- President Laura Roslin: Let me see. Ruins? What ruins? This is an inhabited city. Look at the buildings.
- Billy Keikeya: Buildings?
- President Laura Roslin: Look.
- Elosha: What did you see? Tell me, Laura.
- President Laura Roslin: A dome-like structure with six roads leading out of it like spokes. With something around it like columns, like a forum, like the forum on Caprica, actually.
- Elosha: The forum in the opera house in the city of the gods on Kobol. This planet is Kobol.
- President Laura Roslin: Reality is that the Cylon Raider has been successfully jump-tested. Reality is that Cylon technology obviously outstrips our own. And reality is there is a good chance the Raider can jump all the way back to Caprica and retrieve that arrow and find our way to Earth. The real Earth.
- Commander William Adama: The Raider's a military asset. I won't use it to go chasing some mythical arrow. I'm sorry.
- Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: Can I ask you a question, boss?
- Commander William Adama: Shoot.
- Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: How much longer till we reach Earth?
- Commander William Adama: It's hard to say.
- Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: You got a guess?
- Commander William Adama: You know I don't like to guess.
- Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: Are we getting closer?
- Commander William Adama: I'm sure we are. Good luck on the next test.
- [last lines]
- Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: I believed you. Believed in Earth.
- Commander William Adama: What are you doing, Starbuck?
- Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: Bringing home the cat, sir.
- Commander William Adama: We can talk about this.
- Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: No, I don't think so.
- Commander William Adama: I want you to remember one thing. I do not regret anything that I did. Be sure that whatever you're going to do, you don't regret it later. Do you understand me?
- Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: I guess we'll find out.
- [Thrace uses the FTL computer to jump to Caprica]
- Cpt. Lee 'Apollo' Adama: Galactica, Apollo. Starbuck has jumped away. Repeat, Starbuck has jumped away.
- Colonel Saul Tigh: She wasn't scheduled for a jump test! Where the hell did she go?
- Commander William Adama: Home.
- President Laura Roslin: Commander Adama has no idea where Earth is. He never did. He made it up in order to give people hope.
- Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: You're lying.
- President Laura Roslin: Go ask him.
- Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: I will.