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Sacrifice is the sixteenth episode of the second season of Battlestar Galactica, and is the twenty-ninth episode overall.

Secondary Stars: Michael Hogan (Col. Tigh), Paul Campbell (Billy Keikeya), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (PO Dualla)

Guest Stars: Kate Vernon (Ellen Tigh), Mark Houghton (Vinson), Eric Breker (Chu), David Neale (Page)
And: Dana Delaney (Sesha Abinell)

Co-Stars: Michael Ryan (Ray Abinell), Adrien Hughes (Lt. Terry Burrell), Erica Carroll (Civilian), James Upton (Environmental Specialist), Georgia Hacche (Petty Officer Sian)

Contents 1 Plot Summary 2 Notes 3 Arc Advancement 3.1 Happenings 3.2 Characters 3.2.1 Apollo 3.2.2 Starbuck 3.2.3 Adama 3.2.4 Billy 3.2.5 Roslin 3.2.6 Dualla 3.3 Referbacks 4 Trivia 4.1 The Show 4.2 Allusions and References 4.3 Memorable Moments 5 Quotes 6 Reviews

[edit] Plot Summary

A team of terrorists led by a woman named Sesha Abinell take a lounge on Cloud 9 hostage. They've found out about Galactica's Sharon unit, and Sesha wants it released to them so she can kill it in revenge for a Cylon raid on the Fleet that cost her husband his life.

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[edit] Apollo

• Apollo meets with Dee on Cloud 9 to talk about their relationship. While there, the lounge is taken over by terrorists. Apollo notices one of them before the attack and hustles Ellen Tigh, who he was talking to at the time, into the lounge's bathroom to get her out of the way of danger. Ellen ruins this by running out of the bathroom to yell at the terrorists.
• A terrorist comes into the bathroom looking for Apollo, and Apollo takes his gun away from him and takes him hostage. Unfortunately, one of the other terrorists remembers that he was with Dee, and threatens to shoot her. Lee surrenders, and the terrorists realize that now one of their hostages is the son of Admiral Adama. Sesha believes that Adama won't choose the life of a Cylon over his son.

[edit] Starbuck

• Starbuck and a couple of vacationing Marines make an ill-advised attempt to get into the room, with Starbuck feigning being an oxygen line repairwoman. Ellen Tigh accidentally outs her as not being what she appears to be, and a firefight breaks out, ending with two Marines dead, Starbuck wounded, and Lee severely wounded.
• Starbuck, shell-shocked, reports back to Galactica on her failure to free the prisoners, and haltingly informs Adama that Apollo was hit by friendly fire. From her.

[edit] Adama

• Adama tries to figure out whether or not he should trust the information he's getting from Sharon enough to keep her rather than releasing her to the terrorists to get the hostages back. Even though she directly tells him that she's not willing to disclose who the other Cylon agents operating in the fleet are, he decides that she's worth keeping.
• Adama comes up with a plan involving turning over Galactica-Boomer's corpse, which has been in the morgue for months, to serve as a distraction while Marines move in.

[edit] Billy

• Billy proposes to Dee. Dee turns him down, because she's still interested in Lee, and Lee is apparently now reciprocating. She does not inform him of this fact, however.
• Billy runs into Dee and Apollo meeting at the lounge on Cloud Nine after proposing to Dee. He is not pleased with this development.
• When Apollo is shot, Billy convinces the terrorists to let him help Apollo, telling them that if the Admiral's son dies they'll be in trouble. They agree, and Billy and Dee work on stopping Apollo's bleeding.
• Marines from Galactica finally get into the lounge via Adama's plan, but not before the terrorists decide to kill Dee. Billy manages to get one of the terrorists' guns and shoots one. As the one he shot falls, he fires a burst that hits Billy in the chest, killing him instantly.

[edit] Roslin

• Roslin describes Billy as pretty much the only family she has left at this point.
• When Billy dies, she visits him in Galactica's morgue and grieves.

[edit] Dualla

• Dee visits Apollo in his hospital bed and talks to him, telling him that she'll stay with him until he gets better. Starbuck overhears Dee and leaves without visiting Apollo.

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[edit] The Show

• Billy Keikeya is killed. According to RDM in the podcast, this was because the actor playing him had other offers and decided to leave the show in advance.

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• Apollo swiftly takes away a nearby goon's weapon and uses it himself, similar to Bastille Day and, more recently, Black Market. This is rapidly becoming Apollo's signature move.

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[edit] Reviews

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