Battlestar Galactica

Episode #206 - "Home, Part I"

This document is ©2005, John Larocque. All rights reserved.

47,858 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

Laura, Lee and Tom Zarek are in a meeting room with members of the Quorum and others. Lee tells them, "I support the President completely. And my only priorities are the preservation of her safety and the completion of this mkission." Sarah Porter replies, "That's all well and good, but he's still Adama's son. When push comes to shove, how do we know he'll be willing to stand..." Laura interupts, "If it were not for him, I would still be in a Galactica jail cell. I trust him completely. And this subject is closed." Marshall Bagot asks, "And what about Galactica? They know where we are! They could jump in here at any time and charge us all with treason or destroy this ship with a flick of the wrist." Tom Zarek tells him, "We're not entirely defenceless! Some of our ships are armed! We should take steps to arm the others just in case." Lee disagrees. "Just in case we want to commit suicide! If Galactica wants to take us down, there is nothing we can do about it, nothing. and nobody in this room should be under any illusions on that count."

Laura weighs in. "At this point, it's my firm belief that Commander Adama has let us go. Lieutenant Thrace will return. She will have the Arrow of Apollo. And it will help us find our way to Earth." Bagot asks, "And exactly how long should we wait for her? I mean, maybe we should go down to the surface now and start looking for this tomb." Lee replies, "I wouldn't be too eager. There may be still Cylons present." Elosha warns them, "And some of us will die down there. The scriptures tell us that any return to Kobol carries with it a cost... in blood." Laurs tells them, "People, I realize that there are still many unanswered questions here. But I refuse to lose sight of what this has always been about. Our mission to save humanity. Yes, it is a big one. But it is our foretold destiny. And I, for one, am not going to waver from it now. If there is anyone here who does not have the stomach for this mission, you are welcome to rejoin Commander Adama's fleet."

Meier informs Zarek a ship jumped into dradis range two minutes ago. "No Colonial transponder, and it's too large to be Thrace's Cylon raider." "And no response to our hails?" "Not a peep, Tom. It's either a Cylon vessel, or it's a Raptor scout from Galactica. Either way, we should shoot first and ask questions later." "The Adriatic is in weapons range, and she's got ship-to-ship missiles. Tom, that thing is moving fast. If we're gonna shoot it down, we'd better shoot it down!" Laura is about to stop him from ordering the ship to fire its missiles, when Kara radios a message. "Civilian vessels. This is Starbuck. Do you read? Is anybody getting this? Hello?"

The heavy raider docks on the Astral Queen and they come aboard. Kara hugs Lee and he kisses her. "Good to see you too, Captain." "Remind me to send you to the brig later." "Yeah, well..." "Lee, there's something I need to tell you. Lee, wait!" Lee sees the Sharon from Caprica and slams her into a column, pointing a gun to her head. "Don't you frakking move!" "Stop! She's with us." Helo pulls a gun on Lee. "Drop your weapon, sir." Helo tells Laura his name and Lee says that he used to be Sharon's ECO. "I thought you were dead, Helo. You a Cylon too?" "Don't even." Laura orders them to lower their weapons. Helo asks, "What about Sharon?" "She will be taken to a holding cell where she will remain unharmed." "How about it, Apollo? Should we do what the nice lady says?" "She's the President of the Colonies, you moron. And yes, we're gonna do exactly what she says."

After they lower their weapons, she orders them, "Now put that thing out the airlock." "What?" "We don't keep Cylons around here, Lieutenant." "What the frak? You said you weren't gonna hurt her!" Lee tells Helo, "Listen to me! One of those things put two rounds into my father's chest." Sharon protests, "It wasn't me!" He tells Kara, "You missed a few catastrophes while you were away." "Please tell me he's alive." "After two emergency surgeries, Cottle managed to save him." Helo is pleading to save Sharon's life. "Kara! For the love gods! Sharon -- this Sharon -- saved our lives back on Caprica. Tell them!" Sharon then speaks up. "I know how to find the Tomb of Athena! Do you? Kobol's a big planet! You don't find the tomb, you don't find Earth! Listen to me!" Sharon is taken away, and Kara shows Laura the Arrow of Apollo. Laura requests with Zarek to have a meeting with Sharon. "I can arrange that." Lee remarks, "It's great to see you again, Kara. Thanks for bringing in the trash." "Looks like we missed all the fun."

