Battlestar Galactica (2003) Quotes
Admiral Adama: I guess you didn't understand my orders.
Apollo: I never could read your handwriting.
Apollo: I never could read your handwriting.
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Admiral Adama: You did it. You brought them home Saul.
Colonel Tigh: Not all of them.
Colonel Tigh: Not all of them.
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Tigh: Everyone likes Gaeta so let's let him off the hook. Let's just look the other way on this one. Well, a lot of good people had to pay the price for what they did. Choices they made on New Caprica. Like my wife. [jury members are surprised] That's right. Ellen collaborated, gave the Cylons information on the Resistance and she died for it. Because that's the price of collaborating with the enemy. And I liked her a lot more than I like Gaeta.
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Baltar: [to Caprica Six, as she's leaving to decide Baltar's fate on the basestar] You need me! I need you, too! [Another pause, then talking to himself] I should have said that first.
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[Gaius Baltar sees and hears the Hybrid for the first time.]
Hybrid: Two protons expelled at each coupling site creates the mode of force, the embryo becomes a fish though we don't enter until a plate, we're here to experience, evolve the little toe, atrophy, don't ask me how, I'll be dead in a thousand light years, thank you, thank you, genesis turns to its source, reduction occurs step wise though the essence is all one, end of line. FTL system check. Diagnostic functions within parameters repeats the harlequin, the agony exquisite, the colors run the path of ashes...
Hybrid: Two protons expelled at each coupling site creates the mode of force, the embryo becomes a fish though we don't enter until a plate, we're here to experience, evolve the little toe, atrophy, don't ask me how, I'll be dead in a thousand light years, thank you, thank you, genesis turns to its source, reduction occurs step wise though the essence is all one, end of line. FTL system check. Diagnostic functions within parameters repeats the harlequin, the agony exquisite, the colors run the path of ashes...
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Racetrack: Well, too many Pilots, not enough birds. Anything to keep me flying, at this point. You want me I'm yours, Boomer.
Sharon Agathon: Uh, no, Boomer was… She was someone else.
Helo: Listen up. We need a new call sign for Lieutenant Agathon.
(various stupid names like Chrome Dome, Lightbulb, Toaster Babe and Wind-Up Toy are shouted out)
Hotdog: How about "Athena"?
Helo: Wait, wait, wait, wait. What was that?
Hotdog: You know, the Goddess of Wisdom and War. Usually accompanied by the Goddess of Victory?
Sharon Agathon: Uh, no, Boomer was… She was someone else.
Helo: Listen up. We need a new call sign for Lieutenant Agathon.
(various stupid names like Chrome Dome, Lightbulb, Toaster Babe and Wind-Up Toy are shouted out)
Hotdog: How about "Athena"?
Helo: Wait, wait, wait, wait. What was that?
Hotdog: You know, the Goddess of Wisdom and War. Usually accompanied by the Goddess of Victory?
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[Baltar talks religion with D'Anna while she takes a short break from torturing him.]
Baltar: I'm a scientist. And as a scientist, I believe if God exists, our knowledge of him is imperfect. Why? Because the stories and myths we have are the products of men, the passage of time. The religion you practice is based on a theory, impossible to prove. Yet you bestow it with absolutes like, "There is no such thing as coincidence."
D'Anna/Number Three: It's called faith.
Baltar: Absolute belief in God's will means there's a reason for everything. Everything! And yet you can't help ask yourself how God can allow death and destruction. And then despise yourself for asking. But the truth is, if we knew God's will, we'd all be gods, wouldn't we??
Baltar: I'm a scientist. And as a scientist, I believe if God exists, our knowledge of him is imperfect. Why? Because the stories and myths we have are the products of men, the passage of time. The religion you practice is based on a theory, impossible to prove. Yet you bestow it with absolutes like, "There is no such thing as coincidence."
D'Anna/Number Three: It's called faith.
Baltar: Absolute belief in God's will means there's a reason for everything. Everything! And yet you can't help ask yourself how God can allow death and destruction. And then despise yourself for asking. But the truth is, if we knew God's will, we'd all be gods, wouldn't we??
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[Virtual Six has mind-sex with Baltar, while in reality he is being tortured and yells back to her.]
Virtual Six: Look at me. Look at me, Gaius. Do you want me to believe you're worth saving? Do you? Do you? Say it.
