Episode Report Card Jacob: A- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Blackbird Singing In The Dead Of Night
By Jacob | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on September 15, 2005
Having resolved his romantic angst for the moment, Helo's ready for the next order of business, namely: the fact that everybody is going to die. He shows her the clipboard with the offending Cylon code, which I find iffy in terms of protocol, because she said she doesn't have counterprogramming back on Caprica but to her it's like reading a menu, this code, and there's the slight chance she'll go all Manchurian again. At least that's my first reaction, as an outside possibility, especially when she goes all stiff and creepy, staring and staring at the code. As Helo yells her name, she drops the phone and gets a robot migraine. Then she picks it up again: "I need to talk to Commander Adama. Right now." She validates Gaius's theory and tells Helo that the virus will be turning Galactica's systems against the crew, doing all kinds of nasty things, not to mention the beacon she's still transmitting. Helo, rather ingenuously, protests that this would harm Boomer and the baby, and she waves this away, calling herself a liability and a mistake. Which I first thought was a continuity glitch, until I realized that as far as she knows, the Cylons don't know about the baby, period, so she's just a turncoat that stuck out her thumb first chance she got. Sharon reiterates the point that the logic bomb will be going off in a matter of hours and that this will open up the Galactica to an attack, in addition to being an attack on its own, and also lead the Cylons to the whole Fleet. (But wait, they do know about the baby, Number Six was all awesome about the baby, so pretty and excited and cool (I love Six; we haven't talked about her in this episode so you might not know that), so actually Helo's right, and this doesn't completely make sense. I don't know.)