Battlestar Galactica – Recap – Episode 2-20

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Battlestar Galactica Episode 2:20 Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2

Quote:
Adama “No harm! You completely annihilated our race, destroyed our civilization.”
Cavell “Now if you are going to start pointing fingers.”

Previously on Battlestar Galactica

Sharon had her baby, thinks they murdered it, but instead they gave it to some hot chick names Maya. Lee and Dualla love each other. Tyrol has issues and beats the crap out of Cally, leading him to meet with some weird priest dude. Pegasus had a prisoner version of Six which they raped and tortured, Baltar helped her escape and gave her a nice little house warming present, a nuclear bomb. Baltar takes a break from banging Cylons to run for president. Racetrack screws up, and finds a habitable planet. Baltar decided to push for permanent colonization of the new planet as a campaign issue. Starbuck shows up to rescue Anders and his Caprica resistance force, and they get ambushed by the Cylons.

Opening Theme
Population Count: 49,550

Cylon Occupied Caprica

The Cylons are on the move attacking Starbuck’s Marine forces, and the resistance fighters. The fall back to find a defendable position.

Cottle examines Cally and her broken jaw. He says she can go back to work. She doesn’t think she’s ready.. Chief Tyrol shows up, despondent, and apologetic. Cally says she forgives him, that it wasn’t him. Tyrol rambles some more, and she basically tells him that she cares for him, always has and always will. He looks confused. Dope.

The fighters on Caprica are taking heavy fire. They find a position behind some rocks. They yell “frak” a lot. The shooting stops. Sharon tells them that they will be bringing in gas, to take prisoners and send the females to the farm. Starbuck tells Anders if that happens to kill her before the Cylons get her and send her back to a farm. He’s not happy, but agrees.

Roslin talks politics. Bitches about Baltar and the frakkin’ planet. She knows that settling on the planet will be disaster for the fleet. Roslin acts fatalistic, but Tory says that there is always a backup plan for victory.

Back on Caprica, after 18 hours there is still no movement by the Cylons. Starbuck sends out a recon team. The Cylons are gone. A pries looking exactly like Cavell shows up and says, “Thank the gods…” So, if anyone is wondered, yes, Cavell is a Cylon. Seven of twelve now have been revealed. Cavell is now shown praying with Roslin

Commercial Break

Baltar shows up to meet with Adama, instead Roslin is there. She offers him a deal, they put a moratorium on the permanent settlement issue until after the election when they can do more research. Baltar doesn’t accept and takes some shots at Roslin. Roslin questions him about her memory of seeing him with Natasi (Six) before the war. Six tells him that Roslin knows, that he needs to get out now. He says that she is stooping to a new low.

Ellen Tigh wants to move down to the planet (let her!!). She actually wants Saul to go with her. Tigh gets a call that Starbucks back.

Starbuck is back on Galactica with Anders and the refugees from Caprica. She hugs Adama and introduces him to Anders. They talk about Pyramids a bit. Starbuck tells him that the Cylons have left Caprica. Cavell gets off the ship and says it’s true. Chief Tyrol sees him, tackles him and calls for security, telling everyone he’s a Cylon. Cavell admits he is a Cylon and says he has a message. He says, “Take me to your leader.” Adama orders him and Sharon to the brig.

Commercial Break

Helo asks Sharon why she didn’t tell anyone that Cavell was a Cylon. She said she didn’t really want to, that maybe she wanted him to blow up the ship. Helo is pissed. Sharon says she doesn’t care about him or anything else, they killed her baby. Helo says he still loves her, and he’s not giving up.

Anders and Starbuck get drunk, and make out a bit. Lee shows up. Awkward! He seems out of place. Starbuck says he needs a girl, he says he’s doing fine. She asks him if he is still frakking Dualla, in not so nice of a fashion. He gets pissed and leaves. Starbuck and Anders continue their foreplay.

Cavell tells Roslin he is there to deliver a message. The other Cavell is brought in complaining, saying that he is not a frakkin’ Cylon. Then he sees his twin and says, “Oh…. well, OK then.” Cavell apologizes to Cavell. He tells him it has been decided that the occupation of the colonies was an error. He says that Sharon and Caprica Six has managed to swing Cylon opinion in their favor, that it was time for a new beginning. They say that the pursuit of the fleet was also an error, leading them to become like the humans. He says that they should be true to themselves. They are machines and should be the best machines in the universe, but they became obsessed with being the children of humanity. So, instead of pursuing their own destiny, they hijacked humanity’s. He says that the humans have been given a reprieve, no harm done. Roslin asks about their plans for the future, and Cavell doesn’t want to reveal it. Roslin tells the guards to put them out the airlock.

Note: Cavell is the Best Cylon Ever! A Cylon with a sense of humor, the humans are screwed now.

Commercial Break

Election Day

They are in a room counting the votes. The military is overseeing civilian volunteers in the vote counting process. Gaeta, Tigh and Dualla seem to be in charge. Preliminary results have Baltar with a significant lead. Tory calls Tigh over a secure line, saying they need to act now. Dualla intercepts a shipment of votes from Zephyr. She hands them off to some soldiers, who seemingly take them to the voting room. The counting continues.

