True Chromance
Updated 2005-08-10 17:00:00
On Caprica, Helo and Starbuck meet up with a gang of plucky rebels, and after a extremely complicated Mexican standoff, they all join forces. On the Galactica, Tyrol is taken for a Cylon and thrown into Boomer's cell, much to his disgust. Cally threatens to tell everyone that Baltar shot Crashdown unless Baltar clears Tyrol's name. She also beats up a guy who badmouths Tyrol, which is fantastic. Other ships in the fleet stand up for the Prez, and refuse to provide the Galactica with fuel and supplies. Ellen gets her Lady Macbeth on, and as a result Tigh sends in the troops, who wind up killing some civilians. Apollo plots a prison break, and with the help of...well, pretty much everyone, the Prez and Apollo escape in a Raptor. Billy stays behind due to moral qualms. Or maybe Dualla. Tigh resists the urge to blow the escaped prisoners out of the sky, so Apollo and the Prez make it to the Cloud Nine, where their new best friend Zarek is waiting to help. Since Tigh's hit bottom, it's finally time for Adama to get out of bed and start oozing calm reassurance. Yay. Baltar drops by the brig and pretends to test Tyrol for Cylonitude. In fact, he essentially kills Tyrol, and then demands that Boomer tells him how many Cylons are still in the fleet. Boomer eventually says that there are eight Cylons, so Baltar revives Tyrol, and the awesome thing about that is, she was probably lying. As the episode ends, Boomer is dragged past angry hordes to be Baltar's lab rat. And even as I scribbled down the first half of that sentence, Cally jumped out and totally shot Boomer dead, and I squealed with delight.