don't get all misty over your sacrifices
You seem distracted, Gaius
Do I?
You can rest easy, at least for now
The data on Earth's location in your valiant rescue of the baby
has gone a long way to ward impressing the others
I used to think you and I would have a baby one day
There are only 12 cylon models
But in the entire occupation on New Caprica, I only saw seven
Now here again, the same seven
Who are the final five?
- I can't talk about that - Can't or won't?
I can't
It's complicated, but we don't talk about them
Ever
But you'd know one of them, wouldn't you, if you saw them?
One of the final five. If they were to walk past here right...
Six, we have a problem
A bay ship
The one we sent to investigate the pulsars in the lion nebula
We've lost contact
The trouble is we know almost nothing about the missing bay ship's status
We received a garbled distress call, then silence
Not surprisingly, their hybrid sent us a confusing set of data
Our hybridis analyzing it
What are these hybrid she's talking about?
Be quiet, Gaius
Our hybrid's deciphered part of the data set that we received from our scout ship
This can't happen to us. It's impossible
It is not only possible, it may have been inevitable once we took human form
We're not human
We're not like him
God has chosen this time, this place, to test us
Whether we fail or pass the test is up to us
What's going on?
The missing baseship, it's been infected by some kind of disease
- Disease? - Yes, it's killing them
All of them
If an infected cylon dies and carries this disease with them into a resurrection ship
it could rapidly spread. Potentially infecting our entire race
All right, we make sure that the resurrection ship is out of range
Then we jumpto their location
Send in a group of Centurions...
No. The data set indicates that
as soon as the hybrid was infected,the Centurions started shutting down
We don't know how ours are gonna be affected
I assume our raiders and baseships are also susceptible
Of course
We are all created from the same genetic pool
Then no cylon can board that ship without risking infection
Say you'll go aboard the infected baseship, and investigate what happened
You sent them to that nebula. Remember?
Are you mad?
You have to prove to them you can be counted on in an emergency
Show them you're worth keeping alive
And what if I catch the disease?
What are the chances that a human
could catch something that infects a Centurion or a Raider?
That is, if you're human
And if you're really a Cylon...
one of the final five you haven't seen yet...
wouldn't you rather just get it over with and die?
Okay
What?
Yes, I'll go
Look, I am a trained scientist
I can go to the baseship
I can make observations about the Cylons
Their physical condition
Bring back information about this disease,
which now threaten sall of you
We've learned the disease that's killing the human cylons
could infect one of our Raiders as well
then don't send a raider
Surely the war's furbished you get some... colonial vessels
He's right. We could program one of our raptors to approach on autopilot
All right, then prepare to jump the ship
Make sure there resurrection knows they have to stay out of range
a truly selfless act
I could use a refill here
Here
Here's to knowing...
that somebody will always have your back
The sentiment's right, but in my book,
trust is an overrated commodity
Mmm, that one I'll drink to
Frak you guys
What is your problem, Katraine?
My problem is you, Captain
And all this us against them crap
Truth hurts, doesn't it? Gimme another one
You know what, Starbuck?
Whatever happened to you down there why don't you take it out on the Cylons,
'cause we busted our ass to get you off that rock
Do you think that means anything?
Every colonist that landed on New Caprica was loyal, to a point
It was amazing watching those people that you thought you knew go over to the Cylons
At least in the end, we knew where we stood, huh?
Is that so?
Then how come you are off flight duty and some Cylon lover is holding down my post?
Don't kid yourselves
You're on your own in this life
Each and every one of us
Why don't you tell that to the pilots that died getting you off that rock?
And Gaeta's briefing Sharon and Racetrack on the scouting mission to the pulsars
You mean Athena and Racetrack
Word travels fast
Yes, it does
I understand that morale's taken a hit on the flight deck
Nothing we can't handle, sir
I'm also told that colonel Tigh is spending a lot of timed own in the pilots' rec room
Both him and Starbuck, sir
They've been holding court
Second-guessing the rescue, bad-mouthing the crew that stayed up with Galactica
Suddenly, if you weren't in the ground war, it's like you can't be trusted
People are listening
Your word carries a lot of weight
You're right, they're destroying morale and unit cohesion
They both know better
I don't think they care, sir
Two protons expelled at each coupling site creates the mode of force
The embryo becomes a fish that 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 1,000 light years
Thank you
Genesis turns to its source
Reduction occurs step-wise, though the essence is all one
End of line
After your system check,
diagnostic functions within parameters, repeats the harlequin
The agony exquisite, the colors run the path of ashes
is it aware of us?
of course
She's aware of everything aboard
New paragraph
do you have any idea what it's talking about?
