50 Best Dr. Gaius Baltar Quotes

Dr. Gaius Baltar: [Walking through Galactica with the Cylon delegation] I can't believe how much I actually miss this place.
Number: You know you can't return. They'd toss you out the nearest airlock and then throw a party.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Yes, I know. Still, I can't help feeling I'm finally home.
Number: If you're really a Cylon, one of the final five, then these feelings are just part of your programming, part of your cover.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: And if I'm a human being after all, if I'm not one of the final five, then this is the last chance I'll get to see my kind again.

Lieutenant: [Dr. Baltar has been asked aboard the Battlestar Pegasus to examine their "Cylon prisoner"] Don't get too close. It killed seven of my crew. Do you want my guards to come in with you?
Number: Feeling scared, Gaius? Want the big, bad soldiers to protect you from the mean old Cylon prisoner?
Doctor: No, I think we'll be just fine. Thank you.
[the Cylon Prisoner is shackled to the floor]
Number: Oh, my God.
[the Cylon comes into full view]
Number: My God, Gaius, it's me! Look at what they've done to her!
Doctor: Open the door, now, please.
Computer: ID confirmed. Lieutenant Thorne.
[the door opens and Baltar instantly covers his face with a handkerchief]
Doctor: [Baltar examines the other Number Six: she is in a catatonic state] She must have struggled. She must have fought back.
Number: [crying] That doesn't justify this!

Dr. Gaius Baltar: Please. Please, help me.
Number: I'm not sure I can, Gaius. Pain is one thing, but this... without free will, what are you? Can God even pity such a creature?

Doctor: Then who, or what... are you... exactly?
Number: I'm an angel of God sent here to protect you. To guide you. To love you.
Doctor: To what end?
Number: To the end of the human race.

Doctor: [to Gaius Baltar on an MRI table, who just had an outburst of yelling at no-one present] Will you stop going crazy in there?
Doctor: [in the most paranoid voice imaginable] I'm not crazy!

Crewman Specialist Cally: [Chief Tyrol has been wrongly accused by Col. Tigh of being a Cylon] I've known the Chief for years. He's no Toaster!
Doctor: He was involved with Lieutenant Valerii, who most certainly is a Toaster.
Number: That word is racist! I don't like it!
Crewman Specialist Cally: Sure... he's shown some bad judgment getting involved with her. But that doesn't mean he's a Toaster. You've got to help him.
Number: Say something, Gaius. Tell her you won't have racial epithets used in your presence!

Dr. Gaius Baltar: I am an instrument of God

Doctor: Over there, between those two peaks, I saw some terrain that looked good for cultivation.
Number: Cultivation?
Doctor: Yes. You know, I know about farming.
[suddenly starts weeping for his father, who was a farmer]
Number: Hey.
[gently puts her arm on his shoulder]
Number: I know.
[kisses him]
Number: I know you do.

Doctor: You'll forgive me, Madam President, if I don't wish to be executed based solely on your... gut feeling.

Brother: We have a stand-off, very predictable. They have the Eye and they'll nuke it if we try to take it, and we'll shoot them down if they try bringing it up to Galactica.
Leoben: Are we sure that they have it? How do we know they're not bluffing?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: You don't.
D'Anna: We Threes feel that we can't afford to take the chance.
Brother: I think we're missing the big picture here. We have the oppotunity to rid the universe of the human pestilence, once and for all.
Number: We can discuss that after we get the Eye of Jupiter, after we find the path to Earth.
Brother: Let me point out that it doesn't matter if we find Earth in five days, or if we find Earth in five thousand years. We're machines. We'll still be around to savor the great miracle. So let them destroy the Eye, if indeed they have it. We have to take advantage of the situation and take down Galactica once and for all... or we could stand here and do nothing.

Number: I'm so proud of you, Gaius.
Doctor: Why? Because I've taken a life?
Number: It makes you human.
Doctor: Is it? Not conscious thought? Not poetry, or art, or music, literature? Murder. Murder is my heritage. Is that the lesson I'm supposed to pass on to our child?

