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Battlestar Galactica: "Razor" and "The plan"
Timeline: miniseries (2003)>season 1 (2004)>season 2
(2005)>Razor>season 3(2006)>season 4(2008)>The plan
This is your admiral. I know there've been a lot of rumors going
around...about the destruction that's been visited on our
homeworlds by the Cylons. I would like to tell you that they're
exaggerations, but in fact it can not even come close to convey the horror
that's been unleashed upon us. The facts are...that our colonies have been
destroyed, our cities have been nuked, and our fleet's gone too. So far
there have been no indications of any other survivors. I imagine you're all
asking yourselves the same question I am: What do we do now? Do we run? Do
we hide? I think those are the easy choices. A philosopher once said "When
faced with untenable alternatives you should consider your imperative." Look
around you. Our imperative is right here, in our bulkheads, in our planes,
in our guns and in ourselves. War is our imperative. And if right now
victory seems like an impossibility, then we have something else to reach
for: revenge, payback. So we will fight. Because in the end it's the only
alternative our enemies have left us. I say let's make these murdering
things understand that as long as this crew and this ship survive, that this
war, that they started, will not be over. Thank you.
Opening narration by Kendra Shaw:
You're born, you live and you die. There are no do-overs, no second
chances to make things right if you frak 'em up the first time. Not in this
life anyway. [...] Like I said, you make your choices and you live with
them. And in end you are those choices.
In the episode these stories are largely told in parallel, flashing between
the different time periods. Below the different story lines are listed
chronologically.
First Cylon War
William Adama
Razor DVD Only: At the end of the first
Cylon War, a Colonial battle group conducts
Operation Raptor Talon against a
Cylon planet presumed to house a super weapon. During the battle,
the
battlestar
Columbia is pummeled from
basestar salvos and is subsequently destroyed. Adama then spots two
Raiders entering the planet's atmosphere. Out for revenge, Adama engages
the two. He shoots down one in the high altitudes, but collides with the
other and is forced to eject.
Razor DVD Only: However, a
Centurion survived as well and shoots at Adama during the free-fall.
Adama shoots back and the two eventually engage in hand-to-hand combat.
When the Centurion tries to use a blade on Adama, Adama pulls his
parachute's rip cord to slow his descent, watching as the Centurion
falls to the ground. Adama lands safely on the ground, crashing through
what appears to be a warehouse sky-window. There he encounters the
Centurion and kills it by repeatedly smashing its head with a pipe.
As Adama enters what appears to be a Cylon laboratory, he finds evidence
of human experimentation and human mutilations. He eventually finds a vat
filled with a gelatin-like substance which is reminiscent of the
resurrection tanks or
Hybrid
tanks that the later
humanoid Cylons would use.
He kneels down and touches the substance, and immediately begins to hear
the screams of torture victims. As he looks back at the tank, a hand
abruptly grabs his arm. The hand disappears just as quickly as it appeared,
and Adama falls back to the ground. A voice is heard, quoting from the
Pythian
prophecies: "All this has happened before and will happen again."
A banging sound is heard from a locked chamber nearby. As Adama
approaches the window of the chamber, an unidentified man presses his face
against the window and begs Adama to release him and the other captives.
Adama finds a piece of metal nearby, and attempts to break open the door to
the chamber.
As Adama attempts to free the door, the man tells him that they are
civilians from the
Gemenese ship Diana,
whose convoy was attacked by the Cylons, and that there were initially 50 of
them who were taken away one by one.
Suddenly the ground begins to tremble. Adama manages to open the door a
little bit, but not enough to allow the captives to escape. The man urges
Adama to leave them and save himself. He asks Adama to tell others of what
has happened to them. Adama finally complies after he realizes that he
cannot free the prisoners, and runs out of the laboratory.
Emerging from the laboratory warehouse, Adama sees the
Guardian basestar lifting off into the clouds. He radios his findings
about the Cylon experimentation on humans to
Galactica, but the young pilot is shocked to learn that an armistice
has just been signed, and the war is over.
Helena Cain
This entire story segment is contained exclusively on the unrated,
extended DVD version of "Razor".
At the same time
Tauron is under attack by Cylon basestars and Centurion ground forces. A
young
Helena Cain, her sister
Lucy
and her
father are pinned down in a building under heavy fire. The three attempt
to escape after the last remaining marines in the building are gunned down.
When her father is injured by mortar fire, he tells Helena to get Lucy to a
shelter before dying.
The sisters make it out of the building, but Lucy trips over concrete
rubble and injures herself, unable to go on. Helena panics, yelling at Lucy
to get up and run. She eventually leaves Lucy in the field of rubble and
runs away to hide in a container. A group of Centurions appears and
surrounds Lucy, who continues to cry out Helena's name.
A Centurion discovers Helena inside the container. She finds a knife on
the floor and nervously approaches the Centurion, preparing to attack it.
The Centurion stops approaching the girl and retreats from the
container, apparently having received instructions and information that the
Cylon War is over and an armistice was signed. When Helena comes out, she
finds only her sister's doll on the ground, and watches the Raiders leave
the planet.
Admiral
Helena Cain is in her quarters, reviewing a crew status report as her
XO, Colonel
Jurgen Belzen enters. He lightly encourages her to take her shore leave,
but she insists that she could never leave Pegasus in the hands of
the civilian contractors assigned to oversee her overhaul.
In the port hangar bay, Raptor 179 has recently arrived. With orders to
report directly to
CIC,
Shaw steps down and asks a pair of passing crewman to help her locate it.
The crewman, however, are too busy to notice her.
