Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode Guide

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  • The long anticipated season 4.5 of the Sci-Fi Channel original series Battlestar Galactica begins on Friday, January 16, 2009. With many important plot points left hanging in the balance at the end of the season's first half, the final episodes of the season will tie up the series once and for all.

  • Series Synopsis

    Battlestar Galactica, the re-imagined series, follows the lives of a fleet of ships that survive a nuclear holocaust brought on by the human-created cylons. The premise of the show revolves around the notion that man created the cylons to serve him. The cylons grew resentful of their enslavement and rebelled against mankind. Man and cylon went to war, but then the cylons disappeared for forty years. They returned, but when they returned they were indistinguishable from mankind. They wipe out the Twelve Colonies with nuclear war, and all that remains of humanity is about 50,000 people and a small fleet of ships guarded by the Battlestar Galactica.

    Throughout the series, the fleet is always on the run from their cylon enemies, but soon discover that cylons have been secretly planted within the fleet. Everyone is constantly on edge, wondering who could be a cylon. The people of the fleet have one hope left that guides them through the long, arduous task of survival, and that is Earth: a mythical thirteenth colony prophesied by the prophet Pythia.

    The cylon enemy eventually turns in on itself, and half of the cylons defect to the humans for assistance. Despite troubles, the humans band with the cylons and go forth to find Earth. They eventually find Earth, only to discover that like the Twelve Colonies, Earth has been wiped out by nuclear warfare and its original inhabitants were humanoid cylon models.

    With little hope left to guide them, the people of the Galactica watch as their ship slowly disintegrates. When a final battle against the cylons looks like the Galactica's last mission, the crew divides itself to go on a that mission to save a human-cylon hybrid child who is believed to be the future of civilization.

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  • Original Air Date: April 4, 2008

  • S04E65 "Escape Velocity" (Season 4, Episode 65)

  • S04E66 "The Road Less Traveled" (Season 4, Episode 66)

  • S04E67 "Faith" (Season 4, Episode 67)

    • Original Air Date: May 9, 2008 10 P.M.
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      • Roslin's faith is called into question as she sits by and watches a fellow cancer patient die. The woman tells Roslin why she believes in the One God Gaius Baltar has been preaching, and Roslin starts to question her own faith.

  • S04E68 "Guess What's Coming to Dinner" (Season 4, Episode 68)

  • So4E69 "Sine Qua Non" (Season 4, Episode 69)

  • So4E70 "The Hub" (Season 4, Episode 70)

  • So4E71 "Revelations" (Season 4, Episode 71)

  • So4SPEC "The Face of the Enemy" (10 Part Online Webisode Special)

    • Original Air Dates: December 12, 2008—January 14, 2009
      • Felix Gaeta is instructed by Colonel Tigh to take a week's R&R leave, but shortly after his ship leaves Galactica they are separated from the fleet. Out in space alone, the small crew (which consists of two Number 8 Cylon models,) discovers that they have less than twenty-four hours to live.
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  • So4E72 "Sometimes a Great Notion" (Season 4, Episode 72)

    • Original Air Date: January 16, 2009 10 P.M.
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      • The following passage may contain spoilers.
      • As the fleet and their cylon alliance explore the destroyed remains of the planet Earth, they discover that the nuclear explosion that wiped out the Thirteenth Tribe took place over two thousand years in the past. While combing the remains, Chief Tyrol comes upon the charred outline of a body and remembers his days on Earth. Shortly thereafter, Sam Anders finds a guitar in the dirt and remembers a song he wrote, the song that signaled the final five back to Earth. Tori approaches and tells them she remembers it too.
      • While examining the remains of bodies discovered on Earth, Baltar confirms that the remains of all of the skeletons they found were not human, but cylon, and it is soon discovered that the Thirteenth Tribe were cylons and the scrolls of Pythia were written by the cylons. Distraught by this information, and already despondent President Roslin begins burning the scrolls of Pythia.
      • Starbuck and Leoben are searching for the source of signal that drew them to Earth when she starts to find signs of a wrecked ship like her own. Leoben identifies the numbers and she gets scared, as they are the same numbers on her own ship. They find the ship and inside the ship is a body. She reaches in for the tags and finds that they are her own. Scared, Leoben starts to back away when Starbuck stars screaming, "What am I?"
      • Petty Officer Dualla sees signs all throughout the fleet that indicate life as usual, but she's obviously having a difficult time coping with the fact that all the fleet has strived for during their five year search for Earth. She goes for a drink with Lee Adama, and the two of them return to officer's quarters laughing. She kisses him good night and then goes inside and kills herself.
      • Drunk and driven mad by the chaos of all they've been through and the pressure of Dualla's suicide, Admiral Adama loads a gun and heads to Colonel Tigh's quarters. He hands Tigh a loaded gun and pushes Tigh to shoot him or he'll shoot himself. Tigh refuses and convinces Adama that he must stand strong for the sake of the fleet. The two return to the CIC and Adama gives orders for them to begin searching for the next galaxy with possible habitability.
      • Before the ships leave, Colonel Tigh approaches D'Anna Biers and tells her it's time to go. She tells him she's tired of being a part of the cycle. All of it has happened before and she doesn't want to be a part of it happening again. She's going to stay on Earth. She asks if he's ever just wanted to let go of it all, and remembering a conversation he had with Adama, he walks out to the ocean and starts wading in.
      • As he's walking into the ocean, a memory of his own time on Earth starts to come back to him. He reaches into the water and pulls out a safety deposit box door. In the memory he hears someone calling his name. He rushes in and tries to save the woman on the ground, but she's injured badly and another explosion is coming. He lifts the woman and looks into her face, realizing it is Ellen, the wife he killed for working with the cylons on New Caprica. She tells him it's okay, everything is in place and they will be born together again someday. He realizes as he comes back to himself that she, Ellen Tigh, was fifth of the final five.

