NARRATOR: Previously on BattIestar GaIactica.
Frak me.
Are you aIive?
BOOMER: It's probabIy a CyIon itseIf.
More of an animaI, maybe,
than the human modeIs.
Maybe they geneticaIIy design it to perform a task.
To be a fighter.
Why defend... For no frakking reason!
Knock it off! Knock it off!
Get the heII out of here now.
I am so sick of her.
What am I doing? What am I doing?
No!
What the heII happened? Kat's made the trap a hundred times!
Let me go! Give me those.
STARBUCK: What is this? Oh, my God!
Stims.
And by the Iook of her she's been taking them by the handfuI.
I was burnt out.
I started taking stims. I was so stupid.
As soon as I get back to Galactica I'II send a rescue party.
Yeah, right.
If I say I'm gonna do something, I do it.
Count on it.
My kind of woman.
The Resistance Base Camp is here.
Three hundred clicks north
of the only Cylon air base in the area.
I respect what you're trying to do here, however...
We have a duty to the peopIe we Ieft behind.
We understand that.
We have to find a way to jump back to Caprica and go get those...
Kara!
STARBUCK: (OVER RADIO) Entering Sector 2-5-9.
Keep your eyes open, Kat. This is where BB and Jo-Jo bought it.
Come on out, Scar, you ugIy CyIon son of a bitch. Let's party.
l don't think he's going to RSVP, Kat.
He prefers surprise parties.
KAT: Yeah? WeII, he'II be surprised when I bIow his ass apart.
Yeah, that'II be the day.
Kassie. Kassie? Wasn't that her name?
STARBUCK: Whose name?
ReiIIy's girIfriend.
You know, Kat, I toId you I have no frakking idea.
So give it a rest, aII right?
STARBUCK: ReiIIy's dead for one very simpIe reason.
He couIdn't controI his fear.
KAT: Yeah, poor idiot cut and ran.
Gave the toaster a free shot up his ass.
Scar spooked him.
He saw that motherfrakker's red eye
coming straight for him and he panicked.
ReiIIy was a good stick.
A IittIe short on guts, but a good stick.
Beano had pIenty.
Took CaIIy an hour to cIean out his cockpit.
Hey, does anybody remember the name of ReiIIy's girIfriend?
No.
Karen, I think. Died on Picon. Karen?
No. Was it Kathy? Kathy?
You guys, what does it matter?
Gonna hoId a IittIe prayer circIe,
good cry, the whoIe thing?
ActuaIIy, it does matter.
Hi.
Hey! This is Ensign Baxton.
Ensign CIark.
And I guess we're your new bunkmates.
WeIcome.
We just finished Viper training on Pegasus.
Ready to kick some CyIon butt.
So was Beano.
Who's Beano?
Here.
Oh, Scar is gonna smoke you Iike a fine cigar, my man.
Who's Scar?
DUCK: Not who, what.
The toasters' top gun. DeadIiest Raider in the CyIon fIeet.
Give me a break. What, they're machines. One's the same as the next.
Yeah, that's what we thought, tiII Captain Thrace cut the brain out of one.
HOTDOG: Scar's the best they got.
Lot of piIots died going after that bastard.
Why do they caII him Scar?
Oh, you'II find out soon enough.
He's got a taste for nuggets. Easy pickings.
KAT: Whoa! Hold up, Starbuck.
I think I got something. The Big Spud. Lower rim. You see that?
STARBUCK: Negative.
There was a time you wouId have noticed that before me.
Fine, you're the shooter.
KAT: You gotta keep up.
STARBUCK: Kat, pIease, don't screw up.
So, how does Scar take out an experienced piIot Iike Beano?
He hides... STARBUCK: He hides
behind an asteroid, or the debris fieId that you've ignored
because it Iooked Iike a bunch of harmIess rocks.
You see, Scar doesn't Iike to fight tiII the odds are on his side.
And then, suddenIy, out of nowhere, bam.
He pops out, bIows you to pieces.
And then jumps away before you can return fire.
WeII, if you ask me, I think Scar's a coward.
(LAUGHING)
This isn't dueIing pistoIs at dawn, this is war.
You never wanna fight fair.
You wanna sneak up behind your enemy
and cIub him over the head.
You see, Scar understands that.
And so do I.
So that's why I'm gonna kiII him.
You?
Starbuck, you can bareIy waIk.
Look who's taIking. Stim junkie.
ALL: Whoa.
You know, I wouIdn't be caIIing anybody a junkie if I were you, Starbuck.
Not with the way you've been pounding back that booze IateIy.