Adama is going over prospective candidates for the new CAG in his quarters with Tigh. Tigh suggests some names. "Perry?" "No". "Mueller. "Mueller's not a bad choice. He did a tour as a squadron XO..." "Mueller's a malcontent." "I know you don't want to hear this, but there is not another Apollo in this bunch. And we do have to pick a new CAG." Lieutenant Birch arrives in the office. "Please come in. Thank you for coming on such short notice... I'm sure you're aware there's been a change in the fleet. Several of our pilots departed. I was thinking that we need a new CAG to step up." "Absolutely, sir. Who's it going to be?" Adama hands him a box with the Captains Rank insignia. "Congratulations, Captain. It's you. Just want you to know you have total support of myself and this entire crew. Is that not right, Colonel?" "Absolutely." "Get your log book. Congratulations."

Birch replies, "I'm honored, Commander. I won't let you down. And sir, I'd just like to say that I was a tremendous supporter of your son, Captain Adama. He was a great leader, sir." "A ship is a family. It works on trust, understanding and love. I love everyone on this s hip as much as I love my s... my sons. Galactica is still a family. You're an important part of that family. Do you understand?" "Yes, sir." "Thank you, George. I'm sure you'll do a fine job." Birch departs and Tigh complains. "What the hell? You got me in here jawing about picking a new CAG, and you've already made your choice." "I just wanted to see if you and I were on the same page or not." "I beg your pardon?" "I guess we're not." "You guessed right. You're telling me that kid is leadership material?" "We have very few choices. He's the best. He's a good man, Saul. He's honest and he's loyal. We need a little bit of that around here right now." "Well, it's your call. I'll support it."

On the Galactica, Adama holds a press conference. "We share the grief of friends lost. And the resources we've sacrificed will present new challenges for all of us. But if we stay together we will rise to the occasion as we have before." He fields questions from the reporters, and Playa asks, "You know the coordinates, the whereabouts of President Roslin's rebellion. Do you intend to put the fleet back together?" "First of all, Laura Roslin is no longer President. She relinquished that role when she suborned mutiny aboard this ship. Next question." "Commander, you haven't answered my question yet." "We've lost no one that cannot be replaced by someone loyal, who has chosen to remain with us. This is the fleet. Thank you."

Hamilton asks, "Is there any truth to the rumor that there is no Earth, it doesn't exist, and you just made it up?" "What the hell kind of question is that?" "It's been all over talk wireless, newsletter circuit, hand mail." "Freedom of the press is not a license to slander. Broadcasting that kind of garbage is the quickest way to find yourself in a holding cell. And that goes for all of you." Tigh ends the conference. "We're done here." Playa asks, "Are you a dictator? What happened to free speech, Commander?" Adama and Tigh exit into the hallway. "Get your hands off of me." "Why don't you calm down?" "Remind me not to do that again. Always looked easy enough when Roslin did it."

Baltar is talking to Number Six in the lab doorway. "There was an old footbridge, over the Euclid river. I used to go there when I was a boy. Watch the fish try and swim upstream. They were mesmerizing. I envied them. Unaware as they were of the... wider complexities and challenges of life." "You're beginning to see human beings as we see them." "What I am beginning to see are Cylon faces. Everywhere I look. Sharon told me there were eight Cylons left in the fleet. Why didn't I ask her who they were? If that idiot hadn't have shot her, and why is that when things go wrong, they go wrong so well?" "Gaius, you get yourself far, far too worked up about these things. Shhh... They do have it easy, don't they?" "They? Why are you talking to me like I'm not one of them?" "In some ways you never were. You have a path, you will be spared their fate. For once, Gaius, you can stop manipulating the world and let destiny take its course. If there's one thing we know about human beings with certainty, they are masters of self-destruction."

Aboard the Astral Queen, Laura is interviewing Sharon in a brig. Sharon tells her she's with them because she loves Helo and is carrying his child. "That explains it. You're not here because you mean us any harm or because you're a programmed enemy of humanity. You're here because you had an affair with one of our Raptor pilots." "Listen to me." "I'm listening to you. That's my mistake. I'm listening to a Cylon." "I am here because I chose to come here. And I know you don't believe me. But hear this. Even if you find the tomb, even if you find the map, and even if you find Earth, the price you pay will be too high." "I'm not interested in your prophecies. I know that there is a Cylon force on Kobol. I know it's dangerous. And I have little doubt that you are communicating everything I say even as we speak." "It doesn't work like that! I'm not wired in!" Laura orders Sharon to provide her witih directions to the Tomb of Athena. She tells Laura, "We all know about the tomb. I can show you the path. I don't know how long the path is or exactly where it leads to, but I can tell you that you're going to have to move very, very quickly."

