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“Faith” - Recap

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May 11, 2008 |

Ingredients: 7 Known Models, 4 Models Living in Secret, 1 to be Revealed. Mix and let stew for four seasons.

Previously on BSG: President Roslin’s cancer returned. Kara painted her memories of what Earth looked like, while sending her crew on the Demetrius on a wild goose chase around the sector trying to find an elusive sound. The Cylons started a civil war, while a Leoben escaped to offer a truce with Starbuck and the chance to talk with the hybrid on his basestar in order to find Earth. And despite her crew’s wishes, Kara decides to take Leoben up on his deal, so Helo relieves her of command.

We pick up right where we left off last week. Helo has just taken command of the Demetrius and Starbuck is giving him the death glare for it. She tries to make a break for it and jump the ship herself, but is stopped by Gaeta and Athena, the latter then putting the former captain in a physical hold so she can’t get away. Sam yells at Helo asking him what he’s doing, and Agathon tells him to stand down. Helo calls the Marines to the control room to put Kara under arrest. She protests, but he tells her that they’re going to take her, the ship, and the Leoben back to the fleet and let Adama sort everything out. She tells him that they’re throwing away their last chance to find Earth. Sam continues saying that they’re going to “back to Galactica as mutineers” and what will the Old Man think of that.  Helo doesn’t really care at the moment what Adama will think and tells Gaeta to restart the FTL with the new course taking them back to the fleet. Seelix makes the suggestion that they should airlock Starbuck’s “Cylon” behind. Kara says she’s not a toaster and struggles to break free of Athena’s hold. Just as Felix gets the FTL about ready to go, Sam tries to order him to stop. Gaeta doesn’t listen, so Anders pulls his gun and again tells him to abort. Gaeta doesn’t listen; Sam shoots him in the leg. Anders crazily shouts that Kara is in charge of the ship while she tells him to stand down and Gaeta is writhing in pain on the deck. Helo is yelling at the marines, who have now arrived, to put away the guns they have trained on Sam. Athena lets go of Starbuck so she can attempt to tend to Gaeta’s leg. It’s gory and messy to watch, even for someone who has a strong stomach like myself. She digs around in the wound and applies painful medication to helps stop the bleeding, and then she gives him painkillers. Personally, I would want that order reversed, and I’m pretty sure Gaeta did to from the strong language he was directing at Starbuck. Once that messy bit is over, they move Felix off to a bunk, while Helo asks Sam if he’s “going to give orders at gunpoint”. Kara admits that she shouldn’t have ordered the Demetrius to meet up with the baseship, and that she should’ve just taken a Raptor with Leoben while the rest of them jump back to the fleet. And you didn’t decide to do that and save Gaeta some extreme pain why? Making that the new plan, Sam volunteers to tag along. To round out the crew, Starbuck asks Sharon to come along to be her Cylon interpreter of sorts and let Kara know if the others have something up their collective sleeve. Athena agrees, and Helo looks at his wife like she’s gone nuts. He points out that the shuttle doesn’t have enough fuel to get them back to the Galactica; Kara argues, “The baseship does”. Helo asks Hotdog how long they can wait on the Raptor before they absolutely must leave to make the rendezvous point; the pilot says they have a little over fifteen hours, but they’ll be cutting it close. Helo starts a countdown for fifteen hours and seven minutes and tells the trio that the Demetrius will be waiting for them until they’re out of time.

Opening credits. Current population: 39,675. Rest in peace, Sergeant Mathias.

We move to see Tory acting normal and doing her job. It’s amazing. She’s packing up things for Roslin to take with her to Galactica for her next to last round of diloxin treatments. Tory tells her boss not to sound defeated because she’s “almost over the hump”.  Roslin, who is sitting at her desk without a wig to cover her completely bald head, tells her aide that she’s going to need to her to watch over things, and not just with the Quorum. Laura says that there was a time when Tory seemed overwhelmed with her job, but lately she’s stepped things up. If only Laura could see what we see… no, wait, ignorance is bliss.

