Galactica 1980 (TV Series)

The Return of Starbuck (1980)

Gary Owens: Cy

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• Lt. Starbuck : So, uh, what happened during the landing?

  Cy : The situation did not compute.

  Lt. Starbuck : So you didn't know what to do. What happened next? Someone whip out the manual?

  Cy : Yes. The manual did not help.

  Lt. Starbuck : What did you do when it came time for a little, uh, personal initiative?

  Cy : We were taking a vote when the ground came up and hit us.

• [Cy returns, carrying a pregnant woman in his arms] 

  Lt. Starbuck : She's alive!

  Cy : I presumed you'd prefer her that way.

  Lt. Starbuck : Cy, this isn't funny. This is a living, breathing human being.

  Cy : Yes, I feel I have already compromised everything I believe in. What's helping one more human going to matter more or less?

  Lt. Starbuck : Cy, this is more than a woman.

  Cy : I'm sorry if you are displeased, there wasn't much of a selection.

  Lt. Starbuck : Cy, this woman is with child.

  Cy : Child?

  Lt. Starbuck : Small human. She's going to bear another human life.

  Cy : I am rapidly being surrounded.

• Cy : I may not find your incessant talk fascinating, but at least I don't walk off.

  Lt. Starbuck : Did you say something, Cy?

  Cy : [sarcastically]  No, of course not. What could I possibly say to you? I'm nothing but a machine.

• [Discussing the pregnant woman that Cy just brought Starbuck] 

  Lt. Starbuck : She is going to bear another human life.

  Cy : I am rapidly being surrounded.

• Lt. Starbuck : Aren't you even interested in what a human is? Don't you care what it is you've been trying to destroy for a thousand years?

  Cy : You are our enemy.

  Lt. Starbuck : [nodding sarcastically]  Yes, so you keep telling me. But why are we the enemy?

  Cy : Because you are.

  Lt. Starbuck : [in disgust]  Oh, Cy.

  [pause] 

  Lt. Starbuck : You mind if I call you Cy?

  [the centurion shifts on his feet] 

  Lt. Starbuck : Cy, you have the mentality of a two-year-old.

  Cy : A two-year-old what?

  Lt. Starbuck : Hopeless. Absolutely hopeless.

• [In a flashback, Starbuck reversed his viper's engines and opened fire on a Cylon Raider] 

  Cylon Warrior : That was an unexpected move.

  Cylon Warrior : He is a very good warrior.

  Cylon Warrior : That is a small consolation. We are going to crash.

• Lt. Starbuck : [running toward Cy before the centurion falls to the ground]  Cy! Cy, you saved our lives! Cy, are you all right?

  Cy : [now cradled in Starbuck's arms]  I don't think so. My circuits are fading.

  Lt. Starbuck : [desperately]  No Cy, no. It's just you and me now. One human, and one Cylon.

  Cy : [the human inflection in his synthesized voice now noticably weaker]  No, Starbuck. Not human, not Cylon. Friends.

  [Cy's power shuts off, and Starbuck, almost in tears, can only hold the slain centurion, fully realizing Cy's final words were indeed correct] 

• [Starbuck has reactivated a Cylon centurion, who upon awakening unholsters his laser sidearm] 

  Lt. Starbuck : I've been in charge of this planet for three days and already I've doubled the population. I hereby declare myself president-elect, if that's all right with you.

  Cy : [his voice a mixture of standard Cylon synthesized monotone with an almost human inflection]  Die, human.

  Lt. Starbuck : [taking the Centurion's weapon away]  Don't be ridiculous. You'd think I'd save you and then let you shoot me? Besides, it doesn't work.

  [Starbuck squeezes the trigger on the Cylon weapon, which does not fire] 

  Lt. Starbuck : Here, try it.

  [Starbuck hands the weapon back to the Centurion, who squeezes the trigger at Starbuck, who is surprised and hastily yanks the weapon out of the Centurion's hand] 

  Lt. Starbuck : You really did! Well, how'd you like to end up like those two?

  [Starbuck gestures to the two other crippled Cylons from the wreckage of a Cylon raider as the Centurion stands up and stalks menacingly toward Starbuck] 

  Cy : Human evil.

  Lt. Starbuck : [backing away from the Centurion]  Now, now, let's not get hostile.

  [Starbuck grabs the control for the Centurion and deactivates him. He then reactivates him. The Centurion lunges toward him again, Starbuck deactivates him, then reactivates him] 

  Lt. Starbuck : See? I can turn you off or on, but I don't intend to keep on doing that, not unless you're willing to listen to reason. Is any of this making any sense?

  Cy : Turn off, and turn on.

  Lt. Starbuck : Exactly.

• Cy : You repaired me, you did not create me. I am a Cylon.

  Lt. Starbuck : So you have no sense of loyalty to me for saving you?

  Cy : I would have to think about that.

• [as Starbuck watches from behind a boulder, Cy approaches three centurions who have spotted Starbuck] 

  Centurion : Greetings, centurion. Identify.

  Cy : I am Group Leader Cyrus. Lower your weapons.

  [the three centurions lower their sidearms] 

  Centurion : And where is the human?

  Cy : I extend my weapon that I may perform the following function.

  [Cy opens fire, shooting two centurions before being shot by their leader. Starbuck then jumps out from behind the boulder and shoots the remaining Cylon] 

• Cy : Goodbye, Starbuck. Goodbye, Angela, Goodbye, Godson.