Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A | 3 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Admiral Cain, She Dead
By Jacob Clifton | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 09.22.2005
Baltar commands Thorne fairly confidently (although his voice breaks a little) to open the door, please. As they enter, Six gives Thorne a look of such concentrated rage and horror that he would probably shit his pants, if he could see her. It's powerful. I was going to say "if he were insane, and could see her," but that's...not so much an "if," unfortunately. The smell is clearly unbearable, and Gaius coughs a bit. The worse part is looking at Gina, I think. He leans over to get a closer look and Six -- usually completely in control of her movements and her body -- gets really awkward. It's hard to watch. "She must have struggled," Gaius says. "She must have fought back." Six, now openly sobbing, shouts, "That doesn't justify this!" Gaius holds up a finger from the floor: "Stop." He speaks to Gina in a low tone, quiet and worried: "Hello? Hello, can you hear me?" Six continues to lose it, making Gaius the calm one. Which is a good indicator of how fucked up this scene is. He anchors the whole thing, and Six just rants and raves and weeps: "She's obviously been abused. Tortured." Gaius is more interested in Gina's vitals, noting no obvious head trauma -- which is the worst thing, if you think about it, because she's in a total fugue state, and if she didn't get hit on the head, then you already know what's going on here -- and Six pulls Gaius off of Gina, screaming that he's not upset enough, basically. He's acting too cold and scientific, and she needs him to flip out with her: "Look at the abused woman lying there in front of you!" Gaius refuses to break eye contact as he comforts her, voice breaking. Six immediately gets it together a bit, hissing "Don't patronize me." He explains to the very distressingly distraught Six that he's going to help this woman, but that he needs to figure out the whole situation first. Six begs him to help Gina, and he assures her that he will, smiling bitterly that she closely resembles someone he loves very much. Six goes still, full of grief, staring down at Gina, and Gaius asks her to leave him alone with her for a while. She nods slowly, and is gone.
Out in the corridor, Gaius is explaining things to Cain. Fisk is trailing behind them, looking bemused, and Cain is showing zero cards. Gaius explains that the horrible mental damage of whatever was done means positively that "Cylon consciousness is just as susceptible to the same pressures and cleavages as the human psyche; it can be manipulated in the same fashion." Nice compartmentalization there, buddy. Basically, he's congratulating Cain on figuring out that torture works on people. Gaius cautions Cain that she has already used "the stick," but now it's time for "the carrot." Cain barely blinks before ordering Fisk to be of aid to Gaius in any way he needs.