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We've actually found human life forms.
DR. SALIK: Look at them.
Oh, my Lord.
Hopefully, this is our first contact with an Earth vehicle.
The lives of those people do not belong to us.
They must be allowed to continue on their journey.
Can you identify them?
I've never seen flying craft remotely similar.
Do not lose contact with those ships.
You'd have to be pretty powerful to beat the Alliance.
ADAMA: By the good graces of the Lords of Kobol,
the Galactica continues to lead her flock of survivors
towards the coordinates given us by those great white lights
that vanished as mysteriously as they first appeared.
There are those who speculate that those lights,
advanced ships, really,
might have come from Earth,
giving us great hope that they have
a highly developed technology.
Even now, our long-range scouts patrol the quadrants
watching for signs that indicate
that we are growing close.
ALARM BEEPING
SIGHS
Apollo?
Yeah. I'm awake.
How long have I been in sleep period?
APOLLO: About six centares. What's up?
I can hear your klaxon over the comm line.
You're about 50 sectars ahead of me.
Wait. Something's just coming onto the edge of my scanner right now.
What's it look like?
A sub-light vehicle containing six life forms.
SIGHS Apollo, you don't think...
That it could be our first contact with Earth?
Don't get your hopes too high.
Hang on, I'm kicking in my turbos to catch up with you.
STARBUCK: Apollo?
I see her. Now back off a little.
Back off? We've come millions of metrics
for this moment and you wanna back off?
Starbuck, we don't want to scare these people out of their wits.
I hadn't thought about that.
Starbuck, look at the life signs.
That's incredible. They indicate humans,
but at minimum life-support level.
INDISTINCT MURMURING
Colonel, what is this?
I'm sorry, Commander, but everyone's so excited.
News has spread that there are life forms
and that Captain Apollo has successfully attached the tow lines
without interference from whoever's onboard.
I see. Put me on unicorn, please.
Yes, sir.
SIGHS
On the line, Commander.
People of the fleet, this is Commander Adama.
Rumors are spreading faster than fact
about the discovery of a manned vehicle
soon to be brought aboard the Galactica.
I must ask you all to be patient
and cautious in your optimism.
The incoming vessel will have to be placed in strict quarantine,
carefully, before we can allow anyone near it
for fear of jeopardizing not only our own lives,
but the lives of whoever is aboard that spaceship.
Hopefully this is our first contact with an Earth vehicle.
Commander, so far no responses whatsoever from within the ship.
We're beginning to doubt that we'll get any response.
Why? All life signs indicate live body functions.
Alive but minimal.
They could be sick. Or it could be a trap,
maybe even a bomb planted inside capable of blowing us all apart.
There is no bomb!
The defusing team has signaled that the ship is clean.
Has anyone tried to tell those inside that we're here now?
Yes, but there was no response.
But they're alive? Yes, but barely.
Gentlemen, there is no need for all this conjecture.
Let's go in.
Dr. Wilker, one centon, please.
Could we be upsetting a critical balance by entering this ship,
violating the seals?
We penetrated the hull with a probe
and we took samplings of the, uh, gases in the atmosphere.
ADAMA: And?
DR. SALIK: Almost zero atmosphere.
Zero?
There were traces of oxygen, traces of carbon dioxide.
But nothing that could sustain life as we know it.
Yet six life forms on this ship live, even if barely.
What happens
if we enter the decontamination chamber attached to the ship?
Would we be killing those inside
if they're used to zero atmosphere?
Commander, nothing human could survive in that ship.
Well, then, this is it.
SIGHS
It's incredible.
By the grace of God.
Oh, my Lord.
ADAMA: Bless their hearts. Look at them.
Some of them are babies. Just children.
Doctor, are they alive?
They are alive.
You sure? They don't look like they're breathing.
Their metabolism has been lowered
to a minimum level for sustaining life.
They're conserving fuel.
Precisely.
How long could they have been like this?
Perhaps a long, longtime.
Yeah, well, we've got to do something
to try and bring them out of it.
Starbuck, done improperly,
that could terminate their lives. Why?
Because we haven't the slightest idea
of how this equipment functions.
To tamper with a delicate life-support system
which has kept them in this state for a yahren or 100 yahren
could mean termination.
You mean, we finally find humans who are possibly from Earth
and we've got to leave them in these tubes?
Lieutenant,
Dr. Salik is a physician.
I am a scientist.
We'll have no trouble comprehending how their technology works.
I'll pick one chamber and run tests on it.
Oh, you mean, use them as human testing drones?
And if you mistakenly short out his life-support system, too bad, huh,
you just move on to the next child?
Adama, if you'll forgive me,
I believe you people have served your purpose.
The rest is in our hands.
It's not a military matter anymore.
Commander, we do need some room to work.
Very well.
But understand one thing, Doctors.
Who these people are
and where they were going when we intercepted them
may be crucial to our survival.
I want no chances taken with their lives.
Commander, bringing them here at all may have been fatal.
By now, I'm sure that most of you are aware
that something special has happened.
We found people from Earth.
Please use your question indicator
when desiring to address the class, Boxey.
I'm sorry, Athena.
You're excused. SIGHS
Now, I'm sure that all of you realize
that what happens throughout this day
is liable to affect each of us for the rest of our lives.
We're all a trifle nervous.
Yes, Loma?
If there are people inside that ship,
why aren't they coming out?
We can't allow it right now because
their craft has to be decontaminated.
Now, who knows what that means?
Yes, Boxey.
It means we have to kill any sick bugs that may be on their ship.
Very good.
Now, we aren't talking about things
that are large enough to see, are we?
if you'll all remember, when we found ourselves
thrown together on this fleet for the first time,
some of us had troubles, didn't we?
My parents got sick from the liquids and food.
Yes.
Now, we aren't saying that there's
anything wrong with these liquids,
but that they contained bacterial strains,
which some of our people from the outer Colonies had to get used to.
Their bodies had to do what? Class?
ALL: Adjust.
Very good. You remembered.
Now, if you'll all look at your monitors,
we can read today's key phrase for today's lesson.
BEEPING
ALL: The human life form can adapt to many varied environments and foods.
The key thing in remembering adapting is time.
It takes time for our bodies to adjust.
My dad said that it could be possible for those people to kill us
before we knew what hit us,
if they carried the wrong bugs.
Oh, your father said that to you.
Not exactly. He was arguing with Starbuck.
Children, if you'll just continue
to read the text on your monitors,
I'll be right back.
Boxey, come with me, please.
Let's go try and find your father, Boxey.
SIGHS
ATHENA: Apollo.
Hey, Boxey, how ya doin'?
Are you trying to frighten the children
of the Galactica out of their wits?
What?
Now, I'm trying to reassure the children that what's happened is good.
Boxey overheard you telling Starbuck
that this event could kill us all.
SIGHS
What I said was that we and the people in that ship share the same risk.
Either could be dangerous to the other.
But we've decontaminated that ship.
On the outside, yes.
And even if we do kill off any viral strains
or bacteria forms that could hurt us,
what about all the other things in our own air
that we take for granted and breathe safely every centon.
Any one of them could be as lethal as poison
to the people inside that ship.
I told you.
Boxey.
Then what am I supposed to tell these children
who've been promised hope of a normal existence once we find Earth?
Tell them the truth.
That hopefully we've taken a giant step forward.
And that could send us plunging down a cliff.
APOLLO SIGHS
Look, if you'd like, I'll talk to your class
later on when we know something more.
