- Serina: We must fight back.
- Commander Adama: Yes, we are going to fight back. But not here, not now, not in the Colonies. Not even in this star system. Let the word go forth to every man, woman and child who survived this holocaust. Tell them to set sail at once in every assorted vehicle that will carry them.
- Cassiopeia: My name is Cassiopeia
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Cassiopeia. It's beautiful. It means fairy queen, doesn't it?
- Cassiopeia: I think so.
- Cassiopeia: That woman is a member of the Otori sect amongst the Gemonese. They don't believe in physical contact between genders except when sanctified by the priests during the high worship of the sunstorm, which comes once only every seven years.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Hmm... no wonder those little buggers are such good card players.
- Imperious Leader: Welcome, Baltar. I have grave news. I handful of Colonials prevail, but we will soon find them.
- Count Baltar: What of out bargain? My Colony was to be spared!
- Imperious Leader: I now alter the bargain.
- Count Baltar: How can you change one side of a bargain?
- Imperious Leader: When there is no other side. You have missed the entire point of the war.
- Serina: No, let them talk! I also want to know where you were. All of you. We waited. We watched and prayed and you never came!
- Captain Apollo: Most of us are dead... the fleet is all but destroyed.
- [Two centurions drag Baltar into the throne chamber of Imperious Leader]
- Imperious Leader: You are Baltar?
- [Baltar laughs contemptuously at Imperious Leader's seeming ignorance]
- Count Baltar: As if you don't remember.
- Imperious Leader: My predecessor has left me with a difficult choice.
- [Baltar's smirk disappears, as he is now genuinely surprised]
- Count Baltar: Your... predecessor?
- Imperious Leader: Was destroyed by your peers. A foolish miscalculation of the will of your people.
- Imperious Leader: We thank you for your help, Baltar. Your time is at an end.
- Count Baltar: No! You can't...
- [a centurion seizes Baltar while a second begins to unsheath his sword]
- Imperious Leader: No! Not now, centurion.
- [the centurion stops and resheaths the sword]
- Imperious Leader: Remove him for public execution.
- [Count Baltar has persuaded President Adar that the approaching Cylon raiders are a welcoming committee]
- Colonel Tigh: Commander, one of our patrol ships is under attack from the main force approaching the fleet.
- Commander Adama: [turning to the viewscreen] Did you hear that, Mr. President? Your "welcoming committee" is FIRING on our patrol.
- [Adama and Apollo survey the ruins of their house]
- Captain Apollo: Maybe Mother wasn't here.
- Commander Adama: [mournfully] No. No... she was here.
- [Zac's fighter has just been destroyed within sight, but just short, of the fleet]
- President Adar: What was that?
- Commander Adama: [agonized, bitter] That was my SON, Mr. President.
- Captain Apollo: No one is in luxury, I promise you that.
- Passenger: No, you're lying. I saw it with my own eyes aboard the Rising Star, before I was cast out and put here among the Borays of humanity.
- Narrator: There are those who believe that life here, began out there. Far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians or the Toltecs or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids or the lost civilisations of Lemuria or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive, somewhere beyond the heavens.
- Cylon Centurion: By your command.
- Imperious Leader: Speak, Centurion.
- Cylon Centurion: All base ships are now in range to attack the Colonies.
- Imperious Leader: The final annihilation of the life form known as Man. Let the attack begin.
- Commander Adama: And the word went forth to every outpost of human existence, and they came: the Aries, the Gemons, the Virgos, the Scorpios, the Pisceans and the Sagittarians. In all, 220 ships, representing every colony, colour and creed in the star system. The human race might have one more chance. But first it would have to survive the alliance, the elements and the unknown dark and sinister threats that would lie ahead.
- Colonel Tigh: It's working, Commander. They're clearing a path 100 maxims wide.
- Lieutenant Athena: Now, THAT is precision flying.
- Commander Adama: [narrating] Fleeing from the Cylon Tyranny, the last battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag fugitve fleet on a lonely quest: a shining planet known as Earth.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [entering the female crew's quarters] Anybody here?
- Lieutenant Athena: [scantily dressed, ducking behind locker door] Starbuck...
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Oh!
- [standing back]
- Lieutenant Starbuck: I'm looking for you. I came to, uh, apologize... for how I treated you. It's just...
