Episode Report Card Strega: A- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Home, Part I
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on August 18, 2005
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Starbuck meets up with the Prez's fleet near Kobol. Apollo's very happy to see her, and he's got a gun in his pocket. Which he quickly takes out and aims at Boomer. The Prez is ready to have Boomer spaced, until Boomer claims that she can help them find the Tomb of Athena. Meanwhile, Zarek plots to get Apollo killed, so that he can be the man behind the Prez. They all go down to Kobol and find a path that should lead them to the Tomb. Elosha helpfully finds a trap and gets herself blown up real good, and then the Centurions start shooting. During the fire-fight, Boomer seems to make a break for it, and Apollo chases after her. It turns out Boomer's just trying to grab a dead soldier's gun so she can take out the last Centurion. Overachiever. They all have a hearty chuckle over the misunderstanding, wave goodbye to Elosha's corpse, and set out for the Tomb. Back on Galactica, Adama picks out a sucky new CAG, tries to cheer himself up by holding a press conference, and generally mopes around for a while. Eventually he shares his feelings with Dualla. Dualla tells Adama that he's broken his promise to take them all to Earth. In the end, Adama declares that he's putting the band back together. No, wait: fleet. Putting the fleet back together. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
vied them because he identifies with attempts to spawn. Six says that Baltar's starting to look at humans the way Cylons do. Baltar mutters that he sees Cylons everywhere. He reminds us that Boomer told him there were eight Cylons still in the fleet. He moans, "Why didn't I ask her who they were?" Heh. I assumed he thought he could get to that later, after Tyrol was revived. Baltar bitches about how Cally killed his lead, and sighs, "Why is it when things go wrong, they go wrong so well?" To entertain me? Six cuddles up to Baltar and coos that he gets too worked up about things. She looks out at the passersby and says, "They do have it easy, don't they?" Baltar goes bug-eyed as he asks, "Why are you talking to me like I'm not one of them?" Hey, I ask for someone to worry that they're a Cylon, and look what happens! But Baltar's too obvious. Maybe I should have been more specific. Six says, "In some ways, you never were [human]," which isn't going to make Baltar any calmer. Six goes on to say that he'll escape their fate. She insists, "You can stop manipulating the world and let destiny take its course." She whispers that they know one thing about human beings: "They are masters of self destruction." And then Baltar's alone, staring out at the hallway with his cigarette.Astral Queen. Someone took the time to give Boomer a change of clothes before cuffing her arms together and dumping her in a cell. She's explaining to the Prez that she loves Helo, and that she's carrying his child. The Prez is skeptical, to put it mildly. Boomer gets oddly formal as she declares that on the ship by choice, and then adds, "Hear this: even if you find the Tomb, even if you find the map, and even if you find Earth, the price you pay will be too high." Does she mean the price will be too high unless she helps, or that it'll be too high even if she helps? Because that seems important. The Prez calmly says that she knows there are Cylons on Kobol, and she figures that Boomer is communicating this entire conversation to them. Boomer huffs that it doesn't work that way. The Prez says that all she wants to know is how to find the Tomb of Athena. Boomer says that if they give her a map, she'll do her best. The Prez doesn't like that answer. Boomer claims, "We all know about the tomb. I can show you the path," and adds that she doesn't know where the path will take them, but that they'll have to move fast. Is this a metaphorical path or a literal one? It's so hard to tell with Cylons.
Commercials. Ooh, The Brothers Grimm. Per the podcast, the scene with Baltar and Six was added by Moore when they realized that they'd left them out of the episode completely. Heh. I guess whether or not you think that's a good addition depends on how much you like Baltar and Six. But I love them, so clearly it was the right thing to do. Nyah.