(1) INT. GALACTICA
Adama: The mutiny did enough damage. Now what, Chief?
Tyrol: I first noticed it when I pulled the sync coil. You’re gonna need to get your people to go all the way down to the hull to see how far down it goes.
Adama: Do it.
Tyrol: Excuse me?
Adama: I know it’s not your job. Thing is, I need a Chief, and all I have is a…ls a Galen.
Tyrol: That you do, sir.
Adama: See, you still call me “sir”. I think we have to accept what we are. Will you accept the title, Chief?
Tyrol: I’m still a Cylon.
Adama: Is that right? So’s my XO. Fix my ship, Chief.
Tyrol: Yes, sir, Admiral.
(2) INT. GALACTICA – SICK BAY
***** TYROL NOT IN THIS SCENE *****
Anders: Kara. Kara. I’ve seen everything.
Starbuck: Sam, I’m sorry.
Anders: No…
Starbuck: I’m so sorry.
Anders: No.
Starbuck: I never should have taken you out of that jail cell. I should have killed that frakker when we had the chance. It’s all my fault.
Anders: It’s okay. It’s okay. No, it’s okay.
Starbuck: It’s about as far from okay as it could possibly be.
Anders: Ssshhh
Starbuck:You wanna blame someone? Blame me.
Anders: No, no, it’s all right. Kara, listen to me. A wonderful thing has happened. You have to get the others.
Starbuck: What others?
Anders: Galen and Tory and Saul and Ellen. Please.
Starbuck: Ellen’s dead, Sam.
Anders: Of course. Of course. I know. There’s too many layers. Just get the rest of them. Please tell them I remember everything. Earth. Why we’re here. Everything. I see everything.
(3) INT. GALACTICA – SICK BAY
Anders: We all worked in the same research facility. (to Tigh) You and Ellen, you were married then, too. (to Tyrol and Tory) You two lived together.
Tyrol: Tyrol: What, like roommates?
Anders: No, you were madly in love. You were planning on getting married.
Starbuck: (sniggers)
Tyrol: Tyrol: (Bursts out laughing)
Tigh: When the nukes hit, I pulled Ellen out of the rubble. She said we’d be reborn. Does that mean we downloaded somewhere?
Anders: Yeah, on a ship that we placed in orbit around the planet.
Tyrol: Tyrol: So we knew the end was coming.
Anders: We’d been warned, yeah.
Tory: We downloaded?
Anders: Yeah.
Tory: But the Cylons on Earth could have children. So, why did we even have that technology?
Tyrol: Tyrol: Probably invented resurrection.
Starbuck: (interrupting) Okay, you’re cold as ice.
Anders: I’m fine.
Starbuck: You still have a bullet in your head. You wanna take a break?
Anders: Kara, I have so much more to tell them. We didn’t invent resurrection, okay? We reinvented it. Organic memory transfer came from Kobol, along with the Thirteenth Tribe. It fell out of use after our people started to procreate. We worked night and day to rebuild it. Galen, your work was amazing. But it was Ellen… it was Ellen who made the intuitive leap that brought the system back online.
Cottle: All right, I said you could have five minutes. It’s been over half an hour.
Anders: I’m fine.
Cottle: Good Gods, man. You’re soaked in sweat.
Starbuck: He said he was okay.
Cottle: Ishay, get your ass in here.
Tigh: Where were we going? What was the plan?
Cottle: Look, Colonel, you may be the XO, but in Sick Bay, I call the shots.
Now, everybody, out, right now.
Anders: I have so much more to tell them.
Cottle: Out, out, out.
Anders: You can’t. Please. Please.
Starbuck: He said he was okay.
Cottle: Oh, Gods.
(4) INT. GALACTICA
Tyrol: I gotta warn you. It looks bad.
Adama: Frak me. How many are like this?
Tyrol: There’s about a dozen bad spots, the length of the ship.
Adama: If they go, this thing’ll slam shut like a book. How’d it get this bad?
Tyrol: Galactica was 50 years old when the war started. You put her through some things that would crush lesser ships. Slammed her down on the atmosphere. Not like most ships, she’s not built to spec. There’s lots of places where the skin’s too thin and the bolts are just too small.
