Battlestar Galactica Mini-Series Part 1b
New Scene:
The next scene, zooms in on Caprica City, on the planet, Caprica, where you see several ships flying by as we are led to a government building. Inside we see a woman sitting in a chair, that is opposite a desk, where a doctor, sits. The doctor explains, "I am afraid that the tests are positive, the mass is malignant and it has advanced well beyond...." The woman remains calm, while holding back tears, as a result of this devastating news. The scene is fast forwarded to the woman aboard a government space ship, listening to her aide talk about the day's business. Suddenly, she jumps up from her seat and runs to the bathroom. The captain comes over the loud speaker, introducing himself and welcoming everyone aboard. The captain says, "We are en route to Galactica and our estimated...." The scene switches to the woman opening the door to the bathroom. She looks to the sky and sighs heavily and starts crying. She holds her chest in pain, while continuing to let out tears of devastation.
New Scene:
The next scene switches to the River Walk Market, in Caprica City. A tall blonde woman is walking down the sidewalk carrying a silver briefcase. She comes across a mother and her her baby, which she stares at with wonderment. They exchange pleasantries and then the tall blonde woman asks, "May I?" implying that she wanted to hold the baby. The woman, hesitantly, agrees in order to be polite. The blonde woman holds the baby, then says, "So light, so fragile.......it's ok, you're not going to have cry much longer...", this alarms the mother, and she replies, "We really have to be going." and takes her baby back. While the mother is putting the baby back in the stroller, the blonde woman remarks, "It's amazing how the neck can support that much weight." The mother's husband yells from a few yards away, "Honey, let's go." The woman is distracted and looks over to her husband. Meanwhile, the tall blonde woman leans down to the baby, who is still crying and does something. When the mother looks back to her baby, the tall blonde woman is gone. She looks down to her baby and screams, "OMG, she's not breathing! <screaming in tears> ...OMG, she's not breathing!"
New Scene:
The scene switches to a news broadcast featuring Dr. Baltar, who is a brilliant scientist and top consultant to the "Ministry of Defense", on computer issues. He is best known for his controversial views on advancing computer technology. The scene is interrupted by the tall blonde woman, walking into Dr. Baltar's apartment, carrying the silver briefcase. She takes notice, of Dr. Baltar being interviewed on the television. This short scene is interrupted by Dr. Baltar and the tall blonde woman embracing in the heat of passion. During the throws of passion, the camera zooms in on the tall blond woman's spine, which starts glowing red. This is the first sign we see, that shows the woman, as a Cylon infiltrator.
New Scene:
We break from the two lovers, to look upon a red star glowing in the vastness of space, and a communication is being broadcast over the radio, where a fighter is requesting permission to land in the Battlestar Galactica's hangar. Galactica responds with normal protocol, except the strange request for a "hands-on" approach. The pilot is dumbfounded by this request and asks, "Galactica, did you say, hands-on approach?" The Galactica responds, "Viper 450, that's affirmative, hands-on approach". When the fighter lands, the control center welcomes "Apollo" on board and the pilot steps out of his ship onto the hangar deck. Chief Tyrol greets him and they salute each other. The pilot introduces himself as, Captain Lee Adama. During the discussion you can tell that Captain Adama is in conflict with his father, but then he asks the chief, "Is your auto-landing system down? I was hands-on, for the whole approach." The chief replies, "It's all hands-on here captain. there are no auto-landings here on the Galactica, Commander Adama's orders." The captain looks aggravated, by the chiefs words, then walks away.
As the captain proceeds with his business, the chief walks over to another ship that has landed in the hangar and welcomes another pilot aboard. The new pilot is Lieutenant Valerii, call sign "Boomer", who complains that the gimbles are acting up again. She continues to complain and the chief rebukes her complaints each time. They go on arguing, while walking into another room and closing the door behind them. It turns out, that this argument is just a cover up for their illicit affair. Officers and enlisted men are not to fraternize, so the rules say. During the heat of passion, Boomer tells the chief, "The gimble, IS broken.", to which the chief replies, "Shut up, sir." and they continue making out.
New Scene:
The next scene has us listening to a man at a podium talking to a room full of pilots. He explains that, "Today, is the main event, we have formation demonstration and fly-by maneuvers in conjunction with the decommissioning ceremony. There are a few changes to the flight plan, Lt. Thrace, aka "Starbuck", is being replaced with Lt. Anders. Also, we have Captain Lee Adama, joining us and he is going to be flying lead during the fly-by, so please, welcome the captain." All of the pilots yell, "Welcome, Apollo, good to have you!" and applaud. The man at the podium then says, "Thanks to Chief Tyrol and his deck gang, captain, you are going to have the honor of flying the viper, your father flew almost 40 years ago." Apollo answers, "That's quite an honor". The man at the podium replies, "Indeed, it is. I don't think there is a better way to send this ship into retirement."
New scene:
In this scene, we are back on the Planet, Caprica. Dr. Baltar and the Cylon woman are walking down the street, talking and Dr. Baltar says, "It may interest you to know, that his new programming is working throughout 95% of the fleet, hold your applause, please." The woman responds, "No applause, from me. I doubt you would have ever completed the project, without me." The doctor replies, "Yes, well you ....helped a bit." The Cylon woman angrily replies, "I rewrote half of your algorithms!" The doctor replies, "Alright, you're extremely helpful, but let's not forget you got something out of it.... all that poking around in the defense main-frame. It should give you a huge advantage for bidding on the defense contract." The woman replies, "You know that is not why I did it." The doctor replies, "No, you did it, because you love me." To which she replies, "That and because god wanted me to help you." The doctor, disgusted, says right, "He spoke to you, did he? You had a chat?" She replies, "He didn't speak to me in a literal voice, and you don't have to mach my faith." The doctor apologizes, claiming that he is just not very religious. She asks, "Does it bother you, that I am?" He pauses, then replies "It puzzles me that an intelligent, attractive woman, such as yourself, should be taken in by all that mysticism and superstition, but I am willing to overlook it, on the count of your other attributes." They both smile. The woman then says, "I have to go, I am meeting someone." The doctor, who is surprised and half jokingly says, "Really? Who is he? I am insanely jealous!" She responds, "I doubt that." He responds, "Your so touchy, today." The doctor decides that he has to go meet someone too, over business, they kiss and go their separate ways. After the doctor walks away, an eerie music starts playing in the background and the woman turns around, surprised, she says, "It's about time, I wondered when you 'ld get here."
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