Battlestar Galactica

Episode #112 - "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I"

This document is ©2005, John Larocque. All rights reserved.

The Cylons were created by man. They evolved. They look human. Some are programmed to think they are human. There are many copies. And they have a plan.

Synopsis

Laura is having another test at Cottle's lab. Aboard Colonial One she tells Elosha the cancer has agressively moved into her lymphatic system. "The doctor said I had six months, at the outside." Elosha tells Laura she believes she is the fulfillment of ancient prophecy. "You made a true believer out of me... I know you're the one to lead us to our salvation. You are going to guide us to Earth." "Then we'd better find it soon." Baltar is playing cards with Crashdown and others aboard the Galactica, and looks miserable. Number Six comments, "Never seen you like this, Gaius. It's disappointing, somehow. Common." Kara enters and Crashdown comments that she's back on her feet. Kara and Baltar engage in some verbal play. Baltar asks her to join the game. "Maybe you'd like to sit next to Captain Adama." She says she has other things to do, and Baltar looks crushed as she leaves. At this point, Lee appears to have figured it out.

Laura meets with Baltar aboard Colonial One. "If something should happen to me, it is vital that you comprehend and are failiar with the political structures that are just beginning to into place here." However, Baltar is preoccupied with both Kara, and Number Six's question, "Do you love her?" "My answer is no. No, I don't think I can handle this right now. The intricacies of the bureaucracy... Did you seriously think that I was gonna be able to cope with this kind of responsibility?" Number Six tells him she doesn't believe him. "I don't give a flying frak whether you believe me or not, all right? Because I've had it, I am... I'm tired of being pushed an prodded around like I'm some kind of toy." Both Number Six and Laura say, "Plaything?" "I'm not your plaything! I don't work for you, and, quite frankly, I don't have to sit any more and take this kind of abuse from either of you!" "I love you, Gaius." Laura tells him, "I think perhaps you need a break from this." In the bathroom, Number Six shoves his face into a mirror. "How can you love her, Gaius? You can't lie to me. I know everything you know." She also warns him, "I thought you should know that it's not safe to remain on Galactica."

Sharon's Raptor has jumped close to a new planet. Crashdown reports, "Are you seeing this? Oceans. Continents. Atmosphere reads as Nitrogen oxygen.... This could be it, this could be the big one. This is the little planet that solves all of our problems. Boomer, do you think this is Earth?" "No, it's not Earth. It's more important than that. In the hangar bay, Kara tells Lee she's added a gunnery run to the jump test tomorrow with the captured raider. He then starts interrogating her about Baltar. "Just bored, something to do? So frakkin the Vice President of the Colonies seemed like a great way to waste time?" "You want something from me?" He describes her as a pilot who can't keep her pants on. "Oh, it is just like old times, Kara. Like when you got drunk and couldn't keep your hands off the major from wherever..." Kara then punches him in the mouth and he strikes back. "Why'd you do it Kara? Just tell me why." "'Cause I'm a screwup, Lee. Try and keep that in mind."

Billy reports back on the latest findings on the planet to Laura and Elosha aboard Colonial One. "It appears to have suffered some kind of calamity, but it could actually be inhabitable. The aerial survey shows evidence of at least one city on the surface. It was obviously abandonned a long time ago." "How old are the ruins?" "The initial estimates have it on the order of approximately 2000 years." Elosha comments, "That's around the time that the thirteen tribes tribes first left Kobol." Laura is looking at the photo of the abandonned city, and briefly sees what the buildings actually looked like in their pre-ruins state. "What did you see?" "A domelike structure with six roads leading out of it, like spokes. With something around it like columns, like the forum on Caprica, actually." Elosha pulls out the scriptures and shows her the diagram. "The forum and the opera house in the city of the gods, on Kobol. This planet is Kobol... Birthplace of mankind, where the gods and men lived in paradise, until the exodus of the thirteen tribes." Laura also receives another flash, that of the Arrow of Apollo. Billy asks, "What's going on?" "It's real. The scriptures, the myths, the prophecies. They're all real." "So say we all."

