Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Nurture Girl
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.20.2007
"Stay, I have to know! Tell me, I have to know! Did you see my face?" She's gone. "Frack it," he mumbles to himself, hilariously. Like anybody else's religious awakening ever matters to anybody, right, but of course Gaius is like ten times less interested than anybody else would be. Besides Cavil, I mean. He knows full well what the cost will be, I'll give him that. He felt her die, in his arms. I think he loved her. I think he was along for the ride, and looking for salvation through her path, rather than his own. But he does know what he's trading here, I'll give him that, as he steps into the circle. At worst, he's human and dies: that's better than being human and living with what he spends every second ignoring. At best, he's a Cylon -- well, it's Gaius, so make that King Pimp of the Cylon Hordes, or maybe God Himself -- and nothing he's done matters, because he was doing what was right. Take away his purpose and he falls apart. "God, tell me the truth before I die?" He's ready. I'm kind of proud of him, even though he's coming to this with very impure intentions: as selfish as it is, as monumentally selfish as this is, he's still willing to trade. The Chief puts a gun to his head, and cocks it. "Welcome home, Mr. President." He knocks Gaius on the head, and the doctor goes down.
On Galactica CIC they're expositing: the Cylons have jumped away, the nova shock is coming fast, they're rescuing everybody off the surface before the nova hits.
The blast reaches the planet, and it smells like they burned the seaweed at Musashino, hitting all over the surface, beautifully taking first the bluffs and then the Temple apart, Raptors taking off, the ceiling falling in, the cliffs going down; the star's last fire chasing Raptors into Galactica's bay before she jumps. On other shows you can talk about the crucible and the this and that; on this show? Actual stars, actual suns, actual nebulae. So awesome.
Cally and Chief climb out of a Raptor on the hangar deck, with Apollo and Anders, carrying a bodybag. They gurney the bag over to Tigh, and Chief opens it as Cally looks on. It's Gaius, sleeping like a filthy little angel. "He's not dead?" asks Tigh, in his saltiest voice. "No, unfortunately," grumbles the Chief. They're so cute. I'm glad everybody's back home. Tigh sends them to the bridge; Lee daps Sam on the knee sweetly, without looking, and their bodies come to an agreement. Sam's learned a little something about military time, and Lee's learned about why Kara loves him, and proven that his greatest goal -- and this is the best thing about him, always -- is that all four of them get out of this alive. I love Lee Adama.
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