Episode Report Card Jacob: B- | 1 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Can't Stop The Signal
By Jacob | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on January 19, 2006
Billy stands above the gurney, looking down at Roslin, on the threshold between the past and now, and death and life and sickness. Back at the fountain, on that last day, Roslin meets with Navlin Stans -- blonde curly hair, a Culkin plus a Busey -- who represents the Education Alliance, meeting with Roslin as the Secretary of Education to discuss his group's standoff with the government. "Once our chief negotiator got a billy club to the head, we figured Adar's government had written us off as a lost cause," he says, and she takes a moment to think. "I was a teacher long before I was Secretary of Education, and causes are only lost when we give up." She doesn't smile as she says this. She looks across the garden square, notices Dr. Gaius Baltar with a beautiful blonde, hard as a shark. As they wheel her into a makeshift lab on the Galactica, she smiles up at Billy. She looks like she's made of paper. Cottle worries and grumpuses around above her. Billy leans in, scared, and she smiles weakly. "Oh, Gods..." she whispers. She can feel it coming. We pull back, off-kilter, sickening, on Billy holding her hands. The camera straightens and a doctor steps through before us -- he nearly looks into the camera before he closes the plastic curtain, cutting us off from Billy and Cottle and Laura. Credits. 49,598 souls in the Fleet, for now.
So in last week's American Idol recap, I made a sort of joke about how I only took this job to get closer to Gabriel Köerner, who now does effects rendering work for Zoic, the company of this show. You and I know that's not true, or at least not the whole truth, but this is a story about how the internet is MAGIC. Four hours later I get an email, subject line: "You're one step closer…" This kind of thing is why I always trust Wikipedia -- it took four hours from go-live for somebody (one of a very small number, I assumed, of people who both watch AI and know who the hell Gabriel Köerner is) to grab the ball and run with it. I emailed him back to congratulate him on being such a good sport about the whole thing.