Know Your Enemy - 
by J-Unit
The season premiere was one of the best couple of hours of television and left us with quite a few cliffhangers, among them being the impending massacre of two hundred civilians and an ambush of the first landing party from the Galactica. Will the plans to escape new Caprica be thwarted before they can even get off the ground?
I should probably start this recap by resolving what happened last week. The New Caprica police had just finished rounding up a bunch of citizens for an old-fashioned massacre. We were all worried that Cally, Chief "Trotsky" Tyrel's wife and mother of his baby, would be gunned down with the rest, but one of the New Caprica Police, Jammer, who had worked under the chief released her, and told her to run away. We see her running away just as a bunch of shots are fired. Somewhere nearby, Sharon met up with Anders and his reception team, but they were ambushed. I went into the first five minutes of this episode hoping that we would find out what happened, but that would be too easy, wouldn't it?
Yes, it was the return of the flashback episode. WTF? I hope this isn't the start of another trend. Last week, I lamented the number of episodes that would show us something happening and then pull the "24 hours earlier" or "72 hours earlier" bullshit, and then mix in current and past events back and forth throughout the episode. Once or twice a season, it can be really effective, but use it too often, especially when the episode will be just as good without it, and it just becomes a pain in the ass. Luckily, this was only a "one hour ago" flashback, so I wasn't gouging my eyes out or anything, and hopefully, I won't have to in the future.
I thought that the Massacre would easily be the most horrific thing in this episode, but I would have been wrong. Not five minutes into it, and we saw one of the more disturbing pictures of the year as Colonel Tigh revealed what was under his eye patch, or I guess more accurately, what was not under his eye patch. He said that his eye was removed, so it shouldn't be that big of a surprise that he had an empty socket where his eye used to be, but it was gross nonetheless. Tigh was having trouble putting his eye patch back on, but his wife came in to help him. Their relationship has always been a little strange, and I can't figure out any reason why she is with him other than lingering feelings of guilt, but who am I to judge others' happiness?
Saul and Ellen's intimate moment is interrupted when Tyrel comes in and starts shouting about some list. What list is that? Well, it's the list of people who are scheduled to be executed. Gaeta made the info drop, and no Tyrel is freaking out because his wife's name is on the list. Saul gets him to calm down and reminds him that they should be able to extrapolate the location of the massacre from the Cylon coordinates. If Chief can get a group of people there ahead of time, they may be able to save Cally and some of the others before it's too late.
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