Baltar: I want you to believe in me! Don't stop! Don't stop! Please, please don't stop! You have to believe in me! You're all I have left!
Virtual Six: Now tell me you believe in me. Tell me you believe in my strength.
Baltar: I believe in you! I believe in you! [D'Anna stops hurting him, totally confused, and he smiles at her/Six dreamily.] I love you with all my heart.
Virtual Six: Look at me. Look at me, Gaius. Do you want me to believe you're worth saving? Do you? Do you? Say it.
Baltar: I want you to believe in me! Don't stop! Don't stop! Please, please don't stop! You have to believe in me! You're all I have left!
Virtual Six: Now tell me you believe in me. Tell me you believe in my strength.
Baltar: I believe in you! I believe in you! [D'Anna stops hurting him, totally confused, and he smiles at her/Six dreamily.] I love you with all my heart.
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Sharon: I made a choice to wear a uniform, to be a person.
Helo: You were a person before you put on that uniform, okay? You were a person before I fell in love with you. You don't have to prove that.
Sharon: I have to prove it every day.
Helo: You were a person before you put on that uniform, okay? You were a person before I fell in love with you. You don't have to prove that.
Sharon: I have to prove it every day.
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Helo: I'm not a traitor. I love my people. I love this ship. Besides you, the first thing I want to see on any morning is the lights of that CIC. But I did what I thought was right. If it was a mistake, fine, I can live with that. It's you I can't live without.
Sharon: I'll always love you, Helo.
Sharon: I'll always love you, Helo.
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[Scene on New Caprica]
Laura Roslin: [walks over to Bill] Didn't expect you to find you playing in the sand.
Bill Adama: It's not sand it's alluvial deposits, this used to be the river mouth.
Laura Rosiln: And you just had to take off your shoes and play in the alluvial deposits. How romantic.
Laura Roslin: [walks over to Bill] Didn't expect you to find you playing in the sand.
Bill Adama: It's not sand it's alluvial deposits, this used to be the river mouth.
Laura Rosiln: And you just had to take off your shoes and play in the alluvial deposits. How romantic.
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Adama: When you stand on this deck, you be ready to fight, or you dishonor the reason why we're here. Now remember this: When you fight a man, he's not your friend. Same goes when you lead men. I forgot that once. I let you get too close. All of you. I dropped my guard. I gave some of you breaks, let some of you go, before the fight was really over. I let this crew and this family disband. And we paid the price in lives. That can't happen again.
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Tigh: All right, this dance is over. Get your booze and your dog tags and let's get out of here.
Starbuck: So what, you're just gonna call it?
Tigh: Not enough excitement for one night for you, Captain?
Starbuck: [to Apollo, as he leaves] Hey. Hey! Where the frak do you think you're going?
Apollo: It's over, Kara.
Starbuck: So what? You have the guts to try and frak another man's woman but not to fight one? I wonder if Dee knew what she was getting. Think she would have settled for sloppy seconds? [Apollo punches her in the face.]Truth stings, don't it?
Apollo: You want a fight, Captain. You got it.
Starbuck: So what, you're just gonna call it?
Tigh: Not enough excitement for one night for you, Captain?
Starbuck: [to Apollo, as he leaves] Hey. Hey! Where the frak do you think you're going?
Apollo: It's over, Kara.
Starbuck: So what? You have the guts to try and frak another man's woman but not to fight one? I wonder if Dee knew what she was getting. Think she would have settled for sloppy seconds? [Apollo punches her in the face.]Truth stings, don't it?
Apollo: You want a fight, Captain. You got it.
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[Helo is accusing Doctor Robert of intentionally letting the Sagitarrons die]
Cottle: I'm not gonna listen to this, you hear me? That man has his hands full down there.
Helo: He's singling out Sagitarrons. That doesn't bother you? Doctor, that doesn't bother you?
Cottle: What exactly is he doing?
Helo: I don't know, I'm not a doctor.
Cottle: Well, now, that's the first sensible thing you've said yet.
Cottle: I'm not gonna listen to this, you hear me? That man has his hands full down there.
Helo: He's singling out Sagitarrons. That doesn't bother you? Doctor, that doesn't bother you?
Cottle: What exactly is he doing?
Helo: I don't know, I'm not a doctor.
