Episode Report Card Strega: A+ | 7 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Sex, Drugs, And New Age Music
By Strega | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2005.03.25
The other two Raptors are descending toward Kobol. And also toward another large group of Raiders. One of the handsome guys shouts, "They're everywhere!" Tyrol suggests that this would be a good time to leave. The Raptors swerve up and sideways to avoid the Raiders zipping by, and now they're reminding me of Parsec. Just as I think, "Gee, the Raiders aren't shooting at them, that's strange," a mess of Raiders opens fire. So never mind. One of the Raptors is hit, and spews out a cloud of black goo like's it's a frightened octopus. It plummets toward Kobol as the other Raptor zips away, out of the line of fire.
Crashdown shouts that there's a fire in the turbine. The handsome guy says that he's shutting it down, and then the back of his seat bursts into flames. The rest of the crew jumps and yells as we go to a reverse shot that shows the windscreen is cracked in front of the handsome guy. And he's now a handsome corpse. Baltar, in the co-pilot's seat, freaks out. He shrieks, "Pilot down!" and grabs the controls with fabulously wide, frightened eyes. Crashdown makes his way to the front and shoves Baltar back so that he can take over. Cally's hair blows around as she puts one of those groovy suction cups over a hole in the ship's floor. Deck. Whatever. Tyrol tells everyone to hang on, and leans forward to ask Crashdown if they can jump. Crashdown says that the FTL drive was hit. Tyrol turns toward the back and tells Socinus to order the other Raptor to jump back to Galactica. Then everyone yells some more, most particularly Baltar. The remaining handsome guy shoves Baltar down and out of the way as Socinus radios to the other Raptor. The undamaged Raptor, closely pursued by two Raptors, winks away. Tyrol's ship plunges toward Kobol, trailing smoke or fuel or whatever.
CIC. Gaeta is showing off his collection of iSpy hardware. He gets through some techspeak painlessly and explains, "They're Cylon transponders programmed to identify themselves as any other Cylon transponder." Tigh and Adama compliment Gaeta on figuring that out. Adama says he wants to test one of the transponders in their captured Raider. Dualla interrupts the conversation to announce that a Raptor is returning. Tigh says, "Back early." Adama considers that briefly and replies, "Something's wrong." And while that seems clever of him, he could probably say that at any random moment on the Galactica and most of the time it'd be true.