  • So4E73 "A Disquiet Follows My Soul" (Season 4, Episode 73)

      • The episode begins with Caprica Six and Colonel Tigh in the medical ward on Galactica viewing the ultrasound of their baby, which is the first baby ever to be conceived by two cylon parents. As Caprica and Tigh discuss this miracle with Doc Cottle, the nurse seems disturbed. Cottle sends her away to find a fetal heart monitor and she discovers Felix Gaeta waiting in another curtain. Gaeta complains that at least the cylons are being kept happy, even if the rest of the fleet is in disarray. She tries to comfort him, promising that she will get the doctor in to see him as soon as possible when Galen Tyrol busts into the hospital room with Nicky, begging for help for the boy.
      • At a later meeting Tyrol is proposing to integrate cylon technology into all of the fleet's FTL drives to give them three times the jump capacity. As the group, which consists of Tigh, Admiral Adama, Lee Adama, Karl Agathon and Felix Gaeta, discusses how they can convince the fleet to accept the change, Gaeta speaks out against the idea, wondering what the catch is and what the cylons will expect in return. Tyrol tells them that the cylons want to be made full fledged citizens of the colonies, protected under the colonial military in case they run into the Brother Cavil fleet again. Gaeta is outraged, as the others try to think of a way to best present this news to the fleet.
      • Laura Roslin has abandoned her diloxin treatment and forgone taking medication for her cancer. She also hands her resignation as president over to Adama, but he refuses to accept it. She begins exercising again. When Adama approaches her about what she's doing and not doing in regards to her cancer, she reminds him of the promise they once made to each other on New Caprica about living every day as if it was their last. She tells him she's suffered enough and wants to spend her final days doing right by herself and encourages him to consider doing the same.
      • While examining Nicky Tyrol, Galen Tyrol asks Doc Cottle what he can do to help, if he should donate blood since Nicky is a human-cylon hybrid. The nurse slips up and tells the doctor that Tyrol has the right to know the truth. Cottle pulls Tyrol aside and tells him that Cally Tyrol had an affair and got pregnant just before she and Chief were married. She didn't know who the father was, and asked Cottle to do a paternity test for her just before she was killed. Later at one of Baltar's rallies, Baltar preaches to his people that they are undeserving of God's punishment and that perhaps it is up to God to come down from on high and ask for the forgiveness of his children. During the rally, Chief sees Hot Dog and realizes that this is who Cally had an affair with. The two begin fighting, but later appear at the medical ward together at Nicky's bedside. Tyrol tells Hot Dog he will tell him everything he needs to know about being a father.
      • Gaeta threatens Starbuck about her relationship with Sam, and promises her that one day there will be a reckoning.
      • Against the idea of the humans allying themselves with the cylons, Vice President Tom Zarek convinces the tyllium ship, in possession of all of the fleet's fuel, to jump away to an predesignated coordination until the Admiral and the government see the error of their ways. Adama has Zarek arrested, and later Gaeta arrives and strikes a deal with Zarek, agreeing to start a mutiny against the Admiral, the cylons and all who have allied themselves with the cylons.

  • So4E74 "The Oath" (Season 4, Episode 74)