Cottle: Well, now, that's the first sensible thing you've said yet.
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[Helo is about to go and face Doctor Robert]
Sharon: You know what's wrong with this ship? You and the Sagitarrons. How you might actually be listening to them.
Helo: It's my job.
Sharon: They're dying because they're refusing medication, Karl.
Helo: You want me to look the other way, is that it? Is that it? Our daughter's fine, that's all that matters?
Sharon: No.
Helo: Or is it cause as long as everyone hates the Sagitarrons you forget you are a Cylon for five minutes?
Sharon: You shut the frak up. Yeah, I want you to look the other way. I have to fight on this ship every day to be accepted.
Helo: This has nothing to do with you. Okay? You think that's what I am? That's what I've become? That's my defining characteristic, the guy married to a Cylon?
Sharon: You know what's wrong with this ship? You and the Sagitarrons. How you might actually be listening to them.
Helo: It's my job.
Sharon: They're dying because they're refusing medication, Karl.
Helo: You want me to look the other way, is that it? Is that it? Our daughter's fine, that's all that matters?
Sharon: No.
Helo: Or is it cause as long as everyone hates the Sagitarrons you forget you are a Cylon for five minutes?
Sharon: You shut the frak up. Yeah, I want you to look the other way. I have to fight on this ship every day to be accepted.
Helo: This has nothing to do with you. Okay? You think that's what I am? That's what I've become? That's my defining characteristic, the guy married to a Cylon?
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[Felix Gaeta and Tom Zarek are about to be executed by a firing squad]
Admiral William Adama: Ready! Aim!
(Surprised, Gaeta looks down at the stump of his leg, which has to this point caused him constant pain)
Felix Gaeta: [whispering] It stopped...
Admiral Adama: Fire!'
Admiral William Adama: Ready! Aim!
(Surprised, Gaeta looks down at the stump of his leg, which has to this point caused him constant pain)
Felix Gaeta: [whispering] It stopped...
Admiral Adama: Fire!'
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[Flash to New Caprica]
Starbuck: Check it out. It's a great place for a house.
Apollo: So you're really gonna give up flying.
Starbuck: Ah, flying's gonna suck now anyway. Lots of training, endless CAPs. The war's over. So's all the good stuff.
Apollo: Gimme a tour of the future life of Kara Anders.
Starbuck: I'm not getting married.
Apollo: Well, then - then what's the point, Kara? I mean, you love him, right?
Starbuck: Where are we going with this, Lee?
Apollo: Well, now, that's the question, isn't it- where are we going? I mean, what if this- this is it? The rest of your life, Kara. Is this how you want to spend it? Is this who you want to spend it with?
[Flash to the match]
Anders: What's going on?
Dualla: What's it look like?
Anders: Looks like they're trying to kill each other.
Dualla: That's one perspective.
[Flash to Starbuck and Apollo alone together on New Caprica. They kiss, then make love.]
Starbuck: [laughs] Well, that makes things more complicated.
Apollo: Yeah.
Starbuck: What are we gonna do?
Apollo: What are we gonna do? We accept it. Tomorrow, I tell Dee, you tell Sam.
Starbuck: Just like that?
Apollo: Just like that.
Starbuck: I don't know.
Apollo: Yeah, we tell them how we feel. We shout it to the skies.
Starbuck: Yeah, right. Mm-hmm.
Apollo: Well, you… You don't think I will?
Starbuck: Mm-mm. [giggles]
Apollo: [Stands up] MY NAME IS LEE ADAMA, AND I LOVE KARA THRACE!!
Starbuck: [laughing] Calm down!
Apollo: Well, it's not like anybody'll hear. We're in your cabin in the forest, right?
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Starbuck: Check it out. It's a great place for a house.
Apollo: So you're really gonna give up flying.
Starbuck: Ah, flying's gonna suck now anyway. Lots of training, endless CAPs. The war's over. So's all the good stuff.
Apollo: Gimme a tour of the future life of Kara Anders.
Starbuck: I'm not getting married.
Apollo: Well, then - then what's the point, Kara? I mean, you love him, right?
Starbuck: Where are we going with this, Lee?
Apollo: Well, now, that's the question, isn't it- where are we going? I mean, what if this- this is it? The rest of your life, Kara. Is this how you want to spend it? Is this who you want to spend it with?