Baltar stops by Sharon's quarters, where moments earlier she was cocking the gun in the mouth. Number Six remarks, "Deep down, she knows she's a Cylon, but her concsious mind won't accept it... Her model is weak, always has been. But in the end, she'll carry out her mission." Sharon tells him, "Sometimes I have these dark thoughts... I'm afraid I'm gonna hurt someone. Feel like I have to be stopped." Six replies, "She can't be stopped, she's a Cylon." Baltar gives her some advice. "Sometimes we must embrace that which opens up for us. Life can be a curse as well as a blessing. You will believe me when I tell you, there are far worse things than death, in this world... Listen to your heart. Embrace that which you know to be the right decision." He kisses her, leaves her quarters, hears her firing her weapon, and continues walking away. Later, Tyrol visits Sharon in sickbay. She has failed in her suicide attempt and there is a bandage over her right cheek. "I think it's hard to imagine that you forgot to check the chamber." "I didn't forget." She tells him, "I wake up in the morning, and I wonder who I am. I wake up and wonder if I'm gonna hurt someone." "Sharon, you need help." "Not from you. You made that clear. I'm on my own." "No, you're not." "Thanks for coming out, Chief. You're dismissed." He salutes her and leaves.

On the Galactica, Adama is speculating that the planet might be Kobol. "I think we should seriously consider permanent settlement on this planet." According to Elosha, "The scriptures tell us that Kobol points the way to Earth." "Organize a ground survey team. I want a complete survey of the ruins immediately." Number Six tells Baltar, "I think you should go. Remember what I said, Gaius. You don't wanna be here when it happens." Laura converses with Adama in his quarters. "So, according to the scriptures, if we have the Arrow of Apollo, we could take it down to Kobol, and we could use it to open the Tomb of Athena, and find our way to Earth." "There is no Earth, you understand that." "It would seem that we were wrong, Commander. Just because you and I don't know where it is, doesn't mean it doesn't exist." "These stories, about Kobol, gods, the Arrow of Apollo, they're just stories, legends, myths. Don't let it blind you to the reality we face." "Reality is, there's a good chance the raider can jump all the way back to Caprica and retreive that arrow and find our way to Earth, the real Earth." "The raider's a military asset, I can't use it to be chasing some mystical arrow. I'm sorry." In CIC, Gaeta explains to Tigh how the Cylon transponders work. "Whenever they're within a certain proximity from one another, they send a short IFF burst. Essentially they're Cylon transponders, programmed to identify themselves to any other Cylon transponder." "Now that we know what they are, I wanna test one in the raider."

The Raptors jump to Kobol and are met by three raiders. One Raptor is destroyed, the other returns to Galactica. The one with Tyrol, Crashdown, Cally, Socinus and Baltar crashes on the planet surface. Raptor 275 returns and they discuss their options in CIC. They lost ten souls aboard Raptor 3. "We need a way to take out the Baseship before we can attempt a rescue." The senior staff assemble in Commander Adama's study, and Tigh tells them, "Starbuck's already working on a plan using the captured raider to get a nuke inside the Baseship." Lee asks, "When did this happen?" "About ten minutes ago. She said she's working on the details and will have a report at 1400." Lee is alarmed that she went directly to Tigh instead of her CAG (Lee). As Laura leaves, Billy asks, "Is there something I should be worried about?" "Why do you ask that?" "That look on your face." "Not now."

In the hangar bay Lee confronts Kara."You do not take your harebrained ideas to the XO without going through me first, do you understand?" "Yes, sir." "At ease. So what's the plan?" "I'm putting an autopilot into the raider. Jump him to the Baseship, engage the autopilot, punch out, get picked up by a Raptor. The raider heads to the Baseship. Picks up the transponder, allows the raider to approach, nuke goes off. Boom, sir." "Might work. Might get you killed." "Would you miss me, sir?" "I need every pilot I have, even the screwups." "Captain, I'm really sorry."

Billy informs Laura of the ramifications of her plan. "If you do this, it could threaten everything we've accomplished. It will probably bring down the government, and you don't have the right to risk that for a drug-induced vision of prophecy." "I am well aware of that. But it would seem that the gods have a different plan." She asks for Lt. Thrace and tells her the plan. "You can't be serious." "All of this has happened before and all of this will happpen again. The Cylon you interrogated, he quoted that bit of scripture. He also said we would find Kobol, and Kobol would show us the way, did he not?" "Yes, he did." "Well, we have found Kobol. Do you believe in the gods, Lieutenant." She answers yes. "If you believe in the gods, then you believe in the cycle of time. That we are all playing our parts in a story that is told again and again and again throughout eternity." "That's the way I was raised. But that doesn't mean that my part of the story is to go off on some crazy-ass mission against orders."

