Battlestar Galactica (1978) s01e19 Episode Script

We've actually found human life forms.
- Look at them.
- Oh, my Lord.
Hopefully this is our first contact with an Earth vehicle.
The lives of those people do not belong to us.
They must continue on their journey.
- Can you identify them? - I've never seen flying craft like it.
Do not lose contact.
You'd have to be pretty powerful to beat the Alliance.
By the good graces of the Lords of Kobol, the Galactica leads her survivors towards the coordinates given us by those great lights that vanished as mysteriously as they appeared.
There are those who speculate that those lights, advanced ships, really, might have come from Earth, giving us great hope that they have a highly developed technology.
Even now, our long-range scouts patrol the quadrants watching for signs that indicate that we are growing close.
Apollo? Yeah.
I'm awake.
- How long have I been in sleep period? - 'About six centares.
What's up?' I can hear your klaxon over the comm line.
'You're about 50 sectars ahead of me.
' Wait.
Something's coming onto the edge of my scanner.
What's it look like? A sub-light vehicle containing six life forms.
- Apollo, you don't think - It's our first contact with Earth? Don't get your hopes too high.
I'm kicking in my turbos to catch up.
Apollo? I see her.
Now back off a little.
Back off? We've come millions of metrics for this moment! Starbuck, we don't want to scare them out of their wits.
- I hadn't thought about that.
- Look at the life signs.
That's incredible.
They indicate humans but but at minimum life-support level.
Colonel, what is this? I'm sorry but everyone's so excited.
News has spread that there are life forms and that Captain Apollo has attached the tow lines without interference from them.
I see.
Put me on unicom, please.
Yes, sir.
On the line, Commander.
People of the fleet, this is Commander Adama.
'Rumours are spreading faster than fact 'about the discovery of a manned vehicle 'soon to be brought aboard the Galactica.
'I must ask you all to be patient and cautious in your optimism.
'The incoming vessel will have to be placed in strict quarantine, 'carefully, before we can allow anyone near it, 'for fear of jeopardising not only our own lives, 'but the lives of whoever is aboard that spaceship.
' Hopefully this is our first contact with an Earth vehicle.
Commander, so far no responses whatsoever from within the ship.
I doubt we'll get any response.
Why? All life signs indicate live body functions.
Alive but minimal.
They could be sick.
Or it could be a trap, maybe a bomb planted inside capable of blowing us apart.
There is no bomb! The defusing team say the ship is clean.
Has anyone tried to tell those inside that we're here? Yes, there was no response.
- But they're alive? - Yes, but barely.
Gentlemen, there is no need for all this conjecture.
Let's go in.
Dr Wilker, one centon, please.
Could we be upsetting a critical balance by entering this ship violating the seals? We penetrated the hull with a probe and took samplings of the gases in the atmosphere.
- And? - Almost zero atmosphere.
- Zero? - Traces of oxygen, carbon dioxide.
But nothing that could sustain life as we know it.
Yet six life forms on this ship live, even if barely.
What happens if we enter the decontamination chamber attached to the ship? Would we be killing those inside if they're used to zero atmosphere? Commander, nothing human could survive in that ship.
Well, then, this is it.
It's incredible.
- By the grace of God.
- Oh, my Lord.
Bless their hearts.
Look at them.
Some of them are babies.
Just children.
Doctor, are they alive? They are alive.
You sure? They don't look like they're breathing.
Their metabolism has been lowered to sustain life.
- They're conserving fuel.
- Precisely.
How long could they have been like this? Perhaps a long, long time.
Yeah, well, we've got to do something to try and bring them out of it.
Starbuck, done improperly, - that could terminate their lives.
- Why? Because we haven't the slightest idea of how this equipment functions.
To tamper with a life-support system which has kept them in this state for a yahren or 100 yahren could mean termination.
You mean we finally find humans who are possibly from Earth and we've got to leave them in these tubes? Lieutenant, Dr Salik is a physician.
I am a scientist.
We'll have no trouble comprehending how their technology works.
I'll pick one chamber and run tests on it.
You mean use them as human testing drones? And if you short out his life-support system, too bad, you just move on to the next child? Adama, if you'll forgive me, I believe you people have served your purpose.
The rest is in our hands.
It's not a military matter any more.
Commander, we do need some room to work.
Very well.
But understand one thing, Doctors.
Who these people are and where they were going when we intercepted them may be crucial to our survival.
I want no chances taken with their lives.
Commander, bringing them here at all may have been fatal.
By now, I'm sure that most of you are aware that something special has happened.
We've found people from Earth.
Please use your question indicator before addressing the class.
- I'm sorry, Athena.
- You're excused.
Now, I'm sure you realise that what happens throughout this day is liable to affect us for the rest of our lives.
We're all a trifle nervous.
Yes, Loma? If people are inside that ship, why aren't they coming out? We can't allow it right now.
Their craft has to be decontaminated.
Who knows what that means? Yes, Boxey.
We have to kill any sick bugs that may be on their ship.
Very good.
We aren't talking about things that are large enough for us to see.
When we were all thrown together on this fleet for the first time, some of us had troubles, didn't we? My parents got sick from the liquids and food.
Yes.
We aren't saying that there's anything wrong with these liquids but that they contained bacterial strains which some of us from the outer Colonies had to get used to.
Their bodies had to do what? Class? - Adjust.
- Very good, you remembered.
If you'll all look at your monitors, you can read the key phrase for today's lesson.
"The human life form "can adapt to many varied environments and foods.
" The key thing in remembering adapting is time.
It takes time to adjust.
My dad said that it could be possible for those people to kill us before we knew what hit us - if they carry the wrong bugs.
- Your father said that to you? Not exactly.
He was arguing with Starbuck.
Children, if you'll just continue to read the text on your monitors, I'll be right back.
Boxey, come with me, please.
Let's go try and find your father, Boxey.
Apollo.
Hey, Boxey, how you doing? Are you trying to frighten the children of the Galactica? What? I'm trying to reassure the children that what's happened is good.
Boxey heard you telling Starbuck this event could kill us all.
What I said was that we and the people in that ship share the same risk.
- Either could be dangerous to the other.
- We've decontaminated that ship.
On the outside, yes.
Even if we do kill off any bacteria that could hurt us, what about all the other things in our air that we take for granted? Any one of them could be lethal for the people inside that ship.
I told you.
Boxey.
Then what am I supposed to tell these children who've been promised a normal existence once we find Earth? Tell them the truth - that hopefully this is a giant step forward.
