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!
Helo, Boomer, and Zarek. Helo looks a little hurt. Zarek and Boomer are just like, "Yeah, I figured."Inside, they find a large vault with lots of broken statues scattered about. But it's surprisingly clean, really. Starbuck asks, "If the arrow didn't actually open the tomb, how do we know this is the right place?" Adama says that they don't, but it sure looks like a tomb. Starbuck gasps that the statues are "the icons of the twelve tribes, the twelve colonies." Poor Billy looks at one statue and says, "This could be Picon, the fish." They all play "name that statue" for a while, while Adama looks bored. Until the Prez finds "Sagitarron, the archer." Adama looks at the statue's empty bow and grunts, "He's missing something." The music gets spooky as Starbuck walks forward and gingerly places the Arrow of Apollo on the bow. As she drops it into place, the cave door slams shut and everything goes black. They really should have brought a lantern.
There's a flash of white, and an overhead shot of everyone standing in a circle. And then they're in a field at night. Apollo and Starbuck spin around, their guns ready. Eventually, we get a wide shot, which reveals that they're standing in the middle of a circle of monoliths. With little glowy lights making symbols on the faces of the rocks. Luckily for me, Capricorn is in the center of the frame, because that's the only one I'd be likely to recognize. Billy asks, "Where the hell are we?" The Prez says she thinks it's the Tomb of Athena. Adama says he thought that's what the cave was, and Starbuck hisses, "I think that was the lobby." Above each rock, we can see the same constellation in the sky. The Prez points that out, and says, "These patterns were on the original flags of the twelve colonies back in the days when the colonies were called by their ancient names." There's another round of "identify the constellations." Apollo says that what they're standing in is the map to Earth. Adama asks, "So is Earth in one of these constellations?" Starbuck looks awed and whispers, "We're standing on it." She explains, "The scriptures say that when the thirteenth tribe landed on Earth, they looked up into the heavens and they saw their twelve brothers." The Prez spells out that Earth is where these twelve constellations are visible. Starbuck gets over her awe long enough to wonder, "What are we supposed to do? Search the entire galaxy for one particular star pattern?" Billy says, "That's crazy, but it would be a bitching premise for a TV show." Apollo points up at Scorpio and identifies the Lagoon Nebula, near Sagittarius. 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."