The radio announcer announces the results, in a shocker, Roslin wins in an amazing come from behind victory.

Zareck thinks it was fixed. Baltar says that Roslin is not corrupt or dishonest.

Adama congratulates Roslin.

Yet, nothing gets by Gaeta. He notices something odd about the ballots, He said their was a misprint on the Zephyr’s ballots, but on the new ballots don’t have the misprints. He tells Tigh, who doesn’t seem all that impressed but says he will take care of it. Gaeta, who can’t let anything go, calls Adama and says he think that Tigh is rigging the election.

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Adama tells Roslin about Tigh and Tory’s plan to rig the election. That there will be a tribunal. Roslin tells Adama that she knew about Tory’s plan. She tells him that Baltar can’t become president. She tells him that Baltar is working with the Cylons, that she saw him with Six. Adama says she has no proof. Adama says that they can’t fix the election. That they never would be able to live with themselves. He says that she would die inside. She says it’s the wrong choice.

Adama tells Baltar that there was an error, that he is now President. Baltar is indignant, says that there will be an investigation. Adama tells him to drop it. Baltar says he can be magnanimous in victory. He tells him to set a course for New Caprica.

The fleet jumps to New Caprica.

“Now let’s get a look at our new home, gods help us all.” Adama

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Baltar meets with “Brig” Six (the Pegasus Cylon Prisoner.) He says that now that he is president they may not see each other much. He says they will connect on new Caprica. She says she’s not going to new Caprica. He acts confused, then gets pissed at her. He tries to storm out, but then she tells him to stay. She starts to take her clothes off. He decide to stay… and then wink, win, nudge, nudge….. (umm, they do it.)

Baltar is sworn into the Presidency. He announces a executive order that they will begin settlement of New Caprica immediately.

“Brig” Six listens. She has the nuclear device before her. She reaches for it.

Cloud Nine blows up.

Adama meets with Baltar. Says that they suspect the warhead was stloen from his lab. Adama thinks this may be the first step to a Cylon attack. He thinks they should worry about security. Baltrar says that they need to start settlement right away. Baltar is in tears. He lays his head on his desk.

One Year Later

When he raises his head up, Gaeta is waking him up. Talking about union issues. Baltar is griping about everything. Some hot chicks are getting dressed in the background. He asks how many Cylon attacks have their been since he took office. Gaete answers that there have been none. He says if the Union workers don’t get it together that they will be locked in detention.

Commercial Break

Battlestar Galactica
Orbital Defense Patrol
Day 380

Galactica is a ghost ship, and Adama has a mustache. Freaky. He meets with Tigh, telling him that he should move in with Ellen on the surface. There is some back and forth, but Tigh basically agrees. Tigh says the Cylons could still show up. Adama doesn’t think they will.

New Caprica City
Population Count 39,192

The City is being built. It seems cold a dreary. Starbuck is looking for Anders. He is playing Pyramids, but has a hacking cough. Starbuck calls him an idiot. That he is sick and needs to be in bed. Starbuck says she can’t believe she married a moron. Cottle tells her that he probably has Pneumonia, but he has no antibiotics. He says with a little luck, he may live. Starbuck is not happy.

Tigh and Ellen are walking through town. They come to a Union meeting that Chief Tyrol, and a very pregnant Cally seem to be leading. Tyrol is the Union President.

Starbuck hugs Tigh… weird. She asks him for help finding antibiotics. He tells her that Pegasus has a back stash, she should call Apollo. She doubts he would give her any.

Tyrol calls for a strike, with a moving speech.

Roslin and Maya are teaching school. They trash talk President Baltar a bit. Maya goes and gets the baby… hybrid babies are so cute.

Starbuck contacts Lee who is on the Pegasus with a skeleton crew, including Dualla. She asks him for a favor, for antibiotics for Anders. Before he can answer Dualla says she sees something on Dradus.

It’s a Cylon Fleet. Not good.

The Cylons jump to the planet. Lee tells Adama they need to jump away, becuase they are in no place to fight. Helo asks Adama if they need to launch alert fighters. Adama says no, and orders the fleet to jump.

Gaeta tells Baltar that the Cylons just jumped into orbit. Six appears to Baltar and says, “Judgement Day.”

Some weird guy shows up and tells Anders that he is looking for Starbuck.

On Colonial One, a Cylon delegation shows up, including a Sharon Valerie, Six (probably Natasi, the “Caprica” Six version) and Doral. Baltar introduces himself, and Six says she knows very well who he is. Sharon says that no one will be hurt if they don’t resist. Baltar asks how he can know that, and Doral says he can’t but he has no choice. Baltrar asks how they found them, and they said they detected the signature from a nuclear detonation. The Cylons say they need a “new beginning” that they need to become their true selves not by destroying humans, but by protecting them from themselves and acting like overseers. Baltar of course, quickly surrenders.

Centurians march down the streets of New Caprica.

Closing Credits