Episode Report Card Strega: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Home, Part II
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on August 25, 2005
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Team Prez goes questing for the Tomb of Athena. Adama starts questing for Team Prez, with Tyrol and Billy for company. Meier tells Boomer that her other incarnation was killed and tries to recruit her into the assassination plot. Adama meets up with Team Prez and there's some hugging. And also some choking, when Adama sees Boomer. Adama's heart isn't quite up to the task, though, so Boomer survives and gets to have an awkward reunion with Tyrol. Well, it's awkward for Tyrol and Helo; she seems fine with it. Now that everyone's reunited, Zarek nixes the assassination plan, but Meier strikes out on his own. Boomer agrees to kill Adama, while Meier will kill Apollo. When they find the Tomb of Athena, Boomer turns on Adama...and then keeps on turning, and shoots Meier. With that sorted out, they enter the tomb, and find a statue of Sagittaron that's missing its arrow. Starbuck puts the Arrow of Apollo on the bow, which plops them all into...a hologram? Let's just assume it was a hologram. They're in a field where they can see the twelve symbols of the colonies mirrored in the constellations above them. Starbuck works out that Earth is a place where all twelve constellations are visible. Apollo, slightly more practically, recognizes the Lagoon Nebula, and figures that they can use it as a fingerpost. Then they can't figure out how to exit the hologram (or whatever) and starve to death in there. Okay, no; instead they get out somehow, and Adama makes a speech reinstating the Prez, and then leads everyone in a prolonged slow clap, so my version's better. Back on the Galactica, Baltar is fed up with Six, so he gets a checkup from Cottle to find out if there really is a chip in his brain. There's not. However, he overhears Boomer and Helo talking and confirms Six's statements about there being a baby on the way. Six explains everything: she's an angel, sent to protect Baltar while the human race is exterminated. How nice for him! Want more? The full recap starts right below!
startled the bird. Just so we're clear.Back at camp, Apollo makes a "hush" gesture at the Prez, and then loudly whispers, "Psssst! Starbuck!" I think that wasn't supposed to make me laugh, but it did. Starbuck gets up and grabs her gun as Apollo gestures toward the noises in the brush. As Helo gets up, Starbuck calls, "High-low," to Apollo. She and Helo take cover behind trees as Apollo prepares to spring out of the Prez's tent. Meier and the other, mute member of Zarek's posse spy down on the scene from a small ridge. Apollo whirls out of the tent and finds himself pointing a gun at his father.
Everyone boggles for a second. Starbuck lowers her gun first, and then Helo does the same. Apollo and Adama continue pointing their guns at each other. I think Apollo's just too surprised even to remember that he's holding a gun, honestly, but Adama finally says, "Put down your weapon, Captain." Why I love Adama this week: he ain't lowering his gun first. Once Apollo lowers his weapon, Adama does the same. And gives Apollo a good glare for a minute, while Apollo looks sort of abashed and self-conscious. Which I find sort of appealing, oddly. Then Adama's face starts to crumple up, and then he reaches an arm out and pulls Apollo into a hug, aw. The Prez watches coolly, because she probably figures she's not getting a hug. Adama looks over at her with a relieved smile while continuing to cradle Apollo against his shoulder, and says, "It's good to see you." The Prez starts to smile, and then Billy says, "Madame President?" The Prez turns to him and gasps, "You have no idea what it means to me to have you here. I'm all out of chamalla -- can you be a dear and go fetch my handbag from Caprica One?" Or something like that. Starbuck sidles into view, looking like a whipped dog. Adama, having finally released Apollo, walks over to her, and you know, I want to say he's beaming at her, but the corners of his mouth are really turned up just a few millimeters more than usual. For him, it's beaming. He pushes a clump of hair out of her face tenderly while she keeps on looking mopey.
Now that the cockles of our hearts have been warmed, it's time for some violence, yay! Boomer steps into view. I meant to mention earlier how nice it is that they left her in her orange prison jumpsuit. Because that doesn't stand out in all the greenery or anything. Tyrol is the first to spot her, and he raises his rifle and calls to Adama. Adama turns and stares. I wonder if he's staring because, like me, he just noticed what wide shoulders Boomer has. Probably not. Helo takes in the situation and reassuringly calls, "She's with us, Commander." It's sort of endearing that he thinks that'll solve everything, isn't it? Or is it just dumb? Adama looks her up and down, and if he was beaming before, this is the opposite. He walks toward Boomer, continuing to eye her like he's trying to spot something marking her as different. You've gotta give Boomer props for holding up under the scrutiny of a anti-beaming Adama. Then Adama starts to look sad, and there are some more flashbacks that we really didn't need, and I know they want to make it accessible and all, but it's still annoying. We see Boomer shoot Adama, and we see Adama ask her corpse, "Why?" And then Adama shoots an arm out, grabs Boomer by the neck, and hurls her to the ground with such force that both of her feet leave the ground. She's petite and everything, but that's still kind of impressive. Everyone rushes in to try to pull Adama away. Everyone except Apollo, who pulls out a rifle and warns Zarek back. Apollo leans down into Boomer's face as she squeezes her neck and calmly says, "I want you to die."