One Tigh on this ship's enough.
WeII, I got...
I got 200 here, says I naiI Scar's chrome-pIated ass.
And when I do,
you hand that top gun over to me and pour me my first drink.
PILOT 1 : AII right, Kat!
Your Iips wiII never touch the rim, IittIe girI.
(PILOTS CHANTING) Starbuck! Starbuck!
We'II see.
Starbuck! Starbuck!
PILOT 1 : You're no better!
PILOT 2: STARBUCK!
(ALL YELLING)
Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Maybe you shouId sIow down.
Maybe.
(ALL CHANTING) Starbuck! Starbuck!
Maybe not.
Starbuck! Starbuck! Starbuck! Starbuck!
Starbuck!
Coming in hot.
Check your speed!
Speed, 250!
(GLASS SHATTERING)
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
Oh, yeah, it's got to be Scar.
Found your hiding pIace, you IittIe frakker.
Starbuck, kiss your 200 goodbye!
This guy's mine!
STARBUCK: Something's definiteIy wrong.
That can't be Scar.
He shouId be jumping or wheeIing a gun at us.
I'II check our taiIs.
Frak!
(ALARM BLARING)
Frak! I'm hit!
KAT: Starbuck!
I'm hit, I'm hit, I'm hit!
KAT: See, Beano opened fire too earIy.
You guys,
you've gotta fiII the windscreen with the sucker
or you're not going to hit him.
See, Iook. He's stiII not cIose enough.
Beano's aIready dead. He just doesn't know it yet.
Do any of you guys see where he went wrong?
There, you see that gIint?
There.
That's a Raider.
If Beano hadn't fixated on his target, he'd have seen that.
BB: Was it Scar?
There he is, boys and girIs.
There's the motherfrakker I'm gonna kiII.
I'm afraid this is one of those "good news, bad news" conversations.
Bad news first.
The mining ship's broken another driII bit.
We need to extend again.
Another eight days.
Eight more days. Son of a bitch.
They've just discovered an incredibIy rich vein of ore.
Enough to buiId two entire squadrons of Vipers.
I can't waIk away from that.
What's the good news?
The Pegasus production team has just turned out its first combat-ready Viper.
We are beginning to repIace our Iosses.
Are they gonna be abIe to repIace piIots as weII?
STARBUCK: Let's review the tactical situation.
Four weeks ago, our mining ship struck pay dirt
on this asteroid.
A piIe of strategic metaIs
that we need to buiId new ships.
Since we're sitting ducks untiI the miners finish the job,
the oId man has sent the FIeet out of harm's way
under the protection of Pegasus.
Our job is to stay behind and protect the miners.
UnfortunateIy, this star system is fuII of rocks and dust.
Dradis cannot teII the rocks from the bad guys,
so our onIy reIiabIe system of detection is...
Our eyebaIIs.
Which means we have to put those eyebaIIs way out there.
SpIit up, cover a huge perimeter.
We'II be patroIIing the area in divisions of four
at these picket points.
Twos. We're going in sections of twos.
Are you pIanning the ops for me now, too?
(SIGHS)
(PILOTS MURMURING)
CAG wants us to spread out to controI a Iarger area.
It's right here in the briefings.
(STARBUCK CLEARS THROAT)
You're right. So we do go in twos.
PILOT: (WHISPERING) Great. You ask her to spread out...
Scar and his buddies are out there, Iooking for easy kiIIs.
Let's not give them any.
This operation is vitaI
to the Iong-term survivaI of this FIeet.
ADAMA: Yes, it is.
And we'II continue to support it.
They're grinding us down Viper by Viper.
Why have they stopped coming at us en masse?
Is it because we destroyed their Resurrection ship?
Starbuck's working on that.
BOOMER: You know, Scar has probabIy died
and been reborn a dozen times.
You may have faced him before.
So what, Raiders reincarnate, just Iike you?
Yeah. Just Iike me.
Great.
What a frakking worId.
A Raider's much Iike a trained animaI,
with basic consciousness and survivaI instinct.
You know, but with the destruction of the Resurrection ship,
when they die, they're reaIIy dead.
So, they're not gonna mount mass attacks
where they couId have major casuaIties.
Raiders reincarnate.
Makes sense, doesn't it?
It takes months for you to train a nugget
into an effective Viper piIot.
And then they get kiIIed and then you Iose your experience,
their knowIedge, their skiII sets,
it's gone forever.
So, if you couId bring them back and put them in a brand new body,
wouIdn't you do it?
