Transcript by: Polaris

Gaeta(wireless): This is combat, prepped and ready, plan A.
Lee(wireless): We are approaching the Baseship.

(Raptor)

Sharon: This is so wrong.
Lee: What the hell happened here?
Sharon: Whatever this is, it's something new.

(Galactica - CIC)

Adama: Go.
Helo: Apollo, Galactica. You are cleared hot.

(Raptor)

Lee: Roger that Galactica. We're in pretty close now. By the look of it, that ship's in no condition to put up a fight. I've never seen anything like this. Should we proceed?
Sharon: Hang on guys!
Helo(wireless): Use extreme caution, Apollo.

(Infected Basestar)

Marine: Set perimeter, weapons tight everyone.
Lee: Galactica, Apollo. We're in.

Lee: Galactica, Apollo. No sign of life. The ship appears to be abandoned, powering down. (seeing a dead six): What the hell?
Racetrack: Gods, what happened here?
Mathias: I don't know, but their frakin resurrection ship is gonna overheat.
Lee: Galactica, Apollo. We've reached the control center. Thirty, maybe forty dead skin jobs. (To Mathias): Mathias! Set a perimeter. (To Sharon): Sharon! Athena! See what you can pick up with the computers.
Mathias: Three fire teams, each doorway. Go!
Sharon: Okay, I'm going to try to call up the database. If I get a connection, put the SSR leads in the water over there. Reduce the error correction level for higher throughput.
Racetrack: You sure you wanna do that?
Sharon: It's how it works. (Gasps)
Hot Dog: You okay?
Sharon: Yeah, the data points are almost completely corroded. I don't know if I'm gonna get much out of here, but let's try.
Lee: What is going on?
(The six moves)
Lee: FRAK ME! This one's alive! We've got a live one over here!

Mathias: Danelli, Peters, cover the Major!
Lee: They're alive! (wireless): Galactica, Apollo. We got uh, one, two, three, four, five living skin jobs down here. I say again, five living.
Helo(wireless): Are you taking fire?
Lee(wireless): Uh, negative, negative, they seem in pretty bad shape.

(Galactica - CIC)

Helo(wireless): Don't take any chances, they make any threatening moves.
Lee(Wireless): Oh, you can trust me on that one.

(Infected Basestar)

Mathias: Major, what do we do? Should we take them out?
Lee: Hold your fire, hold your fire!
Mathias: Keep away from the tracker!
Lee: I said hold your fire!
Cylons(praying): Grant us the strength, the wisdom.
Lee: What are they doing?
Cylons(praying): and above all, a measure of acceptance.
Lee: hey, Athena, what are you doing? Athena! What are you doing! Athena!
Eight(to Sharon): Traitor. Save yourself.
Sharon: From what?
Eight: Get away from us.
Sharon: What happened here?
Six: The beacon. We brought it (Struggles) on board. It carried (struggles) a disease. We're infected.
Sharon: Infected?
Mathias: Son of a bitch!
Lee: Okay, okay, okay! Settle down! Keep back! Watch the doorways, get the doorways! (Wireless) Uh, Galactica, Apollo. We have a situation down here. The Cylons have been infected with a disease. We've all been exposed. We've all been exposed.

(Galactica - CIC)

Doc Cottle: They'll have to come aboard under quarantine procedures. Clear a path from the hanger deck to sick bay and sterilize it. And the Raptors after they're in.
Gaeta: I'll handle that.
Dee: How long will they have to stay in quarantine?
Doc Cottle: I wont' know that until I do the blood work. Could be days, weeks, there's no way to tell. You say they picked up this disease from a beacon?
Adama: According to the Cylons.
Doc Cottle: Always good to have the source of the pathogen. Can you bring it aboard Galactica?
Adama: No, too dangerous. I want to limit our exposure.
Doc Cottle: What about the prisoners?
Helo: Prisoners?
Doc Cottle: The disease is more advanced in their system so it'll give me at least an idea of what to expect as it progresses. And when they die, it'll tell me how long our people have to live.
Adama: How many prisoners?
Doc Cottle: How many you got?

(Space - Raptor)

Helo(wireless): Apollo, Galactica. Alpha check.
Lee(wireless): Galactica, we have you in visual range. Approaching starboard hanger..
Helo(wireless): Apollo, what was that!