- [sighs]
- Lieutenant Starbuck: I've seen so many of the guys from my squadron
- [sighs]
- Lieutenant Starbuck: burnt up. I guess I was looking to take it out on somebody, I wish it hadn't been you.
- Lieutenant Athena: [shielded by locker door, shaking her head] It wasn't important, Starbuck.
- [sighs]
- Lieutenant Athena: I don't know what is.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Look... I'm sorry about... Zac... and your mother.
- Lieutenant Athena: Starbuck, you don't have to say anything...
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Zac pulled my patrol.
- Lieutenant Athena: [quickly] He wanted to go.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Yeah. Athena... this is a time for sticking together.
- [walks past her, and she retreats further behind locker door]
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Maybe... maybe we could talk, uh, about... things...
- Lieutenant Athena: Us, you mean?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Well, I guess... it is a little overdue.
- Lieutenant Athena: Starbuck, I don't know.
- [sighs, shaking her head]
- Lieutenant Athena: I don't think any of us has any kind of future anymore.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Hey, don't say that, things... things are gonna be all right. Look, if we could handle what we've just been through... we can handle anything.
- Lieutenant Athena: [scoffs] Later maybe, when... when things aren't so fresh in my mind.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Athena, I... I said... I was sorry.
- Lieutenant Athena: Starbuck... I don't want to care about anybody. Especially you.
- [sighs]
- Lieutenant Athena: Zac couldn't wait to get out there. Get shot up. And you, you're worse than Zac.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Uhm, I think of it... as an obligation.
- Lieutenant Athena: [little laugh] No, you don't... Oh, you like to pretend that they're out there, dragging you by your bootstraps, but...
- [scoffs]
- Lieutenant Athena: you really can't wait to get up there... in that machine of yours.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: I... I guess we... see things differently.
- Lieutenant Athena: I guess we do.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: I said... what I came to say.
- [leaves]
- President Adar: Baltar, my friend, this armistice conference would not have been possible without your tireless work. You have secured for yourself a place in the history books.
- Count Baltar: [smiling humbly] That the Cylons chose ME as their liason to the Quorum of the Twelve was an act of... providence, not skill.
- President Adar: I see the party is not a huge success with all my children.
- Commander Adama: What awaits us out there is what troubles me.
- President Adar: Surely, you don't cling to your suspicions about the Cylons. They ASKED for this armistice. They WANT peace.
- Commander Adama: Forgive me, Mr. President, but they hate us with every fiber of their existence. We love freedom, we love independence. To feel, to question, to resist oppression. To them, it's an alien way of existing... they will never accept.
- President Adar: But they HAVE. Through Baltar, they have sued for peace.
- Commander Adama: [unconvinced] Yes... of course, you're right
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Ah, look at it this way, Boomer, this isn't the worst duty in the fleet, asking a lot of questions. I hear they're sending some poor guys from Beta section crawling around on the outside of an old skybus looking for a solium leak.
- Lieutenant Boomer: Hmm, wonder how they missed us for that detail?
- Captain Apollo: The Nova of Madagon is not a nova at all, but a starfield so bright, our cockpits will be sealed to prevent blindness. We'll navigate by scanner and clear everything out of our path with turbo lasers. Are you feeling alright, Starbuck? You're fidgeting around like a daggit on a sunspot.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Well, it's my bio-pulse line, sir. You see, it's a bad time for me to be cooped up in a cockpit.
- Lieutenant Boomer: Starbuck's being polite... since he got a steam burn.
- Captain Apollo: I don't think I want to ask you how you got it, because I need you on this mission. I didn't choose you to help lead us through without a great deal of anguish. But it'll do any good, let me assure you that should we fail... no one will survive. The rest of our friends must sit in anticipation of our skill.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Or lack thereof...
- Colonial Warrior: You want a little ah... company?
- Cassiopeia: I'm kind of companied out, thank you.
- Colonial Warrior: But you're going to miss the tribute for the three warriors.
- Cassiopeia: I've given them all the tribute they're going to get.
- Colonel Tigh: I know that wasn't easy for you, not telling him. Perhaps you should have.
- Commander Adama: No. I need him down there at the ceremony. If I told him, there'd be no way to keep him from my side. This is MY gamble. If I win, we all win.
