- Captain Apollo: Will you excuse us for a centon, Boxey?
- Boxey: Okay. Come on Muffit, they're gonna argue.
- Serina: We are not going to argue.
- Boxey: Yes they are.
- Captain Apollo: Yes we are.
- Captain Apollo: Serina, we're about to be married!
- Serina: What does that have to do with it? Your own sister's a pilot and warrior.
- Captain Apollo: She's my sister, not my wife to be!
- Serina: Fine. If that's what it's all about, we can take care of that.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: All right girls, just like we did it in the simulators. Remember, these controls are as sensitve as a schoolgirl's... eh... lips.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Deitra, take command of the squadron. We've got a Cylon on our tail.
- Lieutenant Deitra: Form on me. Let's go, girls.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Athena, what do you think you're doing?
- Lieutenant Athena: I'm your wingman. Apollo said a wingman should stick to a leader at all times.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Okay, okay, just hold back a little, and eh, for Sagan's sake, don't shoot me.
- Lieutenant Athena: Keep it up, Starbuck, keep it up.
- Lucifer: [to Baltar] I think I can assure you with some sense of pride, you will inherit the most capable Centurions in all the Empire.
- Commander Adama: Oh, Doctor, is there any possibility... How soon can some of our pilots be returned to duty?
- Dr. Salik: Commander, I told you: it's not a matter of how soon they will return to duty, it's a matter of how soon they will die.
- Lucifer: [walking away from Baltar on his throne] Isn't he wonderfully devious? We can learn much from him.
- Count Baltar: Do not fence with me, my friend. Everything is still proceeding according to my plan, except you have not captured one of their pilots as I ordered.
- Lucifer: To assure such a capture, we would have to risk being discovered. You ordered us out of the Galactica's scanner range.
- Count Baltar: They send out patrols, do they not? Capture one!
- Boxey: I was told in Instructional Period that some people are just naturally slow. That doesn't mean they're actually stupid, they're just slow.
- Lieutenant Boomer: Jolly, if we miss just one of these Cylon outposts, we'll never know what hit us.
- Flight Sergeant Jolly: You think it's operational? It looks deserted.
- Lieutenant Boomer: [sighs] Think of it as a crawlon in its web. Nothing moves until some hapless creature flies into its orbit and then it's all over.
- Captain Apollo: Incredible. It's an ocean of darkness. Nothing as far as the eye can see. No stars, moons, planets, nothing.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [to Apollo] Okay, captain, I'm about to disobey orders, so eh, if you want to stop me, I'll give you one millicenton.
- Captain Apollo: What are you using as a fix?
- Lieutenant Starbuck: The end of my nose. I used to be pretty good at this at the academy, so don't disorient me.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [as he and Apollo exit the magnetic void thanks to his flying skills] You owe me a fumarillo.
- Dr. Salik: Commander, going back there is the only hope those boys have.
- Commander Adama: The only hope?
- Dr. Salik: The only hope, sir.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [instructing Athena] Remember, you are flying a Viper. Thinking what you want it to do, is enough to make it happen.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [as Athena approaches him with marriage in mind] Well, as best man, I've got to see to the groom's send-off preparations.
- [hastily leaving]
- Lieutenant Starbuck: it's gonna be a real bash. Uh, thanks for the food. Uh... I need to run. Uh... uh... pleasure dining with you. Commander Apollo, don't forget our patrol. Congratulations, Serina,
- [touches her shoulder]
- Lieutenant Starbuck: I... Athena, uh... bye...!
- [out the door]
- Lieutenant Athena: [as the others look at her] Well, all I did was...
- [shrugs]
- Lieutenant Athena: smile.
- Commander Adama: Athena, Starbuck has such a well-defined sense of what lies in waiting. That's what makes him such a good advance scout.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: [reminiscing about their bachelor glory days] ... so many good times together.
- Captain Apollo: Starbuck, I'm not dying.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: No. Not exactly.
- Captain Apollo: I thought a lot about what I'm doing.
- [exhales]
- Captain Apollo: And I've never been happier about anything in my whole life.
- [instrument panel lights up]
- Captain Apollo: Starbuck!
- Lieutenant Starbuck: I got it. My panel's lighting up like a meteor fire! Uh, Apollo... dead ahead!
- Captain Apollo: [re black void] Almost black out there.
- Lieutenant Starbuck: Yeah, like a dead sea. I've never seen anything like it.