Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 5 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT When The Know-Nothings Get Control
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.09.2006
Three turns down the machine again. "You see, Gaius, this is what the absence of pain feels like," she says, playing a role. "It's easy to forget." He repeats that it's not his doing, that it was a coincidence, and Three gets mad: "There's no such thing as coincidence. God wills the universe according to His design." (Wills. God wills existence. Just like a Cylon.) Six begins to undress, still straddling Gaius, still the one that knows him best: "Now. Focus on her. As a Cylon, not a woman. Be a scientist. Examine her faith. What's your analysis, doctor?" And as she starts to move, he starts to speak. "I'm a scientist. And as a scientist, I believe that if God exists, our knowledge of him is imperfect. Why?" He's speaking up at Three now, through bleary eyes. "Because the stories and myths we have are the products of men, the passage of time. Religion in practice is based on a theory, impossible to prove. Yet you bestow it with absolutes, like there is no such thing as coincidence." Three answers, correctly, that this is definition of faith. "Absolute belief in God's will means there's a reason for everything. Everything! And yet you can't help ask[ing] yourself how God can allow death and destruction and then despise yourself for asking. But the truth is, if we knew God's will, we'd all be Gods, wouldn't we?" She darts her eyes at him. Interesting. She's always assumed a privileged relationship with God, invoking it without even thinking as she commits her crimes and administrations. "I can see it in your eyes, D'Anna. You're frustrated. You're conflicted. Let me help you. Let me help you change. Find a way to reconcile your faith with fact. Find a way towards a rational universe." Let me ruin your ideology and religion by accomplishing the impossible? No thank you. But she's a robot: it's the perfect, ultimate, most beautiful solution. And it would shut Cavil up, too.
"I don't know what your game is," Three says, "But it's not going to work. She shows him an electric prod. "You intentionally led one of our ships to that beacon, didn't you?" She shoves the prod into his ear, face on fire, he screams and heads back into the projection, where the torture table becomes a chair by the sea, becomes a bed where Six is making love to him. "Give your body to me. Only your mind is there. Feel me. Feel this, where she wants you to feel pain." (Creeepy. S&M gives me the creeeeeps. Michael Angeli co-wrote Chyna's autobiography, wrote the episode where Six/Shelly Godfrey beat the shit out of Gaius while pretending not to recognize him, wrote an upcoming episode entitled "The Woman King," and once offered a naked Demi Moore $500 bucks to kiss him, in the middle of an interview. You tell me. Details unavailable at presstime, but he might well be the guy who invented Wonder Woman.) "Look at me. Look at me, Gaius. Do you want me to believe you're worth saving? Do you? Do you? Say it." Things are heating up in a sex way, as Gaius fades back and forth between the two beds on which two women are having their way with him, and as usual, he's completely powerless and thus blameless: "I want you to believe in me. Don't stop! Don't stop! Please, please don't stop. You have to believe in me. You're all I have left." Gaius and Six fuck, moaning and gasping; Three is stricken by his words: "Believe in me; you're all I have left."