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TV Recap: Battlestar Galactica - Faith
By Kelly West: 2008-05-10 01:25:28
Tonight’s episode of Battlestar Galactica picks up right where last week’s left off. Kara wants to visit the Cylon baseship to see if Leoben’s telling the truth about the hybrid. The crew of Demetrius thinks that’s a fraking stupid idea and when you think about it, they kind of have a point. Kara’s been weird since she returned from the dead and after spending all that time hidden away in her room painting space murals on the walls, chatting with her new BFF Leoben and ordering them to jump all over the universe, it’s not a wonder that mutiny is afoot. Kara doesn’t take kindly to having her orders disobeyed and after calling Helo a son of a bitch, she goes to spool up the FTL drive, herself. Athena grabs Kara and puts her in a headlock while Helo orders Gaeta to set up the jump to take them back to Galactica. Anders is having none of that. He orders Gaeta to abort the jump but he refuses. Anders convinces Gaeta to stop by shooting him in the leg. Always an effective tactic. Kara, out of Athena’s headlock, gets down on the ground to help Gaeta. He thanks her by calling her a fraking bitch and continues to scream in pain until the morphine they give him kicks in and he finally passes out. They move him to a bunk but it’s clear they need to get him back to Galactica to get some care. When he wakes up later he begs Helo not to let Cottle take his leg. Once Gaeta’s out of the way, Kara explains to Helo that she needs to see if what Leoben told her about the hybrid checks out. She reminds him that she’s on a mission and if this hunch is right, the payoff is earth. Good point. It does seem to occur to her now that there’s no reason everyone on the Demetrius has to go to the baseship. She and Leoben can take a raptor and then if they don’t jump back in time, the Demetrius can go back to Galactica without them. Kara requests Athena’s assistance on this mission, because she speaks Cylon. Anders also insists on coming along and Jean Barolay volunteers as well. Barolay mentions to Kara that despite what everyone else thinks, she’s behind her and wants to be there when Kara finds earth. Barolay, as you might remember, was part of Anders’ crew on Caprica and part of the resistance on New Caprica. She was also part of the Circle, the group that was airlocking traitors last season. Barolay is hardcore. Kara expresses some concern over Athena’s loyalty on this mission. Considering Athena was just involved in a mutiny, it’s a valid question. Athena tells her she’s on her side on this. They jump to the place where the basestar is supposed to be and find the debris from the Cylon civil war. Cylon ship parts are floating around everywhere and some are still exploding. Then Kara spots the gas planet with rings and we see what turns out to be the scene she’s been painting in her room. Relief floods over her as she spots the basestar. So far, so good. When they get on board the basestar, Athena runs into a bunch of her fellow Eights. One of them wastes no time complaining about the Sixes screwing everything up and asking Athena if she’ll help them lead a mutiny against them. Athena, who wasn’t so opposed to mutiny earlier is disgusted by the request and tells the Eights, “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.” Ok sure, she did side against Kara earlier but I get what she’s saying here. After all, Athena did come to a major crossroads herself a few seasons back and she did choose a side. It wasn’t exactly smooth sailing after that but, driven largely by her love for Helo and eventually, Hera, Athena has always remained loyal to the side she’s chosen. Time and again she’s proven that loyalty. It can’t be easy for her to look upon the faces of her own model and see that they’re without direction and lack the courage to make a choice and go with it. When Kara and the rest of the raptor crew (including Athena and Leoben) get to the command center on the baseship, they meet up with Natalie. She too has apparently survived Cavil’s attack. Natalie’s not happy about Kara and the other colonials being on board. Leoben reminds her that “Kara’s the key to our salvation.” Natalie admits that they agreed on an alliance but this is going too far. Just as the Demetrius crew was justified in thinking visiting a basestar was a stupid idea, Natalie has a point in thinking it’s crazy that Leoben thinks Kara should be able to visit the hybrid, which is essentially the brain of their ship. Kara says if she doesn’t see the hybrid, there’s no alliance. Natalie tells Leoben that their patience with his model’s obsession with Kara is wearing thin. I’ve always wondered how the other Cylon’s felt about Leoben’s thing for Kara. Apparently they put up with it on New Caprica but none of them really get it and now it’s causing a problem. Leoben reminds Natalie that they’re on their own right now, out of range from a resurrection ship and running out of supplies. They can’t afford to not make this deal right now, especially if Cavil and his crew return. Athena puts her hands in the control-panel table thing that the Cylons use to communicate with the ship. Anders is watching her and it’s clear from the look on his face that he’s wondering what that feels like for Athena or what she sees/thinks when the information comes in from the ship. Kara gets into a debate with Natalie over pulling the hybrid