Episode Report Card Strega: A+ | 7 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Sex, Drugs, And New Age Music
By Strega | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2005.03.25
Boomer's in her quarters, sucking on her gun barrel again. Until Baltar suddenly greets her from the open doorway. Boomer guiltily pulls the gun out of her mouth and for a second moves to hide it before deciding to act like she was just cleaning it. Baltar stares at her in a not-unkind way and asks if this is a bad time. Boomer's all, "Nope! Just cleaning my gun! With my tongue! Which is a perfectly normal gun-cleaning technique!" She extra-casually asks what's going on, and he slowly enters and sits on the edge of the bunk. Baltar explains that he was looking for Starbuck, "but, uh...sometimes it's good to talk these things over." In bored tones, Six tells Baltar that Boomer knows she's a Cylon, but can't accept it. Boomer quietly says that she has "dark thoughts" sometimes. Baltar nods nervously and asks, "What kind of dark thoughts?" Six says, "Her model is weak...always has been. But in the end, she'll carry out her mission." Boomer says that she's afraid she'll hurt someone if she isn't stopped. Six moves over to kneel by Boomer as she says, "She can't be stopped, she's a Cylon." Six says that Baltar can't help her, but that he could sleep with her. She bitterly asks, "That's what you want, right?" Baltar rubs his eyes and stammers a bit before finally telling Boomer, "We must embrace that which opens up for us." There is a cool shot here as Six turns her head behind Boomer, so that they're each in profile, facing opposite ways. The lines of their mouths and chins line up almost perfectly so that it's like each profile is half of a complete face. I'm very curious about whether that shot was described in the script, or if the director came up with it. Boomer repeats, "'Embrace'?" Remember that Baltar's been told that something bad's going to happen on the Galactica. And it'd be reasonable of him to think that Boomer is going to do whatever it is. So he tells Boomer, "Life can be a curse, as well as a blessing." Six ends her contemplation of Boomer to stare over at Baltar as he continues, "There are far worse things than death in this world." Boomer sadly says, "So you're saying --" Baltar interrupts, "What I say is meaningless. Listen to your heart. Embrace that which you know to be the right decision." He and Boomer look at each other, and Six looks at Baltar with just a touch of horror. Baltar kisses Boomer on the forehead and exits as she stares after him.