Battlestar Galactica: The Plan Page #6

Synopsis: The number One Cylon brothers Cavil organize a massive coordinate simultaneous attack to destroy the twelve colonies, but it fails to wipe out human life or break the human spirit. They now orchestrate deceptive actions, infiltrating surviving communities, notably aboard flagship Battlestar Galactica and Samuel Anders's human trainees class on planet colony Caprica. Both sides must confront existential as well as pragmatical challenges to battle for survival.
Director(s): Edward James Olmos
Production: David Eick Productions
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Year:
2009
112 min
372 Views


- What's wrong?

I feel fine,

just help her.

What happened?

I don't know! We just...

We got ambushed, okay?

They overran us.

They grabbed Sue-Shaun,

and Kara was...

Godsdamn,

if something happened...

I thought she was with us.

I suppose

they killed her.

We gotta go back.

I'm going after them.

Helo!

He should let her go.

Hey, kid!

Sit down.

You've been up

all night?

Yeah, I guess so.

Seems like

I never sleep anymore.

I know the feeling.

Frak, if you're looking

for a strong leader,

you picked a bad time.

Bless me, Brother,

for I have acted

against the example

of the Gods.

Proceed in the name

of the Gods.

At the very beginning of this,

they wanted to

give me

all this responsibility

and I didn't want it.

Just wanted to get out of it.

You know, wanted to leave.

And one time,

I tried.

It was just after

this thing we did.

I was so frakked up.

I took this stupid idea

from a movie.

People died,

I couldn't handle it.

I wanted to run.

I just wanted to get out.

But you changed your mind.

Well, no.

Barolay was there and

she was gonna see me run.

And suddenly I find myself

worrying about my own

frakking reputation.

So, I didn't run.

And that's my confession.

I'm a godsdamn coward,

Brother.

Well,

I suppose you were.

But what about now?

I'm not gonna run anymore.

Maybe I'm stronger

or maybe I'm just

more insane.

This whole experience

has changed you

for the better.

You've learned.

You know,

at the end of a confession,

sometimes there's

an ending or, you know...

Yes, fine. You are absolved

in the example of the Gods.

Now, Sam, listen,

given that this holocaust

was a journey

of learning for you...

Journey? I don't know

if it was a journey...

Well, given that,

it can...

Can you

forgive the Cylons?

Because if you can,

that's really transcendent.

I know you didn't

just say that.

I mean,

they must've

had a purpose.

Something must've

made them...

Made them what?

End everything?

Destroy billions

of souls?

No, frak, no.

Humanity had so much sin.

Are you kidding me?

They made you put

all these dead...

Wait a second.

...on your shoulders.

Are you defending them?

Listen, Brother,

I'm gonna pretend

you didn't say that, okay?

I'm gonna pretend

I didn't hear any of that.

What was that?

I thought he'd learned.

But he loves.

What are you really

doing here? What does

this man mean to you?

Where are you going?

As long as any humans exist,

there's no room for us.

Good morning!

Kara, come on!

Go, go, go!

Barolay,

get back to camp.

Doc's a Cylon,

take him out.

I'm Brother Cavil.

I understand you've asked

for religious counseling.

I never really believed

in psychotherapy.

My father was a priest.

I see.

You thought you'd have

an easier time with a priest

than a real doctor. Okay.

So, tell me

what's on your mind, Chief.

How do you know

that I am human?

You heard what

Kara Thrace said?

Yeah, I heard.

Picture of a Pyramid star

and their frakking

team doctor.

My husband,

only not.

He was a Cylon.

I thought he loved me.

Gods.

Maybe he did.

I don't know.

Someone made him do it.

Don't you think?

I mean, they keep finding

more of them, and they

must've been in contact.

Someone was

making decisions.

You think that somebody

told them what to do.

Ordered them.

I think Simon was told

to do something and

instead he killed himself.

Boomer was a better shot

than that.

What?

When she shot

the old man.

She was a better shot

than that. It's like she

frakked it up on purpose,

knowing that the Marines

would take her head off

right then and there,

knowing that it was

the only way out

she could see.

