Transcript by: Polaris

(Galactica - Launch Tube)

Anders: Walk.
(Jammer coughs after being gagged)
Seelix: Evidence for the following charges have been presented to the circle. That you carried arms for the enemy. That you carried out multiple raids against the human population and that during one raid, twenty-three people were killed by you and your men during the assault on the Temple of Artemis.
Jammer: It’s not true.
Connor: These are the names of the people killed by you and those under your command! You look at those names!
Seelix: Connor. The circle has examined the evidence and found you guilty of treason and crimes against Humanity. Do you have anything to say before sentence is passed?
Jammer: I was trying to help people.
Tigh: You didn’t do a very good job then did you?
Anders: Alright let’s just get this over with.
Jammer: What? I Helped people, I helped lots of people! Chief, Chief, Chief, I helped Cally. I saved Cally! I saved Cally!
Galen: What do you mean you helped Cally?
Jammer: I’m the one, I’m the one who did it. I’m the one who let her go when they were gonna shoot her. I took her out of line I said “go, run right now, run like hell, get out of here.” And she did. She ran, and she got away. Because of me Chief! I helped Cally. I saved Cally!
Galen: Cally did get away, somehow.
Connor: Now they killed twenty-three people during the temple raids. Twelve men, eight women, and three children. Children! My son is on this list. His name is right there, and that frakin son of a bitch put him there. So is saving Cally - if that happened - does that make up for killing my son?
Tigh: That’s the question Chief. Does saving Cally let him off the hook for killing twenty-three others?
Galen: Did you do this Jammer? Did you kill these people? Answer me.
Jammer: It was crazy down there Chief. You know that! You make these decisions so fast. You’re making an arrest and people come out with their hands up. But sometimes it’s just a trick. They tell you that they’re surrendering and then they open fire! We thought they were insurgents. It wasn’t til after we saw the bodies. What was I supposed to do?
Galen: No it doesn’t.
Seelix: Under the articles, the punishment for treason is death. Sentence confirmed, and carried out on this, the third day of the second exodus.
(circle leaves)
Jammer (screaming): I’m sorry!
Anders: That was too much frakin talk.
Jammer: Why! I’m sorry!

(members of the circle watch Jammer beg - then Connor pushes the button to open the launch tube - Jammer flies out)

Connor: My son, Kevin. He was only seven years old.
Seelix: Let’s go. Come on. It’s gonna be alright.
Anders: This isn’t what I signed up for.

(Galactica - Racks)

Galen: Hey sweetie.
Cally: Am I on watch?
Galen: No, no, you’re fine. Here, give him to me. Hey buddy! I know, mommies much more comfortable than me. Cally?
Cally: What’s that?
Galen: When you were down on the planet, you ran away from the trucks. Did anybody help you - NCP goons or anybody?
Cally: What? No. Wait - yeah. Somebody told me to run. It probably was one of those goons. I haven’t thought about it since. Hey, how did you know about that? I mean, why do you ask?
Galen: No reason. Go back to sleep.
Cally: Okay.

(Colonial One)

Adama: In my opinion it wasn’t his fault.
Tigh: I hate to admit it, but the Admiral’s right. He was in an impossible situation. I’d probably done the same in his position.
Roslin: Well, if that’s the way it has to be then that’s the way it has to be. No hard feelings?
Baltar: No. Mistakes were made. Of that there’s no question. But the past, is the past. I think we can all agree that we’d like to move on.
HeadSix: You fools, you’re being too lenient. He betrayed you. Actively sought your deaths, doesn’t that matter to you? Don’t you have any self respect?
Baltar: I wouldn’t bother, they can’t hear you.
HeadSix: Don’t make me angry Gaius.
Adama: You wouldn’t like her when she’s angry.
Roslin: I’ve always wanted you.
Baltar: Oh no.
Roslin: What?
Baltar: I’m dreaming aren’t I?
Roslin: Yes, you are.
(They kiss - Baltar awakes, naked, on a Cylon basestar, being watched over by a centurion)

(Galactica - Racks)

Anders: Hey. Did you get any sleep?
Kara: Sleep when you’re dead.
Anders: Nice. What is all that?
Kara: I got my gear outta storage. Never though I’d see any of this stuff again.
Anders: Hey.
(He tries to kiss her)
Kara: Just don’t, okay?
Pilot: Excuse me guys.

