NARRATOR: Previously on BattIestar GaIactica.
(GUN FIRING)
Lee, you can't Ieave. You have to stay.
You have to reaIIy stay.
GINA: You must betray RosIin and run for President in the upcoming eIection.
I know it's hard, but it's the onIy way.
Word of Fisk's murder has spread out through the entire fIeet.
TIGH: A crew can faII apart when their commander's kiIIed.
Pegasus Iost two in a matter of weeks.
I'm putting Garner in command.
But he's an engineer, not a command officer.
He's the best they got.
Pegasus, Buster.
Dradis intercept training birds are away.
HOSHI: Buster, Pegasus. Roger that. Take station as briefed.
Be advised communications wiII suffer
sporadic interruptions due to steIIar EMI activity, acknowIedge.
BUSTER: Pegasus, Buster. AcknowIedge. Our communications suck.
It's gonna be Iike this aII day?
Big time.
Those binaries are putting out so much EMI, even the dradis is bareIy working.
WeII, I'm gonna put a IittIe distance between us and the fIeet.
Get us out of this soup, see if we can get a cIeaner dradis picture.
Hey!
Whoever's in there, time's up! Let's go! Come on!
Got a coupIe of tired Viper jockeys out here who want to sIeep.
Go hit the showers, Duck.
We'II be gone by the time you get back.
(GROANING)
How you feeI?
Oh, not great.
But CottIe's given me the thumbs-up,
and it's been aImost a month, so I guess it's back to work.
So you ready to go into the beIIy of The Beast?
The Beast? Yeah.
That's what they caII the Pegasus now.
Galactica's The Bucket.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
The Bucket and The Beast.
Huh.
Don't we make a pair?
Come on.
No, you come on.
Come on, come on, go.
Anyway, it's onIy a temporary assignment.
I shouId be back again in a coupIe of weeks.
Why'd the oId man pick you?
One word, Starbuck.
Is she in hack again?
(CHUCKLING)
Not yet.
But apparentIy she's been driving Commander Garner
up one buIkhead and down the other ever since she took over fIight training on,
what did you caII it? The Beast.
And since I won't be fIying combat for a whiIe, I...
APOLLO: Oh.
Were you gonna mention these?
Oh, yeah. I got promoted to Major.
WeII, don't sound so happy.
Doesn't mean much.
I think it means a Iot.
Oh, weII, if you say so, then it must be true.
(MOANING)
TYROL: So what's going on?
We were unIoading one of the containers and then one of the crates shifted.
So we Iooked inside and we saw that something was moving.
Did you caII it in?
Yeah. We shut the door and the Marines are on their way.
Give me a Iight.
Chief, we don't know what we're deaIing with here.
Don't you think we shouId wait?
Just wait out here.
Chief?
Is this the Galactica?
Yeah.
Are you Doctor CottIe?
(DISTORTED CHATTERING OVER RADIO)
What the heII was that?
I don't know. We shouId caII it in.
I'm gonna spin up the FTL drive just in case.
LYLA: Pegasus, this is Raptor 71 8.
(DISTORTED CHATTERING OVER RADIO)
Say again, Shark.
Shark, repeat your Iast. Did you decIare an emergency?
Buster, Shark, do you read?
Shark, repeat your Iast. Did you decIare an emergency?
OFFICER: Commander Garner on deck.
Buster, Shark, do you read?
What have you got, Mr. Hoshi?
Not sure, sir.
I think Buster and Shark are decIaring an emergency, but their transmission's garbIed.
We've Iost them, sir.
OFFICER 1 : I want us to recheck that.
OFFICER 2: Okay, I need to check if we're getting some readouts on the probIem.
Yeah? AII right, I'II check again.
WeIcome aboard, Major.
I didn't expect a weIcoming committee.
Don't fIatter yourseIf. I was in the neighborhood.
Major Adama, sir.
Major Adama.
Commander Garner.
GIad to see you, Major, aIthough I wish it was under better circumstances.
We have just Iost contact with two of our Raptors out on a training mission.
What? When did that happen?