"May I tell you the part in the story I seem to be playing? I am dying. I have terminal breast cancer. I have six months at the outside to live, and I've only told three people, so I would appreciate if you kept it to yourself. The scriptures tell us a dying leader led humanity to the promised land. If you go back to Caprica and bring me the arrow, I will show us the way." "This is crazy." "You keep using that word. It is crazy, perhaps, but it doesn't mean it isn't true, and it may be our only chance to find Earth." "The Old Man is our last chance to find Earth. He knows where it is. He said so. The location is a secret, but he is going to take us there." "Commander Adama has no idea where Earth is. He never did. He made it up, in order to give people hope." "You're lying." "Go ask him." "I will."

Above the hangar deck, Kara asks Adama about Earth? "How much longer 'til we reach Earth?" "It's hard to say." "You got a guess?" "You know I don't like to guess." "We getting closer?" "I'm sure we are. Good luck on the next test." At this point, Kara knows that Laura is telling the truth. When she finally powers up for the autopilot test, she requests a scrambled channel to Adama in CIC. "I believed you, believed in Earth." "What are you doing, Starbuck?" "Bringing home the cat, sir." "I want you to remember one thing. I do not regret anything that I did. Be sure that whatever you're gonna do, you don't regret it later." "I guess we'll find out." She spins the raider's FTL drive and jumps away. Tigh asks, "Where the hell did she go?" "Home."

Ron Moore's Commentary

3/18/2005 -- There's larger ideas in the show that we're starting to explore more and more. This notion of "all this has happened before and all this has happened again." And inherent in that idea is a sense of cycle. All the events that you're watching have played themselves out many times before in various guises with various players. And that things would start to be the same. Certain ideas, concepts, words, language would maybe not be the same in each iteration of the cycle, but might crop up again and again. (source: Colonial Day podcast)

3/26/2005 -- The boxing [scene] was something suggested by Eddie and Jamie, something that they thought of that Adama and son could be doing. And all the boxing is choreographed by them, and how they did it, and all that was something they worked on for quite a while. (source: Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I podcast)

3/26/2005 -- This reveal of her sleeping with Baltar was always in the original draft. I think in the earlier versions you didn't have the sort of fake-out where you think it's Lee. And that also was a suggestion by Michael Rymer to for a moment think that it is Lee, and then see that it is actually Baltar... This whole [plot thread] bewteen Kara sleeping with Baltar is set up when she first meets him back in "Water". The first time she lays eyes on him, she doesn't really care for him, and you see there is a little bit of a spark, and Baltar being Baltar, he was eager for his next conquest, and never quite let go of the fact that Kara Thrace wouldn't give him the time of day. And that of course made her all the more desireable to him. And the more she blew him off, the more interested he became... I also think this is a great moment, the look on Six's face, the look on Baltar as he looks at her. You start to realize for the first time, that it's actually a relationship. She says he can sleep with other people, she says that love is not sex, and then he does it. Then he sleeps with Kara, somebody he might actually have feelings for, and it bothers her. That look on her face and his sidelong glance over at her, that look of guilt, I think, speaks volumes. (source: Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I podcast)

3/26/2005 -- This section here is a key moment in the development of Laura's character, in that it's really not until that point that she starts to really accept and believe that the scriptures and the prophecies have some validity to them and may be literally true, that the way to Earth is through Kobol. It's interesting to note that she comes to that idea not as a woman of faith, not as a woman who has a "personal relationship" with her gods. But she comes to it logically. She looks at the puzzle around her, she looks at the pieces and the clues and what's been laid out for her and how they add up, and she says, "this is what makes sense." What is written over there is happening over here, and there has to be a connection, so this must be the way to Earth. She comes to it from a very a secular viewpoint on a very religious topic. (source: Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I podcast)