(Galactica - CIC)

Gaeta: Massive energy discharge from the base ship! It exploded sir.

(Space - Raptor)

Helo(wireless): Apollo, Galactica, are you alright out there?
Apollo(wireless): Uh, yeah, affirmative. We're still here. What the hell happened?
Helo(wireless): Base ship exploded. Must have self-destructed. You guys are lucky you got out when you did.
Apollo(wireless): Roger that!

(Basestar - Baltar's Room)

Baltar: Nothing the matter, I trust?
CapSix: We have some questions.
D'Anna: How long did you plan to betray us Gaius?
Baltar: Ha, ha. Funny! You're joking, of course.
CapSix: You're only making this harder on yourself.
Baltar: Wait a minute. I have been more than very accommodating since I arrived here. I helped you find Sharon's baby. I've helped you with a map towards Earth.
D'Anna: We know about the beacon, Gaius.
CapSix: You knew it was out there, you knew it contained a deadly virus.
Baltar: No, I didn't. I didn't. That's not…
CapSix(Interrupting): Was the virus created by Galactica?
D'Anna: Have you been in contact with them since you've been on board? Or did you plan this before the evacuation of New Caprica?
Baltar: This is the most profound misunderstanding. Uh, I had nothing to do with the virus, or the beacon. Yes, yes, I did discover it on the base ship. And I should have told you about it sooner, and I didn't. Because I thought, you know, you'd try to link me, you know, to the virus, which is, hello! You know, what is going on right now. I was wrong, and it was a mistake and I fully admit my responsibility. It will never happen again, and I hope you accept my, yeah, my most humble apology. On a

 brighter note, I have a working theory as to where this beacon may…
(Centurions walk in)
CapSix: I'm sorry, Gaius.
D'Anna: Things would have been so much simpler had you only told the truth. We think you know more about this virus, and we intend to find out.

(Baltar projection - Beach)

HeadSix: Relax, have a drink.
Baltar: Can't. The pain! The pain!
HeadSix: It's all in your head Gaius. Pain, pleasure, they're just neural impulses sent to the brain! You decide how to interpret them. They can be pleasant, or unpleasant.
(Gaius Screams in pain)

(Basestar - torture room)

(Gaius is screaming in pain while D'Anna and CapSix watch)

Baltar: No! Not me! (screams)
(D'Anna Slows pain)
D'Anna: I wanted to stop Gaius, I don't want you to feel this pain. And neither does Caprica, do you?
CapSix: No.
Baltar: I love you.

(Galactica - Quarantine)

Hot Dog: You feel anything yet?
Racetrack: Yeah, I feel sick. Sick of you bugging me.
Hot Dog: You didn't touch any infected skin jobs.
Racetrack: It's not my fault you're clumsy.
Hot Dog: You can kiss my infected ass.
Doc Cottle: Well you can kiss it, but it's not infected. I got your blood work back, humans are immune to the virus, you're all healthy.
Lee: All right people nice job, let's get out of here!

Doc Cattle(to Sharon): No! You stay put for awhile.
Helo: No, no, no, no, no. Please tell me she's ok.
Doc Cottle: I haven't done her blood work yet.
Helo: What? Oh I see, she can't wait because of who she isn't. (To Sharon): Sharon! You're gonna be okay, promise! (To Cottle): You come for me, Godsdammit! You come for me the second you know.

(Galactica - Cell)

(Several Cylons are held as prisoners)

Doc Cottle: Take him, he's the furthest gone.

(Marines take a Doral out of the cell)

(Galactica - Adama's Quarters)

Roslin: You can keep the Cylons alive?
Doc Cottle: I can't cure them, but yes.
Adama: How long?
Doc Cottle: Indefinitely. I identified the virus, we know it as Lymphocytic encephalitis. The disease is carried by rodents, rats mostly. But a couple of hundred years ago, Humans developed an immunity. Now I can create a simple vaccine that will dramatically reverse the effects of the virus on the Cylons but uh, they have an antibody in their blood which breaks down the RNA of the vaccine. So they will need regular close interval injects of the vaccine, or they will die.
Lee: Can I ask the ugly question here? Is there any reason to keep them alive?
Helo: We could interrogate them for intelligence.
Adama: I agree. We have a lot of unanswered questions.
Lee: Yeah, okay. But they're not gonna talk.
Roslin: Well, they might if we dangled the vaccine. They don't need to know it's a stop-gap, not a cure.
Lee: They prayed, on the infected ship. Karl's wife said it was something called the prayer to the cloud of unknowing, whatever the hell that is. Anyway, point is, she said they only use it when they are facing an imminent death that is final, no possibility of downloading. They're ready to die.
Roslin: They may be ready to die, but it doesn't mean that one of them won't jump at a second chance.

