Battlestar Galactica s04e05 Episode Script

(DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) SAM: Previously on Battlestar Galactica.
ADAMA: Helo hand-picked a crew for you.
I'm giving you a ship.
HELO: We liberated the Demetrius.
It's a sewage recycling ship.
Now go.
Find a way to Earth.
PIKE: I'm telling you guys, this thing is a setup anyway.
I mean, you think that the old man just gave her the ship and then cut her loose? Hey, that's enough of that crap.
BOOMER: The Resurrection ship didn't make the jump.
Now Cavil's Baseships are breaking formation, taking positions around our periphery.
They're going to attack.
BOOMER: They've taken out our FTL! No Resurrection ship.
They're really trying to kill us.
Stay the frak away from me! I heard you.
You're Cylons! A bunch of frakking skin jobs.
(ALARM RINGING) TORY: You think Cally killed herself because of you, don't you? TYROL: She thought we were having an affair.
But we weren't.
No, that's right.
I'm not a cheater.
I'm a Cylon.
I'm not a priest.
But that doesn't matter, you see.
Something in the universe loves me.
God only loves that which is perfect, and he loves you.
He loves you because you are perfect just as you are.
Captain.
Captain! I'm glad you're here.
I might have found something.
Before that, we need to talk about making our rendezvous with the Fleet.
Later.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Come on.
Here.
What do you think? Well, it's hard to say.
Spectroscopics are promising.
But according to this, we already did two long-range recons of that grid.
Both no joy.
Third time's a charm maybe.
All right, I'll have Sharon prep to go as soon as Anders gets back from his scout.
Hey.
What about you? You been getting any sleep? I don't know.
Not much.
It was so clear when I first got back.
If I could If I just focus, I know that I can find that sound again.
I gotta go see the CAP off.
We'll talk when I get back.
Hold up.
I think I'll go with you on this one.
You haven't flown a CAP since we left the Fleet.
I think I'll go with you on this one.
I need you to tell me that all this somehow makes sense.
This was my husband, James.
My two children, Danya and Reece.
They were on Picon when the Cylons attacked.
What do you feel when you look at this photograph? I feel rage.
Against the Cylon.
Not just the machines, anyone involved.
The engineers who designed them.
The corporations.
The politicians who provoked this war and then did nothing to protect us.
And most of all, the Gods.
The Gods? They stood by and let it all happen.
Yes, I know.
I know.
I am so sorry, Phoebe.
Sit with us.
Unfortunately, the Gods cannot be blamed for not coming to your aid.
It's not because they weren't listening.
It's because they don't exist.
The Gods we've been praying to for thousands of years do not exist.
They can't help you, because they are not real.
We have been pandering to our own ignorance for far too long.
BALTAR: (ON RADIO) Now, on my own journey, I've been wronged, persecuted.
I prayed to the Gods on my knees, begging them for mercy, tortured.
I received nothing in (SIGHS) (NICHOLAS CRIES) BALTAR: I could have lived in that abyss of bitterness, but that will destroy you like nothing else.
But I chose to forgive.
And most importantly, I began with myself.
ATHENA: "Third time's the charm"? And you just went along with it? (SIGHS) It's called following orders, Lieutenant.
It's called dragging our feet.
Starbuck's pushing our go-back deadline to the last second, 'cause she's afraid of what Adama's gonna say when he realizes her vision was just a pipe dream.
You've got to be kidding me.
MATHIAS: She's taking a Viper out now? SEELIX: She can't be serious.
PIKE: Well, maybe she could do a little finger painting HELO: And I've heard enough bitching and moaning to last a lifetime.
Two more days and we're back with the Fleet, okay? Until then, everyone just shut up and do your jobs.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Starbuck, Hotdog.
Didn't catch that.
What are your orders? Hotdog, Demetrius.
You know the drill.
Keep your eyes open and stick close to Starbuck's wing.
I know you're out here somewhere.
STARBUCK: Come on.
(BEEPING) Starbuck, dradis contact.
Demetrius, we've got an inbound.
