“THE LOST WARRIOR”
Recon Probe 3 to Galactica. I am under attack.
Well, then we're gonna have to hide it.
He has a right to know.
No! I will not have Puppis going after
the thing that killed his father,
spending the rest of his life as a warrior.
Boxey's lost one parent. He's not gonna lose two.
You don't scare me.
Oh, Apollo, please do something. They'll kill him.
Bootes told me about your gun.
Your gun is the only chance we have.
NARRATOR: There are those who believe that life here began out there,
far across the universe,
with tribes of humans
who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians
or the Toltecs, or the Mayans.
Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man
who even now fight to survive
somewhere beyond the heavens.
Recon Probe 3 to Galactica. I am under attack.
Repeat, I'm under attack. Will try to make it back to you. Send help!
EXPLOSION
Galactica, Recon Probe 3.
Where's Blue Squadron? I'm running out of time.
Galactica, Recon Probe 3.
Commander, Blue Squadron ready to scramble.
There will be no scramble.
But, sir, Apollo's in trouble.
I know what he's doing.
He's leading the Cylon patrol away from us.
You couldn't reach him in time.
And if you did, it would undo Everything that he's risking...
APOLLO: Galactica, Recon Probe 3.
Where ’3 Blue Squadron? I’m running out of time.
He's not expecting any help, Boomer.
Those transmissions are for Cylon ears.
Flight leader to base. Pursuing Colonial Viper,
Hatari Sector, bearing Delta 9, Mark 7.
Pilot is attempting to reach Galactica.
It's about time.
Surprise.
Full booster, run out of fuel.
First lesson you learn as a cadet.
Thank you, Lord.
Colonial Viper has turned away.
We have lost him on our scanner.
Forget him. He is trying to lead you away.
Continue on his original heading, Delta 9. Seek the Galactica.
I could have got him today if you hadn't growled. GROWLING
Yes, just like that.
I had that old lupus in my sights and you spooked him.
Don't you understand, Strider?
The lupus is killing our stock.
He's bad, like Red Eye.
GROWLING
No, no. Red Eye isn't coming.
Boy, if I could get that lupus in my sights...
BLEATING
VIPER WHOOSHING
Puppis, no!
BREATHING HEAVILY
Captain, you are one lucky pilot.
SIGHS
You okay, mister?
Hey, I didn't mean to frighten you.
I won't hurt you.
BREATHING HEAVILY
Where am I?
My mom's place.
No, no, what planet? Equellus.
Equellus?
Equellus.
Wow!
It's beautiful.
You've never been close to a starship before?
I've never even seen one.
Bootes told me about ships that fly in the stars.
I thought he was just making it up.
Do you fly in the stars?
Not very well without fuel. SIGHS
Who's Bootes, your father? My uncle.
My father's dead.
I'm sorry.
It happened a longtime ago, when I was a kid.
And you've never seen another ship?
No freighters, tankers, fighters?
Yours is the first. Is it a fighter?
Puppis, move away from him! Come here.
Take it easy. I'm not here to harm anyone.
Don't worry, my mom can't hit the side of a granary with a numo.
Puppis, get over here and light this torch now!
Yes, ma'am.
If he wanted to, he would have shot you, Mom.
He's fast. And wait until you see his gun.
Would you be quiet and light that torch?
SIGHS
Is that really necessary?
Shut it off.
Thank you.
Now, you better get back in your ship and leave, quickly.
I'd like nothing better, but I'm out of fuel.
SIGHS Well, then we're going to have to hide it. It and you.
Cylons? What are Cylons?
Well, if you don't know, then there aren't any around.
Be thankful for that. What are you afraid of?
Please, just do as I say. Let's hide it.
Now.
INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS
What's going on?
Is anything wrong?
Oh. LAUGHS
No. No, we’re just, uh...
Trying to keep some of the slower Ships in formation.
Hi, Starbuck, Boomer.
Hiya, kid. Checking up on your grand, uh... Commander?
Nope. Dad's on patrol.
He told me to wait up for him.
Good Lord, I almost forgot.
Your dad asked me to tell you that the patrol
might go on longer than he expected.
Longer? How much longer?
Well, he landed on a planet to check it out.
Right, Commander? Yes, yes, he...
