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Daybreak, Part 1 - Picspam/Recap

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March 18, 2009 |

It’s that time of the week-–picspam/recap time.  As usual, behind the cut you’ll find pictures and text showing you what happened last Friday night.  And as usual, it won’t be dial-up friendly.  Hope you enjoy these.  Here comes this week’s edition: wordpress statistics

We open in the past on Caprica City.  Adama is wearing a suit, which I believe could be the first time we’ve seen him outside of uniform in possibly the whole series.  He’s meeting with some guy we’ve never seen before, an the purpose of the conversation is unclear.  Adama is bragging about his service record and the billions of cubits of resources he’s ferried on his battlestar, but the man argues that whatever the Old Man is fussing about will only take an hour of his time.  If I had to make a wager, I’d bet it has something to do with Adama’s divorce.

Baltar and Six are riding in the back of a limo and sharing a drink.  This may very well be the day they met.  She quickly picks up on the fact that he enjoys his life of lust and luxury immensely.  Their make out session is interrupted when the car phone rings.  We don’t know who’s on the other end of the line, but we do know that it makes Baltar extremely upset.  He begs them to stay where they are or else he’ll sue for abandonment.

In her first flashback, Laura has just finished throwing a baby shower for one of her two younger sisters.  It’s nearly painful to see her happy, healthy, and giggling.

Kara is in her apartment cooking when someone comes to the door.  She swears over the fact that he’s early, opens the door, and meets Lee for the first time.  Lee gives Kara flowers and lies about how great her apartment is.  She calls him out on it and suggests that they play cards.  Then enters Zac.  The two brothers insult and hug each other, and Zac warns Lee that he’s not going to be stealing this girlfriend away from him.

We find out the reason Baltar was so upset on the phone in the limo is because the nurse who was watching over his father was threatening to walk out since Julius Baltar stabbed her in the arm.  Gaius begs her to stay, but she refuses.  He then begins to yell at his Dad for causing another nurse to leave and effectively ruining his day.  Six walks in and is disconcerted to see Baltar talk to his father in such a manner; Gaius is mad that she didn’t stay in the car like he asked her to.  Father and son continue to fight–Julius complaining that Gaius ignores his farmer heritage and hates working, and Gaius complaining that his father isn’t appreciative enough for all he’s done for Julius in his old age.  Baltar tells Six to go home because he now has to spend the night caring for his father.

The morning after the baby shower, Laura opens the door to find to Caprica City police officers on her doorstep.  They apologize for having to be the ones to tell her that her father and two sisters were killed by a drunk driver the night before.  She quietly asks them to leave.  In a state of shock, she leaves her home still in her pajamas and makes her way to what I’m pretty sure is the same park she visited after receiving her breast cancer diagnosis.  Ignoring the looks of those around her, she walks into the water and stands under the stream of the fountain.  The drops of water fade into her IV drip and bring us to the present.

I’m not sure which sight is more jarring: Adama’s quarters being nearly empty or the shipping label putting the Admiral’s quarters on the Cylon baseship.

Paula is trying to talk Baltar into taking some action.  She tells him that they have quite the majority across the fleet when it comes to influence and it’s time they take advantage of that fact.  Head!Six shows up and tells Baltar that Paula is right and that the final chapter of humanity is about to begin.

Back in the past, Baltar comes home with a new woman to find Six sitting in his living room.  He tells the new girl to go wait for him upstairs will demanding to know what Six is doing in his home.  He picks up the phone to call the police when she tells him that she found a retirement home for his father.  It’s a place where the residents grow their own food to eat, which nicely suits the former farmer.  Baltar remains skeptical as to why this strange woman would do such a thing for him.

Helo goes down to the brig to pay a visit to Tyrol.  They have a conversation about the Number Eight model line.  Helo wants to hear that they’re all individuals but Chief tells him that they’re all the same and can play him like a fiddle even though he helped create them and he’s two thousand years old.

At The Colony, Cavil wants to dig in and find out what makes Hera tick, but so far the only thing the girl has done is draw more musical notes.  Boomer says that Hera is scared and needs her mother.  Simon is concerned that she hasn’t been eating enough.  Cavil is tired of waiting and walks out.  The scene closes with Simon testing tools that sound ominously like a drill or saw.