    • Original Air Date: January 30, 2009 10 P.M.
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      • Felix Gaeta and the band of marines he has gathered to follow him into mutiny break Tom Zarek out of the brig. On the hangar deck, they come up against opposition threatening to check with the CIC about ship clearance, and Zarek takes care of it with a wrench. Zarek tells Gaeta that he wants to stay until things get started, but Gaeta refuses, telling him to get on the ship and get back to Colonial One.
      • Admiral Adama and President Roslin are staying together permanently in Adama's quarters. Tigh discovers this when he is with Adama, trying to convince him that they have to update the fleet's FTL system with cylon technology. Adama agrees to have Apollo address the quorum, but Roslin starts involving herself. She then stops herself, refusing to get involved, claiming she is done being the dying leader she thought she once was. Later on the CIC, Gaeta begins orchestrating an uprising within the Galactica, using the excuse of a fake fire to evacuate military storage to cover up the civilians arming themselves. Starbuck discovers this and tries to contact the admiral, but Gaeta hangs up on her.
      • Seelix comes up on Sam Anders throwing a pyramid ball into a net. Sam is lamenting over how important he once thought Pyramid was. Seelix starts talking about the past, back at Joe's Bar, when she thought maybe there was something starting between her and Sam. But he rejected her, and she thought maybe it was his cylon wiring. Two marines sneak up behind and put a sack over Sam's head, then they kick him to the ground and beat him.
      • Meanwhile, Lee is on Colonial One trying to convince the quorum of the necessity to accept the cylon technology and the alliance when Tom Zarek appears. He sows seeds of doubt into Lee's mind about the admiral, but Lee heads back to Galactica to see for himself. He's taken prisoner on the hangar deck, but Starbuck arrives and starts shooting the mutineers. She and Lee escape.
      • In their unit, Athena Sharon is feeding Hera when they hear the sound of gunfire echoing in the hallway outside. The civilian army breaks down the door and takes Athena and Hera prisoner, then they beat Helo. They drop them all into the brig, where Sam and Caprica Six are already being held captive.
      • Gaeta takes over the CIC and arrests the Admiral and Colonel Tigh. Adama promises them all that one day there will be a reckoning, and when they are tried for their crimes, they won't have the glory of their military uniform. They will all die with nothing. As the guards are taking them to the brig, Tigh and Adama break free, shooting one guard and taking the other into custody.
      • Lee and Starbuck arrive at the commander's cabin to find the president. The three of them start on a journey to help break the Admiral and Tigh out of the brig. The president approaches Gaius Baltar and asks to use his wireless communication device to address the fleet. After a moment's hesitation, Baltar concedes and Roslin addresses the fleet. She reminds them all that the remaining cylons they have allied themselves with are humanity's only hope for survival, and asks them to set aside their differences in pursuit of survival. Gaeta interrupts transmission just before she completes her speech.
      • Baltar calls Gaeta, telling him to stop. He says that Gaeta is not a bad person, and he knows that.. He reminds Gaeta that he knows his secret about the Eight that he fraternized with on New Caprica, but Gaeta hangs up on him. At last, Baltar, Roslin, Lee, Starbuck, Chief Tyrol, Tigh and Adama are in a forgotten hangar deck awaiting a rescue ship. Adama kisses Roslin goodbye, and after everyone boards the ship. Adama and Tigh remain behind to ensure the others are able to escape. The episode ends with the marines throwing a bomb into the hangar as Adama and Tigh go out shooting.

  • So4E75 "Blood on the Scales" (Season 4, Episode 75)

    • Original Air Date: February 6, 2009 10 P.M.
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      • Admiral Adama and Colonel Tight are taken into custody after the mutineers break down the door. Tigh is taken to the brig, where they are keeping the other cylons and Adama is taken to the CIC. Gaeta tells him that there will be a trial and he will be held accountable for the things he has done once Tom Zarek arrives.
      • Laura Roslin and Gaius Baltar are safe on the cylon baseship. After telling the cylons what happened on the Galactica, Tory Foster and the other cylons decide that their only defense is to run. Roslin tells them that Adama will regain control of the fleet, and when he does, he will remember who stood behind him and who ran. The cylons decide to stay, and instead they move the baseship into the fleet to keep it out of the line of fire.
      • Apollo and Starbuck are waiting in the shadows when Tom Zarek arrives with the Quorum of Twelve. They duck out and head in the direction of the brig, their objective being to free the cylon prisoners.
      • Roslin finds an open channel and appeals to the fleet. She tells them to shut down their FTL drives and stand by as Adama regains control of Galactica. Baltar meets another Six model, one who reminds him of Gina Inviere, a cylon he helped commit suicide just before settling on New Caprica. The two of them wind up in bed together and Baltar dreams that he sees Adama being executed. He remembers his duty to the people he left behind, and decides that even though he loathes the way they treat him, he owes them for all they've done for him.
      • Tom Zarek and the Quorum meet, and as Zarek makes it known he is assuming the office of the president, the Quorum tells him that they want him to leave. They still firmly stand behind President Roslin. Zarek orders to have the Quorum executed. Gaeta begins to see the error of Zarek's judgment. Zarek tells him that Adama must be killed if they are to end things once and for all. Zarek brings in Romo Lampkin to represent Adama in the trial. Zarek himself will be the judge and Gaeta will represent the people. Lampkin encourages Adama to stand firm, that people are rallying out there to his cause.
      • Apollo and Starbuck manage to release the prisoners, but as they are escaping, Sam is shot in the neck. Starbuck forces Lee to go on and save his father while she tries to drag Sam to Doc Cottle.
      • During the trial for Adama, they call in and tell Zarek that the prisoners escaped. Zarek tells Adama that Saul Tigh was killed trying to escape. Adama refuses to answer anymore questions, so they send him out for execution. Apollo, Starbuck, Tigh and Athena manage to rescue Adama and they gather forces to take back the ship.
      • Zarek tells Roslin that Adama is dead, that they executed him that morning. Roslin tells them she will do whatever it takes to get back at them, that she's coming for them. She arms the cylon baseship with nuclear warheads and prepares to attack. Zarek and Gaeta are preparing to jump away, but Chief Tyrol scrambled into the belly of the ship through the duct system and managed to tear out the FTL drive before they could jump the ship. Admiral Adama takes back the CIC and calls out to Roslin to stand down, the Galactica is secure.
    • Zarek and Gaeta are both executed for mutiny.