That could send us plunging down a cliff.
If you'd like, I'll talk to your class later when we know more.
- All right.
- Yeah, I'll see you.
You're gonna get it.
Come on, Boxey.
Let's go back to class.
Do you realise that nothing we have on the Galactica seems to correlate with their symbols or systems? - They're human.
- Yes.
The ship flies, it draws energy.
It has to make sense.
We're just going to have to start taking some chances.
Apollo, you look like you just lost your first love.
- They're not getting anywhere.
- Give them some time.
- They may not have any time, Athena.
- Whoa.
You sound as though there's some choice.
- There is.
- What do you mean? You found a ship drifting in space with living beings inside.
We're doing everything we can for them.
- We aren't leaving them alone.
- Leaving them alone? Is that what we do to the first humans we encounter from another civilisation? We've encountered other humans.
Not since we left range of our home planets.
Everyone we've encountered up till now, every colony or outpost, are drifters or pioneers who set out from our home planets.
- Terms, dress, technology, all familiar.
- So what are you saying? That if even a few of the humans we've run across were descendants from the lost 13th tribe, they were stragglers, left behind.
Now, here on this ship for the first time, we've actually found human life forms from a technologically advanced civilisation.
- That's been the whole point of the voyage.
- Boomer's right.
That's why we've risked our lives staying on this tin can instead of stopping at one of the planets we've passed - that could've supported life.
- It is not why we haven't stopped.
We've never stopped because we've never been strong enough! - We've been a hunted people.
- No, not for some time.
Look, let's lighten it up a little.
You may be our best warrior but you see everything in absolutes.
We win, we don't.
We find Earth, we don't.
A girl says yes, she says no.
The quality of a civilisation is determined by the values between these extremes.
Apollo, you're being a little too hard on Starbuck.
If anybody's interested in my vote, I'm with Starbuck.
I say go in there, open those boxes and start interrogating those people.
All our lives depend on what they know.
Reese stay out of this or I'll stick that mug down your throat.
Look, I'm not suggesting we do something that could hurt those kids.
- I was just trying to - Reese! I can handle my own philosophical battles.
Suit yourself, but I'm not the only one that feels like this.
Sooner or later the fleet's gonna stop letting those old boys tinker around and demand that we open the cases.
If they're human, they breathe fresh air! Which is what I think I'm gonna get.
It's always stuffy around you two.
- Hey, Reese! - Hey, hey, hey.
We came in here to relax, not to fight.
Besides, aren't you getting confused? I'm the hot-headed, impulsive one.
I may be confused but I still find it hard to sacrifice one life, even to save thousands.
I'm sorry but I can't let you pass.
The bay's off limits.
Young man, half of these people are on the Council of the 12.
We want to make an on-site inspection.
It is our right.
You need authorisation from Commander Adama.
You haven't heard the end of this Lieutenant.
- How long has this been going on? - It's getting out of hand.
We have to put on more security.
Security reports to the Council.
We'll use warriors responsible to my father.
Then put out a general alert.
Representatives are landing on the Galactica from every ship in the fleet.
- They want to see the Earthlings.
- We don't know they're from Earth yet.
- What happened? - Must've shorted out a line.
- What are the instruments doing? - There was a large drop.
You hit the nerve of their life-support system.
- At least we're getting closer.
- Closer? You could have shorted out the entire ship.
We can't go on like this.
We do not know what we are doing.
We could terminate them all.
- What happened? - Captain, please don't interfere.
What's going on? Well, we found out that the gas used in the system is stored in liquid form.
It is regenerated and recycled in some way to do with these circuits.
Dr Salik, you don't look so optimistic.
- The system's slowly losing power.
- Losing power? Why? When we probe the circuits we occasionally short out lines, draining off energy.
- What? - Nothing critical.
I can solve the technology of this system in time.
And just how much time do we have? How far is it to Earth? Or how far have they come? Or how much farther was this system intended to support their frail lives? - Discontinue your work at once.
- Captain, you don't have the authority I'm ordering you out of this ship.
- Stay and monitor the instruments.
- But I don't know Apprise me of any change.
I'll be with my father.
Come with me.
Don't you worry, I wouldn't miss this for anything.
You are in a lot of trouble.
Apollo, you took a lot on yourself.
- There wasn't time for a vote.
- All I needed was more time.
You see, the operational manual is an integral part of the bridge instrumentation.
I've determined that the atmosphere of the planet these people came from is approximately one-fifth the atmosphere of Caprica.
Also, there are references to another planet called Terra - Wait a second.
- Yes, sir.
Terra? Terra in Gemonese means Earth.
That doesn't mean this is the Earth we're looking for.
And what difference does it make? We've illegally seized an alien ship on an unknown course.
- Illegally seized? - What do you call taking a ship out of flight and tampering with it until its resources begin to dwindle? - Are they dwindling? - A slight power loss is to be expected.
- We don't know - What we're doing! Please be civil.
Dr Wilker is trying to help.
Look, I know that.
But we can't put the lives of those six people in his hands or anybody else's.
- What do you suggest? - We let them go.
- Let them go? - Put them back on their course.
And lose any chance of communicating with them? Enter.
- Adama, I - Please, please.
According to Dr Salik, those two adults and four children may expire before this time cycle is over.
All the more reason to break the seals and try to revive them.
Please.
One more opinion is the last thing we need.
Mine isn't the only opinion.
Representatives are coming aboard the Galactica from every ship.
- They're furious with your inaction.
- Furious at my inaction? What right have I to pass sentence on those children? Quite right, Adama.
No, no, I agree.
Our people judge you far too harshly.
Why don't we take a vote of the Council and lift this burden from you? You mean, they haven't already decided? Apollo, you will be responsible for the security of that ship.
And Geller, why don't you call the Council into session immediately? Whatever you wish, Adama.
"Whatever you wish, Adama.
" There's kids on the spaceship! Kids just like us! - Only from another world.
- Boxey, return to your seat as well as the others, or stay for an additional period.
And you, young man, will stay anyway for returning late from meal period.
I wanted to see the kids.
Are they really just like us? They look like us but they don't move.
Children, what Boxey is trying to explain is that these space voyagers are in a state of suspension.
What does that mean? It means that in order to travel great distances between planets, they couldn't carry enough life-supporting gases.
Who knows what is the most important gas, which we need to breathe to live? - Boxey.
- Oxygen.
Very good.
Do I still have to stay for an extra learning period? - Yes.
