Black Market
Updated 2008-04-18 19:14:23
The Suckening continues, as chapter two of what I'm hoping is only a triptych of spec script bullshit gives Colonel Fisk an abrupt personality makeover, then kills him brutally. Roslin has noticed a shadow economy taking place right under their noses that everyone else has been aware of since, like, "Bastille Day," and decides that it's a bad idea. Investigation of Fisk's murder leads Apollo to a leader of the underworld, a scary dude who runs his rackets from the off-grid freighter Prometheus . We also learn about not one but two retroactively established fake girlfriends for Apollo. The first is his baby mama, who was presumably killed during the Big One after she told him she was pregnant and he told her to go to hell. (Isn't that dark ? Can you even believe Apollo would do something like that? It's so deep .) But wait! The second just-invented girlfriend is a single-mum prostitute on Cloud 9 , who is boring as hell and, you know, gets in over her head after trying to get black-market antibiotics for her kid or whatever. (At the end of the episode she actually says, out loud, that she is naught but a replacement for Girlfriend #1, that she will never be that girl, and that he is only trying to assuage his guilt over leaving her in the lurch by trying to father her child. Out loud, she says this.)