Alright Yeah,I'll see ya..
You're gonna get it.
Come on, Boxey. Let's go back to class.
Dr. Wilker, do you realize that nothing we have on the Galactica
seems to correlate with their symbols or systems?
They're human. Yes.
The ship flies, it draws energy.
It has to make sense.
We're just going to have to start taking some chances.
Apollo, you look like you just lost your first love.
They're not getting anywhere.
Apollo, give them some time.
They may not have any time, Athena.
Whoa, whoa.
You sound as though there's some choice to be made here.
There is.
SHEBA: Whatever you talking about?
You found a ship drifting in space with living beings inside.
And we're doing everything we can for them, aren't we?
We aren't leaving them alone.
Leaving them alone?
Is that what we're supposed to do to the first humans
we encounter who're clearly from another civilization?
We've encountered other humans.
Not since we left range of our home planets, Athena.
Everyone we've encountered up till now,
every colony or outpost,
are drifters or pioneers who set out from our home planets.
Terms, dress, technology, all familiar to us.
So what are you saying, Boomer?
That if even a few of the humans we've run across
were descendants from the lost 13th tribe,
they were stragglers, left behind.
Now, here on this ship for the first time,
we've actually found human life forms
from a technologically advanced civilization.
That's what the whole point of the voyage has been.
Boomer's right.
That's why we've risked our lives staying on this tin can
instead of stopping at one of the planets we've passed
that, uh, could've supported life.
It is not why we haven't stopped.
We've never stopped because we've never been
strong enough to stop any place else.
We've been a hunted people.
Mmm, no, not for some time.
Look, let's lighten it up a little, huh?
Starbuck, you may be the best warrior in the fleet,
but you see everything in absolutes.
We win, we don't. We find Earth, we don't.
A girl says yes, she says no.
Good buddy, the quality of a civilization
is determined by the values between these extremes.
Apollo, I think you're being a little too hard on Starbuck.
If anybody's interested in my vote, I'm with Starbuck.
I say go in there, open those boxes
and start interrogating those people.
Lives of everyone of us depend on what they know.
Reese.
Stay out of this or I'll stick that mug down your throat.
Ah, look, I'm not suggesting
that we do something that could hurt those kids.
Look, I was just trying to...
Reese!
I can handle my own philosophical battles.
All right. Suit yourself, but I'm not the only one that feels like this.
Sooner or later the fleet's gonna stop
letting those old boys tinker around in there
and demand that we open the cases.
If they're human, they breathe fresh air!
Which is what I think I'm gonna get. SIGHS
It's always a little stuffy around you two.
Reese! EXC LAIMS
We came in here to let off a little tension, not to fight.
STARBUCK: Besides, aren't you getting a little confused?
I'm the hot-headed, impulsive one.
I may be confused,
but I still find it hard to offer even one life in sacrifice,
even to save thousands.
I'm sorry but I can't let any of you pass. The bay's off limits.
Young man,
half of these people are on the Council of the 12.
We want to make an on-site inspection. It is our right.
You'll have to get a written authorization from Commander Adama.
You haven't heard the end of this...
Lieutenant.
How long has this been going on?
JOLLY: Oh, it's getting out of hand, Apollo.
We're gonna have to put on more security.
Regular security reports to the Council.
We need to keep this to warriors
who're responsible to my father.
Then you better put out a general alert.
I've heard representatives are already landing on the Galactica
from every ship in the fleet. What?
They want to see the Earthlings.
We don't know they're from Earth yet.
What happened? Must've shorted out a line.
What are the instruments doing?
Well, there was a large drop in all the indicators.
I'd say you hit the central nerve of their life-support system.
At least we're getting closer.
Closer?
You could have shorted out the entire ship.
Wilker, we can't keep going on like this.
We do not know what we are doing.
We could terminate them all.
What happened?
Captain, we have little enough room, please don't interfere.
What's going on here?
Well, we found out that the gas used in the system is
stored in liquid form.
It is regenerated and recycled in some way
that has to do with these circuits.
Dr. Salik, you don't look quite so optimistic.
The system's slowly losing power.
Losing power? Why?
For one thing, when we probe the circuits,
we occasionally short out lines, draining off energy.
What? WILKER: Nothing critical, Captain.
I can solve the technology of this system in time.
And just how much time do we have, Doctor?
How far is it to Earth? Or how far have they come?
Or how much farther was this system
intended to support their frail lives?
I want you to discontinue your work at once.
Captain, I'm afraid you don't have the authority...
I'm not asking you, I'm ordering you out of this ship.
I want you to stay here and monitor the instruments.
But I don't know how they work.
Just apprise me of any change.
I'll be with my father. Wilker, you come with me.
Oh, don't you worry, I wouldn't miss this for anything.
You are in a lot of trouble. SIGHS
Apollo, you took a lot on yourself.
I didn't think there was time for a vote.
All I needed was a little more time.
You see, the operational manual
is an integral part of the bridge instrumentation.
So far, I've determined that the atmosphere
of the planet these people came from
is approximately one-fifth the atmosphere of Caprica.
Also, there are references to another planet called Terra...
Wait a second. Yes, sir.
Terra?
Terra in Gemonese means Earth.
That doesn't mean that this Terra is
the planet Earth we're looking for.
And even if it were, what difference does it make?
We've illegally seized an alien ship
on a course between two unknown points.
Illegally seized?
Oh, what else do you call it when you take a ship out of its flight
and tamper with its functions until its resources begin to dwindle?
Are they dwindling?
Well, there has been a slight power loss, that's to be expected.
We don't know... What we're doing!
Apollo, please be civil. Dr. Wilker is trying to help.
Look, I know that.
But we still can't put the lives of those six people
in his hands or anybody else's in this fleet.
SIGHS
What do you suggest?
We let them go.
Let them go? Put them back on their original course.
And lose any chance of communicating with them?
DOORBELL RINGING
Enter.
Adama, I... Please, please.
According to Dr. Salik, those people, two adults and four children,
may expire before this time cycle is over.
Which is all the more reason to break the seals
on those chambers and try to revive them.
Please, Geller, one more opinion
is the last thing we need at this time.
Mine isn't the only opinion.
Representatives are coming aboard the Galactica from every ship.
They're furious with your inaction.
Furious at my inaction?
What right have I to pass sentence on those children?
Quite right, Adama. No, no, I agree.
Our people judge you far too harshly.
Why don't we take a vote of the Council
and lift this burden from you?
You mean, they haven't already decided?
Apollo, you will be responsible for the security of that ship.
And Geller, why don't you call the Council into session immediately?
Whatever you wish, Adama.
"Whatever you wish, Adama."
SIGHS
There's kids on the spaceship!
Kids just like us!
Only from another world.
Boxey, return to your seat
as well as the other students,
or stay for an additional learning period.
And you, young man, will stay anyway
for returning late from meal period.
I wanted to see the kids.
Are they really just like us?
They look like us, but they don't move.
Children, what Boxey is trying to explain
is that these space voyagers are in a state which we call,
"State of suspension."
What does that mean?
It means that in order to travel great distances between planets,
they couldn't carry enough life-supporting gases to make the trip.
Who knows what is the most important gas,
which we need to breathe to live?
Boxey. Oxygen.
Very good.
Do I still have to stay for extra learning period?
Yes.
Oh, frak.
CROWD MURMURING
JOLLY: Please, everybody, stay back.
Please, don't crowd in here.
