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"The Long Patrol" An episode of the Original Series
Episode No.	Season 1, Episode 5
Writer(s)	Donald Bellisario
Story by
Director	Christian I. Nyby II
Assistant Director
Special guest(s)
Production No.	50902
Nielsen Rating
US airdate	1978-10-15
CAN airdate	{{{CAN airdate}}}
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DVD release	2004-12-28
Population	survivors
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After losing an experimental Viper to a smuggler, Starbuck is imprisoned in a "unique" environment.

Summary

• The Fleet is passing through asteroid dust, leaving their galaxy for the first time. Beyond the dust lies a whole new galaxy that no human in the fleet has seen before.

• Adama inquires about who the volunteer is, and Apollo informs him that it is Starbuck.

• Athena is surprised that Starbuck volunteered, until Apollo explains that whoever volunteered to test the new Recon Viper would move to the head of the yahren-long waiting list to the dining room of the Rising Star.

• Athena tells Adama that she had been invited to dinner with Starbuck, but her duty assignment conflicts. Adama agrees to cover her shift along with Colonel Tigh.

• Starbuck and Cassiopeia arrive on Rising Star. Starbuck bribes the waiter for a private room (a luxury that usually is reserved 60 to 70 centares in advance).

• Arriving in their private room, Starbuck bribes the waiter for some Ambrosa. According to the waiter it is as rare as tylinium.

• Cassiopeia leaves the room, promising to return quickly. Starbuck lights up his signature fumarello.

• Galactica's scanners detect possible life. Concentrating their scans confirms the presence of life. Adama orders Recon Viper One prepared.

Starbuck romances Cassiopeia...

• Athena arrives in Starbuck's private dining room. Starbuck quickly bribes the waiter for yet another private room, citing a (fictional) sanitation ship spoiling the view.

• Athena raves about the mushies, but complains about the lack of fresh protein. Starbuck leaps at a chance to remedy the situation, using it as an excuse to visit his other room.

• Back in Cassiopeia's room, Starbuck claims that they are all out of mushies. Cassiopeia claims that she doesn't mind, as the protein is just fine.

• Starbuck is summoned back to Galactica over the intercom. He gives Cassiopeia one of his collar insignia as he leaves. He gives Athena is other one for her goodbye.

• Starbuck settles up with the waiter for his dinner for three, costing him all his remaining cubits. The waiter admires Starbuck's daring, not in going on the mission, but in juggling the two young ladies. He claims that it is very "pre-war".

...and then Athena!

• Cassiopeia and Athena encounter each other as they exit, both holding Starbuck's insignia. They quickly realize what has happened.

• Starbuck reports to Recon Viper One wearing civilian clothes. The disguise is designed to hide his status as a Colonial Warrior should he be forced to land.

• Apollo informs Starbuck that the Recon Viper has double the range and speed of a normal Viper, and has also had a voice activated computer installed.

• Starbuck is instructed to turn on his short-range marker beacon, but to otherwise avoid transmissions to prevent the Cylons from tracking him. Should he make Cylon contact, he is not to return to Galactica as that would give away the position of the Fleet.

• Apollo explains that all the engine upgrades were made possible on the Recon Viper at the expense of the laser generators. The vessel is unarmed.

• Starbuck takes the new craft through some high speed maneuvers and is impressed with the results.

• Starbuck activates CORA, commenting sarcastically that he'd like to see a computer do that. The computer puts the Recon Viper through a series of turns that forces Starbuck to ask to return to level flight.

• CORA introduces "herself," then begins to set up a scan.

• CORA indicates that two sublight craft have been detected. The Recon Viper slows to sublight to investigate, and finds a Sixth-millennium starfighter and shuttle. The shuttle is being chased by the fighter.

• Starbuck assumes manual control and blows by the fighter with his turbo engaged, sending the fighter into a spin and allowing the shuttle to escape. Starbuck then pursues the shuttle, while the fighter returns to Proteus.

• When Starbuck investigates the shuttle, the pilot attempts to sneak up and club him. Caught in the act, the pilot claims he was afraid that Starbuck was the pirate that had been shooting at him. The pilot claims to be a shuttle pilot transporting a load of agro parts.

• Stabuck inspects the cargo, and finds Ambrosa. The pilot claims that it is 500-yahren old.

• Starbuck starts asking questions about the capabilities of the pirates, when the shuttle pilot gets the drop on him and knocks him out using the Ambrosa bottle.

• The shuttle pilot steals the Recon Viper. CORA asks him to identify himself, but the pilot has her fly him to another asteroid to make a transmission.

• Galactica detects the transmission, but finds that it is encoded in an unknown format. The crew is concerned about the unauthorized, as well as the use of an unknown code.

• Aboard his basestar, Baltar is informed of the detection of a signal in an unknown code. Baltar orders the launch of Raiders to investigate.

• Apollo and Boomer are ordered to seek out and destroy Recon Viper One, in order to stop the transmissions. They are not allowed to attempt to contact the Recon Viper, as it would quickly outmaneuver them if it is hostile.

• Starbuck awakens to discover his Viper gone. He launches the shuttle, only to be shot at by the sixth millennium fighter. Starbuck claims that there is a case of mistaken identity. The fighter pilot orders Starbuck to follow him.

• Starbuck is greeted on the ground by armed guards led by Croad. His attempts at talking himself out of the situation fail miserably.

• Apollo and Boomer continue to track the Recon Viper. It has stopped its long range broadcasts, but they are tracking it by its short range marker beacon.

• Starbuck awakens, after his second blow to the head of the day, in a cell. There are strange drawings on the wall.

• The other prisoners all seem to have bottles of Ambrosa. They welcome Starbuck to the prison.

• Assault 9 introduces himself, as well as Forger 7, Embezzler 10, and Adulteress 58.

• Adulteress 58 asks what kind of offense Starbuckin' is, anyway. When Starbuck claims that it isn't an offense, that it is just a name, Forger 7 tells him that they are one in the same. Adulteress 58 wonders if their Original Sinners were as ignorant as Starbuck is.

• Assault 9 explains that the Original Sinners are their ancestors, the ones who were first sentenced to Proteus.

• The prisoners are curious for news about the war between the Colonies and the Alliance. The prisoners believe that the ambrosa they make is supplied to the Colonial Warriors.

• Athena summons Cassiopeia to the bridge to inform her that Starbuck is no longer in control of the Recon Viper, and may be lost or dead.

• The long range transmission is detected again, and Cassiopeia recognizes it as an Aerian merchant code.

• They decipher the code, and recognize it as a request for the coordinates to Aeries. Adama countermands the attack orders to the Vipers. Adama reasons that the pilot of the Recon Viper must be a human that doesn't realize that Aeries is in Cylon hands. He orders Apollo and Boomer to investigate further.

• Apollo and Boomer find the Recon Viper unmanned. A lot of equipment appears to have been stripped out of it, likely to make room for cargo.

• Apollo and Boomer come under laser fire. They return fire, and pursue their assailant.

• Boomer sees a crouched figure hiding in the darkness, and just as he fires a woman yells for him to stop and tackles him. The shot goes wide, and the crouched figure is revealed to be a little girl.

• The Viper thief is able to get the drop on Apollo, but when Boomer reports that he has found a woman and a girl, he surrenders to Apollo asking that they not hurt his wife and child.

• Robber reveals that his Original Sinner was an Aerian robber, and the Aerian merchant code has been passed down the descendents. The Proteus enforcers are likewise descendents of the original enforcers, and are as trapped as the prisoners.

• Robber and his wife reveal that he stole Starbuck's Viper because he needed a craft capable of reaching Aeries, for the sake of his daughter Tanya.

• Galactica picks up three Cylon Raiders on its sensors. The Cylons appear to be homing in on the location of the Recon Viper, and have not detected the fleet. Adama orders the fleet to change course in order to avoid the Cylons, even though that may strand the patrol.

• Adama comforts Boxey, who misses his father, by telling him stories of Earth.

• Starbuck is given the prison designation of Bootlegger 137. An enforcer tries to make Starbuck follow orders, causing Starbuck to break a bottle and dive at his cell bars.

• Starbuck is surprised when he discovers that his cell is unlocked. The prisoners and the enforcers tell him to close the door, but when pressed, the enforcer retreats.

• Assault 9 reveals that the locks haven't worked in generations. The prisoners choose to stay in their cells because they are prisoners, like all their ancestors before them. They are content to contribute their part of the war effort by making Ambrosa for the Colonial Warriors.

• Starbuck reveals that all the Ambrosa is just aging out on the loading docks.

• Croad returns with a group of enforcers to restore order. Croad claims that Starbuck is lying, but Starbuck reveals that he is actually a Colonial Warrior.