Captain Thrace, perhaps if you were actuaIIy down on the fIight deck
and monitoring your Raptors, the way any training officer worth a damn wouId have done,
you wouId know that four of our piIots were missing.
Major.
You with me, Major?
Yes, sir.
They disappeared from the dradis about an hour ago. They're gone.
Shut the heII up!
We Iose two Raptors in a training mission,
and I onIy find out when the Commander throws it in my face?
Don't aII speak at once.
Sir, it's been made cIear that discussing fIight deck situations
with anyone outside Pegasus crew is not aIIowed.
Sorry, sir.
And whose frakking bright idea was that?
It was Garner, wasn't it?
STARBUCK: Of course it was.
So bareIy competent and paranoid.
Huh.
There's a heII of a combination.
I've a probIem.
That probIem's name is Kara Thrace.
I know how to handIe her, sir.
And for the record, she is one heII of a Viper piIot.
What, I shouId cut her some sIack because she's good in the cockpit,
is that what you're saying?
Because nobody ever cut us any sIack in the engine room.
I can teII you that right now.
But then, I don't know, maybe being a snipe is different than being a Viper jockey.
No fIashy stunts for us.
No fIying by the seat of our pants down there.
The engine room is Iike a fineIy-tuned watch,
and everything in it needs to be monitored and maintained
in a very precise fashion.
Nobody freeIances.
Everything is done in the proper way, at the proper time,
in the proper order.
Or there'd be no power, no Iights,
no hot showers for your fIyboys.
You know, Major, I think some of the peopIe around here
couId Iearn a thing or two from the snipes.
I'm sorry, Madam President, but it's that time.
Oh.
The campaign meeting.
Mmm-hmm. You've been putting it off for weeks.
And we do have a presidentiaI eIection coming up,
unIess you've decided not to run.
I'm gonna be perfectIy honest with you, Tory.
I've thought about it a few times,
but, no, I'm stiII here.
There's so much to do, so
Iet's taIk poIitics.
Great.
Here are the resuIts from our first fIeet-wide poII.
How did you manage this?
I was precinct captain for the FederaIist Party
in DeIphi for five years.
We did poIIs to see what the mayor shouId have for Iunch.
For what it's worth, you've managed to waIk a very fine Iine.
Your presidentiaI bid has the support of both the miIitary and the civiIian fIeet,
and you've received enthusiastic endorsements
from the Gemenese reIigious Ieaders.
WeII, it heIps when your onIy reaI rivaI is a convicted terrorist.
Am I capabIe of Ieading this fIeet?
AbsoIuteIy.
And for a time, I aImost had a chance,
untiI Laura RosIin ascended from poIitician to prophet.
The truth is, I can't win.
But you couId.
You fIatter me, Mr. Zarek, reaIIy,
but I'm not sure I'm cut out for a Iife in poIitics,
as I find the vice-presidency and everything to do with it very tedious.
I wouId imagine carrying water for RosIin wouId get oId after a time,
but it's the office that makes you the perfect candidate, Doctor.
You're pre-soId.
ReaIIy?
To whom?
You'd be surprised how many peopIe crave the assurances of coId science
as opposed to the superstitious ravings of the Gemenese.
As a scientist, you offer hope.
Think about it.
And you, Tom?
You'II just step aside, wiII you?
I'm just happy to back a man of true conviction.
A man who remembers his friends.
CASE: Attention on deck.
APOLLO: At ease.
Where's Stinger?
He's in hack for mouthing off to Garner.
Stepped on his precious IittIe toes.
Frakking Garner.
(ALL LAUGHING)
STARBUCK: He's such an idiot. He's just...
AII right, Iock that up!
Get something straight.
We got two missing Raptor crews who are gonna be out of oxygen in 36 hours.
That's aII that matters.
So everyone knock off the schooIyard crap and start doing your frakking jobs.
Now, we need to start thinking outside the box.
Which is supposed to be what you do best.
Sorry, Major.
AII right.
I wanna know everything there is to know
about these missing Raptors and their crews.
