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Hero is the eighth episode of the third season of Battlestar Galactica, and the forty-first episode overall.

Starring: Edward James Olmos (Adm. Adama), Mary McDonnell (Pres. Roslin), Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck), Jamie Bamber (Lee Adama), James Callis (Baltar), Tricia Helfer (Six), Grace Park (Sharon)

Secondary Stars: Michael Hogan (Col. Tigh), Aaron Douglas (Galen Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Lt. Dualla)

Special Guest Star: Lucy Lawless (D'Anna Biers)

Guest Stars: Carl Lumbly (Daniel "Bulldog" Novacek), Donnelly Rhodes (Dr. Cottle), Matthew Bennett (Aaron Doral), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster)

Co-Stars: Luciana Carro (Kat), Barry Kennedy (Admiral Corman), Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (Hybrid)

Contents 1 Plot Overview 2 Notes 3 Arc Advancement 3.1 Happenings 3.2 Characters 3.3 Referbacks 4 Trivia 4.1 The Show 4.2 Behind the Scenes 4.3 Allusions and References 4.4 Memorable Moments 5 Quotes

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• [Tigh has just saved Adama from Novacek]

Tigh: The toughest part of getting played is losing your dignity. Feeling like you are not worth the oxygen you are sucking down. You get used to it. You start to believe it. You start to love it. It's like a bottle that never runs dry, you can keep reaching for it over and over and over again.
Adama: So how do you put that bottle away, Saul?
Tigh: (thoughtful) I don't know. One day, you just decide to... get up and walk out of your room.

• [Adama tries to resign]

Roslin: What is this? (opens the folder, reads) Your resignation. You've gotta be kidding me.
Adama: I've said before. We can't hide from the things that we've done. I see no other way around this situation. Maybe it's time, Laura.
Roslin: Sit down, Bill. I think you're being naive.
Adama: Naive?
Roslin: Did it ever occur to you that the Admiralty may have set you up to provoke a war they wanted? It's naive to think that horrible things that we can't understand have simple explanations, because simple explanations make us feel like we have control, and we don't. We know why the Cylons attacked us, and it wasn't any one thing, oh my Gods. We did a thousand things, good and bad, every day, for forty years to pave the way for those attacks.
Adama: Something has to be done.
Roslin: (picks up a folded piece of paper, hands it to Adama) Do you know what that is?
Adama: (opens it) Medal of Distinction.
Roslin: This is before I heard about this resignation of yours, so, hmm. I'd like to propose this. You seem hell-bent on paying some kind of penance for whatever it is you think you've done. So instead of resigning, why don't you get up and walk out of here, meet me on the port hangar deck tomorrow evening for this ceremony, and let me pin a frakkin' medal on your chest.
Adama: I can't.
Roslin: It's not for you, it's for them. Stand up there, acknowledge your fleet, and give them what they need: a hero. That'll be your penance, even if it kills you.