Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

Crossroads: Part 2 (2007)

Jamie Bamber: Major Lee 'Apollo' Adama

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• Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama : [at Baltar's Trial]  Did the defendant make mistakes? Sure. He did. Serious mistakes. But did he actually commit any crimes? Did he commit treason? No. I mean, it was an impossible situation. When the Cylons arrived, what could he possibly do? What could anyone have done?

  [looks at the courtroom audience] 

  Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama : Ask yourself, what would you have done?

  [looks at the judges] 

  Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama : What would you have done? If he had refused to surrender, the Cylons would have probably nuked the planet right then and there. So did he appear to cooperate with the Cylons? Sure. So did hundreds of others. What's the difference between him and them? The President issued a blanket pardon. They were all forgiven, no questions asked. Colonel Tigh. Colonel Tigh used suicide bombers, killed dozens of people. Forgiven. Lieutenant Agathon and Chief Tyrol. They murdered an officer on the Pegasus. Forgiven. The Admiral. The Admiral instigated a military coup d'état against the President. Forgiven. And me? Well, where do I begin? I shot down a civilian passenger ship, the Olympic Carrier. Over a thousand people on board. Forgiven. I raised my weapon to a superior officer, committed an act of mutiny. Forgiven. And then on the very day when Baltar surrendered to those Cylons, I as commander of Pegasus jumped away. I left everybody on that planet, alone, undefended, for months. I even tried to persuade the Admiral never to return, to abandon you all there for good. If I'd had my way nobody would have made it off that planet. I'm the coward. I'm the traitor. I'm forgiven. I'd say we are very forgiving of mistakes. We make our own laws now; our own justice. And we've been pretty creative in finding ways to let people off the hook for everything from theft to murder. And we've had to be, because... because we're not a civilization anymore. We are a gang, and we are on the run, and we have to fight to survive. We have to break rules. We have to bend laws. We have to improvise. But not this time, no. Not this time. Not for Gaius Baltar. No, you... you have to die, because, well, because we don't like you very much. Because you're arrogant. Because you're weak. Because you're a coward, and we, the mob, want to throw you out of the airlock, because you didn't stand up to the Cylons and get yourself killed in the process. That's justice now. You should have been killed back on New Caprica, but since you had the temerity to live, we're going to execute you now. That's justice. This case... this case is built on emotion, on anger, bitterness, vengeance. But most of all, it is built on shame. It's about the shame of what we did to ourselves back on that planet. It's about the guilt of those of us who ran away. Who ran away. And we're trying to dump all that guilt and all that shame on one man and then flush him out the airlock, and hope that just gets rid of it all. So that we could live with ourselves. But that won't work. That won't work. That's not justice; not to me. Not to me.

• Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace : [Flies alongside Lee's Viper]  Hey, Lee.

  Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama : [Looks at her in shock]  Kara?

  Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace : [Smiles]  Don't freak out, it really is me.

  [laughs] 

  Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace : It's going to be okay. I've been to Earth. I know the way. And I'm gonna take us there.

• Doctor Gaius Baltar : I knew right from the very start that if there was a way to demonstrate the sheer - what's the word I'm looking for... hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is the word I'm looking for... Hypocrisy of the prosecution's case then really the judges would have no other option but to find me not guilty.

  Romo Lampkin : Well your boundless confidence provided us with great solace throughout the proceedings.

  Doctor Gaius Baltar : Look I want to thank you both. Truly. From the bottom of my heart. I am very, very grateful for all you've done. On a personal note, if I could've seen the Admiral squirm just a little bit more, it wouldn't have hurt.

  Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama : Now you listen... Don't push it, Doctor.

  Doctor Gaius Baltar : Fine.

  [to Lampkin] 

  Doctor Gaius Baltar : Romo, perhaps we could have a chat. I've thought about maybe doing a book tour around the fleet. And there's the publishing rights. And there's issues about my security, where I'm going to live, what I'm going to do. Since we forged this great relationship during the trial, I thought, you know, who better than...

  Romo Lampkin : Actually, now that the fleet's legal system is in place, my not-so-inconsiderable talents are required elsewhere. So I'm afraid this is the end of our journey.

  Doctor Gaius Baltar : Wait a minute. What about me? Wait a minute, wait please! Think about this for a second. Where am I going to live? What am I going to do? How am I going to survive?

  Romo Lampkin : Much as I hate to use a cat metaphor, Doctor, I think you'll land on your feet.

  Romo Lampkin : Close the door on your way out.

  [Adama and Lampkin leave]