Episode Report Card Jacob: A+ | 6 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Without Crutches
By Jacob | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on October 19, 2006
Tory Foster, Jammer, and Laura Roslin board the abandoned Colonial One. Laura seats herself at her desk -- I wonder if Gaius kept the Olympic Carrier note? I wanna say he did, if only because he wouldn't care -- and removes her diary from its wrappings, the biggest Olympic Carrier note of all, placing it squarely on the desk before her. "All right," she says, quietly at first. "I'm ready to go," she smiles. And Colonial One takes off. Did she justâ¦elect herself President again? That is SO AWESOME. I love how her choices just get worse and worse, but you still have to admit she's better than anybody else at being President, and it's mostly because she does adorable shit like that. "I'd like to be President right now, okay? I'm not saying I'm necessarily going to airlock you, but I do have a certain persuasive regal air." I bet she got KILLER customer service back when malls still existed. Which is 99 percent of politics anyway.
Oh, hey -- this part's fucking awful, just so you know going in. I don't even want to talk about it yet so I'm going to make some lists instead. The first list goes like this: Saul Tigh. Kara Thrace. Felix Gaeta. The second list goes like this: Poison. Knife. Gun. And the last one goes: Ellen Tigh. Leoben Conoy. Gaius Baltar. The last list is of the people that took the thing that mattered most, and because of love, destroyed your heart. The people that you built your world around, because of love or because you had no other choice. The middle list is what you did next, because you couldn't get out. And the first list is the people that have to go on, now. The ones that "survived."
Chief ushers people around the Galactica deck, doing what he does best, back where he belongs. Not stomping -- although I think the scary stomping will come back next week and it's going to be hella bad -- and a huge smile breaks out across his face when he sees Kara and her daughter. "Oh, my Gods. Captain! I thought you were dead." She smiles carefully. "Yeah, so did I." (Brilliant poster on the forums who compared her to Persephone, spending half a year in hell with the man who stole her from her family.) Chief asks about Kacey, and Anders comes running up to ask as well, and Kara opens her mouth to explain -- that she's not alone, that there's a part of her that he didn't touch, that she has the option of redeeming her own childhood, that there are some kinds of love that are inviolable -- and a third person comes running up. A beautiful woman. And what she is saying is this: "Kacey? Kacey! Oh, my little girl! Oh, Mommy missed you so much! Thank you. Thank you! Thank you. When the Cylons took her I -- I thought -- but you saved her. Gods bless you." And Kara smiles with a huge amount of grace and pain, and hands the woman her child, and smiles awkwardly and can't speak. And the woman and her daughter Kacey disappear into the crowd, and all around them, people are reuniting with their loved ones.