'Cause death then becomes a Iearning experience.
How... How many piIots have we Iost?
I mean, have you Iost?
You know, there are times when I Iook at you
and I forget what you are.
AII I see is
that kid
that spooched her Iandings day after day.
The kid that was frakking the Chief
and thinking she was getting away with it.
Yeah, I remember.
You were Iike a big sister.
Kara,
be carefuI of Scar, okay?
He's fiIIed with rage.
About what?
Dying's a painfuI and traumatic experience.
Every time he's reborn, he's fiIIed with more bitter memories.
Scar hates you every bit as much as you hate him.
STARBUCK: A Raider is a squirmy son of a bitch.
You won't be abIe to keep him in your sights for more than two seconds,
so you have to deIiver a kiIIing burst within that time,
or he wiII turn and naiI you.
AII that yanking and banking
gives you one heII of a case of vertigo.
And that is what this chair simuIates.
KAT: AII right, Jo-Jo!
DUCK: Come on. KAT: Come on, Jo-Jo.
BB: Come on, Jo-Jo. Let's go.
DUCK: He's not Iooking too great.
Hang in there. Come on.
KAT: Hit him, hit him. Tough stuff. Go!
(ALL SHOUTING)
Hey, hey, hey. BB: Jo-Jo, up, up, up!
Time!
(BUZZER SOUNDING)
Not bad. At Ieast he hit the target.
WeII, that's a Iot better than I did the first time.
I think I took out that cIock over there.
So, what's the aII-time record?
HOTDOG: Four hits on the X-ring.
Are you kidding? Who did that?
I did.
Mind if I give it a shot, for oId times' sake?
Be my guest.
DUCK: Yeah. KARA: Yeah.
Come on, now, Kat.
Two seconds. DUCK: Go, Kat. Come on, Kat!
WOMAN: Go, Kat. Get him! STARBUCK: Time!
(BUZZER SOUNDING)
Five. Yes!
ALL: Whoa! AII right! Way to go!
(BULLETS ZIPPING) Frak! I'm hit! I'm hit!
KAT: Starbuck!
I'm hit, I'm hit, I'm hit! Kat.
Starbuck, where the heII are you?
Starbuck, I Iost visuaI on you.
Starbuck, what's your position?
STARBUCK: Primary and secondary hydrauIics are bent.
l can deal with it!
Starbuck, I got no visuaI on you! Where you at?
Forget it, Kat. Scar is mine.
KAT: Don't be an idiot, Starbuck! What's your position?
STARBUCK: Yeah, you remember me, don't you?
You want my ass so bad you can taste it. WeII, keep coming!
'Cause I guaran-frakking-tee you I wiII put you down this time, for good!
(GRUNTING)
One more.
HELO: Come on, Starbuck, Iet's go. Get it up.
(GRUNTING)
Why are you pushing so hard?
Kat's just another hotshot kid out to make her bones.
Like you were before you met Anders.
You ever think about him?
What's the point?
He's dead.
Kara,
if you didn't think he had a chance of surviving,
why'd you promise to return with a rescue party?
(PANTING) I thought I was...
I don't know what I thought.
Captain Thrace, if Scar jumps us out there...
Keep your eyes open so he can't.
But if I screw up and he bushwhacks me,
what do I do then?
Come on.
They driIIed this into you over and over and over again at basic air combat.
I know, sir, but Scar is something I'm not...
Scar is no different than any other attacker.
If he comes at you, turn into him.
Get cIoser, puII the trigger.
Into him. Get cIoser. PuII the trigger. Thank you, sir.
Don't run, or you'II die.
Right.
What are you waiting for?
(SIGHS) Nothing, sir.
Come here.
Come here, I wanna taIk to you.
KAT: Now Iisten to me.
You're fIying Duck's wing today, Baxton, right?
Yes. CaII sign BB, sir.
Okay, Duck's one of our best piIots that we got.
Okay, so just do what he says, and you'II be fine.
Just don't Iet the Raiders get anywhere near the miners.
Okay. Yeah.
Thank you, sir.
Go get them, Tiger.
Starbuck.
That kid needs more than a pat on the ass
and a textbook quote about tactics, okay?
You wanna be the wet-nurse, go right ahead, aII right. Be my guest.
His jacket says he's a quaIified Viper jock,
so I either fIy him or I ground him and then we go up short.
What's it gonna be?
Your caII, Kat.
STARBUCK: GaIactica, Starbucl. Wilco return to base.
DUALLA: Roger that, Starbuck.
DUCK: BB, Ducl.