  • So4E76 "No Exit" (Season 4, Episode 76)

    • Original Air Date: February 13, 2009, 10 p.m.
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      • There are flashes of memory, the time on Earth, the resistance on New Caprica, her final moments with Saul Tigh, and then Ellen Tigh downloads into a new body. She resists at first, angry, upset by the truth. She asks one of the Centurions to help her up, and thanks him for being so kind.
      • On Galactica Doc Cottle is preparing Sam Anders for surgery. He was shot in the back of the head during the mutiny and there is currently a bullet lodged in his brain. When Sam regains consciousness, he tells Kara that he remembers everything and he needs to tell the other final cylons what their plan was.
      • Ellen is sitting on the floor, still naked, beside the resurrection tank. A Brother Cavil model comes in and welcomes her back. She calls him John, and he reminds her that he hates that name. She says that she named him for her father, and modeled him after her father as well. He starts digging at her for making him so human, but then excuses himself, and offers to bring her clothes when she tells him that she's cold.
      • Aboard the Galactica, Galen Tyrol is showing Adama the damages that he's found aboard the ship. He tells Adama that the damages are far worse than he had even originally assessed, that the people who built the ship fifty years earlier had cut corners in places, and they were now paying for those cheap adjustments. Adama tells him to put together a human crew and fix the ship.
      • Tory, Galen, Kara and Saul gather around Sam, who begins to tell them about their purpose. He reveals that they rediscovered the cylon technology to download and that was how they escaped Earth when the nuclear holocaust took place. They had a resurrection ship orbiting the planet. They realized that the other tribes were going to build cylons, so they set a course for the Twelve Colonies to warn them about the uprisings. They did not have jump-drive technology, so it took them thousands of years to finally reach the colonies. They arrived just in time to end the first human/cylon war, promising the Centurions that they would help them complete their quest to create the organic humanoid models. Just before he has a seizure, Sam reveals that there were originally eight models. Kara believes this may have been her, explaining why she resurrected after dying on Earth.
      • John continues to fight against Ellen, his creator, for making him so human. He loathes everything about himself that is human, and wishes he had never been created with such limited abilities. He brings Boomer in to meet her, and leaves them alone together. Later on when the three of them are together again, John tells her about the rebel cylons who alongside humanity destroyed the resurrection hub. Ellen asks if this has made him contemplate his humanity. He tells her that he wants her to rebuild the hub, but she tells him that unless the five are together, she can't do it. He threatens to open up her brain and find the answers himself.
      • Chief Tyrol shows Adama that the bones of the ship itself are cracking. He tells him that he can repair it by injecting an organic cylon compound into the ship that will eventually seal into the cracks and make it strong again. Adama refuses.
      • Sam continues to tell the others what he remembers about their plan, and Kara ask him about the "Seven." His name was Daniel, but he was destroyed. This intertwines with a story arc on the cylon ship. Ellen explains to Boomer that Daniel was an artist and he was her favorite, but John grew jealous so he contaminated the amniotic fluid and destroyed the entire line just to spite her. Sam also tells them that it was John who rallied against his creators, suffocating them and then wiping their memories clean and replacing them with new ones. John explains to Ellen that he set them down on Earth to live close to humanity so they could understand the suffering he kept trying to tell them about. Sam is then taken into surgery.
      • Adama returns to his own quarters and after washing his face, he looks up and sees the cracks lining the walls of his safe haven. He calls Chief Tyrol and tells him that he can do whatever it takes to repair the ship.
      • After Sam's surgery, Kara stands beside Sam's bed telling him he needs to wake up and finish his story. She admits that she was selfish, and she apologizes, but promises that they have the rest of their lives to figure out all the answers. The nurse tells her not to bother talking, he can't hear her. His brain activity has stopped; he's no longer in there.
      • Boomer comes to collect Ellen. John has decided to go through with the surgery. As they are walking down the corridor, Ellen tells Boomer she's going to regret her role in things, and Boomer agrees, just as they turn into a hangar deck and board a waiting viper. They leave the cylon ship to a parade of firing raider shooting at them, and when they are far enough away they jump.

  • So4E77 "Deadlock" (Season 4, Episode 77)

    • Air Date: February 20, 2009 10 p.m.
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      • The cylon engineers work diligently to integrate the cylon compound into the body of the Galactica. The Admiral is always under foot, watching them work hard to repair his ship. He asks the chief if it's going to work, touches the compound, but Chief Tyrol has no guarantees.
      • Caprica Six is walking through the underground market when she is attacked by the Sons of Ares. They grab her, but she defends herself well, only to wind up at Doc Cottle's with Saul later that day, worried about the health of their baby.
      • Ellen Tigh and Boomer Sharon jump into range and the ship is docked on the Galactica. Ellen steps out and Chief recognizes Sharon. He comes over and greets her, then tells everyone that it's Boomer. Admiral Adama has her taken to the brig. Ellen requests to see the other three, but first she and Saul make love in the hangar deck. Saul sees Caprica's face while he's with Ellen, but does not tell Ellen that there is something going on between Caprica and himself until after they've made love. Ellen does not find out that Caprica is pregnant until Chief, Tory, Ellen and Saul meet up in Sam's hospital quarters. Tory, a six and an eight try to convince the others that the fleet is not safe for cylons and they should all head for the baseship and jump away. Six points out that with Caprica being pregnant, there is hope for cylon/cylon procreation.
      • Ellen is livid at discovering Caprica is pregnant. She points out that Saul must have never loved her, as they had dried for many years to have a child, but never could. The cylons tell the final four that they should vote on whether or not to leave the fleet, it's how things have always been done. Saul points out that Anders already voted not to go, so it's two against two and Ellen is undecided. She goes to see Caprica, trying to start trouble. Eventually she uses her swing vote to show Caprica that Saul loves only one thing, Bill Adama, his uniform and the his service in the military. Saul tells Caprica she can go with the cylons and be safe, but he won't leave, proving Ellen's statement. The grief sends Caprica into early labor.
      • Saul tries to save the baby by confessing the depth of his love to Caprica, and Ellen stands by as well, telling Caprica that Saul loved her more than anything and that Ellen was only jealous. She promises to leave the ship and allow them to have their life together, but Caprica miscarries her baby anyway and Saul is devastated.
      • Throughout the episode Baltar is returned to his group, but realizes that in his absence one of the women has taken over. In the midst of giving away their horded food supply they are bullied out of their food by the Sons of Ares. Baltar goes to Adama and appeals for help for the people of the fleet. Adama equips Baltar and his group with weapons to defend themselves.
      • As Adama and Roslin walk the halls of the Galactica together, they see a Six stop and post a photograph on the wall of the fallen. They hadn't realized it before, but the cylons on board had become so integrated into the fabric of humanity, that they were already a part of the ship. This is a piece of resolution for Adama, who has been fretting the loss of the Galactica to the cylon compound. They realize for certain that the only way human and cylon can survive is if they unite, because as single unites they just aren't strong enough.