Laura reports her findings to the command staff. "She claims to love Lieutenant Agathanon. She says she loves the baby she's carrying." Meier replies, "Who cares what she says? You can't believe a word any of them..." Elosha interupts, "The Scrolls of Pythia do speak of a lower demon who helped the people in a time of crisis." Zarek comments, "More superstition." Laura tells them, "I've told her that unless we return to Kobol with a map to Earth, that Lieutenant Agathon will be put out the airlock as a Cylon conspirator" Meier asks, "Is that true?" "Doesn't matter if it's true, she believed it. She saved them, both of them. She didn't have to. She could have saved her child and let them die. Why didn't she? Because I believe she's telling the truth about one thing. She thinks she's in love. Even if it's software instead of emotion, it's real to her. She wants her baby to live. She wants Agathon to live. We used that."

Later, Helo tells Sharon, "This is not the way that I thought things were going to go down." "I knew they'd be suspicious, but... they're human. It's the way you are." Elsewhere, Meier asks the command staff, "Has anyone stopped to consider that the reason Sharon knows so much about Kobol is because it's a Cylon trap?" "I've done more than consider it. It's clearly possible we're facing a trap. Captain Apollo has already warned us that Cylon encounter in the region is probable." "Has Captain Apollo managed to tell us anything we don't already know?" "He's in charge of this mission. He is second in command only to myself. I strongly encourage you to remember that, Mr. Meier. Whatever the risks, whatever the consequences, I am going anyway. I am committed."

Birch is leading Viper pilots in target exercise maneuevers against an asteroid. "CAG to all Vipers. We're initiating our precision firing exercise as planned." Hot Dog performs an eyeball run and barely hits it. Birch orders him to try again. "See if you can put the next one in the X-ring. At that moment, Kat is asking for clearance for her attack run but her transmission is garbled. She hears Birch's all clear for Hot Dog and has him confirm it, and then performs a strafing run. "Kat, what are you doing?" "You said I"m clear for my attack run!" "Hot Dog is cleared for his attack run." "What? Hot Dog?" "Back off, Kat! Now!" Hot Dog's missile destroys the asteroid and Kat avoids being hit by the debris. "Did you see that? Wooo! Bang on." "Hot Dog, you frakking idiot! You almost got me killed!" Birch orders the Vipers to report back to the Galactica.

Aboard the Astral Queen, Sharon is talking with Lee. "I know how you feel. I get it. But I didn't shoot him. It wasn't me." "You're all the same." "You don't know what the hell you're talking about." "Then maybe I'm talking." He pulls a gun on her but Kara stops him. "I think there's been enough of that today." "You are the last one who should be telling me what to do. After the stunt you pulled? Stealing the Cylon raider and then tearing ass back to Caprica?" "Yeah, 'cause you're clearly the poster boy for military discipline, huh? You know what? You have no idea what happened to me on Caprica. So while you're standing here polishing off your halo, consider for a second that you may not have any damned idea what thell you're talking about, Captain."

Meier is conspiring with Zarek against Lee and Laura in Zarek's office. He tells Zarek, "What Roslin's doing is reckless. We have our own fleet now. How much longer do we need to keep playing follow the leader?" "We have a fleet because people believe Roslin's going to lead them to Earth." "She's a fraud. You don't believe her, do you?" "No, but I believe in the power of myth. I'm not interested in risking our lives any more than you are, but she's clearly not gonna be talked out of this. And in the end, President or not, it doesn't really matter. She still needs a commander. A man in charge of the fleet. The man with the guns makes the rules." "What if she decides you're not the man to be in charge of the fleet? What if she has someone else in mind? Someone already close to her. Like a certain captain." "Let's say you're right. That on some level, based on their belief in the scriptures..." "The fleet needs Laura Roslin in order to stay in line. So we do what we must in order to keep Roslin safe on the surface on Kobol. But..." Zarek clues in to Meier's plans. "How could I have not seen that? I wanna set this fleet on a path to freedom. I wanna deliver unto them the liberty we've promised." "We are far from daylight, my friend." "The scriptures say some of us will die on Kobol." "One man in particular."

