Episode Report Card Jacob: A+ | 6 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Six Of One...
By Jacob | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 2006.02.24
A Raptor floats toward the Fleet perimeter. Helo and Tyrol open the bay door, wearing pilot suits, lights illuminated. Helo lifts the tiny box, and Chief watches his face as the ashes drift out into space.
Baltar enters his lab and wheels the hatch closed, staring around, gone mental. Six is waiting for him, sitting on a stool. He can't meet her eyes. She looks terribly sad, and lonely, and broken. "You let them murder our child," she says, simply. He begins to cry, and drops to his knees before her, taking her hands: "I am so sorry. I tried. I tried my best." I believe it, even though we didn't get to see it, really. Six: "God's will was that our child should survive." Baltar can't even handle life right now, tears in his eyes. He can't even look at Six. "His will was that she would lead the next generation of God's children," she adds. She stands, and lifts Baltar by the shoulders, shaking him: "His will was that you would protect her." He agrees; he knows it. Six throws him against the wall, snakes herself up against his back, and hisses the following into his lovely ear with her teeth bared, in a really kind of amazingly frightening way: "You have committed a monstrous and unforgivable sin and now you and your entire wretched race are going to suffer God's vengeance." Her grief shows through the rage, but that somehow makes it even more troubling. And she's gone, trailing into an angry whisper, and he stands alone, terrified, tears running down his cheeks. Man. Six or Gaius, either way it makes you glad Demeter didn't have access to nuclear armaments, you know?
On Colonial One, a pretty and quiet young woman named Maya is holding the real Hera: "She's so beautiful. I don't know how to thank you. When I lost my baby, I didn't know how I could go on." Cottle is warm and sweet as ever: "Well, I'm glad things worked out for you and this little girl." Maya can't believe anybody would give up "this little angel," and Cottle and Roslin look at each other meaningfully. Tory steps up: "You understand, Maya, that this adoption requires absolute secrecy. The mother is a Pegasus officer, and must remain anonymous. For political and religious reasons." Maya gives her word, and Roslin smiles creepily and faux-sweetly. "Maya, you won't mind if I drop in occasionally?" With a syringe? And a smile? And I'm not actually asking? Laura steps forward and touches the child's head for a moment, and then pulls back like fire. It's a well-done but very creepy moment. Cottle watches Laura fake being a human being for Maya's sake, and whisper: "Go." Once she's gone, Laura turns to Cottle. "Thank you. I know how awful this was for you. But trust me, it was imperative." Close-up on him not feeling great about things. Roslin: "As far as the Cylons know, this child no longer exists. That is a good, good thing." Echoes of the "must, must" at the end of her abortion speech. She's not even trying to convince Cottle -- he doesn't register. He looks away, and we wonder together: how far down does this lady need to go, before she hits? I may not approve of her lately, but I still love her, and I don't want her to actually have to eat the amount of shit she's going to get for this ongoing hubris orgy.