Back on the Demetrius we see guards moving Leoben into the Raptor. Kara tells him that if he set them up, he’ll be the first to die. She then moves to sit in the co-pilot’s seat beside Athena, who tells her that she’s done with pre-flight. Starbuck asks the other woman if she needs to “watch [her] back with [Athena] on this”. Sharon tells her that she gave Kara her word, and she meant it.  Athena gets up to leave the Raptor, and on the way out Leoben says that the other Eights will be glad to have a reunion with her. Sharon passes this week’s Redshirt Female, Jean Barolay, and tells her to keep Leoben away. Barolay steps onto the Raptor and Kara says that she didn’t ask for volunteers. Jean tells her, “Yeah you did, back on Galactica.” She continues to say that Starbuck has been kicking butt ever since the beginning, and that if she’s going to take them to Earth, then she wants to be there when it happens. See, Sam? This is how you support the crazy lady when everyone else around you is starting a mutiny, not by shooting poor Gaeta in the leg.

Helo kisses his wife goodbye and watches her board the shuttle. We then see the Raptor detach from the sewage barge while Mr. Agathon tells Mrs. Agathon that they have fourteen hours and forty minutes left. Leoben starts muttering about god’s plan being revealed while Sharon counts down for the jump. We get to see what it looks through the window, which makes my little sci-fi fangirl heart skip a beat with glee. They arrive amidst a debris field of destroyed basestars, and we’re reminded that everything Cylon—humanoid models, raiders, everything—are considered to be living things and nor solely machines. Where the arms of baseships have been broken off, we essentially see bloody stumps with what resembles torn blood vessels and muscle tissues exposed.

Switching back to the Demetrius, Helo checks in on Gaeta. Felix tells him that no one will give him any more pain medication for fear of overdose, and then asks Helo to plead to Doc Cottle not to amputate his leg. Karl tries to reassure him that everything will be fine, but Felix knows that the longer they wait around for Starbuck, the more likely the doctor will have to take his leg. Helo tells him that he’s not going to leave before the clock runs out.

Meanwhile, Athena is demanding to know where Leoben’s baseship is located. Sam says DRADIS has too many hits from all the debris to know where the one ship is. Kara starts to whisper, “This is it. This is the place.” Kara says she can hear the music again, and asks Sharon for control of the ship. Athena relents navigation to the other pilot, and Kara takes them on a new heading. Starbuck maneuvers them around battered pieces of hulls and into an opening. Before them is a gas giant with a comet streaking in front of them, just like in Kara’s painting. Except the comet isn’t a chunk of ice, it’s a baseship with a large and bright trail behind it. Starbuck giggles happily at the discovery just before a nearby explosion sends debris crashing into the shuttle.

We get a tight shot of Kara’s right eye and the top, right side of her face. She has a gash near the end of her right eyebrow, and she’s unconscious. She starts to wake up and finds Leoben and Sam leaning over her. Anders puts a piece of cloth to the wound and tells her not to move. They’ve docked with the baseship, and she seems to be the only one injured.

Athena is outside the shuttle in the docking bay looking things over with a handheld light, when a hand reaches out to touch her shoulder. She pulls her gun and tells whoever it is to stay the frak away. When she turns, she finds out it’s a group of about half a dozen Eights who have come to welcome her. They comment on her callsign and the fact that she “wears the uniform like [she’s] one of them now.” The one in the lead points out that Athena was the first to say no to the Cylon plan and showed them that they didn’t have to be “slaves” to their programming. She continues to say that they wanted to do the same thing, but that the Sixes keep messing things up, and that Athena has to stop the other model before they get them all killed. Athena chastises them for the idea. “You pick your side and you stick. You don’t cut and run when things get ugly. Otherwise you’ll never have anything—no love, no family, no life to call your own.”

