Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 9 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Asking For It
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.30.2006
He drops her. Helo begs her to stand up, urges her on, and she fights dirty. She always fights dirty. With one mighty roundhouse she kicks his feet out from under him. Just like always. Then another half-crouching kick to the face.
Apollo woke up alone, in the alluvial deposits of a foreign nation, a wild world, and under the morning sun he dressed, and headed back into town. He was met by his father, still wearing the same clothes as the night before. Lee didn't look too great, between sleeping outdoors and putting on a wrinkled uniform in the cold morning. "You look like you had a good time," said his father, and he nodded. "It was some party!" Bill smiled. "Yeah, well, it's been a hell of a morning too. You missed all the excitement!" Lee snapped half to attention: "Problems upstairs?" No, no problems. Good things, Bill called them. "Kara got married. Believe that?" Apollo choked on something but his dad didn't notice. "Yep, 'Bout an hour ago. Found herself a priest, went down by the river and got married." Down by the river, where it's wet. Lee choked, sick, and they spotted Kara and Sam, walking down the street. Happy and together. Bill chuckled over the way things had gone with them. "Well, she deserves it, man. We all deserve to be happy. I also gave her permission to muster out along with Tyrol and Cally, a few of the others, so it'll be up to us to make sure there's no mass exodus." But in the end, it was up to them, father and son, to make sure there was. Once Gina turned everything upside down again, and favors turned into indictments, and love turned into hate, and freedom turned into torture. Once New Caprica wasn't good anymore, and Bill had to leave them all behind, and come back and unsettle them back into the Fleet.
Shell-shocked, Lee approached them. They were happy, cuddling in the morning cold as they walked. They didn't even notice him at first.
Lee gets up again. She lands several punches. So does he.
Kara woke up on the morning after Groundbreaking, her head on Lee's chest. She remembered what they'd done, and what they said. What Lee said. And what she said. And she made a choice, and she looked down at his body beneath hers, and she said goodbye, and she headed into town to get herself a husband. To make things simpler. She left him sleeping there, alone, exposed on a new world. Naked.
They're both bleeding now. His eyes are starting to cross. Her mouth is a wound.
Lee approached Sam and Kara, and she looked at him, sad and afraid: how far would he push it? Were they about to meet Brave New Lee, who screamed to the sky and felt love so deeply he couldn't help but howl? Or was it regular Lee Adama, who could suffer in silence and fear? Anders stepped forward, ecstatic. "Hey, man. Did you hear the news? We're hitched. We got married! Can you believe it?" Lee admitted that he couldn't believe it. He didn't let her eyes go but he didn't hear what they were saying: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. "No, it was crazy. She comes down, and she wakes me up. She pops the question, she drags me down to the priest, and, bang, like that, we're married!" Lee trained his sights her again: "So it was your idea." Of course it was. He almost laughed. She nearly wept. "Yeah. It was my idea." Sam floated the idea of giving the two of them a minute to talk alone, but Lee nodded, put on his Apollo face, shook Sam's hand, congratulated him. Wished him luck. "You're gonna need it," he said, pushing past her. She felt him going.