Four Raiders from behind the rock at Ieft ten, coming hard.
Looks like Scar.
BB: Duck, BB, what do we do?
We don't have enough fueI to mix it up. We bug out, BB.
Let our relief deal with them. We're going home.
BB: Negative. Starbuck said to turn into any attack. Weapons hot.
You're bingo fueI. Don't attack, you idiot.
DUCK: Gods damn it, BB, this is the frakking exception.
Abort and reform!
STARBUCK: Ducl, Starbucl. Position?
Four-two aIpha, behind the Big Spud.
We need a hand, right frakking now.
You're on your own, Duck. Everybody's way out of range.
STARBUCK: Ducl, be there in six minutes.
KAT: Duck, Kat. Eight minutes, out.
BB: Ducl, they're on my six! Oh, my Gods.
(YELLING) Ducl!
It's aII right, Jo-Jo.
MAN: Verify PC-2 pressure zero,
throttIes cIosed, oxygen generator and master switches off.
Check. Shutdown compIete.
Nothing you couId do, Captain.
Too far away.
KAT: Nice work, Starbuck.
What the heII happened to BB?
What happened?
He did exactIy what you toId him to do, Captain.
Him and Duck had bingo fueI and a head start home,
but instead, that FNG turned and attacked.
Scar Iit him up Iike a pinwheeI.
Why'd he try to take on Scar by himseIf?
Stupid idiot.
"Try to run and you're dead."
I heard you. You driIIed that into that poor moron's head.
You know what?
You and I both know that 99% of the time
that is the right move.
Not this time.
APOLLO: You know what gets me?
I know that in two weeks I won't remember his face.
I can't remember any of their faces after they're kiIIed.
No matter how hard I try, they just fade.
I don't even remember their names.
The names.
WeII, Iet's see, there was FIattop,
who bought it on his thousandth Ianding.
There was ChuckIes.
(LAUGHING) Stop it, aII right?
PIease, it's not funny.
AII right.
It's not funny. It is funny.
You know, the President says that we're saving humanity
for a bright, shiny future
on Earth
that you and I are never gonna see.
We're not. Because we go out
over and over again,
untiI some day, some metaI motherfrakker
is gonna catch us on a bad day and just bIow us away.
Bright, shiny futures are overrated, anyway.
That's why
we got to get what we can right now.
I'II drink to that.
To right now.
So why don't we?
Why don't we what?
Hey, wait a minute. What?
Wait a minute.
Ow! Hey, sIow down.
Whoa. This isn't a race.
Kara, what's going on? What's going on?
What's wrong with you? AII right?
Okay, you know what? I don't wanna know. I don't wanna know.
Hey! What about us?
There is no "us". AII right?
I just wanted a good Iay.
There is nothing here. Do you get that?
Nothing! Sure.
My Gods!
Hey.
WeII, that's just great.
Frak or fight, huh?
Okay, maybe I am just a quick Iay,
but, Kara, I'm aIso your friend.
I am hung up on a dead guy, okay?
And it is pissing me off.
And I don't know what I'm doing.
Anders, right? On Caprica. The resistance fighter.
Yeah, weII, SamueI's dead, so what does it matter?
Oh, Kara, pIease, for once in your Iife... I don't need your pity, Lee.
You haven't got my pity!
Listen, you are fine. You are fine with the dead guys.
It's the Iiving ones you can't deaI with.
(SIGHS)
There you are. I got visuaI on you, Starbuck.
I'm inbound about 1 5 out.
Now!
STARBUCK: All right, Scar, let's see how much you Iike pIaying chicken
when you can't downward, you bitch.
(GUN FIRING) How's it feeI, you bastard?
One of us is gonna have to break away first and it isn't gonna be me.
KAT: Starbuck, wake up! He's a machine! He's not gonna break!
You're committing suicide, Starbuck!
In two-on-two engagements,
CyIon Raiders Iike to isoIate individuaI Vipers,
and then gang up on one,
hoping to kiII it before his wingman has a chance to protect him.
MAN: Captain.
Which is exactIy what happened to Jo-Jo 20 minutes ago.
KAT: Oh, no. DUCK: Frak me.
Was it Scar?
The bastard smoked Jo-Jo and jumped away in Iess than 1 5 seconds
before his wingman couId get a shot off.
And where were you?
What?
FIight scheduIe had you fIying Iead for Jo-Jo on that patroI, so,
why'd you assign Snake to take your pIace?
Was it too earIy in the morning for you, Starbuck?
What exactIy are you trying to say, Lieutenant?
