- Count Baltar: What do you want, Adama?
- Commander Adama: Information.
- Count Baltar: They found you.
- Commander Adama: We found them.
- [Baltar has just bartered his knowledge of the Cylons in exchange for freedom]
- Commander Adama: Apollo, Starbuck, see you soon.
- Count Baltar: Good luck.
- [Apollo and Starbuck are taken aback by Baltar's response, but proceed to begin their mission]
- Count Baltar: If they don't succeed, I die too.
- [Apollo and Starbuck prepare to fly a Cylon raider]
- Captain Apollo: You know how to fly this thing?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: I thought you did.
- Count Baltar: Destroy them? A basestar? Not likely.
- Commander Adama: With your help.
- Count Baltar: Why would I possibly help you?
- Commander Adama: To regain your freedom.
- Count Baltar: And when am I to be set free?
- Commander Adama: After the basestar has been destroyed.
- Count Baltar: What if they destroy you? And me along with you?
- Commander Adama: Then that's the risk you'll have to take.
- [Baltar realizes that Adama intends to keep him on the Galactica when she engages a Cylon basestar]
- Commander Adama: Do we have an agreement?
- [Baltar reluctantly shakes Adama's hand in agreement]
- Lieutenant Sheba: Where in heaven's name are we?
- Captain Apollo: [climbing into the chair] As high as you can get on the Galactica. We're directly over the main thrusters.
- [he starts pushing comm buttons]
- Captain Apollo: It's a great spot to get away from everyone to think.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: A cozy little place like this could be used for more than just thinking.
- Cassiopeia: [giggles] Starbuck!
- Commander Adama: Tigh, do you realise this is the first time since we fled the Colonies that we have the advantage?
- [pause]
- Commander Adama: But even if we didn't have the advantage, I'm tired of running.
- Colonel Tigh: [deeply agrees] Adama... so am I.
- Commander Adama: Then let's take her on. We do have one advantage - the element of surprise. And I intend to make to most of it.
- Colonel Tigh: [pointing at the model of a Cylon basestar] She has 300 fighters, carries two long-range mega pulsars, here and here, and over a hundred defensive laser turrets. She's an orbiting killer, capable of destroying every ship we have, including the Galactica.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [to Boomer] That's what I like about the Colonel. His optimism.
- Colonel Tigh: [the Cylon basestar has been destroyed] You did it, Adama!
- Commander Adama: We all did it, Tigh, we all did it! Damage report!
- Omega: It's extensive, Commander! But all fires are controllable, and the landing bays are intact!
- Commander Adama: Thank God for that! Recall all Vipers!
- Cassiopeia: Apollo, what was this bubble used for?
- Captain Apollo: It's a celestial chamber. The only one left on the Galactica. When the old girl was launched over 500 yahren ago, there were a number of these domes. Back then the, eh, navigators used to come up here and take star sightings, to sort of double-check the navigation computer. I doubt anyone's been here except us in a hundred yahren or more.
- Commander Adama: I'd forgotten all about that, er, celestial dome topside. What were you four doing up there?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [awkward pauses] Just taking in the view, Commander...
- Commander Adama: [clearly surprised] Oh.
- Colonel Tigh: What were you doing in that dome?
- Cassiopeia: [clearly shocked] Colonel!
- Lieutenant Starbuck: You still don't think that transmission was a lure, do you?
- Captain Apollo: No. Only now we'll never know. Wilker's lab was destroyed in the battle and the recording with it.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: So you're waiting here for another transmission?
- Captain Apollo: Yeah. Boomer rigged a gamma signal booster. If anything's out there, I should pick it up.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [realizing] You... think it came from Earth, don't you?
- Captain Apollo: I hope it did. Our first contact should be a transmission, something similar to what we saw.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Just looked like an old spacecraft on a routine run to me.
- Captain Apollo: [chuckling] Well, what would you expect, a momentous message? No, we'll just pick up routine radio or video scans. Nothing extraordinary... to them, anyway.
- Captain Apollo: [Apollo, Starbuck and Sheba are exploring the planets of an unknown solar system] The first planet's a giant. 80% compressed hydrogen, 12% helium, no lifeforms. But it sure is pretty.
- Lieutenant Sheba: So's number two. Beautiful but deadly. The atmosphere is almost totally comprised of compressed carbon dioxide. No lifeforms.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Well, leave it to me to get the ugly one. No atmosphere, just barren rock. No life could possibly...
- [computer bleeps]
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Wait!
- Captain Apollo: What is it?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: I'm picking up something. Just rising on the back side of the planet. Oh, no. No!