One bogey bearing carom 1-4-9er.
Roger that.
Call action stations.
Spool up the FTL for emergency jump.
Action stations, action stations.
Set condition one throughout the ship.
This is not a drill.
Repeat, action stations, action stations.
This is not a drill.
Son of a bitch, I knew it.
HOTDOG: Demetrius, Hotdog.
I've got visual.
Cylon Heavy Raider.
Starbuck, Demetrius.
Report.
Report! HOTDOG: Demetrius, I'm seeing blast damage all over this thing.
Starbuck, what are your orders? Come on.
Talk to me, shoot me, do something.
HOTDOG: Starbuck, what are your orders? Frak.
LEOBEN: Kara.
I'm alone.
It's not an attack.
I knew I'd find you.
Knew you'd be out here searching.
Leoben? LEOBEN: I'm here for you, to offer a truce between Cylon and human.
And a chance for you to complete your journey.
(THEME MUSIC) Heavy Raider's docked at the aft airlock.
The animal part that controls it looks dead.
We only found the one Leoben onboard.
Starbuck is still taking one hell of a chance.
If he wanted to kill us, we'd all be dead by now.
Just means he wants something else.
LEOBEN: Kara.
Thank you for this.
We were praying for a miracle.
It wasn't a miracle.
It's like I knew you were out there.
I'm not picking up any gamma emissions, sir.
Raider's packing conventional weaponry only.
No nukes.
All right.
Keep checking for tracking devices, anything that might give up our position.
Don't look at me like that.
I'm sorry, but the difference between the way you were on New Caprica and now I'm the same person.
I have eyes.
I can see.
God has taken your hand and purged you of the questions, the doubt.
Your journey can finally begin, but there isn't much time.
The others, the ones I left behind, they need your help.
But not as much as you need theirs.
Why? Your crew, they don't trust you.
I need you to tell me why I'm here.
Captain, we should move the prisoner.
A blue planet surrounded by clouds.
You okay? Stop! (PANTING) The Hybrid.
When she first described it to me, how beautiful it was, I cried.
You need to go to her, Kara.
The Hybrid, she'll tell you things, amazing things.
We're done here.
Get him out of here.
Wait! Take him to my quarters.
Just do it! MAN: Let's go.
Come on.
It may never make any sense.
Hangar deck crew tells me you've been obsessing over this place, going over the logs, replaying the accident again and again.
Accident.
What is it? I spoke to Cottle.
Cally was on moxopan and cosapine, antidepressants.
How did she go from antidepressants to suicide? Well, she was emotionally disturbed.
She would've left me.
She never would've left Nicky behind.
So what do you think then? Someone killed her? Galen, you have to let it go.
No, I gotta figure out what happened.
What if she knew? How would she have known? Maybe she sensed it.
I mean, she was your wife.
You've been different since the nebula.
Maybe she was afraid of you.
Maybe it was God's will.
We don't know why these things happen.
But God does.
And he has a plan for us.
For whatever reason, her death, our awakening, you gotta trust that it's all for the best.
Why are you here? Because we are in this together.
And I am here for you, Galen.
I know exactly where you are right now.
I have been there.
Until Gaius helped me realize that What? Whatever has gone before, whatever I have done, it doesn't matter.
We can still change.
You spend way too much time with Baltar.
SAM: So I guess I missed all the excitement, huh? So what's the deal? This Leoben, has he said anything? Don't know.
Starbuck ordered the guards to wait outside, lose the cuffs.
Said she didn't want to be disturbed.
Guess I'll talk to her.
Yeah, why don't you do that? Hey.
Hey, hey, hey, hey! Get the hell away from her.
Sam, what the hell Sam, stop it! What is wrong with you, Kara? Stop it! SAM: Marines, in here now! I can see why she's fond of you.
STARBUCK: Leave him alone.
You know what we have to do.
Just remember there isn't much time.
Get him the frak out of here! Cuff him and lock him in storage! What is going on with you? Kara! He can help us.
The Cylons, they understand about Earth.