Dr. Gaius Baltar: [desperately trying to stop the Nurse he hired to look after his father, Julius, from quitting after Julius attacked her with a knife] Nurse Barbara, please! I've got five hundred cubits! One thousand. One thousand frakking cubits for you to stay the night! Please, I'll take all the knives away! He'll be on liquid diet forever! Just spend one frakking night!

Dr. Gaius Baltar: [Talking to the Cylon Centurion] There was this dog, see, and the master had placed a bit of food on the edge of its snout. And the dog had to wait until he was told he could eat it.
[the Centurion tilts his head]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: I know. Pathetic. Pathetic, isn't it?

Doctor: [speaking to his test tube] Commander Adama, are you a Cylon?... Tune in tomorrow.

[last lines]
Number: If only they knew that everyone passes these days.
Doctor: Why, it's so much simpler that way. No muss, no fuss.
Number: So...
[pause]
Number: What did her test really say?
Doctor: I'll never tell.
[Baltar is grinning, spinning in his chair alone]

Brother: [holding Hera at gunpoint after overpowering a CIC guard] This makes it a lot easier. I just take the girl and I'm out of here!
Admiral: [with a gun trained on Cavil] Not a chance!
Number: Cavil, we won't let you take Hera. You know that.
Brother: I know nothing of the kind. I know I'm going to watch you chase your tail across the universe for another four years.
Colonel: That's not going to happen!
Brother: This thing is the key to my people's survival, and I'm not leaving without it!
Doctor: Hera's not a thing! She's a child, and she holds the key to humanity's survival as well!
Brother: And how do you know that?
Doctor: [glances briefly at Head-Six and Head-Baltar] I see angels, angels in this very room. Now, I may be mad, but that doesn't mean that I'm not right. Because there's another force at work here. There always has been. It's undeniable. We've all experienced it. Everyone in this room has witnessed events that they can't fathom, let alone explain by rational means. Puzzles deciphered in prophecy. Dreams given to a chosen few. Our loved ones, dead, risen. Whether we want to call that "God" or "gods" or some sublime inspiration or a divine force we can't know or understand, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's here. It exists, and our two destinies are entwined in its force.
Brother: If that were true, and that's a big "if", how do I know this force has our best interests in mind? How do you know that God is on your side, Doctor?
Doctor: I don't. God's not on anyone side. God is a force of nature, beyond good and evil. Good and evil, we created those. You wanna break the cycle? Break the cycle of birth? Death? Rebirth? Destruction? Escape? Death? Well, that's in our hands, in our hands only. It requires that we live in hope, not fear.

Dr. Gaius Baltar: [shouting] No more Mr. Nice Gaius!

Doctor: [after Baltar walks in on Boomer trying to commit suicide] Sometimes we must embrace that which opens up to us.
Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii: Embrace?
Doctor: Life can be a curse, as well as a blessing. You will believe me when I say that there are far worse things than death in this world.
Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii: So what you're saying is...
Doctor: No, no. What I'm saying means nothing. Listen to your heart. Do that which you truly believe to be right.
[he kisses her on the forehead and walks out of the room, while he's walking down the hall he hears a gun fire]

Number: [after he cut off her sexual advances] But, I want to make you feel better.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Cut off my legs. I ran. Again. I disappeared in the nick of time, again.

Tom: Gaius, you're a genius.
Doctor: And?

Number: Procreation is one of God's commandments.
Doctor: Really? Well, I'm sure someday if you're a good Cylon, he'll reward you with a lovely little walking toaster of your very own.

President: Doctor, did you conspire with her to subvert our defense system?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Conspiracy requires intent. I never intended... though she said deep down I'd always suspected. But I didn't know. How could I know? Did I conspire? Did I? No. No. I don't know. No. It wasn't my fault. It wasn't my fault! I am not responsible!

[last lines]
Head: [walking together through New York City's Times Square 150,000 years later] Commercialism, decadence, technology run amok... remind you of anything?
Head: Take your pick: Kobol; Earth - the real Earth, before this one; Caprica before The Fall.
Head: "All of this has happened before..."
Head: But the question remains: does all of this have to happen again?
Head: This time, I bet "no."
Head: You know, I've never known you to play the optimist. Why the change of heart?
Head: Mathematics. Law of averages. Let a complex system repeat itself long enough, eventually something surprising might occur. That, too, is in God's plan.
Head: You know It doesn't like that name.
[she gives him a look]
Head: Silly me. Silly, silly me.

