Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Girl Who Fell To Earth
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.20.2009
Starbuck radios Adama that the Six under her command has identified the strange lost Raptor's voice as "a Sharon," and Bill thinks for a moment, musing aloud as Hoshi watches: "An Eight..." He stares up, at the ceiling. He will watch and be silent, but he knows what it means. The entire point of the civil war, the Rebels, the 268s, was that there aren't any Eights left, out there. There's only one left: the first betrayal, the suicidal saboteur, the daughter that shot him in the gut, at the moment of his greatest pride and her greatest triumph. Humanity's children are coming home today. She glides into the hangar bay, surrounded by serpents.
Bill beats it down to the hangar deck as Kara's climbing down off her Viper, looking none too happy. Laura and Lee stand with him for this homecoming, and the Raptor door finally opens, on the shapely gams of a Calfornia blonde. Boomer steps out onto the wing as a Raptor escort does, and Ellen steps out beside her. Laura's jaw drops, and Ellen smiles sweetly at Bill, calling his name warily and lovingly, the way Caprica used to say Felix's name. "How many dead chicks are out there?" asks Hotdog, hilariously. Boomer hops down to look up at her mother and savior and temptress, down from the wing and onto steel earth: that's how many.
"I can't tell you how happy I am to see you," Ellen tells Bill, honestly. He was already in Saul's life before they ever met, according to their memories. According to everybody but her. He came with the package, when she and Saul were just broken people, meeting for the first time. He's the father to an entire race; she respects that as few people can. "Aren't you gonna help a lady down off this thing?" Not interested in Ellen's usual miles and miles of bullshit, and more worried about this distaff sister Eight, he stares at her until Chief steps around to her, leaning impossibly close into her face, looking into her eyes. She remembers his face, every curve and angle. "Nice to see you again," he says, terse and tired and ravaged, and she smiles. "This is Boomer," he says, and Bill orders her taken into custody immediately. She doesn't take her eyes off Bill, wondering if it's still eye for eye after all this time; if he'll count her as a Rebel even though she showed up late. Wondering who she is this time.
Saul enters the hangar bay, and Ellen's heart melts. She spent eighteen months drawing his beautiful face, after he murdered her. Bill and Kara stare, perturbed and disturbed, as they kiss passionately. Kara came back from the dead in this very room and was shuffled off to sickbay at gunpoint. Bill's never seen his best friend happy, in forty years he's never been happy without a drink in his hand, until lately.
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