- [last lines]
- Count Baltar: Burn, Galactica. You're finished, Adama!
- Cylon Centurion: [looking out to port] Sir, if I may...
- Count Baltar: I don't want to miss a moment of the last Battlestar's destruction.
- Cylon Centurion: I really think you should take look at the other Battlestar.
- Count Baltar: What are you babbling about, a...
- [Baltar is dumbstruck at the sight of the Battlestar Pegasus]
- Count Baltar: It's impossible!
- Cylon Centurion: No. It is a Battlestar.
- Count Baltar: *Turn* you fool! Turn! He's coming right for us!
- [freeze frame: TO BE CONTINUED]
- Colonel Tigh: Commander, It's impossible. Cain perished along with the Fifth Fleet, two yahrens ago.
- Commander Adama: Yes colonel, but that's the fabric of miracles - the imposible.
- Commander Cain: Her name is Cassiopeia
- [Cain turns on a hologram recording]
- Cassiopeia: [hologram] I'll never forget you, you old wardaggit. Hurry back.
- Commander Cain: [Starbuck and Apollo are stunned] Well I can see she has the same effect on you that she's always had on me.
- Commander Cain: [after the hologram of Cassiopeia] Uh, speaking of lovely ladies, you've met my daughter.
- [Starbuck looks surprised]
- Lieutenant Sheba: [hologram] Happy birthday, Father. I love you.
- Captain Apollo: [shakes his head] I'm sure that if I met that young lady, I'd know it.
- Commander Cain: You met her. She was the pilot that almost flew you right out of your britches.
- [proudly:]
- Commander Cain: Like father, like daughter.
- [while on patrol, Apollo and Starbuck have been intercepted by Vipers from the lost Battlestar Pegasus]
- Captain Apollo: [spotting something ahead of him] Oh, my lord, we're not dead, and this isn't a dream. That *is* the Pegasus!
- Lieutenant Sheba: [to Bojay] He won't shut up! He's acting as if he's seen an apparition!
- Captain Apollo: I'm still not sure I haven't!
- Commander Cain: [refering to Commander Adama] Well, how is he? How is that old Modocker?
- Captain Apollo: Well, considering a load he's carried since the destruction of our nation.
- Commander Cain: Yes, yes, I should imagine. And the rest of the fleet?
- Captain Apollo: Only the Galactica survives, sir. Along with some 220 odd ships carrying what's left of our people.
- Commander Cain: My God, and I thought we had it bad. Only 220 ships left from all the Colonies?
- Captain Apollo: Yes, sir.
- Commander Cain: Well, my friends, our troubles are over.
- Captain Apollo: How do you mean, sir?
- Commander Cain: Tomorrow, we go on the offensive. We'll show those golmonging Cylons how to fight now! Yes, by the Lords of Kobol, the Cylon Empire is about to fall!
- Commander Cain: [over the intercom] Greetings, Adama, you old wardaggit. Might've known I'd find you and your fleet sitting dead on your astrums.
- Commander Adama: Cain? Of all that's holy.
- Commander Cain: [over the intercom] There's nothing holy about me, Adama, Except maybe what I'm doing to those golmonging Cylons.
- Commander Adama: It's a miracle Cain, a blessed miracle.
- Commander Cain: [over the intercom] I make my own miracles. But have it your way. I'll be aboard in a few centons
- Commander Adama: I'll have some vintage Ambrosa for you.
- Commander Cain: [over the intercom] I should think so.
- Commander Cain: Hades' hole, Adama! Just give me a couple of your best squadrons and I'll take that fuel base myself.
- Cassiopeia: What about Sheba?
- Commander Cain: She's developed into one of the best warriors in the fleet.
- Cassiopeia: She's gonna be very unhappy that I've returned from the dead.
- Commander Cain: Children don't understand the needs that a man can have at different times in his life.
- Captain Apollo: We're going against the whole base?
- Commander Cain: I don't think we have any choice now. Do we?
- Commander Adama: Events seem to have left us very few alternatives.
- Lieutenant Sheba: Look Captain, maybe you don't understand the situation. Adama humiliated the greatest man that ever lived. A man that can think and fight circles around your father.
- Lieutenant Bojay: She's right, Apollo. He saved our lives from certain death! Now it's *our* turn to help him!
- Captain Apollo: Look, no one wants to see Cain hurt or disgraced.
- Lieutenant Sheba: Isn't it a little late for that?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Yeah, well, I er... I guess I never did like to admit that I form... eh... attachments.
- Captain Apollo: You don't even like to admit it to yourself. You know, I've never understood that about you.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: You were always part of a very big family and I never had that. So, I just grew up keeping, er, the number of people around me as, er, large as I could.
- Captain Apollo: So you couldn't be hurt by any particular one?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Look, I don't care if Cassiopeia... feels something for this Cain. I just don't understand the, um, combination. He's uh... he's uh...
- Captain Apollo: Too old?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [agrees] Yeah.
