Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Girl With Her Hand In A Lion's Mouth
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.02.2006
Starbuck heads for her bunk in the Pilots' barracks and is attacked by a small adorable blonde missile shouting her name. "Kara, Kara!" She stares down at Kacey as the girl's mother approaches. "Captain Thrace? I'm sorry, don't you remember me? I'm Julia [Prynne? That would be funny. Sounds more like Brenham, though.] I'm Kacey's mom." Starbuck remembers. Kacey demands a hug from Starbuck, who looks like she's about to pass out, as Julia explains that they've been living in "Camp Oilslick," the refugee camp on the hangar deck. "Kacey's been asking to see you for days. I sent messages. I thought you know, maybe you'd come for a visit... " Starbuck keeps her voice level, for Kacey's sake, but she doesn't drop Julia's eyes. "You seem like a really nice person, so I'm gonna be honest with you. The last thing I need is a two-year-old friend. And Kacey sure as hell does not need me in her life, so do us both a favor and do not bring her around here again, okay?" She picks the girl up, her one-time daughter, one-time savior, and puts her tenderly but firmly in Julia's arms. "Go to your mom, Kase." Julia stares for a second, taken aback and hurt, and her mouth forms a thin line. "Sure. Sorry, don't let us keep you up." She hurries out of the barracks, comforting Kacey -- who, as usual, is taking some shit in stride -- and murmuring to herself: "Sorry, honey, we gotta go." Awkward. Starbuck throws herself onto her bunk and stares, up, at nothing.
In the training room, Lee checks his weight on the scales, and as they balance, we pull out and see that Lee has become possibly even more buff than before. Maybe Roslin gave him some kind of stem cell-derived weight loss drugs or something. Helo stands with him, doing his usual wonderful Helo magic spells: "That's it. See? See, I told you you could do it. You did great!" Lee shakes his head, grinning: "Remind me never to let that happen again." Helo smirks -- "You got it, Slim" -- but he's serious. "Ever."
Roslin, Adama, and Gaeta meet in the Galactica war room. Gaeta tells them he's been putting together Gaius's work on the path of the Thirteenth Tribe's journey to Earth. He catches himself saying "President Baltar," but quickly and ham-fistedly corrects himself. Roslin's exposition infection kicks in, in a major way. "I'm curious, Mr. Gaeta. What is it that you trust about Dr. Baltar's research? How do you know it's not another one of his lies?" Gaeta calls their attention to Gaius's "extraordinary capacity for self-preservation" and assures them that he would have worked hard on getting to Earth if that was where he wanted to be. Baltar's self-obsession being as much of a given as gravity and photosynthesis, they are immediately convinced. Gaeta explains that Gaius was apparently correlating the Fleet's own "astrometric readings," the map of constellations from Kobol, and the Scrolls of Pythia. Adama is thrown by that last, but you know Roslin's down: "Pythia is supposed to have chronicled the original journey of the Thirteenth Tribe on its way to Earth." (Pause: She what? She was an Oracle. She didn't have to go with them or come back to Kobol in order to do a bunch of drugs and imagine their journey, and/or get received wisdom from the heavens. She could chronicle all kinds of shit just sitting on her oracular couch eating caramels.)