Admiral Adama and President Roslin debate the morality of deploying a potentially genocidal biological weapon against the Cylons. Meanwhile, Baltar is tortured by D'Anna, who is intent on determining who is responsible for creating the deadly virus that has imperiled the Cylon population.
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The Galactica's scout ships find a Cylon baseship in the Lion's Head nebula, adrift and helpless. Apollo and Sharon (now flying under her new callsign, "Athena") lead a team onto the ship to explore. Among a multitude of dead Cylons, they find only five who are still, but only barely, alive.
Apollo and Athena hurry back to the Galactica with these prize prisoners. Doc Cottle quarantines them all for study and identifies the virus that has infected the Cylon ship. Humans are immune to this particular pathogen — and so is Athena, as the mother of a half-human child. All other Cylons, however, aren't so lucky. While Cottle can design a vaccine that will halt the virus's effects, special antibodies in the Cylons' blood will soon destroy the vaccine. In other words, if the prisoners don't receive frequent new injections, they'll die.
Tempted by hope of receiving this dubious cure, the Cylon prisoner Simon tells the humans everything he knows. He explains that the virus can be transmitted through the Cylon resurrection process, then mentions that Dr. Baltar is alive and assisting the Cylons in their quest to find Earth. Adama and Roslin are stunned by this revelation.
In fact, deep in the heart of the Cylon fleet, D'Anna and Caprica Six have turned against Baltar. They believe that he knew about the virus all along and led them to the nebula in order to kill them. To make him confess, they torture him. Wracked with pain, Baltar flees to the comfort of the Six in his mind, who might offer his only hope for salvation.
Back on the Galactica, Lee Adama has a chilling brainstorm: if they maneuver the Galactica within close range of a Cylon resurrection ship and kill their Cylon prisoners, the infected prisoners will then download to new bodies, spreading the virus to the Cylon fleet in the process. The disease will then rage freely throughout Cylon civilization, eventually wiping out the entire race.
Shocked, Helo argues that the act is morally wrong. Admiral Adama shares his doubts. Athena grieves at the thought of her people's demise but tells Helo that she must remain loyal to her human comrades. Roslin, her duty to safeguard the survival of humanity foremost in her mind, believes that the genocidal attack might be justified. But as she prepares to make her decision, it is humanity's collective soul rather than its survival that is at stake….
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I wasn't too pissed about Helo tanking that kill. I can totally understand where he is coming from. I was impressed with Sharon, and what she shared with her husband, about how if she was the last of her kind left, she wouldn't betray her loyalty to the humans. I just really enjoy the connection between her and Helo.
I didn't much care for the torture on Baltar... especially when she put that thing in his ear, and all that blood. It was interesting, when he was talking to the Six in his mind, and saying those things to her, but Lucy was hearing them. And she stopped and looked like she actually cared about him. (She does look like she's getting older... but, she's a damn good looking woman)
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She is getting some wrinkles, but she has a well developed face. She is still smoking HOT.
I'm just glad she is not pulling her eyelids back with the plastic surgery and making herself look like a hurrican victim. I am assuming she is around our age, or a tad younger.
It's too bad she came on the show late, she would have made a great #6. She is a much better actress. I dig #6 and all, but her acting skills seem to be "I am so horrified by what I am hearing" or "I'm having an orgasm right now". And both persona's are about the same.
Lucy will ALWAYS be smoking hot, to me. I find she's got this beauty that is just timeless. Since the first time I saw her, she took my breath away. She still does that.
I'm glad that she's not Six. I wouldn't want her in that part. I like just where she is. Though, I would LOVE it if she was a good guy, and we saw a lot more of her.
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Helo was my boy but now he's kind of a douche. That was a lame move and it wasn't his call to make.
Reminded me of that Trek episode where they found that Borg drone and could have infected it with a program or whatever that would destroy the Collective. But instead they took the moral high ground and let him go. Weak.
11-04-2006 03:02 PM
