Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Naked Lunch
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 19 | Aired on 03.13.2009
WILLIAM ADAMA
Bill Adama is retiring his Battlestar. They're taking her away from him. Steady as it comes, cutting back and forth between Bill, in civilian dress, trying in his way to stave off the inevitable, listing his accomplishments and all the reasons this obsolescence should never have been planned. In the singularity there's no such thing as obsolescence but this is before the Fall. "It's one hour of your life. Look, sometimes there are things you just gotta do, all right?" Frank Porthos is saying.
And Slick is saying: "Listen, you may feel like hell. But sometimes, lost is where you need to be. Just because you don't know your direction doesn't mean you don't have one."
And Gaius is saying: "Music. Did you say music? You know, it's funny, it's a lot like that. It's like the distant chaos of an orchestra tuning up. And then somebody waves a magic wand, and all of those notes start to slide into place. A grotesque, screeching cacophony becomes a single melody."
GAIUS BALTAR
Across the city he's wearing all white, and the Six is wearing black. They joke, champagne wit, infatuation laughs, on their way across the city. Gaius likes having things done for him. She thinks it's laziness -- "I prefer not to rely on others as much as possible. Less chance of being let down that way" -- but that's not it. He's trying to impress her. He didn't always have money. Now, look at his limo driver: Gaius drinks, the driver drives, all the time Cuffle's Breath Wash getting smaller and smaller in the rear view mirror and no looking back.
("Looking back, I think I was rewarded. Pythia talks about a flood, wiped out most of humanity. Nobody blames the flood, the flood is a force of nature. Through the flood mankind is rejuvenated, born again. I was another flood, you see.")
She laughs at him, privately, the thousand brittle lies he tells to keep it locked down. In the end, we're all just human. Her hand works up his thigh; he doesn't take his eyes off her face. She calls him Doctor, he asks her to call him Gaius. He asks her name; she kisses him instead. She doesn't have one. The telephone rings, and he answers drowsily, lying back against the seat. He shoves her off and begs someone somewhere not to leave. She's piqued, but watching. Their date is put on hold, and the driver drives them home, already a little less glamorous than they were a moment before.
Zarek: "Gaius, you're a genius."
Gaius: "And?"
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