In Galactica’s life station, we see Laura sleeping in a bed, with a green scarf tied around her head. She is awakened by the sound of Baltar’s voice on a nearby radio talking about guidance to “the other side of the river”, but the rest of it is drowned out by the noise of Laura walking her squeaky IV stand over to the bed. We can’t see the patient due to the curtain that has been pulled for privacy, but we hear a woman complaining to a nurse that of course she’s not comfortable with all the needles and probes they’re sticking into her. The nurse leaves, and Laura peeks her head and greets the patient, who is played by the lovely Nana Visitor (Major Kira from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). Emily, who is the character in the bed, rolls her eyes and sarcastically says, “Oh, great, it’s the President.” Laura breaks the ice by commenting about the nurse taking the three tries before getting the IV in, and Emily jokes back that Roslin should be grateful the nurse didn’t try to put in a catheter. The new character looks around her at all the things attached to her body and says it pointless if it’s only going to keep her alive for a few more days. Roslin disagrees and says things might be better if she weren’t listening to Gaius. She moves to shut off the radio, but Emily screams at her to stop and to leave her alone.

Leoben gingerly walks Starbuck out of the Raptor and tells her that he’ll take her to the hybrid. Natalie, the Six who gave the Centurions the ability to reason, greets them by questioning Leoben’s plan. He says that Starbuck is the key to their salvation and that they already agreed to this. Natalie says that they agreed to an alliance with the humans. Starbuck responds by saying the only way she’ll get an alliance is by letting her see the hybrid. Natalie gives in, but says that they have to start on repairs to the baseship’s FTL drives first.

In the command center of the basestar, Athena sticks her hand in the goo and rests it on the glowing red lights to interface with the ship. She tells them that they can repair the drives by setting up the Raptor to work with the Cylon ship, but that they’ll have to take the hybrid offline to do it since she was injured in the attack. Natalie and Starbuck go back and forth about the possible dangers of taking the hybrid offline, all speculative since it’s never been done before. While they’re arguing, Sam looks around to make sure no one is watching him. He sticks his hand out towards the control panel, and just before his hand reaches the goo, Starbuck tells him to follow her to the hybrid while Athena, Barolay, and another Six get things ready for the jump. Sam says that he should stay with the Raptor since he knows more about its systems. Starbuck rolls her eyes at him and leaves.

The Six watches Jean unload boxes from the Raptor. Barolay asks her why she’s staring, and the Six says that she remembers the other woman from New Caprica. We’re reminded that Barolay fought in the resistance, and then the Six reveals that Barolay killed her once at the water treatment plant on the planet. Jean shrugs and says that she’d be happy to reenact old times. The Six backhands the other woman, knocking her to the ground. Barolay stands up and tells the others that she’s fine, before collapsing to the deck. Athena and Sam rush over to her side, only find out that she’s dead. Anders jumps up, puts one hand around the Six’s neck and uses the other to pull out his gun for the seventeenth time this episode. Starbuck and Natalie return, and Kara orders him several times to put the gun down. He refuses. Natalie moves to the side of the other Six and asks her what happened. Six tells her that she was the one who killed her for no apparent reason on New Caprica, and that despite the fact that Natalie tried to help her through things after she downloaded, she never could get over the events of her death. Natalie kisses the other Six on the mouth, and I roll my eyes. Really? That’s necessary? Natalie then puts her hand over Anders on the gun, and pulls the trigger. She then reminds everyone that there isn’t a resurrection ship nearby, so the Six is “just as dead as your friend”. She then turns to Starbuck and asks if that’s enough “human justice” for the moment.

On Galactica, Laura walks by Emily’s bed. She stops the President and apologizes for what happened earlier; she then tells Laura to come closer because she has a gift. Following Emily’s instructions, Roslin opens a drawer to find a white silk scarf with purple roses on it. Emily tells her that a woman named Leslie who lives on the Aurora makes them. She then asks the President what color she wants her hair to be when it grows back. Laura answers, “Hmm, well, I was thinking maybe blue. A nice royal blue—change of pace.” The two laugh for a moment before Emily warns Laura that things are going to get worse and that she should be prepared for it. Throughout this scene, and all of the scenes featuring these two, Baltar is still playing on the radio and talking about being guided to the other side of the river.

