Tom Zarek

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Tom Zarek Quotes

	Season 4 / Episode 14: - Blood on the Scales (2) Tom Zarek: You have to think about the people of this fleet now, and surrender. President Laura Roslin: No. Not now. Not ever. Do you hear me? I will use every cannon, every bomb, every bullet, every weapon I have down to my own eye teeth to end you! I swear it! I'm coming for all of you!
	Season 4 / Episode 14: - Blood on the Scales (2) Tom Zarek: [speaking on the wireless] This is Tom Zarek, President of the Twelve Colonies. It's over, Laura. Saul Tigh was killed attempting to escape. Bill Adama was tried and found guilty of his crimes. A firing squad executed him this morning. It's done, Laura. You want to think about the people of this fleet now, and surrender. President Laura Roslin: No. Not now. Not ever. Do you hear me? I will use every cannon, every bomb, every bullet, every weapon I have down to my own eyeteeth to end you. I swear it! I'm coming for all of you!
	Season 3 / Episode 5: - Collaborators Tom Zarek: Ah. Come on Laura. You're not that naive. Let me tell you what's gonna happen if these cases go to trial. It'll consume this fleet for months. Maybe years. People will be lining up to testify against their neighbors. It'll be a circus. An entertainment for the mob and you'll be signing death warrants almost every day. Is that how you want to spend your next term Laura - as executioner in chief?
	Season 3 / Episode 5: - Collaborators Laura Roslin: [Scolding Zarek for his ordering secret trials/executions for collaborators] If they're guilty, they'll be tried by a jury of their peers. Tom Zarek: They have a jury, but they don't get lawyers. They don't get to showboat for weeks and months on end. They don't get to blame the system. And the don't get lasting fame as martyrs or innocent people just in the wrong place at the wrong time. They just disappear. Now. In the great twilight between the long night of the occupation and the dawn of a new era, you come into office clean, without their blood on your hands. Laura Roslin: Well, thank you, that's-uh, that's very poetic, however you have a problem, Mr. President. Everyone, by law, is entitled to a trial with representation. Everyone. It is not an option to be discarded at the president's whim. Tom Zarek: You think by making the trials public that you'll find justice? Laura Roslin: Yes, I do. Tom Zarek: Come on, Laura. You're not that naive. Let me tell you what's gonna happen if those cases go to trial. It'll consume this fleet for months, maybe years. People will be lining up to testify against their neighbors. It'll be a circus, an entertainment for the mob, and you will be signing death warrents almost every day. Is that how you want to spend your next term, Laura? As Executioner-in-Chief?
	Season 3 / Episode 3: - Exodus (1) Laura Roslin: [after tackling Tom to avoid the gunfire] Are you all right, Tom? Tom Zarek: Yeah. It's been a while since I've had a woman throw me to the ground. Not quite as much fun as I remember.
	Season 2 / Episode 19: - Lay Down Your Burdens (1) Tom Zarek: Gaius, you're a genius. Doctor Gaius Baltar: And?
	Season 2 / Episode 6: - Home (1) Tom Zarek: I want to set this fleet on a path to freedom. Meier: Of course. Tom Zarek: I want to deliver unto them the liberty we've promised. Meier: We are far from daylight, my friend.
	Season 1 / Episode 11: - Colonial Day President Laura Roslin: Mr. Zarek. Oh, don't worry, I won't be kissing you today. Tom Zarek: That's a shame. I shaved very closely in anticipation of being smacked by you.
	Unknown Episode: Ellen Tigh: So, you worried about Wallace Grey? I hear he's ahead in the vote count. Tom Zarek: Whatever the people want is fine by me. Ellen Tigh: Everyone has an agenda. I know I do. Tom Zarek: And what would that be? Ellen Tigh: Same as yours, Tom. Me, myself, and... ooh. I. Tom Zarek: You are... clearly a well-connected, well-informed woman. Ellen Tigh: Wife of the XO, for whatever that's worth. Tom Zarek: Ah. Quite a bit. Now, and in the future. Ellen Tigh: That's what I'm interested in, Tom. It's my place, and my... husband's place in the future. Tom Zarek: Okay. I'm looking for a friend of mine. His name is Valence. [scene immediately cuts to Valence dead in his cell in the brig with his wrists cut]
	Unknown Episode: Ellen Tigh: So, you worried about Wallace Grey? I hear he's ahead in the vote count. Tom Zarek: Whatever the people want is fine by me. Ellen Tigh: Everyone has an agenda. I know I do. Tom Zarek: And what would that be? Ellen Tigh: Same as yours, Tom. Me, myself, and... ooh. I. Tom Zarek: You are... clearly a well-connected, well-informed woman. Ellen Tigh: Wife of the XO, for whatever that's worth. Tom Zarek: Ah. Quite a bit. Now, and in the future. Ellen Tigh: That's what I'm interested in, Tom. It's my place, and my... husband's place in the future. Tom Zarek: Okay. I'm looking for a friend of mine. His name is Valence. [scene immediately cuts to Valence dead in his cell in the brig with his wrists cut]
	Unknown Episode: Ellen Tigh: So, you worried about Wallace Grey? I hear he's ahead in the vote count. Tom Zarek: Whatever the people want is fine by me. Ellen Tigh: Everyone has an agenda. I know I do. Tom Zarek: And what would that be? Ellen Tigh: Same as yours, Tom. Me, myself, and... ooh. I. Tom Zarek: You are... clearly a well-connected, well-informed woman. Ellen Tigh: Wife of the XO, for whatever that's worth. Tom Zarek: Ah. Quite a bit. Now, and in the future. Ellen Tigh: That's what I'm interested in, Tom. It's my place, and my... husband's place in the future. Tom Zarek: Okay. I'm looking for a friend of mine. His name is Valence. [scene immediately cuts to Valence dead in his cell in the brig with his wrists cut]
