nTwining 'Miniseries'...

 Title:"The Cylons were created by Man."
 CYLONS
  Two mysterious objects in outer space. The far one approaches.
 UnknownObjects
  
Title:"They were created to make life easier on the Twelve Colonies."
 
  Near one is a ship. Far one, a station.
 unknownobjects
  Ship docks with station.
 ReasonForMeeting
  
Title:"And then the day came when the Cylons decided to kill their masters."
 
 Foreboding music as airlock door slides open on a long hall.
 REASONFORMEETING
  
Human officer enters, sits.
 
  Title:"After a long and bloody struggle, an armistice was declared."
 
  Empty chair, opposite. For a Cylon?
 Cylons
  
Title:"The Cylons left for another world to call their own."
 
  Officer reads Cylon specifications sheet.
 
  Title:"A remote station was built where Cylon and Human could maintain diplomatic relations."
 reasonformeeting
 The Cylons are coming.
 CYLONS
  
Title:"Every year, the colonials send an officer. The Cylons send no one."
 
  Title:"No one has seen or heard from the Cylons in over forty years."
 CylonHistory
  
Officer nods off, then is startled by a door opening.
 
  Two Cylon centurions file in.
 cylons
 Cylons raise guns, which retract to reveal hands, and stand guard.
 FRIENDORFOE
  
Six enters, ignores the chair, approaches Officer directly.
 
  Six:"Are you alive?" Officer(surprised):"Yes." Is she?
 SecretBioCylonity
  
Six:"Prove it." She kisses him.
 
  Basestar fires a missile, destroys the station.
 friendorfoe
 Six:"It is begun."
 BEGUN
  
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
 
  Starbuck jogs past a Galactica tour guide. Doral:"This ship was constructed during the Cylon war." Tour continues past Adama as he walks, rehearses a speech:"The Cylon war is long over..."
 
  Kelly to Adama:"What a pleasure it's been serving in your command."
 Reassignment
  
Adama:"What do you hear?" Starbuck:"Nothing but the rain."
 
  Cally:"Was supposed to wrap that yesterday." Socinus:"Shit it's the old man!"
 SecretPackage
  Prosna:"It's supposed to be a battlestar, not a museum."
 Reassignment
  
Adama enters CIC:"The Cylon War is long over..." Gaeta:"Officer's overdue from Armistice Station. They've asked for ships."
 
  Adama:"We're busy, wouldn't you say?" Gaeta:"It's been a pleasure and an honour."
 Reassignment
  
Gaeta exits CIC:"Colonel?"
 
  A haggard Colonel Tigh returns Gaeta's salute.
 HaggardTigh
  
Doral:"You'll see things here that look antiquated to modern eyes."
 
  Doral:"All designed against an enemy who could disrupt computer systems."
 AntiDisruption
  
Doral:"Galactica is a reminder of a time when we were so frightened by our enemies that we literally looked backward for protection."
 
 Tyrol formally unveils for Adama his old Viper plane.
 REASSIGNMENT
  
Adama:"Haven't seen one of these in 20 years." Tyrol:"We hoped the Commander would allow her to participate..."
 
  Tyrol:"...in the decommissioning ceremony."
 reassignment
  Adama:"She'll fly? You guys are amazing." Tyrol offers the package.
 
  It's an old photo of Adama with Viper.
 secretpackage
  Adama seems sorrowed at seeing his two young sons pictured.
 SonSorrow
  Tigh pours himself a mickey, joins a card game.
 HaggardTigh
  
Helo:"I'm in." Starbuck:"You're betting against Starbuck!"
 
  Tigh:"Get that nickname before you were thrown in the brink or after?"
 CARDCLASH
  
Starbuck:"How's the wife?" Helo & Boomer try to dispel the clash with smalltalk. Starbuck:"Talk to her lately?"
 
  Starbuck:"Full colours!" Taunts him with a victory dance.
 