Adama: You’re frakking telling me they cut corners?
Tyrol: Yeah, they did. But these big cracks, it’s a good, clean break. I can fix that, you just… Just don’t jump her for a while. I can squeeze some more life out of her.
Adama: Okay. But the crew, I want it all human, all right?
Tyrol: Yes, sir.
(5) INT. GALACTICA – SICK BAY
***** TYROL IS IN THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****
Tigh: So, why did we go to the 12 Colonies?
Anders: We needed to find the other tribes and warn them. We knew they would continue to create artificial life. We needed to tell them to treat them well and keep them close. But by the time we got to the Colonies, they were already at war with the Centurions. It happened again.
Tory: But the holocaust on Earth took place thousands of years before that. How is that possible?
Anders: We hadn’t developed jump drives. We traveled at relativistic but subluminal speed. Time slowed down for us, but thousands of years had passed.
Starbuck: Hey, hey, hey.
Anders: Just give me a second.
Starbuck: Cottle said to stop.
Anders: Kara, I’m fine. I have to do this. You remember the Demetrius. You know what it is when you have something that you have to do.
Starbuck: I used to.
Anders: Kara, if I had the answers for you, all the answers about why you came back, what you’re supposed to do, you would want me to tell you, right?
Starbuck: Do you?
Anders: Kara, no. I… But so much is coming back. Maybe. I just… Please, let me keep going. The Centurions were already trying to make flesh bodies. They had created the hybrids, but nothing that lived on its own, so we made them a deal. You stop the war, and we’ll help you. We developed the eight humanoid models, and we gave them resurrection.
Starbuck: Eight? You said eight. We’re missing someone.
Anders: Whoa. Oh, wow… Everybody’s glowing.
Starbuck: Sam! Sam! Get Doc Cottle! Get him. Get Doc Cottle! Doc Cottle!
Tory: Cottle!
Starbuck: Sam! Get Cottle!
(6) INT. GALACTICA – HALLWAY (OUTSIDE SICK BAY)
Tyrol: What, are they still in there? We’re running out of time. We gotta talk to him.
Tigh: You heard what he said, right? The Centurions couldn’t build skin jobs, so we showed them how, then gave them resurrection. It all traces back to us.
Tyrol: No, no, no, he said that we ended the first Cylon war. We bought time for humanity, right?
Tigh: The old man said humans had to own up to what they made, but we made the skin jobs. It’s all about what we made, the destruction of the Colonies.
Tory: But the humans on Kobol made us. Go back far enough, it’s always them.
Tigh: Yeah, you point a finger back far enough and some germ gets blamed for splitting in two. No! Maybe we share the guilt with the humans, but we don’t get to just shove it off onto them.
Tory: What are they doing in there?
Tyrol: Some picture of his brain. Some kind of scan or something.
(7) INT. GALACTICA – SICK BAY
***** TYROL IS IN THE BACKGROUND OF THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****
Dr. Gerard: No, it’s true. In a way, the seizure was actually a good thing. It let me get in there and take this new picture. Look what I found. That’s your bullet. You see how it’s lodged there
in the vascular ring? That’s where all of the major arteries converge.
Anders: The vascular ring, that’s what binds the thoughts in tight sheathes in the field. You need that.
Starbuck: Sam.
Anders: I’m good. I’m here. I’m good.
Dr. Gerard: Okay, what’s really fascinating is how it’s eroded this blood vessel here. And in fact, it leaked. It was just the tiniest squirt of blood that caused your entire seizure. It’s remarkable, really. Of course, if it happens again, we’re talking major hemorrhage. I mean, death within minutes.
Starbuck: So take out the frakking bullet.
Dr. Gerard: Yes. And we need to repair that blood vessel. Luckily, the swelling’s gone down, so I think we actually have a shot at this thing.
Anders: Whoa, hold on. These memories that I’ve been recovering, is there any chance I’ll lose them?
Dr. Gerard: Any time you go digging around in the brain, there’s always the possibility of ancillary damage.
Anders: No, no, no, then we need to hold off until I… That circle… Start… And the words are…
Starbuck: Okay, something’s obviously wrong with him. What is it?
