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Lieutenant Athena: What are you saying about my father? Do you realize what we've just been through?
Lieutenant Starbuck: Oh, yeah? Well, you didn't see how we spent our day! We just single-handedly managed to keep the Cylons off your neck while you took off on a little cruise!
Lieutenant Athena: Starbuck, don't you realize what's happened?
Lieutenant Starbuck: Oh, yeah! Sure, I realize what's happened! You should see this baby when it takes off across the stars! It's a beautiful sight! Beautiful! Unless, it happens to be your base ship!
Lieutenant Athena: Starbuck, listen to me! The Colonies are gone! All of them!
Lieutenant Starbuck: What are you talking about, gone?
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Imperious Leader: Welcome, Baltar. I have grave news. A handful of Colonials prevail, but we will soon find them.
Count Baltar: What of our bargain? My colony was to be spared!
Imperious Leader: I now alter the bargain.
Count Baltar: How can you change one side of a bargain?
Imperious Leader: When there is no other side. You have missed the entire point of the war.
Count Baltar: But I have no ambitions against you!
Imperious Leader: Could you think me so foolish as to trust a man who would see his own race destroyed?
Count Baltar: Not destroyed, subjugated, under me!
Imperious Leader: There can be *no* survivors. So long as one human remains alive, the Alliance is threatened.
Count Baltar: Surely... you don't mean me?
Imperious Leader: We thank you for your help, Baltar. Your time is at an end.
Count Baltar: No! You can't! You still need me! ARGH!
[a Cylon Centurion slits Count Baltar's throat]
Wilfrid Hyde-White
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