• The prisoners leave their cells and overpower the enforcers, demanding to see the loading docks.

• Starbuck asks how much Ambrosa is on the loading docks. Adulteress 58 estimates that it is the product of a thousand lifetimes.

• Three Vipers fly in towards Proteus. Croad claims that they are Cylons, and that Starbuck is a Cylon spy. Starbuck retorts that they are actually Colonial Vipers.

• Boomer and Apollo are appalled that all Starbuck can talk about when they arrive is the Ambrosa. They reveal that Galactica has altered course, and they cannot locate her.

• The Cylon raiders were picked up by on the scanners of the Vipers. Croad leads a cheer of "Death to the Cylons" as the prisoners head back into the safety of the prison to wait out the fight. Starbuck, Apollo, and Boomer take off in their Vipers to face the raiders.

• Starbuck uses CORA to help act as a diversion to distract the Cylons. The Cylons chase him, allowing the other two Vipers to get in position.

• After the Cylons split up, Starbuck instructs CORA to get ready to execute a maximum-G climb. CORA protests that he'll black out, but Starbuck points out that she will not.

• Starbuck initiates the maneuver, leaving the Cylon that followed to crash into the ground. Boomer and Apollo dispatch the other two raiders, and Starbuck recovers from the blackout.

• CORA reveals that the Raider that had chased them crashed into a building containing highly volatile fluids. Starbuck is distraught, as that is his fortune in Ambrosa burning up.

• Galactica picks up incoming craft on the sensors. The marker beacon reveals that it is the patrol (as well as a shuttle).

• Adama hosts a dinner on Rising Star welcoming back the patrol and the new members of the fleet (Robber, and his wife and daughter).

• Boxey gives his father a map he drew. Starbuck corrects the map, saying that the blue planet is out of orbit. When questioned on where he had seen it before, Starbuck recalls that he saw the same map on the wall in his cell.

• Robber tells them about the Silent One, who drew the pictures. The enforcers found him drifting in space. He never said a word.

• Adama reveals that the solar system Boxey drew was based on ancient legends he had learned about the solar system that contains Earth.

Notes

Production

• C.O.R.A. seems to have inspired Glen A. Larson's K.I.T.T. voice bars in Knight Rider.
• On the asteroid, the exterior of Robber's shuttle is the same exterior used to depict the Colonial shuttle in future episodes, notably "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I" and "Baltar's Escape".
• This episode was largely filmed prior to "Lost Planet of the Gods, Part I". "Lost Planet of the Gods, Part II" and "The Lost Warrior". The script and deleted trims show Cassiopeia still as a socialator rather than a med-tech. In addition, the scene of Baltar and Lucifer is created from stock footage and voiceover dubs. The original script called for the Imperious Leader in the scene getting the message from a centurion. This was because at the time, the decision to retain Baltar for the series had not yet been made.

Performers

• Adulteress 58 is played by genre character actress Arlene Martel, notable for her portrayal of Spock's wife T'Pring in Star Trek: The Original Series' "Amok Time."
• Robert Hathaway, who portrayed the Enforcer, is father of Noah Hathaway, who plays Boxey.

Other

• Natives of Aeries appear to speak with an Irish accent, a cultural affectation replicated in the Re-imagined Series depiction of Aerilon's natives.
• This episode presents "Starchaser," the only Viper ever given a proper name across the various installments in the franchise.

Analysis

• Where the previous episode, "The Lost Warrior" was a story about Apollo being stranded far from the fleet, this episode was a story about Starbuck in the role of the lost warrior. It has been suggested that the two episodes were filmed at the same time, with one part of the production focusing on Richard Hatch's character, while the other crew was busy with Dirk Benedict.
• During the course of the series, Starbuck would go missing or end up stranded a number of times. In this instance, his Viper is preserved, so this is not an instance of Starbuck crashing his ship - rather this time it was stolen.

Questions

• How many other "lost" colonies and settlements originating from the Twelve Colonies exist?
• What happened to the recon Viper?
• Why aren't more voice interfaces like CORA used (other than the database search in "Murder on the Rising Star")?
• For that matter, why didn't CORA appear in subsequent episodes?
• Is the map that the mysterious prisoner drew of Earth? (If Galactica 1980 were to be believed, it is unlikely as Earth lacks the technology for a ship to get out that far.)
• Who exactly was the mysterious prisoner? And why was he locked up?
• What happens to Robber and his family after they join the Fleet?
• How many prisoners and/or enforcers survived the Cylon raid, and how many chose either to join the Fleet or remain behind?
• Who would have been the purchaser of the ambrosa smuggled by Robber?

Noteworthy Dialogue

• Starbuck finds out that his Viper is outfitted with C.O.R.A.:

Starbuck: A hot pilot doesn't need all that electronic felgercarb.

Guest Stars

• James Whitmore Jr. as Robber
• Ted Gehring as Croad
• Sean McClory as Assault
• Tasha (Arlene) Martel as Adulteress
• Ian Abercrombie as Forger
• Robert Hathaway as Enforcer
• Nancy DeCarl as Slayer
• Cathy Paine as Voice of C.O.R.A. (uncredited)
• John Holland as Maitre d' (uncredited)

External Links

• The Long Patrol full summary and review at Sheba's Galaxy

• The Long Patrol deleted scenes

"The Super Scouts, Part II" An episode of the Galactica 1980 series
Episode No.	Season 1, Episode 5
Writer(s)	Glen A. Larson
Story by
Director	Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Assistant Director
Special guest(s)	{{{guests}}}
Production No.	55114
Nielsen Rating
US airdate	1980-03-23
CAN airdate	{{{CAN airdate}}}
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DVD release	2007-12-23
Population	{{{population}}} survivors
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The Super Scouts, Part I	The Super Scouts, Part II	Spaceball
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Commander Adama and Dr. Zee must use an experimental anti-gravity ship to save a group of seriously ill children who are stranded on Earth.

Summary

Act 1

• Troy and Dillon rush back to the campsite, finding that the Super Scouts are eating apples. They initially chastise them over eating food without permission, but a Super Scout discovers that the food is edible thanks to the Boy Scouts' handbook. They move past that and tell the children that they need to hide from the police to avoid answering questions. They are given permission to use their invisibility fields, which delights them.
• Hearing the wailing of sirens off in the distance, Troy instructs the children to pack what they can. They break down the camp. Dillon and Troy place the camping equipment on their turbines and render those bikes invisible.
• They run to a tree and begin jumping up into it. They activate their invisibility fields.
• The police cars arrive at the spot where the Super Scouts had camped. They only find the remnants of a burned campfire. Upon hearing the voices of the children, Sheriff Ellsworth asks Deputy Collins if he said something. Collins replies in the negative, but notes the campfire, which is neatly doused. Ellsworth, who believes that they're merely acting like scouts, makes a sarcastic comment about their acting like good scouts in regards to their treatment of the campfire.