  Tigh upends the table. Starbuck decks him. "Report to the brig!"
 cardclash
 Adama:"Are you really gonna press charges?" Tigh:"Damn right."
 PENDINGCHARGES
  Adama:"Heard you started the day off pretty early." Tigh:"I wasn't on duty."
 haggardtigh
  Adama:"She's one of the finest fighter pilots I've ever seen."
 FinestPilot
  
Adama convinces Tigh to drop the formal charges.
 
  Tigh:"You always did have a soft spot for her."
 pendingcharges
  Roslin waits in front of an empty desk on Caprica.
 EmptyDesk
  Camera moves slowly to reveal Roslin's face.
 RoslinsImportance
  
Lost in thought, Roslin is startled by the door. Doctor:"I'm afraid the tests are positive."
 
  Doctor:"The mass is malignant, it's advanced."
 emptydesk
  Colonial Liner takes off, with Roslin and Billy aboard. Billy:"I sent the President your speech for Galactica's retirement."
 
  Roslin:"Excuse me." Retreats out of sight to the washroom.
 SecretSickness
  
Roslin sobs in pain and grief.
 
 Six walks through a marketplace on Caprica, incognito.
 SIXMISSION
  
Six admires a baby in a carriage.
 
 Six:"You're not going to have to cry much longer." Snaps the baby's neck.
 BEGUN
  Six melts into the crowd as heads turn toward the mother's screams.
 SecretBioCylonity
  
BLACK
 
 COMMERCIAL BREAK
 
 BLACK
 
  On a television a host introduces the acclaimed Dr. Gaius Baltar.
 WhoWatches
  
Host lists Baltar's accomplishments as camera pans slowly across a luxury apartment to reveal...
 
  ...Baltar himself, interviewed via live feed.
 whowatches
 Baltar opines as Six enters with a suspicious metal case.
 SIXMISSION
  Baltar calls A.I. ban "outmoded". Six kisses him passionately.
 BaltarsGuilt
  
Six:"Do you love me?" They have sex.
 
  Six's spine emits a red glow.
 SecretBioCylonity
  Apollo(landing):"Did you say 'hands on approach'?"
 HandsOnApproach
  
Viper lands. Apollo climbs out. Tyrol: "I'm a great admirer of your father's. Service is gonna miss him when he retires."
 
  Apollo:"I'm sure someone will."
 SonSorrow
  Apollo:"Is your auto landing system down?"
 handsonapproach
  Tyrol:"There are no auto landings on the Galactica."
 AntiDisruption
  Tyrol:"Nice flying." Boomer:"Wasn't my fault. Helo?" Helo(suppressing smile):"Gimbal looked bad to me."
 GimbalSecret
  
Tyrol disagrees, walks away ranting, and Boomer follows to continue the argument.
 
  In privacy they stop arguing and have sex.
 gimbalsecret
  Ripper briefs pilots, welcomes Apollo:"You're gonna have the Viper your father flew."
 
  Apollo does not seem honoured.
 SonSorrow
 Baltar to Six:"CNP working 95% throughout the fleet."
 BALTARSGUILT
  Six:"No applause for me? I rewrote half your algorithms."
 SixMission
  
Baltar:"You got something out of it. Poking around inside the defence mainframe should give you a huge advantage..."
 
  Baltar:"...bidding for the contract next year."
 baltarsguilt
 Six:"You know that's not why I did it."
 SIXMISSION
  Baltar(sarcastic):"No you did it cause you love me."
 SecretBioCylonity
  Six:"And God wanted me to help you."
 CylonHistory
  
Baltar:"I'm not religious." Six:"Does it bother you that I am?" He patronises. She sends him away.
 
  Six turns to address an unseen accomplice.
 UnseenCaprican
 Six:"About time." Cut to a centurion displayed in landing bay museum.
 BEGUN
  
Liner docks. Doral:"Secretary Roslin, welcome aboard Galactica."
 
  PA:"Welcome aboard the Secretary of Education, of the President's Cabinet."
 roslinsimportance
  Distracted by an attractive soldier, Billy's left behind.
 LostBilly
  
Billy wanders, lost, stumbles into the same attractive soldier, Dualla.
 