Shaw wanders through the port
flight pod, past groups of busy civilians, until she finds
Gina Inviere, a civilian network administrator assigned to Pegasus's
overhaul. Inviere shows Shaw a map of Pegasus, with a route to the
CIC, and the two discuss the origins of Gina's last name.
Shaw eventually reaches the CIC, where she finds Cain and Belzen at the
Command and Control station. Shaw drops her gear and salutes the admiral.
Cain is harsh on her new aide. She grills Shaw for being late to the CIC,
concluding that she either stopped for a cup of coffee, or got lost. After
Shaw leaves, Cain breaks out in laughter with Belzen, revealing that she
only had a joke at the lieutenant's expense.
Louis Hoshi escorts her to her quarters. As they are walking down the
hallway, a large blast shakes Pegasus, and the noise ripples through
the hallway. Shaw and Hoshi are immediately thrown to the floor. As Shaw
awakens, she is in a daze. She looks around to find Hoshi unconscious on the
floor. The hallway has suddenly become a disaster area.
Admiral Cain, who was on her way to her quarters at the time, finds Shaw
and Hoshi in the corridor. She asks Shaw if she is alright, but when she
doesn’t respond, Cain slaps her in the face. Shaw immediately awakens. The
hallway echoes with screams of horror, and the
Condition One sirens blare. After an aborted attempt to wake Hoshi, the
two head to the CIC.
Pegasus is on fire in space.
Cylon Raiders flood the shipyard; missiles strike two helpless
Valkyrie-type battlestars nearby.
In the CIC, Colonel
Fisk
and many of the CIC personnel are unconscious. Belzen is coordinating the
response effort, but there have been multiple nuclear detonations. Luckily
however, the battlestar still has main power and propulsion, but that’s
about it.
DRADIS and weapons have both been knocked out.
The Cylon attack is taking its toll on the shipyards. The two
Valkyrie-type battlestars lose their moorings and one crashes into the
shipyards, instantly destroying it.
Cain orders the ship to seal all hatches and release all moorings in
preparation for an immediate departure. As the ship evacuates the shipyards,
Cain orders the
FTL drive spun up for an immediate jump.
A Cylon Raider fires two nuclear missiles at Pegasus from across
the shipyards. The missiles fly past a
Galactica type battlestar as its moorings are destroyed, and past the
wreckage of several other battlestars and support vessels.
Cain orders an immediate jump, but Shaw says that with the navigational
computer off-line, she would have to enter a random set of coordinates,
which could take the battlestar anywhere, possibly within a star or
other larger astral body. Cain yells back at her to do it anyway, and the
battlestar jumps away.
So Say We All
Two days since the attack on the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards, Pegasus
is four to five jumps away from the Colonies. Belzen reports that many of
Pegasus's
Vipers and
Raptors
are either destroyed or beyond repair, over a quarter of the crew is dead,
and rumors are circulating about the destruction of the Twelve Colonies and
the
Colonial Fleet.
Shaw has been working without sleep to restore the navigational and
defense computer systems, and she has finally done it. Additionally, she has
discovered lines of hidden Cylon computer code inside the
Command Navigation Program, which was fortunately down during the
attack. Shaw suggests that the entire program be purged from the system.
After ordering two Raptors on a reconnaissance mission back to the
Colonies, the time has finally come for Cain to reveal the extent of the
devastation at home to her crew. She tells them that their colonies have
been destroyed, their cities nuked, their fleet obliterated. While the
victory of one ship may seem unattainable when even their very survival is
at stake, she tells them that they have revenge to reach for instead.
In an expression of determination and conviction, the crew resoundingly
shouts, “So say we all!” over and over, after hearing Cain’s words.
Cain, Shaw, Fisk and Belzen are in the admiral’s quarters, looking over
recently gathered intelligence for a low-risk attack on a Cylon outpost.
They are discussing a somewhat isolated communications relay when Gina
Inviere enters. She greets the admiral with a kiss and a flirtatious
shoulder pinch, and the five sit down to enjoy some wine and conversation.
Cain assures her senior staff that while she does want to engage in
guerrilla warfare tactics against the Cylons, she is not willing to put the
ship and crew in any amount of excessive danger.
Shaw and Inviere are working on firewalling all of Pegasus's
computer networks to prevent them from being infiltrated by the Cylons, but
constantly having to find a senior officer to input their command codes for
system access is making the process take exceedingly long. Inviere
discreetly complains about it, and Shaw says that under the circumstances,
she would speak to Cain about raising her clearance. In the meantime, she
gives Inviere her own command code to use. Inviere then discusses her
relationship with Cain in greater detail.
Battle of the Communications Relay
Pegasus prepares for a hit-and-run attack on what appears to be a
somewhat neglected Cylon communications relay. However, when Pegasus
arrives, there are twelve Cylon Raiders guarding the relay. Despite the
increased enemy presence, Cain orders
Blue Squadron to advance.
Almost the second after the Vipers are launched, fifteen enemy squadrons
of fighters jump into DRADIS range. Cain orders Pegasus's defensive
fire concentrated on the incoming attack squadrons, but Shaw reports that
the weapons grid won't respond to commands.
In spite of the odds, Cain orders Belzen to launch the reserve Vipers,
but he insists that taking such an action would cost too many lives and
resources. She persists in her orders, but Belzen refuses to carry them out.
Cain orders Belzen to hand her his sidearm, which she uses to shoot him in
the forehead, in front of the entire bridge crew.
Cain turns to a stunned Fisk, tells him that he is now the
XO and orders him to launch the reserve Vipers. Fisk, nearly petrified
by what he just saw, is more than compelled to follow the order. As the last
of Pegasus’s remaining squadrons launch, Cylon batteries pound the
hull.