Adama arrives in CIC and ask Tigh, "What is it this time?" "I'm glad you're here. Birch is coordinating the ship for refueling. But he's making a mess out of what should be the simplest op in the book!" How long as he been at it?" Gaeta replies, "About four hours now. Sir, he's too green. He's blowing the approach and the docking speeds. He's missing the drogues. He's bunching the lines. It's a mess out there." "As you know this isn't the first screw up... I realize that he is your guy, but..." "But he's no Apollo." Later, Birch leads another refueling run, and the ships too close and collide. Adama aborts the mission and orders them to recall the ships, but its too late, the ships briefly collide, causing minor damage. Adama orders, "Away rescue team. Tell them to board the tanker, restore navigational control."

Kara is bouncing a pyramid ball in a room aboard the Astral Queen and Lee takes it from her. "Can I have my ball back, please?" "Where'd you get a pyramid ball, anyway?" "Caprica. Can I have my ball back, Lee?" "Yeah, sure." He teases her and she tells him, "Keep it." "Hey, come on, Kara. For frak's sake, I'm just kidding around. All right, here, it's all yours. You can take your ball and go home now." She laughs. "The whole thing's stupid anyway." "What's up with you, Kara? Anything you wanna talk about?" "Nope." "It must have been hard, being back on Caprica. Being home. Probably saw some tough things back there. Anyway, tomorrow the whole thing is gonna end, one way or another." He says that he's her friend and that he loves her and that if there's anything she wants to talk about he's there for her. "Did you say you love me?" "Well, um..." "Lee Adama loves me." "No, all I meant was..." "No seriously, very sweet. You love me. You can't take it back. There's no take-backs." "You're dreaming it, Kara." "Mmm hmm. OK."

In Galleon Meadow Forest on Kobol, Lee hands Zarek a gun for protection. Elosha is quoting scripture. "And the blaze pursued them. And the people of Kobol had a choice, to board the great ship or to take the high road through the rocky ridge, and the body of each tribe's leader..." Sharon finishes the sentence. "Was offered to the gods in the Tomb of Athena." "Yes, precisely." "And the great ship was the galleon that departed from here, where we're standing. And it took the founders of the Thirteen Colonies to their destiny. And those that didn't board the Galleon took the high road, the rocky ridge that led to the tomb." Elosha comments, "The path is supposed to be marked by gravestones. There's something here." She accidentally trips a landmine and is thrown into the air. Cylon centurions start shooting and the humans and several are shot. Helo tells Sharon to take cover. Lee sees Sharon running away and goes after her and Kara shouts, "Lee, no!" He sees her reach for a gun and tackles her but she fights him off and makes one shot, shooting the last centurion. "You gotta be frakkin' kidding me." Kara remarks, "Not bad. Damn."

Adama is meeting with Dualla his quarters. "It's interesting. Betrayal has such a powerful grip on the mind. It's almost like a python. It can squeeze out all other thought. Suffocate all other emotion until everything is dead except for the rage. I'm not talking about rage. I can feel it. Right here. Like it's gonna burst. Feel like I wanna scream. Right now, matter of fact." "If I may say something?" "Speak your mind, Dee." "I don't think the problem is that you've been betrayed. I think it's that you feel helpless. You were shot, you were injured. You couldn't do anything." "Don't make excuses for me." "And when you finally had a chance to do something... You let us down. You made a promise to all of us, to find Earth, to find us a home. Together. It doesn't matter what the President did or even what Lee did, because every day we remain a part is a day that you've broken your promise. The people aboard those ships made their own decision." "It was their decision, not mine. Thank you, petty officer. You may leave now." "You asked to talk to me, sir. Maybe, because you think that I don't have anything to say. But I do. It's time to heal the wounds, Commander."

After the meeting Adama heads to CIC. "Mr. Gaeta. I want to see all recon material on Kobol immediately in my quarters." "Aye, sir." Tigh inquires, "Kobol?" "Yes. I'm putting the fleet back together. I'm putting our family back together. This ends now." On Kobol, Laura looks at Elosha's body and says to Lee, "A cost in blood." "Let's go, Madam President."