(Colonial One)

Roslin: So, Mr. President - how long before the new quorum of twelve can be sworn in?
Zarek: Ah, three days? I will personally place your name and nomination as my Vice President, and once they confirm you, I submit my resignation, and you get sworn in. The whole thing should take less than an hour.
Roslin: You’re stepping down without a fight? That means Tom Zarek wants something so why don’t you put your cards on the table and lets see if it’s a price that I’m willing to pay.
Zarek: Well, I’m a realist. I never had any illusions of remaining in office for very long. And the Admiral’s made it quite clear that he’d like nothing better than to put me in a cell if I try to hang onto power.
Roslin: He’s trying to do you a favor. You and I both know how impossible it would be to govern this fleet without the backing of the military.
Zarek: I agree, that’s why were here. Even so, I want to be included in the new government. I don’t want to be on the outside looking in anymore.
Roslin: Okay, okay. You stood up to Baltar on New Caprica. You nearly lost your life for your trouble. This fleet needs that type of courage. The Vice Presidency is yours, if you want it Tom.
Zarek: Haha! Well, thank you!
Roslin: You’re welcome

(Galactica - A very damaged CIC)

(Gaeta walks in)

Tigh: You gotta be kidding me. Who gave this man permission to enter the CIC?
Helo: Admiral’s orders sir. Communications took some serious hits during the rescue and Mr. Gaeta has offered to help with the repairs.
Tigh: Well isn’t that nice. A man can turn his coat, collaborate with the enemy. Contribute to the deaths of thousands but the old man needs his phones fixed and suddenly all is forgiven.
Helo: Cylons find us we’re gonna need every hand we’ve got.
Tigh: Cylons found us, Mr. Agathon. Your friend Gaeta was on the welcoming committee. (To Gaeta): Hey, look at me! As long as your hear maybe you can help me out. I’m missing something - I lost it, in detention. Since you’re so buddy with the Cylons maybe you know where it is. How about it? Do you know where my eye is?
Adama: Saul!
Tigh: Admiral.
Adama: Back to work. (To Tigh): Walk with me.
Tigh: Yeah.
Adama: They have a lot of work in the next couple of weeks. I need you to get some sleep, get rested, get ready.
Tigh: Oh I’m ready right now. I’m going to be a little rough around the edges but I can still hold my own. And you can tell that toaster lover over there that I am still the X.O of this ship!
Adama: Let’s go.
Tigh: Get your hands off me!
Adama: You’re embarrassing yourself, Saul.
Tigh: You’re the one that should be embarrassed. Letting one of Baltar’s henchmen walk around like nothing’s happened.
Adama: Go sleep this off, that’s an order!
Tigh: Oh yeah, just go to sleep. Forget about it all, just forget about everything. Well I’m not forgetting, I’m not gonna forget.

(Galactica - Room)

Seelix: The charges are carrying arms for the enemy in a time of war, shooting three civilians in collaboration with the enemy. I call the vote.
Anders: Guilty.
Jean: Guilty.
Tigh: Guilty.
Connor: Guilty.
Galen: Yeah, guilty.
Seelix: Guilty. The vote being unanimous, the sentence is death.
Jean: Chadwick’s aboard the Monarch. I’ll contact our men there, he’ll take care of it.
Anders: Anybody got a cigarette?
(Tigh gets his out)
Galen: How many more of these we got?
Jean: Fifty-seven. Three days, I can’t believe that’s all the time we’ve got.
Tigh: Well then stop wasting it bitching and moaning we all knew there was a clock when we signed on.
Connor: Most of these frak’s are so guilty they stink. I could get through fifty of these things in an hour.
(Tigh slams his head onto the table)
Tigh: You think we’re a bunch of thugs, handing out punishment on a whim? Jammer didn’t get air locked because you thought he was guilty, there was evidence! You read the witness reports. He was tried and convicted by this circle. This is about justice, you got that? Justice!
Connor: Yeah, okay, okay.
Tigh: Hey, now don’t get me wrong here. I like you Connor, you’re a good guy. Next case.
Seelix: Felix Gaeta. Charges are collaborating with the enemy and crimes against Humanity.