- Colonel Tigh: But if you're wrong, Uri will destroy you.
- Commander Adama: I'm not wrong. The Cylons lured me into their deception once.
- [his eyes narrowed in determination]
- Commander Adama: Never again!
- Captain Apollo: When these fires reach hyper-combustion, the whole planet's gonna blow! Let's get outta here!
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [sees that his blaster has used up while shooting the Cylons in the mine] Oh, frack!
- Commander Adama: And just what did you think you were doing, volunteering for a mission like that? Sire Uri must be laughing up his sleeve.
- Captain Apollo: What's worrying you more, the mission or your being made to look foolish by Uri?
- Commander Adama: Mr. President, I request permission to leave the Fleet. I have reason to suspect our home planets face imminent attack.
- [Cylon raiders blast away at the bridge of the Atlantia and portions of the bridge explode]
- Commander Adama: Maintain contact...
- [the communication image of President Adar distorts, then clears]
- President Adar: [horror-stricken] How could I have been so completely wrong? I have led the entire human race to RUIN!
- [a Cylon raider blasts one of the Atlantia's anti-assault batteries and the explosion surges into the bridge, knocking out communications]
- Commander Adama: [alarmed] MR. PRESIDENT!
- Lieutenant Athena: Commander, we're picking up some attack signals between Purple and Orange Squadrons. We don't HAVE Purple and Orange Squadrons.
- Commander Adama: Purple and Orange?
- Colonel Tigh: Starbuck and Apollo?
- Commander Adama: Lord help them both!
- Cylon Centurion: The warriors continue to advance, at least six squadrons.
- Imperious Leader: Recall all raiders to defend base ship!
- Cylon Centurion: Our raiders are all destroyed.
- Imperious Leader: All destroyed? How? We took them by surprise.
- Cylon Centurion: Apparently, it was not as big a surprise as we had hoped for.
- Imperious Leader: Retreat closer to Carillon! Below their scanners!
- Cylon Centurion: There are reports of fires on Carillon. It is dangerous to move closer.
- Imperious Leader: I said lower! Or they will destroy us!
- Cylon Centurion: By your command.
- [Zac wants to take Starbuck's place on patrol, and has talked Starbuck into faking an upset stomach]
- Lieutenant Zac: Aw, come on, Apollo! I've studied my coordinates from here to the Cylon capital - my ship's ready to go!
- Captain Apollo: Well, that's a real stroke of luck! I guess you're gonna have to pull Starbuck's patrol with me!
- Lieutenant Zac: Woo! See you at the launch!
- [Zac leaves Apollo and Starbuck]
- Captain Apollo: [watching Zac] Were we ever that young?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: I don't know - I can't remember that far back!
- [Apollo and Starbuck are running from the Cylons in the mine]
- Lieutenant Starbuck: I guess it's a little too late to talk to these fellas.
- Captain Apollo: [agrees] I think so.
- Flight Corporal Rigel: Section 12, launch bay alpha stand by to launch fighter probe.
- Captain Apollo: Acknowledged, input recorded and functioning.
- Flight Corporal Rigel: Vector coordinates coded and transferred, acknowledge?
- Captain Apollo: Acknowledged, ready to launch.
- Flight Corporal Rigel: Core systems transferring control to probe craft, launch when ready.
- Serina: [civil broadcast transmission] Preparations continue through the night here at the Caprica Presideum. We can see at the moment it is somewhat deserted.
- [a few people milling about in the stadium]
- Serina: But with the new dawn, it will be full of Capricans...
- [looking over her shoulder at the people]
- Serina: coming here, eagerly and joyfully, to usher in a new era, the era of peace. So far, details of the Armistice meeting, going on at this very moment on the star Kobol, are not coming in as we had hoped for.
- [on board the Galactica, this broadcast is watched]
- Serina: It seems that this is due to unusual electrical interferences which are blocking out all interstellar communications. However, as soon as they are available, we will be showing you the first pictures of something that has been described as the most significant event in history.
- [she hears the ominous whoosh of alien spacecraft overhead, and looks up to see Cylon Raiders swooping down]
- Serina: Oh my God! It's... It's a tremendous explosion! Are... are we getting this on the camera? People are running everywhere, they... are running in all different directions! Ladies and gentlemen, this is terrible, they are bombing the city...