TRANSCRIPT: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA – 4×17: Someone To Watch Over Me (February 27, 2009)

PREVIOUSLY, ON BATTLESTAR GALACTICA…

Tyrol: Hairline fractures in all the beams. Her bones are rotten. There’s something on the Baseship that can help. It’s this organic resin. It’ll grow into the metal. It strengthens it as it matures.

 

NOTE: In the the episode 4×15: No Exit the lines were:

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.

and later in the episode…

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.

Tyrol: Nice to see you again. This is Boomer.
Adama: Marines, take this Number Eight to the brig.


(1) INT. GALACTICA – ADAMA’S QUARTERS

Tyrol: So, the stop-drilling and the shoring compound will buy the Galactica a few more jumps, but not many.
Apollo: How many?
Tyrol: Impossible to say. Till the hull caves in.
Adama: But we’re not ready to give up on the old girl just yet.
Apollo: Well, if there’s nothing else. Sonja, I wanna congratulate you on your election. I look forward to seeing you taking your seat in the Quorum of ships’ captains next week.
Sonja: Thank you. But you should know something. When we convene, I intend to formally request that the Eight you’re holding in Galactica’s brig be returned to us.
Tyrol: Boomer?
Sonja: Yes. Sharon Valerii.
Adama: She put two holes in me.
Sonja: I’m afraid I didn’t word that right. We don’t want Boomer set free. We want to try Boomer for treason. Sharon Valerii sided with Cavil in the Cylon Civil War, which killed thousands of our comrades.
Apollo: And if she’s convicted?
Sonja: Before the civil war, resurrection made capital punishment pointless. But now that we’re all mortal…
Tyrol: You want to kill her.


(2) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK

[Humans and Cylons are working together on the Galactica repairs. Tyrol looks up from his welding and stares at a Cylon Number Eight]

FLASHBACK – 1×06: Litmus
Tyrol: You know, sometimes at work, I try and conjure up what your face looks like. The curve of your lips. The way your hair falls. How you smell.
Boomer: You see my face every day.
Tyrol: Yeah, but not like this.

FLASHBACK – 2×04: Resistance
Boomer: You know, what we had…
Tyrol: Was nothing. Nothing. You’re a machine, I’m not.
Boomer: Well, whatever I am. I know how I felt.
Tyrol: Software doesn’t have feelings.

FLASHBACK – 4×04: Escape Velocity
Tyrol: How many of us ended up with the people we really wanted to be with? Got stuck with the best of limited options. And why? Because the ones we really want, that we loved, were dead, dying.

FLASHBACK – 2×04: Resistance
Tyrol: Oh, no. Hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey.
Boomer: I love you, Chief.

[Electricity goes out]
Tyrol: Gods damn it! Come on, people, you can’t draw your power from the same bus!


(3) INT. GALACTICA – BOOMER’S BRIG

Boomer: Thank God.
Tyrol: I don’t know why I’m here.
Boomer: You know, when I shot the old man… The things that you said to me. The way that you looked at me… I thought New Caprica was a way to set things right.
Tyrol: You can’t force people to love you at the point of a gun.
Boomer: I know that now. But at the time I felt betrayed. So I wanted to forget you. And hate you. Didn’t work. I’ve thought about you every day since that moment I died in your arms.
Tyrol: Me, too. If I had known back then what I am…
Boomer: I know. Galen, it’s okay. Really. I mean, the important thing is that we both know who we are now. [She puts her hand up to the glass] Let’s make the most with the time that we have left. (begs) Please.
[Tyrol reaches his fingers through the bars and touches Boomer’s hand on the glass. He is instantly transported to their Picon Dream House]
Tyrol: Tyrol: What the hell is this?
Boomer: Our house in Picon. It’s the one that we planned to build when we mustered out.
Tyrol: Tyrol: Stop. Stop.
[He removes his hand from hers and the projection stops]
Tyrol: Tyrol: Stop this.
Boomer: I’m sorry. Galen, I thought you’d be okay with Cylon projection.
[Tyrol is confused and angered by the illusion, drops the phone and leaves]


(4) JOE’S BAR

Tyrol: So that’s it. We’re just gonna sit on our hands? Let our people kill her for vengeance?
Tory: What do you expect us to do? Issue a formal decree of clemency? We can’t interfere.
Ellen: We can’t set ourselves up as Gods. The rebels are the aggrieved parties. They have every right to determine Valerii’s punishment.
Tyrol: Can’t. Can’t. Can’t! Boomer saved your life. You wouldn’t even be here if it wasn’t for her.
Ellen: And I will testify to that at her trial. But I won’t try to stop it. We have to let justice run its course.
Tyrol: Then they will kill her. Sure as hell.
Tigh: We’re all in hell.
Tyrol: Thanks for your input, Colonel.
Ellen: He just lost his child, for God’s sake. You leave him be.


