- Commander Adama: [broadcasting via Unicom] 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 jeapardising not only our own lives, but the lives of whoever is aboard that spaceship. Hopefully, this is our first contact with an Earth vehicle.
- Lieutenant Boomer: Everyone we've encountered up till now, every colony or outpost, are, eh, drifters or pioneers who set out from our home planets. Terms, dress, technology, all familiar.
- Lieutenant Sheba: So, what are you saying, Boomer?
- Lieutenant 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 civilisation. That's what the whole point of the voyage has been.
- Dr. Wilker: 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...
- Commander Adama: Wait a centon.
- Dr. Wilker: Yes, sir.
- Commander Adama: Terra... Terra in Gemonese means Earth!
- Captain Apollo: That doesn't mean this is the planet Earth we're looking for.
- Lieutenant Boomer: Now look, you golmonging snitrag, this is a military bay. You and your men have jurisdiction over civilian personnel only.
- Security Officer Reese: Aren't the people on board that ship civilians?
- Lieutenant Boomer: Well now, we, eh, don't really know that, do we? Maybe they're mercanaries, come here to mow us all down.
- Security Officer Reese: [laughs] Two adults and four mercenary children. That is an imposing threat. Take your positions.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [the Colonial warriors draw their weapons] One more step, black-shirt, and you'll be flatter on your back than those Earthlings in there.
- Captain Apollo: 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?
- Michael: 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 al stem from the same tree.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [Cassiopeia tries to put a breath mask on Starbuck to give him fresh air] Cassie, will you get that felgercarb out of my face!
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [about human nature] Whatever's logical and in the interest of all mankind, we'll do exactly the opposite.
- Captain Apollo: You did right, Hector.
- Vector: For an imbecile!
- Hector: You made me.
- Vector: Don't remind me.
- Captain Apollo: We'll check in with each other every few centons.
- Michael: Apollo, just what is a centon?
- Statesman Geller: You have your orders, doctor.
- Dr. Salik: And you sir, have a problem with finding another doctor.
- [he walks out]
- Statesman Geller: Adama, talk to him.
- Commander Adama: Oh, I plan to.
- Statesman Geller: Excellent.
- Commander Adama: I plan on telling him that he has given me one of the proudest moments of my life.
- [he stands up to address the Council of the Twelve]
- Commander Adama: Something marvelous has happened here. Please... do not let it pass unnoticed.
- [he starts to leave the council chamber]
- Statesman Geller: Would you mind telling me what all that means?
- Commander Adama: Dr. Salik has just reaffirmed that we are a race worth saving.
- [he leaves the council chamber]
- Lieutenant Athena: [addressing a class of children] Now I'm sure that all of you realise 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.
- Loma: [little blonde girl] If there are people inside that ship, why aren't they coming out?
- Lieutenant Athena: We can't allow it right now, because their craft has to be decontaminated. Now who knows what that means?
- [Boxey's indicator lights up]
- Lieutenant Athena: Yes, Boxey?
- Boxey: It means we have to kill any sick bugs that may be on their ship.
- Lieutenant Athena: Very good.
- Security Officer Reese: [drawing his laser gun] 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!
- Flight Sergeant Jolly: Reese, now you're endangering the lives of these children! Now surely not even you're that cruel!
- Lieutenant Boomer: [Reese pulls the blankets off the chambers revealing them to be empty] Jolly, you forgot the kids!
- Captain Apollo: We'll begin taking sleep periods to conserve our strength. There's no telling how far out that ship's destination may be. Set your breathers for minimum to conserve.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: All right, but I'm too excited to be sleepy.
- Captain Apollo: Starbuck, this trip could be endless.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Meaning none of us may make it? Remind me to invite you to my next party. You're a lot of fun.
- Hector: The waste of it all. Why can't man get along with man?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: That, Hector, is the question.
- Lieutenant 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.
- Hector: I consider that a great compliment.
- Vector: You all right?
- Captain Apollo: I'm just trying to conserve air. You don't know how lucky you are.
