Episode Report Card Jacob: B- | 1 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Can't Stop The Signal
By Jacob | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on January 19, 2006
In Galactica CIC, Tigh's asking self-evident questions again, and disagreeing with things for the pure reason that it gives the other characters a platform to explain them. We thus learn that Apollo has ordered a stand-down for the Vipers of both the Galactica and Pegasus, until the tampered-with ammunition gets sorted. We also learn that Apollo has been reinstated as CAG, presumably of the Galactica, and that somehow this was Tigh's call. Then -- even though Adama's standing right there -- Tigh calls this a mistake, and Apollo tells him to go to hell. Adama tells them both to chill, and I have to commend Tigh on not immediately looking to Adama for support like usual. Tigh complains that grounding all the Vipers leaves the Fleet "defenseless," and Adama supplies him with the obvious upshot of this, which is that they already were. Adama sends Apollo and Starbuck out to figure out who's sabotaging them.
Apollo and Starbuck enter the Galactica ammo shop with about ten Marines, because they've narrowed the field between these two scenes to one skinny brunette machinist named Asha Janik. This whole sabotage storyline wraps itself up so fast that it curls back on itself like a tape measure right before you lose an eye, but I don't mind, because it's just the DNA for the rest of the season, it seems to me. And also because the Roslin part is the heart of it, even if her cancer story is ending and theirs is just beginning, but either way causally, the militants are a good backwards parallel to her flashbacks to the Big One. I'm not a huge mystery detective fan, unless the detectives are figuring stuff out about themselves, so if you want to just chop up the investigation of it all and hit me with the high points and the violence, I'm down. You know I'm more interested in subversive groups than in the CIA anyhow. They approach, and she smiles brightly. "Captain Adama. I have a message for your father." The Marines step forward and she reveals her brimful of crazy. "They may take me! But I am one of many! We have declared war against Galactica's armies of death! The Cylons aren't our true enemy! It's the military that refuses to negotiate! All we want is peace! Demand peace! Demand peace!" Apollo directs the Marines to take her ass to jail, and Starbuck smirks. "So much for being discreet, huh?"