- Captain Apollo: Starbuck, I think you'd better read up on your Book of the Word. Some of the Elders of Kobol were married to some very young wives.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Wives? Aren't we getting a little ahead of ourselves here? She wouldn't marry him. Anyway... who cares? *Not me!*
- Count Baltar: I've decided that the city of Gamoray will be my seat of power. From it, I will decide how and where I will extend my dominion throughout the star system.
- Lucifer: Begging your pardon, Baltar, but don't you think we should first go through the formality of conquering the humans before ordering our victory celebration?
- Count Baltar: That had the note of sarcasm, Lucifer. Watch yourself. You're not the only IL-series Cylon who dreams of standing beside the greatest conqueror in all the universe.
- Lucifer: Forgive my impudence.
- Count Baltar: Hmm...
- Lucifer: About that launch order.
- Count Baltar: Yes, yes let's get on with it.
- [on board a command-class Cylon Raider, Baltar witnesses as full-scale battle is joined between the Galactica and his own overwhelming phalanx of Cylon attack craft]
- Count Baltar: This time, the Galactica hasn't a chance. Concentrate our fighters on the Galactica's landing bays! Her warriors won't be able to refuel, reload or land!
- [a swarm of Cylon Raiders immediately attack the Galactica's portside flight bay amid heavy anti-assault laser fire, and one fires into the bay before slamming into its side and exploding]
- Officer Omega: Fire in the bay.
- Commander Adama: [expecting the worst] Damage report.
- [Omega's scan image shows the interior of the flight bay engulfed in fire]
- Officer Omega: It's out of control. Alpha Bay is completely shut off.
- Captain Apollo: [on their way to speak to Cassiopeia] What are you gonna do?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Find a way to let him down easy. You don't, uh, jump on a hero.
- Captain Apollo: [they halt] You're assuming Cassiopeia isn't gonna be as excited as everybody else in the fleet that he's back.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [shaking his head] Apollo...
- [they walk on]
- Captain Apollo: Oh, sorry, I forgot. I mean, once they've experienced the aura of Starbuck...
- Lieutenant Starbuck: I never said that. It's true, but, uh, I never said it.
- [they reach the door]
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Let's face it, Apollo, he is an older man.
- Captain Apollo: You're on your own.
- [pats him on the shoulder, walks off]
- Commander Cain: Come, my sweet Cassiopeia.
- [they sit down for a drink]
- Lieutenant Sheba: [regarding the couple wryly] If you'll excuse me, I think I've had enough combat for now.
- Cassiopeia: [as Sheba leaves] Nothing changes.
- Commander Cain: Everything changes.
- Cassiopeia: Not people.
- Captain Apollo: [going after them] Sheba! I would like to talk to you.
- Lieutenant Sheba: [knowing only too well what this is about] I was just about to join my father...
- Commander Cain: No, that's all right. Cassiopeia and I will save you a place.
- [they go on ahead]
- Lieutenant Sheba: [emotionally] Look, I don't feel that well, I think that I...
- [he places his hand on her shoulder]
- Captain Apollo: What happened out there? To those tankers?
- Lieutenant Sheba: [defensively] You heard the report, they were hit by incidental fire.
- Captain Apollo: You're telling me that someone as good as you are, as good as Silver Spur Squadron is, blew the whole purpose of this mission out of the stars by accident?
- Lieutenant Sheba: [teary-eyed] Yes, that's what I'm saying.
- Captain Apollo: Well, then we have found a weakness or two, haven't we, Lieutenant?
- [walks past her, leaving her looking after him uncertainly]
- Captain Apollo: Bojay, if that's really you, tell us what happened. How did you survive?
- Lieutenant Sheba: You will maintain silence until we land on the Battlestar Pegasus.
- Captain Apollo: Pegasus...! That's just not possible...
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Apollo! Do you *know* whose ship that was?
- Captain Apollo: Cain, the greatest military commander that ever lived. He was my idol.
- Lieutenant Sheba: Your idol will order you blasted out of the sky if you do not shut off your transmitters! In case you clowns don't know it, you're right in a quadrant controlled by Ceylons.
- Captain Apollo: Oh, my Lord.
- [spots the Pegasus]
- Captain Apollo: This isn't a dream. And we're certainly not dead. It is the Pegasus.
- Lieutenant Sheba: They won't shut up...! They act like they've seen an apparition!
- Captain Apollo: I'm not sure I haven't.
- Captain Apollo: [introducing himself] Apollo. Strike Captain Apollo. I believe you've spent a lot of time on my tail. You are Sheba?
- Lieutenant Sheba: Yes. To both questions.
- Lieutenant Bojay: You can't be serious. You mean you shot down *one* Ceylon patrol ship in a secton?
- Captain Apollo: Very serious. When you're responsible for the lives of hundreds of civilians cramped aboard slow-moving barges you have to learn to keep a low profile.
- Lieutenant Sheba: Sounds like we're gonna be incompatible.
- Captain Apollo: We all have to learn to adjust. Even the legendary Commander Cain may have to alter his combat techniques.
- Lieutenant Sheba: And who's gonna have to tell him that?