With the weapons grid down, Cylon
Heavy Raiders easily breach Pegasus’s defensive perimeter.
Centurions begin pouring into the ship through breached
airlocks.
Cain orders fast-response teams of
Marines to engage the Centurions, and orders Shaw to Secondary Damage
Control, as she fears that the Cylons will use this junction to vent all of
Pegasus’s air into space.
As Shaw heads to Secondary Damage Control, she finds Gina Inviere trying
to escape the Centurions, and orders her to the CIC. As she peers around the
corner, she is almost seen by a Centurion. She waits for it to leave, and as
she turns the corner to go down the hallway, she sees a
Number Six Cylon, following the Centurion. At first, Shaw doesn’t
understand what she sees, but then it comes together –
the Cylons can mimic human form, and Gina Inviere is one of them. Shaw
shoots and kills the Six, leaving it dead right in front of a security
camera.
Shaw immediately heads to the CIC to take Inviere, now also in CIC, into
custody before she can do any more harm. In the CIC, she directs her weapon
at Inviere, and orders the Marines to take her into custody. When Cain
belays the order, Shaw states that Gina is a Cylon infiltrator and that
"they can look like us". When Cain scoffs, Shaw asks Hoshi to display the
security feed from Airlock 4.
Cain balks at the image of the dead humanoid Cylon in the form of her
lover. Feeling betrayed and without any other options, she orders the guards
to remove Inviere ("this thing") from the bridge. As a Cylon missile
strikes Pegasus, Gina uses the moment to flip her captor around by
the jaw, and gains control of his
weapon, which she uses to shoot his comrade. She then snaps the Marine's
neck, and trains her weapon on Cain. In a moment of hesitation, Inviere
cannot bring herself to shoot Cain, and Shaw sneaks up behind her, clubbing
the Cylon over the head with the butt of her rifle.
Massacre aboard the Scylla
The victory at the communications relay is bittersweet. Over eight
hundred of Pegasus’s original crew are now dead , over 90 Vipers are
either destroyed or out of commission, and the deck crew doesn't have the
resources to repair all remaining ones.
As Cain and Shaw discuss the battle, Gina Inviere looks on from her
cell. Shaw blames herself for the high cost of the battle, for giving
Inviere her access codes, which she used to take down the weapons grid.
The hatch opens, and Lieutenant
Alastair Thorne salutes Admiral Cain. Cain orders him to use whatever
means he can conjure to retrieve information from Inviere, including torture
and rape. As Thorne enters Inviere’s cell, Cain is called to the CIC.
As Cain enters the CIC, Fisk is elated to inform the admiral that a
convoy of 15 civilian ships has been detected. Fisk and Shaw are thrilled at
the discovery, but the mood quickly turns sour when they realize Cain has
other things on her mind. Cain orders Fisk to prepare teams of Marines and
engineers to board each ship. They will take what they need, including spare
parts and people, and leave the ships without FTL drives to fend for
themselves.
Fisk and Shaw come aboard the Scylla,
where they find a relieved welcoming party.
Peter Laird is the first to welcome them aboard. Excitement quickly
turns to confusion however, when they hand Laird a list of Admiral Cain’s
orders. Laird is shocked to learn that Cain wants to take their FTL drives.
Laird informs the welcoming party, and they suddenly become an angry mob.
Shaw informs them that they will use force if necessary, but Laird
persistently refuses.
As the mob inches closer to the boarding party, Fisk reports to Cain of
the escalating situation. In an act that surprises even him, she orders him
to shoot the families of any selectee that doesn’t comply with the orders.
Fisk and the Marines are wary of the order, but they line up a couple of
the families despite their reservations, hoping that showing the mob their
resolve will force them to comply. The angry mob suddenly becomes violent –
they throw whatever they can at the boarding party.
At that very moment, Shaw pulls out her sidearm, and shoots a woman in
the front in the head. The Marines follow suit, and before very long, the
deck of the Scylla is painted with the blood of the dead. Shaw’s gaze
drifts to her sidearm, still smoking from the shot, and then up to Laird,
who is too stunned to move.
In the aftermath, Shaw cannot bring her eyes to look upon the dead. Fisk
comforts her by telling her that the entire fleet heard about what happened
and there should be no more resistance. As her party leaves the Scylla,
she can’t help but look back.
For her actions aboard the Scylla, Cain promotes Shaw to captain.
It is small comfort to Shaw, who is still anguished by what she has done.
Seeing her vulnerability, Cain tells Shaw that the war is forcing them all
to do things that they may not like, even hate, because if they don’t, then
they may not live to simply become human again. By putting aside her fear,
her reservations, even her revulsion to complete the mission, Shaw has
become Cain’s "razor".
Present events
Newly-promoted Commander
Lee Adama is formally appointed commander of Pegasus by
Laura Roslin in front of the ship's crew. In his speech he promises to
change things on the battlestar and announces
Kara Thrace's appointment as acting
CAG.
Shaw follows the speech on the
wireless set, but eventually switches it off. She walks to a jar, takes
out a syringe and injects herself with a drug. She is still troubled about
what happened on the Scylla.
Next, she is summoned to Adama's office, who reads her service file and
points out that she received glowing reports from Cain, but increasingly
negatives ones from Fisk and
Garner, who eventually assigned her to kitchen duty because of
"persistent insubordinate behavior". After listening to Shaw's candid
opinions about him and his predecessors, Adama offers her the job of
executive officer; he intends to give the crew back its pride, and as an
outsider he needs someone to uphold Cain's legacy.
