Episode Report Card Jacob: A+ | 6 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Without Crutches
By Jacob | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on October 19, 2006
In the detention center, Anders's guys blow a bunch of locks and cells open and mobilize the prisoners toward the shipyards. Anders finds Kara's apartment. Obviously Kara's apartment was in the detention center, but I didn't put it together, even with the whole "Let me out" scene. Or the myriad other clues, like the screaming torture victims. I don't know. I guess I just thought it was in a shitty part of town. I wasn't thinking. For some reason that makes it even creepier. He finds Kara on the floor, still knocked out, and is very happy and very scared all at once, and also very worried about what she's been up to in there, because he's already imagined even worse things than the very horrible things that have been going on in there.
Back on Galactica, Helo is firing spaceship words at a fearsome rate, and Kelly lets everybody know that two baseships have jumped in from the nebula. Which apparently they were planning on -- they can use the Galactica to lure them both away, and that'll give the evac ships enough time to get away. Except suddenly there aren't two but four baseships, which the Admiral readily admits is not doable. Sparks are flying all over CIC, like real bad, just shooting directly out of the equipment, and they're getting shoved to and fro, and Edward James Olmos is shouting nonsense, and Helo is like, "We can't maneuver, we're blowing up in these areas, and our jump drives are dead." Adama -- with pieces of his ship literally flying at his head and shooting sparks all over the place -- takes a deep breath and tells everybody it's been an honor.
It is silent in space as Galactica goes down. The baseships take heavy aim at her and she drifts, on fire all over, systems dead. Admiral Adama gets ready to die, the evacuation a failure, humanity's only hope is the Pegasus and her civilian Fleet. New Caprica and the Battlestar Galactica end here.
Except they don't! Pegasus jumps in, all shiny and awesome, and Apollo comms to his father: "Galactica, Pegasus. Let us take some of this work off your hands. Get your FTL up and ready, and we'll take care of the rest." Adama damns his son for breaking protocol and coming back, under his breath, orders Helo to get the FTL back online, and then thanks his son sweetly, and proudly, and under his breath.