And you believe him? After everything he's done to you? Kara, he kept you locked up for months on New Caprica.
The frakking mind games.
I swear to Gods, this is not a dream.
It's real.
(GROANS) I'm glad you're here.
You and Kara, did you get things worked out? Because you should.
You weren't meant to be enemies.
No.
That'd be you and me.
(GROANS) What do you want from Kara? (PANTING) The same thing I've always wanted.
For her to understand her destiny.
That's not good enough.
LEOBEN: It's good enough for her.
What is the most basic article of faith? That this is not all that we are.
(CHUCKLING) C- Bucks rule.
What did you just say? Forward guard, right? I saw a couple of games.
You were good.
Yet after all the celebrity and acclaim, what were you? Just another face selling magazines, another piece of scoreboard trivia.
You always knew you were destined for more.
You were just waiting for your singular moment of clarity.
Well, maybe I just found it.
You kill me, Kara's dream dies with me.
I don't think so.
I think you download into another Leoben body and you spew more lies.
No one's coming back.
We were lured out of resurrection range.
Ship was attacked.
We survived.
The Baseship was damaged.
We were set adrift.
What are you talking about? Who attacked you? War has broken out between the Cylon.
Battle lines have been drawn between those who embrace their nature and those who fear it.
Good.
You can blow yourselves to hell for all I care.
That's one way, that's one way.
There's another.
An alliance.
Allow our paths to converge.
You save us from our savage brothers, and our old one, the Hybrid, will show Kara the righteous path.
And together, they'll lead us to the promised land.
Together, we will find Earth.
(DOOR CLOSES) He said his Baseship was attacked, that they were ambushed by their own kind.
So now the Cylons want us to rescue them.
That's novel.
Well, he's proposing an alliance between us and his damaged Baseship.
How's that supposed to work? Yeah, right.
Are we supposed to let them piggyback on our nav and FTL systems and help them jump out of harm's way? They'll join forces with the Fleet.
Right.
If it's true.
What the frak? Are you actually thinking about doing this? XO, listen.
Bringing Leoben on board, that was questionable at best.
But jumping back to his Baseship? It's suicide.
Nothing's been decided.
And what? You trust Starbuck to make the right decision? 'Cause she's out of control.
SAM: Well, what are you saying? We are running on fumes, Anders.
In two days, we are gonna be overdue for our rendezvous with the Fleet.
We gotta do something before she takes us all down with her.
Are you talking mutiny? 'Cause that's sure what it sounds like.
You want to tear this ship apart, then keep riling up the crew making your crazy Starbuck cracks.
Otherwise, I suggest you both shut the frak up.
Starbuck is leading us into a trap.
Cylons are gonna capture the freighter.
They're gonna have nav data leading straight back to the Fleet.
STARBUCK: Then we better keep that from happening.
Order the CAP back and lock down the ship.
As soon as we can work through the jump coordinates from Leoben's Raider, we go.
It's a chance to find Earth! I intend to take it.
(LAUGHING) (SIGHS) Not that I particularly care, but since I haven't been arrested recently or beaten up, can I Can I surmise that the President has not been apprised of my pirate broadcasts? (SIGHS) Actually, I told her all about them.
I even suggested she speak to the Admiral.
(CHUCKLING) Really? I guess you'll have to do something about that.
Or not.
Even Roslin and Adama must realize the movement's taken on a life of its own.
It's gonna take them more than bashing in a few heads to stop this.
The truth is you're not worth another confrontation in the Quorum.
You may be drawing more bodies to your crusade, but they're from the fringes.
No one of consequence.
Get some clothes on.
They're waiting for you.
Think we have enough? It doesn't matter.
They're not coming to be fed.
They're coming to hear Dr.
Baltar's word and learn from it, just like we did.
The past is written, impossible to change.
Why are so many of us living in the past, living with the shame of what we have done, when we could live in awe of what we might do? What we might do.
What will we do? Spiral endlessly through the heavens until humanity itself comes to a close? Or do we look inward and find that strength within? Can you believe these people are actually buying into Baltar's crap? We need to talk.
