- Lieutenant Starbuck: Incredible. You really understand this felgercarb?
- Cpl Komma: From Alpha imput to Omega readout.
- First Centurion Vulpa: What is the exact position of the Galactica?
- Cadet Cree: Go rust yourself!
- First Centurion Vulpa: Connect his cortex to the brain probe.
- Commander Adama: Good Lord.
- Lieutenant Athena: I have a fix on the scale. The ramparts are 14 metrons high, destructive power infinite in two hectares.
- Commander Adama: It's incredible! It could destroy the Galactica in a single pulse.
- Commander Adama: Colonel, program a computer research for qualified personnel experienced in arctic survival, expert in mountaineering, highly specialised in heavy demolition.
- Colonel Tigh: Yes sir.
- Lieutenant Boomer: What's the matter? Something serious?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Oh no, no. We're just handing the safety of the entire fleet over to a bunch of murderers and cutthroats.
- Lieutenant Boomer: Well, as long as it's nothing serious.
- Commander Adama: [briefs the prisoners on their mission] There's not all that much difference between you and your fellow convicts and us. We are all living for the promise of freedom, and we're all threatened by a similar death.
- Wolfe: Perhaps it was the chains that made the difference.
- [Following a computer search, Starbuck is among those selected for the Arcta Pulsar demolition mission]
- Lieutenant Boomer: I just don't understand how that computer picked you for this mission. Now I pulled a tour on Ice Station Thula, so it makes sense that I got chosen, but you? You get dizzy if your drinks are too cold, my friend!
- Lieutenant Starbuck: I wish you'd have told the Commander that. I'd like to figure some way to get out of...
- [interrupted by Giles removing Cree's personal effects from his locker]
- Wolfe: We're not barge lice.
- Thane: Or grid rats.
- Croft: Yes we are, we were picked for this drop because we're expendable.
- Captain Apollo: Nobody's expendable. Your here to do a job on the Cylons, not each other.
- Ser 5-9: You are fortunate your daggit found our hunting party. You were on Deathpoint Plateau. Nothing survives there for long.
- [Starbuck and Boomer encounter Thane for the first time]
- Thane: I work with breathing gear. Rare gasses, chemical blends. I can take you through land, air, fire and water.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Says here you're in for murder.
- Thane: Hmm. That too.
- Ser 5-9: You came to destroy the Ravashol pulsar.
- Captain Apollo: Ravashol?
- Tenna: Dr. Ravashol. He is human.
- Lt. Starbuck: A human created that monster up there for the Cylons?
- Tenna: If it were not for Ravashol, we would not exist.
- Ser 5-9: He is the Father Creator.
- Cylon master gunner: Pulsar ready to fire.
- First Centurion Vulpa: Fire as targets bear.
- Cylon master gunner: By your command.
- Lieutenant Boomer: [Indicating Leda while leaning towards Starbuck] She looks like she could take us all on, *with* or *without* chains.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [reading a scanner] Leda. Medic, First Class, expert in laser wounds, and arctic experienced.
- Leda: What's the mission?
- Lieutenant Boomer: Commander will brief you.
- Leda: [glares at Croft before turning back to Starbuck] To have Croft and myself in the same place, at the same time, invites disaster.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: You don't like him?
- Leda: I'm married to him! And no, I don't like him.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [re the two over-eager fighter pilots] Boomer, we can't let them go down alone.
- Lieutenant Boomer: They're in the clouds. We'll never get a visual on 'em.