(5) INT. GALACTICA – BOOMER’S BRIG

Tyrol: How long have you been going there?
Boomer: A While. Became my secret retreat. A way of feeling close to you. Do you remember how we obsessed over every little detail?
Tyrol: Ummm. That was you obsessing, I was just listening.
Boomer: Really? How many floor plans did you draw?
Tyrol: Ummm. That’s being thorough.
Boomer: Oh. We never had a chance to build our house, so I built it in my head. And I wanted so much to share it with you.
[Tyrol puts his fingers up to the glass]
Boomer: Are you sure? I don’t want to put you through any…
[Tyrol is transported to the Dream House. He looks around the house, appreciates it and Boomer’s company–and then finds signs of a child, their daughter. He goes into their child’s room and sits with her. Outside the projection, he laughs and cries happily]


(6) INT. GALACTICA – ADAMA’S QUARTERS

Tyrol: Madam President. I’m asking you as a personal favor to me, don’t sign that.
Roslin: Don’t do that, Chief. Personal feelings are what Sharon Valerii preys upon. You know that. Better than any of us. You need to clear your head.
Tyrol: You don’t have to kill her. Leave her in the brig.
Roslin: No. Uh-uh. She is a danger in the brig, out of the brig. Danger to us. Danger to our Cylon allies.
Tyrol: This can’t be the last option, Madam. Please. Madam President, please.
Roslin: We’re done here. Chief. You’re dismissed.


(7) INT. GALACTICA – GALACTICA REPAIRS
***** TYROL IS IN THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****

[At one of the repair sites, Tyrol stares at an Eight who is busy applying the Cylon resin. He grabs a wrench. The lights go out, and mixed in with the sounds of people yelling is a heavy thump]


(8) INT. GALACTICA – BOOMER’S BRIG

[Tyrol helps the guards in the brig to reactivate the security cameras following the blackout. The unconscious, or dead, Eight has taken Boomer’s place in her cot]

Guard: Oh, you got it. Thanks, Chief. Every time the Godsdamn power goes out we gotta go down and check the locks. Prisoner still secured. She slept right through it. You gonna stay a while? Word is they’re shipping her out tomorrow.
Tyrol: No. I said all I needed to say.


(9) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK

Tyrol: Hey, hey, hey. Whoa, whoa. Let me give you a hand with that.
Boomer: Easy, easy, Chief. Thanks.


(10) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK

Boomer: Come with me. I can’t do it without you.
Tyrol: Yeah, you can. We’ll meet again.
Boomer: There’s something I want you to remember. All the things that I said about us. I meant them with all my heart. So no matter what happens…
[Tyrol kisses her. Then they’re in the Dream House kissing. Then back on the raptor. Tyrol clears his throat and leaves]


(11) INT. GALACTICA
***** TYROL IS IN THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****

[Boomer waits for departure clearance in the port flight pod. Suspecting that she has been caught, she starts the raptor’s engines. Adama threatens to shoot her down, but she warns him that he will not be willing to fire on a raptor carrying Hera. As she spools up the raptor’s FTL, Adama orders the flight pods retracted. She launches, racing toward the narrowing gap and clearing it, but clipping the raptor in the process. She jumps away close to Galactica’s hull. The jump rips a hole in the battlestar, shakes the ship violently, and triggers power outages and explosions seemingly everywhere]

[Tyrol is in a Galactica Hallway]


(12) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK

Tyrol: I need a team, scaffolding and shoring compound to the forward magazine right away.
Dealino: One Eight looks like another.
Athena: How did a three-year-old girl get by you, though?
Tyrol: What the hell is going on up there?
Deckhand Brasko: Boomer took her kid.
Tyrol: What?
Deckhand Brasko: She took Hera. Just walked right out of the daycare.
Athena: How the hell do you let a three-year-old girl climb into a Raptor? How does she get by you?
Dealino: I’m sorry, sir. But nobody saw your daughter.
Helo: That’s impossible. Somebody saw her. She’s a three-year-old child. Explain to me how you didn’t see her.


(13) PICON DREAM HOUSE
***** TYROL IS IN THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****

[Tyrol runs frantically through Galactica. In the projected version of the house built by Boomer, he runs through all the rooms, and finds no one]


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