BSG: 4×10: Revelations

PREVIOUSLY, ON BATTLESTAR GALACTICA…

Tyrol: I just finished the post-flight on Starbuck’s Viper. This thing looks like it’s been rolled off the showroom floor.

(1) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK (CATWALK)
***** TYROL IS IN THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****

[Raptor carrying Adama, D’Anna and an EIGHT arrives on Galactica. Apollo, Starbuck, Tigh and Tory go to greet it. Tyrol and Anders watch from the catwalk]
Anders: (to Tyrol) Maybe she won’t be able to identify us.
Apollo: (hugging Adama) Gods, it’s good to have you back.
Adama: It’s good to be home.
[D’Anna looks at Tigh and then at Tory. Then up at Tyrol and Anders on catwalk]
D’Anna: The good news is that your president, Laura Roslin, is alive and well, as are your crew mates.
Adama: She wants the four Cylons that are in this fleet. [shot of Tyrol and Anders on catwalk] She’s gonna hold our people hostage until she gets them.
D’Anna: You don’t have to do anything except stay out of the way. I’m already in contact with them. Now that they realize there’s nothing to fear and that we only want to love and protect them, they should find a way of joining us. I just ask that you don’t interfere with any of the shuttle traffic in the fleet.
Apollo: So your plan is you take these four Cylons, and then you head off to Earth, leaving us behind.
D’Anna: Now that’s up to them.
Apollo: All right. If these four Cylons want to come to you, they’re free to do so. I will not stop them.
D’Anna: Do you agree with this, Admiral?
Adama: Agreed.
D’Anna: Well, then I will await them on the Baseship.
Tory: (to Apollo) Laura Roslin needs her medication. And I need to make sure that she’s all right. I’m gonna go with them.
Tigh: No! We can’t give them any more hostages.
Apollo: The Colonel’s right.
Tory: I served under Roslin for two years. My place is by her side.
Adama: Another hostage isn’t gonna change the equation.
Apollo: All right, go.
Tory: Thank you.
[Tyrol and Anders look at each other]

(2) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK
***** TYROL IS IN THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****

Chief Laird: All right, put these pilots in their cockpits. Check all systems, and let’s put these birds in the tubes.
Deckhand: Got it, Chief. There you go.
Figurski: (to Tyrol) APU won’t spin up. There’s gotta be a short, and damned if I can find it. But I set some guys tracking on it.
[The ‘All Along the Watchtower’ music/radio static starts playing. Only Tyrol can hear it]
Figurski: Galen, you with me?

(3) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK

[Tigh walks into the Hangar Deck. Tyrol and Anders are already there looking at Starbuck’s ‘showroom’ Viper]
Tigh: All right. Anyone know what the frak we’re doing here?
Anders: I don’t know. I just felt compelled.
Tyrol: Something about this Viper.
Tigh: Like what? You checked every rivet and washer on that bird, and you didn’t find squat.
Tyrol: Yeah, well, something brought us here. Something’s changed. I just don’t know what it is.
Anders: Maybe Kara can help. She flew this thing to Earth and back.
Tigh: Well, go find her. See what she can tell you. But hurry up. A lot of good people are gonna die.
Anders: So where are you going?

(4) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK

Starbuck: It’s sitting here the same way it has been for months. What made you think something was happening?
Anders: It’s hard to explain. You know, it’s just a feeling.
Starbuck: Yeah, I’ve got a feeling, too. You’re both out of your frakking minds.
Anders: You know, you had a feeling you could find Earth. I trusted you. I backed you every step of the way. Now I need you to trust ours.
[Marines enter the room. Weapons pointed]
Marine: Ensign Anders. Specialist Tyrol. Slowly put your hands on your
heads and face the Viper. Do it now!
Starbuck: What the hell is going on?
Marine: They’re Cylons, just like the XO.
Starbuck: Sam?
Tyrol: Go ahead.
Anders: It’s true, Kara.
[Marines led Tyrol and Anders away in handcuffs]
Anders: There’s something different about this Viper, something’s changed. You gotta find it.
Marine: Shut up.

* Marine = Sgt. Brandy Harder

(5) INT. GALACTICA – LAUNCH TUBE
***** TYROL IS IN THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****

[Tyrol and Anders are led into the same launch tube that Tigh is already standing in]

Anders: This is a wild guess. You told them?
Tigh: We should’ve done it day one.
Apollo: Get the Baseship on the horn.
Dualla: Mr. Hoshi, we need the Baseship.

(6) INT. GALACTICA – LAUNCH TUBE / CYLON BASESHIP
***** TYROL NOT IN THIS SCENE *****

[Dualla hands the phone to Apollo]
D’Anna: Are you ready to come to your senses, Mr. President?
Apollo: Galen Tyrol and Samuel Anders have just joined Saul Tigh in the airlock.
D’Anna: They found them.
Apollo: They’re in line for an express ride into a vacuum. You want them alive, stand down.

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

Dualla: Mr. President, the Baseship nukes just went hot. If any of our fleet starts spooling up…
Apollo: They won’t have time to jump before the Cylons fire. (into launch tube speaker) Sgt. Harder, clear the tube of everyone but Tigh.
Marine: Corporal.
[Marines led Tyrol and Anders out of the launch tube]

(8) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK
***** TYROL IS IN THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****

[Tyrol and Anders are standing outside of the launch tube. Doors start closing. Tyrol nods to Tigh. Doors close]

(9) INT. GALACTICA – HANGAR DECK
***** TYROL IS IN THIS SCENE. NO DIALOGUE *****

D’Anna: One tiny needle in the whole Fleet. Well, you’re right. It’s wafer thin.
Apollo: It’s the best I could do at short notice.
D’Anna: So you’re all in agreement this is the way to Earth?
Tigh: It’s a stretch, but it’s the best explanation we’ve got.
Apollo: Which is why we chose to share this information with you. We could’ve jumped away with it, left you behind. But that would’ve led to another confrontation, another standoff.
D’Anna: All this has happened before…
Apollo: But it doesn’t have to happen again. Not if we make up our minds to change. Take a different path. Right here, right now. You were afraid we’d kill these four, and yet, here they are, standing right behind you, free to go or stay. I’ve granted them an amnesty. So the question is, where do we go from here?
D’Anna: All right. I’ll release your crew. We go to Earth together.
[Apollo holds out his hand to D’Anna. She shakes his hand]