If the crew is having fun on anything, Tigh has to put an end to it. He discovers that Tyrel is bootlegging alcohol to barter for some parts, but he is having trouble with some engines, and he knows that they won't be able to take any from the Vipers because they are still much more important. Tigh reluctantly tells the Chief that there was somebody in the fleet looking to get rid of some engines that were taking up space somewhere, and he would send a crew to get it. And since nothing is free, he takes some of Tyrel's moonshine for himself.

After we get that feel good scene with Tyrel's ship, we get a little bit of filler piece. I wouldn't even mention it, except that it does have some minor possibility for something later on. Apollo is teaching Dualla some hand to hand. That's combat, you sick bastards. They are fighting and rolling around, and they get pretty close. Close enough that Apollo has that look in his eyes like he wants to hump her in front of the whole dojo. I am starting to think Apollo is a bigger slut than Starbuck. Before anything can happen, Billy walks in looking for Dualla, and she scampers off to meet him and have another round of awkward sex that is as good as she can get and better than anything he can ever imagine.

It's decided that the best thing to do about the Cylon virus is to ask Sharon. Helo goes to talk to her, but first he needs to know a few things like does she really love him. Even though Tyrel's Sharon was killed, Helo's Sharon still has some of her memories, including all of those good times they had sex while he imagined he was repairing ships. However, she says that he is the father of her child and he will always come first. OK, cool, now what about this virus? She says she has to see Commander Adama, and I think to myself "Oh shit, I hope this doesn't cause her to go crazy and kill people again". My fears were unfounded and when she sees the Commander, he tells her that the program is set to use the Galactica against itself and the fleet. Phew! I was getting worried that there might be trouble.

President Roslin is scheduled to return to her ship. Adama always lets her use his quarters when she needs some time on the Galactica. Although she has restored the confidence in Democracy and found a way home to earth, the other part of the prophecy is that she will die, and the doctor gives her a month (at most) to live. Adama tells her about the Cylon attack and you can really take it two ways. Either it sucks because there goes, you know, civilization as we know it, or it rocks because she's going to die anyway, why not with a bang?

The main purpose of the meeting is that Adama needs some advice about Sharon. They have an idea on how to combat the Cylons. As Roslin says, the Cylons are expert manipulators. On the other hand, this Sharon is not the one that shot him, and she has already proven she is willing to help, and the love she has for her baby (which, btw you would think she would start to show at least a little bit of a bump) would make it less likely that she would do anything to jeopardize it's future. Still, it comes back to the point that we created them, so there has to be some sort of common ground we can be happy with other than mutually assured destruction.

Gaeta and Gaius (there should be some G&G Cylon Factory joke in there somewhere) have decided that it will be possible to destroy the cylon virus, they just need to completely erase the hard drives and restore the programs from backups. It's no big deal other than it will leave Galactica defenseless and there are thousands of Cylon raiders bearing down on the ship waiting to completely destroy it. Is there anything Galactica can do?

Enter Sharon. She knows a lot about Cylons, so she is being walked to the bridge, and by walked, I mean they have her transported in a manner that is only missing the weird Hannibal Lecter facemask. And whenever I mention Hannibl Lecter, I try to work a fava beans/nice chianti joke, worthy of a thpthtpthtpththttpt, but I got nothing right now. Once there she asks Dualla if she has the knife her dad gave her, and she does. She also needs a direct link to the computer. She proceeds to cut herself open with a knife and stick the fiber optic cable directly into her hand. What is it about watching a knife dig into somebody's palm that always makes me cringe?

Now that Sharon is plugged in, I hope she has something good planned, because there seems to be about 100 Cylons for every Viper. The Cylons aren't firing, and Sharon tells Gaeta to erase the hard drives. Still nothing is happening and the Cylons are getting closer. Tigh thinks they have been double-crossed again, and wants to shoot Boomer. Commander Adama gets a gun and puts it to her head while Tigh is yelling "Do it!" like a one man lynch mob. Before any shots are heard, Boomer slumps over, and look, all of the Cylon ships are now motionless, out of control, and have lost power.

Posted by J-Unit on September 20, 2005 4:51 PM