- Oh, frack.
We want to go in there! Please, stay back.
Don't crowd in here.
Stay back, please.
Don't crowd in here.
Stay back.
Give us some room.
- You have no right to keep us out! - What's the matter with all of you? - The makings of a mob.
- Anything new inside? Nothing encouraging.
I'm on my way to see Adama now.
You are to allow no one, and I mean no one, aboard that ship.
We'll contain them until the orders arrive.
What orders? The Council's voting to terminate their life-support and let those poor people out.
You can't let them do that.
We have no idea what levels of resuscitation they require.
Don't worry, no one's getting by us, but you tell Adama what's happening and hurry.
In the meantime, until we hear from the Commander, we're in charge here.
And until we receive orders from the Council to the contrary, we are in charge.
Now, look, you golmonging snitrag, this is a military bay.
You and your men have jurisdiction over civilian personnel only.
Aren't the people on that ship civilians? Well, now, we don't really know that, do we? Maybe they're mercenaries, come here to mow us all down.
Two adults and four mercenary children.
That is an imposing threat.
Take your positions.
One more step, black-shirt, and you'll be flatter on your back than those Earthlings.
Sarah? Sarah? Are we there yet? Michael, what's wrong? - Not the children? - No.
They're fine.
It's just that we're not where we're supposed to be.
Sarah, I want you to watch the children.
For some reason, our systems are growing low.
I'll be right back.
- I'm going with you.
- No, Sarah, you must stay.
If their systems fail, open the children's cocoon, give them oxygen.
How long will that last? Please, don't ask me any more questions.
I'll be right back.
OK? It has been decided, as the support systems are failing anyway, to remove the humans from their ship immediately.
But we cannot do that.
You've all heard what Dr Salik said.
- It could kill them.
- We shall be as prudent as possible.
Begin with the oldest member amongst the space voyagers.
He will make the best psychological adjustment.
Council members, I cannot be responsible You're not responsible.
We are.
Are you? Have you the right to order a doctor to carry out a Council order when it conflicts with every medical ethic and moral instinct of his conscience? You have your orders.
And you, sir, have a problem with finding another doctor.
- Adama, talk to him.
- Oh, I plan to.
Excellent.
I plan on telling him that he has given me one of the proudest moments of my life.
Something marvellous has happened here.
Please do not let it pass unnoticed.
Would you mind telling me what all that means? Dr Salik has just reaffirmed that we are a race worth saving.
The Council has voted.
We're bringing them out.
- I don't believe it.
- It's true.
- Dr Salik wouldn't sell out.
- Not Salik.
They're getting a couple of med techs from the Rising Star.
Now that it's official, Starbuck, Apollo, step aside.
Stand aside for the doctors.
They have work to do.
Don't move any closer.
I said don't come any closer.
Welcome to the Galactica.
- If you'll just stand aside - Stay back, Reese.
Stay out of this, Apollo, I'm in charge here.
We mean you no harm.
We just want to come aboard and help.
Hold it! Get those people under control.
- Is he? - He's alive.
Who are you? Why have you brought us here? - We're brothers.
- No! Your markings are not ours.
Where are we? Is this one of our abandoned lunar posts? You're onboard a ship.
What ship? A ship this large? What do you take me for a backwards fool? Tell them to stay back! You're contaminating me.
You're killing me and you're killing the children.
What's happening? Don't touch him.
Don't touch him! We've decontaminated the ship but not the people inside the support chambers.
- Our bacteria.
- It's not contamination.
He can't breathe.
It's the atmosphere density.
Quickly, get him to a decompression chamber and then the three of you go to decontamination immediately.
- Let's go.
- Cassie lower his pressure to one-fifth of our atmospheric pressure.
- Where are you going? - To check the others.
Commander.
Please, please don't hurt them.
They're only babies.
Our atmospheric pressure is greater than wherever they come from and it was literally crushing them alive.
But they appear human.
We are adaptable.
They may be from a planet where the air grew thinner over millenniums.
Or ours grew heavier.
Either way, they're not compatible with our environment.
Remove them from these decompression chambers and they will die.
What a pity.
What a great, great pity.
To have come so close, perhaps even to the very humans whose tribe we've been seeking.
Perhaps there is some way to sustain them until they can talk to us.
- No! - No? With the lives of our fleet so dependent on their answers? Can Earth support us? Is it sufficiently advanced to help us ward off our enemies? Can it protect itself from a Cylon invasion? We can't let them go.
I'm sorry, but the lives of those six people do not belong to us.
We must let them continue on their journey.
Apollo, there's no telling how long they've been in flight or whether they will reach their destination.
Dr Salik said the power to their life-support systems was almost depleted, which could mean they were close.
Apollo, that's possible, but what if they're not? It's a chance we have to take.
I believe this family is being directed to some planet unknown to us, where we might find the answers we desperately need.
That's why I think Starbuck and I should escort them.
If you were to reach this planet to which this ship is destined, as you say what then? Their physiology is so incompatible with ours.
Yes, they cannot withstand the weight of our pressurisation, true.
But we've spent short terms in environments with lower pressure.
Where they're going, I believe we could survive for the short term.
Dr Salik? I will not reiterate the conversation we've been having.
Obviously, you've been conspiring, to put it kindly.
'I merely expressed the facts to Apollo.
' Then let me understand you clearly.
These children cannot survive unless they can go to wherever their ship has been directed.
'Unless you want to imprison them in depressurised canisters.
' Thank you, Doctor.
The Council won't approve letting them go.
- We've no time for political debate.
- Wait.
Now, listen, all of you.
Suppose this were not a political situation.
- Suppose it were a military situation.
- Commander That's right.
These little beggars are the worst things we've seen since the Cylons.
- That's right.
- What? They gunned down a security guard in front of my eyes.
He's OK, it was a stunning device.
Starbuck, they are children.
I don't think you're getting into the spirit of the conversations.
If it's dangerous, it's military.
Naturally, being military and dangerous, it must be reported to the Council.
Naturally.
We will remove the fleet from any immediate danger by placing the hostile spaceship back on its course.
Lord help us.
Apollo, you can't fool any reasonable person with this.
These aren't reasonable people.
They're bureauticians.
'Adama, the fleet is in a complete panic.
'These so-called children fired on our security guards.
'The Council wants to know what you plan to do.
' Extraordinary measures are being taken even as we speak, Sire Geller.
'I should think so.
'We are not at all pleased with the way you've handled the situation.
