Episode Report Card Jacob: A | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT The Truth About Reconciliation
By Jacob | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on October 26, 2006
"I don't wanna do this. Do you think I like it? I stood beside Gaeta in the CIC for almost four years," Tigh says. "He was like family. But the fact remains he was chief of staff to Gaius Baltar. And that alone is enough to convict him." How so? Anders says they have zero hard evidence on Gaeta: "No witnesses -- nothing. All we do know is that he worked for Baltar. That's it." But Sam, didn't you just hear Tigh make up new laws about how that's enough to convict him? Just now this very second? Chief balks too: "We need something specific." Tigh goes, "You want specific?" And then takes a long time getting there, claiming that Baltar wasn't in charge of anything in particular, that Gaeta was totally the brains and ran the government. "Everyone knew that," Tigh says. "He ran the operation." Which is totally true, except for how you have to trade the name "Gaeta" for "the Cylons." Which "everybody" also knows, and which has the advantage of being true. "He did the paperwork. He approved the death lists," Tigh says. Chief asks how he can know that. "Did you see him approve one single death list?" Tigh produces a distribution list with Cally's name on it and also Gaeta's. I don't know where that came from, unless it's a cc: situation, because I remember quite clearly the day that Gaeta saw this particular list, and wigged out. I think there's something I don't get here, because the facts aren't lining up. Anders says whatever it says, it's still circumstantial. "We don't know what Gaeta did or didn't do when he saw that list." (Throw a wild hissy, is what he did.) Barclay sides with the crazies, surprising Anders. "No, Sam. You see a death list like that, you know innocent people are gonna die, and you do nothing about it? He's guilty." Connor calls the question. Seelix: "The question of the innocence or guilt of Felix Gaeta has been called. The Circle will vote. I vote guilty." Connor and Tigh and Barclay vote guilty. Anders gets up to leave: "Don't bother. I'm done." Seelix is like, "We're voting," but Anders clarifies that he's done with the Circle. "War's over for me, I'm sorry." Neat. I like Sam. Connor waves it off and tries to get back to the vote. "Still four to none, Chiefâ¦" and then Jean Barclay steps in, protesting that they need six votes. Conner's not feeling it, but Chief sides with her. "No, screw you! We're a jury. That's how it was set up. We need six votes. We don't have six votes, I'm out too." Tigh agrees. But besides the people that weren't radicalized enough by the occupation and mistreatment itself, and the people who were up in the Fleet the whole time, who's a cast regular that's fucked up enough and angry enough and got hurt enough down there to...oh.