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• When Ellsworth mentions that he'll eat his hat if they are boy scouts, an apple is dropped on his head. Ellsworth comments that it's too early in the season for apples to be falling out a tree; Collins adds that the tree isn't an apple tree at all. He makes the assumption that one of the scouts probably left it up there.
• Ellsworth mentions that he's going to seal off the entire county. After this is said, the officers are deluged by half-eaten apples.
• Ellsworth asks about the laughter, Collins replies that it came from nowhere. Ellsworth assumes they're in the woods someplace, and says that they're going to search for them even if it takes all night.
• As they walk off, Dillon admonishes the children, saying that that's the last place they'll take them, since they're acting like children. Troy reminds him that they are children.
• Dillon replies that he forgot this, saying that after all they've been through, he keeps forgetting.
• They jump down from the tree and enter the police vehicles. The children comment that riding the Earth vehicles will be fun. The cars begin to drive off, with the officers running back to them. Ellsworth correctly believes that the scouts are taking their cars, but cannot see them.
• After they drive off, Collins brings up Colonel Jack Sydell and the alleged UFO sighting. Ellsworth scoffs that as garbage. Colliins speculates that some creatures may have landed and have stolen the bodies of the kids. Ellsworth scoffs that theory, claiming that Collins needs a vacation. Collins replies that the story is fantastic enough as it is, particularly with police cars that apparently drive themselves and half-eaten apples falling from a tree that isn't even an apple tree.
• Ellsworth hoists Collins by his arm and tells him that they have a long way to walk.
• At the Paradise Valley Medical Center, the children are in hospital rooms, and don't appear to have improved.
• In his lab, Dr. Spencer is reviewing the blood samples under a microscope. He is interrupted by Jamie Hamilton, who asks when the children could be discharged. She claims that their parents are getting concerned, to which Spencer replies that he isn't surprised. He mentions that they may never leave, noting the they're not improving. He adds that the children were never "normal" to begin with, allowing her to see a blood sample from one of the children.
• Spencer says that he can't identify any cells in that sample. Hamilton tries to gloss over the facts that Spencer presents to her, but he continues, mentioning that the Mayo Clinic would love to get the hands on the children and the findings would make all the medical journals in the world.
• Hamilton pointedly asks if making journals is what's important to him, but he claims that he's interested in saving their lives. He segues into the pollution problems, which he's tried to fix since getting back from medical school. He asks her to make her story on a real problem, not "flying saucers," believing that the town is better off "broke than dead".
• Ellsworth summons Colonel Sydell to the Sheriff's Office. Ellsworth closes the door to his office and, off the record, says there's something going on in Paradise Valley. Sydell encourages Ellsworth to tell him all about it.
• Meanwhile, Spencer drives Hamilton to a stream near the plant. As they walk toward it from his car, Spencer tells Hamilton he first recognized the problem when he treated a bunch of kids who started an accidental fire, which happened when they were throwing stones at an old riverbed. The kids were enamored with the fact that they can get sparks from the soil by hitting at it with stones. He says that the chemicals in the soil cause the effect. He goes on to say that the wheels of a bike wear out in a matter of weeks, tennis shoes wear down even faster; the chemicals, he contends, are literally "burning the shoes off our kids' feet". He mentions that the same happened near Niagara Falls and in Virginia as a four-door Ford truck pulls up and a six workers from the plant pour out from it.
• The workers are beginning to pick a fight. The leader of this mob, Denver, grows angry after Hamilton introduces herself. He angrily asks Spencer: "Doc, when are you gonna learn to keep your big mouth shut?" Hamilton defends Spencer, telling him that she was responsible for bringing him to the riverbed, but Denver pushes her aside, telling her to "butt out". Spencer jumps to her defense, telling him that she's only doing her job. He retorts that it's at the expense of theirs.
• Denver orders Hamilton to march her "little fanny outta here". When she stands her ground, Denver pushes her, which almost causes the situation to deteriorate into fisticuffs, except that Troy and Dillon arrive.
• Denver reacts pleasantly to this new development, as Troy and Dillon were who they were after in the first place. When Denver's posse approaches the Warriors, Dillon mentions that it's only fair to warn him that he's used to a much denser climate. "Consequently, I'm capable of retaliating in a way that would be grossly unfair to you."
• The posse chuckles at this. Denver points to a lackey (Lum) to his left, telling him to take Dillon; Denver will take Troy. The lackey throws his fist a Dillon, but Galactican one-handedly throws Lum into a pile of brush. Dillon turns to Troy after Lum lands, telling him he picked the spot deliberately for a soft landing.
• Denver assures his people that they can take the two of them, but they are hesitant to do so. He uses an "us versus them argument," saying they need to shut them down before they can do likewise.
• A van screeches to a halt and its driver, John Stockton, tells his workers to stop or every one of them are fired. He chastises his men that he'll handle the "scoutmasters" his way. Denver points out Hamilton and her status as a journalist, but Stockton rebuffs this, telling them to go back to the plant. He assures them that Ellsworth will take care of the trespassers, thus removing the possibility of a story being told. Stockton barks at them to go, and they head back to their vehicle.
• As the posse moves off, Stockton orders the trespassers into the vehicle, saying that they're going to head to Ellsworth's. Stockton makes it clear that they either follow him to the police station, or he gets on the C.B. radio and summons the police.
• Spencer agrees to go to Ellsworth, claiming that he has a few complaints of his own.
• As Spencer and Stockton head to their respective vehicles, Hamilton asks Troy and Dillon what they are going to do, since Ellsworth's already looking for them. She asks how they got away from him, to which Dillon replies that they took their police cars. In reply to Hamilton's reaction, Dillon explains that he left the cars where Ellsworth could find them after heading back to their bikes.
• Hamilton tells them they have to leave. Troy replies that they can't leave the three children in the clinic behind.
• They are interrupted by Stockton, who gets impatient and slams his driver-side door, staring out at them through the open window. Troy and Dillon head to their bikes, while Hamilton exasperatedly notes that the Warriors are "hopeless".

