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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
3X05 - COLLABORATORS
Original Airdate (SciFi): 27-OCT-2006
Colonial one.
Adama: What the hell is this?
Zarek: It's all perfectly legal. You'll find a signed executive order on file authorizing a secret jury of six men and women to try, sentence, and execute people guilty of extraordinary crimes while collaborating with the enemy in a time of war. There's also a death warrant with my signature for every conviction.
Adama: Your presidency is a farce. It stops right now.
Roslin: If they're guilty, they'll be tried by a jury of their peers.
Zarek: They have a jury. But they don't get lawyers. They don't get to showboat for weeks and months on end. They don't get to blame the system and they don't get lasting fame as martyrs or innocent people just in the wrong place at the wrong time. They just disappear. Now, in the gray twilight between the long night of the Occupation and the dawn of a new era, you come into office clean, without their blood on your hands.
Roslin, pissed: Well, thank you. That's, uh … that's very poetic. However you have a problem, Mr. President. Everyone by law is entitled to a trial with representation. Everyone. It is not an option to be discarded at the president's whim.
Zarek: You think by making the trials public that you'll find justice?
Roslin: Yes, I do.
Zarek: Come on, Laura. You're not that naive. Let me tell you what's gonna happen if these cases go to trial. It'll consume this fleet for months, maybe years. People will be lining up to testify against their neighbors. It'll be a circus -- an entertainment for the mob. And you'll be signing death warrants almost every day. Is that how you wanna spend your next term, Laura? As executioner-in-chief?