3/26/2005 -- I liked this [scene] because it starts moving Baltar in a darker direction. This is Baltar the manipulator, not Baltar the imp, or Baltar the seducer, or Baltar the clown, or Baltar even trying to save his own ass... [Sharon] doesn't get that she's a Cylon, and here she is, sitting in this room, obviously contemplating suicide, and Baltar shifts the situation, and actually advocates her death and gets her to put that gun back in her mouth and try to kill herself. And it's a very dark idea, it's a very almost nihilistic sort of notion that Baltar is starting to, bit by bit, take a more active role in manipulating events themselves. (source: Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I podcast)

3/26/2005 -- They found one of those [devices] in CIC in the miniseries and didn't know what it was. Now they know it's a transponder. The other transponder was actually filmed in a scene that was not included in the show "Flesh and Bone," where Leoben had one of [them]. (source: Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I podcast)

3/26/2005 -- This basic notion of "does Adama know where Earth is?" is something that was established in the miniseries. It's something we never forgot about, but it wasn't going to be something they were going to talk about every week... This is where it comes front and center, where you realize that when Adama said that to all those people in that great "so say we all" scene in the miniseries, those people in that room and beyond took him at his word, and invested a tremendous amount of hope in that idea and a tremendous amount of belief, and no one more so than his surrogate daughter, Starbuck, the woman we've seen him risk literally the entire fleet to save. He loves her like a daughter, she loves him. This is a very strong relationship that is very close and important to him, and he lied even to her. And I think it's her anger at that... is the only way that I could see [that] Kara was going to hijack the raider and fly it back to Caprica... There was no way Kara was going against Adama unless she realized that Adama had betrayed her first. (source: Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I podcast)

4/11/2005 -- Question: That was a very nasty trick showing Jamie Bamber and Katee Sackhoff together in the opening scene before switching to James Callis. Was that foreshadowing, or more of helping to re-inforce who is truly the object of Starbuck's affection?

It was really to establish who Starbuck would rather be with.

Commentary

The camera offers some visual clues that Kara is making love with Lee, even though she is actually with Baltar. In Kara's mind, she wishes she was with Lee, which is why she said Lee's name twice.

Baltar is crushed, both at being used as a substitute for Lee, and for Kara's later rejections at the card game. Number Six is bothered with the prospect that Baltar may have real feelings for Kara.

Kara views herself as a screwup. This is her explanation for the tryst. Leoben said that she viewed herself as a screwup in "Flesh and Bone."

"It feels just like old times, Kara, like whe you got drunk and couldn't keep your hands off the major from..." Lee may be referring to the drunk and disorderly incident prior to Kara's use of the Starbuck callsign, which Tigh cited in the pilot episode.

Elosha tells Laura that she's the one to lead them to their salvation. "You are going to guide us to Earth."

Number Six warns Baltar it is not safe to remain on the Galactica. Something is going to happen and he needs to be away. She later has him join one of the Raptor teams sent to Kobol.

Laura is having visions of a domelike structure with six roads leading out of it like spokes. According to Elosha this is the forum of the upper house of the gods on Kobol, which was the basis for the design of the forum on Caprica.

Elosha described Kobol as "the birthplace of mankind, where the gods and men lived in paradise, before the exodus of the thirteen tribes." Why did they leave 2000 years ago?

Laura receives a vision of the Arrow of Apollo, which she says will open the Tomb of Athena on Kobol. The scriptures say that Kobol will point the way to Earth, and opening the tomb will provide the answer.

"It's real. The scriptures, the myths, the prophecies. They're all real." Laura accepts her role as prophet and dying leader of the human race as it searches for a new home. This is something Elosha revealed to her in "The Hand of God," when she invoked the Pythian prophecy.

According to Number Six, Sharon knows she's a Cylon but her conscious mind won't accept it. As Sharon told Tyrol, "I wake up in the morning, and I wonder who I am. I wake up and wonder if I'm going to hurt someone." Sharon's attempted suicide was her way of dealing with her fears that she was going to do something terrible and needed to be stopped.

"The model is weak... but in the end she'll carry out her mission." What is her mission? Sharon plays a pivotal role in the final minutes of part 2.

Adama dismisses Earth as a myth. "These stories, about Kobol, gods, the Arrow of Apollo, they're just stories, legends, myths."

Laura, accepting her prophetic role, believes the scriptures and visions are true and follows through by convincing Kara to disobey orders and take the raider back to Caprica to retreive the Arrow of Apollo.