  • So4E78 "Someone to Watch Over Me" (Season 4, Episode 78)

    • Air Date: February 27, 2009, 10 p.m.
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      • Starbuck is caught-up in the routine of searching for a habitable planet. She wakes every day, showers, talks to her pilots about what to do, what not to do. It's been going on for weeks, and the routine is wearing her thin. She is constantly reminded that she is not like everyone, that she's something strange and alien.
      • One of the Six models has been elected to the new Quorum that Lee is building for when he takes over the office of the president. The Six tells Roslin that along with the other cylons they would like permission to take over Boomer's punishment. Because she was a traitor, they want to try her for treason and then execute her. Chief protests, but his plea falls on deaf ears. He feels compelled to go and see Boomer in the brig. While he is talking to her, they touch hands and she shares a cylon projection with him. Chief is freaked out and he leaves before it can get carried away.
      • Starbuck is in Joe's Bar listening to a frustrated piano player. She tells him to give it a rest, that he needs to learn to play the piano before he tries to compose something. It then cuts to her later on visiting Helo's quarters. Hera shows her a picture she is drawing and Helo opens up a crate full of her belongings that he managed to collect after she was believed to be dead. She sees a cassette inside of her father's music, and that's all she takes. Hera comes up and gives her a picture she was drawing. Starbuck leaves with nothing but the cassette and the drawing.
      • Chief returns to Boomer, ready to share her projection. She shows him the house they always talked about building one day. He is standing on their porch looking out over the woods behind their home and Boomer comes up behind him to hug him. She hands him a bottle of wine and as he's going to get a wine glass to drink from, he sees a growth chart on the wall, evidence that they had their own child. He races up the stairs and sees their daughter sitting on the bed doing her homework. This vision inspires him to plead with President Roslin not the sign the papers that will allow them to execute her. Roslin tells Chief that Boomer is dangerous and will not be spared, that she uses love and emotion to trick her enemies. She signs the paper. Chief then knocks out one of the other 8s and exchanges her in the Brig for Boomer.
      • Starbuck shows her new friend, the piano player, the dog tags and ring she found on Earth and tells him about finding herself dead there. He says she is talking to the wrong guy. She tells him that ever since then she's felt lost and alone, directionless, unlike when she felt driven by her quest for Earth. He tells her that sometimes being lost or without direction will lead one to exactly where they need to be.
      • Boomer runs into Athena in the lavatory and attacks her. She then seduces Helo in front of Athena, who is locked in one of the stalls. After she and Helo have sex, Boomer goes to the daycare and kidnaps Hera. She puts her into a crate and meets with the Chief down at the hangar deck. She tries to convince Chief to escape with her, but he refuses. She tells him that no matter what happens, he needs to know she meant everything she showed and said to him.
      • Starbuck is back in the bar with the piano player. He is trying to convince her to play with him, but she's shy about it. She tells him that after he father left them she never felt like she could play again. He finally convinces her to give it a try and together they start to play a song, but something's missing. She sees him writing down notes and remembers the picture Hera gave to her. Underneath the paper, the notes line up perfectly. They begin playing together and the song is "All Along the Watchtower." The cylons at the bar, Tory, Colonel Tigh and Ellen Tigh, hear the song and Colonel Tigh runs over and asks her where she heard that song. She realizes she's been sitting at the piano playing by herself as she tells him that it was an old song that she used to play with her father. Tigh and the other two cylons look at other with wide eyes.
      • Boomer jumps out of the Galactica, causing even more damage to the ship's hull than previously existed. Chief finds out that she took Hera and he is beside himself with grief, realizing that she just used him. Ellen and Saul Tigh are sitting in the daycare discussing Hera's importance. Ellen theorizes that Boomer used her to get to Hera, so she could take the child back to Brother Cavil. Ellen thinks they should talk to Sam, but Saul doesn't think he'll ever come out of his coma. Starbuck is then seen with her head on Sam's chest, her father's cassette playing beside them.