  Dualla teases, offers to direct Billy.
 lostbilly
 Adama:"It's an integrated computer network, I will not have it."
 AntiDisruption
  
Roslin argues for a network as a teaching aid. Adama:"Many lost their lives aboard this ship because someone wanted a faster computer."
 
 Starbuck does push-ups in the brig. Apollo:"Seems familiar." Lovers?
 LEEKARABOND
  
Starbuck and Apollo catch up. Starbuck:"Seems like the funeral was just a couple months ago. Your old man struggles." Apollo:"Haven't seen him."
 
  Starbuck:"He lost a son." Apollo:"Who's responsible for that?"
 SonSorrow
  Apollo:"Zak was my brother." Starbuck:"What was he to me, nothing?"
 leekarabond
 Six:"Gaius!" He's in bed with another woman.
 JEALOUSSIX
  
Six:"Get out." The other woman leaves. Baltar:"I screwed up."
 
  Six:"Spare me your feigned remorse."
 jealoussix
 Six:"I have something to tell you." Her mission?
 SIXMISSION
  Close up on Six's eye. Her identity?
 SecretBioCylonity
  Apollo and Adama pose awkwardly for publicity photos.
 SonSorrow
  
Doral:"Put your arm around your son?" Adama barely touches him. Afterward, Adama engages a surly Apollo in grudging smalltalk.
 
 Adama:"Why don't you talk to me, Lee?"
 SONSORROW
  
Apollo:"I don't have anything to say." Adama:"Accidents happen in the service." Apollo:"A man wears the wings of a Viper pilot. Sound familiar?" Adama:"That's not fair, son."
 
  Apollo:"Zak did not belong in that plane. He was doing it for you. You killed him."
 sonsorrow
  Adama:"That'll be all, Captain." Who will yield?
 Yield
  
BLACK
 
 COMMERCIAL BREAK
 
 BLACK
 
 Baltar:"You're a machine? I don't believe a word of it."
 SECRETBIOCYLONITY
  
Six:"You were chosen for my mission." Baltar:"Mission?"
 
  Six:"The defence mainframe? Communications frequencies, deployment schedules, unlimited access to every database?"
 sixmission
 Baltar:"I had nothing to do with this!" Six:"Self deception. How do you do that?"
 SECRETTREASON
  
Baltar:"Do you have any idea what they'll do to me?" Six:"Charge you with treason." Baltar:"I'm phoning my attorney." Six:"In a few hours no one will be left."
 
  Six:"Humanity's children are returning home."
 CylonHistory
 Six:"Today." Baltar sees an intense flash of light on the horizon.
 BEGUN
  
Adama makes a speech at the decommissioning ceremony.
 
  Adama:"When we fought the cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction, but we never answered the question: why are we as a people worth saving? We still visit all of our sins upon our children. We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done."
 
  Apollo hears the speech from his Viper cockpit.
 Yield
  
Adama:"Like we did with the Cylons. We decided to play god. Create life. When that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault. Sooner or later the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore."
 
  Apollo escorts the Liner on its return to Caprica.
 
  Baltar watches news anchors die on TV.
 
 Baltar:"What am I gonna do? There's no way out."
 BALTARSESCAPE
  
Baltar:"You must have an escape plan." Six:"My consciousness will be transmitted. I'll wake up in an identical body."
 
  Baltar:"You mean there's more like you?" Six:"There are 12 models."
 UnknownModels
  
Six shields Baltar from a blast wave.
 
 Mushroom clouds bloom. Gaeta to Adama:"Priority one message, sir. Attention all Colonial units. Cylon attack underway. This is no drill."
 BEGUN
  
BLACK
 
 COMMERCIAL BREAK
 
 BLACK
 
  PA:"Action stations. Set condition one throughout the ship. This is not a drill." Crew scrambles.
 