During a firearms drill, she shows competence but also how hard she is
on the crew. William Adama comments that his son found an XO meaner than
Saul
Tigh.
The Admiral gives Commander Adama his first mission: a
search and
rescue for two pilots and a civilian science team in an overdue Raptor.
At their destination, Starbuck and
Showboat conduct a Viper patrol and suddenly encounter enemy fighters of
an unfamiliar configuration. Although able to identify them as Cylons,
Starbuck doesn't realize that they are in fact
Raiders like the ones used in the first Cylon War.
Pegasus establishes a defensive perimeter and orders the Vipers
to return prior to an FTL jump. When the
navigational computer malfunctions and the Raiders close, Shaw orders to
the vessel's offensive flight pod
batteries turned on the incoming targets, placing Starbuck and Showboat
inside the battlestar's close-in firing solution. Struggling their way
through the barrage, a Raider follows them into the
flight pod, which Starbuck shoots down once inside the landing bay. On
the
hangar deck, she angrily confronts Shaw over her decision to open fire,
but Adama defends his XO.
Pegasus returns to the
Fleet, and Admiral Adama, Roslin and Tigh inspect the downed Raider on
the hangar deck.
Sharon Valerii recalls the "Guardians",
a group of
original Centurion models that escaped being scrapped by the
humanoid Cylons. The Guardians guard the
first Hybrid, created by the Cylons as a first attempt at an organic
model and eventually abandoned as an evolutionary dead end. This causes
Adama to remember the events on the ice planet on the last day of the Cylon
War, finally realizing the significance of what he saw over 40 years ago.
After examining the Raider's navigational data, Admiral Adama believes
that the Raptor crew was captured by the Guardians and orders his son to
jump to a possible base of theirs. For the duration of the operation, he
transfers his flag to Pegasus, but assures Lee that it will be his
mission.
Shaw drafts an attack plan for Pegasus to draw Cylon forces away
while a Raptor, piloted by Thrace and carrying a strike team, jumps to the
Cylon base. Before signing off on the plan, Lee Adama confronts Shaw over
the incident on the Scylla. She just replies that she is Cain's
legacy - a razor - and that Cain wouldn't have hesitated to execute the
plan.
Before the battle Shaw is about to take another shot of the drug and
when she is caught by Thrace, who is looking for a bottle of
ambrosia. The two stalemate and agree to keep each other's secrets, and
realize that they are more alike than they thought.
Razor DVD Only: Thrace is going over the Raptor prepared for
the mission and told by Shaw that Chief Tyrol already checked
everything. During their chat, the two notice that Thrace's
mother and Admiral Cain weren't too different, advising to repress
one's fear and focus on the anger. Thrace remarks that her mother only
had her anger left in the end and died alone.
The mission doesn't go as planned when the strike team's Raptor is
pursued by two Raiders. They simulate an engine malfunction, emergency blow
the side hatch and sling themselves out of the flat-spinning Raptor before
it is destroyed by the Cylons, escaping undetected. Using EVA thrusters,
they make their way to the Guardian basestar.
Thrace, Shaw,
Mathias,
Dasilva
and Hudson
find the missing Raptor crew, whom the Cylons mutilate in a manner similar
to what William Adama saw in the first Cylon War. As they free the
survivors, two Centurions attack, wound Dasilva and begin to drag him away.
Unwilling to let him suffer same treatment as the Raptor crew, Shaw shoots
Dasilva, but in turn is shot in the abdomen.
While under cover from the firefight, Mathias reports to Pegasus
that the detonator for the nuclear warhead, which they plan to use to
destroy the basestar, is damaged.
Pegasus loses wireless contact with the boarding team and Lee
Adama orders a
nuclear ship to ship missile to be armed and readied. Thrace herself
considers the "mission outcome doubtful". Assuming that the team is dead,
Commander Adama orders the launch of the missile, but is overridden by his
father, who wants to give the team a chance.
After reestablishing contact and learning that an evacuation Raptor is
on the way, Shaw orders Mathias to rig a manual detonator for the nuke,
determined to complete the mission. While Lee is reluctant to sacrifice
someone to detonate the warhead, his father believes that the Cylons would
easily shoot down a missile, but leaves the final decision to Lee. He orders
Thrace to get the team to safety, but to stay behind and detonate the nuke
manually.
The team prepares to suit up and leave, when Shaw forces Thrace to hand
over the warhead at gunpoint and remains on the baseship. Walking through
the hallways, she finds the Cylon Hybrid, who knows her name, saying that he
has been waiting for her for a long time. He tells her that the Centurions
worship him as god, and observes Shaw's desire to be forgiven for what she
has become. The Hybrid also delivers a warning about Thrace: she will lead
the human race to its end, she is the herald of the apocalypse and the
harbinger of death, and she must not be followed.
Shaw tries to relay this to Pegasus, but her transmission is
blocked by Cylon jamming shortly after the start, and the warning is not
heard. She then detonates the nuke, killing herself and destroying the
basestar.
Later, the Adamas discuss the battle and its outcome, the admiral noting
Thrace's recommendation of Shaw for a posthumous commendation. Reviewing the
logs, Admiral Adama doesn't find fault in either Cain's or Shaw's decisions,
but Commander Adama vehemently disagrees, citing the Scylla. The
admiral replies that he never had to face similar circumstances, and that he
had people like Lee, Roslin and Tigh to counsel and challenge him and keep
him from making extreme and questionable decisions. He comforts Lee, telling
him that his decision to launch the nuclear missile and sacrifice the strike
team wasn't wrong, just necessary from Lee's perspective at the time.