(Galactica - Adama's Quarters)

(A Simon model is lead in)

Simon: It infected everything. Base ship, centurions, raiders. Until we were finally abandoned by the other Cylon ships.
Lee: Why? Why not just put you under quarantine until you found a cure?
Simon: Fear of spreading the disease. They told us that there was a bio-electric feedback component to the pathogen. It corrupts how our brains manage our immune systems. If one of us dies, and is resurrected, the disease will follow, infecting the resurrection ship, and the fleet.
Adama: Why were you in this area in the first place?
Simon: We were sent - we were sent here to look for the Lion Nebula. Baltar said it would point the way to Earth.
Helo: What did you just say?
Gaeta: Baltar - Baltar's alive?
Simon: Baltar is on our base ship. He's helping us find Earth.
Adama: He's using our navigation charts, along with our map from Kobol. He's leading them to Earth.
Simon: We want a new beginning. Much like you. I gave you information. She said that there was a cure?
Adama: Doc Cottle will be giving you the medicine.

Doc Cottle: Take him back to the infirmary.
Marine: Yes sir!
(Simon is led out - Lee laughs)
Adama: What the hell's so funny.
Lee: I think I just thought of a way to solve all of our problems. To get rid of the Cylon threat once and for all. We can wipe um out. We can destroy the entire Cylon race.

(Colonial One)

Lee: We jump to an area we know the Cylons use as a supply line. NCD-2539. We stay there, exposed. We look as if we're spoiling for a fight. They'll send their fleet, and where there's a fleet, there's a resurrection ship. Now once the resurrection ship is within our reach, we execute our infected prisoners. We bug out, the executed prisoners download into the resurrection ship, and with them the virus.
Roslin: You're sure the virus will download to a new body?
Lee: The Cylons are sure of it. They left their wounded out here to die alone, with no hope of being rescued, tells me all I need to know. And once the virus is in the resurrection ship, there'll be no stopping it.
Adama: Rescuers become carriers of the plague. Cylons themselves don't believe that they'll develop a cure.
Roslin: Oh my Gods, this could be the end of Cylons entirely.
Lee: Forever.
Helo: Genocide? So that's what we're about now.
Lee: They're not human, they were built, not born. No fathers, no mothers, no sons, no daughters.
Helo: I had a daughter, I held her in my arms.
Lee: But she was half Human. These are things, dangerous things. This is our one chance to be rid of them.
Helo: You can rationalize it anyway you want. We do this, we wipe out their race, then we're no different than they are.
Roslin: Captain, I respectfully disagree. The Cylons struck first in this war. And not being content with the annihilation of billions of Human Beings they perused us relentlessly through the galaxies, determined to wipe us out.
Helo: They tried to live with us on New Caprica.
Roslin: What did you say?
Helo: They tried to live with us on New Caprica.
Roslin: You weren't on New Caprica. To my recollection you didn't set foot there. So out of the respect for the hundreds of men and women on your crew who suffered through that snake pit, I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that. You would serve your fleet well if you'd remember occasionally that the Cylons are a mortal threat to the survival of the Human race.
Helo: I'm talking about right and wrong. I'm talking about losing a piece of our souls. No one wants to hear that right? Let's keep it on me. Yeah, I'm married to a Cylon, who walked through hell, for all of us, how many times. And she's not half anything! Okay, how do we know there aren't others like her? She made a choice. She's a person, they're a race of people. Wiping them out with a biological weapon is a crime against - is a crime against Humanity.
Lee: But they're not Human they're programmed!
Roslin: We will take your input under advisement. Thank you both.
Lee: Thank you ma'am.
Adama: Dismissed.
(Helo and Lee leave)

(Basestar)

(Baltar is still being tortured - he screams)

(Baltar's projection - beach)

HeadSix: I can help you. I can guide you through the torment and beyond, but you'll have to do the work.
Baltar: I'll do anything. Anything!

