Battlestar Galactica

Episode #201 - "Scattered"

47,875 survivors in search of a home called Earth.

The Cylons were created by man. They evolved. They rebelled. There are many copies. And they have a plan.

Synopsis

Dualla has located Dr. Cottle on the Rising Star, Gaeta reports dradis contact with a Cylon Basestar, and Kelly tells Tigh they can't stay here. Tigh flashes back to a piece of advice Adama once gave him. "Personally, I tend to go with what you know. 'Til someting better turns up." Tigh then orders an immediate jump to emergency coordinates. "Sir, Doc Cottle is still 15 minutes away." "He'll have to rejoin us on the other side of the jump." Gaeta asks, "What about our people on the surface of Kobol?" "If they're still alive, they'll have to wait." In the brig, Lee joins Laura and Billy who is with her. Even though he is behind bars, the guard refuses to undo his restraints. "I'm not authorized to do that." Laura asks, "Captain, what have they done to you? What's going on?" "My father's been shot." "How bad is your father?" "Bad. Two bullets in the chest." The fleet completes its jump and Gaeta reports, "Dradis is empty, no contacts." "Where is the fleet? Dee!" "Checking all channels. No Colonial signals. They're gone, sir."

On the opera house at Caprica, Number Six tells Baltar, "Isn't she beautiful, Gaius?" "I don't think I have ever been touched so deeply in my entire life." "You're going to make a wonderful father." "Speaking metaphorically, of course." "And literally. She's our child, Gaius. Our little girl. Do you want to hold her?" He replies yes but says to her that none of this is real. "She's real. She may not with you yet, but she will be. Soon." "You are the mother." "And you're the father." He wakes up, and Cally tells him they're moving out. Socinus (who is wounded) is having trouble breathing. Seelix gives him serisone to help him breathe easier and they carry him off. Crashdown instructs his team to head for the tree line. "We can hide, still see the crash site in case Galactica sends a rescue party." There's an explosion and he instructs them to leave. Tyrol comments, "I think we should double-check the supplies before we bug out." "Sorry Chief, we don't have the time. If that's an aircraft turbine, they're gonna be on us any moment." "We gotta make sure we have everything!" "We don't have the time, Chief!" "Damn it! Gods damn it!"

In Tigh's quarters, Ellen asks, "What's going on, Saul? Where's the fleet?" "We don't know. They jumped to another location." "Why would they do that?" "Every watch we update our emergency jump calculations with new star fixes to compensate for inertial drift, and then we transmit them to the rest of the fleet. This time ours were updated, but theirs weren't. Gaeta was supposed to transmit them to the rest of the fleet." "So now it's Gaeta's fault." "I should have checked before I gave the order to jump!" "This doesn't sound like you, Saul. You don't let people slide. You bust their ass. Now, if Bill doesn't make it, this will be your ship, your command. All I'm saying is you need..." "This is Bill Adama's ship." Tigh gives a speech in CIC. "His orders are still the word of the gods on this ship. Just so we're clear. This will be Adama's command until the day he dies. And we are not going to let him die. So say we all." He asks Kelly how to find the fleet and Kelly replies, "If we jump back to our original coordinates, our nav computers can use those star fixes to generate a best fit solution, given the fleet's current position." "The Cylons are waiting for us back there. How long will that take to calculate once we get back there?" Gaeta replies,"If we shut down all our functions, twelve hours." "There's no way we can hold off a Cylon Basestar for twelve hours."

In the brig, Laura tells Billy, "We have got to jump back. We can't stay here. Lt. Thrace won't be able to find us once she retreives the arrow from Caprica... Captain, you've got to get reinstated. Gotta denounce me, disavow me, do whatever you need to do. Colonel Tigh cannot relocate this fleet on his own without your father." "Tigh's not letting me out of here. I put a gun to his head. He won't forget that anytime soon." "I am so sorry that I got you into this, Captain." "No, don't apologize. I knew what I was doing. But I didn't do it for you. I did it for... Well, actually I did it for... nothing, turns out." "That's not true. You took a stand." "And now look at us."

On Kobol, Tyrol asks Socinus how he's doing. "Good. Just listening to the birds." "I'll be damned. I don't remember the last time I heard birds." Socinus coughs, and Seelix informs Crashdown they are out of serisone. She asks where the other med kit is. "Sir, his lungs are filling up with fluid. If he doesn't get more serisone soon, he's not gonna make it." Crashdown blames Tarn for not getting the second med kit and sends him to go back and fetch it, accompanied by Tyrol and Cally.