Ron Moore's Commentary

8/19/2005 -- It's a very untraditional kind of storyling that we're following. It's not that Adama is facing a crisis back on Galactica. He's not facing down the Cylons, the ship is not going to explode, he's not even going through an internal crisis or something. He's trying to move on, and representative of him trhing to move on is that someone has to be the new CAG, and bring in this guy who seemingly is everything you want the CAG to be, and he falls short. (source: Home, Part I podcast)

8/19/2005 -- This little story of him looking on the bridge, looking down at the fish. The only inspiration for it was my wife and I took a trip to Alaska a year ago, and there was a bridge where we stood on and looked down on in the salmon spawning area. It was one of those really evocative images, you're looking at a very shallow river bed, and there were so many fish you couldn't even deal with it. It was just really bizarre and strange, and half of them were dying and spawning, and it was just like this weird life and death kind of place. From that, there was a sense of looking out at this other, these fish, that weren't really like you, and had this whole other world going on. I think it was interesting to suggest that Baltar is moving into a place where he was starting to look at humanity that way, where he was starting to look around and go, "I'm not really part of these guys any more." (source: Home, Part I podcast)

8/19/2005 -- What we're starting to say about Laura is that she's willing to say whatever she has to, to the Cylons. Again, she promised another Cylon, "Oh, don't worry, if you just do X, Y and Z, you'll be fine." And as soon as the guns come down, it's like toss her out the airlock. And Mary bridles a little bit against that because I think Mary is a person would never do that. She's not someone who would lie to your face and kill you. She's also concerned that Laura not be portrayed as duplicitous. But it felt right that you want your president to do ugly things every once in a while. There's a sense that we elected this person to make decisions for us that maybe we're afraid to make for ourselves. (source: Home, Part I podcast)

8/19/2005 -- I love this leather jacket that they dug up for Tom Zarek. That's such a great little piece of wardrobe that just has added quite a bit to his character, in some sense. It's so anti-Apollo. It's vaguely sort of Nazi. You can put an SS cap on and it wouldn't look too out of place. (source: Home, Part I podcast)

8/19/2005 -- There's a scene coming up later where Adama is in his quarters with Dualla, and they're having a sort of heart to heart... It was supposed to be an escalation. It was supposed to be heart to heart scene with Dualla, and then he goes into CIC and the whole Birch thing blows up. And David said, we really didn't want that scene to be the straw to broke the camel's back any more. And it felt better that Dualla, the more heartfelt scene is the one that tips him over the edge ultimately. So we swapped the scene order in the editing room. (source: Home, Part I podcast)

David Eick's Commentary

8/19/2005 -- This was one of the last scenes that I wrote as a new way to introduce this new character, George Birch, loosely named after my father in law. And we were talking about a completely different episode (#205), which preceded this. We were in prep and we were talking to the director about a nightmare scene that has now been cut this episode, where Kara wakes up in the hospital and sees Helo just sitting there in the hospital next to her. I'm in the back of my mind in the middle of this prep meeting sweating this scene that I know I have to get written before the end of the day, and Ron in the context of the episode #205 scene says offhandedly, "You know, Helo could just be sitting there. He could be doing anything, he could be cracking walnuts." And I was like, "walnuts, walnuts, yes, walnuts, that's what I'll do. Adama will be cracking walnuts." From his hidden stash of walnuts, none of which he eats by the way. (source: Home, Part I podcast)

8/19/2005 -- This scene had a very literal godfather, which was a great moment in history, actually, where Al Haig takes the microphone at the podium ("I'm in charge".) Here's a guy who's not in his right element here, and it was really just intended to speak to the absence of Laura Roslin. This is what she normally does. (source: Home, Part I podcast)

8/19/2005 -- And [Elosha's death is] really necessary in a way, because you're telling a story about the costs in blood for Laura to make this decision to go to Kobol and divide the fleet... And because Laura's role as the "prophet", or seer in the story, is about to reach a conclusion and spin the character in a different direction, back to a position of governance, and back to a position where she's got a more supportive dynamic with Adama, it seemed right that metaphorically you would kill the person who represented that chapter of her life. The priestess who she had depended upon, who had been her guide through this experience is someone she is no longer going to have in her life. (source: Home, Part I podcast)

8/19/2005 -- The thing about Richard is that he really is a completely different character in this. He's someone who is, as many of you know, was a very outspoken opponent of the reimagining of this show, and came full circle and elected to embrace it. And it didn't hurt that he was given a very compelling role that started last season. This guy shows up, he's the consumate professional, hits his marks, knows his lines, takes direction well. He may not be seen again for several episodes. You never hear from his people, you never get complaints, there's never any questions about "why aren't I in more of them?" I think he understands that in some respects, a little of his character goes a long way. (source: Home, Part I podcast)

8/19/2005 -- We forced the sound mixers to reprise a music cue we used one time last season and hadn't used at all this season, which is this Irish brogue from episode 110 ("The Hand of God".) And it seemed to me that it would be useful to do a simplified version of that starting here. So where you start with the drums you, and you start to hear the men humming, I just wanted this very masculine quality to his decision, because it is a magical thing we're doing. We're saying Adama of his own volition arrives at this very profound conclusion about what they're going to do. And it felt like it earned the right to have some sort of martial theme to it. (source: Home, Part I podcast)

Commentary

The fleet has now divided in two. 18,000 people aboard 24 ships, a third of the fleet, have joined the rebellion. That included 9,500 from Gemenon and 6,250 from Caprica. Gemenon is the more religious-oriented Colony and represents a little more than half the total. The fleet has lost "twelve transports, seven freighters, three construction platforms, a private cruiser, and a mining ship", the Monarch.

