Battlestar Galactica (TV Series)

The Road Less Traveled (2008)

Michael Trucco: Ensign Samuel Anders

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• Leoben Conoy : [the guards throw Leoben to the floor and leave him alone in the storage hold with Anders]  I'm glad you're here. You and Kara, did you get things worked out? Because you should. You weren't meant to be enemies.

  Ensign Samuel Anders : No. That'd be you and me.

  [kicks Leoben down onto his back] 

  Ensign Samuel Anders : What do you want from Kara?

  Leoben Conoy : [Panting]  The same thing I've always wanted. For her to understand her destiny.

  Ensign Samuel Anders : That's not good enough.

  Leoben Conoy : It's good enough for her.

  [with his hands cuffed behind his back, Leoben struggles off his back and onto his knees] 

  Leoben Conoy : What is the most basic article of faith? *That this is not all that we are.*

  Leoben Conoy : [Sam looks at him with a mix of incredulity, immense fear and loathing. Leoben chuckles]  C-Bucks rule.

  Ensign Samuel Anders : What did you just say?

  Leoben Conoy : Forward guard, right? I saw a couple of games. You were good. Yet after all the celebrity and acclaim, what were you? Just another face selling magazines, another piece of scoreboard trivia. You always knew you were destined for more. You were just waiting for your singular moment of clarity.

  Ensign Samuel Anders : [immediately pulling, cocking and pointing his pistol right in Leoben's face]  Well, maybe I just found it.

  Leoben Conoy : You kill me, Kara's dream dies with me.

  Ensign Samuel Anders : I don't think so. I think you download into another Leoben body and you spew more lies.

  Leoben Conoy : [slowly shaking his head]  No one's coming back.

  [swallows] 

  Leoben Conoy : We were lured out of resurrection range. Ship was attacked. We survived. The Baseship was damaged. We were set adrift.

  Ensign Samuel Anders : [lowers his pistol, starts to raise it back up and then lowers it again]  What are you talking about? Who attacked you?

  Leoben Conoy : War has broken out between the Cylon. Battle lines have been drawn between those who embrace their nature and those who fear it.

  Ensign Samuel Anders : [taken aback and deeply thinking but trying not to show it]  Good.

  [starts walking out of the room] 

  Ensign Samuel Anders : You can blow yourselves to hell for all I care.

  Leoben Conoy : That's one way, that's one way. There's another. An alliance.

  [Anders stops, looks unbelievingly, but listens] 

  Leoben Conoy : Allow our paths to converge. You save us from our savage brothers, and our old one, the Hybrid, will show Kara the righteous path. And together, they'll lead us to the promised land. Together, we will find Earth.