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!
hat Baltar's right: "Game's over. You win." Baltar, confused, asks what he won, while Six turns the chair around and casually props her feet up on the bed. She advises him to "wake up and smell the psychosis." Six cheerfully explains that there's no chip in Baltar's head: "I'm not real. You're not really getting secret messages from the Cylons. You're just crazy." Baltar stares at her numbly and finally declares this to be quite funny. Six happily confirms that Baltar doesn't believe her, and cackles some more as Baltar tells her to stop playing games. Six apologetically says it's the truth. Baltar sits down and asks the briefly empty chair, "Then who, or what, are you?" Six says that she's his subconscious. She stands up, and Baltar jumps up and backs away as she explains, "You helped the Cylons commit genocide against your own people, and your fragile little mind couldn't handle it. So poof, I appear and start telling you how special you are. How God has chosen you. Yeah, right." Throughout this, Baltar keeps backing up, stumbling over the furniture in his efforts to keep away from her. Six sits down again, and Baltar fretfully says that he doesn't like her games, and turns for the door. Six suggests that he could go to sickbay and get a brain scan: "That would settle it, wouldn't it?" While Baltar ponders that, Six adds, "Go ahead. I dare you." Baltar rushes out, his hand to his mouth like he's about to throw up. Tee hee.Raptor One leaves the Galactica for Kobol. On board, Tyrol goes over the map awkwardly until the pilot gets exasperated and grabs the map from him. Tyrol grumbles, "Topography's for pansies anyway." Heh. Adama asks someone we can't see, "How're you feeling? Diplomatic?" The camera reverses to reveal Billy, who says that he doesn't think this is a good idea. He claims that the last time he saw the Prez, she wasn't very happy with him. Hm, she seemed disappointed rather than angry, but to Billy those might look like the same thing. Adama assures Billy that the Prez will listen to him, and Billy protests some more until Adama declares, "She thinks you'll be president one day." Billy gulps, "Excuse me?" Adama says that the Prez told him that Billy reminded her of President Adar. Billy looks nervous and admits that he's not sure how to respond to that. Adama calmly says, "Don't let it go to your head. Adar was a moron." Hee. Then they get set to jump into Kobol's atmosphere.
The Raptor winks out of space, and then winks back in and begins to plummet toward Kobol. The bottom of the ship glows with heat as it descends. Pretty!