And the never-ending soap opera continues as Apollo and Dee
are on the brink of divorce while Starbuck debates her “destiny” with Sam,
considering the possibility she is special as Leoben proclaimed. Starbuck
confronts Apollo about whether or not they will leave their spouses for each
other. Apollo falls apart once Dee announces that their marriage is over. There
is a new “bar” on the Galactica, called Joe’s, and it is a hangout for the
likes of Apollo, Tyrol, Starbuck, Gaeta and others. Apollo drowns his sorrows
in booze, leaving him a mess losing his wedding ring in the process. Eventually
Apollo begs for Dee not to leave him and she relents…not far away Starbuck
looks on, eventually coddling up to Sam, accepting that her current marriage is
probably the best she can hope for at the present. So this is essentially half
of the episode, “Taking a Break from All Your Worries”, while the A-plot
concerns a captured Baltar being interrogated in different ways to determine
what the Cylons are up to and whether or not he has details about the Eye of
Jupiter, what mysteries it held, and the plans for Earth. Roslin, Admiral
Adama, and Colonel Tigh try to surmise how best to handle Baltar, even using
threats of an airlock release if he won’t spill the beans. Adama proposes a
type of deep-hallucinogenic drug, one that would alter Baltar’s perception (the
visual used is Baltar trying to remain above a deep body of water, while
memories emerge to remind him of the past as questions posed to him reach into
what he was and wasn’t responsible for in regards to the defense system on
Caprica and how he might have helped the Cylons attack the human life on the
planet) and pry apart the truth he might be clinging to. Prior to the drug,
Roslin and Adama tried the frightening approach with the airlock and even
friendly Gaeta trying to pull from Baltar the map to Earth. Gaeta, however,
went to Baltar’s cell, out of a sleep, it seems to kill him. Later, when the
two are alone while Roslin and her aid watch their conversation from another
room, Gaeta doesn’t take kindly to Baltar’s claims he was an even worse traitor
than him, pointing out that in his case a gun was held to him head while Gaeta
was “playing both sides”. Gaeta almost kills him, stabbing him in the throat,
just missing the carotid artery. All that build up led to this moment;
President and his Right Hand, both working in concert with the Cylons on New
Caprica, address their own actions on the planet. I like that this episode
finally addresses Baltar’s potential status as a Cylon (neat false swerve shows
Baltar hanging himself in his cell, awakening in the Cylon resurrection pool,
only to be told by a number of Six clones that he isn’t, with them trying to
drown him) and what he did and didn’t know on Caprica before the Cylons
attacked humankind. Adama being the voice Baltar hears while “under”, trying to
smoothly draw out the truth was quite a touch. And Six Caprica, herself in a
cell, seeing Head Baltar, even “kissing him” while Roslin and her aid ponder
what she’s doing, who she is talking to and seeing, is also a cool development.
Those hidden “quirks” that hadn’t been realized by the main principles (Baltar
talking to Head Six hasn’t been seen by the likes of Adama and Roslin, same for
Six Caprica being the only one to see Head Baltar) so those details finally
starting to become discovered for the first time means we are starting to see
the overall picture gaining clarity.
At the end of All Your
Worries, Roslin and Adama (in a cozy dialogue, with Roslin lying down as
Adama comments on how to deal with Baltar) concluded that Baltar gets his
trial. In the next episode, “The Woman King”, Zarek warns Roslin that a trial
would fracture the fleet and cause all their overall progress to fall to ruin.
Roslin tells her aid that she has never seen him so distraught and terrified. Certainly
this trial will be quite a dramatic development (certainly a dilemma Roslin
might underestimate) and maybe Zarek is right in his concerns.
[2.5/5]
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