No
Most Cylons think the conscious mind of the hybrid
has simply gone mad, and the vocalizations we hear are meaningless
But not everyone thinks that
The ones you know as Leoben
believe that every word out of her mouth means something
That god literally speaks to us through her
She sort of controls the baseship, does she?
She is the baseship, in a very real sense
Mind gone mad
She experiences life very differently than we do, Gaius
She swims in the heavens...
laughs at stars, breathes in cosmic dust
Maybe Leoben's right
Maybe she does see god
We're wasting time
Jump...
There are bodies everywhere
They're dying
What the hell is that?
Definitely man-made
You're severely dehydrated
You must drink some water
Kill me
You don't understand. There is no resurrection ship nearby
You will not be downloaded into a new body
You will just be gone
I saw how they died
Please... please, I can't bear that
I'm here to bring help. All right?
I'm just gonna take some blood samples for analysis on the baseship
And then we will be able to make a treatment for the disease
Just breathe, please
Please take some water
You're... you're from Galactica
No, I'm from a baseship
Tell me...
do you know what this is?
We found it floating at these coordinates
Must be some kind of...
beacon...
- or marker - It looks too old
It looks very old
Must've been left by the 13th tribe
It was infected, poisoned
Left by some humans like you to destroy us
What?
A human device filled with a pestilence
You sent us to this place
- It wasn't me - You know we'd bring it aboard
You don't know what you're saying
This is the disease speaking through you. Calm down
I am going to bring help
I would never do anything to hurt you
You and the other baseships knew it was here
I am going to bring help
Be quiet. Be quiet
- I'm going to bring help - You want to destroy us all
It's your fault!
- You lie to them - Shut up!
Be quiet! Be quiet! Shut up!
- Be quiet! Shut up! - You're gonna infect all of us!
Shut up!
Gaius, do you hear us?
Gaius, do you read? Is anyone alive?
Speak to us
What do you see?
Are any of them alive?
This is Gaius Baltar
- I'm returningto the baseship - What do you see?
I see nothing
Nothing of consequence
There's nothing left to do here
Nobody likes it, but we have to make a terrible choice
Do we attempt a rescue, and risk the lives of our fleet, even our species,
or do we leave them?
The answer won't be found in science because there's no cure in science
Well, there has to be. Do we just leave them? Then they're condemned to death
they must be sacrificed for the greater good
There is a greater question
Yes, there is
How did this happen?
It's Baltar, of course
It's his fault. He led us there deliberately
He's been working with Galactica the whole time
It wasn't me
Whatever you think I did, I didn't do, honestly!
Baltar, we followed your coordinates and found a disease with no treatment or cure
Clearly they're doomed
Never to return
Perhaps god would smile upon us for our mercy
Oh, listen to you. You can barely even speak his name
we have to leave them
We have to jump, and leave them to their fate
There is no other way
Mists of dreams drip along the nascent echo, and love no more
End of line
The hybrid objects
She doesn't get a vote
Jump the ship
Jump
This disease...
it must've come from someplace
So what did you notice on the infected ship?
Nothing. Nothing
I am just as baffled as you are
You noticed nothing suspicious on the infected ship?
Nothing whatsoever
Admiral on deck
Admiral
Give me the room
Stay in your seat
Have a drink?
Give me your sidearm
What?
Your sidearm
Hey, there's a live roundin that
Now one of you, and I don't care who, pick that weapon up and shoot me
- Admiral, I don't know - I didn't say to talk
You've done enough of that already
I said to pick up that weapon, and shoot
What's the matter?
No guts?
You don't got a pair?
You're both frakking cowards
- Watch your mouth - Or what?
You going to turn the rest of my pilots against each other?
Poison the crew?
You've already done that, Saul
Both of you
Yeah, well, if you're looking for an apology, it isn't gonna happen
You were like a daughter to me once. No more
You're malcontented, and a cancer
And I won't have you on my ship
So you have a choice
You figure out how to become a human being again, and an officer,
or you can find another place to live
Off of this ship
You're dismissed
Are you gonna kick me out of my chair too?
- Listen, I know you've been through a lot - Don't patronize me
Say what you came here to say
You're full of bile, hatred
And I know that it has something to do with Ellen
And I'm sorry for that
And if you need time, Saul, well, you take all the time you want
But I gotta run a ship
The last thing I need is a one-eyed drunk sitting down here
sowing discontent, disobedience
So I'll tell you once again, Saul
You can pick up that weapon and kill me...
or you can get your ass back into your quarters, and not leave...
until you're ready to act like the man that I've known for the past 30 years
That man doesn't exist anymore, Bill
And you won't be seeing me again
Oh, my gods, it's right there
The lion's head nebula, and the blinking eye
Holy crap, it's the road to Earth
Oh, my gods
Let's get the frak out of here
I'll start the jump
When god's anger awakens, even the mighty shall fall
Frak, Athena, we need to get out of here!