offline. Natalie says that could kill her. While this is going on, Anders is staring at the control panel thing and tentatively puts his hand near it. At this point, I realize I’m holding my breath, waiting for him to dip his hand in and see what happens. He gets his hand so close to it but then Kara gives him an order and he pulls his hand away. Damnit! Kara, Natalie and a few other people go off to find the hybrid while Barolay, Anders, Athena, a Six and the Eight who talked to Athena earlier stay behind. Barolay’s pulling stuff off the raptor on Athena’s orders when the Six tells her that they met on New Caprica. She reminds Barolay that she killed her when they were working at the water treatment plant. Barolay apparently pulled this particular Six into the water and let her drown like an insect. Barolay expresses no remorse over this and her non-response sends the Six over the edge. She punches Barolay in the face then pushes her face into the side of the raptor. No one else has time to even react to this. Barolay says she’s ok, wipes her bloody nose and then falls to the ground. Anders and Athena run to check on her but she is dead. Anders freaks out and pulls his gun on the Six. He screams, “You want to know what it feels like to die? You’re nothing! You’re a frakkiing machine!” I’m thinking Anders is having some major self-loathing issues or perhaps seeing the death of his old comrade has caused him to regress a bit. Afterall, Barolay fought by his side since the original Cylon attacks. It’s understandable that her death would be devastating for him but his reaction to the Six is pretty harsh. He’s totally freaking out. Hearing the commotion, Natalie and Starbuck return. Starbuck yells at Anders and reminds him of what’s at stake. Athena points out that one of them just killed one of us and she can’t just let that go. Kara realizes she’s right, as does Natalie. Natalie approaches the Six, calling her “sister” and asks her why she did it. This is one of those great Tricia Helfer moments when we get to see the emotional rawness of her character(s) at its best. Because the Cylons normally resurrect when they die, it’s easy for us to think that death for them isn’t as big a deal as it would be for a human. After all, if you can come back, it’s not really dying, right? Wrong. A violent death is still a violent death and while humans don’t get to re-live to tell the tale, that might not be such a bad thing. Apparently, this Six’s drowning experience traumatized her. By her conversation with Natalie, we learn that it took some time for her to work through the experience and even then, she was still having nightmares. Natalie seems shocked and a little bit horrified to learn that it was Barolay who was the one who killed her but the damage is done. Barolay is dead and now this Six has to pay the price. The Sixes are emotionally fragile. Not unlike Gina (aka Pega-Six), this Six is still in pain over what was done to her and seems to almost embrace death. Natalie kisses her good-bye then grabs Anders’ gun and pulls the trigger, killing the Six. Anders’ is still all freaked out but Natalie points out that with no resurrection ship nearby, that Six is just as dead as his friend. They all go to see the hybrid. She’s babbling a lot of stuff that sounds like a combination of weird mataphors and commands to control the ship. Twice, she says “The children of the one reborn shall find their own country. End of line.” Kara doesn’t know what to make of this and Leoben tells her, “You have to absorb her words. Allow them to caress your associative mind.” Whatever. Time’s running out before they have to get back to Demetrius to make the jump to Galactica. They go to unplug the hybrid and it screams. A nearby centurion turns and shoots the Eight. She falls down near the hybrid’s tub and starts bleeding into the tub as Kara gets up and asks the hybrid what she needs to tell her. The hybrid looks right at Kara, touches her face and says, “The dying leader will know the truth of the opera house. The missing three will give you the five, who’ve 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.” Dying Eight is staring out into the distance. Natalie says it’s as if she doesn’t even see them anymore. Anders says, “She’s looking passed us.” He’s seen that look before but never in the eyes of a cylon. The Eight tells Athena that she was right and reaches out to touch her hand. Athena puts her hand out to touch it but then pulls it back and steps away. Athena is definitely having some issues connecting with her model, it seems. She’s unable to bring herself to touch her “sister.” Anders steps up and takes the Eight’s hand. He tells her it’s ok and that he’s with her. He watches her die and then closes her eyes. I’m wondering if his connecting with this Eight is part of him accepting that one of his own has just died or if it’s the human side of him that sees that Cylons aren’t so different. Maybe it’s a little bit of both. Either way, it looks like he’s beginning to make peace with whatever’s going on inside that Cylon mind of his. The group then starts picking apart what the hybrid said. They realize it’s the final five Cylons she was referring to and that the home of the thirteenth is earth. This must mean that the final five can lead them to earth, they think. The “missing three” is Deana and she can tell them who the final five are. Anders doesn’t pipe in and offer his own theories because he’s