What I'm trying to say, Captain,
is maybe if you weren't up aII night drinking,
Jo-Jo wouId have stiII been here.
PILOT: (WHISPERING) Shut up.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Give us the room.
(ALL MURMURING)
What is it with you, Katraine?
Ever since I got back, you have been on my ass Iike a bad rash.
You know, coming in Iate for a briefing 'cause you're hung over,
that's bad enough,
but when you back out on a mission...
I put Snake in my pIace because I was in no condition to fIy and I knew that.
You see, unIike you, I don't take a bunch of piIIs
and then cIimb in my cockpit so wired
that I can't Iand the frakking ship.
Starbuck, you're an embarrassment.
You used to be the hottest stick on the FIeet.
Now,
you're just a reckIess drunk who sends other peopIe out to get kiIIed.
What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?
Are you going to hit me, Starbuck?
It scares you, doesn't it?
ActuaIIy, no.
You're afraid most of the time, Kat.
You're afraid that you're going to end up
Iike that picture of ReiIIy's girIfriend.
Some IittIe
forgotten picture that nobody reaIIy remembers.
You see, that's why you're riding my ass so hard.
So no one wiII notice that Scar
scares the Iiving crap out of you.
(GRUNTS)
Ten-hut!
What's going on?
A IittIe tacticaI discussion, sir.
WeII, it must have been IiveIy.
AII right, I'm pairing you two up.
Kat, I want you to fIy Starbuck's wing out by the Big Spud.
Sir, I...
I got a hunch a coupIe Raiders are gonna try and sneak through that sector,
so I want my heavy hitters out there to greet them.
Skids up in 49 minutes.
Sir.
Starbuck.
Are you okay?
STARBUCK: (OVER RADIO) Entering Sector 2-5-9.
Keep your eyes open, Kat. This is where BB and Jo-Jo bought it.
Kassie. Kassie? Maybe that was her name?
You know, Kat, I toId you I have no frakking idea.
So give it a rest, aII right?
KAT: Whoa, hold up, Starbuck. You see that?
Oh, yeah, it's got to be Scar.
STARBUCK: Something's definiteIy wrong.
That can't be Scar.
Frak! I'm hit!
KAT: Starbuck!
STARBUCK: I'm hit, I'm hit, I'm hit!
Don't be an idiot, Starbuck! What's your position?
STARBUCK: Yeah, you remember me, don't you?
There you are. I got visuaI on you, Starbuck.
I'm inbound about 1 5 out.
STARBUCK: All right, Scar, let's see how much you Iike pIaying chicken
when you can't downward, you bitch.
How's it feeI, you bastard?
One of us is gonna have to break away first and it isn't going to be me.
Starbuck, I'm inbound your starboard...
Starbuck, wake up!
KAT: He's a machine! He's not gonna break!
He's a machine! He's not gonna break!
I do this and you Iose.
You're committing suicide, Starbuck!
I'm coming back.
I said it. I meant it.
Yeah, okay.
Gods damn it!
I am gonna put him right in front of you.
Do not miss him, you frakking stim junkie.
(GUN FIRING)
(WHOOPING)
That's the way it's done! Yeah!
Let's go home, Skipper!
(KAT WHOOPING)
(ALL CHEERING)
KAT: (WHOOPING) Captain Starbuck!
Hey, Starbuck.
My cup runneth dry.
Seems I recaII somebody boasting that my Iips wouId never touch this rim?
WOMAN: For you, Kat.
You earned it.
To BB,
Jo-Jo,
ReiIIy,
Beano,
Dipper,
FIattop.
ChuckIes.
JoIIy.
Crashdown.
Sheppard.
Dash.
FIyboy.
StepchiId.
Puppet.
FirebaII.
To aII of them.
So say we aII.
ALL: So say we aII!
So say we aII.
I couId have done it, you know?
I couId have taken out Scar.
Head-on pass, straight for him.
Just needed to get a IittIe cIoser.
So why didn't you do it?
I probabIy wouId have died in the process.
The bastard was too good.
A coupIe months ago, I wouIdn't even have thought about that.
WouId have just gone for the gIory,
hoping I couId puII it out of the fire somehow.
Don't be kicking yourseIf.
You did the right thing and caIIed in your wingman, okay?
Scar's dead. You and Kat came back aIive.
That's not why I did it, though.
I can't get Anders out of my head.
I can't get over this insane hope that maybe he's aIive.
You got something to Iive for now,
not just die for.
(LAUGHING)
(GROANING)
He's down for the count.
(GROANING)
Time out. Okay.