(Basestar)

D'Anna: Tell us what we want to know. How was the virus invented? Did they make a cure?
HeadSix: Look at me.
 

(Baltar's projection - beach)

HeadSix: Look at me. When you make love to me Gaius, you don't always think about me. Your mind wanders, I know that. You think of equations, puzzles, your laundry.

(Basestar)

HeadSix: It's the nature of the mind to disconnect from the body, enjoining on it's own.

(Baltar's projection - beach)

HeadSix: Separate your mind from your body. Keep your mind in that room. Use your intellect against her. Reason, logic, analysis. Find the holes in her psyche.

(Basestar)

Baltar: I can't, the pain!

(Baltar's projection - beach)

HeadSix: The pain's only in your body. So keep your body here with me. Don't worry, I'll take care of it.

(Basestar)

D'Anna: You see, Gaius, this is what the absence of pain feels like. It's easy to forget.
Baltar: I had nothing to do with the virus. It was a coincidence.
D'Anna: There's no such thing as coincidence. God wills the universe according to this design.
HeadSix: Now, focus on her.

(Baltar's projection - beach)

HeadSix: As a Cylon, not a woman. Be a scientist. Examine her faith. What's your analysis, doctor?
Baltar: I'm a scientist, and as a scientist, I believe that if God exists our knowledge of him is imperfect. Why?

(Basestar)

Baltar: Because the stories and myths we have are the products of men. The passage of time. The religion you practice is based on a theory, impossible to prove, yet you bestow it with absolutes like, there is no such thing as coincidence.

D'Anna: It's called faith.
Baltar: Absolute belief in God's will means there's a reason for everything. Everything! And yet you can't help ask yourself how God can allow death and destruction and then despise yourself for asking. But the truth is, if we knew God's will we'd all be Gods wouldn't we! I can see it in your eyes, D'Anna. You're frustrated, you're conflicted. Let me help you, let me help you change. Find a way to reconcile your faith with fact. Find a way towards a rational universe!
D'Anna: I don't know what your game is, but it's not going to work. You intentionally led one of our ships to that beacon, didn't you?
(she shoves some sort of rod in his ear - he screams)

(Baltar's projection - beach)

(HeadSix is having sex with Baltar)

HeadSix: Give your body to me, only your mind is there. Feel me, feel this where she wants you to feel pain. Look at me, look at me Gaius! Do you want me to believe you're worth saving? Do you? Do you? Say it!

(Basestar)

Baltar: I want you to believe in me! Don't stop! Don't stop! Please, please don't stop! You have to believe in me, you're all I have left!

(Baltar's projection - beach)

HeadSix: Now tell me, you believe in me. Tell me you believe in my strength!

(Basestar)

Baltar: I believe in you! I believe in you!

(Baltar's projection - beach)

Baltar: I love you, I love you with all my heart.

(Basestar)

Baltar: I love you with all my heart.


(Galactica - Quarantine)

Helo: How?
Sharon: Cottle said it had something to do with carrying a half-human child. How the fetal blood cells enter the maternal circulatory system, causing the mother to create antibodies, whatever. I'm immune!
Helo: Oh my Gods!
(They kiss)
Sharon: Our baby, saved my life. She's gone forever and she saved my life. Hera kept us together.
Helo: Share this.
Sharon: This. You mean us? Together? You mean us?
Helo: Yeah, them. I mean them.
Sharon: Who's them?
Helo: They're going to execute the infected prisoners. But, not until we jump into a Cylon region, with a resurrection ship present. The infection's going to spread, everywhere.

(Colonial One)

Adama: There's a point I'd like to make.
Roslin: Mmhmm.
Adama: The law forbids me to use biological weapons without a direct Presidential order.
Roslin: Which means you're passing the buck.
Adama: On this one, yes. Helo's right on one thing. If we start destroying entire races, even mechanical races, we're libel to tear off a piece of a man's soul.

Roslin: The Cylons are coming to Earth. If they find us they are coming for us. Those are the stakes. They always have been, Bill.

