Episode Report Card Jacob: A+ | 6 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Without Crutches
By Jacob | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on October 19, 2006
Kara races back inside her apartment, looking everywhere for Kacey. Things get very slo-mo and very creepy, as Leoben creeps, creeps, creeps down the stairs with the child. "I knew you'd be back. I saw it." Commercials and willies attack, and then more slo-mo creep, creep, creeping. He won't give up the kid until Kara "says the words." What words? "You know what I want. I want to hear you say them. And I want the rest of it. Just like I told you." She wrinkles her nose. "Fine. I love you." He leans in: "Say it again." She says it more solidly this time. It's a little more true-sounding: "I love you." And he kisses her. (And she kisses back. And if you don't know what that is like, that particular horrific surprise party you can throw yourself in those moments, that trapdoor into realizing you're basically pretty disgusting to even yourself, you're a lucky son of a gun indeed. Doesn't last long but it's got a hell of a kick.) She kisses him back, and asks with a hiss: "Was it everything you thought it would be?" That and more. "I'll never forget this moment," he says. She kisses him again, one last time: "Neither will I." And then she stabs him, and he drops, gurgling. Anders enters with a gun; Kara grabs Kacey, and they leave with him: "I'll explain later." Which, given that not even Starbuck realizes what just happened there, entirely, seems like a tall order -- not to say an empty promise. Poor Anders, thinking he bagged the "fun" kind of crazy. Poor Kara, thinking she's free.
Gaius, Caprica, and Three run around grab-assing and looking for each other and the baby, who you can hear crying. Three, ripping up I think Selloi's tent at one point, grumpy-grunts, "Fracking liar," which is hilarious. Finally, Gaius finds Maya on the ground, dead, with Hera in her arms. Chip Six kneels, having suddenly appeared for a moment: "It's her, Gaius. The first of God's new generation." Caprica arrives, so of course Six disappears, and Caprica's a good deal more secular -- besides leaving out the Crazy Six Baby Math -- only wondering at the miracle that Hera has been spared once again by God. Three approaches and asks to hold the baby; like a person not in charge of himself, or gripped by the power of this moment, hands her off to the Pharaoh's Daughter. She walks away with the child in her arms, and Gaius pulls out a gun, pointing at the back of her head. Caprica touches his arm. "No. She's not going to set off the nuke, not anymore. Come on, Gaius. We have to go." Man, that is one fucked-up family. Picture Gaius Baltar, Caprica, Three, and Chip Six, raising a baby, on a Cylon basestar. Where people apparently run around naked all the time. This is going to be the best season ever.