'We want answers and we want them fast.
' You heard him.
Your plan won't work unless we move quickly.
Before their spaceship exhausts the fuel that she has left.
Yes, it must be quickly.
Go.
Go with my blessings and the blessings of the Lords of Kobol.
Safe journey.
- Any change? - No change.
We've managed to stabilise the pressure but we can only hope that there's no permanent damage.
Did you hear what the Council voted yet? It condemns them to spending the rest of their lives in these chambers.
- If they live at all.
- Apollo.
- All clear? - Is what all clear? - Starbuck - Buddy, this is no time to be subtle.
Subtle about what? We're taking your patients.
You're not serious.
Starbuck, do you know what they can do to you? Have to catch us first.
- Dr Salik, you've got to stop them.
- Don't look at me.
I'm with them.
In fact, I'm going to help monitor the equipment.
No, you're too essential here.
Someone needs to monitor that equipment.
- We could use some help on that ship.
- You're asking me to mutiny.
Mutiny, that's a very harsh word.
Think of it as an act of mercy, Cassie.
What Starbuck and Apollo are about to do is the only chance these people have of surviving.
- You sure you're all right? - I'm all right.
- There are guards all over the place.
- Times like these test our mettle.
You made a career out of risking yours.
Doctor, if you're gonna help, lead the way.
We're all med techs.
Let's go.
Keep moving.
- Hold it! - I'll take care of them.
- What'll you tell them? - I'll tell you after I think of it.
Wouldn't interfere with orders from the Council? Where are you taking that chamber? The ruling just came.
The children are to be taken off the ship.
Then you've lost.
I don't lose as long as those people remain alive.
Keep those people out the way.
Time is critical.
We've got to transfer those children into the portable chambers as quickly as possible.
Do you need any help making the transfer? You're much more valuable here with Reese.
Make sure he's able to control the crowd away from the ship.
- My men won't have any trouble.
- Good.
Then I'll get back and help Dr Salik.
- He sure changed sides in a hurry.
- Yes.
I'm disappointed in him.
I thought he had more guts.
Orders are orders.
Some people understand that.
If their suspension units won't work, we'll leave them in ours.
You'd better find a way to make their units work.
If we don't get back off with those two chambers, those guards won't let us out.
Apollo, I think we found some help.
Who are you? What do you want with us? We're here to help you.
Help me? My God, don't you know what you've done to us? We know.
We want to put you back on course.
- Sarah.
- We just placed her back in her chamber.
Do you know how to make the unit work? Who are you? Are you with the Eastern Alliance? What is this Alliance? How can you not know about the Alliance? Who are you? What is all this? You're from a planet called Terra, is that right? My people are.
I, Sarah, and the children were born on Lunar Seven.
That's where we were escaping from.
But you know that or else you wouldn't have stopped us.
No, we stopped you because we didn't know any better.
We hoped you could help us.
I'm Starbuck, that's Apollo, Dr Salik and Cassiopeia.
- We're on your side.
- I would like to believe that but this is just the sort of cruel game the Alliance would play.
- It's not a game.
We'll help you.
- How? Where were you bound for when we intercepted you? I won't tell you.
What's your name? What are you called on Lunar Seven? - Michael.
- Michael.
We want to put you back on course.
My ship knows its course! All you have to do is put it in space.
It's pre-programmed! - We'll do that if you'll help us.
- Who are you? - People from another world.
- What? A shattered world.
We're refugees.
We're searching for a way to protect our people.
- How much do you think I can believe? - It's all true.
One more thing.
Do you know the course back to Lunar Seven? No.
We are never going back there.
Somebody must know, maybe on the planet you were heading for.
Look, whoever you are, you don't want to go to Lunar Seven.
The Destroyers will annihilate you before you get there.
- Apollo, we have to get out of here fast.
- I know.
I'm responsible for pulling you into our ship.
I want to correct that.
But if we don't get you out in a few centons, you'll never make it.
- Centons? - Trust us or we'll have to keep you here.
- Are you well enough to fly this bird? - He could go into compression any time.
It's the only way for us to escape.
Wait a minute! This is all happening too fast.
Why do you want to help me escape? If you're not from the Eastern Alliance Doctor, we're running out of time.
I'd like to keep him in the chamber till the last centon.
It could be the only way.
We'll offload one chamber and say we're sending for more.
- Good idea.
- You act like you enjoy this intrigue.
I'm scared to death.
Michael, please, we must get you back in your decompression chamber.
I don't know who you are but it sounds to me like we have a lot in common.
We're all human.
Boomer, Jolly.
If he can spare you, we need help getting two more chambers.
- We don't need your help.
- Thanks.
OK, I give up.
What's going on? - We're taking that ship out of here.
- Holy That's right.
When that ship fires up, you two are gonna see that security doesn't try to stop her.
- Who's in it? - Michael and Cassie.
- Who? - We don't have time to explain.
Jolly, put another chamber next to this one.
Then wait for all Hades to break loose - when you hear those engines fire.
- Got it.
What about you two? - We're flying escort.
- I hope you know what you're doing.
We're gonna learn what we came to learn.
We're one step closer to Earth.
- Here's Jolly.
- 'Blue Leader, we're ready.
' Stand by.
This is it, you've gotta fly us out of here.
- I feel fine.
Are you going with us? - He's gonna cover your escape.
I'm Lieutenant Boomer.
Get your ship out fast.
- It'll be hard to keep 'em back.
- Thanks.
Good luck, Michael.
Good luck, Cassiopeia.
What's going on? Move! I have to get these children to the life station.
- Who fired the engine? - Orders.
We're to jettison her to avoid further contamination, right? All right.
I don't know what you're up to but I've had all I'm gonna take.
Step aside! You're endangering the lives of these children.
Surely not even you're that cruel.
Jolly, you forgot the kids! Halt! In the name of the Council, I order you to stop! Don't fire into that ship! You'll take out the whole landing bay.
You are in trouble, Officer.
- Who's in charge here? - I am, sir.
What's this about? Where's that ship gone? It was decided that, to avoid any chance of contamination, that it be jettisoned.
Who decided that? Do you realise the opportunities for learning that were on that ship? Absolutely, Sire Geller.
It's an appalling situation.
Very well, then get it back! Get it back! Boomer, have Starbuck and Apollo take after that ship and bring it back - immediately, if they can.
Starbuck and Apollo? Do we have to have them? They're already in the bay ready to launch on a routine patrol.
- It's our only chance.
- Very well.