Act 2

• At the Sherrif's Office, the teletype machine is working and Collins rips off a sheet from it.
• Inside the closed room of Ellsworth's office, Ellsworth reviews Dillon and Troy's record with Sydell. After he names off two of the things they're wanted for, Collins barges in and reports they're wanted for bank robbery.
• Ellsworth reviews the all-points bulletin and now have definitive proof that the scouts are frauds.
• On a highway, s they follow Stockton to the police station, Valerie calls for Spencer over the radio. She informs him that the scouts are dying. They move to pass Stockton, who is visibly agitated. Troy and Dillon come to the passenger side, where Hamilton informs them of the children's condition.
• Behind them, Stockton sticks his head out of the window and yells that he's sticking with them, no matter what. Troy and Dillon speed past them.
• Collins reports that they've heard nothing from the road blocks. Sydell figures that they haven't left yet due to the children in the clinic. Ellsworth scoffs this, since he assumes that they simply kidnapped the kids and are unconcerned for their fate. Sydell explains that they are neither drugged nor ordinary kids, which is why there's no record of them. Sydell quickly leaves.
• Collins reiterates his belief that the children are possessed by small aliens, a la Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Ellsworth barks at him to stop the talk and tell the units to stop their search of cars and close the highways, much to Collins' surprise. Ellsworth leaves, declaring that he'll get to the "bottom of this nonsense".
• Spencer runs into Nurse Valerie at the doors to the Intensive Care Unit of Paradise Valley Medical Center. Dillon and Troy are already present as he walks in, he goes to Moonstone and checks his vitals, even though the monitors inform him that they're dead. He surmises that the chemical shock was too much for them; their hearts had gone into firbulation and stopped.
• Stockton and Hamilton enter the ICU. Spencer pointedly asks Stockton if their deaths tell anything to him. He adamantly denies that the plant had anything to do with their condition, but isn't so sure, mentioning that he's "not certain" after the fact.
• Troy interrupts, noting that Moonstone is still breathing. Spencer claims that it's only the life-support machine that's doing this. He notes that his brainwaves have stopped and that he's "legally dead".
• In response to Dillon's query on the term, Hamilton notes that the life supporting machines can sustain a person's heart or lungs indefinitely.
• Troy obliquely orders Dillon to send an emergency signal to the Fleet. He goes off. Spencer claims that, while he sympathizes with Troy, there's no way to save the child. However, Troy replies that "where we come from, death is a threshold far beyond this child's condition. Thanks to you, by our standards, he lives.
• When asked about where they come from, Stockton comments that he was told by them that they come from Cleveland. Troy ignores the question, asking for a vehicle that could maintain the life support equipment. After determining that the machines are portable and Stockton's vehicle could hold all of them. While Stockton voices that he wants to help, he initially gives the excuse that his company vehicle can't be used as an ambulance "by people who would just as soon sue us out of our business as look at us". After a brief debate about the life or death of a town versus the life or death of Moonstone, Stockton bends and asks where they want his truck.
• Hamilton follows Dillon through the halls of the clinic, asking about what he plans to do. Dillon says that he's going to call for help, asking her to stay with the children to prevent them from being hurt or frightened. She asks where they are hidden.
• Dillon exits the medical center and sends an emergency transmission to Galactica.
• Adama enters Zee's chamber to notify him of the transmission received by Dillon, but is interrupted by Zee who tells Adama that he's heard the transmission. He mentions that they have a difficult choice to risk the lives of the Fleet to save one child.
• Adama mentions that he considered resigning yahrens ago over agonizing decisions of that nature. Zee mentions that he'll spare him from making the choice; Zee declares that he's going. Adama rejects this, saying that Zee must not be risked. Zee mentions that he, above all, has the best chance at success.
• Adama and Zee enter a large hangar, where Adama sees the anti-gravity ship. An awed Adama makes the claim that it's finished, but Zee corrects him, saying it's not totally finished. Adama asks if the ship is "truly equal to the Cylons' war machines, to which he replies that it's "more than equal". He explaiins that the Cylons "only copy": "they see what we do and try to better it".
• Adama expresses his vision of a force of such anti-gravity ships fighting back the Cylons, so that they may retake their homeworlds. Zee breaks the news to a crestfallen Adama: they have only one and don't have the resources to build more.
• Adama questions it's use, since they have but one. Zee says that it can save Moonstone's life and provide them with better opportunities to observe Earth.
• After Zee makes it clear that he is the only person who understands the new ship and Adama says he'll go with him on the ship to Earth.
• At the clinic, Troy is disconnecting the final life support equipment for transport. Dillon reports that Ellsworth has pulled up with Sydell. Troy asks that the doctor delay them, so that they can make their escape. After asking why, Spencer is told by Troy that he can save the children. He replies that they must be "a lot farther than Cleveland" if they can save those children.
• Spencer tells Valerie to inform the officers that he's performing minor surgery and will be with them in a few minutes. She leaves.
• In the waiting room, Sydell and Ellsworth await the doctor. Sydell attempts to pump Valerie for information, but she replies that he'll need to ask the doctor about that, and gives him the same answer to other questions.
• Stockton is driving up a mountain, with the children attached to the life support equipment in the back of his van. Stockton asks how the machinery is powered. Dillon replies that they have their own energy source, which, as Troy points out, they'll run out of if they don't reach the top of their mountain. When asking what kind of hospital they would be going to, Troy cryptically replies, "Advanced. Very advanced."
• Still in the waiting room, they grow impatient. Sydell decides to take matters into his own hands and heads toward the intensive care unit. Valerie tries to stop them, telling them that they have to scrub down.
• Valerie calls Spencer, who opens the door to the ICU as soon as they approach. Sydell demands to see the children. Spencer tries to stall, but Sydell opens the ICU door and finds that the room is empty. When questioned, Spencer tells them that he doesn't know where the children went to.
• Ellsworth tells Spencer that the two men robbed a bank, which is a claim he finds to be dubious, but is given the APB on it. After this, Spencer gives information on the vehicle they got away in.
• In the vehicle, Troy tells Stockton to turn to a road, which leads up to an old, abandoned Nike base.
• At the C.B. radio in the clinic, Ellsworth puts out an APB on a Stanford Chemical van, and mentions that bank robbers are holding children as hostages.
• Stockton becomes cynical, ranting about "you and your gab about helping people and stopping pollution," and calling the Warriors bank robbers and kidnappers. Troy scoffs the claim and Stockton retorts that, if the charges aren't true, then he's free to turn around and check it out.
• Stockton stops the car, saying that it's his turn to be a good Samaritan and says he's going to get a police escort. As he moves to do so, Troy stuns him, and the Warrior takes the wheel, hoping that no one saw them make the last turn.
• They reach the gates to the government installation. They use their lasers to destroy the lock and open the gates.
• Down the road, Ellsworth and Sydell drive towards their location, apparently alerted to their whereabouts by a trucker or someone with a C.B. radio. While driving, Ellsworth says that he doesn't believe in extraterrestrials, but believes the "answer to all this is little green dollars".
• Dillon drives the van forward well past the gates as Troy runs behind it. After the van is clear, he trains his laser on a tree and brings it down to obstruct the passage. After this, Troy makes contact with Galactica.
• Major Harvey Jensen tells Sydell over the C.B. radio that they're picking up high-beam transmissions coming from his area. When asked about what it sounds like, Jensen claims he's never heard anything like it in his life noting that "it's positively eerie." No one from the Army to the CIA—to even commercial radio—can make heads or tails of the transmission. He mentions that they can track the signal, but also adds that the signal is being beamed from Earth and to Earth from a galactic source.
• Sydell questions this, but Jensen adds that they've localized the signal to a mountain peak in the San Angelo Mountains, the land to thus being owned by the government. Sydell is pleased and tells Ellsworth to get his dispatcher to contact Vandenburg Air Force Base.
• The van stops in an open area atop the San Angelo Mountain. Troy and Dillon get out of the vehicle as Stockton recovers from the stun. He exits the vehicle and, much to his bewilderment, he sees that the two begin shooting lasers up to the sky, which act as beacons for Galactican rescue craft. He goes to join by their side and asks about the laser pistols.
• Ellsworth's car makes it to the gates, but is obstructed by the tree. Upon investigating the tree, which Ellsworth initially believed to be knocked down by lightning, but discovers that the tree is still hot to the touch. Sydell notes that the "lightning" is fresh, yet there's not a cloud in the sky.
• Sometime later, Jay Johnson from the National Guard arrives with two trucks loaded with people an ordnance. Sydell orders that the tree be cleared and notes he doesn't care how it happens. Johnson orders the anti-tank weaponry be unloaded.
• Deep in thought, Stockton is looking over the children in the back of the van. Dillon asks Troy if they did the right thing, to which Troy replies that he should look at the children and then ask him that. Dillon then ponders how Galactica is going to get a rescue team in and out. Troy tells Dillon that the last transmission he received informed him that the rescue team was not going to be an ordinary one.
• Dillon and Troy then figure that the anti-gravity ship must be ready.
• Ellsworth tells Sydell that the guardsman will have the tree cleared in a few minutes. Two guardsman aim a rocket launcher at the tree and fire, destroying the tree.
• Stockton tries to sneak away, but Troy hears him and tells him to stay. Troy says that they don't want him to get hurt, particularly when the ship lands. The anti-gravity ship appears, bewildering Stockton.