Stay back. Please, please.
Stay where you... Don't crowd in here.
Stay back, give us some room.
MAN: You have no right to keep us out!
What's the matter with all of you people?
The makings of a mob, Doctor.
Anything new from inside?
Nothing encouraging. I'm on my way to see Adama now.
But, Starbuck, you are to allow no one,
and I mean no one, aboard that ship.
We'll contain the crowd until the orders arrive, Doctor.
What orders?
The Council's voting right now to terminate the life-support systems
and let those poor people out of their cages.
You can't let them do that.
We have no idea what levels of resuscitation their bodies may require.
Don't worry, Doctor, no one's getting by us,
but you tell Adama what's happening and hurry.
SIGHS
In the meantime, until we hear from the Commander,
we're in charge here.
And until we receive orders from the Council to the contrary,
we are in charge.
SIGHS
Now, look, you golmonging snitrag, this is a military bay.
You and your men have jurisdiction over civilian personnel only.
Aren't the people aboard that ship civilians?
Well, now, we don't really know that, do we?
Maybe they're mercenaries, come here to mow us all down.
LAUGHING
Two adults and four mercenary children.
That is an imposing threat.
Take your positions. CROWD GASPS
One more step, black-shirt,
and you'll be flatter on your back than those Earthlings in there.
INHALES DEEPLY
GASPING
Sarah? Sarah?
SIGHS
Are we there yet?
SIGHS
Michael, what's wrong?
Not the children?
No. They're fine.
It's just that we're not where we're supposed to be.
Sarah, I want you to watch the children.
For some reason, our systems are growing low.
I'll be right back.
I'm going with you. No, Sarah, you must stay.
If their systems should fail,
I want you to open the children's cocoon, give them oxygen.
How long will that last?
Sarah, please. Don't ask me any more questions.
I'll be right back, okay?
It has been decided, as the support systems are failing anyway,
to remove the humans from their ship as quickly as possible.
But we cannot do that. You've all heard what Dr. Salik said.
It could kill them.
Mmm, we shall be as prudent as possible.
Begin with the oldest member amongst the space voyagers.
He will undoubtedly make the best psychological adjustment.
Council members, I cannot be responsible...
You're not responsible. We are.
Are you?
Have you the right to order a doctor to carry out a Council order
when it conflicts with every medical ethic
and moral instinct of his conscience?
You have your orders, Doctor.
And you, sir, have a problem with finding another doctor.
Adama, talk to him.
Oh, I plan to.
Excellent
I plan on telling him that he has given me
one of the proudest moments of my life.
Something marvelous has happened here.
Please do not let it pass unnoticed.
Would you mind telling me what all that means?
Dr. Salik has just reaffirmed that we are a race worth saving.
The Council has voted. We're bringing them out.
I don't believe it. It's true. It's official.
Dr. Salik wouldn't sell out. It isn't going to be Salik.
They're rounding up a couple of med techs from the Rising Star.
Now that it's official, Starbuck, Apollo, step aside.
Stand aside for the doctors, please. They have work to do.
Don't move any closer.
I said don't come any closer.
Welcome to the Galactica.
If you'll just stand aside... Stay back, Reese.
Stay out of this, Apollo. I'm in charge here.
We mean you no harm.
We just want to come aboard and help.
CROWD GASPS
Hold it!
ALL CLAMORING
Get those people under control.
Is he...
He's alive.
SIGHS
Who are you? Why have you brought us here?
We're brothers.
Your markings are not ours.
BREATHING HEAVILY
Where are we?
Is this one of our abandoned lunar posts?
You're onboard a ship.
What ship? A ship this large?
What do you take me for?
A backwards fool?
Tell them to stay back!
You're contaminating me. You're killing me.
And you're killing the children.
What's happening?
PANTING
GROANS
Don't touch him. Don't touch him!
We've decontaminated the ship
but not the people inside the support chambers.
Our bacteria.
CASSIOPEIA: It's not contamination. He can't breathe.
It's the atmosphere density.
All right, quickly. Starbuck and Apollo,
get him to a decompression chamber
and then the three of you,
you go to decontamination immediately.
STARBUCK: Let's go. Cassie,
lower his pressure to approximately
one-fifth of our atmospheric pressure.
Where are you going? To check the others. Commander.
Please, please don't hurt them.
They're only babies.
GASPING
It was our atmospheric pressure.
It's substantially greater than
wherever they come from and it was literally crushing them alive.
But they appear human.
DR. SALIK: Hmm.
We are adaptable.
They may have come from a planet
where the air grew thinner over millenniums.
Or ours grew heavier.
Either way, they're not compatible with our environment.
Remove them from these decompression chambers
and they will die.
SIGHS
What a pity.
What a great, great pity.
To have come so close,
perhaps even to the very humans
whose tribe we've been seeking.
Perhaps there is some way we can sustain them
until they regain enough strength to communicate with us.
No?
With the lives of every man, woman and child in this fleet
so dependent on their answers?
Can Earth support us?
Is it sufficiently technologically advanced
to help us ward off our enemies?
Can it protect itself from a Cylon invasion?
We can't let them go.
I'm sorry, but the lives of those six people do not belong to us.
They must be allowed to continue on their journey.
Apollo, there's no telling how long they've been in flight.
And there's no telling whether they will ever reach their destination.
According to Dr. Salik, the power to their life support systems
at the time we intercepted them was almost depleted,
which could mean they were very close to the destination.
Apollo, that's possible, but what if they're not?
It's a chance we have to take.
Father, I believe this family is being directed
to some planet unknown to us,
where I believe we might find the answers we desperately need.
Father, that's why I think Starbuck and I should escort them.
If you were to reach this planet
to which this ship is destined, as you say,
what then?
Their physiology is so incompatible with ours.
Yes, they cannot withstand the weight of our pressurization, true.
But we've all experienced short terms in
environments with far less pressure than our own.
Where they're going, I believe we could survive, at least for the short term.
Dr. Salik?
Dr. Salik, I will not reiterate the conversation
I've been having with my son.
Obviously, you've been conspiring, to put it kindly.
l merely expressed the facts to Apollo.
Then let me understand you clearly.
These children cannot survive
unless they are allowed to go to wherever their ship has been directed.
Unless you want to permanently imprison them
in depressurized canisters, yes.
Thank you, Doctor.
SIGHS
The Council will never approve your letting them go.
We don't have time for political debate. Wait.
Now, listen, all of you.
Suppose this were not a political situation.
Suppose it were a military situation.
Commander...
That's right.
If you think about it,
these little beggars are the worst things we've seen since the Cylons.
That's right. What?
They gunned down one of our security guards
right in front of my very eyes.
He's perfectly all right. It was a stunning device.
Starbuck, they are children.
Uh, forgive me, Colonel.
But I don't think you're getting into the spirit of the conversation.
If it's dangerous, it's military.
Naturally, being military and dangerous,
it will have to be reported to the Council.
Naturally.
In the meantime, Starbuck and I
will remove the fleet from any immediate danger
by placing the hostile spaceship back on its original course.
Lord help us.
Apollo, you can't fool any reasonable person with this plan.
We aren't dealing with reasonable people.
We're dealing with bureauticians.
Adama, the fleet is in a complete panic.
Apparently these so-called children fired on our security guards.
The Council wants to know what you plan to do about it.
Extraordinary measures are being taken even now, as we speak, Sire Geller.
I should think so.
I would like you to know, we are not at all pleased
with the way you’ve handled the situation.
