Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All Aboard The Battlestar Handbasket!
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.30.2009
Hoshi calls Felix up, across the bridge, and mentions a random unlisted launch; Felix blames Laird and stalls a bit longer; Tigh talks about how Nowart is getting his Marines together, they think, to pull rank on more of the rebelling ships. Adama points out that the Hitei Kan was a regrettable one-time thing, because if they keep killing everybody every time, they won't have any ships to install the FTL upgrades into anyway; Hoshi's still worrying about the Raptor, so Felix talks circles around Tigh and gets everybody to think that it's a problem with the dradis itself. "Four years without a pit stop," he crusts, "Equipment's sketchy as hell." He gaetas for a full diagnostic, and Felix pretends to push buttons and get that started for him.
0741 on Colonial One, where the Quorum is freaking out as usual. Lee calls them to order, as ad hoc Chair: "I remind you once again that Mr. Zarek was taken into custody because he was agitating against a lawful order. Now, these Cylon FTL drives are essential if the Fleet is going to move on..." Zarek walks in, smiling warmly, and they all snap awake. He smarms at Lee about how Adama had to let him go, because "even [Adama] knows when he's holding a losing hand." The Quorum is happy, because brojobs are Zarek's specialty and they all think they're his special girl, and he takes the gavel back from Lee. The walk back to his seat as the Caprica rep is awkward, and long, and very quiet.
Sam plays the kind of lonely solo Pyramid you only really enjoy when your ex-wife is going loony once again. Seelix stands behind him in the doorway for awhile before chuckling to herself, and he nods. "Yeah, I used to be pretty good at this game... Making the shot. Winning the big game. Can't believe that used to matter to me." Seelix muses about how far away and long ago the Colonies seem now, but really she's talking about how hard she tried to find something to replace it: Sam, drinking, moving from knuckledragger to New Caprica terrorist to Viper nugget to pilot, and all the different hairstyles along the way. She's always been pretty; today she is beautiful. She finally comes around in front, getting weird and girlfriend-crazy.
"I really thought there was something between us, you know? And when that didn't happen, I wondered: was it me?" Sam swears it wasn't, calls her Diana, but he doesn't recognize this look in her eye like we do. "Now I'm thinking, no. Maybe it was something else. Some Cylon thing. Your programming." He shakes his head sadly, because OMG they are just not going to let this go, how he's a robot. And again: this needed to happen. It's kind of unbelievable that Tigh would stay XO, and Sam's presumably still a pilot, and Tory's off with the Basestar, possibly Chief too when he's not hanging out with Gaius. But Sam's got no protection at all. He stares sadly at her as the hostility comes up, and up. "Gods, I know it's been months, but I just can't let it go..." Connor's boys grab him, and bag his head. She stares down, and away; she enjoys it. One of the guys goes to town on him, on the floor, kicking and punching until he's almost unconscious. One of the others tells him to save it; they've been promised more vengeance than this.
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