Battlestar Galactica Season Three, Episode "The Son Also Rises", Page 5
The Son Also Rises Recap: Scene Eighteen
Back onboard the Colonial One, President Roslin looks around on her desk, before saying, "Damn. I can't find my glasses. It's like they've got feet." She then looks up at Apollo and tells him, "Um ...the sixth ...yes, ok. Lem can interview Six, immediately, as long as it is conducted under the same conditions, accorded to the chief prosecutor. Alright?" Admiral Adama speaks up, "Meaning, in the interrogation room. Not, where you sleep." Apollo replies, "Of course, but since you've been selected to serve on the tribunal, I'm assuming that you won't be present at those interviews, in the interest of fairness." President Roslin interjects, "The major has a point, Bill." Admiral Adama replies, "The major is mistaken. I monitored the chief prosecutor's interview, therefore, the same conditions apply ...in the interest of fairness." Apollo replies, "Mr. Lampkin, is still entitled to those documents, that he requested, from Colonial One." The president's aide speaks up, "Yes, right. I apologize. We've had trouble locating the files. We'll have them delivered to you, on the next run." Then, President Roslin says, "I'm sorry, major. We'll get them to you right away. Thank you." Apollo says, "Thank you.", before leaving the room.
The Son Also Rises Recap: Scene Eighteen
Back onboard the Battlestar Galactica, Lampkin visits Caprica Six in the interrogation room, while Admiral Adama and President Roslin monitor the meeting. Lampkin begins by saying, "I understand that you had a romantic relationship with my client." Caprica Six replies, "Gaius Baltar, is a brilliant, gifted, human being. In the time that I have known him, he's made a sport out of mendacity and deception. He was narcissistic, self centered, feckless, and vain. I'm the one, who should have stabbed him." In the adjoining room, the president is surprised at Caprica Six's words and says, "Things are looking up."
Lampkin continues with his next question, "Well, because of this evolutionary move, fashioning Cylons to be capable of experiencing it. I don't know if it was engineered as a tactical imperative, but ...It's not for the faint hearted, is it?" Caprica Six agrees with her reply, "No, its not." Then, Lampkin asks,"Maybe, you should have been nicer to your mechanic?" Caprica Six doesn't say anything, trying to avoid the question, then Lampkin continues, "Well, perhaps Cylon love, is not the same as human love? Perhaps, it's designed to hurt a little less?" Caprica Six is resentful with her reply, "How would you know?" Lampkin replies, "I loved a woman ...beautiful, beautiful woman ...,but so serious. This frowning face, trapped in the middle of a daze. She had a way of walking ...procession, as if she ran away to her own execution. ...Yet, ten years and it fell apart under it's own weight." Caprica Six is moved by his words and asks, "Is that what you wanted?" Lampkin replies, "I thought, that if I could get over her, I could get over anything. Come on, be a man ...stand up to any and all kind of punishment. I clung to an empty spinning bed for months ...and that ...that was when I, finally, realized how much I loved her. If I needed all that strength? WHAT was the point? I needed to be with her."
Caprica Six is further influenced by his words and it makes her wonder what kind of love Dr. Baltar and her shared. She feels compelled to ask, "Did he ...ask about me? Gaius?" For the first time, since taking on Dr. Baltar's case, Lampkin takes his sunglasses off, as he gives the reply, "He wanted to know, if you were well ...He wanted you to know, that he misses you ...He loves you, because he can't be here to tell you. He gave me this, to give to you.", as he places a pen on the table, then he continues with, "He uses that, at the risk of great reprisal to express his feelings, to put his world into some kind of recognizable order ...,to be heard. He kept it hidden, because he knows he will not get another." Caprica six, picks the pen up and holds in her hand, while smiling. Lampkin continues with, "He wants you to have it ..., because without you, it has no meaning. He wants you to have it, because he would do anything, ANYTHING, to be with you again." Caprica Six replies, "Well, that's a shame, isn't it?", as she hands the pen back to Lampkin and says, "Since, they'll never let me keep it." Lampkin replies with, "You understand that your days are owned and tallied by these people, the ones out there, watching us? I think you realize what's likely to become of you. I couldn't help you, if they paid me ten times what they offered me for Baltar. You won't get a trial. Not even a bad one. So, I have to ask you ...Does your love hurt, as much as mine?" Caprica Six thinks about it for a brief moment, before replying, "Yes."
The camera pans over to the other room, where President Roslin says, "I feel like part of our world, just fell down.", then pans back to the interrogation room, where Lampkin raises his sunglasses back to his face and the interview is over.
The Son Also Rises Recap: Scene Eighteen
The lawyer and his escort enter an officers lounge, where Apollo orders everyone to leave the room, before pouring them both a drink. Apollo begins with the question, "Why do you encourage the man to write, then take away his pen?" Lampkin replies, "You'll curry more sympathy, when the word gets out that he's been silenced. Tyranny, gag orders, ...very sexy." Apollo replies with, "Ok, alright. So, you steal his pen, then you lie to him, then you lie to the sixth." Lampkin replies, "Horror of the age. Great ugly material, the cloak of deceit." Apollo remarks, "The truth. Kind of overrated, I guess.", as he takes a sip of whiskey, before continuing, "You know, when I was nine, maybe ten, my grandfather ...he would wave me over ...and he would do this all the time ...and he' ld say um ...Lee? Be a good boy. Just, don't be too good." Lampkin replies, "Everybody has demons. Them, Baltar, you, me, even the machines. The law is just a way of exercising ...that's what your father's father told me. You want to know why, I hated him? Because, he was right." and takes a sip from his whiskey. Apollo replies, "So, you hated him, because he was right and I hated the law, because it was wrong. Because of what ...of what it put him through. You know, he defended the worst of the worst. I remember reading about him, the outrage ...helping murderers go free. What I don't understand, is why he put himself, through all that abuse." Lampkin replies, "You think he gave a flying Frack? Joe Adama, cared about one thing, understanding why, people do what they do. Why we cheat our friends, why we reward our enemies, why we go to war ...sacrificing our lives for lost causes, why we build machines to correct our flaws and our short cummings ...why we forgive, defying logic and the laws of nature, with one stupid little act of compassion. We're flawed ...all of us. I wanted to know why. So, I did, but he did. I've spent my life with the fallen, the corrupt, the damaged." Then, Lampkin breaks up the intense moment by joking with Apollo, "Look at you, you were so ready to go on that Raptor with me, to be the bad boy, the prodigal son." Apollo smiles a bit, then replies, "No, I was just doing my job, protecting you."