Episode Report Card Strega: A+ | 203 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Stress Test
By Strega | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2005.01.14
CIC. The thirty-three minutes are nearly up again. Tigh and Adama stare at the clock. Once again,Tigh says, "Maybe this time..." The clock blinks at zero, and Adama asks what's on the scanners. Gaeta turns and reports that nobody's appeared. Adama tells him to keep the clock running as Tigh continues staring up hopefully. Tigh quietly asks, "What do you think?" Adama answers, "I think we wait." He looks around skeptically.
Commercials. This is the interesting question to me: when do you decide you're safe? Because once you start letting people go to sleep, I'm thinking that you're not going to be able to wake them up again, y'know? So in a way, the fact that the attacks have stopped just creates more problems.
The captions inform us that the crew has now gone 132.15 hours without sleep. I love the precision there. In CIC, the digital clock shows that forty-five minutes passed during the commercial break. Adama's still waiting. Some of the crewmen appear to be dozing on their hands. Adama rolls his head around a little like his neck is stiff, and finally asks to speak to the Prez.
The Prez is on the phone as Billy sleeps in a chair in the background. She asks Adama, "Why this time? Was it something that you did?" Heh. "Did you say something to offend the Cylons? Why don't they call? Why don't they write?" Adama tells her that he had a new plan, but didn't have time to try it out. They wonder if the lack of Cylons is connected to losing the Carrier. There's a long beat and then the Prez asks, "Are you there?" I kinda want Adama to say, "Yes, but it was your turn to talk." Adama finally says that he's lowering the alert level to "Condition Two" so that people can get some rest. She asks how long that'll last, and Adama says that they'll stay there until he's satisfied that the Cylons won't turn up. He throws in, "It's a military decision," and the Prez kind of winces like, "I'm not arguing, it was just a question!" and agrees that it's up to Adama. She tries to placate him by adding, "Let your men and women know how grateful I am for the job that they are doing. Please, thank them for me." Adama rather nicely thanks her and hangs up. Then Tigh gets on the PA and announces that they're at Condition Two. Adama tells Dualla to tell Apollo to set up a combat patrol around the fleet, and order all other pilots to land.