We want answers and we want them fast.
SIGHS
You heard him.
Your plan won't work unless we move quickly.
Before their spaceship exhausts the fuel that she has left.
Yes, it must be quickly.
Go with my blessings and the blessings of the Lords of Kobol.
Safe journey.
Any change? No change.
We've managed to stabilize the pressure
but we can only hope that there's no permanent damage.
Did you hear what the Council voted yet?
Yes. It literally condemns them to spending
the rest of their lives in these chambers.
If they live at all. Apollo.
All clear? Is what all clear?
Uh, Starbuck...
Buddy, this is no time to be subtle.
Subtle about what?
We're taking your patients.
Oh, you're not serious.
Starbuck, do you know what they can do to you?
Have to catch us first.
Dr. Salik, you've got to stop them.
Don't look at me, Cassiopeia. I'm with them.
In fact, I'm going along to help monitor the equipment.
No, that we can't allow, Doctor.
You're too essential here.
Someone needs to monitor that equipment.
We could use some help onboard that ship.
You're asking me to mutiny right along with you.
Mutiny, that's a very harsh word.
Think of it as an act of mercy, Cassie.
I believe that what Starbuck and Apollo are about to do
is the only chance these people have of surviving.
You sure you're all right? I'm all right.
There are guards all over the place.
Courage, Cassie. These are the times that test our mettle.
Yeah, but you made a career out of risking yours.
Doctor, if you're gonna help with the Charade,
I suggest you lead the way.
We're all strictly med techs. Let's go.
Keep moving.
Hold it! I'll take care of them.
What are you gonna tell them?
I'll let you know after I think of it.
Wouldn't wanna interfere with the orders
from the Council of the 12, would you?
Where are you going with that decompression chamber?
The ruling just came down.
The children are to be taken off the ship at once.
Then you've lost, Apollo.
I don't lose as long as those people remain alive.
And you keep those people from getting in the way.
Time is critical.
We've got to transfer those children out of their life support systems
into the portable chambers we've brought just as quickly as possible.
I, uh, don't suppose you need any help making the transfer?
Thanks, Boomer, but you're much more valuable to us
right here with Reese.
Make sure he's able to control the crowd away from the ship.
My men won't have any trouble with crowd control.
Good. Then I'll get back and help Dr. Salik.
He sure changed sides in a hurry.
BOOMER: Yes.
I'm disappointed in him. I thought he had more guts.
Orders are orders.
Some people understand that.
If we can't get their own suspension units to work
we're going to have to leave them in ours.
Doctor, all I can say is you'd better find a way
to make their units work.
Because If we don't get back off this ship
with those two decom chambers,
those security guards will never let us out of this bay.
Apollo, I think we found some help.
SIGHS
Who are you? What do you want with us?
We're here to help you.
Help me? My God, don't you know what you've done to us?
We know. We want to put you back on course.
BREATHING HEAVILY
Sarah.
We just placed her back in her chamber.
Do you know how to make the unit work?
Who are you?
Are you with the Eastern Alliance?
What is this Alliance?
How can you not know about the Alliance?
Who are you? What is all this?
You're from a planet called Terra, is that right?
My people are.
I, Sarah, and the children were born on Lunar Seven.
That's where we were escaping from.
But you know that or else you wouldn't have stopped us.
No, we stopped you because we didn't know any better.
We hoped you could help us.
I'm Starbuck, that's Apollo, Dr. Salik and Cassiopeia.
We're on your side.
I would like to believe that,
but this is just the sort of cruel game the Alliance would play.
It's not a game.
We're going to help you. How?
Where were you bound for when we intercepted you?
I won't tell you.
What's your name? What are you called on Lunar Seven?
Michael. Michael.
All we want to do is put you back on course.
My ship knows its course!
All you have to do is put it in space. It's pre-programmed!
We'll do that if you'll help us.
Who are you?
People from another world. What?
A shattered world. We're refugees.
We're searching for a way to protect our people.
SCOFFS
How much of this do you think I can believe?
Michael, it's all true.
One more thing.
Do you know the course back to Lunar Seven?
No. We are never going back there.
But you must know. Somebody must know,
maybe on the planet you were heading for.
Look, whoever you are, you don't want to go to Lunar Seven.
The destroyers will annihilate you before you get halfway there.
Apollo, we have to get out of here fast. I know.
All right, Michael, I'm responsible
for pulling you into our ship and off your course.
I want to correct that.
But If we don't get you out of here
and back into space within the next few centons,
it's gonna be all over.
You and your party will never get off this ship.
Centons?
Either you trust us or we're gonna have to keep you here.
Are you well enough to fly this bird?
He could go back into compression at any time.
It's the only way we can guarantee your escape.
Wait a minute!
This is all happening too fast.
Why do you want to help me escape?
If you're not from the Eastern Alliance, then who...
Doctor, we're running out of time.
I'd like to keep him in the chamber till the last possible centon.
CLEARS THROAT
It could be the only possible way.
We'll offload one chamber and say we're sending
for more for the other children.
Good idea.
You guys act like you're enjoying all this intrigue.
I'm scared to death.
Michael, please, we must get you back in your decompression chamber.
I don't know who you are,
but it sounds to me like we have a lot in common.
We're all human.
Boomer, Jolly.
If he can spare you, we need help getting two more chambers.
We don't need your help. Thanks.
All right, I give up. What's going on?
We're taking that ship out of here with all the passengers.
Holy... That's right.
When that ship fires up, you two are gonna
see that security doesn't try to stop her.
Who's gonna be in it? APOLLO: Michael and Cassie.
Who?
Boomer, we don't have time to explain.
Jolly, go get another chamber and drop it off
next to the bacteria trap where you'll find this one parked.
Then wait for all Hades to break loose
when you hear those engines fire.
Got it.
What about you two?
Waiting for our ships. We're flying escort.
I hope you know what you're doing.
We're gonna learn everything we came to learn.
We're one step closer to Earth, Boomer. We're gonna protect it.
Here comes Jolly.
APOLLO: Blue Leader one, we’re ready.
All right, stand by. Okay, this is it, Michael.
You've gotta fly us out of here.
I feel fine. Are you going with us?
No. He's gonna cover your escape.
I'm Lieutenant Boomer, Michael.
You better get your ship fired up and get out of here fast.
We don't know how long we'll be able to keep them back.
All right. Thanks.
Good luck, Michael. Good luck, Cassiopeia.
What's going on aboard that ship?
Officer, get out of the way.
I have to get these children to the life station as quickly as possible.
Who fired the engine?
Orders from the bridge.
We're to jettison her to avoid further contamination, right, Doctor?
That's right.
All right, you two. I don't know what you're up to,
but I've had just about all I'm gonna take from you. Now, step aside!
Reese, you're endangering the lives of these children.
Surely not even you're that cruel.
Jolly, you forgot the kids!
Halt! In the name of the Council, I order you to stop!
Don't fire into that ship! You'll take out the whole landing bay.
You are in trouble, Officer.
Who's in charge here?
lam, sir.
What's all this about? Where's that ship gone?
Well, sir, it was decided that,
to avoid any further chance of contamination,
that it be jettisoned.
Who decided that?
Do you realize the wealth of technological opportunities for learning
that were on that ship?
Absolutely correct, Sire Geller. It's an appalling situation.
Very well, then get it back! Get it back!
Boomer, have Starbuck and Apollo take after that ship
and bring it back immediately, if they can.
