Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A | 3 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Admiral Cain, She Dead
By Jacob Clifton | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 09.22.2005
Tigh and Fisk are still drinking, and Tigh gets Fisk to tell him a sweet little story about Cain. You know it's going to be light-hearted when Fisk's first response is "Officer's discretion?" Oh, hell. The story is that they were doing guerilla stuff on a Cylon comm relay, which should have been easy, but turned out to be a staging area, fifteen full Raider squadrons at readiness. (Tigh actually goes, "Whoa.") So of course Admiral Cain ordered the old XO to attack, because what's one Battleship against fifteen Raider squads but a recipe for success? Fisk points out that Cain and the old XO were very close and had worked together for years. You know where this shit is heading. Fisk gets up real close and library-voices, "He refused the order." Cain gets a Mutiny, eh? Never mind that it was an insane order. (If you're keeping track, that's now suicidal ideation and at least two actual attempts, on the part of Admiral Cain. And counting. Have you ever noticed that it's only ever your truly depressed friends or acquaintances who get obsessed with the end of the world? Think about it.)
Adama tells Cain about the Boomer situation, and she shockingly replies, "Really?" They have a Cylon prisoner as well. Adama -- even though it's really just to cover his ass so that she won't think he's hiding something or becoming a sympathizer, and not because he suddenly values Boomer as an asset to any extent -- goes right into a spiel about "ours has proven to be an excellent source of intelligence" and "very cooperative" and, not that this would be all that comforting, or all that true from what we've seen, that VP Gaius has been "working with her." While I appreciate the gesture toward "we're working on it," you should really stop mentioning the civil government, Bill. Just be glad Cain hasn't really seen Gaius in all his squirrely glory yet, or she'd slap you.
Meanwhile, Tigh's looking grossed out some more, asking what Cain did next even though he already knows, and so do we. Fisk says she asked the guy for his gun, okay, pointed it at his head, and pulled the trigger, in front of the whole crew. This was smart as far as enforcing her authority, but dumb because she was asking for something retarded in the first place. Then she turned to Fisk. Tigh's really scared -- like, physically scared, at this point. Fisk ordered the attack, and Tigh's mind is now officially blown. There are a few minutes of horrified silence. (Imagine if Adama went crazy and started asking for weird shit, just like that. Not that Tigh would refuse, but if he did...my mind just went to a nice place.) Fisk starts laughing hysterically into the silence, seeing he's just wigged Tigh hardcore, and trying to cover it up. The old "I'm just kidding" line that automatically means you weren't. Tigh tries to smile, but he's freaked out to the max and can't stop shaking his head.