Outside
Adama's quarters, Lee meets Thrace, who now has Cain's knife given to
her by Shaw. She is unsure if Shaw sacrificed herself as atonement or if she
just "had it coming." Thrace tells him that she requested reassignment back
to Galactica because she thinks Lee would keep trying to get her
killed. When asked if she might deserve that, she jokingly replies that she
has a
destiny and plans to live to keep it.
THE PLAN
ratting: 5.5/10
TV:14:LSV
prohibited for children below 14; contains scenes of mature language, sex and
violence;
The cylons were created by man. They evolved,
they rebelled and they have a plan.....
The Hybrid: Progress reports arriving. The farms of
Aerilon are burning. The beaches of Canceron are burning. The plains of Leonis
are burning. The jungles of Scorpia are burning. The pastures of Tauron are
burning. The harbors of Picon are burning. The cities of Caprica are burning.
The oceans of Aquaria are burning. The courthouses of Libran are burning. The
forests of Virgon are burning. The Colonies of Man lie trampled at our feet.
The story begins in medias res, with the two Cavils from "Lay
Down Your Burdens, Part II" being escorted to the airlock. The two Cavils
argue about the worthiness of their plan to destroy humanity, with Caprica-Cavil
beginning to tell Galactica-Cavil why the genocide of humanity was a mistake.
Two weeks before the attack, two
Number Ones in a
Resurrection Ship near
the Colony are standing over the
resurrection tanks containing insensate copies of the "Final
Five:"
Ellen Tigh,
Saul
Tigh,
Samuel T. Anders,
Galen Tyrol and
Tory Foster. The Ones expect that the Final Five will be killed in the
destruction of the Twelve Colonies and then resurrect into these bodies and
apologize to the Ones for their former appreciation of humanity. One of the
Ones plans on joining the active version of Ellen Tigh on
Picon so that he can experience the holocaust in person, while the other
One will go to
Caprica to make final arrangements with their contact.
Fourteen hours before the attack,
Gaius Baltar and
Six walk through the Government Center Plaza in
Caprica City. Shortly after their goodbyes, Six meets up with One and
passes off the access codes to the
Colonial Defense Mainframe. One recommends she kill herself before the
attack, suggesting poison as a relatively easy method.
Shortly before the attack, Ellen is in the Club Pink Moon, a topless bar
on Picon. The other One approaches her and strikes up a conversation, with
Cavil introducing himself as a "mysterious stranger." She asks if he is a
priest, and he ducks the question.
At the Colony, the Cylon fleet stands in formation. The
Hybrid
gives the order and the
basestars simultaneously jump to the Colonies.
In the Caprican city of Delphi, Tory Foster is driving to the airport to
catch a flight to Caprica City. En route, she is talking with a man on the
phone about her government work.
Above Caprica, dozens of basestars and at least one
Resurrection Ship jump into orbit. Several of the basestars rotate
around their axes to form a y-pattern, allowing them to enter Caprica's
atmosphere.
The Hybrid, presumably using the access codes given to Cavil by Six,
infiltrates Colonial defenses.
Yashuman and two other battlestars prepare to engage the
Cylons above Caprica.
On Picon, Ellen and Cavil debate the ability of people to change.
Ellen's flippant, rebuking response to Cavil's argument for others needing
"correcting" visibly frustrates him. She later tells him that people who let
others make them change or apologize sell themselves out.
In orbit of Caprica, three
Valkyrie type battlestars led by the battlestar
Yashuman, along with several wings of
Viper Mk. VIIs, move to intercept the Cylons. Caprican Control reports
that they are unable to track and respond to the Cylons due to a system-wide
crash in the defense mainframe.
As the Colonials prepare to engage, the Cylons use the backdoors
installed by
Six into the
Command Navigation Program to shut down the Colonial ships. The
battlestars and Vipers drift helplessly in space, unable to speak to each
other.
A Cylon MIRV.
The Cylons launch multiple missiles towards the surface of Caprica. As
they approach the ground, the missiles open up to reveal over a
dozen independent nuclear warheads in each. The warheads separate,
vector off in multiple directions and detonate.
On Picon, Ellen and Cavil are startled as a nuclear shock wave hits the
Pink Moon, indicating detonations on that planet as well. Cavil shields
Ellen as the shock wave hits them.
Delphi is hit, and Foster watches in horror as the shock wave consumes
her vehicle.
Anders quietly whispers to himself, "This
has happened before," as his teammates react to the several mushroom
clouds seen in the distance. The Four secretly smiles at the destruction.
On
Gemenon, Cylon forces attack a city as several ships hastily take off.
On board one of them, another Four carries a young girl through the crowds
of evacuating people.
A passenger ship in orbit of
Canceron is shaken by nuclear detonations on that planet. Among the
passengers is a visibly happy
Shelly Godfrey.
The Hybrid reports on the successful attack on all
Twelve Colonies.
A wounded Foster crawls out of the remains of her car to find herself
standing in the smoldering ruins of Delphi. Nearby, several
SAR Raptors
land, presumably evacuating Foster and any other survivors before
rendezvousing with
Roslin's
fleet.
Several SAR birds also comb the wreckage of Picon. In the ruins of the
Pink Moon, a severely wounded Ellen has a flashback to the Fall of Earth.
Cavil stands over her, assuring her that she is not going to die yet because
she has more left to learn. Both Ellen and Cavil are soon evacuated by the
SAR Raptors, also presumably meeting up with Roslin's fleet.
Adama enters his
quarters to find a
note informing him that there are only twelve Cylon models. A cut to
Baltar implies that he left the note.