On Caprica, Sharon #2 tells Helo and Kara that they have to move. "Her consciousness [Number Six] is being downloaded into another body right now. And when she wakes up, she'll tell them exactly where we are." Helo agrees and Kara takes issue with him. "I remember how you felt about her, but that is not the real Sharon. That is some cheap knock-off copy." "I'm not a copy. I'm Sharon. I remember the first day I met you, Starbuck. You were puking your guts out in the head because you'd eaten bad oysters on..." "Don't do that." She points her gun at Sharon and Helo stops her. "I don't like it and I don't like you. So the best thing you can do is just keep your damn mouth shut." "Put it down, for gods' sakes." "What do you want from me, Helo? She's a Cylon. You've been had. We've been had. So what, I'm supposed to be nice to her? Because she says she's pregnant? Get out of the way." She threatens to shoot her and fires her gun, and Sharon quickly exits. "My gods, men are so painfully stupid sometimes! How do you know that?" "I know, all right? She is not lying." "They lie about everything, Helo, their entire existence is a lie. They're not human, Helo. They're machines. You can't have a baby with a machine." Outside Sharon is firing up the captured raider and flies off. "No, no, no, no, no! Bitch took my ride."

In sickbay, the medic reports Adama's situation to Tigh. "Well, the bullet's tore up his spleen. His blood pressure is way down. Somebody needs to get in there and stop the bleeding, or we'll lose him." Tigh flashes back to an old conversation with Adama. "I'm getting back into the cockpit. I'm getting back into my fleet. And I want you to come with me, Saul." "You really believe that we can get back in the fleet?" "Yeah, I do." The medic asks Tigh, "How long 'til Doc Cottle's aboard?" "I don't know. It's gonna be a whle." "He doesn't have much time, sir." "You're gonna have to go in yourself." "Me? I'm just a medic." "Today you're a doctor." Tigh meets with Sharon in the brig. "How's the Commander?" "You bungled the job. If that's what you're asking." "Then he's alive. Thank the gods." He slaps her hard. "How many of our pilots were Cylons?" "I don't know." "Who gave the order to shoot the Old Man?" "No one. Just get it over with, you frakkin' coward." He hits her again, has the guard give him a gun, and points it at her head. "Just shoot me. Get it over with." He doesn't shoot her, and leaves.

On Kobol, Tyrol, Cally and Tarn return to the Raptor crash site and find the extra med kit. Upon their return they are assaulted by the Cylons. They shoot Tarn twice, Tyrol carries his wounded body to saftey, but Tarn dies. Meanwhile, in CIC, Dualla says to Gaeta that it wasn't his fault. Gaeta has an idea, which he tells Kelly and Tigh. "So we jump back to the last coordinates. But we network the FTL computer with a nav, DC, and fire control computers. Once they're linked, we'll only need ten minutes to complete the calculations." "You can't be serious. The Old Man would never do this, Colonel. No computer networks on his ship." "I acknowledge that sir. But I can devise a software firewall that will buy us more time... If we don't do this, we're never gonna find the fleet. Certainly not before the Commander dies." Tigh agrees with Gaeta's plan, ordering a jump prep.

Tigh has another flashback with Adama. "How'd you get off this frakkin' freighter?" "Connections. Anne's father has a friend on the defense subcommittee." "So the new wife comes through. Wish I had in-laws with pull." "Gimme a couple of years, I'll have some pull. You watch me. I'll have my own battlestar one day." Tigh visits the brig and procures a promise from Lee that he won't break parole. "When I'm on duty, I'll make no attempt to free here or sow insurrection among the crew. And when I'm not on duty, I"ll report directly back to this cell." He sends Lee to preflight and Laura wishes him, "Good hunting, Captain." She tells Tigh, "Colonel, once you find the fleet, I'd like to have a word with you." "There's nothing to talk about. You went up against the Old Man, and you lost."

On CIC, Tigh comments on the plan. "We jump in, we hold off the Cylons. We crunch the numbers. Then we jump out. That's it. Simple plan. Not so simple to do." Gaeta networks the computers and Tigh asks, "That software firewall ready?" "Best I can make it, sir. Wish Dr. Baltar was here." "To hell with that. Take your work over that shifty son of a bitch any day." The fleet jumps and there are multiple dradis contacts including a Basestar. "Computations underway. We'll be able to plot the fleet's position in seven minutes."