Doctor: Lieutenant Thrace! Good to see you!
Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: Good to see you too!
Doctor: Really?
Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: No!
Number: Oh!
Doctor: I wonder if she's a real blonde.
Number: I doubt it.

Dr. Gaius Baltar: I know I'm flawed! I never claimed to be - mistakes! Mistakes were made! Terrible mistakes! Were they mine? Am I solely to blame?

Dr. Gaius Baltar: Politics is the only thing more boring than blood samples.

Doctor: [Phone rings in Dr. Baltar's lab] Dr. Gaius Baltar, department of Cylon detection, how may I direct your call?
President: You're in a good mood.
Doctor: Madame president. I'm... I'm sorry, I was expecting someone else. I have started and stopped the test twice already now, so I'm running a little behind.
President: Doctor, I would like you to call me the moment Commander Adama's test is complete. Will you do that?
Doctor: Commander Adama cancelled his test a short while ago.
President: [Taken aback] Why?
Doctor: I dunno, um... he gave me another sample, and said it had priority. Yes, I probably shouldn't have mentioned that.
President: Whose? No, you probably shouldn't have.
Doctor: I'll just check. Some woman called Ellen. No surname. He dropped it off, and left. Is there a problem?
President: Dr. Baltar, I would like you to resume testing Commander Adama's blood sample, immediately, thank you.
[She hangs up the phone]

Dr. Gaius Baltar: I don't understand.
Number: Life has a melody, Gaius... A rhythm of notes that become your existence once played in harmony with God's plan. It's time to do your part and realize your destiny.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Which is what exactly?
Number: You are the guardian and protector of the new generation of God's children. First member of our family will be with us soon, Gaius. It's time to make your choice.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: But I don't understand what you're talking about. Really I don't understand.
Number: Come. See the face of the shape of things to come. Isn't she beautiful, Gaius?

Dr. Gaius Baltar: Something in the universe loves me. Something in the universe loves the entity that is me. I will choose to call this something, "God." A singular spark that dwells in the soul of every living being. If you look inside yourself, you will find this spark too. You will. But you have to look deep. Love your faults. Embrace them. If God embraces them, then how can they be faults? Love yourself. You have to love yourself. If we don't love ourselves, how can we love others? And when we know what we are, then we can find the truth about others, see what they are, the truth about them. And you know what the truth is, the truth about them, about you, about me. Do you? The truth is we are all perfect. Just as we are. God only loves that which is perfect, and he loves you. He loves you because you are perfect. You are perfect just as you are.

Dr. Gaius Baltar: [after talking out loud to a "Baltar" only he can see] I am talking to you. Why did you come here?
Tory: Maybe it was a mistake. Well, I can't stop thinking about what's happened. You were found innocent when everyone hated you. I hated you. And this healed boy, the return of Kara Trace. I mean everyone thought she was dead. so perhaps there are miracles.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: [the unseen "Baltar" interjects:] Perhaps.
Tory: The thing is, somehow you seem to be at the center of them.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Yes, I do, don't I? I don't understand myself, to be honest. Just... Well, it seems that God has chosen me to... sing his song.
Tory: A song?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Music. Did you say music?
Tory: No.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Yeah, you know, it's funny. It's a lot like that. It's like the distant chaos of an orchestra tuning up. And then somebody waves a magic wand, and all of those notes start to slide into place. A grotesque,screeching cacophony becomes a single melody.
Tory: [becomes very disturbed and leaves abruptly] I really shouldn't be seen here.