On Galactica
Five days after the attack, the Fleet is attacked by the Cylons as they
have been every 33
minutes for the past five days. On board the
Rising Star, a wounded and disoriented Ellen is lying in a cramped
makeshift
sickbay
as Cavil watches over her. Ellen does not remember who he is, but begs him
to find Saul. As she passes out, Cavil says that four of the Final Five are
in the Fleet; only Anders is absent.
The ship continues to be jolted by explosions from the battle. Cavil
rationalizes with himself about the necessity of keeping Ellen alive, saying
that she has yet to understand her mistake in loving an immoral and
imperfect humanity.
Eight days after the attack, refugees continue to board and be processed
on Galactica. Tigh remarks at the calm of the people, but Adama
corrects him, saying they are just temporarily numb from the shock. As they
walk through a corridor, Tigh accidentally bumps into Cavil.
Cavil is carrying fliers, which talk about "the Plan" and encourage
people to meet with him. A
young boy runs by and knocks the fliers out of Cavil's hands.
Cavil bends to pick up the fliers and is helped by a
Number Six. Surprised but relieved, he hands her a flier as he notices a
Simon copy going around a corner.
He asks
Socinus
if he may post the fliers in Galactica's restricted area, but Socinus
offers to do so for him.
In the chapel on Galactica given to Cavil, Shelly Godfrey arrives
with a flier to find the other Six, a
Number Two copy and a
Number Five copy assembled, all carrying fliers. Cavil notes that they
are missing copies of
Number Three and Four.
Cavil reviews the original Cylon plan, which involved all the humans
being killed, the Cylons
downloading and the Universe "basking in
justice." However, the survival of Galactica and the Fleet has
prevented its success.
Two proposes that they each work separately to sabotage the Fleet, but
instead Cavil has assignments for each of them. He informs them that a
sleeper agent, an
Eight, is currently within the Fleet and he will speak to her.
Cavil tasks the Two with cracking the Colonial military's technology so
that they can listen into the Fleet's communications and contact any
basestars in the area.
For Shelly Godfrey, Cavil gives her the mission of sabotaging Baltar's
work on the
Cylon detector. As he will simply build another one if they destroy it,
Godfrey is to
discredit him to prevent any future work.
As the copy of
Aaron Doral aboard
Colonial One was discovered to be a Cylon, Cavil tells the Five that
he is too recognizable to remain in the Fleet. Instead, he gives him a
suicide vest to use.
On board the
Gemenon Traveler, Leoben has successfully hacked into Galactica's
military communications. He listens in as
Kara Thrace and other pilots engage three Raiders. He is clearly
intrigued by her.
Cavil takes a small statue of an elephant out of his bag. As he leaves,
he finds the boy that had knocked the fliers out of his hands sleeping in
the chapel and kicks him out.
In the tool room of the
hangar deck, the newly enlisted Giana tells Tyrol that she needs to
change out the oxygen cylinders on a Raptor. Tyrol disputes that the
cylinders need changing and playfully informs her that Galactica has
no replacement parts.
Valerii enters the room looking for the Chief, where she is introduced
to Giana. As she leaves, Giana quickly deduces that the two are an item.
Back in her
duty locker, Valerii finds the elephant statue that Cavil had been
holding. The statue apparently unlocks Valerii's awareness of her Cylon
identity, and she flashbacks to a conversation she had with
Gina Inviere before becoming a sleeper agent.
Meeting with Cavil, Valerii proposes that she sabotage Galactica's
water supplies as a way to cripple the Fleet. Cavil agrees, but when he
suggests that Valerii kill herself in the process, she is able to convince
him that her cover is better than expected, referencing her relationship
with Tyrol. Cavil laughs at the irony of her becoming romantically involved
with Tyrol over all of the potential humans, then tells her to kill herself
anyway.
On the
Cybele, the ship that had carried the Simon copy and young girl off
Gemenon, Giana is having dinner with the two of them. Simon had previously
married Giana, without revealing his Cylon identity, and adopted Giana's
daughter
Jemmy.
During dinner, Cavil approaches Simon and introduces himself as Simon's
childhood
priest. Cavil excuses himself but asks Simon to come see him soon,
giving the vague warning that he knows where Simon lives. Simon is clearly
disturbed by the encounter.
In a
weapons locker, a soaking-wet Valerii informs Cavil that the charges
have been placed in the water tanks. When she expresses reluctance at
destroying the Fleet, Cavil rebukes and uses the statue to revert her into
sleeper agent mode.
As a panicked Valerii discusses with Tyrol what to do about the missing
G-4
detonators, the charges are detonated, sending all of Galactica's
water into space.
Seventeen days after the Fall of the Colonies, the Five uses his suicide
vest in an attempt to kill Adama. Only through Tigh's intervention is Adama
saved.
With Roslin's
subsequent
announcement that the Cylons now appear human and the distribution of
pictures of both Two and Five, Leoben hides from
Colonial Marines in the ducts of the Gemenon Traveler.
Simon meets with Cavil in Galactica's chapel. While Simon
proposes that he use his position as a medic to kill the humans off one by
one, Cavil asks him why he won't do more.
When Simon critiques this query by asking Cavil whether he actually has
a plan, Cavil becomes frustrated by the failures of the Cylons to fully
exterminate humanity. He tells Simon that they will later discuss a plan to
have Simon blow up the Cybele.
Shelly Godfrey goes to Adama and accuses Baltar of collaborating in the
attack on the Colonies, using a forged photo of him placing an explosive
device on the Defense Mainframe.
Leoben continues to listen to Starbuck's exploits, painting the
mandala symbolizing the
Eye of Jupiter on a wall as he listens to a recording of Starbuck's
engagement with Cylon Raiders above the
red
moon.