[Flash to the match]
Anders: What's going on?
Dualla: What's it look like?
Anders: Looks like they're trying to kill each other.
Dualla: That's one perspective.
[Flash to Starbuck and Apollo alone together on New Caprica. They kiss, then make love.]
Starbuck: [laughs] Well, that makes things more complicated.
Apollo: Yeah.
Starbuck: What are we gonna do?
Apollo: What are we gonna do? We accept it. Tomorrow, I tell Dee, you tell Sam.
Starbuck: Just like that?
Apollo: Just like that.
Starbuck: I don't know.
Apollo: Yeah, we tell them how we feel. We shout it to the skies.
Starbuck: Yeah, right. Mm-hmm.
Apollo: Well, you… You don't think I will?
Starbuck: Mm-mm. [giggles]
Apollo: [Stands up] MY NAME IS LEE ADAMA, AND I LOVE KARA THRACE!!
Starbuck: [laughing] Calm down!
Apollo: Well, it's not like anybody'll hear. We're in your cabin in the forest, right?
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[Lee Adama just found out from Admiral Adama that Starbuck and Anders got married earlier in the morning. Lee sees the newlyweds coming to him.]
Anders: Hey, man. Did you hear the news? We're hitched. We got married. Can you believe it?
Apollo: No. No, I can't believe it.
Anders: Yeah. No, it was crazy. She comes down, and she wakes me up. She pops the question, she drags me down to the priest, and, bang, like that, we're married.
Apollo: So it was your idea.
Starbuck: Yeah. It was my idea.
Anders: Do you guys…Do you guys want a minute to, uh, you know, talk?
Apollo: Congratulations, Sam.
Anders: Yeah.
Apollo: And good luck. You're gonna need it.
[Flash to Apollo, kissing Dualla, then flash back to the fight. Both Starbuck and Apollo are bloody and exhausted, but still throwing punches at each other between flashes of memories. Finally, they embrace, both in flashes of memories and in the ring, in front of Dualla, Sam, and everyone watching the fight.]
Starbuck: I missed you.
Apollo: I missed you too. I missed you too.
Anders: Hey, man. Did you hear the news? We're hitched. We got married. Can you believe it?
Apollo: No. No, I can't believe it.
Anders: Yeah. No, it was crazy. She comes down, and she wakes me up. She pops the question, she drags me down to the priest, and, bang, like that, we're married.
Apollo: So it was your idea.
Starbuck: Yeah. It was my idea.
Anders: Do you guys…Do you guys want a minute to, uh, you know, talk?
Apollo: Congratulations, Sam.
Anders: Yeah.
Apollo: And good luck. You're gonna need it.
[Flash to Apollo, kissing Dualla, then flash back to the fight. Both Starbuck and Apollo are bloody and exhausted, but still throwing punches at each other between flashes of memories. Finally, they embrace, both in flashes of memories and in the ring, in front of Dualla, Sam, and everyone watching the fight.]
Starbuck: I missed you.
Apollo: I missed you too. I missed you too.
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[Adama and Tigh discuss the food shortage]
Adama: I hear they're still eating paper. Is that true?
Tigh: No. Paper shortage.
[The two break down into helpless laughter]
Adama: I hear they're still eating paper. Is that true?
Tigh: No. Paper shortage.
[The two break down into helpless laughter]
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[Breaking the fourth wall]
Hybrid: Throughout history, the nexus between man and machine has spawned some of the most dramatic, compelling, and entertaining fiction.
Hybrid: Throughout history, the nexus between man and machine has spawned some of the most dramatic, compelling, and entertaining fiction.
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[Baltar and Three confront the Hybrid]
Hybrid: [Suddenly grabs Baltar's hand] Intelligence! A mind that burns like a fire!
Baltar: Yes, I'm here.
Hybrid: Find the hand that lies in the shadow of the light, in the eye of the husband of the eye of the cow. [Baltar removes his hand from the Hybrid's tank.]
Three: You all right? It just speaks nonsense, doesn't it?
Baltar: I don't think anything she says is nonsense.
Hybrid: [Suddenly grabs Baltar's hand] Intelligence! A mind that burns like a fire!
Baltar: Yes, I'm here.