  • So4E79 "Islanded in a Stream of Stars" (Season 4, Episode 79)

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      • The powers that be meet about going after Hera. Saul and Ellen Tigh appeal to Adama over the importance of retrieving the child, who stands as the hope for both the future of the cylons and the humans, but Adama refuses to budge at first. After Starbuck points out the connection Hera had to her and the music that led them all to Earth, Adama loses his temper. He's tired of prophecy, destiny and the Gods and God. He is finally convinced to allow a small recon mission to go after Hera when Ellen Tigh points out that Cavil will probably take Hera to "the Colony," the place where the original five and the Centurions went to create the humanoid cylons after the human/cylon war.
      • Humans and cylons are at each others throats on the project to save the Galactica. One of the Sixes gets into a fight with a knuckle-dragger, but an Eight breaks it up. When an explosion destroys that part of the ship, the Six gives up her life to save the knuckle-dragger.
      • Boomer, on board with a crying Hera, can't take the stress of what she's done. She threatens to drug Hera to get her to stop crying, but Hera doesn't give up.
      • Baltar speaks over the wireless about the existence of angels, the proof being that he has seen them, everywhere. The scene shifts to Starbuck listening to the wireless transmission, contemplating what she could be. It returns to Baltar, who sees Caprica Six leaving the food line. He goes after her, apologizes for her loss of her child and tells her she can come and stay with him if she needs a place. She tells him she has changed, and clearly he has not. She has no desire to become a part of his harem. She leaves, and he is stricken by what she's said.
      • Lee faces the Quorum, telling them that eventually they will have to let the Galactica go, meaning that everyone will be forced to move onto other ships. People begin to argue that allowing the cylons to look out for them is suicide, considering that they tried to wipe them out to begin with. The Six who was chosen as a cylon representative to the Quorum reminds them that as incentive for her position there, the cylons bargained with Adama, giving him complete military control of the fleet. The people want to begin tearing the ship apart for parts, but Lee reigns them in, saying that no one will touch the ship until his father gives the word.
      • Adama reads to Laura Roslin in sick bay. While the two of them smoke together, she talks about the cabin she wanted to build on New Caprica, and asks Bill if he ever really thought about what home meant. She admits that despite all of the places she lived through her life, she never really felt at home until those last few months the two of them spent together. She says as much as he hates to let go of it, he has to give up the Galactica, or he'll lose both of them at once.
      • Starbuck goes to see Sam. He has been hooked up to the Galactica the same way the cylons hook up their basestar hybrids. He's spouting out nonsense, and Starbuck tells him she can't see him that way. She pulls her gun out, but he grabs her hand and tells her that she is the harbinger of death that will bring humanity to its end. When they bring in Tigh and the others to investigate what's happened with Sam, it's discovered that Sam is responsible for power outages and all through the ship. Tigh has him unplugged.
      • Boomer discovers that Hera can project, and the two of them bond in a way that causes Boomer to begin questioning her decision to bring the child to Cavil.
      • Starbuck approaches Baltar while he's in the bathroom shaving and asks if he really believes in the bilge he's been spouting about angels. He tells her that he does, he sees them all the time, at which point the camera shows Head Six sitting on the side of the sink. Starbuck tells him about her own death, finding her own body on Earth and taking off her dogtags. She gives them to him and tells him to figure out what she is.
      • Baltar looks into what she is. After the fleet honors those who died during the recent buckling of the ship, he tells them all there is no fear because there is life after death and he can prove it. One among them has died and lived again. He reveals Starbuck's secret. Later she is shown standing in front of the wall of the dead when Lee comes up to her. He tells her it doesn't matter, that he loves her for who she is, that none of it matters. She hangs a picture of herself on the wall between Kat and Dee. She goes back to see Sam and plugs him back in, telling him he has to help figure out what the song (All Along the Watch Tower,) means.
      • Adama realizes that they have no choice and he will have to abandon ship. Tigh tries to stop him, but the ship is dying and they have to let her go. The two of them sit together and have a drink, discussing how they're going to send the old girl out.

  • So4E80 "Daybreak" Part One (Season 4, Episode 80)

