Episode Report Card Strega: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Home, Part II
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on August 25, 2005
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Team Prez goes questing for the Tomb of Athena. Adama starts questing for Team Prez, with Tyrol and Billy for company. Meier tells Boomer that her other incarnation was killed and tries to recruit her into the assassination plot. Adama meets up with Team Prez and there's some hugging. And also some choking, when Adama sees Boomer. Adama's heart isn't quite up to the task, though, so Boomer survives and gets to have an awkward reunion with Tyrol. Well, it's awkward for Tyrol and Helo; she seems fine with it. Now that everyone's reunited, Zarek nixes the assassination plan, but Meier strikes out on his own. Boomer agrees to kill Adama, while Meier will kill Apollo. When they find the Tomb of Athena, Boomer turns on Adama...and then keeps on turning, and shoots Meier. With that sorted out, they enter the tomb, and find a statue of Sagittaron that's missing its arrow. Starbuck puts the Arrow of Apollo on the bow, which plops them all into...a hologram? Let's just assume it was a hologram. They're in a field where they can see the twelve symbols of the colonies mirrored in the constellations above them. Starbuck works out that Earth is a place where all twelve constellations are visible. Apollo, slightly more practically, recognizes the Lagoon Nebula, and figures that they can use it as a fingerpost. Then they can't figure out how to exit the hologram (or whatever) and starve to death in there. Okay, no; instead they get out somehow, and Adama makes a speech reinstating the Prez, and then leads everyone in a prolonged slow clap, so my version's better. Back on the Galactica, Baltar is fed up with Six, so he gets a checkup from Cottle to find out if there really is a chip in his brain. There's not. However, he overhears Boomer and Helo talking and confirms Six's statements about there being a baby on the way. Six explains everything: she's an angel, sent to protect Baltar while the human race is exterminated. How nice for him! Want more? The full recap starts right below!
else to commit murder for you isn't actually a huge step up morally from doing it yourself. Your solution is just making things more complicated. I think Zarek's whole problem is that he can't find good help. Zarek doesn't veto the idea, but repeats that nothing can happen until they find the tomb.Commercials. In the podcast, Moore and Eick explain that the "Topography's for pansies" line was originally "Topography's for pussies." Also, Adama originally told Billy that President Adar was a prick. Moore's description of how he tried to defend both terms to Standards & Practices is rather entertaining. They should take a page from Profit, and put something completely gratuitous in the episodes, so that they can make deals like, "Well, if we cut Baltar's panty-sniffing scene, can we keep the word 'prick'?"
It's daytime, and as they trudge through the forest, Helo asks, "How much further?" Boomer corrects him, "'Farther,'" and explains, "'Farther' describes actual distance. Further is more figurative." This leads to banter about Boomer's being smarter than Helo, which isn't that big an achievement. Especially since, while "further" is more commonly used to describe abstracts, it's not incorrect to use it to describe physical distances. In fact, the attempt to distinguish the two seems to be limited to the United States. Anyway, Helo finally says, "The baby can have your brains as long as he gets my looks." Boomer smirks, "That'd be a real blessing for her." Helo confirms that the baby's a girl. And they walk on. That was enlivening. They left this in, but they cut a bit later where Billy tells the Prez that he's an atheist. That scene sounded funnier, honestly.
Elsewhere in the marching order, Starbuck is yapping to the Prez about her visit to Caprica. She thinks the Cylons have plans for Caprica, since they're clearing out the bodies and rebuilding. She burbles that there's also a human resistance there, plus there's this guy who's like, so totally cool, and almost completely devoid of personality! Starbuck thinks that the fleet should put together some kind of rescue mission for the survivors on Caprica. The Prez interrupts to say that she's grateful for Starbuck's help, but right now, she can't think about anything but finding the tomb. With a dismissive "Thank you," she walks on while Starbuck sulks.
Aboard Galactica, Baltar is getting an MRI. In a windowed enclosure, Cottle fusses over the computers. Six, still in her casual wear, appears by Baltar's feet and whispers, "Comfy?" Baltar grunts that he can't talk or move. Six giggles, "Then you certainly wouldn't want me to do this..." and reaches for his crotch. Baltar twitches up and bonks his head against the top of the MRI. An error message appears on Cottle's computer screen, and he grumbles, "Oh, for...I told you not to move!" From inside the machine, Baltar looks over and apologizes. Cottle mutters to himself that he'll have to start over. Inside the MRI, Baltar echoes that idea, only in a panicky way. Six, now at the other end of the machine, strokes Baltar's forehead as he asks why she's doing this. Six tells him, "Even back when you weren't nuts, there was always that little voice in your head. That little voice helping you through the rough times, remember?" Oh, he had a little voice! Just like Magnum! Magnum saw a lot of ghosts and spooky things, too. It would be fantastic if they had Tom Selleck as a guest star on this show. Six says she's just another version of that voice. Baltar rejects that idea and insists, "God has a plan for me." Six starts snickering again as she says, "Yeah, God has a plan, and there is a God, and he talks to Gaius Baltar!" Baltar tries to roll over, and shouts, "Shut up, will you!" at an empty corner of the room. Cottle oys, and steps out of the computer bay to say, "Will you stop going crazy in there?" He actually says it like a question, too. Heh. Baltar turns his head to look at Cottle, and looks about as batshit as possible as he grrs, "I'm not crazy." Cottle, wisely, does not reply, and looks a little bit scared as he returns to his computers.