Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 5 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT When The Know-Nothings Get Control
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.09.2006
Apollo spots a moving Six (But not the dark-haired sort; I'm like so fascinated by that copy because I have a total fanboy crush on Six and I looooooove Cylons and that's how simple the world is -- and thank God because, coincidentally, that's precisely the amount of complexity I can deal with!) and screams just like Lee Adama. "Frack me! This one's alive! We've got a live one over there!" Mathias orders cover for him as Apollo wigs out that some of them are alive. He radios to Galactica, counting the living: five models. Helo asks if they're taking fire, and Apollo admits that they're in sorry shape. "Don't take chances. They make any threatening moves... " Apollo nearly grins: "Oh, you can trust me on that one." It's funny, but there's something underneath this, having to do with showing Helo's a really good guy, worried about the away team... stuff we already knew, basically, but it has its weight in the script this week.
The sick Cylons begin to pray. It starts with Leoben, of course: "Heavenly Father..." and then Six, of course, joins in. Mathias asks if they should kill them, and Apollo advises to hold fire for the moment. "Heavenly Father...grant us the strength...the wisdom..." Apollo's eyes practically cross. "What are they doing?" Sharon stares at them, stricken. She knows this one by heart. "... And above all...a measure of acceptance." As Sharon bends down to cradle a sister Eight in her lap, Apollo wigs. "Hey, Athena, what are you doing? Athena! Athena!" She's gone, holding them in her arms. "The strength...the wisdom..." Sitting in a circle of bodies, Sharon stares, shaking. The Eight below her looks up and focuses. "Traitor: Save yourself." She asks from what, and a Six joins in: "Get away from us. A beacon. We brought it aboard. Carried disease. We're infected." Sharon's jaw drops; her hands clench on her sister's shoulders. Mathias and Apollo begin the evac with a quickness. "Galactica, Apollo. We have a situation down here. The Cylons have been infected with a disease. We have all been exposed." Sharon stares down at her hands. Apollo: "We've all been exposed."
Credits; episode by Michael "Six Degrees Of Separation" Angeli. 41,420 survivors in the Fleet. In Galactica CIC, Cottle's telling the officers to quarantine the away team, and sterilize everything they touch, including the Raptors. Gaeta runs away, grateful for work I imagine, and Cottle tells Dualla there won't be any info on the length of the quarantine until he does their bloodwork. "You said they picked up this disease from a beacon?" Adama notes that this is coming from the Cylons, and Cottle tells him it's "always good to have the source of the pathogen," asking if they can bring that beacon aboard. Adama balks, protesting that they need to limit exposure, so Cottle asks for the sickies instead: the disease will be more advanced in their systems, and helpful in illustrating symptoms and life expectancy of the victims. Medicine is a cruel mistress. Adama asks how many prisoners he wants. "How many you got?"