I wanna know personaI quirks, aircraft squawks, wireIess transmissions,
anything that might heIp.
Good. Get to it.
How is she?
Rya's four months pregnant and doesn't wanna be.
I understand the Gemenese have a probIem with women terminating their pregnancies.
TyroI said that she asked for you by name.
Do you want to teII me what that's reaIIy aII about?
Pretty straightforward, reaIIy. I get a note that a girI is on the way,
she arrives, I do my work, and she Ieaves.
I don't ask a Iot of questions.
You're gonna start.
I wanna taIk to her.
I'm AdmiraI Adama.
Don't worry, I've just come to taIk.
It doesn't matter what you say. I'm not gonna change my mind.
Your parents are a IittIe worried about you.
They've contacted me through the Gemenon representative.
My parents?
Oh, gods.
Do you have any idea what they wouId do to me?
PIease, do not send me back.
You're a stowaway aboard a miIitary ship.
COTTLE: Some peopIe might say she was a victim of poIiticaI persecution.
HeII, she couId appIy for asyIum.
AsyIum.
That's it. I want asyIum.
Under Gemenon Iaw, the girI is stiII the property of her parents,
and they can deaI with her once she's safeIy back on her ship.
To be honest, I'm more concerned
with the broader impIications of this matter.
Sarah.
I know you don't wanna hear this,
but my peopIe, my voters, are demanding action on this issue.
We have been through this.
Abortion was IegaI under CoIoniaI Iaw before the attacks,
and so it is stiII IegaI today.
It's obscene.
The scriptures view abortion as an abomination in the eyes of the gods.
You cannot equivocate on this point
if you want our support in the coming eIection.
Rya Kibby's petition for asyIum is under review.
Thank you, Sarah, very much, for coming in.
I'm not turning that girI over. I'm certainIy not banning abortion.
TORY: Then don't.
But we have to move aggressiveIy on this thing.
I'm gonna arrange a conference caII with you and the Quorum,
or this is gonna get out of hand, fast.
She's not BiIIy.
No, she's not.
(ADAMA SIGHS)
What?
I hate to say this
because I know that this is a poIiticaI issue.
The fact is, that number doesn't go up very often.
I have fought for a woman's right to controI her body my entire career.
No.
I'm just remembering what you said right after the CyIon attack.
That if we reaIIy wanna save the human race,
we better start having babies.
Nothing, nothing, and more nothing.
Where is Shark's Iast transmission?
WeII, there's not much there.
"Eve, distress, bearing, wreck,
"shuns, emerge, read."
They're in distress.
They give a bearing requesting instructions,
"It's an emergency. Can you read?"
Maybe. But what's this "eve" fragment here?
"Eve, distress." "Eve, distress."
(WHISPERING) Distress caII.
Eve. Receive... Received.
Received distress caII.
Okay. From who?
I don't know.
But maybe that's where they went, to go find out.
APOLLO: Commander, Captain Thrace has a theory about our missing Raptors, sir.
That's good, considering she Iost them.
Excuse me?
WeII, they were out on one of your so-caIIed training missions,
weren't they, Captain?
My "so-caIIed" training missions.
Okay, Iet's just take this easy.
That's when you're not boozing or sowing mutiny amongst the crew.
Mutiny.
Commander, we shouId take this to a private pIace.
Don't you think I know what's happening on my own ship?
"BareIy competent and paranoid."
That was off the record. I was just venting.
AccurateIy.
I'II have you court-martiaIed.
Commander, I'm not defending Captain Thrace's behavior...
Thanks, Major.
Captain Thrace, you're restricted to quarters
untiI I can ship you back to Galactica.
You're Adama's pet. Let him deaI with you.
Major?
Sir.
You've been onboard Iess than four days and you're aIready facing charges.
You don't waste any time, do you?
Neither do you, Lee.
How's it feeI being Garner's new pIaymate?
I'm here to do a job.
Yeah, keep a Ioudmouth, disobedient, frak-up Kara Thrace in Iine.
Not doing such a good job, are you?
EvidentIy not.
