Battlestar Galactica (2003)/Six of One (2)

Six of One
Season 4, Episode 2
Airdate	April 11, 2008
Written by	Michael Angeli
Directed by	Anthony Hemingway
Fleet Survivors	39,676
← 4x01 He That Believeth in Me (1)	4x03 → The Ties That Bind
Battlestar Galactica (2003) — Season Four

Six of One is the second episode of the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica, and the fifty-fifth episode overall.

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

Michael Hogan (Colonel Saul Tigh), Aaron Douglas (Chief Galen Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Captain Karl "Helo" Agathon), Michael Trucco (Samuel Anders), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Felix Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Lieutenant Anastasia "Dee" Dualla)

Guest Star: Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy)

Guest Star: Rick Worthy (Simon)

Guest Star: Matthew Bennett (Aaron Doral), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Sebastian Spence (Narcho)

and Dean Stockwell (Cavil)

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

Cast: Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Eileen Pedde (Sgt. Mathias), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Colin Corrigan (Marine Nowart)

Uncredited: Leo Chiang (Tattooed pilot)

Plot Overview

Kara is prepared to turn friends into enemies in her feverish desire to guide the fleet on the right path towards Earth.

The Cylons find themselves fracturing over the issue of what to do with the Raiders when they learn that the Final Five are in the fleet.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• The Sixes, Twos, and Eights believe the Hybrid is trying to say that the Final Five are within the fleet, hence why the Raiders retreated. One chastises them for discussing the Final Five, which is forbidden. He believes the solution is to reconfigure the Raiders. There's a vote, but it's a tie between the six models. The tie-breaker is Boomer. Believing One has manipulated it, Natalie's faction removes the telencephalic inhibitor from the Centurions that prevented them from higher functions. Upset about the Raiders, they kill the Ones, Fours, and Fives.

Characters

• Believing Baltar might know something about the Final Five, Tory is sent to talk with him due to his proclivities. As the two talk, he's confronted with the vision of himself that's talked to Caprica-Six. Baltar later has sex with Tory in which her crying leads to them talking about feelings. Baltar feels unburdened to finally declare the one true God.

• Roslin notices her hair is beginning to fall out.

• Lee officially retires. He visits Kara to tell her that Zarek nominated him for an empty Quorum seat. As he readies to leave, the two kiss and he tells her that he believes her. He is set to leave Galactica, telling Dee that she "got the house."

• After confronting Roslin, Kara is taken to the brig. She screams as she can feel the ringing getting weaker. Adama relents and lets her have a ship, the Demetrius under the guise of a scouting mission, to allow to follow the path to Earth.

Referbacks

• Tyrol recalls Baltar talking with D'Anna at the Temple of Five from "Rapture".

Trivia

The Show

• The model numbers of the remainder of the Cylons are revealed: Cavil is Number One, Leoben Conoy is Number Two, and Simon is Number Four.

• This is the first appearance of a Number Six copy named Natalie Faust, although only her first name is given onscreen later in "The Hub".

Goofs

• When the Centurions come in, one of the Fours, the one closest to Number One, uncrosses his arms. In the very next shot, his arms are crossed again.

Quotes

• Kara: Listen to me, please. I'm losing it. The ringing - the way to Earth, it's getting weaker. Don't you understand? Don't any of you understand? It was so - It was so clear, like it was coming from the next room. Stop looking at me like that! I can feel it slipping away. Even without jumping, as we move, it's half of what it was when I got here. Half. If we keep jumping, it'll be gone and we'll never find it again. I thought that's what we wanted - a way to Earth. Do you hear me?

Tigh: Get her out of here.

Kara: (to Roslin) You better work on your aim. Because I'm not gonna stop! You're gonna have to kill me!

• Natalie: The Hybrid is clearly telling us something.

Number One: The Hybrid is always telling us something. They're supposed to maintain operations on each ship, not vomit metaphysics.

• Anders: Did you see Kara?

Tigh: I saw her. She's as crazy as a latrine rat. If anything, she's more like Starbuck than ever.

• Tigh: Well, he is accomplished at two things: lying in a cell and lying in a woman. He'd poke a skinjob. He racked up a Six, that's a given.

Tory: There is no way.

Tigh: You don't have to get on your back for him, but --

Tory: Oh, gee. Thanks.

• Roslin: You're so afraid to live alone.

Adama: And you're afraid to die that way. You're afraid that you may not be the dying leader you thought you were. Or that your death may be as meaningless as everyone else's.

• Natalie: For the last time, will you stop lobotomising the Raiders?

Number One: (to the Fours and Fives) It's unbelievable, isn't it? Unbelievable. (to Natalie) For the last time... no.

Natalie: I was afraid you'd say that. Come in.

(two Centurions enter the room)

Number One: This is cute. Centurions can't vote, Six.

Natalie: Oh, they're not here to vote, Cavil.

• Number One: Now, this, uh, this isn't funny. Leave. I said leave! Why don't they leave?

Natalie: The telencephalic inhibitor that restricts higher functions in the Centurions? We had them removed.

Number One: Say what?!

Natalie: You dumbed down the Raiders. We, the Leobens, the Sharons, gave the Centurions the gift of reason.

Number One: You have no authority to do this. None. You can't do anything without a vote!

Natalie: No, we can't do anything with one, so we're finished voting.

(gunshots can be heard in the distance)

Number One: What have you done?

Natalie: First thing they learned is what you were doing to the Raiders. You can imagine how they felt.

Number Five: Oh, no.

• Kara: So, you quietly cut me loose in deep space. I'm not afraid to die.

Adama: A little easier after you've been through it once.

Kara: Harder.

• Kara: So you think I'm right.

Adama: Maybe. Maybe not. But I know she is, the president. She's been right all along. I'm tired of losing. I'm tired of turning away from the things I want to believe in, and I believe you when you say that you'll die before you stop trying. And I won't lose you again. Now go. Find a way to Earth.