Valerii finds that someone has written "CYLON" on the mirror of her
locker. Meeting with Cavil while out of sleeper agent mode, Valerii suspects
that she wrote the message herself. Cavil comforts her and reminds her why
humanity must be destroyed. The two then share a kiss.
Baltar confronts Godfrey in the
head over her false allegations. Though she maintains her story, she
seems reluctant to go through with destroying him.
Leoben tries to convince Cavil of Starbuck's
destiny, referencing her ability to fly a downed Cylon Raider without
ever having done so before, but Cavil refuses to listen. Soon after, marines
capture Leoben.
Baltar is arrested for treason but saved when
Felix Gaeta proves that the incriminating photos are a fake.
As marines follow Godfrey through the corridors of Galactica,
Cavil uses the other Six to make it seem as though Godfrey had suddenly
disappeared.
Cavil accuses Godfrey of failing to convincingly frame Baltar because of
her love for him. She denies it, but Cavil has her kill herself by using an
airlock,
reminding her to give the Fleet's position to the other Cylons once she
resurrects.
Twenty-five days after the attack on the Colonies, Starbuck is
interrogating the captured Leoben aboard the Gemenon Traveler. He
breaks free of his constraints and pins Starbuck to a wall.
As he holds her, he sees prophetic visions of their experiences together
on
New Caprica and Thrace's
visions and death. The guards then restrain Leoben. Soon after, Leoben
is airlocked on the orders of Roslin, with Starbuck showing him a moment of
sympathy.
Torn with grief and confusion over her identity, Valerii attempts
suicide by shooting herself in the mouth.
The young boy returns to Cavil's chapel. He tells Cavil that he is not a
war orphan, but his parents don't want him anymore. Cavil tells once again
tells him to leave.
Giana returns to her quarters from work, where she and the rest of the
deck crew had been analyzing the captured Cylon Raider. Simon becomes upset
over how much she has been working, saying that since the Cylons are trying
to kill them, they should be spending as much time together as possible.
Giana is furious over his behavior and leaves with Jemmy.
Adama asks the recovering Valerii to take a Raptor armed with nukes and
destroy the basestar orbiting
Kobol. Valerii, along with
Margaret Edmondson, succeed in doing so and are greeted as heroes upon
their return to Galactica. As Adama thanks them for their actions,
Valerii pulls a gun and shoots Adama twice in the chest.
Simon informs Cavil that Adama is dying, and that he will blow up the
Cybele on the condition that his family is kept safe. However, Cavil
tells him that shouldn't happen, since they will never know his true nature
if they die now.
As Adama lays in sickbay, Cavil chastises Valerii in the brig for not
killing Adama. She claims that she is not fully in control of herself, but
later admits her reluctance towards continuing the genocide of humanity and
her attraction to her human life. Wishing her well, Cavil reactivates her
sleeper agent programming and leaves. Valerii is later assassinated by
Cally Henderson.
Simon makes love to Giana and apologizes for his actions. Later, he is
able to rig open an airlock on the Cybele, crying and declaring his
love for his family as he is launched into space and dies permanently,
outside the range of any
Resurrection Ship.
Drunk and lamenting the failures of the Cylons to destroy the Fleet,
Cavil ponders the source of his bad fortunes. The remaining Six tells him
the flaw in his plan: "You can't declare war on love."
Giana is questioned by Tigh. Giana believes that Tigh thinks Simon was a
Cylon, which Cavil denies. Giana shows Tigh the suicide note left by Simon,
which reads, "Love outlasts death."
Cavil finds the young boy and invites him inside, giving him food and
shelter.
Tyrol finds Giana in the corner of the hanger bay. Kara Thrace's return
from her experiences with a Four copy on Caprica, along with a newspaper
clipping of the Four acting as the team doctor for the Buccaneers, has
proven to Giana that Simon was a Cylon. Both of them suspect that Valerii
and Simon were being ordered to carry out their missions by someone else and
deliberately failed.
Giana says that were she to believe that she was a Cylon, she would
climb to the top of the hangar deck and jump. Tyrol kisses her, but
immediately says he didn't mean anything by it.
After having assaulted Cally, Tyrol is being
counseled by Cavil. Tyrol admits that he is afraid to place his trust in
others, to which Cavil tells him he should be given his experiences.
While reading in his quarters, Cavil is again approached by the young
boy, who offers Cavil an apple. Cavil takes out a knife and cuts the apple,
giving it the boy. When Cavil asks what the boy's name is, he tells him it
is
John.
Cavil asks if they have become friends, and John responds that they
have. Cavil tells him that "friends are dangerous things" and stabs John
with the knife. He dies, and Cavil apathetically pushes his body off the
bed.
On Caprica
The Buccaneers panic as they listen to wireless broadcasts on the
attack. Anders quickly takes charge, telling them that they have to stick
together and learn more about what has happened.
Centurions are placing their damaged and destroyed comrades in a large
container. The Buccaneers sneak across a large bridge, hiding behind the
railing and observing the centurions. After a Raider takes off and nearly
spots them, they retreat.
The newly-founded
Resistance, made up of the Buccaneers and various hikers and
survivalists, use
Delphi Union High School as their headquarters.
For their first mission, Anders uses inspiration from an old war movie,
The Tauron Line. The Resistance will plant explosives on a severed
Centurion thigh, wait for the Centurions to place the thigh in a recovery
container and then detonate the charges.
The Resistance quietly approaches their target and places the thigh near
the container, watching from the tree line as Centurion picks up the piece.