Dr. Gerard: It’s aphasia. It’s affected his language center. We call it “word salad.” It’s not unusual.
Cottle: Starbuck, this boy has a bullet that needs to come out, and he’s asking us to wait? If I kick this decision over to you, as the wife, what would you do?
Anders: Wait, why? What? No, that’s not… The first opening… That’s not… That’s not the random motor. That’s… Frak it! Gods damn it! Kara, I’m okay. I’m fine. Okay? I’m okay. Please, don’t take this away from me. I need more time, okay?
Starbuck: Prep for surgery.
Cottle: Okay, nurse, let’s get it going.
Anders: Please. Please. I need more time. So much is coming back to me. Just a little more time.
Starbuck: You have until they knock you out.
Anders: Okay.
Starbuck: That’s all I’ve got.
Anders: That’s… Until they knock me out, and then as long as…
Starbuck: You have the words, Sam.
Anders: If I can just complete the circle, I can get the words.
Dr. Gerard: Well, he has a remarkably clear image.
(8) INT. GALACTICA – SICK BAY
Tyrol: So Cavil was the first one we made?
Anders: John. We treasured him. He helped us build the others.
Tyrol: So we didn’t think this was a bad idea? Building Cylons after we had already seen the cycle?
Anders: The Centurions had a single, loving God. Ellen said it changed everything. If the Cylons embraced love and mercy, then the cycle of violence could end.
Tyrol: Single God? Like a one, true God?
Anders: Yeah.
Tyrol: And that came from the Centurions?
Anders: Yeah. Cavil rejected mercy. He had a twisted idea of morality, so he turned on the five of us. He trapped us in a thing. The pocket. It’s a compartment. And then he took the O2 offline.
Tigh: He suffocated us. He killed us.
Anders: Yeah.
Tory: So when we downloaded into new bodies…
Anders: He blocked our access to our books… No, our memories…
Tyrol: And implanted us with false ones.
Anders: Yes.
Tyrol: Set us up like a Boomer. Memories that we thought were real.
Anders: I guess he boxed us for a while. Introduced Saul first, not long after the war. And then the Gazelle. The Ellen. And back on Earth, the warning signs that we got, it looked different to each one of us. I saw a woman. Tory, you saw a man. Funny. No one… No one else could see them. Galen, you thought…
Ishay: That’s it, it’s time to go.
Starbuck: No, no, no, wait a minute. Listen to me. The Seven. Tell me, please.
Anders: Yes, Seven, Seven… Seven was the Daniel.
Starbuck: You sure about the word? Daniel?
Anders: Yes. He died. Daniel died. He was Seven.
Starbuck: Okay, take him.
Anders: I’m sure. It was Daniel. I’m sure.
Tigh: No, we need to finish.
Starbuck: No, let him go now. Take him now.
Anders: Wait, Saul, listen to me. Saul, stay with the Fleet. It’s all starting to happen. It’s the miracle. Right here. It’s a gift from the angels. Stay with the Fleet! Kara, make them stop! I stood up for you on Demetrius! You owe me! Kara!
(9) INT. BASESTAR
***** TYROL NOT IN THIS SCENE *****
Cavil: That’s a little dated, isn’t it? He needs a patch over his right eye.
Ellen: I prefer to remember Saul before you did that to him.
Cavil: Sentimental till the end. The Simons are prepping the O.R. I think you’ll be impressed with the progress we’ve made in memory recovery. It might take a while.
Ellen: I’m sure you’ll make the procedure as long and painful as possible.
Cavil: You’re mistaken if you think I enjoy this.
Ellen: Come on, John. Of course you do. You’re a sadist. Why not just kill us and be done with it? Why send us to live among the humans?
Cavil: I wanted you to see what they’re like up close and personal, so I gave you all grandstand seats to a holocaust.
