Back on Galactica, Olmos reads an octagram of his own. Much as Apollo predicted, he's not happy with the whole "rescue the survivors" plan, and he orders Uhura to get them on the horn. He has a surprisingly business-like discussion with his son, considering the situation, although he does manage to slam Mary for being unprepared for battle just as she comes into the cockpit to overhear it. Ain't that always the way? The conversation is suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a Cylon fighter that's menacing Colonial One. Apollo wants to make an immediate FTL jump, but Mary flat-out refuses, despite the fact that they have no way to defend themselves. Then Apollo remembers something, and races out of the cockpit.
And then we cut back to Galactica, where everyone is tracking the inbound Cylon on the radar screen. Adama tries futilely to warn his son, but Apollo is already down in the cargo bay messing with those "electrical pulse generators" like we all knew he would be. Adama stares at the radar screen in horror as the fighter closes in, and then Colonial One is wiped out by a haze of static. Everyone looks sad, because their favorite boss just lost his only remaining son, but you totally can tell they're also secretly happy, because Apollo was a prick and maybe Olmos will adopt one of them now and they can all live happily ever after in Adamaville. Or something like that. Colonel McCain offers the boss a manly hug, and Commodore 64 makes an ill-timed expositional foray by specifying that Colonial One was destroyed by a fifty-kiloton explosion. And with that, we finally fade to black on the end of Part One.
And just for the record, anyone who actually thinks Apollo is dead isn't allowed to read the Part Two recap. Don't think I won't be checking.