(Galactica - Quarantine)

Helo: We're talking about the genocide of your entire race.
Sharon: Yeah, you think I don't know that. I made a choice to wear a uniform. To be a person.
Helo: You were a person before you put on that uniform. Okay? You were a person before I fell in love with you. You don't have to prove that.
Sharon: I have to prove it every day. Let me tell you something, Helo. My people may die. My entire race may be wiped out. But this Cylon will keep her word even if she's the last Cylon left in the universe. Can a Human Being do that?

(Colonial One)

Adama: Posterity really doesn't look too kindly on genocide.
Roslin: You're making an assumption that posterity will define this as genocide. If they do, at least there'll be someone alive to hate us for it. The Cylons are our mistake, we created them. Alright Admiral Adama, as President I have determined the Cylons be made extinct. The use of biological weapons is authorized.
Adama: So say we all.
Roslin: So say we all.

(Galactica - CIC)

Dee: Jump complete. DRADIS is clear, no Cylons sir.
Adama: They'll be here soon enough. Let's get our birds in the air.
Gaeta: Commence Viper and nav Raptor launch.

(Flight Deck - Raptor)

Sharon: Let's do this, Racetrack.

(Galactica - hallways)

(Helo removes his dog tags and climbs a ladder to a fuse box)

(Galactica - Flight Deck)

Galen: Let's go, move um out! Let's go, move come on!

(Sharon's Raptor)

Racetrack: CAP is away, nav bird has them on DRADIS.

(Galactica - Hallways)

(Helo removes a fuse and closes up the box)

(Galactica - CIC)

Dee: DRADIS contact, a pair of Cylon raiders. Keeping their distance for now.
Adama: Didn't take them that long. It's their scouts, they'll jump away and report back to their fleet. See if they take our bait.

(Several Basestars jump in, along with a Resurrection ship)

Dee: Got it! There's a resurrection ship with them.
Adama: Then it's time to execute our Cylon prisoners. Call it in.
Gaeta: Terminate the prisoners.

(Galactica - Hallways)

Lee: Head shots okay?
Mathias: Yes sir.

Lee: Let's do it.

(Space)

Kara: And let's see if we can't frak up some toasters on this joyride people.
Hot Dog: Bogies holding hands, I'm notching like hell up here!
Kara: Hot Dog, Starbuck, quit your bitching and continue to cover as fragged.

(Galactica - Brig)

Lee: Alright out of the way. (in Brig): Frak! They're already dead. They're already dead.

(Galactica - CIC)

Gaeta: Sir, you should hear this.
Lee (wireless): They were dead before the resurrection ship was in range, they didn't download the disease, we have missed our window.

(Space)

Kara(wireless): Galactica, Starbuck. A base ship's just jumped in.

(Galactica - CIC)

Adama: Call our birds in, spool up. Let's get the hell out of here.
Gaeta: Commence FTL. Sir, we lost time waiting to hear from quarantine. We're going to take significant fire while we spool up.
Adama: Continue jump, take us back to our fleet.
Gaeta: Yes sir.

(Helo's quarters)

Helo: They're coming for me. You or me. Seems like they're always coming for one of us. I'm not a traitor. I love my people, I love this ship. Besides you, the first thing I want to see on any morning, are the lights in that CIC. I did what I thought was right. If it was a mistake, fine I can live with that. It's you I can't live without.
(Sharon and Helo hug)
Sharon: I will always love you, Helo.

(Galactica - Adama's quarters)

Roslin: Hrm? No thanks.
Adama: The prisoners died of asphyxiation. The air purification system was reversed. Sucked the oxygen out. When this happens, the deadbolts are automatically activated on the door. Someone did this manually.
Roslin: Someone? Seems to me there's only one or two likely suspects. Who will head the investigation?
Adama: No one, I'm closing the book on this.

Roslin: How convenient.
Adama: Cottle's report from the virus. He thinks that it was simply an accidental contamination of the beacon we abandoned on the sick base ship.
Roslin: Somebody sneezed, maybe?
Adama: Yeah, an entire race almost wiped out because someone forgot to wipe their nose. According to Cottle, the virus was an exact match to one reported almost three thousand years ago. Right around the time that the thirteenth colony left Kobol.
Roslin: That beacon was a signpost to Earth.
Adama: I think we're on the right trail, Laura.
Roslin: Yes, we are on the right trail, Bill. So are the Cylons.