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
Chief waits, nervous, with the prophets. Gaius stands in a corner, thinking nervously, and then suddenly pulls it together and picks up a phone. (Is that trackable? Should he just be blithely dialing CIC from their secret location?) Gage answers and looks at Felix, willing him not to get gay about this, and Gaeta makes a sour face even as his hand is heading for the phone of its own accord. "What do you want, Gaius?"
"What do I want? I want this to stop. Now. Right now. This is madness." Check out how he pulls out all the stops: "This doesn't become you, you know. Treason, or whatever they're gonna call it when this thing is through. I know you, Felix. I know you're a good man. You're an honorable man. You want to do the right thing." We love you, we love you, we love you. That is exactly how he gets to sleep with anybody he wants: because he is a player. However, that's only half the story with Gaius: "Even your failings have been understandable." Ouch. The tide turns, and this will not end well. Felix is like, "Oh, like serving in your corrupt administration?" Um, no. The thing I am always talking about in these conversations: Sweet Eight and the seduction of hope. "Our little secret? Sealed with a very special pen?" Felix loses the entire plot again, and waits for Gaius to hang up. Gaius doesn't even know how bad he fucked this up. "But I forgive you for that, Felix. I'm telling you... if you are hungry for redemption, this is not the way..." Gaeta hangs up on him and he talks to the air ("Felix, please...") before giving up. And the saddest thing about that is that he's all alone when he makes that call, and the only way he'd ever tell anybody he was willing to play the slightly queer Gaius/Gaeta card is if it worked out. So it's one more good thing Gaius tried to do, that nobody will ever know about. That's becoming quite a list.
Gaeta notices Raptor 619er taking off: it's the shuttle that takes people to the Baseship; he notices they've not radioed the LSO, and not heading for the hangar deck. Which means they're heading to the bolthole. 1032 and the Raptor locks with them, and an Eight stands on the wing. The Twins and the Old Men arrive; Bill greets Mr. Tyrol warmly. He explains this random place was trashed on New Caprica, but he got it back up and running sometime in the last four hours. Bill drops his guns and runs over to Laura on the wing of the Raptor. They make out hardcore without preamble, which causes the Twins to wriggle around uncomfortably and eventually turn around, the Eight and Tigh to watch them, and Gaius to smirk.
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