Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Blood On The Scales
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.06.2009
That's what he's done. "Weapons hold!" he shouts, alive again, staring into Tom's eyes. Zarek realizes it's over: another wall has fallen down. The fight is over. The revolution is dying. The story's ended. Adama and his posse enter CIC, and they take it easily. Felix doesn't fight; Tom makes that put-upon face he makes, but is calm; Gage shoves and pulls at his captors. "Connect me with the President," the Admiral orders someone, and she obliges as quickly as she can. "Madam President, this is the Admiral. Stand down." She stares, unable to swallow, to process, to believe. She knew he was alive. She knew he was dead. "I repeat, Galactica's secured." The Eight's hand flies to her mouth. "Stand down." Laura says his name, softly, like a prayer. Bill stares at Felix, in brutal disappointment; Felix begs for more. This was nothing. Bill nods at Kelly, and he marches Felix Gaeta away. 1532.
Galen stares up at the bulkhead, sickened, deep in the jump engine room: Time has clawed at her skin. She groans under the weight of it. Laura comes down a ladder, landing heavily; when she turns, he's there. She gasps and takes off her glasses, losing it, and he walks slowly toward her. She can finally weep. The longest day since the first day: She punches his shoulder for almost dying; she caresses his wonderful face, pats him on the shoulder hilariously. He takes her in his arms and walks her slowly away:
There is certainly no rest for us on the earth. But there is happiness, and as Margaret descended the mound on her lover's arm she felt that she was having her share.
Lieutenant Felix Gaeta spent the three years prior to the Cylon attack on Galactica, serving as Adama's Senior Officer of the Watch. He was studying genetics, planning a degree through the military extension program; Adama's heavy reliance on him didn't interrupt his plans. He was a wunderkind, and he knew it: networks, FTL calcs, computer systems. He was more than her nervous system. He fought Shelley Godfrey tooth and nail to protect Gaius Baltar, even when the fakest of fake evidence seemed to suggest a double-cross.
When he lost the Fleet after Bill was shot, he blamed himself. Not even Tigh blamed him; Tigh called him "son" until he rejected him. The viral logic bomb that got through his firewalls plagued him for weeks, but he met it every time. He helped Athena talk to the Galactica, jury-rigged wires in her palm, showing her kindness when nobody else would. He sold out the presidential conspiracy because he knew what was right, even though it earned humanity a year in the stocks and gallows. He was a double, triple, infinite agent between the shifting factions on New Caprica. He committed crimes he still can't fully comprehend; he whored himself out, like Ellen, to ease the pain of his people.
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