"Okay, this is far enough." "Put me down." "I said put me down." "Shouldn't be long now." "Hold onto that for me?" "Who's this?" "Katie." "My wife." "Why didn't you tell me?" "Sometimes you... you miss something too much." "You wouldn't understand, kid." "You have a lousy taste in women." "but you're all right," "Are you alive?" "Do you think because you're more enlightened than the rest of your species, we hate you any less?" "There's our young hero." "At ease, son." "How you feeling today?" " Ready to get out of here, sir." " That's the spirit," "In the meantime, wanted you to review your after-action report." "Command made a few changes they need you to sign off on." "Guess they felt you we're little hard on yourself." "It says our mission was a complete success." " That's just a lie." " Was it?" "You knew." "You wanted her to upload that data." " When the cylons attacked, the fleet..." " Was long gone." "We hit every toaster base in five sectors." "inflicted some major damage." "For a while anyway they're gonna be on the defensive." "And what about the Osiris?" "What about all those people who died?" "You mean all those people who gave theyre lives?" "You disapprove?" "You feel used?" "There's a bit more at stake here than your personal sense of integrity." "The people supports this war with their money, and they'll stop if we stop giving them hope." "So let them have their heroes and their unblemish victories, while we fight the real war." "Good." "We're assembling a joint task force." "Our best pilots, marines and infantry units for special ops throughout the war theater." "In case you want to volunteer," "There's a shiny new Viper with your name on it waiting for you in the hangar bay." "Well, maybe not with your name on it just yet." "I hear you still have to pick a call sign." "You think about it." "What?" "No cocky comebacks?" "You look like crap." "You want to talk?" "You're going home?" "I've got about six weeks left in my tour, so guess I'll stick around that long." "long as I don't have to fly with you." "Dear dad, Got your last letter." "You're right about preconceptions being dangerous, and not just in court." "This war is turning out to be different than I expected." "But maybe my mistake was to have expectations." "It's something you have to live inside of to understand, and while a part of me already hates it, another part knows that I will make soldiering my life." "But this is the life I've chosen." "This crew, it's my family now too." "So I'll tell you something else..." "When this war over, and some day it will be what I'll remember most aren't the battles but the men and women who fought them with me." "And I will miss them."