Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: C | 14 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT When Will The Work Be Done?
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 03.20.2009
"I'm sending you a vision. Disobey it at your peril. One day years from now, you are going to go downstairs, open the mailbox, and take out an Entertainment Weekly. On the cover will be Paul Rudd. You will think, based on a caplet review, that you should probably just give in and watch one episode of The Closer, because you love Saving Grace so much, and Trust Me is growing on you. But by the time you get back upstairs to the TiVo, you will be thinking about lunch, and will die without ever seeing that show. However, a few weeks before that happens, you will look out your window and see a pretty blonde woman reaching into that mailbox, and you will go nuts and shoot her just for standing near your mailbox. This is the Shape of Mail To Come.")
THE OPERA HOUSE
Awesome, though: the truth of the Opera House is that it is Galactica. Specifically CIC, where Gaius and Caprica find themselves. There are bodies of the dead and dying everywhere, on every conceivable surface: bridge officers and Watchkeepers, Simons and Dorals. A Simon stands with blood shooting out of his jugular; Bill shoves him over with his foot, hilariously. There's a Doral on the floor, beautiful and tiny and dead. All the songs start playing at once. ("Music, did you say music?") Sam is sitting up now, and the Five look down at them, as bright as stars. Gaius and Caprica stare up at them, in terror and wonder: in awe. They step forward into their presence.
Caprica smiles as Bill calls out, "They've got the little girl!" Everybody stares at everybody else just long enough for another blast; Gaius puts Hera down for a second and Cavil pops up out of nowhere, taking down a Marine or two before holding his gun to her head. Bill and Caprica take aim. "This makes it a lot easier," Cavil snivels. "I just take the little girl, and I'm out of here." Bill and Caprica promise him that's not happening, and he's like, "Um, or it will, and I will get to watch you chase your tails across the universe for another four years." Saul calls down, agreeing with Bill and Caprica on how that's not what's going to happen. "This thing is the key to my people's survival, and I'm not leaving without it," he shots, and Gaius goes, "Hera's not a thing. She's a child. And she holds the key to humanity's survival as well." Which he knows how?
Gaius and Caprica look at the angels, across the bridge, and Gaius goes for it. "I see angels," he says, as they smile. Shit gets super stupid. "Angels, in this very room. Now I may be mad, but that doesn't mean that I'm not right. Because there's another force at work here. There always has been, it's undeniable. We've all experienced it. Everyone in this room has witnessed events that they can't fathom, let alone explain away by rational means. Puzzles, deciphered in prophecy. Dreams, given to a chosen few. Our loved ones dead, risen. Whether we want to call that 'God,' or 'Gods,' or some sublime inspiration, or a divine force that we can't know or understand, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter, it's here. It exists. And our two destinies are entwined in its force." Another rock of the boat, as Galactica herself protests this in-your-face attempt to bludgeon any questions we might have.
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