Give the orders.
- Dr Salik? - Yes? - What are you doing here? - Me? I thought you'd be at the life station monitoring the humans.
You overruled me on the case.
I'm no longer in charge.
Don't you remember? - I'd better see to the launch.
- You'll excuse us.
If he's not on the case, what's he doing here? What are those chambers doing in the bay? What is going on here? We'll take sleep periods to conserve strength.
There's no telling how far off their destination is.
- Set your breathers to conserve.
- But I'm too excited to be sleepy.
- This trip could be endless.
- Meaning none of us may make it? Remind me to invite you to my next party.
You're a lot of fun.
Going into sleep mode.
The ships have been gone for almost a secton now and still no word.
The Council has asked me to appear before them for an inquiry.
'Paradeen Control Centre to Lunar Shuttle Avion.
'We have you on visual.
Do you read?' 'Lunar Avion responding.
We have you on visual.
'All systems are operative and in stand-by mode.
' 'Excellent, Lunar Avion.
You are 20 hours behind our ETA.
- 'What is your support status?' - 'We are within tolerances to rendezvous.
' Apollo, am I hearing voices or am I still in sleep period? No, I'm hearing them.
My scanner says at least one is coming from the shuttle.
We're approaching that land mass at a dangerous clip.
Cassiopeia? Cassiopeia, do you read me? Yes.
Yes, Starbuck, I do.
The portable receiver you placed here works fine.
But who on your ship is talking? I haven't the slightest idea.
It's just me and all these instruments.
Have they altered since departure? No, but they're What are you doing up? You shouldn't be up.
Yes, it's all right.
The ship has begun to adjust to the pressure on Paradeen.
- Captain Apollo? - Michael? Yes.
I'm fine now.
The ship is proceeding in on automatic.
The voices are computers from the former base we had here.
Follow us down, you'll be safe.
- What former base? - There's nothing left on Paradeen except Sarah's father and a place for the children.
Why are you telling me now? We'll have time to talk on the surface.
I wanted to be honest with you.
We will destroy the homing transmitter as soon as we're down.
We have to.
It's to protect us.
You're going to destroy the coordinates back to Lunar Seven? 'I have no choice, Captain Apollo.
They could be following us.
' 'Cassiopeia, stop him! Don't let him touch anything.
' There's nothing you can do, Cassiopeia.
It's all being done down on Paradeen.
I'll be saving your lives as well as ours.
- From whom? - The Eastern Alliance.
- Commandant? - Yes, Krebbs? The craft which escaped from Lunar Seven a month ago.
Yes, Destroyer Two reported the incident.
Nothing more than some children, a farmer, a young girl.
- Has the ship entered our zone? - I'm not certain.
My readout matches the Lunar Seven ship.
- How far away? - 20,000 kilometres, heading for Paradeen.
Too far away to go to any bother over children.
We'll stop off when we complete our patrol circuit.
Sir, there's more than one ship.
- More than one? But the report - You'd better see the screen, sir.
- Can you identify them? - I have never seen flying craft like it.
- We cannot compute their power function.
- What do you mean? They aren't using power familiar to the computer.
But this is impossible.
Whatever you do, Krebbs, do not lose contact with those ships.
Sir.
Lanceman, replot a course for the planet Paradeen.
Commandant, we are due on Lunar Nine in three days.
- I said Paradeen.
Star speed.
- Star speed? - Star speed and battle-ready.
- Yes, sir.
I'm Vector and this is my son.
Hector.
Father, I thought we were expecting small children.
Now do you see, you half-witted fugitive from the plastic factory? You have misprogrammed their slumber chambers.
- Oh? - They've all grown up.
This one must be little Walker.
And this one, with the big long hair, must be Charity.
Oh, what a great big beautiful girl.
Father, I know you had to build me with scraps you had on hand but even I can tell this is not a female of the species.
- Thanks.
- By Jove, you're right! - Who are these people? - Vector.
Since when do androids carry weapons? Oh, don't be alarmed, Master Michael.
Sarah's father armed us when the hostilities broke out.
- Hostilities? - They're over now.
However, we ought to get back to the ranch soon.
Father is correct.
The temperature drops at night and we know how fragile you humans are.
Is the ranch where we'll find my father? - Yes, Miss Sarah.
- I'll get the children.
This place, Paradeen.
Whose colony is it exactly? Terra's of course.
But who are you not to know that? Be civil, Hector, or I'll break you back down into spare parts! Father, we must be careful.
Our programming did not cover guests, if that's what they are.
For once you are correct, Hector.
But we'll sort this all out back at the ranch.
This is your new home.
- Do I get my own room? - Me too? - And me? - Kids, be patient.
Find out what Sarah's father has prepared for us.
Oh, Miss Sarah! It's a nice dwelling.
Did Sarah's father build it? Well, he started it but my father and I finished it.
- Michael! - Yes.
I can't find my father.
Surely he knew we were coming.
Hector, why didn't Sarah's father meet us here? Father.
- He-He couldn't be here.
- Why not? Michael.
- Well - Go ahead, Vector, explain yourself.
Well, maybe it will be easier if I show you.
No! Daddy! It's your fault! You, my father, all of you! You're so drunk with your sciences! What do we get for it, death? More death? Oh, Daddy.
An unfortunate circumstance.
But actually, Master Michael, I'm sure that we can provide for Sarah and her children a very good life.
- A little lonely maybe.
- Hush up, Hector.
He's sore because I didn't build him any brothers and sisters.
A girl is what I really want.
If I had parts for a woman, I'd build one for myself.
Hmph! Well, let's get into the house before the humans freeze.
Hey, kids.
Melanie, come here.
Where is Sarah? I apologise.
They've been under for so long they'll be awake all night.
They need the exercise.
It's time we got down to serious business.
Wait.
Nothing serious until we've given you our coming-home present.
It belonged to Sarah's father.
It was his pride and joy - rescued from the glory days of Terra.
Oh, it contains the most beautiful artists in all of Terra.
And when you see them No! I'm sorry, but we've purposefully kept the children from seeing the sights of Terra.
But they're wonderful.
Father promised me one day I might go there.
Hector, Vector, thank you.
I know you meant well but the children can never go there.
Pressurisation? Another of science's great mistakes.
Sarah I think it's time you stop blaming technology for man's sins.
It's obvious that it's not the tools, it's what we did with them.
Except for sending families to faraway planets to grow food, not realising children born there can never come home.
