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!
agittarius. But the point is that he recognizes it. Adama says, "It's a long way from here." Apollo gets all Shatneresque for a second as he says, "But at least now. We have. A map, and a direction."Cut to the Galactica. Adama's in his dress uniform, and he's speechifying to a huge assembly on the hangar deck. There are a lot more people in suits than in uniforms in the crowd, so I think it's probably representatives from throughout the fleet. So anyway, the speech. Adama says, "Our strength and our only hope as a people is to remain undivided. We haven't always done all we could to insure that." Moving on...he says that some people think the scriptures might be helpful, and refrains from agreeing or disagreeing. Instead, he notes, "The gods shall lift those who lift each other. And so, to lift all of us, let me present once again the President of the Colonies, Laura Roslin." Given the size of the crowd, they effectively bestow a smattering of applause upon the Prez as she walks up to the podium. Tigh is motionless, heh. The applause dies away as the Prez prepares to speak, and Adama is clearly dissatisfied. He glares out at the audience and claps his hands together slowly. Oh, sigh. Everyone looks bemused, but joins in on the monumental slow clap of doom. Even Tigh gives in and taps his hands together. I wish they'd ease up on this stuff. It would actually have some meaning if I didn't feel like I was supposed to be all rah-rah every other episode. And if I feel that way watching it, I can't imagine what it'd be like to live that way. This is why I brought puzzles to pep rallies. Or hid out in the art room. So, whatever, Adama terrifies everyone into applauding, and they whoop it up for the Prez, yay. The Prez beams out at them all like she didn't just watch them get bullied into this show of enthusiasm.
Boomer lies on the bed in the cell that was meant for the previous Boomer. Helo raps on the window, and she picks up a phone to talk to him. Boomer tells him that she's okay. The camera pans over to show a one-way mirror, behind which Baltar is lurking. He eavesdrops as Helo says, "I don't want our baby born in this cell." Holy God, Helo, that's, like, eight months away. The cowbell theme of Baltar's looniness is cued up, and Six, back in her formalwear, slides into view. Baltar asks, "Their child?" Six says she told Baltar so, and asks, "How could you ever doubt me?" Well, you also told him you were part of his craziness, so it's kind of a catch-22. Baltar confirms, "Boomer is going to bear our child?" Six sniffs that Boomer doesn't really deserve such an honor, "but one doesn't question God's will." Baltar says that Six isn't a chip, and she agrees. But since she was right about Boomer's pregnancy, he figures she's not just Baltar's subconscious, either. He rather nervously concludes, "I'm not..." Six finishes, "Crazy?" Baltar says, "No!" But he'd like to know what she is, then. Six duhs, "I'm an angel of God sent here to protect you. To guide you, to love you." Baltar nervously asks, "To what end?" Six says, "To the end of the human race." Then Baltar says, "No, I meant to what purpose..." Well, really he just looks justifiably terrified as Six cuddles up to him.