The Galactica launches Vipers to defend the ship against incoming Cylons, including a heavy raider bearing on Galactica. The unstable power on the ship forces the medical team to make use of battery units. Adama's heart stops and the medic asks for a knife. Meanwhile, the Cylons have begun hacking into the network and attempt to access its gateway. In the brig, Corporal Venner asks Laura to pray with him. "Help us, Lords of Kobol. Help your prophet Laura guide us to the path of righteousness. That we might destroy our enemies. Let us walk the path of righteousness and lift our faces unto your goodness. Help us turn away from the calls of the wicked and show us the knowledge of your certain salvation. We offer this prayer." The Cylon heavy raider breaks through and crashes into the starboard flight pod. Apollo tells Dualla, "You've got a decompression in the flight pod. No explosion. No fire."

As the Cylons begin breaking down the fourth and last firewall, Gaeta comes up with a solution, breaks the network and the ship jumps. He reports to Tigh, "Multiple contacts 'round the board. Colonial transponder, sir. We found 'em!" "Dee. Contact the Rising Star. Tell Cottle to get his ass over here, A.S.A.P." In sickbay, the medic comments, "From now on, no more heart massages for me. I'm sticking to pills and enemas." She tells Tigh, "I managed to stop the bleeding, but he's still critical." "Doc's on his way. Can you hear me, Bill?" He has another flashback, where he's dousing his uniform with lighter fluid and preparing to set it on fire, when a guard informs him he's been reinstated as a captin in the Colonial fleet. The flashback ends and he tells the unconscious Adama, "You never should have brought me back in the service. If you'd just let me be, I'd have died back there in Caprica along with everyone else, and been happier for it. I don't want to command. I never did. Don't you dare die on me now."

In the starboard hangar, the Cylons centurions have activated.

Ron Moore's Commentary

7/15/2005 -- The roots of this story, even before the cliffhanger, this idea that there would be a jump and the fleet would be scattered across a vast expanse, is actually something that predates season two. It was in one of the first loglines for the series way back when I was sending up a list of potential storylines to the network. This is slightly different, in that instead of all the ships of the fleet being scattered and lost, it's essentially that Galactica is really the one that's been lost. Galactica has jumped to a different location than the rest of the fleet. (source: Scattered podcast)

7/15/2005 -- Adama and Tigh first met in a bar in between the wars. The backstory to the series is that the initial Cylon conflict was fought 40 years ago, and in that war, both Tigh and Adama were young men, who did not fight together. They fought in separate ways, in separate vessels, had separate experiences. And after the war was over, both men were discharged, along with many other service people, out into the civilian world, and they both happened to sign up aboard the same civilian tramp freighter that was supplying the trade routes among the Colonies.

The episode in script form actually opened with a scene in a bar on Caprica 20 years ago... There was Colonel Tigh at the bar, a much younger Tigh with hair, and he was doodling a Viper weapons systems on a napkin, and some guys came in, and you realize they were crewman from another merchant freighter that he was on. They were taunting him in some way, and a fight broke out. The fight got pretty ugly and Colonel Tigh ultimately has a man down and is about to break his neck when another man rushes up behind him and is about to hit him with a bottle and possibly kill him, and you hear a "chick-chick" sound of a shotgun. And you pan off and there's Adama... [He] had come back in and kept him from killing another man, and alluded to the fact that Tigh drinks to much, and that they both want to get back into the fleet, and that was the driving force. Tigh had given up any hope of putting on a Colonial uniform again, and Adama never had. Adama was determined. He was going to get back into the fleet. (source: Scattered podcast)

7/15/2005 -- By the time we got to "Kobol's Last Gleaming," I really didn't know where this story was going. But I was fascinated with the idea that Crashdown would be in command of what has become an infantry unit, and that Tyrol would be his chief petty officer, who starts to lose faith in him. Crashdown is not really up to that task. As dedicated as he is as a character, and as much as he wants to lead those men, he finds that there are many shortcomings that he can't quite handle. It's a dark tale of what happens to those people on Kobol. And I just think it's wonderful. (source: Scattered podcast)

7/15/2005 -- This is an interesting dynamic. [Helo's] in love with the enemy now, and is trying to protect the enemy, but he's still a Colonial officer. [Kara's] just got here and she knows immediately that Sharon is not one of us, and knows that she has to die. It's operatic in many ways. (source: Scattered podcast)

7/15/2005 -- That's actually Jamie Bamber's wife who's playing the medic. (source: Scattered podcast)

7/15/2005 -- That's gotta hurt. I like this scene a lot. It's a dark scene. It's a dark show. This is what would really happen, in my opinion. This is how these characters would behave. Tigh does not take a lot of guff off anybody, much less Sharon Valerii who just shot the Old Man. (source: Scattered podcast)