He's going to be out longer than we thought.
And he asked Boomer and me if we’d let you spend the night with us
in the, uh, bachelor officers' quarters.
With the pilots? Yep.
And we can, uh, have a couple...
Fruit juices... Fruit juices,
and, uh, talk shop
and maybe even, uh, a couple of hands of pyramid.
Can I, Grandpa?
Yes, you may, of course, if that's what your father wanted.
Oh, yes, he did.
Oh, boy, I get to spend the night With the Blue Squadron!
Let's go! All right!
Thank you, Starbuck.
Right.
I've never seen a numo before.
Hmm. Fires on compressed air?
It can kill a lupus within 10 metrons.
Itcan?
Well, if you hit it just right.
Mmm. It's very good.
How long has this man Lacerta been taking tribute?
Nearly 10 yahrens.
He just lets us keep enough ovines to get by on.
Why doesn't somebody stand up to him?
Red Eye'll kill 'em. Zap!
APOLLO: He's the one with the, uh...
Puppis, you're forgetting your chores.
With the gun like yours.
VELLA: Your chores.
Yes, ma'am.
VELLA: Leave it!
You don't need a numo to feed Strider and the layers.
What if a lupus comes around?
I said leave it!
DOOR CREAKS OPEN
DOOR CLOSES
I thought you said the only guns here were numos.
What difference does it make? A gun is a gun.
I hate them all.
SIGHS If it weren't for the lupus That come after the stock,
I'd destroy every numo, every...
SIGHS
My husband was killed by a gun. A gun like yours.
I know how you feel. Do you?
My wife was killed by a gun like mine.
FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING
Someone's coming.
You'd better go in there.
GROWLING
VELLA: What do you want, Red Eye?
We heard a sound in town.
Lacerta sent me to investigate.
Did you hear a sound? VELLA: No.
I did. I heard a lupus howl and a night flyer hoot
down by the woods.
Those are not the sounds I am seeking.
They're not?
You don't scare me. Puppis!
Why do you people persist in foolish acts?
You cannot hurt me.
I can try.
Did you hear the sound I seek?
BOOTES: Let 'em be.
RED EYE: What are you doing here, Bootes?
Dropped by to see my sister and I heard a noise.
A noise?
Yeah, it crossed over my place, passed over this way.
Sounded like it went on into town.
In town, it sounded like it came out here.
Well, you know these hills at night.
Sound travels in strange ways.
It can deceive you. Humans deceive, not sound waves.
Well, what is it? Do you know?
NO, but I Will find out.
It would not go well for you to lie to me.
You are both behind in tribute as it is.
GROWLS
Now, what is going on, sister?
Inside.
Uncle Bootes, this is Apollo.
He flies one of those ships that you told me about.
Am I glad to see you, Captain!
You know who I am? I know what you are.
A Colonial warrior, a captain!
And that, bless my eyes, is a laser pistol.
And he's fast. Faster than Red Eye, I bet.
Why didn't you destroy him?
'Cause he was afraid of hitting me or Mom.
Hey, just hold it a second. This is all going by At light speed.
How do you know who I am?
Puppis didn't, nor his mother.
BOOTES: Vella? Vella knew. She just never told the boy.
PUPPIS: Told me what?
That your father was a Colonial warrior.
A warrior? A pilot like Apollo?
Very much so.
Did he fly a fighter and wear a laser pistol?
Come on, Puppis,
if I know you, you haven't tended the flock yet.
I want to know. I want to know about my father.
I'll tell you. Come on.
SIGHS
DOOR OPENS
SIGHS
DOOR CLOSES
SIGHS
What happened?
Bootes found Martin wandering in the field wounded and half-dead.
INHALES
There'd been a battle up there, among the stars.
And Martin crashed in the desert.
He must have wandered for Lord knows how long.
And I tended him.
It took a longtime. And we fell in love.
I think he was happy here with us.
I mean, as happy as he could be.
He was stranded with no way to get home.
But he never talked about it, except once.
CHUCKLES
The night before our wedding,
Bootes brought over a jug of homemade buzzer.
I was so mad I could've strangled both of them.
I guess he told my brother things that night he never told me.
But I knew.
I'd find him outside,
lying on his back, with Puppis on his stomach.
