Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Nature Girl
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.12.2006
Anders takes it slow: "She sold us out." Tigh -- good form, old boy -- narrowly avoids the "What the hell," bending it in the last second like this: "What... are you talking about?" Anders explains about how the Cylons knew exactly where the rendezvous was. Tigh protests that this doesn't mean anything in particular about Ellen, but Anders shows him the map: "Colonel! The map that I drew for you. I gave this to you in your tent. You were gonna burn it, but then your wife offered to do it for you. I got it off a dead skinjob at the ambush. Do the math!" Ellen tries to explain, but gets the Boomer treatment from the other insurgents, who are instructed by Tigh to shut up. "He said he'd kill you. One of the Brother Cavils. I did it for you. Saul, it was all for you, I had to. I didn't have any choice. Don't you see that?" Questions without answers: I already made fun of Chief for ignoring everybody in his stompy quest to see his wife, the mother of his child, home safely. So I can't turn around and fault Ellen for doing the same -- but I don't want to. It's like suicide bombs: Tigh is okay ordering them, I just hate whoever would go through with it. I don't fault Ellen or Chief for putting Tigh or Cally a centimeter above everybody else, because that's just how it works. But I wouldn't countenance Anders letting it go either. I'm just hoping she doesn't die, because I've always really liked her. I already have no idea how Tigh comes back from this, just with what's happened so far. I don't want to think about it right now. Things are, I think, often a lot easier, when you're Anders. Which is actually a lot of the attraction, I think.
Sharon enters the detention center, plucking like a banana peel from her hair and rotten vaudeville vegetables from her clothes. (And like how come they can do that? If it were a Doral or Three, wouldn't they just kind of toss their asses in jail and keep walking? It fits Sharon's storyline and all, and definitely leads into this scene, but it makes New Caprica City life just that much more confusing.) She does some USB stuff with the detention center system, and then goes into another room, where "Drawer 3-7-8" opens By Her Command. She checks out its contents, and then Nutty Three enters. (I want a better name for her, but I don't think Pharoah's Daughter technically has one. Midrash names her Bithia -- ×ִּתְ×Ö¸×, daughter of God -- but Bithia-Three totally sounds like a speech impediment no matter how perfectly it works out thematically. Think I'm going nuts again? Check the title of the episode.) She can tell it's Sharon simply by her guilty look, and her jaw drops. "Oh my God, it's you." Sharon immediately pulls a gun on her, and she just stares. "You're betraying your own people. For what?" Sharon claims she's a Colonial officer now, and Three wrinkles her nose. "You're not one of them." Okay then: "I gave them my word." Still no. "That's not what counts. It's who you give it to." Sharon soldiers up. "I'm gonna have to shoot you now."