7/15/2005 -- Tigh going off and getting Apollo's parole so Apollo can go fly the mission and be the CAG is actually an idea that dates back to, ironically enough, Hornblower. Jamie Bamber was in the A&E miniseries of Hornblower. Hornblower is one of my favorite books as a kid. It is still one of my favorite books of all time. There was this whole notion of parole. There was a point where Hornblower, who was a British naval officer, was captured by the French and was held prisoner. But as an officer and a gentleman of that time, he would give his parole, so that he could walk out and be free for a time. And parole essentially meant, his word, his promise, that while he was out, he promised he would not try to escape. (source: Scattered podcast)

7/15/2005 -- This is all you really need to sell this story, this emergence of some people starting to look to Laura Roslin as a prophet and a religious figure, and her reluctant embrace of that role. (source: Scattered podcast)

7/15/2005 -- Colonel Tigh did successfully guide them through this crisis, a salute to his character, and the fact that Adama did see something of value in him, that there was a reason why Adama brought this man back into the fleet, and kept him by his side for many years. And in light of subsequent episodes to this, when things are going to go from bad to worse under Tigh's leadership, it was really important to see that Tigh, in a combat situation, in a wartime scenario, is the guy you do want at command. He can get you through that, and he will guide them successfully through this episode, and "Valley of Darkness." Because when the Cylons are on the ship, Tigh knows what to do about that. It's only after the crisis passes, that Tigh is the man that you do not want in command of the fleet, because he's not very political, and he doesn't think like that, and he does drink a little bit too much. (source: Scattered podcast)

9/7/2005 -- We did have in story development a different episode to start off with, a big flashback episode, and then [we would have] picked up the big cliffhanger in episode two. And then we kind of abandoned that. Even in the first episode now, you can see there are flashbacks of Tigh and Adama meeting for the first time. They were shot much bigger -- we were literally opening on Caprica 20 years ago and playing out the scenes in the bar and the scenes with Adama and Tigh. So the opening beats of the episode were going to be someplace else to kind of take you off guard a little bit. And we tried it, but it was just one of those ideas that we didn't like as much as we thought we would... [It was] more effective by sort of touching into those flashbacks and just giving you pieces of them, making them like memory, which is a little bit more disjointed and not quite so linear. So it turns out we picked up exactly where we left off! ... We've got [the flashback scenes] in the can. We've talked about maybe sprinkling them in some other episodes or in some other context, or maybe doing something similar again. It's an idea that's upon the board. (source: Now Playing)

9/7/2005 -- A lot of men and officers were discharged, and Tigh and Adama were just two other guys and they had to find work. They found work on a freighter where they ran into each other, and they spent years in between the wars on this tramp freighter moving back and forth between the Colonies. Eventually Adama got himself back into the fleet and pulled in Tigh with him. (source: Now Playing)

7/27/2006 -- The appearance/disappearance of Captain Kelly has more to do with the budgeting process on the show than any creative issue. We only have so much money to spend each week and it's not worth it to pay to bring in Kelly (or any other recognizable guest-star for that matter) unless he's integral to the plot. So, we ask you to take the leap with us and assume that characters like Kelly and Kat and Hotdog and so on, are still aboard ship and doing their jobs even when they're not featured on camera, and therefore are ready to step into action the moment we actually need them for a story.

Commentary

The medic is played by Kerry Norton, the real-life wife of actor Jamie Bamber.

In an emergency situation, Tigh shows no hesitation. After Adama is shot, Tigh takes command, abandons Kobol and jumps to urgency standby coordinates.

"You're going to make a wonderful father." This is what Number Six says to Baltar in the opera house vision on Kobol. "She's real. She may not with you yet, but she will be. Soon." In the vision, Baltar is made to understand that he is the father and that she's the mother.

On Kobol, Socinus is wounded and his lungs are filling with liquid. Seelix gives Socinus serisone to help him breathe easier.

Ellen reminds Tigh that the Galactica will be his ship if Adama doesn't make it. But Tigh doesn't really want the command. In CIC, he makes a speech. "This will be Adama's command until the day he dies. And we are not going to let him die."

Laura's concern is Kara and the Arrow of Apollo. "We have got to jump back. We can't stay here. Lt. Thrace won't be able to find us once she retreives the arrow from Caprica."

