Battlestar Galactica - Sine Qua Non

This episode, to me, is one of the series' most important and very turn the page. Just a list for you:

• Admiral Adama relinquishes command to Saul (secretly a skinjob! How's that for irony!) declaring his objectivity was lost due to Roslin being missing.
• With no President, and Adama refusing to listen to VP Zarek, Lee Adama and attorney, Limpkin (who assisted him in freeing Baltar) work to find a President in Roslin's absence. They ultimately decide Lee would be ideal, the Quorum would be fine with this and Zarek would agree.
• Sharon Agathon shoots and kills Cyclon Truce Six because of fear Hera would be taken from her; enraged at her act of violence and feeling betrayed, Admiral Adama sends her to the brig.
• Admiral Adama and Saul slug it out after Adams learns that Saul had been screwing around and impregnated Prisoner Six!
• A ship returns with a dead pilot and Admiral Adama sends a very limited set of pilots on a hunt for Roslin, locating a lot of wreckage including a Basestar that might just have the hub they had been after.

So tensions and emotions are high, Admiral Adama wants the fleet, now under the leadership of his son's clean slate administration, to jump and head for earth while he stays behind in a ship alone, awaiting Roslin, not willing to accept she's dead. There are powerfully acted scenes such as Admiral Adama and Saul's heated encounter resulting in fisticuffs, Admiral Adama's blistering scolding of Sharon Agathon for her seemingly unjustified murder of a Cylon ally, Lee having to talk down Limpkin from shooting him out of spite towards humankind for the loss of his family and cat, Admiral Adama giving over his command bars to Saul, and Admiral Adama saying goodbye as Lee tries to talk him out of it. Lots of politics and changing of guards. 4.5/5