He was just a yahren then, staring up at the stars.
This, uh, Cylon, Red Eye,
he was wearing a Colonial pistol.
Martin's?
One day, Lacerta appeared with Red Eye.
We'd never seen him before.
And Martin went crazy the moment he saw him.
I mean, there was no way I could stop him.
He ran into the bedroom where he Kept his pistol hidden
and when he came out...
That was nine yahrens ago and I can still see it like it just happened.
And you never told Puppis?
And neither will my brother. He gave me his word.
He'll find out someday. Someone will tell him.
No. He has a right to know.
I will not have Puppis going after
the thing that killed his father,
spending the rest of his life as a warrior, fighting, killing, dying.
For what?
Why did Martin go after him like that? Why?
Red Eye is a Cylon.
And they have one objective, to destroy all humans.
Your husband knew that.
But Red Eye, this Cylon, as you call him,
he hasn't destroyed all of us.
He only kills those who try to kill him.
APOLLO: That doesn't make any sense.
DOOR CLOSES
I don't understand what's happening here, but I intend to find out.
How? By going after Red Eye with your laser?
BOOTES: Yes!
From what Puppis tells me, the captain here is faster than a lupus.
No. I’ll avoid the Cylon.
I'll go into town dressed in clothes like yours, unarmed.
But you can kill him. You have a laser gun!
Where there's one Cylon, there's others.
If they see my laser pistol,
they'll know I'm a Colonial warrior
and they'll hunt down my ship.
Or worse, destroy every human inhabiting this planet.
When Red Eye killed Martin, he saw the laser pistol.
He took it. No one came to hunt us down.
I can't risk it.
No gun. You'll just have to understand.
Oh, I understand, Captain!
If you’re not man enough to use it, give it to me.
No gun.
This fruit juice is just...
Great.
Yeah, it's, uh... It's terrific.
Quit stalling, Starbuck. Are you going to call or not?
STARBUCK: Give me a few centons, will you, kid?
You're eating your bet.
ALL LAUGHING
SIGHS
All right, call.
Three-quarters of a pyramid.
That beats me.
Me, too. I'm clean.
Well... BOXEY: Not so fast, Starbuck.
A full pyramid.
ALL LAUGHING
Your deal, Giles.
Thanks, kid.
I'm glad we're not playing for cubits.
Ah, if we had, it would've been different.
That does it! He should have been in bed centons ago.
And what are you hotshots doing
teaching him to drink and play cards and smoke?
It's only fruit juice. He's the one that's winning.
I'm not letting him smoke. Oh, you're not?
Now, listen, to bed, young man.
Oh, Cassiopeia, just one more hand?
Now.
CHUCKLES
And no more smoking around Boxey.
But I'm sleeping in here tonight.
SIGHS But that's after you say your prayers
and wash your face and brush your teeth.
Okay? Okay.
And recirculate the air in here!
ALL LAUGHING
Boy, that does it.
Next time you have a big game, don't call.
INDISTINCT TALKING
I'm going up on the bridge,
see if they picked anything up on the scanner.
They would've told us.
Yeah.
Well, we can’t just leave Apollo out there, we've got to do something.
Really? Any suggestions?
One, if we can get the Colonel and the Commander to go along.
And if they don't? Then we do it alone.
Boxey's lost one parent. He's not gonna lose two.
What's the wager, Marco?
Two bladers.
Make it 200.
I don't have 200, you know that.
Then fold.
But I've got you beat.
SOFTLY I know.
Vignon.
Aren't you going to apologize?
If it will make you feel better.
SNIFFS
The only way you stinking oviners can make me feel better
is to stand downwind.
Don't tell me, you want me to move again, right?
SIGHS
Tell you what,
how about if I sit with my friend, would that be okay?
Friend?
Oviners have no friends.
That one.
My name's Apollo.
SIGHS
I don't suppose you want a drink.
I do not ingest consumables.
In this case, you're not missing anything.
I've never seen anyone like you before.
You are lying. No.
I sense you want to destroy me.
You would not be the first.
Nine have died trying.
I cannot be destroyed by a numo.
I can see that. You seem to have run into a few dents.
Still, you will try.
I'm unarmed. That does not matter.
Red Eye, sit.