I don't have anything to say to you.
Well, then you can listen.
Come with me.
I've been cutting you some slack because of Cally, but that's over.
You gotta pull yourself together now.
Suck it up.
Just like you, huh? Now what is that supposed to mean? I hear you've been spending some time in the lockup with the Six.
Remember when this all started? You said nothing would change you from the man you want to be.
Well, how about it, Colonel? You still the same old Saul Tigh? Anything I've done I can live with.
Well, that's the difference between you and me.
I can't.
Tory's got it in her head that we can be the salvation of the human race.
All I know is if there is a God, he's laughing his ass off.
EVA is almost complete, Captain.
MATHIAS: Demetrius, Mathias.
I've finished inspection of the aft section.
She's a big sucker.
Okay, wrap it up, Sarge.
Get back to the nest ASAP.
MATHIAS: Roger that, Athena.
I was getting bored with the view anyhow.
(SIGHS) Hold up.
Got a leak.
Some kind of gas venting through a crack in the hull.
(RATTLING) Something's happening.
(GASPING) (RUMBLING) Mathias, report.
Mathias, report! (SIGHS) (PEOPLE CHATTERING) MAN 1: He's coming.
MAN 2: There he is.
(ALL CHEERING) Please.
Please don't clap.
What are you all doing here? (ALL LAUGHING) The reason that we are all here is 'cause the old ways have failed us.
It doesn't matter if you're a believer or a nonbeliever.
It certainly makes no difference to me.
You are all welcome.
Mr.
Tyrol.
Mr.
Tyrol.
I know that we have had our differences, but I am begging you right now to set those aside.
Come down here and take my hand.
If not for yourself, then for your wife.
For Cally.
She would've wanted this.
TYROL: Cally wasn't like me.
She forgave you for New Caprica.
Even read your bogus manifesto, but not me.
You may have your sheep fooled.
They may be buying into your message of forgiveness, but let me tell you, there are some sins that even your imaginary God can never forgive.
I have not been talking about an imaginary God.
I am asking you to take my hand.
Take my hand, Mr.
Tyrol.
For Cally.
It's what she would've wanted.
(WOMEN GASPING) (SCREAMING) Get him off! BALTAR: Leave him! Leave him! (PANTING) You didn't know her! (GRUNTING) (PANTING) (SCREAMS) (GROANS) (PANTING) I heard an explosion.
Are you all right? What'd you do? Blow the tylium stores? That's the Kara I used to know.
The Raider's in pieces, you mother-frakker! Sgt.
Mathias is dead.
Not that you give a damn! You can't think that I had anything to do with that.
I wasn't even on the deck.
I was too busy believing you instead of watching out for my crew.
My ship was under fire.
The reactor could've been damaged.
It was a setup.
Say it! Hit me.
Hit me again.
You used me to get close to the ship.
How many times did you kill me on New Caprica? Don't stop now.
Frak you.
Go on, do it.
I won't come back this time, I promise.
Resurrection ship's well out of range.
Go on, do it.
Do it! (GRUNTS) (PANTING) It doesn't help, does it? Nothing feels quite like it did before.
Does it? What are you doing to me? All of your life, you forced back the truth by lashing out at everyone around you.
Anesthetizing yourself with ambrosia and empty affairs.
But you've lost the taste for those petty things.
I'm the same person.
No.
There's a void, an emptiness that can only be filled by taking the next step on your journey.
What happened to me the two months I was missing? I don't know.
The mandala, the paintings, my mother.
It had to mean something.
You have to make peace with your past.
Why? Because that part of you is gone.
I told you when I first came aboard this ship that you had changed.
I look at you now.
I don't see Kara Thrace.
I see an angel blazing with the light of God, an angel eager to lead her people home.
This is bad.
This is really bad.
She can't explain this one away.
So you think she's a Cylon now? Starbuck's racked up more kills than any pilot in the Fleet.
Yeah, Starbuck maybe.