Phoebe: [standing before Baltar who is seated and surrounded by his devotees] I need you to tell me this all somehow makes sense.
[showing him a family group photo]
Phoebe: This was my husband, James. My two children, Danya and Reece. They were on Picon when the Cylons attacked.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: [after looking around the room at all the expectant faces] What do you feel when you look at this photograph?
Phoebe: I feel rage.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Against the Cylon?
Phoebe: Mmmm...
[Shaking her head]
Phoebe: Not just the machines, anyone involved. The engineers who designed them... The corporations... The politicians... who provoked this war and then did nothing to protect us... And most of all, the Gods.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: The Gods? They stood by and let it all happen. Yes, I know. I know.
[Stands up, hands the photo back and warmly hugs her]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: I am so sorry Phoebe.
[Stands back and returns toward his chair]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Sit with us.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: [back in his chair, he takes the microphone to the recording device] Unfortunately, the Gods cannot be blamed for not coming to you aid. It's not because they weren't listening. It's because they don't exist. The Gods we've been praying to for thousands of years do not exist. They can't help you, because they are not real. We have been pandering to our own ignorance for far too long.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: [cut to Chief Tyrol's quarters where he is jumping rope and his stepson Nickolas is in the playpen. We hear Baltar continue over the radio] Now, on my own journey. I've been wronged, persecuted. I prayed to the Gods... on my knees, begging them for mercy, tortured. I recieved nothing in...
[Tyrol shuts off the radio, sighs and starts to jumping rope again. Nicholas suddenly cries loudly and looks expectantly at Tyrol. With resignation, the Chief turns the radio back on]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: I could have lived in that abyss of bitterness, but that will destroy you like nothing else.
[Tyrol listens as if those words truly struck home and starts jumping rope again]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: But I chose to forgive. And most importantly, I began with myself.

Doctor: There is no God or gods, singular or plural. There are no large invisible men - or women for that matter - in the sky taking a personal interest in the fortunes of Gaius Baltar.

Admiral: What's your offer?
D'Anna: You give us the Eye of Jupiter. We let you go.
Brother: And... we'll throw in Baltar.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: [to Cavil] What are you talking about now?
[to D'Anna]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: What's he saying?
D'Anna: [to Cavil] Indeed?
Brother: I am improvising. Throw in something to sweeten the pot. Besides, I suspect the Admiral and Madam President would enjoy some nice, quiet private time with the former leader. Am I right?
Colonel: Worth thinking about.
Admiral: Definately worth thinking about.

President: [trying to convince an unsympathetic Baltar to let her use his wireless to make a fleet wide broadcast] The thing is that I never really believed in your conversion, so I was counting on your well-honed sense of self-preservation.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: I'm so sick of your insinuations. I recall your sudden allegiance to the priestess Elshoa and the Scrolls of Pythia the last time your political fortunes were in doubt. Tell me, how is that working for you now?
President: If it makes you happy, maybe we're both frauds and this is our last chance to atone.

[SPOILER]
[Doral, Sharon, and Six walk into Baltar's office]
Doctor: I'm Gaius Baltar. President of the colonies.
Number: I know who you are, Gaius. I know very well.
Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii: As long as you offer no resistance, you won't be harmed.
Doctor: How do I know that?
Aaron: You don't. You also don't have any choice.
Doctor: How did you find us?
Aaron: Oh, it was quite by accident. Actually, we were over a light year away from here when we detected the radiation signature... of a nuclear detonation.
[pause]
Doctor: Very well. On behalf of the people of the twelve colonies, I surrender.

[SPOILER]
Lt. Felix Gaeta: [Running into President Baltar's quarters] Mr. President! Mr. President?
Doctor: [mutters in displeasure]
Lt. Felix Gaeta: Gaius. Gaius!
Doctor: Yeah, what is it?
Lt. Felix Gaeta: The Cylons just jumped into orbit. And the fleet's jumped away.
Number: Judgment day.

Doctor: Are you children? Well you're a child of course. We have some children here with us. But for the rest of you...

Number: Yesterday, you were facing execution. Today, you're free. Why the long face?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Oh, gee, I don't know. From President of the colonies to this. King of fools. Probably best to be hated by everyone than loved by this lot. Doomed to live out the rest of my life in this loony bin. I don't know, that might have something to do with my rather savage mood swings.
Number: Relax, Gaius. You think I've brought you this far just to let it end here?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: I need some encouragement. A ray of hope about the future. An inkling.
Number: You've got me. I'm here for you.

