Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: B- | 2 USERS: D+ YOU GRADE IT Speaking Truth To Power
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.16.2006
In the basestar command, Caprica approaches Three with an Eight nearby: "You all right?" Three says she is, but she's lying. "More nightmares?" asks Caprica. Three corrects her: "Dreams." But there's something different this time, somehow: "I think God's trying to tell me something." End of line. "It's about Gaius, isn't it?" These two ladies, these two women trying to figure out the heights and depths and complexities of love using Gaius Baltar as a model, stare over at Gaius, who stands with Doral and a Six near a water wall. He cleans up so damn nice. "No," says Three, almost surprised. "It's about something much bigger than that."
Before this, or after it, or concomitant with it -- I'm not a Cylon, I just crush a lot -- Three speaks to a hidden someone, and this is what she says: "After you execute this command, you'll delete the order from your logs, then overwrite the corresponding memory locations." Swing about on a Centurion, tucked into a corridor niche. And Three is terrified by what she's about to do. Eyes wide, unblinking, she speaks one last word: "Execute." And he does. He does. The Kobol music I love most in all the show starts up as Three is dying; Three stands in the same great hall where Gaius and Six first saw Hera. Behind her are six white flags, floor to ceiling; five beings stand before them, bathed in light. Three is on New Caprica; Three is in a Caprica parking garage; Three's body lies in blood from a moment ago; Three falls in love with Hera, down on New Caprica. Three looks around the great hall in wonder, and draws close to the five figures, who are too bright to see. With tears in her eyes, she reaches out to take one bright hand. End of line. She dies, and dies, and dies again to return.
Three awakes gasping in a resurrection chamber, attended by the usual -- Six, Five, Eight, and Three -- and the Eight is guiding her through it: "It's okay. It's okay. Relax, try to breathe through it...breathe." Covered in goo and fluids, looking like a Hybrid, Three looks up at the attending Three. The Three above is hard, and cold, and perfect. New Three: "Oh, there's something beautiful! Miraculous, between life and death." The Three above is disgusted and worried; everybody looks around at everybody else. Six and Doral, as usual, are worried. Three stares at something fading up above her, something she already wants to see again; stares up, stares up, stares up.
Starbuck is watching tape of the CAP battle, with the three strange Raiders. It only takes a little while for her to notice that they keep missing. As though it's intentional. The violins go crazy as Starbuck pauses: a missile going well too astray. "Frack," she says, and stands, and goes to the one person she can trust.