Episode Report Card Strega: A+ | 207 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Stress Test
By Strega | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2005.01.14
Flight deck. Crewmen make repairs to a Viper as Tyrol snarks, "Tell Captain Apollo he owes me one wing." Cally shows Tyrol some kind of readout that he disagrees with. As they cross the deck, Tyrol tells some crewmen, "We'll sleep when we're dead. C'mon." Tyrol's gonna be Tigh when he grows up.
Boomer and Crashdown are prepping their Raptor. Crashdown asks if Boomer's heard that the Cylons look like humans now. Tyrol strolls into the ship as Crashdown gossips that Leisure Suit Larry was left at the Ragnar depot because Adama thought that he was a Cylon. Boomer suddenly snaps, "I don't give a frack!" She tells a boggled Crashdown to go check something outside the ship. He exits, and Tyrol leans forward to ask, "Little rough on the new ECO, don't you think?" Boomer grumps that Crashdown is a "refugee from Triton" that she didn't ask for, not her ECO. Tyrol ahems, "Helo's gone, Sharon." Boomer growls, "I didn't ask you that, either!" Tyrol nods a little and exits as Boomer calls, "Sorry..."
Dualla comes to the head of a line and hands some paperwork to Socinus. He asks what colony she's from, and Dualla says, "Sagitarron," and starts to ask a question. Socinus interrupts to say that there are 5,271 Sagitarrons in the fleet. Dualla starts to offer him a photograph of a group of people, but Socinus says that they can't transmit photos yet. He says, "If you want, you can leave it here with us, or you can put it on the board outside." He offers a quiet "Sorry," and Dualla nods and exits as another crewman steps up to the desk carrying a binder.
Dualla walks down a corridor and slows as she reaches a wall papered over with photos of people. There are also stuffed animals, and handmade cards, and candles burning on top of crates. She walks on past more walls covered with letters and photos, and we see that this entire section of hallway is wallpapered with more photos. I think it's wise that they don't just dwell on the images forever, and show Dualla bursting into tears, and rely on the obvious associations to tug on the audience. Instead, we see Dualla from a distance as she just stares around.
Billy sits with the Prez and gives her an updated head count of survivors on a strip of octagonal paper. Her desk is covered with piles of folders and envelopes. The Prez stares at the paper for a minute and then covers her mouth as she asks, "How did we lose 300?" Billy blearily reports that there were overcounts, and a few people died from their injuries. He adds that a few went missing during the last attack. That's...odd. It doesn't seem as if he means pilots were lost in battle -- maybe he does, but it sounds more like civilians went missing. Where can they go? Did they step outside for a cigarette? The Prez gets up and staggers slightly as she goes to the Whiteboard of Extinction and changes the number from 50,298 to 49,998.