Episode Report Card Strega: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Home, Part II
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on August 25, 2005
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Team Prez goes questing for the Tomb of Athena. Adama starts questing for Team Prez, with Tyrol and Billy for company. Meier tells Boomer that her other incarnation was killed and tries to recruit her into the assassination plot. Adama meets up with Team Prez and there's some hugging. And also some choking, when Adama sees Boomer. Adama's heart isn't quite up to the task, though, so Boomer survives and gets to have an awkward reunion with Tyrol. Well, it's awkward for Tyrol and Helo; she seems fine with it. Now that everyone's reunited, Zarek nixes the assassination plan, but Meier strikes out on his own. Boomer agrees to kill Adama, while Meier will kill Apollo. When they find the Tomb of Athena, Boomer turns on Adama...and then keeps on turning, and shoots Meier. With that sorted out, they enter the tomb, and find a statue of Sagittaron that's missing its arrow. Starbuck puts the Arrow of Apollo on the bow, which plops them all into...a hologram? Let's just assume it was a hologram. They're in a field where they can see the twelve symbols of the colonies mirrored in the constellations above them. Starbuck works out that Earth is a place where all twelve constellations are visible. Apollo, slightly more practically, recognizes the Lagoon Nebula, and figures that they can use it as a fingerpost. Then they can't figure out how to exit the hologram (or whatever) and starve to death in there. Okay, no; instead they get out somehow, and Adama makes a speech reinstating the Prez, and then leads everyone in a prolonged slow clap, so my version's better. Back on the Galactica, Baltar is fed up with Six, so he gets a checkup from Cottle to find out if there really is a chip in his brain. There's not. However, he overhears Boomer and Helo talking and confirms Six's statements about there being a baby on the way. Six explains everything: she's an angel, sent to protect Baltar while the human race is exterminated. How nice for him! Want more? The full recap starts right below!
onto the rocks below out of despair over the exodus of the thirteen tribes." Way to surrender to destiny, Athena. Zarek asks, "'Supposedly'? I thought the Cylons believed in the gods." Starbuck quickly sums up the Cylon conversion to monotheism. Boomer claims, "We know more about your religion than you do." When nobody takes advantage of this opening to, y'know, delve, Boomer goes on: "Athena's Tomb, whoever and whatever she really was, is probably up there." Starbuck eyes the hills and tells the Prez that they won't be able to climb the hill before dark. The Prez says they'll see how far they can get.Galactica. Baltar is poking about in the cell that was constructed for Boomer. Why? Because he's Baltar. The cell is empty except for a bed and a chair. He mutters that it's depressing, and says, "Part of me is glad [that] Sharon never made it in here." He turns, and Six is there. She's sitting on a chair that's turned around so that the back is in front of her. Oh yeah, and she's naked, which is why the chair's placement is important. Six smirkingly declares that their child will be born in the cell. Baltar stares at the walls and puffs on his cigarette, and Six whines that he's not listening. Baltar explains, "I've had enough. Do you seriously expect me to listen to you while you sit around stark naked?" Six looks down like suddenly she's embarrassed, heh. Baltar refers to their "mythical" child, and asks if she knows how ridiculous she is: "I'm the father of a baby who will be born to me from my fantasy woman who I see solely in my head." He says that she's not even his fantasy woman anymore, and concludes, "You're nothing more than a common tease." Six, still looking hurt, replies, "I never said I would bear the child." Baltar merrily asks who will be giving birth to their child, then, and wonders if it might be Starbuck. Six glares at him and says he's in "dangerous territory." Baltar eyes his cigarette casually and says he's really scared. He asks what this week's threat is: "Don't tell me, I'll guess. The ship's gonna blow up!" Six looks away, smiling like she's about to burst out laughing.
Baltar continues to pace around the cell, pondering what else could happen. "Yes, of course, me! I'm gonna explode! Good! God is gonna make me spontaneously combust in a great big ball of flame, and then the whole crew of Galactica can celebrate on ambrosia. Get really drunk." Heh. He turns, and Six is laughing breathlessly. And she's now wearing sweats, with her hair pulled back into a ponytail. Six pulls herself together and admits that Baltar's right: "Game's over. You win." Baltar, confused, asks what he won, while Six turns the chair around and casually props her feet up on the bed. She advises him to "wake up and smell the psychosis." Six cheerfully explains that there's no chip in Baltar's head: "I'm not real. You're not really getting secret messages from the Cylons. You're just crazy." Baltar stares at her numbly and finally declares this to be quite funny. Six happily confirms that Baltar doesn't believe her, and cackles some more as Baltar tells her to stop playing games. Six apologetically says it's the truth. Baltar sits down and asks the briefly empty chair, "Then who, or what, are you?" Six says that she's his subconscious. She stands up, and Baltar jumps up and backs away as she explains, "You helped the Cylons commit genocide against your own people, and your fragile little mind couldn't handle it. So poof, I appear and start telling you how special you are. How God has chosen you. Yeah, right." Throughout this, Baltar keeps backing up, stumbling over the furniture in his efforts to keep away from her. Six sits down again, and Baltar fretfully says that he doesn't like her games, and turns for the door. Six suggests that he could go to sickbay and get a brain scan: "That would settle it, wouldn't it?" While Baltar ponders that, Six adds, "Go ahead. I dare you." Baltar rushes out, his hand to his mouth like he's about to throw up. Tee hee.