Tigh: I don’t wanna do this. You think I like it? I stood besides Gaeta in the CIC for almost four years. He was like family. But the fact remains he was the chief of staff to Gaius Baltar - and that alone is enough to convict him.
Anders: And I’m saying that on this particular guy we do not have any hard evidence. We got no witnesses, nothing. All we do know is that he worked for Baltar, that’s it.
Galen: Yeah, yeah, I gotta go with Sam on this one we need something specific.
Tigh: You want specific? You think Baltar ran things, that guy? But Gaeta, he was the brains, everyone knew that. He ran the operation, he did the paperwork, he approved the death lists.
Galen: How do you know that, were you there? Did you see him approve one single death list?
Tigh: He knew Cally was on a death list.
Galen: What are you talking about, how do you know that?
Tigh: Right there. That’s a distribution list and there’s Cally’s name, and there’s Gaeta’s name. He saw her execution order.
Anders: It’s still all circumstantial. We don’t know what Gaeta did or didn’t do when he saw that list.
Jean: I gotta go with him on this one.
Anders: Jean!
Jean: No, Sam, you see a death list like that, you know when some people are gonna die and you do nothing about it? You’re guilty.
Connor: I call the question.
Seelix: The question of the innocent or guilt of Felix Gaeta has been called. The circle will vote. I vote guilty.
Connor: Guilty.
Tigh: Guilty.
Jean: Guilty. Sam?
Anders: No, don’t bother, I’m done.
Seelix: We’re still voting.
Anders: I’m not. I’m done, I’m done with this whole thing. War’s over for me, I’m sorry.
Connor: Okay, that’s fine. It’s still four to none Chief. What’s your vote.
Jean: No wait a minute we need six votes.
Connor: No screw that!
Galen: No screw you! We’re a jury, that’s how it was set up. We need six votes if we don’t have six votes I’m out too!
Tigh: He’s right, we need a sixth.

(Cylon Basestar - Baltar’s Cell)

D’Anna: How are you Gaius?
Baltar: I’m alive, I suppose that’s something.
(she gives him pills)
Baltar: Thank you. You’ll have to excuse me I’m slightly confused. How long have I been here exactly?
D’Anna: Three days.
Baltar: Three days! So it’s taken you three days to remember where I was?
D’Anna: No ones forgotten you Gaius. It’s just there’s been some controversy about weather or not you should remain on board or not.
Baltar: I can’t believe there’s still a question of my value.
D’Anna: There’ll always be a question. You are a Human.
Baltar: Now look, I helped you. I gave you Sharon’s child.
D’Anna: Yes that’s right you did. And the child’s rescue did weigh in your favor. However the vote’s deadlocked. Three in favor of your being allowed to stay, and three against. With one model still undecided. The fact is, the decision rests with the sixes.

(Galactica - Adama’s quarters)

Lee: We’re starting to see a rash of missing persons reports.
Adama: Well we left thousands of people on that planet.
Lee: No this is different, these are people known to have survived. They’ve gone missing since the exodus. Jammer for instance.
Adama: Deckhand, I saw him yesterday afternoon.
Lee: Yeah but he didn’t report at muster this morning. Bed check negative, sick bay negative, it’s like he just vanished.
Adama: How many people are missing?
Lee: Thirteen as of today. Two on Galactica, eleven elsewhere. Everyone of them confirmed as a survivor by multiple witnesses and then poof, gone.
Adama: Keep me posted on anymore missing persons. I want to know about it.
Lee: Yes sir. Now if you’ll excuse me I have a date with a jump rope. Hey I’ve dropped half a stone!
Adama: Keep jumping.

(Galactica - Cafeteria)

Kara: Hey. How you doing?
Gaeta: Oh you know I’m uh, making due. How are you?
Kara: I’m good why do you ask?
Gaeta: Oh um. I heard about your situation you were..
Kara: Right. I just try not to think about it anymore, you know? Kinda like you. Sitting in your plushy little office in Colonial One doing all Baltar’s dirty work for him. Probably never even thought about what was happening to me right?
Gaeta: I didn’t know about your situation. If I had, I would have tried to get you out.
Kara: Mmhm.
Gaeta: Like I’ve said about fifty times now, I was serving the legal President of the Colonies. We all elected him remember?
Kara: Is that supposed to excuse it?
Gaeta: What do you want me to say? Maybe I could have done more but, I thought that when the Cylons landed, it was important for me to keep my job. To - to help from the inside.
Kara: By propping Baltar up and letting the Cylons walk all over us?
Gaeta: No! No, I fed information to the resistance. I set up dead drops. There was a dog bowl, uh I passed along Cylon positions, internal memoranda.
Kara: Right Felix. You’re a frakin hero.
(He storms out)

