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
Adama bends to shout at the Chief, on the floor of the ring. "This how you fight your enemies, Chief? This how you fight for your life? No excuses. Show me you're a soldier. Get up!" The Chief stands up, and finally hits back. Adama doubles over. Chief comes closer, really angry this time. He doesn't know what it's about yet. "Is that what you want? Is that what you want, Admiral?" When he comes close enough, Adama straightens up, pounding Chief. Everybody cheers; Kara is impressed. "The old man's got chops. He knows when to make his moves, when to hold back. I wish I could say the same for his son." This is how Kara is now. Dualla and Lee stare at her, grossed out beyond belief. The fight continues; Kara keeps yelling.
Kara sat, drinking alone near the dance floor. Lee approached with liquor, and she tossed her empty cup to the ground. "Just in time. I was runnin' on bingo fuel." Apollo saw Anders, lying on the ground, and archly noted that she'd literally drunk him under the table. More to the point: "Where's Dee?" Lee giggled. "Oh, she, uh, packed it in. To go pack." He laughed at his little joke. How much of it was theatre? "Guess it's just you and me then," Kara laughed, and they sat with that, in the growing quiet, as people left the Groundbreaking behind, in twos and threes. "Yep," he said. "It's just you and me." It always was.
Chief finally gets the drop on Adama; Lee shouts for his father. Cottle comes into the ring and tells Adama to quit already. Bill grits at him to stop the bleeding; Laura leans over him. "Coagulant for the swelling and bleeding. Come on, you insist on doing this? You want to do this. You're crazy, right?" His only response is to spit a very terrifying amount of blood into a very gross bucket. "You want to do this?" He looks up at her. "Yeah." She nods. "All right. Keep your guard up. He's coming in wild. Get him with a left hook. You wanna win?" Nope. Obviously. "I'm not gonna win," he says, almost jokingly. The dude -- is it Kelly? -- working on Chief notes that it's Bill's jabs that are killing him. Ask Lee about that.
In the morning after Groundbreaking, still wearing their clothes from the night before, Adama and Roslin approached Cally and the Chief. In the night, Bill asked himself the same question as Kara, and came to the same conclusion as Kara, but that didn't mean he couldn't be merciful. Show a little love to the people that had earned it; the ones that deserved a new life, on this new world. "I've been thinking about, uh, what you said. A Battlestar's no place to raise a family. So I'm gonna miss you, Chief. I wanna wish you good luck." Chief was overwhelmed and happy; Cally nearly cried. "I want you guys to have at least a dozen," he said, and Cally laughed and kissed his cheek. The Admiral poured a line of salt across the ground between them, and said goodbye. Gave them to New Caprica as a symbol of hope. The new tomorrow. She was beautiful, and so young. She fell into the Chief's arms; there were tears of gratitude and love in his eyes. It was good. Life on New Caprica was good. The Admiral did this for them.