Adama helps Hot Dog pick up some pictures that he dropped in the corridor.  Hot Dog tells him they’re pictures of lost pilots form the memorial wall and that the rest of the jocks didn’t want to leave them behind.  He tells the Admiral that most of the pictures left up on the memorial or of unknown persons, probably put up by people who have died since the fleet ran away from Caprica.  Adama goes to check out the remaining pictures and pauses on one.  He moves off but stops in his steps.  Turning, he returns to the picture and pulls it off the wall.  It’s of Athena kissing Hera’s head.  And Adama now knows what he has to do.

The Admiral next pays a visit to Kara and Hybrid!Sam.  Before trying to talk to Anders, Bill asks Kara if what Baltar said about her being dead was true.  She tells him it is, and he tells her that she’s his daughter and he doesn’t care.  They plug Sam in and prepare to ask a very important question.  But before doing so, we get a Sam flashback.  He’s being interviewed by a sports reporter who tells him that he’s well on his way to the hall of fame, but does it sting to not have won a title yet?  He looks around to make sure no one is listening and tells her that it’s not about the points or wins, it’s about enjoying “creation”.  He goes on to romanticize the physics and math involved in the sport and I have no clue how they didn’t figure out then and there that he’s a machine because he sounds like a walking calculator.

Baltar asks Lee for five minutes of his time, which is limited because it’s his job to decide what ship captains get what parts from Galactica.  Baltar petitions that he have a voice in the government because of how strong his following is and he just wants to make sure someone is looking out for them.  Lee refuses because Baltar has never done a selfless thing in his life, so why would he start now?  Baltar argues a little, but then concedes telling Lee that he wouldn’t trust himself either.

It’s then time for another Lee flashback.  I honestly have no clue what’s going on with this one or what it means, but thankfully no one does either.  Lee comes into his home drunk.  He double dares no one to do something before discovering a pigeon has made its way into his place.  He stumbles around trying to chase it out.  If I had to guess, I would bet that this takes place shortly after Zac’s death, but like I said, I don’t really know what’s going on in this scene.

Kara and Adama come to the hangar deck after their talk with Sam and run a strip of red tape down the middle of the floor.  Word starts to spread that the Old Man is going to make a big announcement soon.  Rumor has it that he and Kara found out the location of The Colony from Anders and that they’re going to mount a mission to rescue Hera using volunteers, The Final Five, and the pilots who were imprisoned after the mutiny.

Helo tells Athena the good news, but she doesn’t think it matters because odds are the Cavil has already cut up their daughter into tiny pieces to study her.

Flashback to Laura three months after losing her father and sisters.  She on the phone with someone talking about how she doesn’t want to accept the offer to work on Adar’s national campaign because she doesn’t like politics and promising that she is getting out, even as going so far as accepting to be set up by whoever is on the other end of the line.  She hangs up, and we’re brought back to the present, where Laura is once again forced to take a step of strength after suffering.  Donning her wig, she gets out of her bed in sickbay.

Adama addresses everyone in the hangar deck.  he tells them that they’re going after Hera, and that it’s a volunteer-only mission since their return isn’t all that likely.  He tells everyone to move to his right if they want to go along for the ride and to move to the left if they want to stay with the fleet.  Pilots, like Hot Dog, move to the right as do Starbuck, the Final Five, Lee, Helo, Hoshi, and Caprica Six.  Laura weakly makes her way through the crowd and with Adama’s help joins the side to go and get Hera.  Six stares over at Baltar, who is looking at the red line like it’s the edge of a cliff he knows he has to jump off of.

Racetrack and Skulls do a recon mission on the location given by Sam.  Skulls isn’t happy that they’re the ones being sent, but Racetrack is just happy to be out of her cell.  Thirty seconds in, they discover a big problem–a singularity.  They manage to avoid its pull and jump back to Galactica.

First, let me just say that it’s totally weird to see Lee back in uniform.  I didn’t think I was so used to seeing him in the pinstriped suit of hotness until this moment.  But when you stop and think about it, it’s been right at two years since an episode aired that he was in uniform.  Weird.

Anyway, he and Kara reveal the bad news about Cavil tactical location.  They say that the Raptor thankfully got to see two baseships jump in before they ran off.  They know they can jump in on The Colony, but they’ll have to come in within one kilometer of Cavil’s forces, but they all decide that they’ll take that option over nothing.


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  1. lutin on March 19, 2009 5:39 am

    Wow!!! NIce touch with the black and white when Adama changed his mind about Hera!!!

    Fit prefectly in the story. As always, it’s clear, and I love it. When I think, the next is the last, nothing can soothe me….
    My Favorite character is Adama, I hope we’ll see him a lot (like the others, because I do love almost all the characters ) and he makes it.

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