(Basestar - Baltar’s Room)

CapSix: Whatever feelings I had for you have to stop. I’ve let my feelings cloud my judgment. I’ve protected you, I gave your species a second chance, I even turned against a sister Cylon for what? I’m a Cylon Gaius, somehow I lost sight of that.
Baltar: You are much, much more than a machine. You’re a person, a real person, a woman. And you’re in love with me. And it hurts. I know it hurts. But believe me, I am the only one who can make it better. Don’t you see? I am the only one.
CapSix: All this has to end.
Baltar: You need me! You need me! Admit it! Admit it you need me! And I need you too! Did you hear me? I-I need you too! (under his breath): I really should have started with that.

(Galactica - Room)

Tigh: It’s a jury, I want to make that clear. It’s not about settling scores or personal grudges, it’s a jury.
Galen: We’re just dealing with the worst of the worst. People who did more than put on an NCP uniform or make a deal with the Cylons.
Jean: They’re the killers, the real traitors.
Kara: Yeah but none of this is legal, right?
Galen: No, no, it’s legal.
Kara: You’ve gotta be kiddin me.
Tigh: And that’s why we need know right now, are you in or out?
Kara: In.
Tigh: Good. We’ve already been though the evidence, so uh, just take your time.
Kara: You tell me that Gaeta saw this list and didn’t do a damn thing about it.
Galen: We have no idea of knowing what Gaeta did or did not do when he saw the list.
Kara: My Gods, the whole things like a bad dream and when you woke up the traitors are all still here. Guilty.
Seelix: That’s five to none in favor of guilty, it’s gotta be unanimous. Chief, you’re the last to vote.
(Door opens)
Tigh: Get outta here Sam.
Anders: I’d like to talk to my wife. I’d like to do it now.
Tigh: We already have your vote, take a break.

(Galactica - Hanger deck)

Anders: Hey, I quit, because I’m not looking for ways to keep killing people.
Kara: Well I need this, Sam.
Anders: So what, throwing a few people out an airlock is going to make you feel better about yourself? Cause believe me, those are not the people that kept you locked in that room!
Kara: They’ll do. And not just for me but for every person we left back on that planet because someone has gotta pay. So you can either get with it, or you can get lost.
Anders: Is that what you want Kara, you want me to leave?

(Galactica - Room)

Tigh: He doesn’t want to say he’s guilty because Gaeta is such a good guy, right Chief? Everyone likes Gaeta so let’s let him off the hook, let’s just look the other way on this one. Well a lot of good people had to pay the price for what they did - the choices they made on New Caprica. Like my wife. That’s right. Ellen collaborated. Gave the Cylons information on the resistance and she died for it. Because that’s the price of collaborating with the enemy. And I liked her a lot more than I like Gaeta.

(Galactica - Hanger Deck)

Kara: Look, Sam. I’m in a different place, now. I - I, I don’t know how else to explain it to you. But I got outta that cell and it’s like someone painted the world in different colors. And I look at you, and I want to tear your eyes out just for looking at me. I just want to hurt someone, and it might as well be you. So you should probably go before that happens.

(Galactica - Room)

Seelix: Baltar signed death warrants for organized murder squads. He collaborated with the enemy from day one.
Galen: Baltar, not Gaeta.
Tigh: It’s the same Godsdamn thing.
Seelix: He’s right, a lot of people died because of them Chief.
Galen: Fine. Guilty.

