Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All My Darling Daughters
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.06.2009
"Listen to me. Death is not the end. And I'm not talking about Cylon resurrection, I'm talking about the gift of eternal life that is offered to each and every one of us. Yes, even the most flawed amongst us." Lee stares. "All we need is the courage to face death when it comes calling for us -- embrace it even..." Caprica stares at him; Kara makes the funniest, Chiefiest face she'd ever made, like, "Ohh, fuckin' Baltar."
"Only then will we truly have the ability to cross over... As one amongst us here has already crossed over! One amongst us here is living proof that there is life after death. The blood on these dogtags comes from necrotic flesh -- that means a dead body. The DNA analysis is a hundred percent proof positive match..." Ellen's eyes dart at her again and again while he's speaking, I don't know if it's just Vernon being bored in this take or there's a point, because she's very soft-focus in the background and it's not the kind of thing EJO would look out for, but then also Ellen knows Kara is magic, in some way that is not directly related to her entire bag of bullshit, so it's not that hard to figure out.
"...For one Captain Kara Thrace. I told you there were angels walking amongst you! When will you believe me? She took these from her own mortal remains that lie on Earth, even now, interred with her bones..." Adama's who has had it up to here with magic, has settled back into his old comfy atheism like a dog across his feet, tells him to STFU before he goes to the brig. But Gaius is on a fucking roll: he's a scientist, he used to be a scientist. He used to live for the beauty of new things.
"She's not a Cylon -- they've already been revealed to us! Ask her yourself! She will not deny it!" Kara strides up to him and slaps his face, but he's right. She's even a little grateful, but it's sad. This is exactly what she thought he might do, either solve the problem or -- if she has to stay in the cloud of unknowing -- blow her secret so wide open she wouldn't even have to apologize for it. That's such a Kara plan. She and Gaius have this in common: it doesn't exist until everybody believes it. She can't just be secretly dead, she's gotta be totally, amazingly, mind-blowingly dead, for the whole ship at once, so it can stop eating at her and start eating at everybody else. She's never comfortable with lies or half-truths, it's one of the things I love most about her. But let the whole world chew on this latest thing, and she has a chance to breathe. Lee continues to shoot bitchface everywhere like he's been doing the whole episode, because sometimes he's dreadfully uncool, and Bill is like, "I will beat every one of you personally to a pulp if you don't disperse! Gaius, quiet down over there! You, bring me a mop!"