Kara, Leoben, and Natalie enter the room where the hybrid is laying in a tub in the floor with a Centurion standing guard in the corner. The hybrid’s rambling alternates between comments about the repairs going on in the ship and phrases that don’t make sense. Kara walks up and tells the hybrid that she there, but the whatever it is in the tub keeps her eyes focused on something distant and continues to ramble.

Emily tells Laura that she voted for her in the previous election, and that she doesn’t like how Baltar insults her. Laura asks why she listens to him, and the other woman says that she “had an experience that made me rethink all my preconceptions.” Laura presses her for details, and Emily says that the night after Doc Cottle told her that her cancer had spread to her liver, she had a vision. She was on a ferry traveling on a river. She looked towards the bank and there were a group of people standing on the shore. As the boat got closer, she recognized them to be family members who had already died. Emily says she was scared at first, but then she felt a warm presence surround her, and that she heard a voice telling, “Don’t be scared, Emily. Hold my hand and we’ll cross over together.” Laura counters that many people in their situation have similar dreams, but Emily argues that it wasn’t a dream, that she was there. She then begins to wonder if Baltar “stumbled across something” with his talk of the river and a power that people can’t understand that exists in a realm they can’t see.

Back on the damaged baseship, the hybrid continues to speak incoherently: “Then shall the maidens rejoice at their deaths. Structural integrity at node seven has been restored. Repressurizing. The children of the one reborn shall find their own country. End of line. Reset.” Kara kneels down beside her and tells her that she don’t understand what’s going on. Leoben tells Kara, “You can’t hurry her; you have to absorb her words, allow them to caress your associative mind. You can’t expect the fate of two great races to be delivered easily.”

On the Demetrius, the clock shows us that Kara’s team has four hours and four minutes to return. The crew sits or paces, but no one is talking or looking at each other.

Athena and another Eight enter the hybrid’s chamber. They tell the others that everything else is ready, they just need to reboot the hybrid and they can go. Kara is tired of listening to the rambling, and orders them to unplug the hybrid. Natalie nods at the other Eight, who kneels beside the hybrid’s tub and opens a panel that reveals a series of cables. She begins to disconnect one when the hybrid begins to scream causing the Centurion to approach from its station in the corner and shoot the Eight. Kara and Athena fire at the soldier until it’s disabled. Sam rushes in wanting to know what happened. Kara leans over the hybrid again demanding to know what it wants from her. The hybrid stops the screaming and reaches out to touch Kara’s face and says, “Thus it will come to pass. The dying leader will know the truth of the opera house. The missing Three will give you the Five, who have come from the home of the thirteenth. You are the Harbinger of Death, Kara Thrace. You will lead them all to their end. End of line.” Athena walks over and completes the task of unplugging the hybrid.

Back in the medical ward, Laura makes sure that Emily knows that the god Baltar talks about is the Cylon god. Emily says, “If he’s the one and true god, then he belongs to all of us. Otherwise, he isn’t much of a god, is he?” The two of them go back and forth with arguments attempting to disprove the realness of the Cylon god and the lords of Kobol. Laura says she’s content with the lords of Kobol being metaphors, while Emily needs hard answers. Roslin says the other woman reminds her of her mother, who needed the same thing. The President breaks down when talking about her mother’s beliefs: “She was convinced that Aphrodite herself was going to swoop her away when she died, and she believed it. Even after the diloxin and the radiation failed to stop her cancer. She was a teacher. She was, uh, oh, she was something to behold at the head of the classroom. And her students, her students loved her. They would walk through fire for her. And then you see this woman who seemed so eternal; she withered away. And I find myself having to change her diaper because she couldn’t even… At the moment she died there was no gleaming fields of Elysium stretched out before her, there was this dark, black abyss. And she was just terrified. She was so scared.” Laura apologizes for falling apart momentarily, but Emily just reaches out her hand and says that Laura was the one who was scared and saw only darkness, that there is no way she knows what her mother experienced. Emily then begins to cough violently and Laura yells for Doc Cottle. Laura hugs and comforts Emily while the doctor administers pain medication. Cottle then says the line that everyone hates to hear: “All we can do for her now is keep her comfortable.”