"If you do this it could threaten everything we've accomplished. It will probably bring down the government." According to Billy, these are the consequences of Laura's plans.

"If you believe in the gods, then you believe in the cycle of time. That we are all playing our parts in a story that is told again and again and again throughout eternity." This is her version of the roleplaying that Leoben told Kara in "Flesh and Bone."

There were two elements in Kara's acceptance of Laura's plan. The first was convincing her that Laura is playing a prophetic role according to her people's scriptures. (Kara does believe in the gods and the scriptures.) The second is revealing that Adama lied when he said he knew the way to Earth.

"What are you doing, Starbuck?" "Bringing the cat home." This is Kara reusing a bit of dialog from the miniseries.

Laura's whiteboard indicates the human population is now at 47,897, one less than the previous episode. In "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" it was 47,905, and in "33" it was 47,972.

"My favourite scene involving Apollo and Adama basically has no dialogue. I haven't actually watched it yet, but the two are boxing and it's non-verbal communication between father and son. It's combative as well as playful, and at times there's real venom to it. Essentially, it's an understanding without words, and something that both characters grow into throughout the series." -- Jamie Bamber (Apollo) on 11/22/2004 (source: TV Zone)

"My favorite scene is when they are boxing one another and they never say a word. You get everything about their relationship with their competitiveness and their love and compassion. But in a very male way they show it through fighting." -- Jamie Bamber (Apollo) in January 2005 (source: UGO)

"They are indisputably attracted to each other. But it's latent. There's so much guilt for the dead brother and dead fiancé between them. Then arguably, she's more responsible for his death than anybody else, yet he blames his dad for it. Can they get together knowing there's the dead brother between them? That's really awkward. And [Commander Adama] really really relies on her, she's like a daughter to him, he's close to her and Lee resents that. On the professional side, Lee's a pretty damn good pilot, but [before this] he's never paid his dues. Starbuck is sort of the go-to officer to pull irons out of the fire. He's working hard to do his job, but he's sort of overshadowed by her. But then at the end of the first season, when she sleeps with Baltar, he doesn't even know why he's so angry, why he has all these feelings about it. It's a great thing to play, it's not on the surface, it's not really vocalized. He has no idea how much he needs Starbuck and how much he feels for her." -- Jamie Bamber (Apollo) on 6/19/2005 (source: Chicago Tribune)

"That was pretty grueling. We did a lot of training for it -- I had never boxed before, but Eddie had done a bit. It was a lot of fun to try and get that down; we choreographed a bit of the sparring match, and then we got in there and just filmed it. We had the best afternoon of shooting crazy stuff and trying different things. Eddie and I just played around with things, the characters really came out in that more than in some of the dialogue." -- Jamie Bamber (Apollo) in October 2005 (source: Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine)

"I like the stuff I have to do with Starbuck in the twelfth episode... It's sort of an explosion of jealousy that is a complete surprise to him because... he's not fully aware of what he feels. There's something quite like a gut reaction that really was exciting to play." -- Jamie Bamber (Apollo) on 4/30/2005 (source: Gateworld)

"Katee [Sackhoff] and I sort of decided way back in the miniseries that there was an attraction between them, and what happened with Lee's brother just heightened the tension and made it much more confusing and difficult to accept. Kobol's Last Gleaming provided a very clever way of exploring their feelings in a way that didn't actually put them together but involved a third party [Baltar]. There are feelings of irrational jealousy that it drums up in Lee, which he doesn't expect to feel." -- Jamie Bamber (Apollo) in June 2005 (source: Dreamwatch)

"There's a scene in a future episode with Apollo where she hits him and he hits her back. I really wanted to do that. There was some talk about cutting the scene, but I argued for keeping it. It explains that she's one of the guys and it also does that thing where he realizes, 'Oh my God, I hit a girl.' Lee's got some balls... She's using [Baltar], and she understands him. They're both outcasts. She's attracted to his power. She's using him to keep her mind off the guy she's really in love with." -- Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck) on 2/25/2005 (source: scifi.about.com)

"Baltar's relationship with Starbuck is cleverly done. You'll have to wait and see how that happens. There is a brief encounter between them. But I don't know where that will go or even if it will go anywhere. -- James Callis (Baltar) in December 2004 (source: Dreamwatch)

