"Space: Above And Beyond"
"Never No More" Part 1 of 2 precedes "The Angriest Angel"
February 4, 1996
Episode 14 DVD:
00:35:28
Commodore Ross: Somewhere out there in the darkness, hiding, is an enemy craft that has killed your comrades.
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
1-00 - Mini Series (1)* 12/08/03
1-00 - Mini Series (2)* 12/09/03
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ADAMA
Miss Roslin, my priority at this moment is the repair of Galactica and the resumption of combat operations against the enemy.
LAURA
Correct me if I'm wrong, Commander, but as far as we know, isn't Galactica the last surviving battlestar?
ADAMA
(uncomfortable) We don't know how many battlestars or how many other elements of the fleet may have survived.
LAURA
Do you have any reason to think there are other survivors?
ADAMA
We don't know.
LAURA
Well, let's focus on what we do know. And what we do know is that at this moment there are fifty thousand civilian refugees out there who won't have a chance without your ship to protect them.
ADAMA
I understand the tactical situation. But you should be safe here at Ragnar after we leave.
LAURA
"After you leave." Where are you going?
ADAMA
We're going after the enemy. We're at war. That's our mission.
And now Laura deliberately lets her own temper show, lets her voice rise in indignation:
LAURA
I don't know why I have to keep telling you people this, but -- the war is over.
ADAMA
I don't accept that.
LAURA
Commander, your own pilot was there -- ask Sharon Valerii what's happening on Kobol.
ADAMA
(temper flaring) I know what's happened on Kobol, but my job is to fight back.
LAURA
(louder) With what? One ship?
ADAMA
If that's all we have, then yes, with one ship.
LAURA
That's insane.
ADAMA
(losing it) And what do you want me do? Run?
LAURA
Yes! That's absolutely right! The only sane thing to do here is exactly that -- run. We leave this solar system and never look back.
ADAMA
And go where?
LAURA
I don't know. Another star system, another planet -- somewhere the Cylons won't find us.
Adama gets up, heads for the door.
ADAMA
You can run if you want. This ship is going to stand and fight.
She keeps raging at his back as he leaves.
LAURA
You don't get it, do you? The human race is about to be wiped out. We have fifty thousand people left and that's it. If we want to even survive as a species, then we need to get the hell out of here and start having babies!
The door closes and he's gone. The second he's gone, she realizes she went too far, and probably blew her once chance to get to Adama. Billy ENTERS again after a beat. He looks a question to her.
LAURA (cont'd)
I don't know... I just don't know...
EXT. SPACE - KARA'S VIPER
Is carefully winding its way through the STORM CLOUDS up toward open space.
DUALLA (WIRELESS)
(fritzed) Starbuck/Galactica. You should be approaching turn eight.
INT. KARA'S VIPER - CONSOLE POV
Kara struggles with her controls as the winds from the storm BUFFET her fighter. She checks her position against a small navigational table attached to her flight suit leg.
KARA
(to mic) Copy that. Starting to lose wireless contact. Making the final turn now...
EXT. KARA'S VIPER - WING CAMERA POV
The fighter BANKS and turns against the dizzying background of the storm.
OVERHEAD COCKPIT POV
Looking ahead, we can see OPEN SPACE looming before us as the Viper completes its turn.
KARA (WIRELESS)
Galactica/Starbuck. I've reached the threshold.
INT. KARA'S VIPER - CONSOLE POV
All she hears in reply is STATIC.
KARA
Galactica, do you read me?
More static. She gives up, concentrates on piloting.
EXT. SPACE - KARA'S VIPER - CHASE CAMERA POV
The Viper clears the storm.
MULTI-SCREEN:
1 -- INT. KARA'S VIPER - CONSOLE POV
As she makes adjustments to her Dradis screen.
2 -- INT. KARA'S VIPER - ON DRADIS SCREEN
It suddenly FILLS with CONTACT BLIPS.
1 -- Kara frowns at the display.
KARA
That can't be right...
She looks up and reacts in shock at what she sees and we add:
3 -- EXT. SPACE - KARA'S VIPER - OVERHEAD COCKPIT POV
4 -- INT. KARA'S VIPER - OVER SHOULDER CAM
Both of which show the space just beyond the storm is FILLED WITH DOZENS OF CYLON SHIPS.
It's an overwhelming display of massive force, made all the more menacing by the utter stillness with which they sit there waiting... waiting for their prey to emerge from the storm and be destroyed.
You punk goddamned vermin cowards know that your only goddamned chance is to wait until you have the security of your faceless goddamned vermin mob.
You know that your vermin ass is busted and you stand no chance.
History will record indelibly that you are history's greatest cowards.
You are history's greatest cowards. That fact of you being history's greatest cowards will never change.
