Episode Report Card Jacob: B- | 1 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Can't Stop The Signal
By Jacob | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on January 19, 2006
Laura turns from looking over at Boomer, who's still totally out of it, and rolls her head back toward Gaius, who's holding her head and touching her hair. Her eyes turn up and the music goes sour as she sees him, and her eyes get cloudy with fear and confusion. She knows, and I'm not sure that she knows she knows, if you know what I mean, but she's freaked nonetheless. Imagine instead of Auntie Em and the farm hands, you woke up and saw Michael Myers. "Dr. Baltar?" she mumbles, and he tells her how good it is to see her. I imagine he's relieved: beyond the difficulty of the actual job, being President might actually force him to pick a side. She raises a hand and points toward him, sick and scared, and he pats her hand stupidly. Or cannily. "No, no, don't -- don't move." Baltar looks over at the very freaked Billy to help her, and tells her again not to move. If this were Adama, you'd know that he knew everything that was going on in her head, that's the kind of guy he is, maybe that's the point of him, his intuition, but Gaius…not so much. It's not clear, to me, that he's even on page one this time. He's still in "beacon of hope" mode, not "I'll call my lawyer" mode. Neither of which is that great, which is why the only people that will date him are imaginary robots.
Forty-eight hours later, Adama's asking Doc Cottle about her state in a very restrained, scared way. He won't even look up until Cottle starts talking. "I've never seen anything like it. It'll be a while before she's a hundred percent, but...her scans are clear. Cancer's gone." Adama asks if he's sure, and Cottle gets a little sassy with him: "It's gone." Roslin calls to him, and he attempts small talk about how she seems better. "Much. Are you still holding the spokesman from the new faction in the brig?" Even Roslin, back from the brink of death, is like, "Are there any plot threads hanging at this point, or can we just get straight to the terrorist cell in the Fleet storyline?" She asks to be taken to Jahee, and Adama proudly complies. That's my girl.