still looking at the dead Eight and let’s face it, it’s unlikely that he wants to have any final-five related discussions with Kara anytime soon. Meanwhile, back on the Demetrius, Gaeta’s looking half-dead and Helo’s staring at the clock. As time runs out, they spool up the FTL drive and prepare to jump back to Galactica without the Raptor crew. The countdown hits zero but with his wife and the rest of the raptor-people still not back, Helo can’t bring himself to jump away without them. Fortunately, within a minute or two, the basestar jumps in and Athena comes on the radio to tell them they’re back. Yay. Speaking of Galactica, between the scenes involving the Demetrius crew, the only Galactica story we got tonight dealt with Roslin dealing with her cancer and coming to question her beliefs, thanks to a fellow cancer patient. Before heading off to see Cottle for another round of treatment, a hairless Roslin tells Tory that she notices she seems to be in better shape than she was in the previous weeks. Tory’s hair situation does seem to be much tamer, which to me indicates that she’s gotten her stuff together. This is likely thanks to Baltar’s spiritual (and sexual) guidance. Roslin pretty much tells Tory that she’s essentially falling apart and needs her to keep an eye on everything. While resting up during her treatment, Roslin overhears a sick woman nearby complaining about her catheter. She stops by to talk to the woman, whose cancer is clearly at a more advanced stage than Roslins and the two exchange pleasantries. When Roslin notices that the woman is listening to Baltar preaching his religion via the radio, she makes a joke and goes to turn it off. The woman snaps at Roslin and tells her to go away. This woman is a believer. Later, the women, whose name is Emily, confesses to Roslin that she once dreamed that she was on a ferry crossing a river and saw her dead loved ones waiting for her on the other side. She said she was scared at first but then she felt surrounded by a hovering presence that was warm and loving. It told her not to be scared, to hold her hand and they’d cross over together. Roslin says lots of people have dreams like that. Emily assures her that she really was there. She felt the cool breeze on her skin and everything. She then references the things Baltar says about there being more to this existence than what we can see with the naked eye and a power that we can’t understand. Roslin’s listening but at this point, it seems like she still thinks it’s a bunch of crap. As the conversation goes on, they talk about the difference between Baltar’s God (whom, Roslin points out is the Cylon God) vs. the Lords of Kobol. Emily is ok with the Cylons sharing a God with the humans. If he really is God then it makes sense that he’s everyone’s God, right? Emily has clearly abandoned the Lords of Kobol as her gods, calling them capricious and vindictive. Laura says they’re metaphors to which Emily responds by saying she doesn’t need metaphors, she needs answers. Laura says her mother wasn’t satisfied with metaphors either. She talks about her mother going from being this amazing strong woman, to virtually withering away when the cancer started to kill her. It’s a tearful scene that breaks my heart. It’s clear that these memories of her mother are very close to the surface for Roslin right now, understandably so, given what she’s currently going through. Laura says at the moment her mother died, there was just a dark black abyss and her mother was terrified. Emily points out that it was Laura who saw only darkness and was terrified, not her mother and that she couldn’t possibly know what her mother experienced. Emily then seizes up and Cottle gets her some morphine. When we next see Laura, she’s on a ferry. Her hair is long and she looks healthy. She’s standing next to a beautiful, healthy looking Emily. They look across the river and see people laughing and looking joyful, ready to greet Emily. Emily gets off the ferry and runs into their arms. Laura then sees her mother across the river. There are others in sight also waiting. Laura says “Mother. You’re ok.” And smiles tearfully. She shakes her head at them though and whispers, “I’m not ready.” When she wakes up, Baltar’s voice is coming in over the radio, talking about the river and the things that exist that we can’t see, touch or taste. Another realm. Roslin goes to see Emily but her bed is empty. Emily is presumably dead. Roslin goes to visit Adama in his quarters. There’s something odd about seeing the president of the colonies, dressed in a robe with a scarf on her head and the admiral of the fleet in his PJs, kicking back together. Laura tells him about her dream and Adama asks her if she thinks there might be something to what Baltar’s been preaching. Roslin isn’t sure but the fact that she’s even considering it says a lot. Adama mentions everything that’s happened lately (Lee turning in his wings, Kara returning, whether or not he’ll see the Demetrius crew again). Roslin says to Adama that she’s here and they’re going to find earth together. Adama tells her he used to use earth as a carrot to motivate the crew. Now he actually believes they’ll find it. Roslins asks him what changed is mind and he responds, “you.” Next week on BSG, Hera’s drawing creepy pictures of herself with Caprica Six. Athena freaks out over it. RELATED: battlestar galactica, scifi, bsg
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