"Someone just hit the tripwires." " Toth?" " He just took out two more." "He's not gonna make it." "I got his wireless." "Why?" "Why do you think?" "Fun and games are over." "I'm sending the evac code, and we're outta here." " Are you nuts?" " No." "We complete this mission then you can send whatever code you want, all right?" "Look, kid, unless you haven't notice we're fresh out of marines and ammo." "I'm not trained for this." "So we're gonna have to make do." "All right?" "Where are we going?" "It's an automated transmission array." "Put your gun down, Husker." "Put it down." "What are you doing?" "You guys want to die heroes right now?" "I can do that for you, right now!" "Test me, Husker!" "What are you doing?" " Why are you doing this?" " I can't take it." "Please, put the gun down." "All right, it's gone." " You tell me why we're here right now." " Don't do this." "Tell me why we're here!" "This war isn't going nearly as well as the government claim." "I know." "This surprise attack is a last roll of the dice." "It fails, we fail." "And it will fail, if you don't get me where I need to go." "She's talking sense." "Coker, please." "So now we need to know." "You tell me why we're here." "It's an automated Cylon transmission array." "Once we gain access, I will upload a virus." "Can you please take the gun of my chest?" "Please?" "Keep talking." "I will upload a virus that is designed to blind their defenses." "A virus that I've been carrying in this." "And you didn't trust me enough to tell me this before?" "No." "I'm sorry." "I trust you now." "Good." "Now we communicate." "Tell us the rest." "Make sure there's no more surprises." "It's an automated Cylon transmission array about 6 klicks from here." "So, if we leave now, we'll make it before nightfall." "The facility is automated." "So we shouldn't run into too many century and guards." "That is if we're careful not to trip the internal defense system." "The central corridor leads directly to the control room." "We only nee to access one of their com channel to upload the virus." "A virus that is designed to spread through their entire network and lie dormant until we trigger it disabling all their communication in advance of an attack." "Clear!" "What is it?" "I thought I saw something." "I guess I'm just jumpy." "We are in." "Hurry with that thing, all right?" "Come on!" "It's a large program, it'll take..." "Stop!" "Put it down!" "Put the gun now, Husker, or I'll shoot you." "She is working for them." " What?" " She's a Cylon spy!" "No!" "Howdo I stop this?" "How could she be a spy?" "Ask her about the hotel!" "About the Cylon that stopped and scanned her!" "What?" " Don't know what you're saying." " What?" "!" "The toaster had you dead to rights!" "Then it saw this thing and froze." "Can you explain that to me?" "Can you?" "I have no idea what are you talking about." "Coker, put the gun down." "On the floor and calm down, okay?" " Drop the gun." " Oh, frak!" "It's not a virus, it's a recording device." "Oh, frak!" "You're giving them all the info on the ghost ship, aren't you?" "You frakking bitch!" "That's why they destroyed the Archeron." "So that Colonial intel..." "Coker!" "Stop!" "I will shoot you if I have to." "No, no!" "I though you wanted to end this war." "It will end when we'll realize that we can't win." "That we have to negotiate." "Negotiate?" "For the last 10 years, they've been trying to wipe us out!" "They're just defending themselves." "No." "They value life for more than we do." " You saw what was in that freezer." " Stop!" "Was that them defending themselves?" "Was that them valuing life?" "They're robots!" "Beka, okay?" "It's all they are." "It's all..." "Are you okay, buddy?" " Coker, you okay?" " Stop the upload!" "It's all inside and I can't make it out." "Well, then go to... plan B, kid." "Come on, come on!" "It stopped but I don't know how much as already been sent." "Get yourself outta here!" "I'm gonna start listening to you now?" "Come on!" "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."