Episode Report Card Jacob: A+ | 6 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Six Of One...
By Jacob | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 2006.02.24
In the NICU, Sharon reaches into the incubator, tears in her eyes, smiling. "Hello, Hera." She gasps as the baby wraps her hand around a finger. "She's got quite a grip on her." She smiles at Helo, and they are at peace. "You don't like it in there, do you Hera?" He giggles at the baby. "You've got to stay in, until your lungs get stronger." Sharon's astounded, not just a new mother but the first one ever: "She's our little girl. We made her." The wonder in that. Parents do get ridiculous like this, every day, but it doesn't make it less awesome or less real. "It almost makes you want to believe in the Cylon God," says Helo, caught up in the moment. Sharon looks at him like, "So we can raise her Catholic?" And he smiles: "Almost." Sharon laughs, tired, in love, and buries her head in Helo's neck: "I love you so completely." He closes his eyes, and it is beautiful.
In the garage beneath the coffee shop complex where Sharon lives on Caprica, Anders and his compatriots burn their way out of the sewer and recon the area, and then proceed to set the bomb.
In a coffee shop named almost anything but the obvious, Doral makes a cup of coffee for Doral. They even smirk at each other! There's a fake Simon sitting in there as we pan across, multiples everywhere, to where Six and Sharon are having coffee and bonding rather quickly. "Why do you think they kept [Gaius's questionable survival] from you?" Gaius speaks up: "...Is the wrong question." Six agrees. "The right question is, why did she get me to work with you, knowing that you'd tell me the truth? She knew I had feelings for Gaius. Knew that I had trouble letting go of him." Is she lying yet? "She must've known it would trigger those feelings, those memories. She's fracking with you. Can't you see that?" "Can't you see that?" is a line we don't like, here at TWoP, because: Duh. It's the "Makes sense, doesn't it?" of personal discovery. Plus: obviously, she does. "But why?" asks Six, so apparently she doesn't. Even though she just figured it out. This is a dumbly written scene. "Oh, it's so perfectly obvious," says Gaius, not helping. "You know, for a self-aware cybernetic life form, sometimes you can be unbearably obtuse." This is an okay line because it lets Six do the Gaius thing of snapping, "Oh, for God's sake!" at somebody who's not there. "Careful," he snaps, and disappears...