Before it goes into the container, one of the fighters slips on gravel, and
the Centurion kills him immediately. Sam detonates the charge, crippling the
Centurion and partially opening the container.
Despite Anders' insistence to retreat, Kai and the coach charge towards
the door with an explosives-packed pyramid ball. The damaged Centurion aims
at them, and Kai passes the ball to the coach before jumping on the
Centurion, which shoots and kills Kai. The coach throws the ball into the
container, and the explosion knocks him off his feet, presumably wounding or
killing him. As one of the teammates runs to get the coach, a Raider appears
and kills him; the rest of the group retreats.
Anders walks away from the group, arguing that he has no idea what he is
doing. Barolay begs him to stay.
Some time later, Barolay and Anders view a group of Dorals burning human
bodies in a mass grave. Barolay breaks down when she notices that all of the
Dorals look alike, realizing that the Cylons now look like humans.
Anders and Barolay return with armed reinforcements as a Cavil inspects
the grave. The resistance fighters kill the Dorals, and as they approach the
bodies they find Cavil, pretending to be a human, calling out for help on
the ground. The fighters fall for the trick, and Cavil is stunned when he
sees that Anders is the leader of the Resistance.
As they arrive back at camp, Anders asks if Cavil hears confessions.
Cavil says he does, and Anders tell him they will speak later. They exit the
truck, and Cavil is "introduced" to Simon, who feigns ignorance.
One week later, Simon and Cavil speak privately. Simon asks why Cavil
has yet to follow through on his plan to inform the Cylon forces of their
location. Cavil sarcastically responds that Anders had asked him to hear his
confession and that, as a man of the Gods, he must keep his promise to do
so.
Several weeks later, Cavil is on patrol with Anders and the Resistance
when he sees Starbuck and
Karl Agathon. He tells Anders that he believes he has seen them before
and, thus, they must be Cylons. As the two sides engage each other, Simon
calls out Cavil on his lack of effort in bringing down the Resistance.
The next morning, Anders and Starbuck awaken together. Starbuck promises
to send a rescue party for the Resistance once she returns to Galactica.
Cavil and Simon are in the next room, where they can hear Starbuck and
Anders speaking and having sex. Cavil asks why they are doing so, to which
Simon responds that Anders loves her. Cavil considers Thrace to be beneath
Anders and conspires with Simon to send her to the Fours' "farm"
for experimentation.
During a recon patrol, Starbuck is shot and taken to the farm. Anders
returns to base with his wounded and tells Cavil the situation. Though Cavil
attempts to convince Anders that Starbuck is likely dead, Anders insists on
trying to find her, obviously irritating Cavil.
The next day, Cavil joins Anders outside. Anders finally gives his
confession to Cavil, where he admits his cowardice and vanity following the
failed raid on the Cylon container. Cavil absolves him, then asks if Anders
could forgive the Cylons considering the strength Anders have gained
following the attack. Anders angrily rejects Cavil's argument and walks off.
Simon approaches Cavil, who is upset over the fact that Anders continues
to love humanity.
At the Farm, Starbuck stabs a Four copy in the neck and escapes outside.
The Resistance rescues her, and Anders orders Barolay to return to camp and
kill Simon.
Several months later, the Resistance has been heavily reduced by Cylon
attacks. Anders, Cavil and the remaining survivors walk through the woods.
Anders tells Cavil of his love for the people who have died under his
command. Cavil angrily asks Anders why he continues to love the dead, to
which Anders replies that death doesn't change love.
Barolay tells Anders that a group of unknowns is moving towards them,
and the survivors take cover. It is quickly determined that the unknowns are
Starbuck, Helo and the marines Galactica has sent to rescue the
Resistance.
As Starbuck and Anders embrace, Cavil takes aim with a rifle from the
distance. His gaze lingers over the backs of both their heads, but he
remembers Anders' insistence that death doesn't change love and puts down
the rifle.
The Cylons begin to mortar their position, and the humans take cover.
The Cylons stop firing, and both Cavil and the humans wonder why. As the
humans sleep later that night, Cavil ventures out into the woods, where he
finds a Six. The Six tells Cavil that the Cylons have voted for a cease-fire
with the humans, and Cavil elects to deliver the message to the humans
himself.
Epilogue
The Resistance survivors and Thrace's team return to Galactica,
where Caprica-Cavil reveals himself. The Chief identifies him as a Cylon,
and Caprica-Cavil is taken into custody.
In the
brig, Galactica-Cavil enters while denying that he is a Cylon. However,
his protests cease when he sees Caprica-Cavil in the cell. Caprica-Cavil
delivers the cease-fire to Adama and Tigh, who decide to airlock both of
them.
As they are escorted to the airlock, the Cavils see all of the Final
Five Cylons watching them. They admit that this wasn't the reunion they had
expected.
Entering the airlock, and returning to where the story began, Caprica-Cavil
asks if there is a resurrection ship in range. Galactica-Cavil says that
there is one but adds that he is not looking forward to dying in a vacuum
first.
Galactica-Cavil asks Caprica-Cavil whether he truly thinks that
attacking the humans was a mistake. Caprica-Cavil tells him he does. Their
error was that they wanted to be loved by the Final Five more than the
humans, but the destruction of humanity would only strengthen the love of
the Five for humanity.
Galactica-Cavil assures Caprica-Cavil that he will have him
boxed upon downloading, then resume the task of destroying the Fleet.
As they wait in silence, Caprica-Cavil offers his hand, which Galactica-Cavil
takes. They are launched into space, and as they float towards a nebula,
Cavil's speech to Ellen from "No
Exit" about his potential as a machine is heard.
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