Dr. Gaius Baltar: [talking about her habit of crying during sex] Don't be sorry. Why should you apologize? You should be thankful. You have an abundance of feeling.
Tory: I really never thought of it like that.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Well, I mean, you're blessed, aren't you?
Tory: I don't know, I guess.
[shrugs]
Tory: I suppose I could be a Cylon.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Well, I don't know about that. Human beings don't exclusively hold the patent on suffering. Cylons can feel.
Tory: You believe that?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Yeah, I do, actually. I've spent time amongst them. Man may have made them, but God's at the beginning of the string, isn't he? It's God who imbued them with a soul. The one true God.
Tory: One God?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: The one true God. You know, I'm becoming increasingly tired of holding that in. Of denying that essential truth.

Doctor: All right, that's it! No more Mr. Nice Gaius!

Dr. Gaius Baltar: I don't sound like I'm from Aerilon?
Chief: No.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Well you know I take that as a particular compliment. I don't know about you, but I've always found the Aerilon dialect to be particularly hard on the ears.
[Baltar begins speaking with an Aerilon accent]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Something about the consonants that scrape the back of the throat. Course I should know an awful lot about my native tongue, I spent hours on it in trying to overcome it. Do you have any idea how hard it is for a ten year old boy to change the way he speaks? To unlearn everything he ever learned, so that one day, one day there might be the small hope that he might be considered as not comin' from Aerilon?
[Baltar speaks with his usual accent]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Maybe I don't know, Caprica... Caprica... oh to be Caprican, the seat of politics, culture, art, science, learning. And what was Aerilon, just a drab ugly rock condemned to be the food basket for the twelve worlds, and that's how we were treated, like servants, like laborers, like working-class. You know you would have fitted right in there Chief, lots of men who like to work with their hands, and uh, grab a pint down at the pub and...
[Baltar again speaks with his Aerilon accent]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: ...finish off the evenin' with a good old-fashioned fight.
[Baltar returns to speaking as he normally does]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Oh yes, I left Aerilon after my eighteenth birthday, I turned my back on my family, my heritage, all of them, of course it doesn't matter though, they're all dead now...

Doctor: [Baltar has a two-way argument with Roslin and Number Six at the same time] Well, quite frankly, I don't give a flying frak whether you believe me or not, all right? Because I've had it, I am... I'm tired of being pushed and prodded around like I'm some kind of toy. I'm not your plaything!
Number: [simultaneously, in stereo] Plaything?
Doctor: I don't work for you and uh, quite frankly, I don't have to sit any more and take this kind of abuse from either of you!... Er,
[points at Billy]
Doctor: *you* either... either in *here*, either in there, wherever it is...

Tracey: [walking in and seeing Gaius on his knees seemly in prayer; not knowing that Number Six had been comforting him by saying she was there for him] That is so beautiful.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: [he opens his eyes and looks around] Hello. Sorry, what?
Tracey: The way you were praying.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: [noticing he had his palms together in an attitude of prayer] Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, thank you, yeah.
Tracey: [she comes over and sits down facing Gaius] Not some hollow ritual.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: No, no.
Tracey: It's as if the Gods are right here beside you.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Well, yeah.
Tracey: When I pray to the gods...
[we see Number Six watching them with interest]
Tracey: I feel empty.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Do you? That's a shame, isn't it?
Number: Her gods are false. Tell her.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: [Tracey reaches up and strokes his hair] Well, if you feel empty when you pray to Zeus or Poseidon or Aphrodite, it's because it is. It's a totally empty experience.
[she begins unbuttoning Gaius' shirt]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: They're not real. They've been promulgated by a ruling elite, to stop you from learning the truth.
Tracey: And what truth is that?
Tracey: That's a very good question. What is the... the...
Number: There's only one God.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: [Tracey begins unbuttoning her blouse] There is only one God. In a nutshell, that's the truth. We're alone here,aren't we? The others aren't coming back soon.
[She grins and shakes her head]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: And the door's locked. All right, good.
Tracey: [She takes Gaius' hands and places them on her uncovered breasts] Can you feel God's presence?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: You know what? I think I do.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: So do I.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Do you? Do you, too? We both feel...
[Fade as they start to kiss and slide toward the floor]

President: Felix Gaeta. Who would have thought? You probably knew him better then anyone back on New Caprica.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Well, obviously his loyalties were divided even back then. Seems we both made rather bad choices when it comes to our Presidential aides-de-camp, wouldn't you say?
[making reference to Tory Foster, Roslin's Chief of Staff who was eventually revealed to be a Cylon. Roslin reluctantly nods her head in agreement with Baltar]

Number: All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Everyone knows that verse. What are you getting at?
Number: Remember this one? Led by serpents numbering two and ten.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: The Vipers, they're the serpents?
Number: There's a later verse, Gaius. You should read it. Though the outcome favoured the few, it led to a confrontation at the home of the gods.

