Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All Aboard The Battlestar Handbasket!
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.30.2009
"I came here because I don't want you to worry about me," Laura says. "And I know what you have to do." She kisses his head, and Chief's guys warn them that Marines are on their way. Bill sends Chief away with the Twins, and orders Tigh to go with, but he refuses. Kara asks what he's doing, and they say they're going to make sure the President's Raptor gets out safely. Which is fine, except by the time the bad guys actually show up, the Raptor will be gone, so it would make more sense for Bill to just tell the truth, which is that the captain goes down with the ship, but whatever. Athena spools up, Chief and the Twins take off, Gaius tenderly helps the President onto the Raptor and, holding on his arm, she turns to look at Bill one last time. They're cutting through the doors; Saul is beautiful, standing strong with his gun, watching the sparks. Bill joins him on the floor, facing the door, as the Raptor heads for the Basestar. Everybody is okay.
1041. Gage notes 619er taking off from a weird place, and refusing to respond to hails. Hotdog and Narcho are among the pilots on CAP; it's a slight comfort that Gaeta knows better than to ask Hotdog to multitask and go kill whoever's on the Raptor, whether because he's a loyalist who is going to come home to a severely changed world or just because he's stupid I don't know. And I guess Gaeta doesn't technically know who is on that Raptor, but the list of possibilities isn't that long: it's somebody important, who slipped through the smokescreen and has enough backup to get not only a Raptor away but to land it in a long-forgotten part of the ship, and take off directly for the Baseship. There's like five people it could be. So instead of saying "he doesn't know it's the President," I'm sticking with, "He hopes it's the President and Admiral, the Final Five, Athena and Caprica, Starbuck and Lee Adama, so he can blow them all up without really feeling like he's killed anybody, and then all his problems will go away." At least that's the face he's making as he gages Narcho to blow it out of the sky.
Bill hands Saul another gun, while he packs his pistol, and Tigh notes he could have left with her; Bill shakes his head, and the mutineers crowbar the door open just enough for a gun muzzle. Bill opens fire on the tiny little hole, and of course he's a crack shot. He sits down on the stairs of the airlock, and Tigh takes aim. "It's been an honor to have served with you, my friend," he says. The mutineers prime a flash grenade, and toss it through the hole and into the room where Butch and Sundance are standing around, trying to kill everybody through a pinhole. It explodes in a flash of bright white fuego. Four hours and twenty-one minutes into the day, the Admiral is murdered and the coup is complete.
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