Lacerta wishes to see you.
Does everyone jump when he snaps his fingers?
That's fine for a machine, but not for a human.
You owe me your life.
Perhaps I can return the favor.
What are you drinking? Vignon.
The barman can bring it. Thank you very much.
Macy, who is he?
I don't know, but he's different.
Thank you.
You have courage.
A foolish trait.
It gets men killed. Why are you here?
I heard of your Red Eye. I was curious.
Another dangerous trait. Where did you find him?
Do not mistake my benevolent attitude for stupidity.
What do you want?
To work for you. Why didn't you say so?
I had to impress you.
SNICKERS
LAUGHING
ALL LAUGHING
By Equus, you're right.
SIGHS
Come back tomorrow. I'll see what I can do.
Had to impress me. LAUGHING
GROWLING
What's wrong? A lupus came after the stock.
I took Puppis in the house, but he must have gone out a back window.
Which way? Out near your ship, I think.
LUPUS GROWLS
Hurry!
GROWLING
GUN FIRING
GROWLING
GUN FIRING WHIMPERS
Imam I killed the lupus! LAUGHING
Yes, son, you killed the lupus.
SIGHS
LAUGHS
Feeling good?
I feel like I could fly. LAUGHS
Yeah, I know. But your mom's scared.
And she's probably going to be very Angry when she sees you.
You mean she'll treat me like a little kid?
Puppis, I know you're a man.
But your mom...
Well, that's going to take a little time.
She loves you very much. Give her that time.
I think I know what you mean.
I think you do, too.
And, Apollo? SNIFFS Hmm?
I know you're not afraid of Red Eye.
SIGHS
FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING
Oh, Puppis. Oh...
Don't you know that you could have been killed?
Didn't I tell you never to go after them? Never
I'm sorry, Mom. Sorry?
The scanners are still clean, sir. No sign of pursuit.
Evidently, Apollo's ploy worked.
Yes.
Adama, they want to go after him.
Starbuck and Boomer?
Every pilot on the Galactica,
including me.
Don't you think I do?
SIGHS I've been studying battle charts
from the Hatari system for centons.
It's filled with planets and asteroids.
If Apollo hasn't been...
If he hasn't been shot down, if he's eluded pursuit,
if he's been able to land on one of those surfaces,
if he hasn't run out of fuel, if all those things happen, then theoretically
he'll be within our range for a few hundred centons longer.
If, if, if, if!
So many ifs, it's incalculable.
But possible. Why not slow the fleet, buy him more time?
Send a patrol back.
Not deep enough to penetrate the Hatari system and risk detection,
just enough to lead him to us if he comes out.
All that effort and risk for the Commander's son.
That's utter felgercarb and you know it!
If it was Starbuck or Boomer or a first orbit cadet, you'd do it.
Adama, don't diminish his chances Because he's your son.
We can't bring the fleet to dead slow.
But launch a patrol when ready.
Bridge, Colonel Tigh.
OMEGA: Yes, sir. Launch patrol.
I guess there were two Vipers ready to launch.
Hi.
Did you two talk through the entire sleep period?
Yeah.
He finally fell asleep a few centons ago.
I don't know how you stayed awake.
Well, I think I, uh, dropped off a couple of times.
CHUCKLES
Boxey always used to keep me...
SIGHS
Boxey's my son.
A few yahrens younger than Puppis, but very much like him.
It never occurred to me.
You must miss him very much.
Very much.
SIGHS
That's why I have to find Lacerta's Connection to the Cylon Empire.
SIGHS Red Eye's proof they land here.
They might have a hidden fuel depot.
Stealing their fuel is the only Chance I have of getting back.
SIGHS
And I'm running out of time.
Apollo...
GROWLING
HOOFBEATS
Oh, it's all right. It's only my cousin Jason.
Red Eye showed up at Bootes' a little while ago.
He took half their herd, tribute.
Bootes started drinking and the next thing I know,
he rode towards town.
Oh, Apollo, please do something. They'll kill him.
Bootes told me about your gun.
Your gun is the only chance we have.
I'll go into town, but no gun.
INDISTINCT TALKING
Come on, come on!
A man can only be pushed so far.
He can't work and bleed
and turn everything over to some fat pig!
Pay tribute.