Act 3

• After seeing the ship, Stockton exclaims that the Warriors must be "Venutians".
• Once the ship lands, Troy tells them to get the children. Dillon asks Stockton to help; Stockton pleads with them to not take him away. He admits that he was a little careless about not testing the water, but Dillon merely replies to "come".
• Adama comes out from the craft and he meets with Troy. Adama assures Troy that he did well.
• Having passed the obstruction, the vehicles make their way up the road.
• Still afraid, Stockton tells Dillon to take the kid then come back for the last kid. While Stockton claims that he isn't "afraid or anything," Dillon replies that the "glory of the universe is intelligence" and to never be afraid of discovery.
• Stockton follows Dillon, hoping that they didn't tell the other Galacticans that he personally hurt the kids.
• Ahead of them, off into the distance, Sydell and Ellsworth see a bright light.
• Medical technicians work on the children, while Dillon escorts an awed and bewildered Stockton through the ship.
• Adama and Troy enter the ship's bridge. Zee tells them that Moonstone, as well as the others, live and that Troy did well. Zee warns that the risk of their detection does increase every moment they stay, however.
• A good mile from the ship, Sydell tells Ellsworth to drive faster, but the car suddenly loses power. Sydell goes to ride in the other trucks, but is notified that they too have lost power. Angered and determined, Sydell begins to hike up the road. Ellsworth tells Johnson to take his men and follow Sydell.
• Stockton and Dillon enter the bridge of the anti-gravity ship. Dillon introduces Stockton to Adama. Stockton attempts to flatter Adama with various titles, including "Your Honor. Majesty. Eminence." He claims that he only "works there" and is "not really responsible".
• Adama replies that everyone is responsible. He explains that they have the ability to speak, to see, and mentions that there is a purpose for the brain as well.
• Noting Stockton's confusion, Dillon interjects, suggesting that Zee might prepare a computron simulation for Stockton to understand the consequences of his actions. Zee says he can show a simulation of how his actions will affect his community if nothing is changed. Zee asks Stockton if he would like to see a glimpse into his future. He tries to weasel his way out of it, but Zee orders the computrons to generate a projection of the Paradise Valley area in 1990.
• Stockton vainly continues his attempt to talk his way out of seeing the computron projection. Adama explains that the ship is designed to sample a vast area at a time and is capable of detailing every single organic item in that same area. Stockton equates it to a medical checkup, which Adama agrees with, and explains that it can do much more than that: it can sample the vegetation and all other items within that area as well, living or otherwise. When Stockton equates this to spying and asks who side Adama is on, Adama replies that he is on the side of the human race.
• Stockton tries one last bid to avoid seeing the projection, but Dillon grabs him and Zee begins playing the projection. Zee explains that the area is now densely populated and the air quality is aggravated by the return of coal as a primary fuel source. Zee informs Stockton that in late-March, early-April of 1990, his family "will be called upon to bear a heavy loss".
• On the screen, a older Stockton finds that he is still alive, a fact which he celebrates. Soon he realizes that he's attending a funeral for someone else. Stockton identifies all the people there, his daughter-in-law, his wife, Dr. Spencer, Ellsworth, but doesn't see his boy, Jimmy Lee Stockton. Stockton becomes anguished over this fact, as Zee explains how Jimmy's death occurs. As Jimmy works in the purificatiory of his chemical plant, he is exposed to "chemical dioxins" that lower his body's natural resistance to disease.
• On the bright side, Zee says the future events can be changed by "merely" diverting the chemical waste out of the water supply and store them in non-corrosive containers. Zee recommends focusing their scientific inquires to the "final disposition" of the chemical wastes.
• The computer sounds the alert that intruders are approaching: it's Sydell, Ellsworth and the National Guardsmen, with their weapons drawn. Adama tells Stockton and the Warriors that they have to leave, but Stockton is now concerned for the future of both his son and the town. Zee replies that if his instructions are followed, the fate may be averted. Stockton pledges to do his best, to which Zee replies: "That is all anyone can do."
• The computer intones that the stations prepare for ascent. Adama tells the Warriors to escort Mr. Stockton.
• As the computer factors coordinates for "sixty microns and counting," Troy asks Adama about the children. Adama informs him that the "inevitability of a Cylon holocaust" grows stronger every hour, and addresses Troy by his childhood nickname when beseeching him to "find a place for all our young," claiming that they will be safe on Earth.
• Troy asks when he'll see his grandfather again. Adama replies that he'll see him when the time is right.
• Sydell is running up the road, while Ellsworth complains about his age and that Sydell's going to kill him if they keep on running.
• Stockton leaves the ship. Troy, Dillon and the kids, who are healthy again, follow suit.
• Sydell, Ellsworth and the National Guardsmen encounter the mist, which Sydell complains about. Sydell notes that the mist "literally creates its own rainstorm" and, much to Ellsworth's chagrin, Sydell claims that the source of this is a ship. He grabs the flashlight and continues on. Johnson asks Ellsworth what he means by ship, to which Ellsworth replies that it's "just a figure of speech". They follow Sydell.
• The anti-gravity ship ascends.
• Troy, Dillon, the Scouts and Stockton make it back to the van. Troy tells Stockton to make it down the mountain. Stockton claims that they'll lock him up for being a raving lunatic and is unsure of what to tell them. When Troy asks what Stockton believes he should do, Stockton replies that he's has to warn everyone about the danger and save his son. Troy assures Stockton that this is what he should do.
• Ellsworth announces to the van and its occupants that they're surrounded. As they reach the van, they see a bewildered Stockton and an otherwise abandoned van. When asked by Sydell where "they" went, Stockton pretends to be clueless, claiming that he was "just out for a little drive".
• Sydell opens the door to the back of the van, seeing the three beds and medical equipment. Sydell is unaware that the children and the Warriors are in the van, but rendered invisible. Outside the van, with the flashlight shining in his face, the bewildered Stockton says that he wants to go home now.
• Ellsworth points out that there's only one road in and out of the area and, as Sydell looks skyward, he acknowledges this fact.
• The next morning, Ellsworth and Sydell enter the sheriff's office. Ellsworth asks Collins to get him and the Colonel a cup of coffee, then get the state police on the phone. Collins tells Ellsworth that before he does that, he may want to look at the lock box on the desk.
• Collins opens the lock box, which reveals a box of cubits. As Ellsworth palms a few of them, Collins explains that the note that came with it says that there's more than enough gold to repay the bank for its losses. Collins had it checked out, and it's twice as much as was stolen.
• When asked where this came from, Collins replies that it was on the front seat of Ellsworth's car. He found the vehicle on the highway along with the other vehicle. Sydell asks that they be analyzed. An irate Ellsworth asks what he intends to prove by analyzing them, to which Sydell replies that he'll find a "lot more than you'll find with the state police". Sydell tells Ellsworth to give up the search, as they are long gone. Ellsworth laughs, asking if Sydell believes that "them people went up in the air," Sydell mockingly replies, "Of course not, Sheriff. We know that's impossible, don't we?"
• Sydell adds that he has to take a raincheck on the coffee and leaves. Collins asks whether or not Ellsworth believes anything Sydell said, to which he replies, "What stuff?"
• In a restaurant, the Super Scouts are attempting to figure out what the plate-sized waffles are. Hamilton explains that they're waffles and that "you put some syrup on it and they taste real good". One of them notes that they "look like the floor of Galactica," which elicits the laugh from fellow scouts, attracting the attention of a nearby patron. Starla comments that the waffles look "used". Hamilton looks over to Dillon, who encourages the children that the waffles look good. Dillon begins to tell them that they have to get used to the food on Earth, but covers this when he attracts the interest of the same nearby patron.
• Dillon encourages the children to say a silent prayer "on behalf of Starla, Moonstone, and Jason". When a girl scout asks if they are all right, Troy, who is walking behind the three now-healthy scouts, answers that they are all right. The three children join the rest of the scouts while Troy, Dillon and Hamilton go to an adjacent booth.
• Hamilton broaches the topic of what will happen now. Troy replies that the Warriors have to go, noting that he's received a communique from Galactica and have to go on a special mission. Hamilton asks about the children; Dillon assures her that they won't prove to be too much trouble. They essentially dump the children on her, which overwhelms her. Troy thanks Hamilton then kisses the tips of his hand and places his hand on Hamilton's forehead. Dillon and Troy leave the booth and announce to the children that they have to leave for a few days. Dillon tells the children how proud the two Warriors are about their conduct, which is interrupted by a young Super Scout who flicks a syrup-laden waffle piece at Dillon's cheek. The children giggle incessantly, and Troy and Dillon chuckle.

Notes

• The strong consequences-and-responsibility subplot, especially in the second half of the episode, is borrowed directly from the "Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come" section of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
• Adama is so impressed with the potential of the anti-grav ship in this episode that he wonders "with a force of anti-gravity ships such as these, we could retake our planets!" Clearly, Adama has not given up on the Twelve Colonies after all these years.
• In keeping with the mandate of programs in the early evening time slots to have educational value, the theme of this two-part episode is environmental conservation, which also comes up in "Space Croppers".
• The sick Super Scouts are identified by Dillon as being Starla, Moonstone and Jason. However, the girl scout is not Starla and Jason is later identified in "Spaceball" as Wellington.
• Furthermore Jay Johnson, the leader of the National Guard detachment, is identified by three different first names by Sheriff Ellsworth: Jay, John and Joe. The "Joe" error is also present in the script on page 62, scene 122.
• Adama steps foot on the planet Earth for the first time. This should be a big deal, but neither Adama nor the script make it out to be.
• This is the first appearance of the UFO disclaimer before the end credit roll, which makes it appearance through the remainder of the series' episodes, with the exception of "The Return of Starbuck".
• There is a misspelling in the title cards; the "Directed by" card is spelled "Direcetd by".

Changes From Script to Screen

There are a few differences between the script and the finished product. These include:

• Scene number 58 is trimmed down to the first two bits of dialogue between Sheriff Ellsworth and Colonel Sydell (misspelled "Sydel" in the script). In the scripted version, the conversation is extended: Ellsworth comments on how Sydell takes "all this flying saucer stuff real serious," which leads to a conversation that reveals a flashback scene (Scene 59) where Sydell has an apparent encounter with an extraterrestrial craft untold years back.
• A scene with Captain Riddle in a helicopter dispatched from Vandenburg Air Force Base is cut.
• In the script, Jimmy Lee Stockton's first name was "Jamie" before it was revised on 5 March 1980.
• In the filmed version, at the end of the story, Troy and Dillon tell Jamie Hamilton and the Super Scouts that they need to leave to another part of Earth to complete a mission. In the script, it is specified that Xaviar has returned into their time frame and is located in New York City.

Get The Script

A free pdf copy of the script is available here.

Questions

• Why wouldn't the Colonials make use of time travel to prevent the destruction of the Colonies in the first place?
• Where did the Galacticans get the materials to build the anti-gravity ship? How long has the ship been under construction?

Noteworthy Dialogue

• Colonel Sydell talking to Troy, Dillon and the kids at the scout camp:

Sydell: I used to be an eagle myself.

Boy: (looking at his computer watch) Eagle - a large bird.

Starla: He used to be a bird?

• When Troy and Dillon are threatened by the hard hat plant workers...

Dillon: I feel it's only fair to warn you that I'm used to a much denser climate. Consequently, I'm capable of retaliating in a way that would be grossly unfair to you.

• Ellsworth gives Sydell his theory on what he believes is the real motivator for what's happening in his town:

Ellsworth: No... don't believe in little green men. I'll bet the answer to all this is little green dollars.

• Dillon encourages Stockton to board the anti-gravity ship:

Dillon: The glory of universe is intelligence; never be afraid of discovery.

• Stockton meets Adama and attempts to abscond from his responsibility:

Adama: We're all responsible.

Stockton: We are?

Adama: Yes. We have lips so that we may speak, we have eyes so that we may see. Does it not follow ironically that there must be some purpose for the brain?

