Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All Aboard The Battlestar Handbasket!
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.30.2009
To have her please just one day wake
Adama rises like Moses, all Old Testament rage and gravitas, and explains shit to everybody that they really should already know: "I want you all to understand this! If you do this... there will be no forgiveness. No amnesty. This boy... died honoring his uniform. You? You'll die with nothing." It's a promise to Felix. His song goes warped and scary as he nowarts the senior staff to the brig. Nowart begs Bill to calm down and come quietly, and Hoshi meets Felix's eyes for a moment; Tigh goes willingly. Felix hurts, and knows it's going to be him or the Admiral in the end, and I don't really know that he signed on for that but I know what I want to happen. Preferably sooner, rather than later.
0925, three hours and five minutes since the episode began so quietly, and there are no Marines outside Adama's quarters where they should be. They nod to each other and head for the hatch; Laura's inside, dressed to the nines. They come inside and explain about the uprising: not sure how many are involved, across the Fleet, or who they actually are. Laura asks why Bill, the Marines, haven't already put it down, and they figure out from the lack of armed guards that Marines are no good. Laura realizes how close they are to losing the ship -- if they haven't already, which they have -- and gets very worried about Bill. Lee's like, "I know, right?" He changes the subject to Zarek's latest grab at the presidency, and Laura gets that airlocking face.
"He always had dangerous ideas," she says, using that phrase for the first time in human history without being the greater of two evils. Generally "dangerous ideas" are the best ones in these stories, but what's dangerous about Zarek -- and about what Felix took from Anastasia's philosophy -- was that destruction is somehow worthwhile in its own right, rather than being something you take upon your soul to earn. (Again: something the Cylon and Laura figured out a long time ago. Zarek would snap a baby's neck but he wouldn't cry afterward, because he doesn't get it; he thinks the baby isn't him.) Lee tells her to address the Fleet and call for calm, because the people will listen to her. If only, I guess, because they're used to it. At this point, anything that circumvents the Quorum is fine by me, because they have been written as lily-livered on their own merits, above and beyond Adama and Tigh constantly bitching about them. "I'll do whatever it takes," Madame Airlock says, "And I will not allow Tom Zarek to assume the presidency under any circumstances." There's blood all over Lee's face; she grabs the Twins and heads for Gaius's harem.
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