  Prosna:"They can't be serious. The ship's got no ammunition!"
 CantShoot
  
Tigh(to Adama):"The fleet's playing a joke on you."
 
  Adama(PA):"This is the Commander. A Cylon attack against our homeworlds is underway. As of this moment, we are at war."
 begun
 Adama:"You've trained for this. You're ready for this."
 CREWREADINESS
  
Tyrol:"People we're the best! Let's kick ass!"
 
  Adama:"If we're in a shooting war, we need something to shoot." Tigh:"I'll start checking munitions depots."
 CantShoot
  Adama:"Signal our squadron." Ripper:"Acknowledge signals. Tell them we've detected Cylon fighters and I intend to attack."
 CylonRaiders
  
Boomer:"Copy that. The Cylons are using sensor decoys. Sorting through them."
 
  Gaeta:"The main fight is an hour away." Adama:"Plot a course."
 
  Starbuck arrives from the brig:"Ready for duty, sir."
 FinestPilot
  
Adama:"I need pilots and fighters."
 
  Starbuck & Tyrol salvage old Vipers from the museum.
 
  Dualla to Gaeta:"Weird reports. An entire battlestar lost power just before contact with the enemy."
 AntiDisruption
 Helo:"Two confirmed Cylons approaching visual range."
 CYLONRAIDERS
  
Ripper:"Boomer back way off. All Vipers, weapons free."
 
  Cylon raiders open eyeslits, Vipers lose power.
 AntiDisruption
  
Vipers float out of control.
 
  Raiders fire missiles. Squadron is destroyed.
 cylonraiders
  Helo:"No!! Boomer get us outta here!"
 RaptorEscape
 Two raiders fly through a debris field of dead Vipers.
 ANTIDISRUPTION
  
BLACK
 
 COMMERCIAL BREAK
 
 BLACK
 
  Laura steadies herself in the ship's washroom, misses an announcement.
 SecretSickness
  Roslin:"What's going on?" Billy:"I'm not sure."
 SecretHolocaust
  
Apollo:"First sign of trouble, run." Pilot:"Got my hand on the throttle."
 
 Helo:"Two missiles, now!"
 RAPTORESCAPE
  
Boomer stumbles on the main fight while dropping decoy "swallows".
 
  Missiles are destroyed, Raptor is damaged.
 raptorescape
  Boomer:"We have to put down to repair." Shuts down engines. "We look like debris." Floats through the war zone.
 RAPTORREPAIR
  
Adama(PA):"A nuclear device was detonated over Caprica City, Aerelon, Picon, Sagittarion, and Geminon."
 
  Adama(PA):"Best thing we can do is get into the fight."
 CantShoot
 Roslin:"Passengers heard a report Caprica has been nuked."
 SECRETHOLOCAUST
  
Pilot:"I should make an announcement." Roslin:"I'll do it."
 
  Roslin:"Contact the Ministry of Civil Defence."
 StateOfGovt
  Roslin announces:"Including Caprica, Picon, Aerelon, and Tauron."
 secretholocaust
 Panicked passengers clamour for info.
 ROSLINSCONTROL
  Roslin:"I'm trying to reach the government."
 StateOfGovt
  
Roslin assigns duties. Doral:"Who put you in charge?"
 
  Roslin:"I'm the senior government official and that puts me in charge. Please, stay calm."
 roslinscontrol
 Roslin(to Ministry):"Is the President alive?" "I dunno, I think so."
 STATEOFGOVT
  Roslin:"Cylon demands? Do we know what they want?"
 CylonHistory
  
Roslin:"Has anyone discussed surrender?" "The President offered unconditional surrender. The Cylons didn't even respond."
 
 Pilot:"Cylons have found us. There's an inbound missile."
 INBOUNDMISSILE
  
Roslin"Where'd our escort go?" Apollo draws the missile, reverses, fires.
 