	Unknown Episode: Ellen Tigh: So, you worried about Wallace Grey? I hear he's ahead in the vote count. Tom Zarek: Whatever the people want is fine by me. Ellen Tigh: Everyone has an agenda. I know I do. Tom Zarek: And what would that be? Ellen Tigh: Same as yours, Tom. Me, myself, and... ooh. I. Tom Zarek: You are... clearly a well-connected, well-informed woman. Ellen Tigh: Wife of the XO, for whatever that's worth. Tom Zarek: Ah. Quite a bit. Now, and in the future. Ellen Tigh: That's what I'm interested in, Tom. It's my place, and my... husband's place in the future. Tom Zarek: Okay. I'm looking for a friend of mine. His name is Valence. [scene immediately cuts to Valence dead in his cell in the brig with his wrists cut]
	Unknown Episode: Ellen Tigh: So, you worried about Wallace Grey? I hear he's ahead in the vote count. Tom Zarek: Whatever the people want is fine by me. Ellen Tigh: Everyone has an agenda. I know I do. Tom Zarek: And what would that be? Ellen Tigh: Same as yours, Tom. Me, myself, and... ooh. I. Tom Zarek: You are... clearly a well-connected, well-informed woman. Ellen Tigh: Wife of the XO, for whatever that's worth. Tom Zarek: Ah. Quite a bit. Now, and in the future. Ellen Tigh: That's what I'm interested in, Tom. It's my place, and my... husband's place in the future. Tom Zarek: Okay. I'm looking for a friend of mine. His name is Valence. [scene immediately cuts to Valence dead in his cell in the brig with his wrists cut]
	Unknown Episode: Ellen Tigh: So, you worried about Wallace Grey? I hear he's ahead in the vote count. Tom Zarek: Whatever the people want is fine by me. Ellen Tigh: Everyone has an agenda. I know I do. Tom Zarek: And what would that be? Ellen Tigh: Same as yours, Tom. Me, myself, and... ooh. I. Tom Zarek: You are... clearly a well-connected, well-informed woman. Ellen Tigh: Wife of the XO, for whatever that's worth. Tom Zarek: Ah. Quite a bit. Now, and in the future. Ellen Tigh: That's what I'm interested in, Tom. It's my place, and my... husband's place in the future. Tom Zarek: Okay. I'm looking for a friend of mine. His name is Valence. [scene immediately cuts to Valence dead in his cell in the brig with his wrists cut]
	Unknown Episode: Ellen Tigh: So, you worried about Wallace Grey? I hear he's ahead in the vote count. Tom Zarek: Whatever the people want is fine by me. Ellen Tigh: Everyone has an agenda. I know I do. Tom Zarek: And what would that be? Ellen Tigh: Same as yours, Tom. Me, myself, and... ooh. I. Tom Zarek: You are... clearly a well-connected, well-informed woman. Ellen Tigh: Wife of the XO, for whatever that's worth. Tom Zarek: Ah. Quite a bit. Now, and in the future. Ellen Tigh: That's what I'm interested in, Tom. It's my place, and my... husband's place in the future. Tom Zarek: Okay. I'm looking for a friend of mine. His name is Valence. [scene immediately cuts to Valence dead in his cell in the brig with his wrists cut]
	Unknown Episode: Ellen Tigh: So, you worried about Wallace Grey? I hear he's ahead in the vote count. Tom Zarek: Whatever the people want is fine by me. Ellen Tigh: Everyone has an agenda. I know I do. Tom Zarek: And what would that be? Ellen Tigh: Same as yours, Tom. Me, myself, and... ooh. I. Tom Zarek: You are... clearly a well-connected, well-informed woman. Ellen Tigh: Wife of the XO, for whatever that's worth. Tom Zarek: Ah. Quite a bit. Now, and in the future. Ellen Tigh: That's what I'm interested in, Tom. It's my place, and my... husband's place in the future. Tom Zarek: Okay. I'm looking for a friend of mine. His name is Valence. [scene immediately cuts to Valence dead in his cell in the brig with his wrists cut]
	Unknown Episode: Ellen Tigh: So, you worried about Wallace Grey? I hear he's ahead in the vote count. Tom Zarek: Whatever the people want is fine by me. Ellen Tigh: Everyone has an agenda. I know I do. Tom Zarek: And what would that be? Ellen Tigh: Same as yours, Tom. Me, myself, and... ooh. I. Tom Zarek: You are... clearly a well-connected, well-informed woman. Ellen Tigh: Wife of the XO, for whatever that's worth. Tom Zarek: Ah. Quite a bit. Now, and in the future. Ellen Tigh: That's what I'm interested in, Tom. It's my place, and my... husband's place in the future. Tom Zarek: Okay. I'm looking for a friend of mine. His name is Valence. [scene immediately cuts to Valence dead in his cell in the brig with his wrists cut]
	Unknown Episode: Ellen Tigh: So, you worried about Wallace Grey? I hear he's ahead in the vote count. Tom Zarek: Whatever the people want is fine by me. Ellen Tigh: Everyone has an agenda. I know I do. Tom Zarek: And what would that be? Ellen Tigh: Same as yours, Tom. Me, myself, and... ooh. I. Tom Zarek: You are... clearly a well-connected, well-informed woman. Ellen Tigh: Wife of the XO, for whatever that's worth. Tom Zarek: Ah. Quite a bit. Now, and in the future. Ellen Tigh: That's what I'm interested in, Tom. It's my place, and my... husband's place in the future. Tom Zarek: Okay. I'm looking for a friend of mine. His name is Valence. [scene immediately cuts to Valence dead in his cell in the brig with his wrists cut]

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