Starbuck and Apollo? Do we have to have that pair?
Well, they're already in the bay
ready to launch on a routine patrol.
It's our only chance.
Very well. Give the orders.
Dr. Salik? Yes?
What are you doing here? Me?
I thought you'd be at the life station monitoring the humans.
You overruled me on the case. I'm no longer in charge.
Don't you remember?
I think I'd better see to the launch myself.
You'll excuse us.
If he's no longer on the case, what's he doing here?
What are those chambers doing in the bay?
What is going on here?
CLEARS THROAT
We'll begin taking sleep periods to conserve our strength.
There's no telling how far off their ship's destination may be.
Set your breathers from minimum to conserve.
STARBUCK: All right, but I'm too excited to be sleepy.
APOLLO: Starbuck, this trip could be endless.
Meaning none of us may make it?
Remind me to invite you to my next party. You're a lot of fun.
Going into sleep mode.
The ships have been gone for almost a secton now
and still no word.
The Council has asked me to appear before them for an inquiry.
MAN 1: Paradeen Control Center to Lunar Shuttle Avion.
We have you on visual. Do you read?
MAN 2: This is Lunar Avion responding. We have you on visual.
All systems are operative and in stand-by mode.
MAN 1: Excellent, Lunar Avion.
You are 20 hours behind our ETA.
What is your support status?
MAN 2: We are within tolerances to rendezvous. Thank you.
Apollo, am I hearing voices or am I still in sleep period?
No, I'm hearing them.
My scanner says at least one of them is coming from the shuttle we're escorting.
We're approaching that land mass
dead ahead at a very dangerous clip.
Cassiopeia?
Cassiopeia, do you read me?
Yes, Starbuck, I do.
The portable receiver you placed onboard is working just fine.
But who onboard your ship is talking?
I haven't the slightest idea.
It's just me and all these instruments.
APOLLO: Have they altered since departure?
No, but they're...
SIGHS
What are you doing up? You shouldn't be up, should you?
Yes, it's all right.
The ship has begun to adjust to the pressure on Paradeen.
Captain Apollo?
Michael?
Yes. I'm fine now.
The ship is proceeding in on automatic.
The voices you're hearing are computers
from the former base we had here.
If you'll just follow us down, you'll be safe.
What former base?
There's nothing left on Paradeen.
Nothing but Sarah's father and a place for the children.
Why are you telling me this now?
We'll have plenty of time to talk down on the surface.
I wanted to be honest with you.
We've arranged to destroy the homing transmitter
as soon as we're down.
We have to. It's to protect us.
Michael, are you saying you're going to destroy the coordinates
back to Lunar Seven?
l have no choice, Captain Apollo.
They could be following us right now.
APOLLO: Cassiopeia, stop him! Don’t let him touch anything!
There's nothing you can do, Cassiopeia.
It's all being done down on Paradeen.
SIGHS
I'll be saving your lives as well as ours.
From whom?
The Eastern Alliance.
Commandant? Yes, Krebbs?
The small craft which escaped from Lunar Seven a month ago.
Oh, yes, Destroyer Two reported the incident.
Nothing more than some children, a farmer, a young girl.
Has the ship entered our zone?
I'm not certain, Commandant.
My readout clearly matches the ship from Lunar Seven.
How far away?
20,000 kilometers, heading for the planet Paradeen.
Too far away to go to any bother over children.
We'll stop off when we complete
our patrol circuit and deal with them then.
Sir, there's more than one ship.
More than one? But the report...
I think you'd better see the screen, sir.
Can you identify them?
No, sir. I have never seen flying craft remotely similar.
The analyzer cannot compute their power function.
What are you talking about?
They aren't using a source of power familiar to the computer.
But this is impossible.
Whatever you do, Krebbs, do not lose contact with those ships.
Sir.
Lanceman, re-plot a course for the planet Paradeen.
Commandant, we are due on Lunar Nine in three days. If we don't...
I said to set a course for Paradeen.
Star speed. Star speed?
Star speed and battle-ready. Yes, sir.
I'm Vector. And this is my son. Hector.
BOTH CHUCKLE
Father, I thought we were expecting small children.
Now do you see, you half-witted fugitive from the plastic factory.
You have misprogrammed their slumber chambers.
Oh!
They've all grown up.
This one must be little Walker.
And this one, with the big long hair, must be Charity.
Oh, what a great big beautiful girl.
CHUCKUNG
Father, I know you had to build me with scraps you had on hand,
but even I can tell this is not a female of the species.
Uh, thanks. By Jove, you're right!
Who are these people?
MICHAEL: Vector.
Since when do androids carry weapons?
Oh, don't be alarmed, Master Michael.
Sarah's father armed us when the hostilities broke out.
Hostilities? VECTOR: Oh, they're over now.
However, I think we ought to get back
to the ranch as soon as possible.
Yes, Father is correct. The temperature drops quite low at night,
and we know how fragile you humans are.
Is the ranch where we'll find my father?
Yes, Miss Sarah.
I'll get the children.
This place, Paradeen. Whose colony is it exactly?
Why, Terra's of course. But, just who are you not to know that?
Be civil, Hector,
or I'll break you back down into spare parts!
HECTOR: Father, we must be careful.
Our programming did not cover guests, if that's what they are.
For once you are correct, Hector.
But we'll sort this all out back at the ranch.
This is your new home.
Do I get my own room? Me, too?
And me? MICHAEL: All right, kids, now be patient.
Find out what Sarah's father has prepared for us.
Oh, Miss Sarah!
It's a nice dwelling. Did Sarah's father build it?
Well, he started it, but my father and I finished it.
Michael! Yes.
I can't find my father.
Now, surely he knew we were coming.
Hector, why didn't Sarah's father meet us here?
Father.
STAMMERING He couldn't be here.
Why not?
Michael.
Well...
Go ahead, Vector, explain yourself.
Well, maybe Will be easier if I show you.
No! Daddy! SOBBING
It's your fault!
You, my father, all of you!
You're so drunk with your sciences!
What do we get for it, death?
More death?
SOBBING
An unfortunate circumstance.
But actually, Master Michael,
I'm sure that we can provide for Sarah
and her children a very good life.
HECTOR: A little lonely maybe.
Hush up, Hector.
He's sore because I didn't build him any brothers and sisters.
A girl is what I really want.
If I had parts for a woman, I'd build one for myself. SCOFFS
Well, let's get into the house before the humans freeze.
WHOOPING
Hey, kids. Melanie, come here.
GIGGLING
I must apologize.
They've been under for so long I'm afraid they're gonna stay awake all night.
They won't bother us. They need the exercise. CHUCKLES
But, I think it's time we got down to some serious business.
Wait. CHUCKLES Nothing serious
until we've given you our coming-home present.
It belonged to Sarah's father.
It was his pride and joy, rescued from the glory days of Terra.
Oh, it contains the most beautiful artists in all of Terra.
And when you see them...
No! I'm sorry, but we've purposefully kept the children
from seeing the sights of Terra.
Oh, but they're wonderful. Father promised me one day I might go there.
Hector, Vector, thank you. I know you meant well,
but you have to understand the children can never go there.
Pressurization?
Another of science's great mistakes.
Sarah...
I think it's time that you stop blaming
technology for all of man's sins.
I think it's obvious that it's not the tools, it's what we did with them.
Except for sending families to faraway planets to grow food for Terra,
not realizing children born there can never come home.