Laura is sorry for getting Lee into his current position.. "Don't apologize. I knew what I was doing. But I didn't do it for you... Well, actually I did it for... nothing, turns out." "That's not true. You took a stand." Lee's stand was an idealistic response, in support of the concept of civilian government.

On Kobol, Tyrol and Socinus are listening to birds. He remarks that he doesn't remember the last time he heard birds.

"I remember how you felt about her, but that is not the real Sharon. That is some cheap knock-off copy." Helo had feelings for Sharon on Galactica but Kara reminds him that Caprica Sharon is not the same version. Caprica Sharon, although a copy of Galactica's Sharon Valerii, remembers the first day she met Kara. Kara wants to shoot her even though she claims to be pregannt. "They lie about everything, Helo, their entire existence is a lie. They're not human. They're machines. You can't have a baby with a machine."

According to the medic, a bullet has tore up Adama's spleen and somebody needs to go in and stop the bleeding. Tigh orders the medic to do it by herself.

In her cell, Galactica Sharon tells Tigh, "Then he's alive. Thank the gods." If true, that would mean that Sharon didn't really want to kill Adama. She claims nobody gave the order to shoot the Old Man. Tigh beats her, points a gun at her head but chooses not to shoot.

This is Gaeta's solution to finding the civilian fleet: "We jump back to the last coordinates. But we network the FTL computer with a nav, DC, and fire control computers. Once they're linked, we'll only need ten minutes to complete the calculations." Kelly earlier said that it would take twelve hours (with the non-networked computers). Gaeta proposes devising a firewall to buy them time. "If we don't do this, we're never gonna find the fleet. Certainly not before the Commander dies." Later, as he's preparing the firewall, he wishes Baltar were there. Tigh disagrees. "To hell with that. Take your work over that shifty son of a bitch any day."

After they jump, Gaeta tells Tigh it will only take seven minutes to calculate the fleet position. The Cylons break through all four layers of the firewall.

Tigh puts Lee back in charge as the CAG. But Lee first has to promise that he won't break parole. "When I'm on duty, I'll make no attempt to free here or sow insurrection among the crew. And when I'm not on duty, I"ll report directly back to this cell."

Laura wants to have a word with Tigh but he tells her there's nothing to talk about. "You went up against the Old Man, and you lost."

This is Corporal Venner's prayer. "Help us, Lords of Kobol. Help your prophet Laura guide us to the path of righteousness. That we might destroy our enemies. Let us walk the path of righteousness and lift our faces unto your goodness. Help us turn away from the calls of the wicked and show us the knowledge of your certain salvation. We offer this prayer."

A Cylon heavy raider crashes into the starboard hangar prior to the jump.

This is what Tigh tells the unconscious Adama after the jump: "You never should have brought me back in the service. If you'd just let me be, I'd have died back there in Caprica along with everyone else, and been happier for it. I don't want to command. I never did. Don't you dare die on me now."

Two of the guards' names are Hollis and Wenzler.

How many times has Commander Adama been married? In flashback scenes from his funeral from "Act of Contrition," Zak Adama is called the son of William and Carole-Anne Adama. In this episode, Adama's wife is called Anne. It was Anne's connections through her father that got Adama back in the fleet.

"He's a prisoner because of what he's done, but he's still needed because when situations arise he's still one of the best pilots. There aren't that many pilots full stop. He's used to command, he's used to following orders. So when the Cylons are pressing he has to come out of the brig. But he has to give his word, his parole, that when he's off-duty he'll return to his prison. He's in a strange limbo of finding himself being given authority but having none." -- Jamie Bamber (Apollo) on 4/30/2005 (source: Gateworld)

"The Sharon interrogation scenes are not in any way meant as a comment on gender roles or domestic abuse. They embody one of the main allegorical themes of the show, which is the tendency to dehumanize the enemy in times of war. This has been going on since the dawn of time. We convince ourselves that the enemy is somehow less than human, does not value life the way we do or share any of our common values. This enables us to rationalize and justify the terrible things we do to our enemies such as kill and torture them." -- David Weddle (story editor) on 8/31/2005 (source: SyFy Portal)

"All the flashbacks were fun. For Eddie and I to hang out, work together for a couple years, and then play out the scene where we first meet, was a unique and wonderful experience. Besides Ellen Tigh, and that is another matter, Bill Adama is the only person alive that Tigh cares about. If Adama hadn't brought Tigh back into the fleet all those years ago, Tigh would be dead by now -- if not through alcohol, he certainly would have died along with everyone else in the Cylon attack. Seeing Adama shot, having to take over for him, watching him recover, and observing the effect the near-death experience has had on his friend, this is quite the backstory so far." -- Michael Hogan (Tigh) on 12/7/2005 (source: SciFi.com Behind the Scenes)