- Vector: Yeah, well, I may not suffocate, but I could rust myself to death. Or we may all get lost down here. These chambers go on forever and ever and ever!
- Captain Apollo: You're a lot of laughs, Vector.
- Dr. Salik: Dr. Wilker, do you realize that nothing we have on the Galactica seems to correlate with their symbols or systems?
- Dr. Wilker: They're human.
- Dr. Salik: Yes.
- Dr. Wilker: The ship flies, it draws energy. It has to make sense. We're just going to have to start taking some chances.
- Sarah: [atmospheric conditions making it impossible to survive] Another of science's great mistakes.
- Michael: Sarah... I think it's time that you stopped 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.
- Sarah: Except for sending families to faraway planets to grow food on Terra, not realizing that children born there, can never come home.
- Captain Apollo: Well... it sounds as if Michael has lived up to his end of the bargain.
- Sarah: The bargain wasn't my idea. I don't know what my father had in mind, but as you can see, there is only one house.
- Captain Apollo: There, you see? You don't even have a place for me.
- [laughs]
- Sarah: [smiles] I might be willing to make certain allowances.
- Captain Apollo: Sarah, you don't even know me. I mean, for all you know, I could be the worst scavenger in the entire universe. Or a spy or a saboteur, who knows?
- Sarah: I know you well enough to know I like you.
- Captain Apollo: But, Sarah, I... Even if it weren't for the mission, I don't love you. At least not yet.
- [scoffs]
- Sarah: But in time you could. I've seen the way you've looked at me. If you'd just give me half a chance.
- Captain Apollo: What are we talking about here?
- [stands up]
- Captain Apollo: This is impossible.
- [laughs as he walks on]
- Captain Apollo: I've got to leave here, and soon.
- Sarah: [clearly scheming something] And if you weren't able to?
- Captain Apollo: What's that supposed to mean?
- Sarah: You don't know about the Alliance. You don't know what you're heading into...
- [shakes her head]
- Sarah: and how well off you could be here...
- [smiles]
- Sarah: with me.
- Commandant Leiter: [coldly imperious] You are from Lunar Seven. Your presence here presents no great threat to our Alliance.
- Sarah: Then what do you want?
- Commandant Leiter: To find out about the other two ships that accompanied you.
- Sarah: I don't know anything about them.
- Commandant Leiter: [grins] Please. You have children to protect. Let us not waste time on deception. I'm sure you wish no harm to come to them.
- [Sarah grabs an ornament, smashes window with it, tries to climb through, but he grabs her from behind, snapping an order to his men:]
- Commandant Leiter: Check outside for the children!
- Commandant Leiter: [basking in front of fireplace] The flame is intoxicating, isn't it?
- [gets back to business:]
- Commandant Leiter: We have our sides - yours, mine. I mean your children no harm, but you would serve them better if you tell me where everybody is gone. They will after all have to return sooner or later.
- [grins]
- Sarah: How many children did you kill when you bombed this planet?
- Commandant Leiter: [shakes head] I did not bomb this planet.
- Sarah: I understand that every child was in the city in school when the end came. Not a single child left alive.
- Commandant Leiter: Yes.
- [puts his cap back on]
- Commandant Leiter: Well, it is war, isn't it?
- Sarah: Yes, it is. And you will lose.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: We're taking your patients.
- Cassiopeia: Starbuck, do you know what they can do to you?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [snickers] Have to catch us first.
- Sarah: You don't have to worry about the Morelands. They didn't damage your ships. I did it.
- Michael: What? Sarah, what in the name of God for?
- Sarah: I wanted Apollo to stay. I thought he could survive here. Michael, I've been terrified of committing myself to you and many other people. Everybody I've ever loved... has been killed one by one. My father, my mother, my husband. I'm sorry...
- Michael: 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!
- Vector, Hector: [singing and dancing] We're farmland inspectors / We're homestead protectors / We see that things run here much betterer / If you think he looks funk / It's because he eats junk / I made up from spare parts and et cetera / He's 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 lad just the same!