"Her agenda is simply to stay alive to get this civilization to Earth, settle on the planet and create a new civilization. There's nothing on her agenda about her own life. She knows it's over. She has not one objection to that. She really did see something [in a vision]. Once she saw that, she decided [to get the arrow of Apollo from Caprica in order to get back to Earth]. If she didn't go through with that, she would have been backing away from the commitment she made. 'Throw me in jail, do whatever you're going to do.' She does now have a fearless quality." -- Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslin) on 7/14/2005 (source: Chicago Tribune)

Deleted Scenes

Sharon is practicing loading and firing her gun with blank cartridges several times in her quarters. She turns around and is surprised to see Boxey. She points her gun at him and then aims away and presses the trigger, and then she aims awway from him and clicks the trigger. "Boxey! It's OK!"

Dr. Cottle tells Laura, "I'm sorry. I wish I could be more optimistic about your prognosis, but the facts are the facts, and I urge you not to give up on medical science. You really should consider going on diloxin.

Lee and Kara go running; Tigh's wife confronts Adama (#3 on the SciFi site) -- Kara straps a bandage on her leg in the locker room when Lee arrives.
Lee: "Good morning, lieutenant. It's our favorite time of day again. Whoah, nice hair. What happened, did ya get laid?"
Kara: "Nice eye. Ol' man get under your guard again?
Lee: "I had him, then he flipped out, threw this bad-ass left hook. He's still pretty mean. Anyway, let's go." (extends hand to Kara)
Kara yawns and walks off.
Lee: "OK, it's like that. (starts singing) Up all day with rising sun."
Kara: "Don't!"
They start jogging and pass by Commander Adama who is talking with Gaeta. They later cross paths with Tigh and Ellen.
Gaeta: "All five Raptors are still scouting sector 728 searching for potential supplies, and..."
Lee: (singing) "Gonna run all day till the running's done."
Kara: (off camera) "Lee. Shut. Up."
Adama: "Hey Starbuck, what do you hear?"
Kara: "Nothing but the rain."
Tigh: "There's nothing I can do about this... oh, good morning (to Lee and Kara)... Ellen, we are seriously undermanned, we're over-worked."
Ellen: "That's not the point."
Tigh: "There's nothing I can do 'bout it, it's something..."
Ellen: "Saul, you're the XO... Bill!"
Everybody says good morning.
Ellen: "Bill, let me ask you something. Do you stand a watch in CIC?"
Adama: "No. But we are seriously undermanned. Without the Colonel offering to stand watch, the duty roster would virtually be unmanageable."
Ellen: "I see. So he volunteered to spend six hours a night on duty?"
Adama: "Well, uh..."
Ellen: "It's all right. It doesn't matter, hon, we'll see you later then (Tigh and Ellen walk off)... Saul?"
Adama: (whispering) "What a mistake."
The scene cuts to Lee and Kara
Kara: "I'm done, I'm done, I'm done."
Lee: "What? Come on, Starbuck? You've got a reputation to keep up. Come on, two more laps."
Kara: "I can't. I'm done, OK? And plus I gotta get ready for the jump tests so..."
Lee: "Look, you OK? You don't... you don't seem so good."
Kara: "Rough night."
Lee: "So I see. Any one I, uh, know?"
Kara: "Frak you."
Lee: "You don't look that bad, no, not really.

Billy worries about Roslin's chamalla abuse (#4 on the SciFi site) -- Billy and Laura talk on Colonial One.
Billy: (on phone) "Great. Thank you very much, OK. (hangs up) Commander Adama is sending out another Raptor to conduct an aerial survey of the planet. Do you think this could really be Earth?"
Laura: "Uh, anything's possible, can you..." (hands meds to Billy)
Billy: "Yeah, dog takes twenty pills a day."
Laura: "I didn't know you had a dog."
Billy: "Yeah, big shaggy thing, Jake."
Laura takes her pills.
Billy: "Are you sure you really wanna... I mean, it doesn't seem to do anything any more, and the doctor said you can go on diloxin which you know..."
Laura: "I will not go on diloxin. I will continue to take the chamalla. It has other benefits."
Billy: "The hallucinations?"
Laura: "I never heard you talk about Jake before."
Billy: "Yeah, you just have to let go of all that."
Laura: "It's hard to let go sometimes, isn't it?"
Billy: "Yes, it is."
Laura: "Billy, if this is Earth, then I can let go, and so can you."

