Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Naked Lunch
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 19 | Aired on 03.13.2009
They come fast and strong, all the time. You have to watch out for them. Steady as it comes. "Look, you want to know the truth? I don't really care about the status, or the Cup or the trophy or anything like that. Um..." He looks around, guilty for saying it, for thinking it: "In fact, even the games aren't that important to me. Not really."
Sam's running across a killing field on Caprica, one step ahead of the bullets. Leading his team to one more victory, unsure when the game will finally end.
"What matters to me is the perfect throw, okay, making the perfect catch. The perfect step and block. It's perfection, that's what it's about. It's about those moments when you... When you can feel the perfection of creation. The beauty of physics. The wonder of mathematics, you know, the... Elation, of action and reaction. And that is the kind of perfection that I want to be connected to."
Bill stares as Sam connects himself, spreading mind throughout the ship, loving the singular entity that is Kara, standing before him, trying desperately to speak clearly.
"Spins and turns angles and curves the shape of dreams half-remembered slip the surly bonds of Earth and touch the face of perfection a perfect face perfect lace find a perfect world for the end of Kara Thrace end of line."
Kara shrugs. "He says a lot of things. Go ahead, ask your question." Bill's nervous. Not this C-Buck boy, not the guerilla soldier, not the forward guard, not the man coughing out his life on a planet far below. Something new. A new world, a new way of thinking. All these things are true.
(None of these things are true. Anders is paralyzed in the hangar deck, shivering, afraid to mount his Viper and fly the CAP. "What if I get up there and another switch flips in my head and turns me against my own?" And the Chief is shaking his head: "It's like the Colonel said, okay? Just think of that. Be the man you want till the day you die. You're Samuel T. Anders. That's all you've got to remember. Samuel T. Anders.")
Bill shivers as they stare down at Sam, lights flashing. "You ask him." Kara nods.
GAIUS BALTAR
"Let's forget for one moment that you're the son of the Admiral..." Gaius begins, and Lee flaps his hands, exhausted: "Shut the frak up. Get to the frakking point. You got five minutes, speak." And Gaius does.
"Galactica has been more than our guardian. She's literally a vessel into which we have poured all of our hopes and dreams. And when she's gone, when we can no longer derive the security from looking out a window and seeing her massive bulk gliding by, then this life will be over and a new life will have begun. A new life: that requires a new way of thinking."
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