- Lt. Dillon: [to a biker] You must have us confused with somebody else. My name is not turkey, and neither is his.
- Willy: Pull over, wise guys. Or we'll run you over. Got it?
- Lt. Dillon: He seems very insistent.
- Capt. Troy: We can't afford to let them get too good of a look of these machines. We're gonna risk showing them a little more than I hoped to. Ready?
- Lt. Dillon: Ready.
- Capt. Troy: This is where we get off.
- Willy: Yeah? This ain't no off-ramp, dude.
- Lt. Dillon: Surprise.
- Jamie Hamilton: You mind explaining what you're doing?
- Capt. Troy: Uh... Picking up our currency.
- Jamie Hamilton: Did you just rifle that coin box?
- Adama: [narrating] The great ship, Galactica, majestic and loving, strong and protecting. Our home for these many years we've endured the wilderness of space. And now we near the end of our journey. Scouts and electronic surveillance confirm that we have reached our haven, that planet which is home to our ancestor brothers. Too many of our sons and daughters did not survive to share the fulfillment of our dream. We can only take comfort and find strength in that they did not die in vain.
- [cut to Adama at his desk]
- Adama: We have at last found Earth.
- Lt. Dillon: [looking at images of Los Angeles] What's that odd-looking brown haze hanging over the city?
- Capt. Troy: Must be some sort of defense shield.
- Adama: Each of your teams has been programmed to take you to scattered areas on Earth. Your entry patterns will bring you into Earth's atmosphere in unpopulated zones. And your navigational computrons will guide you over the safest possible routes toward population centers. Ultimately, you will encounter people on Earth. You have been briefed on how to conduct yourselves. May God go with you.
- Dr. Zee: We cannot land.
- Adama: Dr. Zee... how can I tell my people that... that we cannot end our journey? All those who survived, all those who were born in space as you were. We are here! We are within reach of Earth.
- Dr. Zee: So are our enemies.
- Adama: Our enemies? We haven't seen the forces of the Cylon Alliance in a billion star miles.
- Dr. Zee: Because they haven't wanted us to know they were there.
- Adama: What are you saying?
- Dr. Zee: That they simply let us lead them to the last remaining humans in the universe, the people of Earth, in order to destroy them.
- Adama: No... what have I done? I led them here!
- Dr. Zee: We have endeavored to equip you and your laguatron translators with as many of Earth's terminology and customs as we could perceive by monitoring their broadcasts.
- Lt. Dillon: Why did they ever call you Boxey?
- Capt. Troy: Ah, it's just a name that my mother and father always called me. I understand I was quite a little terror when I was younger.
- Lt. Dillon: You're not considered any pushover now.
- Lt. Dillon: It's not often you get the entire population of a continent's women to choose from. I think we're gonna have one fine time.
- Jamie Hamilton: Do either of you have change for a dollar?
- Lt. Dillon: [after checking his laguatron translators] No, I'm sorry, we just used our last denomination of currency ourselves.
- Capt. Troy: This place we drew for out landing sounds exciting: the United States of America.
- Lt. Dillon: You know, I kind of like the sound of that place Kip got. 'The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics'. I always liked Unions.
- Dr. Donald Mortinson: Consider this: Seventy-seven years ago, man couldn't even fly. It only took us Sixty-six years between the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, to putting a man on the moon in 1969. Sixty-six years. How long have we been in the nuclear age? Thirty-five years? Since 1945. Well, of course we don't have all the answers yet, right now we don't know how to break down nuclear waste. We don't know how to make it harmless, to neutralize it. We'll figure it out. This takes time.
- Dr. Donald Mortinson: My dear, these hoodlums, as you call them, may be as important to mankind as the coming of the Messiah.