      • Back on Caprica before the attack on the Twelve Colonies, Adama is discussing a mission with one of his superiors and adamantly expressing his experience. We are then taken to the inside of a limousine where Gaius Baltar and Caprica Six are together in the earlier stages of their relationship. They are just about to get sexual when the telephone rings, drawing Baltar away from the task. He threatens whoever is on the line that they can't leave, or he will sue them for abandonment. The scene flashes to a younger Laura Roslin at a baby shower with her two sisters. They are laughing, sharing champagne and enjoying each other's company.
      • Kara Thrace answers the door to find Lee Adama standing on the other side. They introduce themselves to each other, and she leads him downstairs. She calls for Zak, who comes out and the two brothers razz one another about who is uglier. Zak tells Lee that Kara belongs to him, and he should keep his hands off. Kara calls Lee a girlfriend stealer.
      • It returns to Baltar, who arrives at his father's apartment to find the nurse at her wit's end. She leaves and Gaius begins berating his father for his behavior. Caprica Six comes in and he tells her to leave, but she lingers, studying the relationship Gaius has with his father. He finally convinces her to go and the scene flashes back to Laura Roslin. The police arrive at her home and tell her that her father and two sisters were killed by a drunk driver. She walks to the town and into the center of a fountain where she grieves as the water pours down over her.'
      • Modern day on the Galactica and Laura Roslin sleeps in sick bay.'
      • Lee is dealing with the tearing apart of the ship, relegating who will get what parts and scolding the shipowners for being so greedy. One of the knuckle-draggers tells him it's a shame, that it feels like they are tearing the ship's heart out. Lee looks around the hangar deck fondly.
      • Baltar flashes back to a time when he entered his apartment with a young woman. Caprica Six is waiting in the apartment. He tells her she is trespassing and he will call the police if she doesn't leave. She tells him that she found his father a new place to live, that he is a complicated man with a few simple needs. The last time she saw him, he was happy. Baltar returns to the moment and he is with his people. They are talking about how important it is for them to get a stake in the new government. Head Six tells Gaius that the last chapter in the book of humanity is about to be written, and he will be the one who writes it. He approaches Lee about securing a place for his people in the new government, but Lee refuses him, telling him that as long as he has known Baltar, he has never done anything unless it benefited Gaius Baltar. Baltar admits that he wouldn't trust himself either.
      • Kara is sitting with Sam, going over notes and numbers.
      • Admiral Adama is walking down the hallway when he passes Hot Dog and Nicky. Hot Dog drops a handful of pictures and the Admiral helps him pick them up. Hot Dog explains that there are a lot of pictures left on the wall of the dead that no one has claimed, probably the family of long forgotten people who died along the way. Admiral Adama walks through and sees all of the pictures on the wall, he is stopped by a picture of Athena and Hera. He takes the picture down and goes to see Sam. He asks Kara if what Baltar said was true, and she tells him about finding her dead body on Earth. He tells her that she should never forget who she is, his daughter. Together they ask Sam where they can find Hera.
      • After getting the information from Sam on where to find Hera, Adama tells the entire fleet that he is personally heading up a mission to find Hera, that it is a one way mission and no one should expect to come back. He and Starbuck lay red tape down and he asks people to make their choice. They will take the Galactica on one last mission into the colony where Brother Cavil is holding Hera, intent on cutting her apart to learn more about what makes her tick. The fleet divides itself, Baltar considers joining, but backs out at the last minute. The decisions are made, and they begin planning the mission.
      • To be continued...

  • So4E81 "Daybreak" Part Two (Season 4, Episode 81)

