Episode Report Card Jacob: B- | 1 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Can't Stop The Signal
By Jacob | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on January 19, 2006
Roslin enters Adar's office smiling and he rushes toward, then past her to shut the door. He apologizes for the way they left things this morning -- when she outmaneuvered him and he got pissy but secretly approved -- and then kisses her. Oh, yeah? I guess being "the kind of man you can't say no to" extended a bit further than we originally thought. She breaks away. "I just met with Stans. The Education Alliance is going to back off." She is not at all happy to be talking about this right now, but between their affair and her inoperable cancer, it's not like she's got a lot of more cheerful topics to switch to. Adar get worried. "Laura, what did you give them?" She says that they were promised a serious hearing with the administration about their grievances, and lies that she thought he'd be "happy they're going back to work." He complains that she's put him in a very awkward position, which she knows, and that the problem extends beyond the current strike, which she also knows, because she's sent the message that "if they hold out long enough, this administration will cave." As he gets more and more condescending, she slowly realizes that he set her up for a no-win in the negotiations, given that he'd backed the Alliance into a corner and had no intention of doing anything but sending troops in all along. She can't even believe it. "You expected me to fail." He shakes his head. "I expected you to hold the line." Which is valid, except for how he was basically asking her to smokescreen her own people, teachers, who had valid complaints, and still expected her to avoid even trying. Adama was right, the guy's a prick.