In the hybrid’s chamber, the Eight who was shot in the stomach tells Athena that she was right about sticking to your convictions and asks for her forgiveness with hand outstretched. Athena starts to reach back, but pulls away right before their fingers touch.  Anders then kneels beside the woman and comforts her during her last few moments. After the Eight dies, Athena, Natalie, and Leoben begin to decipher the hybrid’s message while Kara looks utterly bewildered. Kara comes out of her daze to say that the “Five” are the five unknown models, and Natalie says that if they came from the thirteenth tribe of humans, then they must know the way back to Earth. Athena says the “missing Three” is the boxed model, D’Anna, who once looked at the faces of the Final Five, and who should be able to recognize them in the Colonial fleet. Everyone but Anders, who looks like he’s about to puke, then moves off to the command center in order to plot the jump back to the Demetrius.

We see the bow of a boat cruising in water. Up on the deck Emily, wearing a pink blouse, gray paints, and her hair in curls, is smiling. We see Laura, her hair returned to its former glory, come around the corner and walk up next to Emily. She turns to see what Emily is smiling at. On the banks of the river, a group of people is approaching and the woman announces, “We’re here.” Laura turns back to Emily, but she’s gone. Looking out again, Laura sees Emily running up the bank to embrace her daughters, husband, and parents. Laura then begins to see her own version of the bank of the river. Another group of people are walking up; in the middle is an older woman with white hair wearing a bright blue dress. Roslin smiles and whispers, “Mother, you’re okay.” She shakes her head and whispers to the people that she isn’t ready to be with them yet. She gives them a little wave, and then turns away.

In reality, Laura is seen asleep in her bunk in life station. She again is awakened by the sound of Baltar’s voice. Roslin gets out of bed and heads towards where Emily is, but when she pulls back the curtain she only see the radio and an empty bed.

On the Demetrius, the Raptor has one minute to get back before they jump back to the fleet. Helo orders Hotdog to announce jump prep over the speakers, while he keeps his eyes glued to DRADIS waiting for a blip to show up on the screen. He runs through a verbal checklist with all the various stations and systems; they’re all ready to leave. He watches the clock click down to zero, and the Raptor doesn’t show up. He slams his fist down on the light table knowing that they have to get back not only to make the rendezvous but also so that Gaeta can get the medical attention he needs, even if it means leaving behind his wife and good friend. He begins to count down from five for the jump; before he says “two” the damaged baseship appears right on top of them. Seelix says they’re transmitting using Colonial frequencies. Helo tells her to patch it through. Athena calls to the ship, and Helo happily answers. She tells them they accomplished their mission, and the two ships prepare for the series of jumps back to the fleet.

Meanwhile, a knocking on the door of his quarters awakens Admiral Adama. It’s Laura, and she wants to talk to him. They move to the couch and we assume she tells him what’s been going on because he asks her if she believes there’s some truth to the “horse manure Baltar’s been peddling.” She says she’s not sure but something has happened to her and she can’t explain it. He starts to respond about the fact that Laura had the same dream as Emily, but his words die off. Roslin prods him about what he’s thinking. He answers: “Kara comes back from the dead. I let her go off chasing her vision of Earth. She’s overdue. Lee turns in his wings. Helo, Athena, Gaeta–will I ever see those kids again?” Laura forces him to make eye contact with him before assuring him that she’s right there and that they’ll find Earth together. He smiles and says that he didn’t believe in it at the start, that he used it as a “carrot for the Fleet.” She asks him what changed his mind. He grins and says, “You—you made me believe.”

Roll credits.


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  1. Battlestar Galactica » Blog Archive » What Did the Hybrid Say? on May 14, 2008 10:18 am

    [...] Anders, Natalie, Leoban, and Athena all heard these words as well and immediately latched on to line three, struggling to puzzle out the meaning of that part of the prophesy. [...]

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