Galactica 1980 (TV Series)
The Return of Starbuck (1980)
Gary Owens: Cy
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Quotes
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Lt. Starbuck : So, uh, what happened during the landing?
Cy : The situation did not compute.
Lt. Starbuck : So you didn't know what to do. What happened next? Someone whip out the manual?
Cy : Yes. The manual did not help.
Lt. Starbuck : What did you do when it came time for a little, uh, personal initiative?
Cy : We were taking a vote when the ground came up and hit us.
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[Cy returns, carrying a pregnant woman in his arms]
Lt. Starbuck : She's alive!
Cy : I presumed you'd prefer her that way.
Lt. Starbuck : Cy, this isn't funny. This is a living, breathing human being.
Cy : Yes, I feel I have already compromised everything I believe in. What's helping one more human going to matter more or less?
Lt. Starbuck : Cy, this is more than a woman.
Cy : I'm sorry if you are displeased, there wasn't much of a selection.
Lt. Starbuck : Cy, this woman is with child.
Cy : Child?
Lt. Starbuck : Small human. She's going to bear another human life.
Cy : I am rapidly being surrounded.
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Cy : I may not find your incessant talk fascinating, but at least I don't walk off.
Lt. Starbuck : Did you say something, Cy?
Cy : [sarcastically] No, of course not. What could I possibly say to you? I'm nothing but a machine.
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[Discussing the pregnant woman that Cy just brought Starbuck]
Lt. Starbuck : She is going to bear another human life.
Cy : I am rapidly being surrounded.
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Lt. Starbuck : Aren't you even interested in what a human is? Don't you care what it is you've been trying to destroy for a thousand years?
Cy : You are our enemy.
Lt. Starbuck : [nodding sarcastically] Yes, so you keep telling me. But why are we the enemy?
Cy : Because you are.
Lt. Starbuck : [in disgust] Oh, Cy.
[pause]
Lt. Starbuck : You mind if I call you Cy?
[the centurion shifts on his feet]
Lt. Starbuck : Cy, you have the mentality of a two-year-old.
Cy : A two-year-old what?
Lt. Starbuck : Hopeless. Absolutely hopeless.
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[In a flashback, Starbuck reversed his viper's engines and opened fire on a Cylon Raider]
Cylon Warrior : That was an unexpected move.
Cylon Warrior : He is a very good warrior.
Cylon Warrior : That is a small consolation. We are going to crash.
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Lt. Starbuck : [running toward Cy before the centurion falls to the ground] Cy! Cy, you saved our lives! Cy, are you all right?
Cy : [now cradled in Starbuck's arms] I don't think so. My circuits are fading.
Lt. Starbuck : [desperately] No Cy, no. It's just you and me now. One human, and one Cylon.
Cy : [the human inflection in his synthesized voice now noticably weaker] No, Starbuck. Not human, not Cylon. Friends.
[Cy's power shuts off, and Starbuck, almost in tears, can only hold the slain centurion, fully realizing Cy's final words were indeed correct]
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[Starbuck has reactivated a Cylon centurion, who upon awakening unholsters his laser sidearm]
Lt. Starbuck : I've been in charge of this planet for three days and already I've doubled the population. I hereby declare myself president-elect, if that's all right with you.
Cy : [his voice a mixture of standard Cylon synthesized monotone with an almost human inflection] Die, human.
Lt. Starbuck : [taking the Centurion's weapon away] Don't be ridiculous. You'd think I'd save you and then let you shoot me? Besides, it doesn't work.
[Starbuck squeezes the trigger on the Cylon weapon, which does not fire]
Lt. Starbuck : Here, try it.
[Starbuck hands the weapon back to the Centurion, who squeezes the trigger at Starbuck, who is surprised and hastily yanks the weapon out of the Centurion's hand]
Lt. Starbuck : You really did! Well, how'd you like to end up like those two?
[Starbuck gestures to the two other crippled Cylons from the wreckage of a Cylon raider as the Centurion stands up and stalks menacingly toward Starbuck]
Cy : Human evil.
Lt. Starbuck : [backing away from the Centurion] Now, now, let's not get hostile.
[Starbuck grabs the control for the Centurion and deactivates him. He then reactivates him. The Centurion lunges toward him again, Starbuck deactivates him, then reactivates him]
Lt. Starbuck : See? I can turn you off or on, but I don't intend to keep on doing that, not unless you're willing to listen to reason. Is any of this making any sense?
Cy : Turn off, and turn on.
Lt. Starbuck : Exactly.
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Cy : You repaired me, you did not create me. I am a Cylon.
Lt. Starbuck : So you have no sense of loyalty to me for saving you?
Cy : I would have to think about that.
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[as Starbuck watches from behind a boulder, Cy approaches three centurions who have spotted Starbuck]
Centurion : Greetings, centurion. Identify.
Cy : I am Group Leader Cyrus. Lower your weapons.
[the three centurions lower their sidearms]
Centurion : And where is the human?
Cy : I extend my weapon that I may perform the following function.
[Cy opens fire, shooting two centurions before being shot by their leader. Starbuck then jumps out from behind the boulder and shoots the remaining Cylon]
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Cy : Goodbye, Starbuck. Goodbye, Angela, Goodbye, Godson.