Your systems were born to an atmospheric pressure
which was one-fifth that of your home planet?
Exactly.
Even Sarah and I were born on Lunar Seven,
and we can't go home,
although I haven't sheltered my child from all knowledge of Terra
as she has with her children.
Her children? I thought you and Sarah were, uh...
No. You see, the oldest girl is my daughter. The rest are hers.
SARAH: My husband was a farmer before he was killed.
I wouldn't marry a technocrat if he were the last man in the world.
Can we see some pictures of Terra?
I said no. Oh.
Please, it's so beautiful.
Sarah!
Every night when Hector and your father and myself
finished building this house,
your father would take us inside
and show us a song and a dance that they used to do
at the Royal Theater on Terra.
Now, if we were to perform that for you,
with the music only and no picture,
would that be all right?
I suppose so.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Hector and I will now perform the selfsame dance
that was performed at the Royal Theater on Terra,
or a reasonable facsimile.
MICHAEL: Come on. Sit down.
SIGHS
MUMBUNG CHUCKUNG
PIANO PLAYING
SINGING We ’re farmland inspectors We ’re homestead protectors
We see that things run here much betterer! Betterer!
If you think he looks bunk It’s because he is junk
I’m made up from spare parts and et cetera
He ’3 old and he’s crusty
His brain is so rusty
He’s often been caught in the rain
Though my voice is quite squeaky
And he calls my joints creaky
I love the dear/ad just the same
PIANO PLAYING
LAUGHING
MUSIC ENDS
WHISTLING
CASSIOPEIA: Okay, time for bed. Time to go to bed.
CHILDREN PROTESTING
CASSIOPEIA: Time for bed.
Do we have to? Listen, you promise to go to bed
if I tell you a story first?
ALL: Yeah! All right.
Let me tell you about the time I was surrounded by Cylons.
BOY: What's a Cylon? There were Cylons in front of me,
Cylons behind me.
No question, all three ships have landed on the surface of Paradeen.
Commandant!
The homing signal from Paradeen has stopped.
How long will it take a communique
to reach Terra from our present location?
At least two months, sir.
And if we use the life-wave relay station from Lunar Seven?
I'm afraid it was knocked out by sabotage, Commander.
What's the matter with those incompetents on Destroyer Two!
Can't they maintain order on a defunct planet?
It's not going to happen on Paradeen.
Hector, Vector, thank you.
Not just for the song and the dance,
but for preparing this home for us.
And most importantly, destroying that homing device
so we can live here safely.
Oh, my goodness, Master Michael.
In all the excitement, we let you down.
What?
We didn't get a chance to destroy the homing device as you ordered.
Oh, Vector.
That could very well be the end of us all.
If there are destroyers in our area,
they could home right in on us.
I waited at the control center for you for hours and hours,
but you never came.
Oh, Vector. Our ship was delayed by these people.
Hector, I want you to go straight to the control center
and I want you to destroy that homing device this very minute.
Hold it. You can't do that.
We saw you safely to your destination,
now you owe it to us to help us find Lunar Seven.
Lunar Seven? Is he out of his mind?
He must be. Who would want to go there?
Hector, carry out Master Michael's order. Destroy the homing device.
SIGHS
Well, thanks for nothing. You just traded six lives for 6,000.
Apollo, I think it's time that we explain the facts of life to one another.
Whatever harm you think I've done your people, you're wrong.
It would be dangerous on Terra or Lunar Seven.
And as soon as you can go warn your people
about the Eastern Alliance, the better.
Would you please explain this Eastern Alliance to me?
I think it's time we told each other everything,
see where we go from there.
Terra was a planet of many nations.
But finally it came down to two sides, East and West.
A struggle for food and resources
and the military might to take whatever they wanted from the other.
And the West lost? No, the war continues.
But the East has been systematically
destroying our satellite planets.
The very planets that we've established to feed our people.
WINDOW CLOSING
Estimated time of arrival on Paradeen?
In six hours, Commandant,
but at this rate we are burning fuel so rapidly...
Thank you. Continue at this rate until further notice.
How are you, sweetheart?
HORSE NEIGHING CHILDREN GIGGLING
Good morning. APOLLO: Good morning.
You're up early.
The children were anxious to get outside and play,
I thought maybe I could keep them quiet
so you and Sarah could get some rest.
Well, I believe, I believe it's going to take more than rest.
You see, her father was all Sarah had.
He was quite a man.
As you can see from what he's built.
SIGHS It's beautiful here.
Yes.
But what kind of life is it gonna be for the children?
Sarah and I here alone on a strange planet.
How are we gonna survive alone?
Don't forget Hector and Vector.
Seems they did most of this themselves.
It's incredible.
There's a lot worth living for here.
Well, let's hope so.
Where's your friends?
Oh, they're out exploring the surrounding area.
There's a lot we need to know about this place.
And about the culture on Terra that built it.
Apollo, forget about Terra.
I told you, it's no place to take your people.
Michael, in our language
Terra's a word sometimes used by an ancient race to refer to Earth.
Have you ever heard Terra called Earth?
Yes.
But it's also a term used to refer to the soil.
Other planets in our galaxy with similar environments.
You have to understand, it's a common belief with us
that we all stem from the same tree.
Good morning.
May I speak with you alone, Captain Apollo?
Excuse me. Certainly.
I want you to stay on with us.
CHUCKLES
I'd like to. But my people are searching for Earth.
It could mean the difference between life and death for us
and the people on Earth.
Apollo, you can't leave me alone here.
Sarah, you have Michael and the children here.
It's Michael I don't want to be left alone with.
I don't love him.
We were forced together out of necessity.
My father needed some help in hiding us on Lunar Seven
while I made preparations here.
In return, he was going to make room for Michael and his little daughter.
Well,
it sounds as if Michael has lived up to his end of the bargain.
The bargain wasn't my idea.
I don't know what my father had in mind.
But as you can see, there's only one house.
Oh, there, you see? You don't even have a place for me.
CHUCKLES
I might be willing to make certain allowances.
Sarah, you don't even know me.
For all you know, I could be the worst scavenger in the entire universe,
or a spy, or a saboteur, who knows?
I know you well enough to know I like you.
And I like you.
SIGHS
But, Sarah, I...
Even if it weren't for the mission, I don't...
I don't love you.
At least not yet.
But in time you could. I've seen the way you've looked at me.
If you just give me half a chance...
SIGHS
What are we talking about here? This is impossible.
LAUGHING
I gotta leave here, and soon.
SIGHS
And If you aren't able to?
What's that supposed to mean?
You don't know about the Alliance.
You don't know what you're heading into,
and how well off you could be here, with me.
Apollo!
You won't believe it. We're in business!
APOLLO: Starbuck.
Sit down. Take it easy.
Nice and slow. EXHALES
You're forgetting how thin the air is.
Cassie, some air here, on the double.
I saw this whole city, Apollo. I mean, big, modern.
It's beautiful.
Did everybody who landed on Lunar Seven also have delusions?
Not like this.
Wait, delusions? What delusions?
Cassie, would you get that felgercarb out of my face?
No, he's not having any delusions.
About the city, I mean.
A huge city, here?
I thought you said this was just a remote farming community.
I don't know. Look, you have to understand.
We've been living under a very oppressive government.
Information from one outpost to the other is always discouraged.
The less people knew,
the less they were discontent with their conditions.
It's really very simple. The people were destroyed.
The buildings weren't. They're as good as new.
Neutron or bacterial weaponry?