Your systems had an atmospheric pressure one-fifth that of Terra? Exactly.
Even Sarah and I were born on Lunar Seven and can't go home, although I haven't sheltered my child from Terra as she has with her children.
Her children? I thought you and Sarah were No.
You see, the oldest girl is my daughter.
The rest are hers.
My husband was a farmer before he was killed.
I would never marry a technocrat.
Can we see some pictures of Terra? - I said no.
- Oh - Please, it's so beautiful.
- Sarah! Every night when Hector and your father and myself finished building this house, your father would take us inside and show us a song and a dance that they used to do at the Royal Theatre on Terra.
Now, if we were to perform that for you, with the music only and no picture, would that be all right? - I suppose so.
- Ah.
Ladies and gentlemen, Hector and I will now perform the selfsame dance that was performed at the Royal Theatre on Terra or a reasonable facsimile.
Come on.
Sit down.
OKright.
° We're farmland inspectors, we're homestead protectors ° We see that things run here much betterer ° Betterer! ° If you think he looks bunk it's because he is junk ° I'm made up from spare parts and et cetera ° He's old and he's crusty, his brain is so rusty ° He's often been caught in the rain ° Though my voice is quite squeaky and he calls my joints creaky ° I love the dear lad just the same ° OK.
Time for bed.
- Time for bed.
- Do we have to? Promise to go to bed if I tell you a story first? Yeah! Let me tell you about the time I was surrounded by Cylons.
What's a Cylon? Cylons behind me No question, all three ships have landed on Paradeen.
Commandant! The homing signal from Paradeen has stopped.
How long will it take a communiqué to reach Terra? At least two months, sir.
And if we use the Lunar Seven relay station? I'm afraid it was knocked out by sabotage.
Those incompetents on Destroyer Two! Can't they maintain order on a defunct planet? It's not going to happen on Paradeen.
Hector, Vector, thank you.
Not just for the song and the dance, but for preparing this home for us.
And most importantly, destroying that homing device so we can live here safely.
Oh, my goodness.
In all the excitement, we let you down.
What? We didn't get a chance to destroy the homing device as you ordered.
Oh, Vector.
That could very well be the end of us all.
If there are Destroyers in our area, they could home in on us.
I waited at the control centre for hours but you never came.
Oh, Vector.
Our ship was delayed by these people.
Hector, I want you to go straight to the control centre and destroy that homing device! Hold it.
You can't do that.
We saw you safely to your destination, now you must help us find Lunar Seven.
Lunar Seven? Is he out of his mind? He must be.
Who would want to go there? Hector, carry out Master Michael's order.
Destroy the homing device.
Thanks for nothing.
You just traded six lives for 6,000.
Apollo, we should explain the facts of life to one another.
Whatever harm you think I've done your people, you're wrong.
It would be dangerous on Terra or Lunar Seven.
The sooner you warn your people about the Eastern Alliance the better.
Would you explain this Eastern Alliance? It's time we told each other everything, see where we go from there.
Terra was a planet of many nations.
But finally it came down to two sides - East and West.
A struggle for food and resources and the military might to take whatever they wanted.
- And the West lost? - No, the war continues.
But the East has been destroying our satellite planets.
The planets that we've established to feed our people.
Estimated time of arrival on Paradeen? In six hours but at this rate we are burning fuel so rapidly Thank you.
Continue at this rate until further notice.
How are you, sweetheart? - Good morning.
- Morning.
You're up early.
The children were anxious to get outside.
I thought I'd keep them quiet so you two could rest.
Well, I believe it's going to take more than rest.
You see, her father was all Sarah had.
He was quite a man.
As you can see from what he's built.
- It's beautiful here.
- Yes.
But what kind of life is it going to be for the children? Sarah and I here alone on a strange planet.
- How will we survive alone? - Don't forget Hector and Vector.
It seems they did most of this themselves.
It's incredible.
- There's a lot worth living for here.
- Let's hope so.
- Where's your friends? - Out exploring the surrounding area.
There's a lot to learn about this place and about the culture on Terra that built it.
Apollo, forget about Terra.
I told you, it's no place to take your people.
Michael, in our language Terra's a word sometimes used by an ancient race to refer to Earth.
Have you ever heard Terra called Earth? Yes, but it's also a term used to refer to the soil, other planets with similar environments.
It's a common belief with us that we all stem from the same tree.
- Good morning.
- May I speak with you alone? - Excuse me.
- Certainly.
I want you to stay on with us.
I'd like to.
But my people are searching for Earth.
It could mean the difference between life and death for us.
Apollo, you can't leave me alone here.
You have Michael and the children.
It's Michael I don't want to be left alone with.
I don't love him.
We were forced together out of necessity.
My father needed help hiding us on Lunar Seven while I made preparations here.
In return, he was going to make room for Michael and his daughter.
Well, it sounds as if Michael has lived up to his end of the bargain.
The bargain wasn't my idea.
I don't know what my father had in mind.
But there's only one house.
There, you see? You don't even have a place for me.
I might be willing to make certain allowances.
You don't even know me.
I could be the worst scavenger in the universe, or a spy, or a saboteur, who knows? I know you well enough to know I like you.
And I like you.
But, Sarah, I Even if it weren't for the mission, I don't I don't love you.
At least not yet.
But in time you could.
I've seen the way you've looked at me.
If you just give me half a chance What are we talking about? This is impossible.
I gotta leave here and soon.
And if you aren't able to? What's that supposed to mean? You don't know about the Alliance.
You don't know what you're heading into and how well off you could be here, with me.
Apollo! - You won't believe it.
We're in business! - Starbuck.
Sit down.
Take it easy.
Take it easy.
Nice and slow.
You're forgetting how thin the air is.
Cassie, some air! I saw this whole city, Apollo.
I mean big, modern.
It's beautiful.
Did everybody who landed on Lunar Seven also have delusions? - Not like this.
- Wait, delusions? What delusions? Get that felgercarb out of my face.
No, he's not having any delusions.
- About the city, I mean.
- A huge city here? You said this was just a remote farming community.
I don't know.
Look, you have to understand.
We've been under an oppressive government.
Information from one outpost to the other is always discouraged.
The less people knew, the less they were discontent.
It's really very simple.
The people were destroyed.
The buildings weren't.
They're as good as new.
Neutron or bacterial weaponry? Nice.
Destroy the food producers and leave the hardware for after they win the war.
Then they are planning to come back.
Who says they'll win? You've never seen a battlestar before.
