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!
ll into a trap. And normally they're very good about having characters see angles like that, so it's disappointing that they don't this time. Oh well. Boomer suggests that they should find somewhere to wait for the storm to end. That would have made more sense if it were just starting to rain now, but at this point they're already drenched.Gaeta says that, according to the rescue team that went to Kobol, there weren't any Basestars or Raiders lurking. Nope, just ground forces building missile launchers. Nothing to worry about there. Adama suggests jumping directly into Kobol's upper atmosphere in case things have changed. Gaeta ahems, "That's risky, and it's certainly not possible with a ship of this size." Adama says he's going in a Raptor. Consternation abounds. Adama says that the Galactica can't leave the rest of the fleet undefended, and that taking everyone is too risky. Tigh says that they can send a search party, but Adama more-or-less reasonably explains, "I'm the only one that can reach out to Roslin. It's always been between us anyway." He cheerfully adds, "Even in body bags, we're gonna be coming back together." Yay?
Zarek tells the Prez that he's going to call the Astral Queen and see if they can get picked up until the rain ends. Apollo huffs, "All com traffic goes through me. Try to remember that." Apollo and the Prez move on, and Meier asks Zarek how much longer they're going to wait till they kill Apollo. I'm kind of identifying with Meier here. Is that wrong? Zarek tells Meier to keep watching Apollo. Dude, Meier's already only slightly less obsessed with Apollo than he is with you; don't encourage him.
Credits. 47,855 survivors. Blipverts: plummeting, targeting, flashing, spelunking. This show sure has a lot of little non-story bits that I feel compelled to describe every week. Especially given that three of them are basically montages.
Commercials. I'm kinda bummed that I missed Pterodactyl. If you doubt me, I missed it because I was watching Alone in the Dark at the time. About which I can only say: gosh.
When we return, the rain has stopped. Boomer points out a summit in the distance that's topped by a pair of rocks that poke up like kitty ears. She says, "I think those are the Gates of Hera." They still look more like kitty ears to me. Starbuck sniffs, "You think?" Boomer gets defensive about how she's putting together clues from a lot of different sources and adds, "If I'm right, that's the spot where your gods supposedly stood and watched Athena throw herself down onto the rocks below out of despair over the exodus of the thirteen tribes." Way to surrender to destiny, Athena. Zarek asks, "'Supposedly'? I thought the Cylons believed in the gods." Starbuck quickly sums up the Cylon conversion to monotheism. Boomer claims, "We know more about your religion than you do." When nobody takes advantage of this opening to, y'know, delve, Boomer goes on: "Athena's Tomb, whoever and whatever she really was, is probably up there." Starbuck eyes the hills and tells the Prez that they won't be able to climb the hill before dark. The Prez says they'll see how far they can get.