Ellen: But we didn’t die. And then you decided that we hadn’t suffered enough, so you picked me up, put me on a transport, took Galen’s confession, played resistance fighter with Sam, tortured Saul, but didn’t kill him. You had a dozen chances, but you wanted to wait so that when it finally happened, when we’d download back, we’d be ready to admit we were wrong and pat you on the head for giving us the right amount of suffering, the right amount of punishment, all weighed out. Then we could give you the approval that you’ve always craved. You see, you claim to be a perfect machine, but you are driven by the most petty of human emotions. Jealousy and rage. I know what you did to Daniel.
Cavil: That Seven didn’t thrive. Sad. It’s too bad we’re not made out of something more sturdy. Metal. That might be nice.
Ellen: Daniel was an artist, and so sensitive to the world. I was very close to him. But John decided I was playing favorites. Maybe I was. Someone contaminated the amniotic fluid in which we were maturing all the Daniel copies. And then, corrupted the genetic formula. I knew it was John. Envious. Sadistic.
Cavil: And who made me? That’s what we’re dancing around here, isn’t it? If I’m so irredeemable, if I’m such a mistake, if I’m so broken, then whose fault is that? It’s my maker’s fault. And that’s not God, that’s you. This is on you.
Ellen: No, no, John. God, no, you… You have done terrible things, but you are not a mistake. If you could just accept yourself as what you are, as the boy I made, you can be good. You can be anything. I love you, John, because I made you. It’s okay. It’s okay, John. It’s…
Ellen: Don’t you dare! I’ve gotta scrub for surgery. I can’t wait to see what perfection looks like on the inside.
(10) INT. GALACTICA
Tyrol: No, no, down there. Yeah. Across the beams. Across, not lengthways. Put a support there.
Adama: I know what patching looks like, Chief.
Tyrol: This isn’t about those cracks, Admiral. I started thinking about damage that you can’t see. You know, stuff that’s deeper in, that you’d only see on an x-ray. Dealino, fire it up.
Dealino: Okay, Chief. It’s online.
Tyrol: We prepped the beam with this liquid that fluoresces. It’s not an x-ray, but you get the idea. It’s throughout the entire ship. Hairline fractures in all the beams. It’s in her bones, Admiral. Her bones are rotten.
Adama: Arrgghhh
Tyrol: I have an idea. There’s something on the Baseship that can help.
Adama: Cylon technology?
Tyrol: It’s this organic resin. It’ll grow into the metal. Make it stronger. It’ll take the load as it matures.
Adama: As it matures?
Tyrol: It’s biological.
Adama: Out of the question, Chief.
Tyrol: All due respect, Admiral, you asked me to do this job. What’s your life worth to you?
Adama: No.
(11) INT. GALACTICA – ADAMA’S QUARTERS
***** TYROL NOT IN THIS SCENE *****
[Adama sees cracks in the walls of his bathroom]
(12) INT. GALACTICA – HALLWAY (OUTSIDE SICK BAY)
Tyrol: Still in there?
Tigh: (nods)
Tyrol: Doc said, like, two hours. He’s been in there a lot longer than that.
Tigh: We only needed a little more.
Tory: I forgot to ask him about that frakking song.
Starbuck: Ask him when he gets out.
Cottle: Starbuck, I got something for you. There’s your bullet. Doc plucked it out of there and repaired the artery. He’s gonna live.
Starbuck: When’s he gonna wake up?
Dr. Gerard: I’m actually surprised he’s not awake by now.
Cottle: That’s not necessarily a bad thing. His brain is repairing itself. We’re hooking up an EEG, and gonna take a look and see what’s going on. Go ahead.
(13) INT. GALACTICA – SICK BAY
***** TYROL NOT IN THIS SCENE *****
Starbuck: Hey, Sam. You’re gonna be okay. You got a room full of rabid Cylon-types that can’t wait to hear the next chapter of their life story. I think they’re hoping for a musical. So you better hurry up and get better. They’re starting to look a little mean.
Ishay: Don’t bother.
Starbuck: Excuse me?
Ishay: There’s almost no brain activity. He doesn’t hear you. He’s not in there.
(14) INT. GALACTICA – ADAMA’S QUARTERS / INT. GALACTICA – HALLWAY
Adama: Give me the Chief.
Tyrol: This is the Chief.
Adama: Chief, do whatever you have to do to save our girl.
Tyrol: Yes, sir.