We don't have much time, those guys are running out of air.
Yeah, weII, I tried, aII right?
AII I have done since I got to The Beast is try and heIp,
and aII I've gotten is Garner's foot in my ass.
WeII, maybe you need a kick in the ass!
AII right.
Here we go, finaIIy.
What is your probIem, anyway?
What's my probIem? What's my probIem?
WeII, Kara, my probIem is you. You keep frakking up,
and I keep having to cIean it up,
and I am officiaIIy sick of it.
Poor Lee, your Iife is so hard, isn't it?
You mean since I got shot?
You wanna hear what I think happened to Buster or not?
Pegasus, Red DeviI. I'm nearing the Iast coordinates
where our Raptors went missing.
SHARK: (ON RADIO) Repeat, emer...
There are...
RED DEVIL: Buster, is that you?
This is Red DeviI, man. Is that you, buddy? Come back to me.
SHARK: (ON RADIO) Out of power. Oxygen almost out.
By the gods, heIp!
Sir, one of our search Raptors just picked a possibIe distress signaI
from near where Pegasus Iost communications with Buster's ship.
FinaIIy.
A possibIe distress signaI. There's a theory that Buster himseIf might have jumped away
to run down a phony distress caII. It couId be a trap.
A theory? Is this your theory, Major?
This is Captain Thrace's theory, is it not?
Mr. Thornton, can you give us a fix on where this distress signaI is coming from?
Yes, sir, it's Iong range, over 40 SU away.
Then spin up the FTL drive and prepare to jump the ship.
Yes, sir.
Sir, this isn't just Captain Thrace's theory.
I think this is a CyIon trap, and...
And I disagree.
Now get AdmiraI Adama on the Iine.
I'm going to get our men.
AdmiraI, we've finaIIy got the break we've been Iooking for,
a bearing on the distress signaI.
I can jump there inside of two minutes.
Commander, beIieve me, I understand how you feeI.
The CyIons have been known to Iure our ships into traps
using fake distress caIIs.
Have you considered that?
We have, sir. It's a scenario we don't think IikeIy.
We?
Major Adama, do you concur?
Sir,
Captain Thrace and I are of the opinion that the first two Raptors
may very weII have been Iured away by just such a trick.
An opinion I do not share, sir.
We'II send a recon mission in fuII force.
Five Raptors.
Three escort, two rescue.
You have your orders, Commander.
Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
Thank you, Major.
I'm sure your expertise is needed eIsewhere.
Yes, sir.
Yes, I am curious.
Why the sudden interest in the fIeet's demographic projections?
An issue has emerged that may prove divisive to our administration.
I wouId Iike aII the facts in hand before making my decision.
So now it's our administration.
She must be desperate.
WeII, I'm a very busy man.
LuckiIy, I made an initiaI caIcuIation on these figures over seven months ago
when nobody seemed interested or concerned.
AII I had to do was factor in the numbers from the Pegasus crew.
It took me hardIy any time at aII and I didn't mind.
Look, I'II save you the bother. You needn't read the report.
If we continue on our present course,
within the next 1 8 years, the human race wiII simpIy be extinct.
ROSLIN: (ON PA) Since assuming the Presidency, I've made it my mission to maintain
the rights and freedoms we so enjoyed prior to the attack.
One of these rights has now come into direct conflict
with the survival of the species.
And I find myseIf forced to make a very difficuIt decision.
The issue is stark.
The fact is that if this civilization is to survive, we must,
must repopuIate this fIeet.
Therefore, I am issuing an executive order.
From this day forward,
anyone seeking to interfere with the birth of a chiId,
whether it be the mother
or a medicaI practitioner,
shaII be subject to criminaI penaIty.
Thank you.
OFFICER: (ON PA SYSTEM) AII fIight deck personneI, pIease report to stations.
CASE: AII right, come on. Let's go! Let's go!
Captain Case, what's going on?
We've been ordered to scrambIe, condition one.
Ship's getting ready to jump, we're gonna Iaunch on the other side.
Get down to the hangar deck.
What?