(Galactica - Hanger Deck)

Anders: I remember this, I don’t want this anymore.
(He turns to walk away)
Kara: Sam.
(They kiss - after that Kara walks away)

(Galactica - Hallway)

(Gaeta is punched, gagged and his head is covered)

(Galactica - Launch Tube)

Connor: Take him. Turn around. On your knees. On your knees!
Seelix: Felix Gaeta. You’ve been tried and found guilty of crimes against humanity by a circle of your peers, as duly authorized by the President of the Colonies. If you have any words to offer in your own defense, now is the time.
Galen: Come one Felix, talk. We’ll listen.
Connor: Yeah, that’s right. We’ll listen to you tell us how hiding behind Baltar’s skirt was actually your way of helping the insurgency.
Jean: Say something!
Gaeta: What’s the point. I already tried to explain it. I’m not gonna beg.
Tigh: Too bad you didn’t grow that spine four months ago.
Kara: Beg. Beg. Beg! (she kicks him.)
Tigh: Thrace!
Kara: No! Beg! Come on Felix, tell them how you were actually working for the resistance the entire time. Come on! Tell them all about all the important information that you were giving up, tell them about the messages, about the dog bowl, and everything else, just tell them.
Galen: What? What did she say? What did she just say? Back up. What did she just say? What did you say to her? Tell me, what did you say to her?
Gaeta: There was a yellow dog bowl, it was a-a-a signal, it meant there was a message in the garbage dump, turn it over, it was-it was a signal, it meant there was a message in the garbage dump!
Galen: Oh, that was you. Oh my g-
(He cuts off Gaeta’s handcuffs)
Tigh: What are you doing?
Kara: Chief.
Galen: There was a yellow dog bowl, I used it. You were wondering who the source was Colonel, there’s no other way he could have known. He was the only other one that would know about it. He’s the reason we know about the death lists, he’s the reason I saved Cally, he’s the reason we’re on this ship. He’s the one who gave us the inside information. There’s our source, Colonel.
Gaeta: I did what I could. I know what else I could have done.
(he leaves)

(Galactica - Conference Room)

Adama: What the hell is this?
Zarek: It’s all perfectly legal. You’ll find a signed executive order on file authorizing a secret jury of six men and women to try, sentence, and execute people guilty of extraordinary crimes of collaborating with the enemy in a time of war. There is also a death warrant with my signature for every conviction.
Adama: Your Presidency is a farce. And it stops right now.
Roslin: If they’re guilty, they’ll be tried by a jury of their peers.
Zarek: They have a jury, but they don’t get lawyers, they don’t get to showboat for weeks and months on end. They don’t get to blame the system. And they don’t get lasting fame as martyrs or innocent people just in the wrong place at the wrong time. They just disappear, now! And the great twilight between the long night of the occupation and the dawn of a new era, you come into office clean. Without their blood on your hands.
Roslin: Well thank you, that’s uh, that’s very poetic. However you have a problem, Mr. President. Everyone, by law, is entitled to a trial with representation, everyone. It is not an option to be discarded at the President’s whim.
Zarek: You think by making the trials public you’ll find justice?
Roslin: Yes I do.
Zarek: Ah, come on Laura, you’re not that naïve. Let me tell you what’s going to happen if these cases go to trial. It’ll consume this fleet for months, maybe years. People will be lining up to testify against their neighbors, it’ll be a circus. An entertainment for the mob and you’ll be signing death warrants almost everyday. Is that how you want to spend your next term Laura? As executioner-in-chief?

(Colonial One)

Priest: With every fiber of my being.
Roslin: With every fiber of my being.
Priest: Congratulations, Madam President.
Roslin: Thank you. (to Crowd): Thank you all for once again entrusting me with this higher office of civil service. We share a unique destiny. But our future is ours to shape, and our past cannot be forgotten. A new day requires new thinking. And while I had intended on using this occasion as an opportunity to announce a formation of a special prosecutors office charged with investigating acts of collaboration with the enemy. I have decided instead, that a different gesture is called for on this, the first day of my next term as your President. We all feel the need for justice, and we all feel the need for vengeance. And telling the difference can be difficult at times. We are all victims of the Cylons and none of us can be impartial, I certainly can’t. So today I am forming a commission on truth and reconciliation to hear our stories and record them for posterity. There will be no prosecutions. (Crowd talks amongst themselves) I’m issuing a general pardon, for every Human Being in this fleet. This will not be a popular move today, but I truly believe that this is the only way for us to move forward in strength, in the spirit of healing and reconciliation. I thank you, for your continued patience and courage. Good day.
(Adama stands and claps, the rest of the room soon follows suit).

(Galactica - Cafeteria)

Woman: Hey Chief, have a seat.
(Galen walks over to Gaeta’s table and sits down instead. Gaeta says nothing, but resumes eating calmly and peacefully with the Chief.)