    • SciFi Channel: "Daybreak" Part 2
    • TV.com: "Daybreak" Part 2
    • Battlestar Wiki: "Daybreak" Part 2
    • IMDb: "Daybreak" Part 2
      • Doc Cottle gives Laura Roslin two shots to take with her on her mission, enough to keep her strong for 48 hours. She thanks him, but he sternly advises against her going through with it. She tells him that he has kept her strong and alive when she should have died, and when she thanks him, he doesn't know what to say. Afterward it is shown that Laura Roslin will be helping with the mission in sickbay, marking those who won't live through it and keeping those with minor injuries moving through the process."
      • Adama hands over the admiral pins to Lieutenant Hoshi and Lee gives the presidency to Romo Lampkin. While they are getting ready to leave the Galactica to join the rest of the fleet, Baltar joins his group for a moment to tell them he will not be going with them. He is staying behind to join the mission.
      • The final five plug Anders into the CIC, and plan to use him to shut down the cylon hybrids. Colonel Tigh checks all stations, who report back that they are ready to go. Caprica Six and Baltar are sitting together before they jump into place at the colony. Caprica tells Baltar that she's proud of him for coming, that in all their time together that was the one thing she thought was missing. She always wanted to be proud of him When the ship jumps, both Head-Six and Head-Baltar appear and tell them they are on the crux of leading humanity to their destiny. They look at each other, astonished that they are both seeing the same strange vision.'
      • The Galactica jumps into the colony and immediately automatic defenses start attacking. They plug Anders in and he shuts down the hybrid. They run the Galactica straight into the colony. All of their Centurions have been marked with a red stripe so there is no confusion during battle. Each mission sets out. Helo, Sharon and Starbuck lead one team to find Hera, Lee leads another and Caprica and Baltar are on another team. They infiltrate the colony and the cylon centurions that sided with the 1s, 4s and 5s start to attack. During the action cameras cut to Simon performing tests on Hera. Boomer tells him that he should stop, but he ignores her. She breaks his neck and then steals Hera. Brother Cavil is disgusted by human need for drama when he discovers what she's done.
      • Helo, Starbuck and Athena come upon Boomer with Hera. Boomer tells them they can't go back the way they came, as she hands Hera over to her mother. She tells Athena to tell Adama that she owed him one, and after Athena kills Boomer, there is a flashback to Boomer's training. She is having trouble landing her vipers and Adama and Tigh tell her she is flunking right out of the service. Adama tells her that he realizes that due to her family's deaths she feels like she has a death wish, but she'll never make it in the military with that attitude. He gives her another chance and tells him she owes him one. He tells her that all of the rookies say that. She promises that one day when he really needs her, she will pay him back.
      • In the melee as they are heading out, Helo is shot. While Athena is kneeling to help him, Hera takes off out of fear. The Opera House sequence kicks in and Laura takes off her bloodstained gown to go after her. Helo tells Athena to go get their daughter. Flashes of Athena and Laura chasing Hera through the Opera House mix between the maze of the colony. Laura protects Hera from Cavil and a band of centurions, but when she turns around, Hera is gone again. She comes upon Caprica and Baltar, who both remember the sequence. Baltar says he has been there before, and they take Hera into the CIC of the Galactica, seeing the final five standing in the balcony. Cavil quickly takes Hera and holds a gun to her head. Baltar appeals to Cavil that things have changed, that they hold the power to change their own destiny and that all of the people in that room had experienced acts of divinity. Cavil doesn't want to take a leap of faith, but Colonel Tigh promises Cavil he will give the cylons resurrection technology. Cavil agrees.
      • The five must commune in the stream with Anders to download the resurrection technology. Before they do, Ellen explains that they will learn each other's secrets. Tori tells them that she thinks they should all forgive one another for things they felt they had to do. They all agree, but as they are in the stream, Galen sees Tori's memories of airlocking Cally and he pulls out and strangles her. Cavil and his resistance take this as a trick and they start revolting. As everyone starts firing at each other, Brother Cavil shoots himself. Adama calls out for Starbuck to jump the ship, but she doesn't know the coordinates. She begins punching in the numbers she got from the song she learned from her father and Hera. The ship jumps, nearly disintegrating it with the force of the jump, but you see it pass across the cratered surface of the moon.
      • The fleet begins jumping in, and you see Doc Cottle, Colonel Tigh, Adama and Baltar on the surface with binoculars studying the tribal people of the planet. In a tent, they are planning where to set up their cities, Romo Lampkin shows them his thoughts but Lee disagrees. Lee and his father are walking together and Lee explains that he thinks they should give the best of themselves to these new people and leave the past behind. They decide to break up the remaining human survivors all over the planet, passing out provisions among them, and allowing them to go their own ways. They set Anders up to auto-pilot the entire fleet of ships into the sun. Humanity is happy for the idea to just start fresh.
      • Colonel and Ellen Tigh say goodbye to Galen, who no longer wants anything to do with humanity or cylons. He decides to go into the highlands and just be alone for awhile. Bill and Laura are watching gazelles through binoculars, but Laura is fading fast. She asks him what that place is called, and he says Earth. She laughs, but he says that Earth was a dream they held onto for so long that they deserved to have that dream come true. Laura agrees and says, "Earth it is." Bill asks if she would like to see the animals up close, and she agrees. He wraps her in a blanket and carries her to his ship.
      • Lee and Kara approach the ship and Lee realizes that this is the last time he will see his father. They embrace. Bill then turns to Kara and says, "What do you hear, Starbuck?" Kara responds with the military answer, "Nothing but the rain." Bill smiles and tells her to "Grab your gun and bring in the cat," closing the cycle between them, which started with that very same exchange of phrase. He kisses her goodbye and then climbs into the ship. Lee realizes that his first memory of his father was watching the man get onto a plane and wondering when he would come back. He realizes that this time he's not coming back. Kara shakes her head and agrees. Lee asks her what is next, and she realizes that her duty is finished. She knows she has to go too. He asks where she will go, but she doesn't know, only knows that her job is done. She asks what he will do with the rest of his life, and he says he wanted to settle down and just relax, but the more he thinks about he wants to explore, climb into the mountains. He turns around and Kara is gone.
      • Bill and Laura are flying over the land when Laura passes away. He tells her that he found the perfect place to build their cabin. He realizes she's dead, and puts his wedding ring on her finger.
      • Humanity is then seen dividing into separate villages, and Caprica and Baltar are climbing up the hillside. They come up against their angels (Head Six and Head Baltar,) who tell them that their job is done, but God is always wanting. For a moment Baltar looks scared, but the angels promise that their lives will be simpler from there on out. They disappear, and Caprica and Baltar hold hands as they climb the hill. Baltar points toward a valley and says he thinks it would be the perfect place for a house and a that the land there would be perfect for cultivation. He gets misty and tells her that he knows how to farm, and she reminds him that she already knew that. He starts to cry, and she kisses him before they start off toward their future.
      • Helo, Hera and Athena are walking through the grass, and Helo promises Hera that one day he'll teach her to hunt. Athena laughs and says she is the better hunter. She'll teach their daughter to hunt, and farm and build a house. Helo says she can teach her all those things, but he will teach her how to hunt.
      • Bill sits on the edge of a hillside looking down, explaining that they will have a beautiful view. Behind him Laura has been buried and stones piled over her grave. The camera pulls away from him.
      • Hera is walking through the grass with a walking stick, but then the scene shifts to 150,000 years later. There are cities everywhere, and people hustle through the streets. The two angels are standing at a newsstand reading an article about how archeologists believe they discovered the remains of a small body that they believe may have been Mitochondrial Eve next to the bodies of her cylon mother and her human father. The two angels reflect on humanity, which seems to have come full circle once again, and debate on whether or not the cycle is about to play itself out again. All of this has happened before, but it doesn't have to happen again. Humanity could make one small shift to throw it all off, and that itself is the mystery of God. The Baltar angel laughs and points out to the Caprica angel that "It" doesn't like to be called God. They start to walk down the street together arm in arm while "All Along the Watchtower" plays. In the nearby windows televisions screens show early robots assuming their positions as entertainment, just one step away from service.

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