So,

maybe they were heroes,

you know? In a way.

I don't know

about that. Maybe.

If I thought

I was a Cylon,

I'd climb this ladder

all the way up there.

I'd do it with style.

I'd swan-dive

out of this life.

Sorry. I didn't mean

anything by that.

I know.

You think you're a Cylon.

That's what you're afraid of,

isn't it?

That you might be a Cylon

and not even know it,

just like Boomer, right?

That's the thought

that's crippling your soul.

Does that frighten you?

The idea of putting

your trust in others?

Honestly, yes.

Yeah, well,

I've done it.

And they all let me down.

Every single one.

Every single one.

So, yeah, it should scare

the frak out of you.

But good luck to you.

This is quite

a scrappy little group.

Just your core people.

This is quite

a scrappy little group.

Just your core people.

There's hardly anyone

left for you to lean on.

But you can lean on me.

You know, the day before

I met Kara, I had 98 people.

I loved those people.

But you didn't need them

and they're dead.

Do you mean to tell me

that you'd go on loving them

even when they're dead?

What are you talking about?

Of course I love those people.

Death doesn't change that.

What's the matter with you?

Keep it the hell down.

Word's getting passed back,

something's there.

Move forward, stay low.

All right,

stay low, move in.

Go, go, go, go, go.

You got

a Samuel T. Anders there?

Is there

a Kara Thrace there?

Who wants to know?

If there is, you tell her

she took her good sweet time

getting here.

Friendlies.

What's your name?

John.

We've become friends, huh?

Friends are

dangerous things.

Death doesn't change that.

What's the matter with you?

As good as your word, huh?

Yeah, good as

my frakking word.

What, did you think

I was gonna leave you here?

Now you feel

like a big frakking idiot,

don't you?

All right, just shut up

and save us already, okay?

Okay.

Incoming!

Come on,

get in there.

Come on,

get in here.

Get him up,

get him up.

Can't raise the Raptors.

Cylons are jamming the freqs.

Frak!

Are they still out there?

Watch yourself.

Yeah.

They're holding back, though.

Yeah, but why?

That's an excellent question.

Get the frak

out of the way.

What's going on?

Why the ceasefire?

There's been a vote.

A vote?

There's going to be a truce.

We just need to convey it

to the humans.

All of them.

I can deliver that message.

But your model

voted against it.

Well, I've had

a new insight.

Besides,

there's nothing for me here.

Commander, I have news.

Good news, actually.

The Cylon occupation is over.

They left. They're gone.

What are you talking about?

It's true.

The Cylons have

left the Colonies.

Security!

What the hell?

Code Blue!

He's a Cylon.

Would you mind telling me

what's going on?

I'm not a frakking Cylon.

I'm not...

Oh. Well.

Okay, then.

Sorry to bust up

your day, Brother,

but there's been

a change of plan.

The occupation

of the Colonies was an error.

My mission here

is simple.

I'm to tell you that

you've been given

a reprieve.

Cylon and man

will now go

their separate ways.

No harm done.

No harm?

You completely

annihilated our race

and destroyed

our civilization.

Now, if you're gonna start

pointing fingers...

You see, we're not like you.

We can admit our mistakes,

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Jane Espenson

Jane Espenson (born July 14, 1964) is an American television writer and producer. Espenson has worked on both situation comedies and serial dramas. She had a five-year stint as a writer and producer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and shared a Hugo Award for her writing on the episode "Conversations with Dead People." From 2006–2010, Espenson had worked on Battlestar Galactica and many of its supplementary works. Between 2009–2010 she served on Caprica, as co-executive and executive producer for the television series. In 2010 she wrote an episode of HBO's Game of Thrones, and joined the writing staff for the fourth season of the British television program Torchwood, which aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom and Starz in the United States during mid-2011. She is currently working as a consulting producer and writer on ABC's series Once Upon a Time, and has co-written and produced her first independent original web series with co-creator Brad Bell, entitled Husbands. more…

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