Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: C- | 3 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Breakaway Song
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 20 | Aired on 03.24.2007
"There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point, at length, of absolute prostration." Lewis Carroll said that. He would have loved this show. Sam and Chief greet each other, in the equipment room. Linking up. Tory begs them to tell her it's not happening. The look on Chief's face, as he thinks of Boomer, in the water: "Huh. So that's it. After all this time. A switch goes off, just...like that." Nothing so terrible, nothing so horrible. It's not the smell coming from you, it's learning you've been singing all along. Boomer, singing to a Raider, a song from childhood. This is what it looks like unfolding: like everything already looked. Just rubber bugs jumping, all along.
Tigh appears at the door, hilariously: "Whoa. Oh, no way. I don't believe this. I'm not buying this. This is a... this is a trick. Come on, we're not... we're not... " Tory begins to hum the song. This part was kind of rough to watch without laughing, even though they're not bad at humming. Tigh tells them to stop it immediately. To deadbolt the doors. To lock themselves in with it and save the Fleet. He quickly disintegrates: "Forty years in the service. Forty years. Two wars. Combat. Locked in that dungeon on New Caprica. Ellen. My gods. What about Ellen?" Sam's feeling him, anviliciously as well: "No, no, no, no. Not after all this. Not after the Resistance. And the Occupation. And after watching my friends die one after another for frakking this?" Tory reaches out to him: the link. He shrugs back. "You stay the hell away from me. You all just stay the frak away from me." Chief's been ready for this moment since before New Caprica was named. Since the first time he shoved old Brokeback in the bug room and covered her tracks. He's ready. There is grace in this. "Sam...it's true. We're Cylons. And we have been from the start."
The power outage was Fleet-wide, Admiral. It was also simultaneously restored to all ships. And now there's dradis, Gaeta's telling us: "Massive Cylon Fleet on intercept course!" Power up and spool, emergency jump. Which will, of course, take twenty minutes, thanks to the powerdown. Right where they have to be. Condition one, throughout the ship. "This is not a drill. All Viper pilots report to Vipers immediately. Inbound Cylon fleet. I repeat, action stations, action stations. Set condition one throughout the ship. This is not a drill." It never is. This is a breakaway song, and nobody can even hear it.
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