Guest Stars

• [James] Patrick Stuart as Doctor Zee
• Allan Miller as Colonel Jack Sydell
• George DeLoy as Dr. Spencer
• John Quade as Sheriff Ellsworth
• Mike Kellin as John Stockton
• Michael Swan as Collins
• Carlene Watkins as Nurse Valerie
• Michael Brick as Super Scout
• Nicholas Davies as Super Scout
• Ronnie Densford as Super Scout
• Mark Everett as Super Scout
• Georgi Irene as Sunshine (credited as "Super Scout")
• Tracy Justrich as Starla (credited as "Super Scout")
• Lindsay Kennedy as Super Scout
• David Larson as Super Scout
• Eric Larson as Moonstone
• Michelle Larson as Super Scout
• Jerry Supiran as Super Scout
• Eric Taslitz as Super Scout
• Uncredited as Jay Johnson
• Uncredited as Denver
• Uncredited as Lum

References

"You Can't Go Home Again" An episode of the Re-imagined Series
Episode No.	Season 1, Episode 5
Writer(s)	Carla Robinson
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Director	Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
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Production No.	105
Nielsen Rating	2.5
US airdate	2005-02-04
CAN airdate	2005-02-12
UK airdate	2004-11-15
DVD release	20 September 2005 US 28 March 2005 UK
Population	47,954 survivors ( 4)
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Continuing from the events of "Act of Contrition", Commander Adama and Captain Lee Adama risk the security of the Fleet as they try to locate a downed Kara Thrace...

Summary

• Kara Thrace is missing following a dogfight with Cylon Raiders (TRS: "Act of Contrition"). While he was forced out of the fight, Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza is convinced her Viper was not destroyed.
• Adama immediately orders a search started, and Lee Adama leads it in a Viper.
• On the surface of a small moon, Starbuck awakes to find herself being dragged by a strong wind catching her parachute. Before she can cut herself free of the parachute lines, which have tangled about her legs, she is dragged a considerable distance, smashing her knee in the process.
• When the initial space search fails to locate Starbuck’s Viper, Gaeta suggests she may be on a moon orbiting the gas giant. Adama orders a low-level search of the moon’s surface. At the same time he accepts an offer from Roslin to have the ships of the Fleet continue the space search. Lt. Gaeta calculates that Starbuck has around 46 hours of air left in her oxygen tanks.
• Tigh is worried that if they remain in the area too much longer, the Cylons might find them.
• Aware she is probably being searched for, Starbuck determines to try and make her way to high ground, where she stands a better chance of being seen. Along the way, she asks the Lords of Kobol for help, and comes across a downed Cylon Raider from the confrontation leading to her crash.
• As the search of the moon continues, the dust-laden atmosphere begins to have its effect on the Galactica's Vipers: 13 are grounded due to mechanical problems. The constant flying is causing other problems: Galactica’s fuel reserves for her fighters are being used at an alarming rate.
• Tigh also points out that the Fleet is now spread right across the star system, leaving it vulnerable to attack should the Cylons show up.
• On the moon, Starbuck is determined to make the Raider space-worthy, and sets about accessing it – only to find it is bio-mechanical: inside the vehicle is a mass of organs, veins and tubes.
• As time passes, Adama and Lee further risk the Fleet by pulling in the CAP Vipers to assist with the search.
• When the timer in the CIC indicates Starbuck’s air has (presumably) expired, Adama continues the search, relieving Tigh of his duties when he challenges the order.
• With her air supply all but gone, Starbuck manages to find an oxygen supply hose in the Raider and seals the insides of the vehicle so she can breathe. She then sets out trying to work out how the Raider flies.
• As Lee and Adama continue to monitor the search of the moon, Roslin arrives on Galactica. Determined to put a stop to things, she challenges both Adama and Lee concerning their single-mindedness and the way it is putting the survival of the fleet and mankind at risk.
• Realising they have perhaps gone too far, Adama calls off the search and orders the Fleet readied to jump.
• With the Fleet successfully away, Galactica is about to jump herself when a Cylon Raider appears. Vipers are prepped for launch, however a malfunction with Galactica's launch tubes allows only Capt. Adama's Viper to launch.
• Making contact with the Raider, Lee discovers the truth – Starbuck is piloting the Raider; she used tape to write her name on the bottom of the Raider and flew formation with Lee's Viper. He escorts her back to Galactica, where she lands and is taken to sickbay.
• Visiting her in sickbay later, Adama congratulates her on her performance – an indirect way of letting her know she is forgiven for Zak.

On Caprica

• Helo and Valerii are still hiding in the “fallout shelter”, but Helo determines they must move on.
• A pair of Cylon Centurions arrive, apparently conducting a search. A firefight ensues between Helo and the Centurions.
• Helo destroys one of the Centurions but is knocked unconscious by the other, and when he awakens, Valerii is gone.

Notes

• Cylon Raiders are bio-mechanical in nature, and their biomass uses a breathable, oxygen-rich mix suitable for humans.
• Vipers are atmosphere-capable - indeed, it appears they may have been regularly used in the atmospheres of Colonial worlds, given they are equipped with a parachute.
• Vipers can be refueled in space (and presumably in relatively calm atmospheres).
• Starbuck's damaged Viper disintegrates around her upon re-entry, compelling her to eject. The Raider that she disables and forces down on the moon is, when she finds it, notably space-worthy.
• Colonial flight suits are capable of full life support, both planet-side (Starbuck) and in space (Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza). In the case of Vipers, the back section of the pilot’s seat appears in effect to be a life-support backpack that detaches from the rest of the seat following ejection.
• Raptor cabins can be depressurized and repressurized (Hot Dog's rescue), adding to their versatility.
• Roslin has the same image that the pilots touch when leaving the Ready Room.
• Colonials play billiard pool.
• The messy organic interior of the Raider was inspired by the Alien series, according to David Eick on the DVD commentary.
• The scene where Starbuck, in a Cylon Raider, shakes off Apollo's attack is remarkably similar to a scene from the Original Series ("The Hand of God") in which Apollo and Starbuck avoid being shot down in a Cylon Raider by waggling their wings.
• This story may have been inspired by the classic Galactica 1980 episode "The Return of Starbuck" where Starbuck, after a space battle, is also forced to crash on a barren planet and soon discovers a crashed Cylon raider. He later uses parts of it to build a new ship.
• Baltar is requisitioning something that requires the President's authorization – the use of one of Galactica's nuclear warheads for his research.
• William Adama is capable of letting personal feelings rise above professional duty.
• The toaster used by Karl "Helo" Agathon on Caprica that triggers the attack of the Centurions in the kitchen appears to be a sligthly modified Magimix 11062.

Analysis

• On Caprica, the Cylons have apparently stepped up their manipulations of Helo a notch: and they appear determine to test / increase his feelings for Valerii. "Love", and possibly "procreation" seems to be at the heart of their manipulations. The evidence for this comes from the last few episodes:
  • Water: Helo scans the airwaves, failing to find any other signals. Caprica-Sharon makes a comment about them being the only two people left on the planet, and the way she says it makes it hard to keep the words “Adam and Eve” from popping into one’s head – especially with all the other religious motifs that have surrounded our insight into Cylon aims (even if they are from "Six’s" perspective);
  • Water: Helo is obviously attracted to Caprica-Sharon, as evidenced by his embarrassment following the "spontaneous" hug she gives him when they first hear the radio broadcast. Sharon’s disappearance seems to be the first Cylon attempt to accentuate Helo’s feelings for her;
  • Act of Contrition: as a result of the (clearly-planted) "radio broadcast", they come across a fully-equipped radiation shelter, which does not appear to have been used, and which is more than cozily set-up for a long duration stay for two people;
  • This episode: when Helo suggests they pack up and leave the shelter, Sharon’s look is, for a moment, distinctly odd, and she challenges him with a slightly sultry "Unless you can think of a reason to stay here." Valerii’s comment seems calculated to give Helo an opportunity to express a physical interest in her. Her disappointment is evident when he says they should move on;
  • This episode: no sooner is the decision made to move on than Cylon Centurions turn up. The ensuing firefight leaves Helo unconscious, but (surprisingly) alive;
  • This episode: when Helo revives, Caprica-Sharon is gone, and he’s no longer thinking about leaving the planet – he’s only concerned with what has happened to Sharon.
• During the fight in the restaurant, the Cylon Centurion clearly makes only a token attempt to kill Helo – although it does a pretty good job of shooting up the kitchen as a whole. Helo is surprisingly incurious about his survival. His concern about Caprica-Sharon's disappearance seems to overwhelm any suspicion. Besides, unlike the viewers, Helo has simply been given no outside reason to suspect that the Cylons want to keep him alive and that he is in an "experiment" of theirs. However, as Season 1 progresses Helo does start to gradually suspect that something is amiss.
• This episode seems to suggest a subtle demarcation between Baltar's hallucinatory Number Six and the other Cylons. Previously, she has referred to them as "we" – implying she is still a part of them. Here she refers to the Cylons very much in the third person: "they". Is this indicative of a possible shift in her loyalties, that the Cylons truly are totally unaware of her presence, or is she simply manipulating Baltar?
• Are all Cylons bio-mechanical? Probably not, as Helo puts a shot straight through the head of a Cylon Centurion. If any organic matter were contained therein, one would expect blood and/or gore to exit the wound. This does not appear to be the case.
• When did Starbuck write her name on the underside of the Raider's wings? Considering that she didn't know that she could fly the craft when she found it, one would think that she does it before leaving the moon. However, by that time she has used her flight suit to stuff the hole in the hull.