Tyrol springs Socinus from the brig (#2 on the SciFi site) --
Socinus: "Thanks Chief, y'know, I can't even begin..."
Tyrol: "Stop talking right now and listen to me. You screwed up big time and that's why you're in there. Just because you think you're protecting me is no excuse. In fact, it only hammers home how amazingly stupid you were."
Socinus: "Right."
Tyrol: "Now I got a lot of work on the ship. I need every hand I can get, even the stupid ones. That's why you're going back to work. But don't ever do that again. You got it?"
Socinus: "Got it... Hey Chief?"
Tyrol: "What?"
Socinus: "Thanks."
They shake hands and leave.

Tigh and Ellen's anniversary (#1 on the SciFi site) -- Tigh is going over some paperwork at his desk.
Ellen: "Happy anniversrary."
Tigh: "Anniversrary? What? Is it today?"
Ellen: "Ugh! Seven years."
Tigh: "Oh."
Ellen: (sits down) "Ha, doesn't matter."
Tigh: "Course it matters, we should celebrate."
Ellen: "Oh, if I wasn't here, you wouldn't have even thought about it, would you? You were glad I was dead."
Tigh: "Oh, come on."
Ellen: "It's true. Things were simpler without me bitching and complaining and making your life miserable."
Tigh: (smiles) "That -- is not true -- you know it."
Ellen: "I just want you to be happy, Saul. You deserve to be happy."
Tigh: "So do you."
Ellen: "I come second."
Tigh: "No..."
Ellen: "I do! I know that. You're the XO, a heartbeat away from commanding the Galactica, from commanding the fleet. (they kiss) It's so important that they treat you with respect, and they don't. They don't, but I do (they kiss again)... I just want the best for you."

Lee and Crashdown visit Sharon in sickbay (#6 on the SciFi site) --
Lee: "You are lucky to be alive."
Sharon: "I know. I feel so stupid."
Crashdown: "Like something I would do!"
Sharon: "OK, let's not get crazy."
Lee: "Yeah, at least it wasn't your face (Crash smiles)... Sharon, I'm short on pilots as it is. You're gonna be OK. Doc says you're going to have a nasty scar, but it'll serve as a reminder -- always, always check for a round in the chamber before cleaning your weapon, Sharon. That's basic... (to Crashdown) You'll be flying with Karma for a few days. (to Sharon) And as for you, you take it easy, get your fill of sickbay chow, then I wanna see you back on the flight line. We need you, Boomer. You're a hell of a pilot and a good officer."
Crashdown: "Damn straight."
Lee: "I wish I had a whole squadron of Sharons."
Sharon: "Thank you, sir."
Lee leaves, and Crashdown holds Sharon's hand. Crashdown: Feel better? Because I hate flying with Karma. The guy's bad luck."
Then Tyrol enters.

Baltar apologises to Kara (#5 on the SciFi Site) -- In the hallway, Tigh asks Elosha, "Been a while since I read scripture. Why'd we leave Kobol in the first place?" "One jealous god began to desire that he be elevated above all the other gods, and the war on Kobol began." Number Six replies, "Blasphemous stupid lies. There have never been any other gods, only the one." Kara passes Baltar and he apologises to her. "Lt. Thrace, can I have a word please?" "I'm kinda busy." "So am I. We're leading the survey on Kobol." "That's good. I was drunk." "So was I. I wanted to apologize if I came off rudely last night. I don't think I've ever been mistaken for someone else." "It never happened." "Well, thank God for that." "Right" "Right, great."

Baltar asks Six for some time alone (#7 on the SciFi site) -- "Look, I would really like to spend some time apart from each other." "Really?" "Really. I want to go on this trip alone. Please, please. Look, it's not you, it's me, it's -- it-s uh, it's me -- I uh -- Truth is I'm feeling really closed in rigiht now, by the relationships, really boxed in, claustrophobic. I mean, I need some time, I need some space, and I am not talking about forever, just this one trip. And I was thinking then that because -- because we had some time apart from each other, that when I come back, when I come back darling, I'll be different. It'll be different, and then we can talk." "Oh, we'll definitely have a lot to talk about." "Thanks for being so understanding. Bye, you take care of yourself, all right? "He kisses her.