Episode Report Card Jacob: A | 85 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT That Old Song They Used To Play
By Jacob | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 2007.03.18
Afterwards, she's sitting down to her paperwork. Tory congratulates her: "You handled that well." Laura informs Tory she sure as fuck didn't. "'Pick over another carcass'? As opposed to mine? That's gonna look good in the press." Tory stutters, looks like hell some more: she doesn't even know why she said it. I know why: for the same reason Lee called Racetrack "Starbuck." Because mourning and grief and fear -- after all that running, after all that dying, those miracles, she gets handed this again? -- tangle up your tongue. Tory's senses are deranged. "What is up with you?" Laura finally spits. "You've been off your game for days. You're distracted, you're exhausted, you're justâ¦you know, frankly, you're plain obnoxious." Tory's sadness falls, just as it did when she lost the baby and couldn't sleep for all her guilt -- this time it just has less distance to fall, due to looking like shit already: "I just haven't been sleeping very well." Roslin begs her to get it together. "Or I can find someone who can handle the press. As well a pull a comb through their hair once a week." DAMN! Tory about falls over in shock after that shit. Me too. Laura doesn't say stuff like that. She's going nuts here; this is her trial too. (On the podcast, and from the previews, it looks like canon that Sharon and Laura started this episode having the same dream -- actually sharing the dream, of Caprica taking Hera into her arms -- and you know I want more of that shit.)