Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Are All A Lost Generation
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.10.2007
Apollo shows Lampkin to his quarters: two Marines outside the door, Ms. Cassidy (prosecuting attorney) down the hall. Head, co-ed showers, the whole bit. Lampkin asks to see his client, and when Lee balks, he points at him: "Pilot." Yeah. "King of the Pilots? We could stand around here and discuss why you got stuck with me, if you want." It's the unspoken again: Romo's natural language, his first tongue, is what's unsaid. Lee offers to take Lampkin to his client immediately, in his cell. Lampkin shies away from the cell, and then from an interrogation room -- "Interrogation rooms give me stage fright" -- before volunteering Lee's quarters. (Remember? The ones he shares with his wife? Who doesn't exist this week?) "Before it gets wired for sound like this place probably is. What's the problem? Forgot to make your bed?" Lee gives in on the location, but refuses to leave them alone. Lampkin moves on this one as well: "It is Major, isn't it? I have the right to consult with my client in private, without anybody eavesdropping or looking in. Whoever cares the most, wins. Says so in there." He holds up a copy of Law & Mind: The Psychology Of Legal Practice, by one estranged-grandfather Joseph Adama. Yeah. "I wanna see my client, you don't care, I win." He puts the book back in his bag, waits just the right amount of picosecond, and muses. "You know, you look like him." Like the grandfather, the lawgiver, the defender: "You knew my grandfather?" Like the one person Bill doesn't give too much credit. "Hated his guts." Like Bill. "He taught me everything I know." Also like Bill.
So we've got parallels, and parallels, all of which are awesome, even if they're built of the usual pointless father/son crap. Lee looks like his grandfather, whom his dad hates for being a lawyer, just like Romo, who was mentored and alienated by Joseph, just like Bill, who was never present for Lee, just like Joseph, for Bill. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the Earth abideth for ever. There's a division right now in the Fleet and in their military, and in the hearts of our crew, between what's just and what's right: between service and government. There's a division right now within Lee, who's disallowed from taking part in the trial because he's the CAG and disallowed from being the CAG because his sister died, and who now is the head of a Marine security detail: between service and governance lies justice. But Romo Lampkin has already pointed out that becoming Joseph is the best revenge, since Lee and Joseph always did get along: Lee knows Roslin's side of things better than anybody, he's always been the one standing between the two halves of this show. The strings are all there, in place, and Lee's hanging in space now that she's gone, waiting for somebody to start pulling them again. For somebody to tell him who to be now.
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