Nice. Destroy the people who produce the food and the products
and leave all the hardware for after they win the war.
Then they are planning to come back.
Who says they're gonna win the war?
You've never seen a battlestar before.
Starbuck, you'd have to be pretty powerful to beat the Alliance.
We're not so bad.
And so far, I haven't seen anything
you've got that's as advanced as our stuff.
But we can't help them unless we get
some tangible information back to the fleet.
Now, this city, if it was left intact, must have records,
things we could use to plot this area of the universe.
Sarah, where are you going? This is good news!
SIGHS
I don't understand women.
Apollo, what did she say to you?
I think she's just having a hard time
making the adjustment, that's all.
VECTOR: See how much trouble I spared you,
not making a woman for you?
I thought you said you didn't have the parts.
We'll talk about that later.
I believe Apollo would like to explore the city.
Starbuck, you've already been there.
I want you to go back with Hector here,
and see If you can find a library or a scientific center,
something we can use to find Lunar Seven.
Well, what are you gonna do?
I wanna go back to the ships
and get our signal back to the Galactica
and warn them about this alliance.
If there's destroyers cruising this system, they'd better know about it.
Right. Come on, Hector.
Cassie, you want to come, too?
I'm dying to. APOLLO: No.
I need you. I'll explain later.
Shove off, Starbuck. Now, just one minute.
Vector, I want to show you something, okay.
You see that barrel down there?
BOTH SCREAM
Good heavens!
Now, there'll be no more stopping us
from getting all the information we need here
to save our people, okay?
Master Michael?
It's all right, Vector.
After what you told me last night,
you don't have to worry about
me interfering with you or your people anymore.
I don't have the right. Thank you.
All right, Starbuck, take off.
Hit it, Hector.
No, no no, drive.
Once around the planet. Okay.
Vector, I want you to take Apollo to his flying machine.
Master Michael, whatever you say.
Can I go with you too, Mr. Apollo? And me!
And me and Walker? Kids, kids...
That's all right, Michael. It's their new home.
It was too dark to see anything last night.
Go jump in the hovercraft. Yes!
Now, if you don't mind, I feel about as useful as a meteor storm.
What's going on? I want you to stay close to Michael.
You don't trust him? I'll explain it later.
Just spend a lot of time with him. Really get close.
Okay. If you think it's important.
Believe me, it's important.
MICHAEL: All right, now, hold on tight.
Okay, ready.
All right, kids, settle down.
Have fun, kids. Hang on.
Apollo's quite a guy. Uh-huh.
Are you two, uh...
Oh, no. I'm completely available.
Come to think of it,
I've got an excuse to spend, uh, a little bit of time with you.
Oh, what's that?
Uh, I'm a medical technician.
I want to hear everything you know about
the state of Terra's medical technology.
Oh, I'll be happy to tell you all I can.
Huh.
But let's not do it up at the house.
Sarah goes crazy when she hears scientific talk.
Tell you what, why don't we talk in the barn
while I'm feeding the animals?
Okay.
LAUGHING
It was beautiful, once upon a time.
Still is.
HECTOR: Uh, I mean, with all the children laughing and playing.
The music, the science...
It was as fine as any city on Terra. So I'm told.
STARBUCK: I don't believe this.
HECTOR: The waste of it all.
Why can't man get along with man?
STARBUCK: That, Hector, is the question.
HECTOR: I know. I have asked it.
Many times.
My father has tried to explain it to me,
but, uh, I guess I am a little slow.
STARBUCK: You two make quite a pair, you and your father.
For androids patterned in man's image,
I'm not so sure you didn't get the best end of the deal.
I consider that a great compliment.
STARBUCK: I've never understood it.
HECTOR: What, Starbuck?
STARBUCK: We can provide just about everything we need
to give our brothers a good life.
HECTOR: Yes. You humans are very resourceful.
I believe you can do anything you set out to do, in all the stars.
Then why don't we? CHUCKLES
You ask me? Mmm? Why, on Terra,
I doubt if I'd be given a license to operate.
I am just a collage of spare parts.
STARBUCK CHUCKLES
Well, I could use a few just like you.
What would you do with us?
Oh, I don't know.
Probably put you on the Council of the 12. Ah.
Start a world that reacts to logic
instead of passion, greed, jealousy.
That makes sense.
Well, you can disregard it.
Whatever's logical and in the interest of all mankind,
we'll do exactly the opposite.
Listen, Vector... Hector.
Oh. CHUCKLES
Sorry.
Is there any place else that we haven't looked yet?
Not that you could get to.
What do you mean by that?
Well, there were archives, vaults,
where special data was stored.
Hector, that's what we want. Let's go!
No, Starbuck, it's deep beneath the city.
The air there,
I believe all the death and decay
has rendered it practically unbreathable.
We came to find records. Now, let's go.
Wait, Starbuck!
Starbuck, you must take it slow!
Hector!
Commandant, we have the planet Paradeen on visual.
Very good.
Land away from the three ships that preceded us here.
Yes, sir.
APOLLO: There's somebody down at our ships.
VECTOR: Oh, that's just the Morelands.
They live over the hill from us.
I thought this planet was deserted.
Oh, no, there are still a few farmers left who lived beyond the city
when the Eastern Alliance destroyed Paradeen.
They don't live well, but they're alive.
They shouldn't be fooling with our ships. Let's go down there.
Mr. Moreland, look here.
Have you ever seen the likes?
Oh, there's no question about it, the Alliance are back.
What do we do now?
It may be too late to do anything.
Vector, where'd you learn to drive?
Kids, get down out of sight in case there's trouble.
You the Morelands?
Who wants to know?
I mean you no harm, but I'd like you to climb down off that ship.
You don't look like the Alliance.
APOLLO: I'm not.
Those duds don't look west-like. What's left?
They're from... We're from Lunar Seven.
We escaped to bring a family here to Paradeen.
Oh, how'd you get by the federal garrison there?
The garrison has been eliminated.
The Eastern Alliance now patrols
this entire area with their destroyers.
I know all about those destroyers.
They can spot the flight of a gnat across a million star miles.
Or the arrival of unwelcome settlers on a forbidden outpost.
Why don't we just tell them to go, Josh? For their own good.
My wife is telling you the truth.
You'd better go before you bring them here.
Unfortunately, these people have no place else to go.
Their father came here to prepare a place for his children.
Children? Not here.
My God, no.
Doyle, take her to the wagon.
I don't know who you are or where you came from,
but if you're not gone by nightfall,
you'll be sorry you ever stepped foot on this soil.
Are all your neighbors like that?
You can't blame them for being terrified.
They're afraid the Alliance will return.
Uh, children, don't do that now.
Children, don't! Be careful!
Todd, don't you touch anything!
Already been touched.
What do you mean?
It's broken into a million bits.
What?
We're finished.
Apollo, are you all right?
Our ships have been destroyed.
How? Has the Alliance landed?
APOLLO: No, just a crude job of shattering all our instruments.
SIGHS Your neighbor the Morelands, I'm afraid.
Neighbors? I didn't know we had neighbors.
We spotted them just as we pulled up, had a few heated words.
Starbuck and I are gonna have to go deal
with them for bashing our ships around.
How do you know they did it?
They were on the ships when we got there.
Who else could have done it?
Apollo, getting even isn't gonna do any good.
If the ships are unflyable, we're just plain stuck.
I know that. But if they'd do something like that,
who knows what they might do to Sarah and Michael and the children?
