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
Tigh yells at Chief to chill and reminds him that in fact he can read a map, because they know the Cylon coordinate system, because it was in the list of freqs they used to talk to Racetrack. Chief babbles about this for a while, and Tigh tells him in very simple words to take some guys and go save Cally and stop yelling and stomping around. "Pull it together. You won't do her any good if you get caught too. Besides, the last thing your son wants is me and Ellen for parents." WORD. I love Tigh so much this season. They watch him stomp off into the distance and Ellen embraces Tigh, scared and thinking about how if that's how people are behaving these days, Anders is going to have her balls. And she's right.
Credits. Then, in the Tyrol tent, Chief stomps around and yells some more and Moves His Own Cheese all over the place before finally talking himself through some things and finding the list without losing one iota of his obnoxious freakout energy. (He also, and this is key, has been using terms like "Godsdamned" and "Holy frack" all season: not things a true son of Geminon would ever say. How much did Cavil take from him really?) Then he stomps out into the street and tells Seelix (a tech last seen helping Chief build the Blackbird, now with much less hair and a very stompy person in her own right) to get some people together so they can go to x-ray seven, also known as Pergamus Flats. They do a quick round of the We Are Lunatics dance, then watch the trucks full of the damned rolling out of town. Too bad the people on the other trucks don't have Chief stomping around on their behalf, but lucky that Roslin and Zarek are in the same transport group as Cally, or else they, like those 150 other unlucky people, would end up like Vegas strippers in the cold desert night. The kind that saw stuff they shouldn't have.
Sharon gets out of her Raptor and the Marine with her uses the word "enfilade," as in, "We could catch enfilade fire from there, there, and along there." (In short, the word "enfilade" as used here means "shot in all of our faces"; that is, if they all walked in a line the enemy fire could shoot through all of them from the front or back, like a skewer, which is where the word comes from. It's nice for the toasters, or whoever is shooting at you that way, because the up/down angle determines that you can't shoot too long or too tight, because you're going to hit somebody no matter what, if your target is centered down the skewer. Use it in a sentence this week! Mine is going to be, "We have to go see The Covenant on a weekday, because I'm going to feel like a perv if we go in and get a bunch of teenagers coming at us in enfilade. Oh yeah? Vide please the great Mean Girls incident, April '04, and the Bring It On conflict of August 2000. I ain't going out like that again.") Sharon puts the Marines on the ridge and heads out to the rendezvous point, bringing us back to the PRESENT. ("Go Panthers!" "C-Bucks rule!")