Episode Report Card Strega: C | 88 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT KodaChrome
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2005.09.09
Tigh's quarters. Tigh groans on the floor, and looks around at Ellen. Then he looks up at Hammerhead, who's standing above him with a gun. I hope he learned something from the locker-room incident, and at least shut the door. Hammerhead, looking weirdly Xander-like, as if I wasn't confused enough, asks if Tigh needs a drink. He upends a bottle and pours the contents onto Tigh, Tigh recoils like it's acid, although maybe he's just horrified by the way good booze is going to waste. Hammerhead drops the bottle onto Tigh's belly, and Tigh grunts, "You can go to hell." Hammerhead psychos, "I've been there. It's called Gideon." He monologues, "Those weren't Cylons we tagged; those were real people who looked like my dad, who looked like my little brother." Tigh slowly gets to his feet and says that this won't change anything. Hammerhead raises his gun and says that there'll be justice. Ellen squeals in muffled protest from the floor. Tigh tells Hammerhead to go ahead: "Somebody has to pay for what happened on that ship. I was in command, I sent you there. It's my fault." Hammerhead goes bug-eyed at that, and Tigh leans in so that the gun is pressed tightly against his forehead. Tigh urges, "Come on, son. Do it." Hammerhead scrunches up his face, and after a moment, Tigh reaches up and pulls the gun away. And then, in all the excitement, he twitches his finger and accidentally blows Ellen's head off. Nah, just kidding. Instead, Tigh explains that what happened on the Gideon was an accident. He holds the gun up and says, "This is a choice."
A pair of Marines bursts in, Biers holding her camera up from behind them. He didn't shut the door. What a maroon. Tigh immediately wheels around and declares, "We're all right here." The marines lead a dazed Hammerhead away, and Biers lingers to get some shots of Ellen for a fetish magazine. Tigh finally gets around to un-taping Ellen, and Biers and Bell film Tigh holding his sobbing wife until Tigh looks in the camera and sighs, "Would you get out of my face?" Heh.
Sickbay. Bell works the camera as Biers asks Kat, "What made you do it?" Kat whimpers that she was tired and losing her edge. She sighs, "I didn't know what else to do." Biers asks if Kat could have talked to someone. Kat, exasperated, says that everyone's in the same situation. "There are no replacements coming up. There's no downtime. This is it."