[First spoken lines of series]
Number Six: Are you alive?
Military Liaison: Yes.
Number Six: Prove it.

[Flash to New Caprica]
Starbuck: Check it out. It's a great place for a house.
Apollo: So you're really gonna give up flying.
Starbuck: Ah, flying's gonna suck now anyway. Lots of training, endless CAPs. The war's over. So's all the good stuff.
Apollo: Gimme a tour of the future life of Kara Anders.
Starbuck: I'm not getting married.
Apollo: Well, then - then what's the point, Kara? I mean, you love him, right?
Starbuck: Where are we going with this, Lee?
Apollo: Well, now, that's the question, isn't it- where are we going? I mean, what if this- this is it? The rest of your life, Kara. Is this how you want to spend it? Is this who you want to spend it with?
[Flash to the match]
Anders: What's going o­n?
Dualla: What's it look like?
Anders: Looks like they're trying to kill each other.
Dualla: That's o­ne perspective.
[Flash to Starbuck and Apollo alone together on New Caprica. They kiss, then make love.]
Starbuck: [laughs] Well, that makes things more complicated.
Apollo: Yeah.
Starbuck: What are we gonna do?
Apollo: What are we gonna do? We accept it. Tomorrow, I tell Dee, you tell Sam.
Starbuck: Just like that?
Apollo: Just like that.
Starbuck: I don't know.
Apollo: Yeah, we tell them how we feel. We shout it to the skies.
Starbuck: Yeah, right. Mm-hmm.
Apollo: Well, you... You don't think I will?
Starbuck: Mm-mm. [giggles]
Apollo: [Stands up] MY NAME IS LEE ADAMA, AND I LOVE KARA THRACE!!
Starbuck: [laughing] Calm down!
Apollo: Well, it's not like anybody'll hear. We're in your cabin in the forest, right?
Starbuck: Ah. [giggles]
Apollo: I LOVE KARA THRACE! AND I DON'T CARE WHO FRAKKING KNOWS!
Starbuck: Oh, you're crazy. Get down.
Apollo: Well, come o­n. I'm not gonna stop until you get up and do it too.
Starbuck: I can't.
Apollo: I'm gonna- Okay, here we go again. Lee Adama...
Starbuck: Okay, shh! [She stands] Okay. Ka - [gasps] KARA THRACE LOVES LEE ADAMA! [They kiss. Starbuck stops smiling and looks serious.]

[Following the Cylon ambush of Pegasus and the death of Commander Barry Garner (Pegasus's commanding officer).]
Adama: In your opinion, off the record, what was Garner's flaw?
Apollo: He was used to working with machines. Command is about people.
Adama: Remember that, as you take command of "The Beast". Garner was my decision; his failures, my responsibility. Don't let me fail a second time. Congratulations, Commander.

[From a deleted scene. A flashback to Tigh and Adama reminiscing about the previous Cylon war.]
Adama: I was on the Galactica. We were boarded the last week of the war. By the end of the war they had learned a lot. Gotten smart. Clever. They didn't head to CIC or the magazines. Two teams. One went to Secondary Damage Control and the other to Aux Fire Control. See, that's clever. Not the CIC, Auxiliary. And not the Primary DC, the Secondary.
Tigh: Why?
Adama: First team was after the fire suppression system. It tried to override our safety lockouts and vent our air into space. Kill all of us before we could get our EVA suits on. Then the second team just walks in the Aux Fire Control and turns our own guns against the ships trying to rescue us. It was smart. Clever. Almost 2,000 guys bought the farm that day.

[Gaeta shares a last cigar and conversation with Baltar]
Felix Gaeta: I suppose a long time ago, it was... architecture. There was a year there where I scribbled floor plans on everything. Dining room table, patio tiles, rare books... drove my parents crazy.
Gaius Baltar: How old were you?
Gaeta: I dunno. Uh, eight, maybe? Nine? [chuckles] I tell you one thing, though. I had some pretty frakking amazing ideas. Restaurants shaped like food. Hm? [chuckles again] Oh, gods, there'd be buildings and stairways... everything, everything had to have a stairway. [refills Baltar's cup of coffee] Spoils of war. [sighs] When I was older, then it became medicine, engineering, photography. Think I would've made a better architect than any of those, though. And then I discovered science and I... thought I was really, really good at it. Until I met you.
Baltar: [fighting back tears] Felix...
Gaeta: [shakes his head] No. And please, no religion. [pauses] I'm fine with how things have worked out. Really, Gaius, I am. I... I just hope... I hope that... people realize, eventually, who I am.
Baltar: I know who you are, Felix. I know who you are.

[Gaeta's marines take control of CIC, killing Private Jaffe in the process]
Lt. Felix Gaeta: Admiral Adama, I am removing you from command of this ship and I am taking you into custody on the charge of treason.
Admiral William Adama: You swore an oath when you put that uniform on. You pledged to defend this ship and her crew.
Gaeta: [furiously] You swore the same allegiance! What happened to your oath? For seven years, I have done my frakking job and for what? [indicates Colonel Saul Tigh] To take orders from a Cylon? To let machines network our ship? No, you... you are not the leader you were when we started. You're just a sad old man who has let his heart and his affection for a Cylon cloud his judgment.
Adama: I want you all to understand this! If you do this, there will be no forgiveness. No amnesty. This boy [referring to Jaffe] died honoring his uniform. You, you'll die with nothing.

