Battlestar Galactica (2003)/Faith (2)

Faith
Season 4, Episode 6
Airdate	May 9, 2008
Written by	Seamus Kevin Fahey
Directed by	Michael Nankin
Fleet Survivors	39,675
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Battlestar Galactica (2003) — Season Four

Faith is the sixth episode of the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica, and the fifty-ninth episode overall.

Edward James Olmos (Admiral William Adama), Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslin), Katee Sackhoff (Kara "Starbuck" Thrace), Jamie Bamber (Lee Adama) (credit only), James Callis (Dr. Gaius Baltar) (voice only), Tricia Helfer (Number Six), Grace Park (Lieutenant Sharon "Athena" Agathon)

Tahmoh Penikett (Captain Karl "Helo" Agathon), Michael Trucco (Samuel Anders), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Felix Gaeta)

Guest Star: Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben)

Guest Stars: Donnelly Rhodes (Dr. Cottle), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster)

Co-Starring: Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Alisen Down (Barolay), Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (Hybrid)

Cast: Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Nana Visitor (Emily Kowalski), Alana Husband (Nurse Sashon)

Uncredited: Leo Chiang (Tattooed pilot)

Plot Overview

As the mutiny escalates on the Demetrius, Gaeta is shot in the leg. A compromise is reached, allowing Starbuck to take a Raptor with Leoben to find the Cylon basestar before the Demetrius returns to the fleet. The raptor leaps to the destruction left by Cavil's faction.

Kara meets the hybrid, who tells her that the missing three will lead them to the final five, who are from the home of the thirteenth. Also, she says that Kara will lead them all to destruction. The basestar jumps back to join the Demetrius.

Roslin deals with cancer.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• In the chaos, Kara decides the better option is to take a Raptor with Leoben to the basestar. Helo agrees, but will only hold off rendezvousing with Galactica until the window of time closes. While pushing it, Kara barely returns in time with the basestar.

• In the wreckage of the Cylon conflict, Kara finally sees the image from her vision, that of what was believed to be a comet, but is actually the damaged basestar.

• Natalie is against working with the humans, but Leoben manages to convince her.

• The basestar's FTL is too damaged and Athena has to slave its drives to their Raptor's spin sync generator.

• The Hybrid tells Kara that the "dying leader will know the truth of the opera house." She adds that the "missing three will give you the five who have come from the home of the 13th." They deduce that the three is D'Anna who knows the faces of the Final Five and if they came from Earth, then they must know the way back.

Characters

• When Helo orders Gaeta to jump, Anders shoots him in the leg. While waiting for Kara's return, he pleads with Helo to not let Cottle cut off his leg.

• Kara has Athena accompany her to the basestar. There, she's confronted with other Eights who want her to help them lead a mutiny against the Sixes. They were inspired by her that they didn't have to be slaves to their programming. However, she chastises them for cutting and running. When one of the Eights dies, she reaches her hand out for forgiveness, but Athena doesn't take it. Anders does.

• Anders is tempted to put his hand in the data-font, but is pulled away before he can find out what would happen.

• Kara learns from the Hybrid that she is the harbinger of death and will "lead them all to their end."

• Roslin befriends a cancer patient who finds some meaning in Baltar's message. Roslin tells her about her mother who, in a dream, sees waiting for her in the fields of Elysium. However, she steps back, not yet ready.

• Adama admits that it was Roslin who's convinced him that they'll find Earth.

Referbacks

• The Hybrid gives Kara the same prediction the other hybrid made to Kendra Shaw about Kara being the harbinger of death in "Razor".

Trivia

Behind the Scenes

• Episode writer Seamus Kevin Fahey also wrote several of the Battlestar Galactica comics (of the "Origins" and "The Final Five" series) and would later co-write "The Face of the Enemy" webisodes.

Quotes

• Number Eight: They call you Athena now. You even wear the uniform like you're one of them. You were the first to say no.

Athena: No to what?

Number Eight: The entire plan. You joined the humans, you had a child. You showed us that we don't have to be slaves to our programming. We wanted the same thing, but it turned out to be a disaster. The Sixes have made one mistake after another. They have to be stopped before they get the rest of us killed.

Second Eight: Ask.

Number Eight: You could help us.

Athena: You want me to lead a mutiny against the Sixes.

Number Eight: It's the only way.

Athena: You guys make me sick.

Number Eight: Why?

Athena: Because you pick your side and you stick. You don't cut and run when things get ugly. Otherwise you'll never have anything. No love, no family. No life to call your own. Now you can guys can either help me or get the hell out of my way.

• Roslin: But this god that Baltar refers to, it is the Cylon God. You know that, don't you?

Emily Kowalski: If he's the one and true God, he belongs to all of us. Otherwise, he's not much of a God, is he?

Roslin: Exactly. He isn't much of a God, he's a fantasy

Emily Kowalski: Oh, Laura. And the Lords of Kobol are real? Reigning from a metaphysical mountaintop in those silly outfits. Zeus handing out fates out of an urn like - like they were lottery tickets. "You're gonna work on a tylium ship. You're gonna be an admiral. You're family's gonna be evaporated in an attack on the Colonies, but you'll survive for three more years in a mouldy compartment on a freighter till your body starts to eat itself up alive." Those are the Gods that you worship? Capricious, vindictive.

Roslin: But they're not meant to be taken literally. They're metaphors, Emily.

Emily Kowalski: I don't need metaphors. I need answers.

• (as a Number Eight is bleeding to death)

Natalie: It's as if she doesn't even see us anymore.

Anders: She's looking past us. I've seen that look many times, but never in the eyes of a Cylon.