Episode Report Card Strega: A- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Home, Part I
By Strega | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on August 18, 2005
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Starbuck meets up with the Prez's fleet near Kobol. Apollo's very happy to see her, and he's got a gun in his pocket. Which he quickly takes out and aims at Boomer. The Prez is ready to have Boomer spaced, until Boomer claims that she can help them find the Tomb of Athena. Meanwhile, Zarek plots to get Apollo killed, so that he can be the man behind the Prez. They all go down to Kobol and find a path that should lead them to the Tomb. Elosha helpfully finds a trap and gets herself blown up real good, and then the Centurions start shooting. During the fire-fight, Boomer seems to make a break for it, and Apollo chases after her. It turns out Boomer's just trying to grab a dead soldier's gun so she can take out the last Centurion. Overachiever. They all have a hearty chuckle over the misunderstanding, wave goodbye to Elosha's corpse, and set out for the Tomb. Back on Galactica, Adama picks out a sucky new CAG, tries to cheer himself up by holding a press conference, and generally mopes around for a while. Eventually he shares his feelings with Dualla. Dualla tells Adama that he's broken his promise to take them all to Earth. In the end, Adama declares that he's putting the band back together. No, wait: fleet. Putting the fleet back together. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
ltar and Six was added by Moore when they realized that they'd left them out of the episode completely. Heh. I guess whether or not you think that's a good addition depends on how much you like Baltar and Six. But I love them, so clearly it was the right thing to do. Nyah.When we return, the Prez is gossiping cattily with Elosha. She sneers that Boomer thinks she's in love with Helo. Meier, not unreasonably, asks, "Who cares?" Elosha says, "The Scrolls of Pythia do speak of a lower demon who helped the people in a time of crisis." The Prez says that she told Boomer that, unless they come back from Kobol with a map to Earth, Helo will be spaced for conspiring with a Cylon. Meier looks kind of impressed, and asks if that's true. The Prez hmphs that it doesn't matter if it's true or not. Dude, the Prez would totally space Helo. She loves throwing people out of airlock more than Tigh likes throwing them in the brig. The Prez says that Boomer really must think she's in love, because why else would she have helped Helo and Starbuck? She concludes, "Even if it's software instead of an emotion, it's real to her. She wants her baby to live. She wants [Helo] to live. We use that."
It's time for Helo to visit Boomer's cell. He stares at his imprisoned robot girlfriend and reaches through the bars to squeeze her hand before he finally sighs, "This is not the way that I thought things were going to go down." Hee. Boomer says, "They're human," and then smirks, "The way you are." Helo tries to figure out how to take that.
The Prez, Zarek, Meier, and Elosha look over the satellite photo of Kobol. Hey, is that another military asset she stole? Meier asks if anyone has considered the idea that Boomer's sending them into a trap. The Prez says she knows that Boomer could be, and adds that Apollo warned them that they'll probably run into Cylons on Kobol. Meier snits, "Has Captain Apollo managed to tell us anything we don't already know?" Heh. I like him. The Prez gets her schoolmarm on and says that Apollo is second in command. Meier says, "Okay, then shouldn't he be here at this meeting? Or is he busy mooning after Starbuck in a hallway somewhere?" Only not. Anyway, the Prez says that she's determined to go to Kobol, whatever the risks. She says, "I am committed." Zarek and Meier glance at each other like they're both thinking, "Or you should be."
Adama exercises with a pair of dumbbells while the Viper pilots do exercises with just one dumbbell. They must have intended that, right? So, yeah, Birch has taken Hotdog and Racetrack out for target practice among some asteroids. It's all very pretty, but this is like a subplot of a subplot so I'm not gonna spend much time on it. Basically, Birch accidentally clears both Hotdog and Kat for attack runs against the same asteroid. Hotdog blows up the asteroid just as Kat approaches it from the other side, so she has to dodge the debris, and barely survives the misadventure. The FX are, of course, shiny. Then Birch calls the pilots back to Galactica and curses.