[Gaius Baltar sees and hears the Hybrid for the first time.]
Hybrid: Two protons expelled at each coupling site creates the mode of force, the embryo becomes a fish though we don't enter until a plate, we're here to experience, evolve the little toe, atrophy, don't ask me how, I'll be dead in a thousand light years, thank you, thank you, genesis turns to its source, reduction occurs step wise though the essence is all one, end of line. FTL system check. Diagnostic functions within parameters repeats the harlequin, the agony exquisite, the colors run the path of ashes...

[Gina Inviere confronts Admiral Cain in her quarters with her gun.]
Gina Inviere: Tell me, Admiral. Can you roll over? Beg?
Cain: Frak you.
Gina Inviere: You're not my type. [shoots Cain]

[Helo and Hot Dog are at a briefing in the ready room. Sitting next to each other, Helo notices Hot Dog scratching near his groin area]
Helo: What's the matter with you?
Hot Dog: Sorry, I've got the weirdest rash.
Helo: Really? [Helo looks askance at Hot Dog] I hope she was worth it buddy!
[Helo gets up and moves one seat over to the aisle seat. Athena, overhearing the exchange, moves with her husband simultaneously over to her aisle seat directly behind Helo while also giving Hot Dog a humorously wary look and a smile.]

[Helo is about to go and face Doctor Robert]
Sharon: You know what's wrong with this ship? You and the Sagitarrons. How you might actually be listening to them.
Helo: It's my job.
Sharon: They're dying because they're refusing medication, Karl.
Helo: You want me to look the other way, is that it? Is that it? Our daughter's fine, that's all that matters?
Sharon: No.
Helo: Or is it cause as long as everyone hates the Sagitarrons you forget you are a Cylon for five minutes?
Sharon: You shut the frak up. Yeah, I want you to look the other way. I have to fight on this ship every day to be accepted.
Helo: This has nothing to do with you. Okay? You think that's what I am? That's what I've become? That's my defining characteristic, the guy married to a Cylon?

[Helo is accusing Doctor Robert of intentionally letting the Sagitarrons die]
Cottle: I'm not gonna listen to this, you hear me? That man has his hands full down there.
Helo: He's singling out Sagitarrons. That doesn't bother you? Doctor, that doesn't bother you?
Cottle: What exactly is he doing?
Helo: I don't know, I'm not a doctor.
Cottle: Well, now, that's the first sensible thing you've said yet.

[Hot Dog preparing to launch his Viper while the Galactica freefalls through New Caprica's atmosphere]
Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza: Well... this oughta be different.

[In a flashback sequence]
President Richard Adar: One of the most interesting things about being President is that you don't have to explain yourself. To anyone.

[In different locations, Commander Adama and Admiral Cain each plot the assassination of the other]
Admiral Helena Cain: (to her Executive Officer, Colonel Fisk) Jack, I want to transfer a detachment of marines to Galactica and I want you to hand-pick them. Completely reliable. Completely loyal. Razors.
Commander William Adama: I have a mission for you, Kara.
Captain Kara "Starbuck" Thrace: Anything for you. You know that.
Adama: Don't accept too quickly. You won't like this one. I don't like it, but I've decided that it has to be done.
Cain: I'm transferring you to Galactica as well. I'll tell Adama that you're there to be my eyes and ears. He'll hate it. He'll think you're my spy and try to freeze you out of decision-making, but he'll accept it. Now I want you to stay in CIC throughout the attack. Stay with Adama.
Adama: After the attack is completed and you've accounted for your pilots, I want you to land your bird on the Pegasus and report directly to CIC. You'll take Lee with you. He'll watch your back.
Cain: Position Marines in key areas throughout the ship and keep a squad posted just outside CIC.
Adama: There'll be the normal chaos and emotional high after the attack.
Cain: They'll be slapping each other on the back, celebrating the victory.
Adama: That'll keep their guard down.
Cain: Security will be lax.
Adama: I will ask for you on the wireless.
Cain: I will call you directly and when I have you on the line, and you hear me give the command "Execute Case Orange"...
Adama: When you hear me say "Downfall"...
Cain: ...you are to signal the Marines to terminate Adama's command. Starting with Adama.
Adama: ...I want you to pull out your weapon and shoot Admiral Cain in the head.

[In response to the Cylons calling his bluff about nuking the planet.]
Roslin: Too bad we're bluffing.
Adama: Are we?
Adama: Mr. Hoshi, order nuclear ground-strike missiles into launch tubes 4-10.
Hoshi: [On the intercom] Aye sir, This is a nuclear mission order...
Roslin: What are you doing?
Adama: Nuking the planet.