  Missiles detonates, disables Apollo's Viper.
 inboundmissile
  Raptor sits in a field with mushroom clouds on the horizon. Boomer:"Okay that should do it."
 raptorrepair
 Helo:"Grab your sidearm." A crowd converges on the Raptor.
 REFUGEES
  Baltar is among the refugees.
 BaltarsEscape
  
BLACK
 
 COMMERCIAL BREAK
 
 BLACK
 
  Doral finds Apollo in Liner's hold eyeing electric pulse generators from the Galactica.
 UnmotivatedGenerators
 Doral:"I'd feel better if someone qualified were in charge."
 QUALIFIED
  
Roslin:"Tactical situation is that we are losing. So we pick up as many people as we can and try to find a safe haven."
 
  Apollo(to Doral):"The lady's in charge."
 qualified
 Helo:"That's as close as you get! This isn't a rescue ship!"
 REFUGEES
  
Crowd begs. Boomer:"Alright, children first." Children step forward. Boomer:"Three more."
 
  Baltar thrusts his hand up.
 BaltarsEscape
  
Boomer:"Lottery. Everyone gets a number. Pick three. No appeal." Helo:"I will shoot."
 
 Tigh:"DRADIS contact." Adama:"Launch Vipers."
 ENEMYFIGHTERS
  
Vipers launch one by one.
 
  First two raiders approach.
 AntiDisruption
  Starbuck's launch is aborted: a faulty valve.
 FinestPilot
  Tyrol's crew scrambles to repair it.
 CrewReadiness
  
Starbuck:"Let's go!" Cally:"We should pull the valve." Prosna:"The relay'll blow." Tyrol:"Just pull the valve!"
 
  Starbuck hears the battle begin over com. "Come on!"
 
  Finally Starbuck launches, engages a raider. It turns, opens its eyeslit at her.
 
  Starbuck:"Doesn't seem to have any effect."
 antidisruption
  Starbuck destroys the raider, takes a hit.
 
 Dualla:"Radiological alarm!" A raider fires 3 nukes.
 NUKES
  Starbuck shoots down the raider and 2 nukes.
 finestpilot
  Adama:"Brace for contact."
 nukes
 Galactica is struck by the remaining nuke.
 NUKEDAMAGE
  
BLACK
 
 COMMERCIAL BREAK
 
 BLACK
 
  Starbuck flies through the remains of battle.
 enemyfighters
  Gaeta:"We're in an uncontrolled spin." Tigh:"We've got chain reaction decompressions." Adama:"That's a problem. Take personal command."
 
  Tigh:"Me?" Adama:"You're either the XO or you're not."
 TighCommand
  Prosna:"The port pod! It's buckling! We need help!"
 CrewReadiness
  
Tyrol:"We gotta get those fires out!" Kelly(to Tigh):"What are your orders sir?" Tigh glances over at Adama, busy with Gaeta.
 
 Tigh: "Seal off everything, start an emergency vent."
 TIGHCOMMAND
  
Tyrol:"I've got 100 people trapped!" Tigh:"We'll lose the ship! Do it!" Prosna:"They're gonna vent!"
 
  Kelly:"Venting complete. The fires are out."
 nukedamage
 Tigh:"If they remembered their training they had their suits on." Tyrol:"Lotta rooks in there." Tigh:"No one's a rook anymore."
 CREWREADINESS
 Boomer draws a ticket but it's not Baltar's number.
 BALTARSESCAPE
  
Boomer:"Last one." An old woman can't reading her winning ticket. Baltar contemplates stealing it. Helo:"Aren't you Gaius Baltar?" Boomer:"What are you doing?" Helo:"Giving up my seat."
 
  Helo:"Give me one reason why I'm a better choice than one of the greatest minds of our time."
 SecretTreason
  Baltar boards the Raptor instead of Helo.
 baltarsescape
 Crowd erupts. "Hey!" "Wait!" "You can't do this!"
 REFUGEES
  
Helo:"Stay back!" Baltar thinks he sees Six in the crowd. Man jumps on the launching Raptor's wing.
 