- Captain Apollo: Starbuck?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Get out of here! It's a Cylon basestar!
- Colonel Tigh: The Officer's Club will be open to all warriors, regardless of rank, for one centare and one drink, on the Commander. Commencing now.
- Flight Sergeant Jolly: Well, if the Commander's buying, then I'm drinking!
- Lieutenant Boomer: If anybody's buying, you're drinking, Jolly.
- Cassiopeia: So why does it always have to be you?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Apollo's going...
- Cassiopeia: I'm not in love with Apollo!
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Cass, you know me, I'll make it.
- Cassiopeia: Huh, yeah, knowing you, you'll probably some beautiful female prisoner to rescue on that basestar.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Come on, that's crazy. I'll be back, I promise.
- Cassiopeia: [tearfully] If you're not, I'm gonna kill you.
- Lieutenant Boomer: Now whatever you do, don't lose that transmitter. It's the only way we'll be able to tell you from the Cylons.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Well, if they do, we'll just waggle our wings.
- Lieutenant Boomer: You would.
- Cylon scan centurion: [as the Galactica's Viper phalanx enters the solar system] Vipers bearing Omega Seven.
- First Centurion: Vipers?
- Cylon scan centurion: Confirmed. Two squadrons.
- First Centurion: Launch all fighters to intercept. Scan for the Galactica.
- [as Starbuck plants solonite explosives to the computer banks, a signal blares loudly through the station]
- Captain Apollo: They must have spotted out vipers.
- [the First Centurion suddenly enters the computer banks station and is fired on by Apollo]
- Captain Apollo: [desperately] Let's go!
- [Starbuck plants the last charge and the two warriors flee with two heavily armed centurions dispatched by the First Centurion in pursuit, but as they climb the scaffolding an object slips out of Apollo's pocket]
- Captain Apollo: The transmitter!
- [Starbuck vainly reaches for the falling transmitter]
- Captain Apollo: Let it go!
- [the pursuing centurions reach the scaffolding just as the solonite explosives detonate and the computer banks are obliterated, the blast nearly knocking Apollo and Starbuck off the scaffolding as the two centurions are blown to a corner]
- Captain Apollo: Without that transmitter the squadrons can't tell us from the Cylons!
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Forget it! We don't need that electronic felgercarb! We'll think of something!
- Captain Apollo: The Galactica should be attacking any micron.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Well then what are we waiting for?
- [the Cylon basestar shakes after taking fire from the Galactica]
- First Centurion: What happened?
- Cylon scan centurion: Aft laser turrets report an attacking battlestar.
- First Centurion: Fire aft mega lasers.
- [last lines]
- [as Starbuck and Apollo leave the dome, the equipment, inadvertently left on, receives another gamma transmission: a spacecraft approaching a barren, cratered surface, casting its own shadow upon it as it comes ever closer]
- Buzz Aldrin: Bearing down three and a half. Forty-seven forward. Fifty down at two and a half. Nineteen forward. A hundred feet, three and a half down. Nine forward. Forty feet down, two and a half. Picking up some dust. Faint shadow.
- [comm beep]
- Mission Control: We copy you down, Eagle.
- [comm beep, and another]
- Neil Armstrong: Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
- [standard ending shot of the fleet]
- Commander Adama: [narrative] Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest: a shining planet... known as Earth.
- Commander Adama: [Cylon base star looming] I thought we'd lost them for good.
- Lieutenant Sheba: We all did, Commander.
- Lieutenant Sheba: Ever since you've lost Serina, you've taken every high-risk mission on the board.
- Captain Apollo: Serina has nothing to do with it.
- Lieutenant Sheba: She was a very lovely woman, Apollo... but she's dead.
- Captain Apollo: Can we just drop this?
- Lieutenant Sheba: No, we can't just drop it. What do you think? You have the corner on loneliness here?
- Captain Apollo: I'm... I'm sorry.
- Lieutenant Sheba: [tearfully] It's all right. I guess we have kind of been at each other's throats ever since the moment we met.
- Captain Apollo: Yeah, I guess we have.
- Lieutenant Sheba: Except for lately. You've kind of included me in your... tight little circle of friends... and I appreciate that, Apollo.
- Captain Apollo: [looking down] Yeah, well, uhm... I realized I'd been a little hard on you.
- Lieutenant Sheba: Did you ever think about the fact that... maybe two people who snap at each other for no reason, are doing it to avoid their real feelings?
- [her hand guides his face towards her]
- Lieutenant Sheba: I've thought about it quite a bit.
- [she kisses him]
- Lieutenant Sheba: Be careful.