I think we have to confront them and let them know
what'll happen if they try to harm these people.
"These people" include all of you now, Apollo,
if your ships are damaged beyond repair.
I don't know for sure about that.
Maybe we can salvage parts from one ship to another,
at least get a communicator working.
Where's Starbuck anyway?
Hector, where's Starbuck?
There's been a dreadful mistake.
What are you talking about? The archives.
Hector, you didn't take Starbuck down there?
These people out here have barely enough oxygen to survive
and in those subterranean tunnels,
he wouldn't last for 15 minutes!
He didn't. You left him in there?
Why didn't you carry him out?
Never mind that. Just take us to him.
That's just it. Starbuck wouldn't leave.
He sent me out to our vehicle for the portable oxygen.
Only, I couldn't find my way back to him. There's a maze down there.
I grew more and more confused. Finally, I found an exit.
I decided to go for help. You did right, Hector.
For an imbecile. You made me.
Don't remind me.
Would you two stop bickering? Let's go.
Cassie, get the other oxygen. What's the matter?
Starbuck got lost in the city and needs oxygen.
I'm going to go with you. No.
I need you right here to stand watch over Sarah and the children.
No telling when those Morelands may come over here.
They made some pretty bad threats. SIGHS
You don't have to worry about the Morelands.
They didn't damage your ships.
What?
I did it.
Sarah, what in the name of God for?
I wanted Apollo to stay.
I thought he could survive here.
Michael, I've been terrified of committing
myself to you and to many other people.
Everybody I've ever loved has been killed one by one.
My father, my mother, my husband.
I'm sorry.
Sarah...
You had absolutely no right
to try to force somebody to stay here.
Especially Apollo.
If it weren't for this man, we'd all be dead!
I have five times the breathing capacity you do on this planet.
I'm going.
At least she told the truth.
All stations, scan for life forms.
In the city, sir?
In the hinterlands. Everyone in the city was destroyed.
The survivors fear that the invisible death
that annihilated all the inhabitants lingers on.
They hide like animals
and eke out their miserable existence on farms,
utilizing the practically worthless soil.
Two life form clusters reporting, sir.
Very good. Where are they?
Not far apart.
Three forms here. Five in this area.
Three ships, five people.
That's where we begin the search.
GASPING
There's the first set of chambers.
Anything look familiar, Hector?
They all look familiar.
CASSIOPEIA: Oh, swell.
We'll have to split up.
Cassie, you, Michael and Hector go in that direction.
You have your breathing tanks and communicator?
We'll check in with each other every few centons.
Apollo, what is a centon?
Mom, it took guts to tell them what you did.
Thank you, baby.
Where are you going?
Well, we're just gonna go down and put the blankets on the horses,
if that's all right with you.
Mom, can Baby Walker come down to help with us, too?
I don't think so. Walker's got to go to bed.
Tell you what, when you come back, we'll put on that song.
The one my father loved. BOTH: Yeah!
And we'll see how the Royal Dancers really did it on Terra.
Yeah. Yeah,good.
Thanks, Mom. Yeah, come on.
ENGINE RUMBLING What's that noise?
All ship's personnel, stand by to land.
Look, there are strange men with guns.
Mama!
We should help, but we're not big enough.
It's too far to the city.
We'll go to the neighbors‘ house.
Vector said it was just over the hill.
Let's sneak out the back way.
Okay, come on.
You are from Lunar Seven.
Your presence here presents no great threat to our Alliance.
Then what do you want?
To find out about the other two ships that accompanied you.
I don't know anything about them.
Oh, please.
You have children to protect.
Let us not waste time on deception.
I'm sure you wish no harm to come to them.
SCREAMING
Check outside for the children.
Starbuck?
Where could Starbuck be?
This is a maze.
Cassie, anything?
Nothing so far, Apollo.
These chambers are endless.
Yes, indeed they are.
There's only one person alive who knows his way around here.
Why didn't you say so? Who is he? Where is he?
He used to be custodian down here.
You met him today. His name is Doyle.
He's hired out to the Morelands.
Great. You're right.
I don't think he'd be too sympathetic to our cause.
Starbuck!
DISTANT CLANGING
Apollo?
Yeah, Cassie.
We're hearing a tapping. It seems to be coming from all directions.
The echo is terrible in here.
Stay right where you are. We'll backtrack towards you.
The tapping's growing fainter,
but there seem to be two directions to go.
If you keep going, we'll all get lost.
Let us backtrack till we find you.
Then we can divide again. Okay, we'll wait for you.
Well, at least it's something. G ROANS
Are you all right? GASPS
I'm just trying to conserve air.
You don't know how lucky you are.
Yeah, well, I may not suffocate,
but I could rust myself to death.
We may all get lost down here.
These chambers go on forever and ever and ever!
You're a lot of laughs, Vector.
BREATHING HEAVILY
Hector!
Hector.
Oh, please, Mrs. Moreland, don't shut us out.
The Eastern people are gonna kill our parents!
What's going on here?
You kids better leave. If I ever see you back here again...
Please, please. Please don't send them away.
Aggie, what are you saying?
You know that you can't take it.
Please, go back in the house, huh.
This house has been without children for too long.
We can't bring our own back,
and we can't turn these poor little things out into the night.
Come on.
GASPING
APOLLO: Starbuck.
Oxygen!
We're in time. All his Vitals are responding.
If it takes us as long to get out of here as it did to get in...
It took us one hour to get in.
It should take us one hour to get out, or more.
If we don't get out of here quick...
Apollo!
APOLLO: Stand back or I'll fire!
Now, we're here to help.
How'd you know we were here? The children.
They also told us that the enforcers
from the Eastern Alliance are on Paradeen.
They have your missus. What?
Do you know a fast way out of here?
It'll take about 10 minutes.
Oh, come on, they need help. Hurry up, let's go!
The flame is intoxicating.
We have our sides, yours, mine.
I mean your children no harm,
but you would serve them better
if you'd tell me where everyone has gone.
They will, after all, have to return sooner or later.
How many children did you kill when you bombed this planet?
I did not bomb this planet.
I understand every child was in the city in school when the end came.
Not a single child left alive. Yes.
Well, it is war, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
And you will lose.
See what that noise is about.
Ah, ah, ah...
Our children, are they all right?
SIGHS Yes, they're fine.
They're with Mrs. Moreland.
Oh, thank God.
You said "our children"?
Did I?
I wanna thank you for all you've done.
If you're ever in the neighborhood...
Well, maybe someday.
At the very least, we'll make sure these guys don't bother you anymore.
One small victory does not win a war.
Oh, but have we got a surprise for you
when we get you back to our home.
Yeah. You might even want to switch sides.
We are the most advanced military force in the galaxy.
Oh, I believe it. That's what's so encouraging.
Goodbye, thank you.
You're welcome.
Well, we make a life of our own in this valley now.
And by golly, we and a couple of neighbors
you haven't met yet are really gonna help.
Thank you. Don't forget us.
Yes, as we used to say on Terra,
"The beginning of a new day is the beginning of a new life."
About two degrees right here.
Wouldn't you say, Apollo? Sounds about right to me.
Commandant, we're heading toward
something bigger than anything I've ever seen.
My God.
What is it?
It's called a battlestar.
Now, then, uh...
You were telling us about this invincible Alliance of yours?
ADAMA: Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny,
the last battlestar, Galactica,
leads a ragtag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest,
a shining planet
known as Earth.