Questions

Answered Questions

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• With almost 50% of fuel reserves gone, can Galactica obtain additional supplies to keep her Vipers flying?
• What use will be made of the captured Raider?
• How many more Cylon spacecraft include biological elements in their design?
• Will Karl Agathon now go in search of the “missing” Valerii?
• Will he question why the Centurion left him unconscious in the restaurant, rather than taking him prisoner?
• Did the Cylons develop bio-mechanical capabilities first in a basic form with the Raiders, before going on to develop the humanoid constructs?

Unanswered Questions

None yet.

Official Statements

• Bear McCreary discusses the "Cylon Theme" and its relation to this episode:

"This theme was originally performed using pots, pans and toasters for the metallic effects. It was composed before I had seen 'You Can't Go Home Again', which includes a scene where Helo battles centurions in a cafe kitchen and bullets ricochet off pots, pans and a toaster!"

Noteworthy Dialogue

• Starbuck to the crashed Cylon Raider:

Starbuck: Are you... alive?

• Starbuck upon entering the crashed Cylon Raider:

Starbuck: You bite me, I'll bite you back.

• The Adamas discuss their recent actions:

Apollo: I want you to know, I think she's wrong. I think we have come to terms with what happened to Zak.

William Adama: I haven't.

Apollo: I need to know something: Why did you do this? Why did we do this? Is it for Kara? For Zak? For what?

Adama: Kara was family. You do whatever you have to do. Sometimes you break the rules.

Apollo: And if it was me down there instead?

Adama: You don't have to ask that.

Apollo: Are you sure?

Adama: If it were you... we'd never leave.

• The confrontation between Commander Adama, Apollo, Colonel Tigh, and President Roslin over the SAR mission for Starbuck:

Tigh: (walking in with Roslin) President Roslin.

Adama: Madam President.

Roslin: Skip the formalities. You both know why I'm here.

Adama: Termination of a pilot's rescue mission is a military decision.

Roslin: That's a bunch of crap. It's not military. It's personal. Neither of you can let go of Kara Thrace because she's your last link to Zak.

Apollo: You don't know anything about my brother.

Roslin: Don't even begin, Captain. You've lost perspective, as have you. Under normal circumstances, it would just be sad that the two of you can't come to terms with Zak's death. In this situation, you are putting your pilots at risk, and you're exposing the entire fleet to possible attack every moment we stay here.

Adama: We've been at risk of an attack since day one. Cylons won't be missing their patrol for at least one more day.

Roslin: (steps closer to Adama) Colonel Tigh. How much aviation fuel has been expended in this operation?

Tigh: Forty-three percent of reserves.

Roslin: Almost half. That's unacceptable. An operation into the moon's atmosphere that has put one third of your fighters out of action. That is also completely unacceptable.

Adama: Crap. Unacceptable. Whatever you feel about this, the recovery of one pilot is a military matter.

Roslin: All right. It's military. Fine. And you're both officers. And you're both honorable men. And you're both perfectly aware you are putting the lives of over 45,000 people and the future of this civilization at risk for your personal feelings. Now, if it's the two of you, of all people, that can live with that, than the human race doesn't stand a chance. Clear your heads. (leaves the room).

• Lee sees "Starbuck" written on the bottom of the Raider he's fighting and realizes the truth

Lee: (laughs) Its Starbuck!

Adama: (stunned) What?!

Lee: Say again, the Raider is marked "Starbuck." Its written under the frakking wing!

(Everyone in CIC is cheering while Tigh and Adama are clearly stunned by this revelation)

Adama: Bring it into the bay, but if it does anything, take it out!

Lee: Yes, sir but I'm telling you its got to be her! This thing is flying with some serious attitude!

Lee escorts the Raider to Galactica and they waggle their wings at each other

• Kara has just made a dramatic rescue of herself and Lee has come to see her

Kara: (referring to her Raider) Like my new toy?

Lee: When you take a souvenir, you don't mess around!

• Chief Tyrol walks around the Cylon Raider

Tyrol: Your ass belongs to me now.

Guest stars

• Michael Hogan as Colonel Saul Tigh
• Aaron Douglas as Chief Galen Tyrol
• Tahmoh Penikett as Lieutenant Karl "Helo" Agathon
• Kandyse McClure as Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla
• Paul Campbell as Billy Keikeya
• Alessandro Juliani as Lieutenant Felix Gaeta
• Samuel Witwer as Lieutenant Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo
• Donnelly Rhodes as Dr. Sherman Cottle
• Alonso Oyarzun as Specialist Socinus
• Bodie Olmos as Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza

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"There is Another Sky" An episode of the Caprica Series
Episode No.	Season 1, Episode 5
Writer(s)	Kath Lingenfelter
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Director	Michael Nankin
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Production No.	105
Nielsen Rating	0.4
US airdate	February 26, 2010
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Tamara Adama is forced to participate in a dangerous game as part of a trade individuals who claim they can help her return to reality. Joseph Adama tries to reconnect with his son. Daniel Graystone keeps himself from being removed from the leadership of his own company by introducing the U-87.

Summary

Teaser

• Sam Adama enters his brother's apartment in the morning, and finds Willie listening to music and playing with a computer instead of going to school--and Joseph asleep on the sofa. Sam wakes him roughly. Joseph insists that he will take Willie to school, but Sam and Willie both insist on going together. Sam asks Joseph whether he will go to work today, and after getting no answer, he chastises his brother for failing both his image as a Tauron and his son.
• In V-World, Tamara Adama walks into a caged area and pushes through a line until a pair of teenagers stop her. She tells them that she is looking for Vesta, since she appears to be the only one who can help Tamara get back to the real world. At a round table, Vesta is accepting bets. She signals, lights in the room begin to flash, and a wheel with handguns spins on the tabletop. The wheel stops. Each player takes a gun, points it at their own head, and pulls the trigger. One man's gun fires and he instantly de-rezzes. Tamara realizes that this is a way home.
• She intrudes on the roulette game, telling Vesta that she wants to play. Vesta recognizes her as "the girl who can't get out" and tells her to just remove her band. Tamara barely has time to say "I can't" when Vesta produces another gun and fires. Tamara falls to the floor, bleeding and crying, but she does not leave V-World. The crowd is stunned. Vesta kneels next to Tamara, telling her that they are going to help each other.

Act 1

• Gathered around Tamara, Vesta and her followers speculate on Tamara's status: she is asleep or unconscious or in a coma, but with her holoband malfunctioning, since the device should have timed out. Tamara figures out that Vesta wants something in return for their assistance. Vesta says that she wants help in striking an adversary. Vesta's followers marvel that Tamara's gunshot wound has completely healed, something that never occurs in V-world.
• Still at home, Joseph receives a call from Willie's principal: Willie has been out of school since the middle of the previous week.
• Joseph finds Willie at the Tauron social club on Gore Avenue, wearing an apron and interacting with the Ha'la'tha there. He angrily demands that Willie leave. Before going, Sam tells his brother that he has lost Willie.
• Heracles, one of Vesta's followers, pulls Tamara through an underground tunnel by the wrist, giving her a few more details about their objective. Both of them are dressed in stylish formal clothes that do not resemble the norm for Caprica. They emerge onto a hotel fire escape overlooking a noisy, lower technology version of Caprica City at night. An airship prowls the city. It launches fighter planes that fire at the street and at them, forcing them to take cover. "Welcome to New Cap City," Heracles tells her.
• Safe in the hotel room, Heracles tells Tamara more about the game, that it mirrors and alters Caprica City, down to the site of the Maglev 23 bombing. Tamara asks calmly, "A maglev train blew up?" Heracles: "How long have you been asleep?" He goes on to tell her that although players can accumulate points and money in New Cap City, no one knows the ultimate object of the game.
• Joseph is working at home when he stumbles upon pictures of him, Willie, his wife, and Tamara on a fishing trip. He starts to cry.
• In a lower east side bar, Heracles and Tamara stalk Chiron, the best gamer in New Cap City. Heracles briefly mentions the plan to steal Chiron's avatar in order to gain access to his money. A few minutes later, Tamara moves toward Chiron, an overweight older man surrounded by pretty teenaged boys and girls and a number of bodyguards. Tamara claims to be an ignored girlfriend pleading for attention. Just as Chiron's patience is about to run out, Tamara produces a gun and takes out a bodyguard (who de-rezzes from the game) before she herself is shot. Like before, everyone is drawn to her as she cries in pain on the floor. While Chiron and the others are distracted, Heracles sneaks up behind Chiron and touches him with a device. Chiron looks up, puzzled but nothing more. A moment later, Heracles is running through the street, carrying Tamara.