Starbuck, you'd have to be pretty powerful to beat the Alliance.
We're not so bad.
So far you haven't got anything as advanced as our stuff.
But we can't help them unless we get some tangible information back to the fleet.
This city, if it was left intact, must have records, things we could use to plot this area of the universe.
Sarah, where are you going? This is good news! I don't understand women.
Apollo, what did she say to you? I, uhI think she's just having a hard time making the adjustment.
See how much trouble I spared you, not making a woman for you? - You said you didn't have the parts.
- We'll talk later.
I believe Apollo would like to explore the city.
Starbuck, I want you to go back with Hector and find a library or a scientific centre that we can use to find Lunar Seven.
- What are you gonna do? - Go back to the ships and warn Galactica about this Alliance.
If there's Destroyers here, they'd better know.
Right.
Come on, Hector.
You want to come too? - I'm dying to.
- No.
- Why? - I need you.
I'll explain later.
- Shove off.
- Now, just one minute Oh! Vector, I want to show you something.
You see that barrel? Oh! Good heavens! No more stopping us from getting all the information we need - to save our people, OK? - Erm, Master Michael? It's all right, Vector.
After what you told me, I won't interfere with you or your people any more.
- I don't have the right.
- Thank you.
- All right, take off.
- Hit it, Hector.
No, no, no, drive.
- Once around the planet.
- OK.
Vector, I want you to take Apollo to his flying machine.
Master Michael, whatever you say.
- Can I go with you? - And me! - And me and Walker? - Kids, kids It's their new home.
It was too dark to see last night.
- Jump on the hovercraft.
- Yes! I feel about as useful as a meteor storm.
What's going on? I want you to stay close to Michael.
- You don't trust him? - I'll explain it later.
Just spend a lot of time with him.
Really get close.
- If you think it's important.
- Believe me, it's important.
All right, now, hold on tight.
OK, ready.
All right, kids, settle down.
- Have fun, kids.
- Hang on.
- Apollo's quite a guy.
- Uh-huh.
- Are you two, er? - Oh, no.
I'm completely available.
Come to think of it, I've got an excuse to spend a little bit of time with you.
- Oh? What's that? - I'm a medical technician.
I want to hear everything you know about Terra's medical technology.
Well, I'll be happy to tell you all I can.
But let's not do it up at the house.
Sarah goes crazy when she hears scientific talk.
Why don't we talk in the barn while I feed the animals? OK.
It was beautiful, once upon a time.
- Still is.
- With all the children laughing and playing.
The music, the science It was as fine as any city on Terra.
So I'm told.
I don't believe this.
The waste of it all.
Why can't man get along with man? That, Hector, is the question.
I know.
I have asked it many times.
My father has tried to explain it to me but I guess I am a little slow.
You two make quite a pair, you and your father.
For androids patterned in man's image, I'm not so sure you didn't get the best end of the deal.
I consider that a compliment.
- I've never understood it.
- What, Starbuck? We can provide just about everything to give our brothers a good life.
You humans are very resourceful.
I believe you can do anything you set out to do, in all the stars.
Then why don't we? You ask me? On Terra, I doubt if I'd be given a licence to operate.
I am just a collage ofspare parts.
Well, I could use a few just like you.
What would you do with us? Oh, wellI don't know.
- Probably put you on the Council of the 12.
- Ah.
Start a world that reacts to logic instead of passion, greed, jealousy.
- That makes sense.
- Yeah.
Well, you can disregard it.
Whatever's logical and in the interest of all mankind, we'll do exactly the opposite.
- Listen, Vector - Hector.
Oh, sorry.
Is there anyplace else that we haven't looked yet? - Not that you could get to.
- What do you mean by that? There were archives - vaults where special data was stored.
That's what we want.
Let's go! No, it's deep beneath the city.
The air - I believe the death and decay has rendered it unbreathable.
We came to find records.
Now, let's go.
Wait, Starbuck! You must take it slow.
Hector! - We have the planet Paradeen on visual.
- Very good.
- Land away from the three ships here.
- Yes, sir.
- There's somebody down at our ships.
- The Morelands.
They live over the hill.
I thought this planet was deserted.
Oh no, there are still a few farmers left who lived beyond the city when the Eastern Alliance destroyed Paradeen.
They don't live well but they're alive.
They shouldn't be fooling with our ships.
Let's go.
Mr Moreland, look here.
Have you ever seen the likes? There's no question about it, the Alliance are back.
- What do we do now? - It may be too late to do anything.
Vector, where'd you learn to drive? Kids, get down out of sight in case there's trouble.
- You the Morelands? - Well, who wants to know? I mean you no harm but I'd like you to climb down off that ship.
- You don't look like the Alliance.
- I'm not.
Those duds don't look West-like.
What's left? - They're from Galac - We're from Lunar Seven.
We escaped to bring a family here to Paradeen.
How'd you get by the federal garrison there? It has been eliminated.
The Eastern Alliance now patrols this area with their Destroyers.
I know all about Destroyers.
They can spot the flight of a gnat across a million star miles.
Or unwelcome settlers on a forbidden outpost.
Why don't we tell them to go, Josh? For their own good.
My wife is telling you the truth.
You'd better go before you bring them here.
These people have no place else to go.
Their father came to prepare a place for his children.
Children? Not here? My God, no.
Doyle, take her to the wagon.
I don't know who you are but if you're not gone by nightfall, you'll be sorry you ever set foot on this soil.
Are all your neighbours like that? You can't blame them for being terrified.
The Alliance could return.
Children, don't do that now.
Children, don't! Be careful! Todd, don't you touch anything! Already been touched.
- What do you mean? - It's broken into a million bits.
What? We're finished.
Apollo, are you all right? - Our ships have been destroyed.
- Has the Alliance landed? No, just a crude job of shattering all our instruments.
- Your neighbour the Morelands.
- I didn't know we had neighbours.
We spotted them as we pulled up, had a few heated words.
We'll have to deal with them for bashing our ships around.
- How do you know they did it? - They were on the ships.
- Who else could have done it? - Getting even won't help.
If the ships can't fly, we're stuck.
But if they'd do that, who knows what they'll do to Sarah and Michael and the children? We have to tell them not to harm these people.
"These people" include you now if your ships are damaged beyond repair.
I don't know for sure.
Maybe we can salvage parts, get a communicator working.
Where's Starbuck? - Hector, where's Starbuck? - There's been a dreadful mistake.
- What are you talking about? - The archives.