Hybrid: Find the hand that lies in the shadow of the light, in the eye of the husband of the eye of the cow. [Baltar removes his hand from the Hybrid's tank.]
Three: You all right? It just speaks nonsense, doesn't it?
Baltar: I don't think anything she says is nonsense.
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Roslin: [interrupting Baltar] The less this man says, the better this will go.
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Starbuck: Can I make a suggestion that you won't like?
Apollo: Do you make any other kind?
Apollo: Do you make any other kind?
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[In response the the Cylon's calling his bluff about nuking the planet.]
Roslin: Too bad we're bluffing.
Adama: Are we?
Adama: Mr. Hoshi, order nuclear ground-strike missiles into launch tubes 4-10.
Hoshi: [On the intercom] Aye sir, This is a nuclear mission order...
Roslin: What are you doing?
Adama: Nuking the planet.
Roslin: Too bad we're bluffing.
Adama: Are we?
Adama: Mr. Hoshi, order nuclear ground-strike missiles into launch tubes 4-10.
Hoshi: [On the intercom] Aye sir, This is a nuclear mission order...
Roslin: What are you doing?
Adama: Nuking the planet.
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Starbuck: He won't cheat. He's too honorable.
Dualla: Unlike you.
Starbuck: Yeah, unlike me. I love Sam, I hate Sam. I love Lee, I hate Lee. Gods, I have to cheat just to keep the pieces all nice and neat.
Dualla: Unlike you.
Starbuck: Yeah, unlike me. I love Sam, I hate Sam. I love Lee, I hate Lee. Gods, I have to cheat just to keep the pieces all nice and neat.
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[Adama is ordering a nuclear strike on the planet's surface, where Lee is, responding to the Cylon's calling his bluff]:
Adama: XO, Please enter your firing code.
Adama: XO, Please enter your firing code.
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Chief: [To Baltar before hitting him over the head with a pistol] Welcome home Mr. President.
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Baltar: [During interrogation about Virtual Six] She chose me. Chose me over all men. Chosen to be seduced. Taken by the hand. Guided between the Light and the Dark. But is she an angel or is she a demon? Is she imaginary or is she real? Is she my own voice or the voice of..
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Adama: You took the Cylons to the Temple. To the Eye of Jupiter. What did it tell them? What did it tell them about Earth?
Baltar: I wasn't looking for..
Adama: What were you looking for, doctor? What were you looking for?
Baltar: Their faces but they wouldn't show them to me.
Roslin: Their faces? Whose faces?
Baltar: Five. Final Five.
Roslin: The Final Five.. Cylons?
Baltar: I thought I might be one of them. I told them I wanted to be one of them.
Roslin: A Cylon? Why?
Baltar: All my sins forgiven. A new beginning.
Roslin: Are you a Cylon, doctor Baltar?
Baltar: [After a lengthy pause] No..
Baltar: I wasn't looking for..
Adama: What were you looking for, doctor? What were you looking for?
Baltar: Their faces but they wouldn't show them to me.
Roslin: Their faces? Whose faces?
Baltar: Five. Final Five.
Roslin: The Final Five.. Cylons?
Baltar: I thought I might be one of them. I told them I wanted to be one of them.
Roslin: A Cylon? Why?
Baltar: All my sins forgiven. A new beginning.
Roslin: Are you a Cylon, doctor Baltar?
Baltar: [After a lengthy pause] No..
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[Helo and Hot Dog are at a briefing in the ready room. Sitting next to each other, Helo notices Hot Dog scratching near his groin area]
Helo: What's the matter with you?
Hot Dog: Sorry, I've got the weirdest rash.
Helo: Really? [Helo looks askance at Hot Dog] I hope she was worth it buddy!
[Helo gets up and moves one seat over to the aisle seat. Athena, overhearing the exchange, moves with her husband simultaneously over to her aisle seat directly behind Helo while also giving Hot Dog a humorously wary look and a smile.]
Helo: What's the matter with you?
Hot Dog: Sorry, I've got the weirdest rash.
Helo: Really? [Helo looks askance at Hot Dog] I hope she was worth it buddy!
[Helo gets up and moves one seat over to the aisle seat. Athena, overhearing the exchange, moves with her husband simultaneously over to her aisle seat directly behind Helo while also giving Hot Dog a humorously wary look and a smile.]
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