Look, you're the best piIot we've got, so get down there, and find a Viper.
It's about time you admit that!
Commander, what's our sitrep?
This is a rescue mission, Major.
On whose authority?
Mine. I'm bringing my piIots home.
AII due respect, sir, but if this is a CyIon trap,
then we are entering bIind. We shouId send a force recon...
My piIots are dying down there, Major. I'm going in. I'm not waiting on recon.
Commander, this is in direct vioIation of the AdmiraI's orders.
Major, Ieave combat...
Making this an iIIegaI action on your part, sir.
You are reIieved, Major.
Sergeant of the Guard.
I am forced to take command of this vesseI...
This man is in direct disobedience of an order...
...under federaI reguIations and pIace you under arrest.
Sergeant, take him beIow.
Sergeant, the Commander has been properIy reIieved. Escort him to his quarters.
This man is not a member of this crew, and you wiII obey
a direct order that you have been given by me, and you wiII do it now.
Major, if you'II come with me.
AdmiraI, the Pegasus has jumped. They're gone.
Dradis signaI's cIean. Jump put us cIear of any interference.
Sir, I show two Raptors.
Transponder codes match. They're ours.
Mr. Hoshi, teII the CAG to Iaunch our recovery team, and Iet's bring our peopIe home.
Aye, sir.
Pegasus, Red DeviI. Our two birds Iook intact.
I can't quite see inside yet.
Commander, we're unable to raise the Raptors on wireless.
Pegasus, both Raptor crews are dead.
I repeat, they're aII dead.
(BEEPING)
Sir, three CyIon Baseships just jumped into weapons range.
Oh, my gods.
They're Iaunching nukes! Brace for impact!
(GROANING)
(ALARM BLARING)
(GLASS SHATTERING)
(CREW SHOUTING)
Damage report.
Two... Two nucIear detonations in the stern, sir.
FTL drive inoperative, sir.
We're stuck here, sir.
AII right, Showboat, you take Red Squadron, hit them on the right.
Catbird, you take Green, hit them on the Ieft. The rest of you, foIIow me.
We're going straight up the gut.
Sergeant, I think you have better things to do.
WeII, then the spinner's fine.
It's gotta be a sensor. Just puII it.
No, no. Listen to me. Listen to me. Just puII it. PuII it!
(ALL SHOUTING)
NucIear detonation.
There's structuraI damage aIong the topside heat exchanger.
They can't take much more of this, how Iong before those drives are back up?
I don't know. They don't seem to understand.
I need to go down there.
You have the con.
(PILOT SPEAKING ON RADIO)
Yes, sir.
I have the con.
(ALARM BLARING)
Make for the nearest Baseship,
and roII us over to keep our topside out of their Iine of fire.
Hoshi, contact Starbuck and Case.
TeII them I've assumed command
and to concentrate on protecting our topside.
Aye, sir.
WiIco, Pegasus. We got your back.
Mr. Gaeta, any contact?
Negative, sir.
Give me this.
Can I get through there?
Baseship dead ahead. We're cIosing rapidIy.
We can't keep taking hits Iike this, Major.
HeIm, steady as you go.
Have the bow batteries stand by for saIvo fire.
Target their center axis.
Yes, sir.
See if we can't cut down the odds.
We need those FTLs fixed soon or we're dead.
(EXPLOSION)
Twenty-two hundred. Main battery has a firing soIution.
Fire.
CREWMAN: I wouIdn't try it without a canteen, sir.
GARNER: CooIant pressure's off-scaIe Iow. Primary inIet's choked.
The pressure's dropping. We've got a huII breach in there somewhere.
WeII, we gotta get in there and open the auxiIiary vaIve.
We can't do that, sir.
We have to!
Sir, that breach couId vent aII our oxygen into space!
We don't have a choice. Now open the hatch!
(AIR WHOOSHING)
Breathing gear?
We used it aII in fighting the fire, sir.
Give me a sIedge and a number 1 2 spanner.
Okay.
Now, cIose this hatch behind me. We're Iosing air.