Deleted Scenes

Tigh's temper, then and now (#2 on SciFi site) -- Flashback scene after Tigh knocks Sharon off her chair and holds a gun to her head. He's in the same bar as the earlier first meeting with Adama and is hitting a man repeatedly when Adama enters.
Adama: "That's enough!"
Tigh: "That motherfrakker owed me money. 50 frakking cubits."
Bartender: "Yo! You control this psycho friend of yours. I'm about two seconds away from calling the cops here."
Tigh: "You're what?"
Bartender: "The same damn thing every month. I'm tired of this crap."
Tigh is angry, and Adama is physically restraining him.
Adama: "Sit down. Sit down. Sit down!"
Tigh: "I'm sitting down. What choice have I got?"
Adama: "All right, OK. All right?"
Tigh: "All right, I'm sitting down."
Adama: "Skipper's ready to put you on the beach. Not let you come back."
Tigh: "Screw her."
Adama: "Yeah, she's only reserve fleet. She billeted you. You can forget about ever having your commission or getting back in a Viper. Now come on."
Tigh: "We're never getting back into Vipers, that's a bunch of crap."
Adama: "I'm getting back into the cockpit."
Tigh: "Yeah, sure you are."
Adama: "I'm getting back into the fleet. I'm not going to tamper around on a Caprica/Tauron run for another couple of years. Not me."
Tigh: "You really believe. Yeah, you believe we can get back into the fleet."
Adama: "Yeah, I do. I do. As long as we control our temper."
Tigh: "Yeah, you give me a drink and I'll curb my temper."
Adama: "You fight too much. Every liberty you're fighting. Every liberty, OK? You walk around the ship, nursing grudges and marking enemies. And you drink... too much. You know what? It's a bad combination. You could kill somebody. You're not going to be able to sleep at all. Or call me back. And worst of all."
Tigh: "What?"
Adama: "I'm not going to like you any more."
Tigh has a surprised look.
Tigh: "Well, that would be a tragic frakking loss, that would."
Adama: "For you." Adama hits him on the shoulder.

Tigh remember's Adama's return to the fleet (#3 on SciFi site) --Another flashback scene after Kelly tells Tigh, "This is still the Old Man's command. We can't do something he'd oppose, especially something that puts the entire ship at risk." The scene takes place in the crew quarters of the freighter. Adama, who is whistling, enters the quarters and hands Tigh a letter.
Adama: "Saul? I'm in."
Tigh: "Yes! Yes! He's in. He's back. The kid is back in the fleet. 'This is to inform you that you have been restored to the rank of captain immediately. Flight status pending physical exam and checkout.' Well, you'll be the oldest captain in the fleet, but, what the hell?"
Adama: "What the hell."
Tigh: "So, let's have the truth. How did you do it?"
Adama: "Connections. Anne's father has a friend on the defense subcommittee."
Tigh: "Now the new wife comes through."
Adama: "It's the best thing that's ever happened to me."
Tigh: "You have to get me one of those someday."
The two of them enter their bunk.
Tigh: "So when do you ship out?"
Adama: "Tomorrow."
Tigh: "Tomorrow?"
Adama: "As soon as we make planetfall. I catch the mail packet back to Aerilon."
Tigh: "I wish I had inlaws with pull."
Adama: "Gimme a couple of years, I'll have some pull."
Tigh: "Yeah, sure you will, kid."
Adama: "You watch me. I'll have my own battlestar one day."
Tigh: "Like I'm gonna take orders from you."
Adama: "You'll take orders from whoever's in command, just like we all do."

Adama does Tigh a favor (#4 on SciFi site) -- Tigh is in a hotel room, sitting at the foot of a bed. There's a woman sleeping on the bed. He's pouring lighter fluid on his war medals. Outside, sirens are blaring. There's three knocks at the door as two shore patrol officers show up.
Tigh: "Go away."
Watkins: "Captain Tigh? Shore patrol. Sergeant Watkins, sir. Open up, please. Open up, please, sir."
Tigh: "Comin'." Tigh opens the door. "So what are the charges?"
Watkins: "None sir. Major Adama's compliments, actually. He wishes me to inform you you've been reinstated in the Colonial fleet with the rank of captain."
Tigh: "Major Adama... I'll be right with you. Sir."
Watkins: "Yes, sir."
He goes back to the bathroom and looks at himself in the mirror.