Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Six of One
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 04.11.2008
(The Leader of the Chorus ends Antigone thus: "Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise." End of line, for now.)
The Centurions step forward menacingly; outside the conference room, there's loud gunfire and screams. Ones and Fours and Fives, brought down in fire. "First thing they learned is what you were doing to the Raiders. You can imagine how they felt." Doral cutely begins to sweat it, and then it starts. The Centurions gun them down, the Ones, the Fours and the Fives, and Natalie averts her gaze, standing in the smoke and cordite. When it's done, she stands in the wreckage and the Centurions look to her. She wipes the horror from her face, and breathes.
Another jump. Alone in her cell, unaware Adama's watching, Starbuck cries and screams until she chokes. She feels the body of the universe in her own, like a Hybrid, twisting itself and bending in the jump, taking her people away from the Promised Land and into disaster, and she screams. He leaves her without a word.
Some time later, Helo and a Marine squad enter the cell. Kara makes a hateful face and stands, meeting Helo's eyes. Noncommittal, in a rough voice, he orders her cuffed, and they take her away, to an isolated region. Is this her end of line? Has Adama weighed the consequences, and her unbending promises? I almost believed it. He's so afraid to be alone.
So," she says, voice creaky from screaming, "You quietly cut me loose in deep space. I'm not afraid to die." Adama stands opposite her, with Helo by her side, and nods. "Little easier after you've been through it once," he muses, but she shakes her head. "Harder. Especially now that I'm seeing things so clearly. You're making a mistake." He allows that she might be right, but explains that he can't take the chance that she's right. Can't let that chance at Earth slip by. He nods to a Marine, who unlocks her cuffs, and the squad leaves her alone with Helo and the Admiral. Her oldest friend, and most beloved leader. She stares at him like Cordelia, like Antigone at Colonus, looking at her father, hands free.
"Helo hand-picked a crew for you. I'm giving you a ship. I hope you can stand the smell." Helo explains that they're using the Demetrius, a sewage recycling ship. "The party line will be that we're going for a scouting mission. Looking for food." She looks at them, one to the other, and comes to life again. She almost smiles. "So you think I'm right."
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