As you can imagine, Adama's return to command was widely celebrated by the people under his command. They admired him, they looked upon him as a father figure, he had already led them through great adversity, and, as I've said before, Colonel Tigh managed to be a bad leader and was hated by almost everybody on his command. Unlike Tigh, Adama wants to lead, and when he returns to the bridge, he gives a nice hearwarming speech about how much every single person meant to him. You know, the typical "you are like my family" type of stuff.

To prove he means business, Adama is going to start by finding the fugitives, ie his son and the president, and bringing them to justice for the audacity they showed trying to defend democracy. They are going to find which ship they are on by implementing quarantine procedures. See, the fugitives are like a disease, and to rid the fleet of the disease, you take it through quarantine. Isolate a single ship from the fleet, search it, and if it's free, make sure that no other ships are able to reach it. Eventually, you are going to find what you are looking for or at least make the people hiding nervous enough that they will give up.

Roslin and Lee Adama have enlisted the help of Tom Zarek in order to hide them among the ships. Zarek was a criminal, and was once considered a terrorist, but holds lots of popular support. He and the President don't exactly see eye to eye on all of the issues, but now that they are both in the same boat with respect to Adama, they decide to work together. Zarek is keeping them safe, although since their current hiding place is inside of a refrigeration barge, sometimes the accommodations could be a little better. Everybody was ready to go up against Tigh, because he is inept (as if you needed me to tell you AGAIN) and has very little popular support. When they hear that Adama is back, they know that they are going to have to accelerate whatever plan they had and finish it.

Looking to galvanize support for their resistance, they seek to broadcast a message. Who better then to talk about opposing the fleet than the person who used to command the fighter pilots. Unfortunately, Apollo is not up to the task. He strongly believes in the cause, but he still respects his father's thinking and doesn't want to speak out against him. Roslin sees that she is going to have to get a little creative. As the series has progressed, she has increasingly bought into the notion that she is a savior who was heralded to save the humans and lead them to earth. It's the reason why she sent Starbuck to retrieve the Arrow of Apollo, and it's largely the reason why she even had the motivation to continue in the face of so many difficulties. She has a lot riding on this whole religious prophecy, so why not go "all in" and see where it takes her? This whole messiah thing has been helpful with the Quorum of 12 and the the people she has met individually, why not give the whole fleet a try?

Now, a large part of the President's plan revolves around getting the Arrow of Apollo and taking it back to Kobol. Place it in a temple of some sort, and you have your directions to earth, which is the promised land. But we know that the Arrow of Apollo was on Caprica. Starbuck was supposed to get it, but she has had a little bit of difficulty getting it back. She was able to beat off the copy of Six to get it, but Caprica Boomer flew off with the ship she had used to get there, which is understandable because Starbuck did try and kill her, but is unfortunate because it was the only way home. Luckily, Starbuck wasn't alone. Helo was also on Caprica, where he had spent a good amount of time running away from Cylons, and at least a little bit of time knocking up Boomer.

Helo and Starbuck found a gang of humans, led by a bunch of athletes, that was busy carrying out a little bit of a resistance. Being the randy child that she is, Kara slept with the captain, and they had the typical awkward post-coital moment in the morning, but you could tell they liked each other. Starbuck has always wanted to get off of Caprica, but Anders, the captain, feels he owes it to the people who have survived on the planet to keep fighting. He even tells Starbuck that they could use a little bit of professional help since all of their tactics they learned from a few movies. You would think that one of them would have had an X-Box or Playstation when they were younger and played a litte SoCOM or Counterstrike or something, but that was not the case. For her part, Starbuck tells them they should hide in the mountains above the radiation, and wait for somebody to come back and get them.

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Posted by J-Unit on August 15, 2005 12:58 AM