Adama refers to Laura and Zarek as a "religious fanatic and a terrorist." When Tigh tells Adama that famlies are being split apart, Adama replies, "Don't talk to me about family."

The Quorum of the Twelve is with Laura and Tom Zarek. Zarek's closest allies, once again, are Sarah Porter of Gemenon and Marshall Bagot of Virgon. Bagot is mistrustful of Laura's alliance with Lee but he has her complete trust

"And some of us will die down there. The scriptures tell us that any return to Kobol carries with it a cost... in blood." This is Elosha's prediction for what awaits them below. She is also speaking prophetically of her own demise.

After Kara'a heavy raider boards the Astral Queen, Laura orders them to "put that thing out the airlock. We don't keep Cylons around here." Sharon saves her life by promising to aid their mission. "I know how to find the Tomb of Athena... You don't find the tomb, you don't find Earth!" She's put in a cell and Laura requests to have a meeting with her via Zarek.

Tigh isn't keen on any of Commander Adama's prospective candidates for CAG, including his choice for the job, George Birch. Adama's criteria was honesty and loyalty. Later in a press conference, he states, "We've lost no one that cannot be replaced by someone loyal, who has chosen to remain with us." But Birch was no Lee Adama, which underlies the point that in fact, these people can't be replaced.

"You have a path, you will be spared their fate. For once, Gaius, you can stop manipulating the world and let destiny take its course. If there's one thing we know about human beings with certainty, they are masters of self-destruction." This is Number Six's comment after she says that Baltar in some ways was never one of them, i.e. a human being.

"It doesn't work like that. I'm not wired in!" This is Sharon's reply to Laura, who assumed she was communicating their conversation to the Cylons.

"The Scrolls of Pythia do speak of a lower demon who helped the people in a time of crisis." Elosha is referring to Sharon.

Laura told Sharon that she would put Helo out of the airlock if they do not return from Kobol with a map to Earth. "Doesn't matter if it's true, she believed it." Also, "She thinks she's in love. Even if it's software instead of emotion, it's real to her. She wants her baby to live. She wants Agathon to live. We used that."

Zarek tells Meier he doesn't believe Roslin, but he believes in the power of myth. Meier is openly plotting to Zarek to ensure that Lee to become a scriptural casualty down on Kobol. "The scriptures say some of us will die on Kobol." "One man in particular."

Lee confesses to Kara that he's her friend and that he loves her.

Elosha is quoting scripture. "And the blaze pursued them. And the people of Kobol had a choice, to board the greaet ship or to take the high road through the rocky ridge, and the body of each tribe's leader..." Sharon continues. "Was offered to the gods in the Tomb of Athena... And the great ship was the galleon that departed from here, where we're standing. And it took the founders of the Thirteen Colonies to their destiny. And those that didn't board the Galleon took the high road, the rocky ridge that led to the tomb.""

Kara has come to trust Sharon and tries to stop Lee from killing her. Eventually he tackles her, but she saves his life by shooting a Cylon.

Dee tells Adama that he let them down. "You made a promise to all of us, to find Earth, to find us a home. Together. It doesn't matter what the President did or even what Lee did, because every day we remain a part is a day that you've broken your promise. The people aboard those ships made their own decision... It's time to heal the wounds, Commander." This is what spurs Adama to take his ships to Kobol and reunite the fleet.

"There's very little trust between Laura Roslin and Tom Zarek. I think you need to realize that Tom Zarek is still looking to gain power and Roslin is looking to hold it." -- Ricahrd Hatch (Tom Zarek) on 7/14/2005 (source: Robert Falconer)

"[Tom Zarek is] a political force to be reckoned with. A secular humanist, he won't be enamored with Laura's newfound spirituality. But he's adamantly opposed to a military dictatorship. The new field of play will give this savvy political operative many opportunities. Expect him to do everything he can to exploit them." -- David Weddle (writer) on 4/1/2005 (source: Chicago Tribune)"