  Helo shoots man, waves Boomer goodbye.
 refugees
 "Case orange." Roslin:"It's an automated message in case the President and most of the Cabinet are dead. Send my ID."
 STATEOFGOVT
  
Roslin(to Apollo):"I know all 42 ahead of me from the President down. I never liked politics but I couldn't say no to him." Pilot portentously hands her a printout. Roslin(reading):"We'll need a priest."
 
  Roslin:"I accept the office of President..."
 stateofgovt
  Roslin:"...and will defend the sovereignty of the Colonies..."
 ChainOfCommand
  Roslin:"...with every fibre of my being."
 SecretSickness
  
BLACK
 
 COMMERCIAL BREAK
 
 BLACK
 
  Tigh(to Adama):"26 walked out. 85 didn't."
 crewreadiness
  Adama glares at Tigh in dismay.
 TighCommand
  Tigh:"Munitions at Ragnar Anchorage." Adama:"Verify that."
 CantShoot
  
Tyrol & Cally lower Prosna's dead body.
 
 Tyrol:"Do you know how many we lost?" Adama:"Yes."
 TIGHCOMMAND
  
Tyrol:"I told that son of a bitch--" Adama:"He's the XO. He made a tough decision."
 
  Adama:"I would have made the same one."
 tighcommand
  Tigh:"Ragnar is 3 days away. Cylon fleet is between here and there."
 CantShoot
 Adama:"Bring me our position." Tigh:"You don't want to do this."
 THIS
  Tigh:"If we're off in our calculations we could end up in the sun."
 Calculations
  Adama:"No choice. Plot a hyperlight jump."
 this
 Tigh:"Spin up FTL drives. We are making a jump."
 CALCULATIONS
  
Dualla(shaken):"Priority message." Adama(reads):"Admiral Nagala is dead, Battlestar Atlantia destroyed, the list goes on." Tigh:"Who's in command?" Adama:"Send to all military units..."
 
  Adama:"Message begins: Am taking command of fleet..."
 AdamasOrders
  
Pilot:"Geminon Liner, we have you in sight."
 
  Apollo(reads):"Am taking command of fleet. Rendezvous for counterattack. Adama."
 adamasorders
 Roslin:"We are involved in rescue operations and we require his assistance. Tell him it's not a request."
 CHAINOFCOMMAND
  
Apollo:"My name's Lee Adama." Roslin:"I know."
 
  Adama(reading):"Is this a joke? Are they within voice range?"
 
  Adama:"Are y-- Is your ship alright?" Apollo:"We're both fine."
 Yield
  
Adama:"We're in the middle of a war, and you're taking orders from a schoolteacher?"
 
 Pilot:"We got trouble. Inbound Cylon fighters."
 INBOUNDFIGHTERS
  
Apollo:"We have to go, now." Roslin:"No. We're not going to abandon all these people." Apollo:"Permission to go below?"
 
  Apollo activates the generators.
 unmotivatedgenerators
  Adama:"Apollo! Get outta there!" Colonial One is bathed in white light. Gaeta interprets the signal as a 50 kiloton nuclear detonation.
 
  Gaeta:"Cylons moving off."
 inboundfighters
 Adama slumps with grief, thinking Apollo dead.
 APOLLOLIVES
  Adama:"Resume jump prep." Tigh:"Resume jump prep!"
 Calculations
  
END OF PART ONE
 
 UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
(freshest to stalest)

Success of FTL jump?
 calculations
 Awareness of Apollo's survival?
 apollolives
 Yielding of Adama/Apollo barrier?
 yield
 Recognition of Roslin's authority?
 chainofcommand
 Ammunition for battle?
 cantshoot
 Awareness of Roslin's cancer?
 secretsickness
 Awareness of Baltar's treason?
 secrettreason
 What the Cylons did for 40 years?
 cylonhistory
 Identity of the 12 models?
 unknownmodels
 Awareness of Cylon humaniformity?
 secretbiocylonity
 Six's unseen accomplice?
 unseencaprican
 


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