Battlestar Galactica Mini-Series Part 3a
In part 3 of the mini-series, we return to the Battlestar Galactica, where Commander Adama witnessed, what appeared to be a Nuclear explosion and the destruction of the Colonial One. His son Lee Adama, the President of the Twelve Colonies, and a great number of civilians were onboard.
The camera is still centered on the commander's face, which shows devastation and remorse. The crew is still in great turmoil, but continues to go about their duties. The commander, with a voice of breathlessness and grief, orders "Resume .....jump ... prep." With the crew still in shock, Colonel Tigh looks around and reissues the order, "Resume jump prep!" After a brief pause, Dee's voice goes on the loud speaker, "Attention all hands, Jump prep underway. Set Condition 2, throughout the ship. Set Condition 2, throughout the ship."
Down in the hangar bay, the chief and Cally are seen approaching Starbuck, who has just landed. Chief Tyrol with astonishment says, "Lieutenant? What did you do to my Viper?" Starbuck steps down from the cockpit, walks around to get a look and says, "I wondered why the engine gave out." The chief, with a disappointed voice says, "We're going to have to pull the whole mounting." Still disappointed, he gives an order to one of his men,"Get the high lift." The chief walks over to Starbuck and says, "I don't know how you managed to fly this thing, much less land it." Starbuck is sort of angry and says, "That's not something that I want to think about right now. Where's Frozlin? He better get that fracking gimble locked down, or I'll have his ass!" The chief looks right at her and after a short pause he replies, "He's dead ...... Sir, he died in the fire.", then looks back up at the damaged ship. Starbuck, while showing concern asks, "How many did we lose?" The chief replies with a depressed tone, "Eight-five." Starbuck, equally depressed responds, "Right.", then starts walking toward the exit of the hangar bay. The chief stops her by asking, "Uh ...Lieutenant? She then turns around and waits for the chief. He tells her, "I don't know if you heard about Apollo, but ..." She interrupts, "Heard what?" He first looks down at his computer to continue his calculations, not wanting to give her the bad news, but Starbuck get's the message and says, "Right.", knowing what he meant. She turns, to continue toward the exit and then turns back and asks, "Any word on Sharon?" The chief, staring off in the distance, replies, "No, sir." Starbuck turns around slowly and continues to leave. Cally walks up to Tyrol and asks, "You ok, chief? ...... Chief?" He turns to her and whispers, "Get back to work.", then walks away.
New Scene:
Back aboard Boomer's Raptor, she launches a drone to transmit a distress beacon. The drone is set to travel far away, before it starts transmitting. The young boy sitting next to Boomer asks, "Is everyone on Caprica, dead?" Boomer turns to him and softly says, "I don't know." The boy says, "My dad is in the colonial fleet....they told me that he is missing, but I think he is dead, too." Boomer asks the boy what his name is, and he replies, "Boxxy." Boomer tries to console him by relating that both of her parents, met a similar fate.
The scene switches to the back of the Raptor, where Dr. Baltar is sitting. He is experiencing some sort of hallucination, because the tall blonde woman, aka Cylon infiltrator, is talking to him. She speaks, "You know what I love about you, Gaius? You're a survivor." He shakes his head, not wanting to face the truth about what happened.
New Scene:
The scene starts by showing the launch bay of the Battlestar Galactica closing, and then switches to the command center. Colonel Tigh says, "The board is green .... the ship is ready to jump, sir." The commander replies, "Then take us to Ragnar, Colonel." Colonel Tigh orders Lieutenant Gaeta to execute the jump and he replies, "Yes, sir." Gaeta then goes on the loudspeaker, "All decks, prepare for an immediate FTL jump." The camera pans over to show an FTL key being inserted into the computer. Gaeta continues on the loudspeaker, "The clock is running ....." and he starts the countdown, "10 ... 9 ... 8 ..." The camera zooms around the ship showing the crew's anticipation, then ends up in the cargo bay, where Cally walks over and sits down, then with some worry says, "I hate this part." The camera switches back to the command center, where Gaeta is finishing the countdown, "3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Jumping." The camera makes a weird zoom effect of the crew, then switches to outside, where the ship, in a flash of light, makes the hyper jump to Ragnar.
When the ship comes out of the hyper jump we see it traveling through a large cloud of gas. The camera then switches to the command center. The commander issues an order, "Report!" Gaeta runs across the command center, to reach a computer console, then responds, "Taking a bearing now ..." The camera zooms in on the computer screen to show a red icon blinking on the screen. Gaeta then turns to the commander and reports, "We appear to be in geo-synchronous orbit, directly above Ragnar Anchorage." and then smiles with relief. The entire crew of the command center start applauding and cheering. They made it! Commander Adama orders, "Colonel Tigh ..." The colonel answers, "Sir?" The commander continues, "Let's update your chart and course, right down into the eye of the storm." The colonel replies approvingly, "Yesss, sir!"
New Scene:
The scene switches to the Colonial One, which, amazingly, was not destroyed by the Nuclear blast and the camera zooms in to show that the President is lying on the ground, in a bit of pain. The captain of the ship and other members of the crew pull themselves together to assess the situation. The captain somehow get's the ship to power back up and the President gets to her feet. The President and the captain of the ship are then seen walking down stairs and turning the corner into the cargo bay, where they find Apollo, unconscious and lying on the ground next to the large device he was tinkering with earlier. They manage to wake him up and the president queries, "Captain Apollo?" He replies, "That was fun" and starts laughing. The President and the captain of the ship join in on the laugh, relieved that Apollo is alright and the ship was not blown to bits by the Cylon Raiders. Captain Apollo gets to his feet and the President asks, "What exactly did you do?" Apollo answers, "I basically just used the hyper drive to manipulate the energy coils which put out a big pulse of electro magnetic energy that must have disabled the warheads." He stumbles slightly, still a bit shaken up, then continues, "I'm hoping that it looked like a Nuclear explosion." The president replies, "So that's what that was?" Apollo starts saying, "So uh...." and the president interrupts, "You just fooled the Cylons?" Apollo answers, "I don't know ... but if they weren't fooled, then they would be on top of us by now." The captain of the ship asks, "Does the rest of the fleet know about this trick?" Apollo answers, "I doubt it .... It was just a theory we toyed with in war college, but it never used to work during war games, the Cylons would see right through it and destroy the targets anyway." The President interrupts, "The lesson here, is not to ask follow up questions and simply say thank you, Captain Apollo, for saving our collective asses." Apollo replies, "You're welcome." As they all turn to leave the cargo bay, Apollo says, "Now, if I might suggest...." The president interrupts, "Evacuate the passenger liner and get the hell out of here, before the Cylon's realize their mistake .... I'm right with you captain."
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