Act 2

• Back in the hotel room, Heracles marvels at Tamara's healing, a flickering wound closing up as they watch. With the device he had used on Chiron, he demonstrates how he can mask himself as Chiron and break into his vault. He confesses to Tamara that the game is a place where he can make something of himself, to which she answers that less time in New Cap City might allow him to achieve something in the real world.
• Joseph and Willie arrive at a shallow river with fishing gear, but Willie is thoroughly bored with the outing from the very first moment. As Joseph tries to give emotional support, Willie's attention is drawn to older boys who are making faces at him and are muttering "dirt eater." Eventually, one of the boys stands up and openly taunts Willie. He confronts the boy, then hurls a rock at his head, knocking him to the ground. Willie leaps onto the boy and begins pummeling him as Joseph struggles to pull him up.
• In the hallways of Graystone Industries, Cyrus Xander uncomfortably informs Daniel Graystone that the corporation's board of directors is planning an emergency meeting to decide whether Daniel should be removed, due to his surprise announcement about the future of the holoband. When Daniel asks him whether there are enough votes to do this, Xander quietly backs away.
• Late at night, Daniel is sitting in bed. Amanda wakes up. He confesses to her that he might lose Graystone Industries the next day. She reminds him of a time when she was pregnant and the two of them were struggling financially, and how despite a host of difficulties, Daniel had a successful meeting with the computer company Microcap, "the deal that would start everything."

Act 3

• Gathered around the boardroom table, Priyah Magnus and Xander defend the public relations success of Daniel's move to Jon Parker and the rest of the Graystone Industries' board of directors. Xander points out that "Daniel Graystone is the brand," and that removing him from the board would be tantamount to suicide. They are interrupted by the sound of metallic clanking that grows louder. Daniel briskly enters the room, followed by the U-87.
• Daniel begins by announcing that the holobands are as good as dead as a profit-making venture. The future, he claims, is Cylons. Expense is irrelevant; the machine that is walking across the boardroom (and making the board members nervous, to Zoe-A's delight) is not just artificial intelligence, but artificial sentience, "another race that will walk beside us." This race, Daniel continues, will serve humanity without question or fail. To emphasize the point, Daniel orders the Cylon to rip its own arm off. Zoe hesitates, but she complies, and violently tears off the robot's left arm and tosses it onto the table, frightening the board. Daniel concludes by saying that humanity will not be able to resist the need to connect with the Cylons--and ultimately, to buy them.
• In New Cap City, Tamara and Heracles (as Chiron) enter a bank. Once the guards are dismissed, Heracles reads the vault code to Tamara, a sequence of steps on a floor pattern representing the Twelve Colonies. The floor vault opens and emits golden light and floating gold coins. Heracles collects them and accumulates points on a massive scale--until an alarm is triggered. Two guards enter and fire at Tamara. She quietly takes the bullets, then clenches her fists and instantly de-rezzes the guards.

Act 4

• At home, the tension between Joseph and Willie is growing. Later, Sam and Larry visit. Sam tells his brother that Willie would already be a man on Tauron, and that denying him his heritage will drive him further away. The best place to start, Sam tells Joseph, are the "rites" to bring closure to Shannon and Tamara.
• Daniel waits in the boardroom at night. Xander enters and tells Daniel cautiously that he has won the vote.
• Tauron family and friends gather, playing games and praying before an altar bearing photos of Shannon and Tamara. Eventually, Joseph announces that he is ready.
• Heracles and Tamara step into the bar that had been Chiron's, but is now occupied by Vesta and her followers. Before handing Vesta the money, Tamara demands to be woken up. Vesta flatly tells her that she cannot: she produces a month-old newspaper with a list of the bombing victims, including Tamara Adams. Vesta only offers the girl the promise of more work in New Cap City. Heracles holds Tamara, and glares at Vesta. Without warning, Tamara grabs Heracles' guns and opens fire, eliminating all of Vesta's followers. She takes Heracles aside and demands that he find her father, and that he tries to make something of his life in the real world. After Heracles removes the holoband and de-rezzes, Tamara returns to Vesta, who is sprawled on the floor. "What are you?" she asks. "I'm awake," Tamara answers, and fires.

Tag

• Led by an elder Tauron, Joseph and Willie say farewell to Shannon and Tamara. Joseph opens his shirt and receives a tattoo.
• After the ceremony, a stranger comes to the door. Tad Thorean, Heracles, nervously tells Joseph about Tamara in V-world, still unconvinced that she is dead. Joseph reacts angrily, and Thorean realizes that Vesta was not lying. He flees. Joseph chases after him, but cannot keep up.
• Tamara prowls the streets of New Cap City, armed.

Notes

• Lacy Rand, Clarice Willow, and Jordan Duram do not appear in this episode.
• According to the audio commentary for the episode, New Cap City is a reference to the film New Jack City.

Analysis

• The Tauron Funeral Rite as seen in this episode mirrors the Ancient Greek rite of placing a coin on the head of the dead for the Charon, the ferryman who took the souls of the dead across the Rivers Styx and Acheron to Hades (The Underworld). In Ancient Greece it was two coins for each person to be placed on each eye; however, in the case of the Tauron rite it was a single coin each. The ceremony also differs in that it involved the Tauron custom of applying tattoos.
• Logically, Zoe-A has the same capabilities that Tamara-A does, though we have not seen this. It is possible that this is because she, like Tamara at the beginning of the episode, does not know about her capabilities. Another possibility is that she simply hasn't seen any reason to use them.
• It is likely that Tad (Heracles) ran away because he did not believe Vesta's claim that Tamara was really dead. This is evidenced by his statement to Joseph Adama that Tamara was in trouble and that he should "wake her up." When Joseph told him that Tamara was dead, his demeanor changed rapidly.
• Daniel Graystone's speech to the board about the Cylons might seem self-destructive at first glance and, in the long run, it certainly is. However, it is possible that when he talked about the U-87 appearing sentient he did not, in fact, mean that it was, but rather that it did an excellent job at imitating a human connection. Alternatively, he may believe that sentience and free will are not necessarily linked and that the U-87 can be both sentient and completely obedient. This latter scenario has a precedent in famed sci-fi author Isaac Asimov's work, which imagines a society in which (sentient) robots carry out the commands of their human overlords without hesitation, but who are nonetheless capable of conscious thought, rationalization, and self-inquiry. Whatever the case, it is clear that Graystone miscalculated, as the Cylons do, in fact, eventually rebel.
• This episode marks the first time that a specific street address is given for a location in the re-imagined continuity: the Adama apartment is located at 615 Olympic Street #3 in Caprica City.

Questions

• What will happen to Tamara-A now that she is aware of her abilities within the V-world? (Answer)
• Will Joseph find Heracles? If so, will he lead him to Tamara? (Partial answer)
• Will Daniel's treatment of the U-87 in the board meeting affect Zoe-R's behavior?
• Does Willie ever learn of his sister's avatar? (Possible answer)
• Will the funeral improve Willie and Joseph's relationship, as Sam indicated it would?

Official Statements

Noteworthy Dialogue

• Sam Adama is arguing with his brother Joseph about his detachment from work and family:

Sam: First, you be a father, and when you can manage that, maybe I'll introduce you to your son.

Guest Stars

• Luciana Carro as Priyah Magnus
• Karen Elizabeth Austin as Ruth
• Camille Mitchell as Vesta
• Sina Najafi as William Adama
• Hiro Kanagawa as Cyrus Xander
• Genevieve Buechner as Tamara Adama
• Julius Chapple as Larry
• Richard Harmon as Heracles
• AC Peterson as Chiron
• Eve Harlow as Byun
• Travis Turner as Ashok
• Graham Chabot as Big Kid
• Thomas Saunders as Jon Parker
• Ian A. Wallace as Ferryman
• Patti Allan as Tauron Rites Singer
• Jim Ralph as Chiron's Bank Guard
• Charles Andre as Rail Thin Man
• Zolton Crane as Man

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