Hector, you didn't take Starbuck down there? These people have barely enough oxygen to survive and in those subterranean tunnels he wouldn't last for 15 minutes! - He didn't.
- You left him in there? Why didn't you carry him out? Never mind that.
Just take us to him.
Starbuck wouldn't leave.
He sent me for the portable oxygen.
I couldn't find my way back to him.
There's a maze down there.
I grew more and more confused.
Finally, I found an exit.
- I went for help.
- You did right.
- For an imbecile.
- You made me.
- Don't remind me.
- Stop bickering and let's go.
- Cassie, get the other oxygen.
- What's the matter? - Starbuck got lost and needs oxygen.
- I'm going with you.
No.
Watch over Sarah and the children.
No telling when those Morelands may come.
They made some bad threats.
Don't worry about the Morelands.
They didn't damage your ships.
- What? - I did it.
Sarah, what in the name of God for? I wanted Apollo to stay.
I thought he could survive here.
Michael, I've been terrified of committing myself to you and to others.
Everybody I've ever loved has been killed one by one.
My father, my mother, my husband.
- I'm sorry.
- Sarah You had absolutely no right to try to force somebody to stay here.
Especially Apollo.
If it weren't for this man, we'd all be dead! I have five times the breathing capacity you do on this planet.
I'm going.
At least she told the truth.
All stations, scan for life forms.
In the city, sir? In the hinterlands.
Everyone in the city was destroyed.
The survivors fear that the invisible death that annihilated them lingers on.
They hide like animals and eke out their miserable existence on farms, utilising practically worthless soil.
Two life form clusters reporting.
- Very good.
Where are they? - Not far apart.
Three forms here.
Five in this area.
Three ships, five people.
That's where we begin the search.
There's the first set of chambers.
- Anything look familiar, Hector? - They all look familiar.
Oh, swell.
We'll have to split up.
Cassie, Michael and Hector go that way.
You have your breathing tanks and communicator? We'll check in every few centons.
Apollo, what is a centon? Mom, it took guts to tell them what you did.
Thank you, baby.
Where are you going? We're going to put the blankets on the horses, if that's all right with you.
Mom, can Baby Walker come down to help with us too? I don't think so.
Walker's got to go to bed.
When you come back we'll put on that song.
- The one my father loved.
- Yeah! And we'll see how the Royal Dancers really did it on Terra.
- Yeah! - That's great.
- Thanks, Mom.
- Come on, let's go.
What's that noise? All ship's personnel, stand by to land.
- Look, there are strange men with guns.
- Mama! We should help but we're not big enough.
It's too far to the city.
Vector said the neighbours' house was over the hill.
- Let's sneak out the back way.
- Come on.
You are from Lunar Seven.
Your presence presents no threat to our Alliance.
Then what do you want? To find out about the ships that accompanied you.
- I don't know anything about them.
- Please.
You have children to protect.
Let us not waste time on deception.
I'm sure you wish no harm to come to them.
Children, run! Check outside for the children.
Starbuck? Starbuck? - Where's Starbuck? This is a maze.
- Cassie, anything? Nothing so far, Apollo.
These chambers are endless.
Yes, indeed they are.
There's only one person alive who knows his way around.
Why didn't you say so? Who is he? He used to be custodian down here.
You met him today.
His name is Doyle.
He's hired out to the Morelands.
- Great.
- You're right.
I don't think he'd be too sympathetic to our cause.
Starbuck! Starbu - Apollo? - Yeah, Cassie.
We're hearing a tapping.
It seems to be coming from all directions.
The echo is terrible in here.
Stay where you are.
We'll backtrack towards you.
The tapping's growing fainter but there seem to be two directions to go.
If you keep going, we'll all get lost.
Let us find you.
Then we can divide again.
OK, we'll wait for you.
Well, at least it's something.
Are you all right? I'm just trying to conserve air.
- You don't know how lucky you are.
- Well, I may not suffocate, but I could rust myself to death.
We may all get lost down here.
These chambers go on forever and ever and ever! You're a lot of laughs.
Hector! Hector.
Please don't shut us out.
The Eastern people will kill our parents! What's going on here? You better leave.
If I ever see you here again Please, please.
Please don't send them away.
Aggie, what are you saying? You know that you can't take it.
Please, go back in the house.
This house has been without children for too long.
We can't bring our own back and we can't turn these poor little things out into the night.
Come on.
Starbuck.
Oxygen! We're in time.
His vitals are responding.
If it takes us as long to get out as it did to get in It took us one hour to get in.
It should take us one hour to get out - or more.
If we don't get out of here quick Apollo! - Stand back or I'll fire! - We're here to help.
- How'd you know we were here? - The children.
They also told us that the enforcers from the Eastern Alliance are on Paradeen.
- They have your missus.
- What? - Do you know a fast way out? - It'll take 10 minutes.
Come on, they need help.
Hurry up, let's go! The flame is intoxicating, isn't it? We have our sides - yours, mine.
I mean your children no harm but you would serve them better if you'd tell me where everyone is.
They will have to return sooner or later.
How many children did you kill when you bombed this planet? I did not bomb this planet.
I understand every child was in the city in school when the end came.
- Not a single child left alive.
- Yes.
- Well, it is war, isn't it? - Yes, it is.
And you will lose.
See what that noise is about.
Uh-uh-uh - Our children, are they all right? - They're fine.
- They're with Mrs Moreland.
- Oh, thank God.
- You said "our children"? - Did I? Thanks for all you've done.
If you're ever in the neighbourhood Well, maybe someday.
We'll make sure these guys don't bother you any more.
One small victory does not win a war.
But have we got a surprise for you when we get you to our home.
Yeah.
You might even want to switch sides.
We are the most advanced military force in the galaxy.
Oh, I believe it.
That's what's so encouraging.
Very good.
- Goodbye, thank you.
- You're welcome.
Well, we'll make a life of our own in this valley now.
And by golly, we and some neighbours you haven't met are really gonna help.
- Thank you.
- Don't forget us.
Yes, as we used to say on Terra, "The beginning of a new day is the beginning of a new life.
" About two degrees right here.
- Wouldn't you say, Apollo? - Sounds about right.
Commandant, we're heading toward something bigger than anything I've seen.
My Godwhat is it? It's called a battlestar.
Now, then, er you were telling us about this invincible Alliance of yours? 'Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, 'the last battlestar, Galactica, 'leads a ragtag fugitive fleet 'on a lonely quest 'a shining planet' 'known as Earth.
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