Doctor: I knew right from the very start that if there was a way to demonstrate the sheer - what's the word I'm looking for... hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is the word I'm looking for... Hypocrisy of the prosecution's case then really the judges would have no other option but to find me not guilty.
Romo: Well your boundless confidence provided us with great solace throughout the proceedings.
Doctor: Look I want to thank you both. Truly. From the bottom of my heart. I am very, very grateful for all you've done. On a personal note, if I could've seen the Admiral squirm just a little bit more, it wouldn't have hurt.
Captain: Now you listen... Don't push it, Doctor.
Doctor: Fine.
[to Lampkin]
Doctor: Romo, perhaps we could have a chat. I've thought about maybe doing a book tour around the fleet. And there's the publishing rights. And there's issues about my security, where I'm going to live, what I'm going to do. Since we forged this great relationship during the trial, I thought, you know, who better than...
Romo: Actually, now that the fleet's legal system is in place, my not-so-inconsiderable talents are required elsewhere. So I'm afraid this is the end of our journey.
Doctor: Wait a minute. What about me? Wait a minute, wait please! Think about this for a second. Where am I going to live? What am I going to do? How am I going to survive?
Romo: Much as I hate to use a cat metaphor, Doctor, I think you'll land on your feet.
Romo: Close the door on your way out.
[Adama and Lampkin leave]

Doctor: Were you aware of your true nature as a Cylon when you boarded the ship? Or would you describe you as a sleeper agent?
Gina: I knew what I was. I was a soldier. I-I had a mission, I carried it out. I thought that when it was done I was going to die. That you would kill me. Then I- then I would download into a new body... be reborn. But you didn't kill me... The things you did to me...
Doctor: What they did to you was wrong. Evil. But I'm not one of them. You have to believe me. Things are going to get better for you. From this moment on. I promise.
Gina: I don't want things to get better. I want to die.

Head: All the pieces are falling into place.
Head: You will hold the future of Cylons and Humans in your hands.
Caprica: [to their visions] I will?
Caprica: [to each other] You see them?

[a large meeting of people listening to Baltar speak is being held]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: The past is written, impossible to change. Why are so many of us living in the past, living with the shame of what we have done, when we could live in awe of what we might do? What we might do.
[We see Chief Tyrol coming upon the fringes of the meeting and listening]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: What will we do? Spiral endlessly through the heavens until humanity itself comes to a close?
[We see Tigh appear in the corridor behind Tyrol]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Or do we look inward and find that strength within?
Colonel: [Coming up behind Tyrol and speaking quietly to him. Baltar's word become more and more indistinct and fades into background noise] Can you believe these people are actually buying into Baltar's crap? We need to talk.
Chief: I don't have anything to say to you.
Colonel: Well, then you can listen. Come with me.
[They turn and walk several feet back into the corridor]
Colonel: I've been cutting you some slack because of Cally, but that's over. You gotta pull yourself together *now.*
Chief: Suck it up. Just like you,huh?
Colonel: Now what is that supposed to mean?
Chief: Hear you've been spending some time in the lockup with the Six. Remember when this all started? You said nothing would change you from the man you want to be. Well, how about it, Colonel? You still the same old Saul Tigh?
Colonel: Anything I've done I can live with.
Chief: Well, that's the difference between you and me. I can't.
[Both turn and look towards the crowd hanging on Baltar's words]
Chief: Tory's got it in her head that we can be the salvation of the human race. All I know is if there is a God, he's laughing his ass off.
[Tyrol turns away and walks back to listen to Baltar speak]

Doctor: What are you suggesting?
President: I'm not suggesting anything Doctor. If I want to throw a baby out an airlock, I'll do it.