BREATHING HEAVILY
Give up half your ovines.
Perform like a trained daggit.
No more. Not this oviner.
You've had your last tribute from me.
I think I have. Right!
I'm not afraid anymore.
One of these times,
one of us is going to penetrate
that tin-plated machine with a numo!
Maybe it will be you.
Yeah, maybe it will!
Bring it on, Marco!
SCREAMS
GUN FIRING
Stop him, Lacerta! The boy is armed.
Give me that gun!
Please.
Sit.
I hate you!
INDISTINCT TALKING
We won't give you any more trouble.
I hope the rest of you will learn From the example Apollo.
He understands respect.
That's all I ask.
That,
and a little tribute.
BOOMER: Halfway mark, Starbuck. A little farther, huh?
A little farther and we might not get back.
Chop your power.
Have you gone crazy?
We can drift for 40 or 50 centons.
We don't spot him by then, he'll be out of range for good. SIGHS
What do you say?
Chopping power.
SIGHS
Vella, I'm sorry. No.
They don't understand. I do.
You did the right thing.
SIGHS I'm not so sure.
I am.
WHISPERING Apollo.
I don't have much time. He'll miss me.
SIGHS
What is it?
You're different.
We can all see that, except Lacerta.
You've blinded him by the way you talk to him, appeal to his vanity.
But not Marco.
You put him down and he's working On Lacerta to kill you.
I know Lacerta. He won't stay landed long.
He'll unleash Red Eye? No.
Marco wants to kill you to get back In Lacerta's graces.
He used to be his right hand before we found Red Eye.
You found him? Where?
STAMMERS The mountains.
We were riding one night
and we heard this roar in the sky and then an explosion.
Pieces of metal fell like rain.
Cylon fighter.
What?
What happened then?
SIGHS We found two others like Red Eye, destroyed.
We got scared and turned the wagon to run.
That's when we saw Red Eye.
He had that awful dent in his head and...It was strange.
He looked up at Lacerta and said, "By your command."
He's been doing what Lacerta says ever since.
LACERTA LAUGHING
I got to go. Thank you.
SIGHS
Apollo, my man Marco wants a word with you.
Someone give this oviner a numo
so I can bury his smell.
That won't be necessary.
I, uh... Maybe I was wrong.
Red Eye!
I knew he wasn't a coward!
Puppis!
Oh, my God. Not again.
Uh-oh.
ELECTRICITY CRACKLES
ALL CHEERING
Congratulations!
PUPPIS: Zap! Zap! Zap!
Zap! Zap! Zap!
Bootes would have been proud of you, Apollo.
Red Eye was fast, but you were faster.
Hey. Hey! Hold it! Hold it, Boxey!
Puppis.
Someday, I'll be a hero like you.
I will, Apollo.
Now, you listen to me.
Do you remember when you killed the lupus?
Did you feel heroic?
I felt scared.
APOLLO: That's how I felt against Red Eye.
No, you. Scared.
You killed the lupus because you had to,
even though you were frightened.
That's all I did, something I had to do.
There was nothing brave or heroic about it.
There never is, no matter what you kill.
And I pray to God it's something
neither of us will ever have to do again.
Apollo.
I know where Martin's ship crashed.
I don't think it can fly, but it may Have the fuel you need.
If it weren't for Boxey...
BOOMER: He’s out of time.
Boomer, let's give him another centon.
We did that five centons ago, Starbuck.
I want to see him come out of there as much as you do,
but if we don't leave now, we'll never get back.
Right. Firing my engines.
DISTORTED Galactica, Recon Probe 3, do you read me?
Apollo? Do you read me?
Apollo, is that you?
Apollo? Apollo, is that you?
Starbuck?
Got you on the scanner. Take an Omega one heading.
Apollo, here we come.
Yee-haw!
What are you guys doing out here?
Oh, we just thought we'd take a little ride.
The stars are kind of nice in this galaxy.
We'd just about given up on you, buddy.
BEEPING
STARBUCK: Where have you been?
Let's go home.
It must be beautiful.
He'll be back, Mother. Someday.
He promised he would.
Yes, he did.
Someday.
ADAMA: Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny,
the last Battlesta, Galactica,
leads a ragtag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest,
a shining planet known as Earth.