Okay, but who the hell knows who got off that Viper two months ago? I'm not really very good at any of this.
We've all come to remember Sgt.
Erin Mathias, to grieve for our loss, to honor her.
Mathias is dead because of me.
We've all heard the words, the prayers, but I don't know what any of it means anymore.
We want to believe that she died for something.
But in this war, people die and it is just stupid.
It's an accident.
There's no nobility to it.
There's nothing we can grab onto that's gonna make it any easier.
They're just gone.
I have to live with that.
You know, I know that this has been a difficult mission and maybe I haven't Captain, we've downloaded the rendezvous coordinates to the FTL.
We're ready to jump back to the Fleet on your order.
We're not going back to the Fleet.
What the hell are you talking about? We came here to complete a mission, and that Baseship has something to do with it.
I know it.
No.
Capt.
Agathon.
Lock down the ship.
Prepare to jump.
No.
You know what? Frak her and frak her little pet Cylon, okay? Pike! Pike! The Baseship was never part of the mission.
Okay, one of us is dead now.
One of us is dead, and if we don't leave right now we're all going to die, all right? Let it go Just let it go, Pike! Pike, you stand down! PIKE: If I don't do anything, we're all gonna die! Get out of my way.
You have your orders, Pike.
Now back off! You better choose which side you're on, Captain.
Walk away.
Walk away, and this doesn't go any further! Yeah, you'd be the one to protect that Cylon thing, right? (GRUNTING) Gaius, I just don't understand what you're trying to accomplish.
I mean, this man is psychotic.
My message is for everyone, especially the ones who don't want to listen.
I just don't think it's safe.
Five minutes, that's all.
(KNOCKING) Mr.
Tyrol.
JEANNE: Gaius, I really don't think There's nothing to be afraid of.
Be careful.
Look, Chief, I I'm here to ask for your forgiveness about my presumption earlier.
You were right, you know.
I hardly knew your wife.
I'm sorry.
Would you mind if I just I know it's hard to make sense of things sometimes.
In my own life In my own life, I joined the Fleet as a scientist, as a skeptic, as supposedly a man of reason.
Only to have fate turn that all on its head.
But I understand now that there is a purpose to it.
We change.
We evolve.
Maybe we even learn something along the way.
I have committed unconscionable crimes, and I have been offered one last chance at redemption, because I chose to accept my fate, not fight it anymore.
I'm so sorry for your loss, Chief.
She was a very beautiful woman, your wife.
I'm also told quite spiritual.
You know, I don't expect you to believe me, but I would've very much have liked to know her better.
(BALTAR SIGHS) BALTAR: Thank you.
GAETA: Action stations, action stations.
Set condition one throughout the ship.
Are you really gonna do this? I don't have any choice.
Yes, you do.
FTL's spooled, Captain.
Good.
Set the clock.
Captain.
Captain, I'm asking you to reconsider.
There's not enough time.
We don't go now, we lose our shot.
GAETA: That's assuming we believe the Cylon.
That's assuming we believe that Leoben's coordinates are right.
We don't jump into a nest of Baseships or the middle of a star Galactica's standing orders are clear.
If we miss the rendezvous, Adama will assume we're dead or captured.
They will leave us.
No.
Not Adama.
Listen to me, we can jump back to Galactica.
Okay, if the Admiral's for it, we can re-supply, send out an armed patrol.
Do not do this, Helo.
I can't allow you to risk the lives of this ship's crew.
When the Admiral put me in command, he told me to trust my instincts, find the next marker, see if it checks out, lead the people from the Fleet home.
That is what I intend to do.
Now, prepare to jump! I'm sorry, sir, but I cannot obey that order.
Then you are relieved, Captain.
Mr.
Gaeta, you are now the new XO.
Prepare to jump on my mark.
No, sir.
Okay, everybody needs to think about what they're doing here.
They have thought about it, Sam.
They all have.
It's a mutiny.
Capt.
Thrace, as XO of the Demetrius, and acting under Article 10 of the Colonial Military Code, I'm hereby relieving you of command.
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