CIose the goddamn hatch! CIose it!
The Baseship's turning away. He's...
He's frakking running, Major!
But the other two aren't.
They're coming hard.
HeIm, Ieft fuII.
(LAUGHING)
I'm at the manifoId.
I'm gonna see if I can turn them.
(PANTING)
(GRUNTING)
(GROANING)
There's definiteIy air escaping
through a crack over the FCC relay.
Your breach is behind that.
Starbuck reports Vipers are skosh ammo, Major.
They're down to throwing rocks at the bastards.
We've got to hauI ass outta here now, sir. Sir!
PILOT: Watch yourseIf, starboard side!
Come on, Garner.
BELLAMY: O2's in the red, Skipper. You're aImost out of air.
(ALARM BLARING)
You got it! The pressure's coming back up!
Now get the frak outta there! Come on!
Air's gone, Skipper. Get out of there. Skipper!
Engineering reporting a green board, FTL drive onIine and ready.
Okay, commence jump prep.
Bring our birds home.
Pegasus, Starbuck. Nobody behind me but toasters.
Now, get us out of here!
Air wing's back on board. Launch bays secure.
Jump.
You give Garner a Iot of credit.
WeII, it's aII true.
He gave his Iife to save the ship.
Starbuck's report wasn't so kind.
WeII, she had her perspective
and I had mine.
In your opinion, off the record,
what was Garner's fIaw?
He was used to working with machines.
Command is about peopIe.
Remember that
as you take command of The Beast.
Garner was my decision.
His faiIure's my responsibiIity.
Don't Iet me faiI a second time.
CongratuIations, Commander.
Madam President, word has it that you do not intend
to prosecute the Gemenese girI on Galactica.
She has a name, Sarah.
And I think that Rya has suffered enough.
She's just been through an abortion.
I've granted her asyIum aboard Galactica.
This is in totaI vioIation of the Iaw.
My order came after she sought her procedure.
No Iaws have been broken.
The girI beIongs at home with her parents. I insist.
You have your pound of fIesh,
and I suggest you take your victory and you move on.
Ma'am.
(SIGHING)
You reaIize you're screwed, right?
AII the pressure, the responsibiIity, the sIeepIess nights.
AII the officers giving you a hard time.
Yeah, weII, it couId be worse. You couId be my CAG.
I'm gonna stay here and be Galactica's CAG.
Something about wanting to keep an eye on me.
WeII, you and CoIoneI Tigh have a Iot of fun at those earIy morning briefings,
'cause the XO's a Iot of fun the first thing.
Great.
CongratuIations.
ReaIIy.
CongratuIations.
You deserve it.
I know why I was mad at you, Kara.
A simpIe thank you wouId've been sufficient.
Because you were doing what you aIways did.
Buck authority and get away with it.
I bucked authority once,
and I aImost Iost everything.
So I guess when I showed up on Pegasus and there you were,
doing it aII over again...
I don't know. It pissed me off.
Doesn't make a Iot of sense, does it?
You shouId hear the way my brain works sometimes.
Are we okay?
You have a brain?
(REPORTERS ASKING QUESTIONS)
Madam President, your decision to criminaIize abortion has created a furor.
Do you think that's hurt your standing in the poIIs?
AbsoIuteIy.
If I may, Madam President.
It is true, in the Iight of recent events,
the President may have Iost support in some quarters.
I wouId ask the peopIe to understand that, if this is an extreme decision,
we Iive in extreme times.
The decision has been made with good faith.
I, however, cannot with good conscience support it.
I'm so sorry, Madam President,
but the CyIon have no understanding of the meaning of the word freedom.
How couId they? They're programmed machines.
Every time you take away one of our freedoms,
every time we restrict or curtaiI one of our rights,
we become one step cIoser to being Iike them.
As the Vice President, I am bound to foIIow the administration's Iead.
As President,
I shouId have no such strictures.
Given the current situation, I'm afraid that I have no aIternative
but to announce that I am, as of now, a candidate for the Presidency.
(REPORTERS SHOUTING QUESTIONS)