Battlestar Galactica (2003)/The Passage

The Passage
Season 3, Episode 10
Airdate	December 8, 2006
Written by	Jane Espenson
Directed by	Michael Nankin
Fleet Survivors	41,420
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Battlestar Galactica (2003) — Season Three

The Passage is the tenth episode of the third season of Battlestar Galactica, and the forty-third episode overall.

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

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

Special Guest Star: Lucy Lawless (D'Anna Biers)

Guest Stars: Luciana Carro (Captain Louanne "Kat" Katraine), Donnelly Rhodes (Dr. Cottle)

Cast: Patrick Currie (Enzo), Bodie Olmos (Hotdog), Brad Dryborough (Hoshi), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Sebastian Spence (Narcho), Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (Hybrid), Sean Roche (Hungry Boy), Ian Rozylo (Convulsing Pilot)

Plot Overview

Secrets from Viper pilot Captain Louanne Katraine's past are brought into the light during the events surrounding a dangerous passage through a radioactive star cluster to find a new food source.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• After their food is contaminated, the fleet has to traverse a star cluster to get to the planet on the other side, which is confirmed to be rich algae to process.

• Ultimately, Raptors are assigned to civilian ships to help them navigate through the star cluster. The ships are operated by a skeleton crew with the civilians being put on Galactica on their way across. Unfortunately, two ships, the Adriatic and Carina get lost, which will no doubt lead to more refugees.

• Galactica takes further damage from the radiation jumping into the star cluster.

• Baltar confronts Three on her recent repeat downloading. She tells him every time she does, she sees the faces of the final five, but her memory fades. They go to the Hybrid and after Baltar puts his hand in the tank, she grabs his hand and utters something cryptic they interpret as "The Eye of Jupiter" and that it can be found on a planet in a star cluster.

Characters

• Tigh returns to the CIC to resume his position as XO.

• Baltar confesses that he wants to know if he's a Cylon for the possibility that he could stop being a traitor and have someplace where he belongs.

• Kat's real name is Sacha. She was a drug runner and took the name Louanne Katraine from a girl who died on Caprica two days before the Cylon attack.

• Kat spends too much time in the cluster and exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. Kara puts aside her animosity to slip her some sleeping pills before she suffers too much from radiation poisoning. Adama gives her a posthumous promotion to CAG.

• Kara puts Kat's picture in the memorial hallway as Lee watches in the distance.

Referbacks

• Kara jabs at Kat for her previous stim addiction she had in "Final Cut".

• Kara puts Kat's picture in the memorial hallway just under Riley's girlfriend that was put there in "Scar".

Trivia

The Show

• Kara's joking comment about giving Cottle "head" was censored during American airings. It went unaltered when aired on Sky One and DVD.

Behind the Scenes

• Adama and Tigh's joke about a paper shortage is a likely in-joke, as a paper shortage was discussed to be issues during the development of the episodes "Water" and "Resistance".

• In the dialogue between Three and Baltar, mention of "Jupiter" spoken onscreen is substituted with the name "Zeus" in the closed caption. This is due to the fact that the original lines reflected the title of the following episode, which was later renamed. The former title reflected the Greek mythos employed in the series, Zeus' Roman counterpart being Jupiter. Although the Colonial religion is based on Greek mythology, this is another occurrence of gods being called by those of their Roman counterpart.

Allusions and References

• Adama tells Kat that he would have liked to have had a third child, a daughter. In the original series, Adama has a daughter named Athena in addition to his two sons.

Quotes

• Tigh: You get these people to the other side, they think there's a diner and a chef waiting to take their order.

Adama: When they gonna learn they gotta process the thing first, for frak's sake?

Tigh: Try telling that to a bunch of empty stomachs.

Adama: I hear they're still eating paper. Is that true?

Tigh: No. Paper shortage.

(they both burst into laughter)

Adama: Not a good sign.

• Kat: Admiral, I - I know. I'm so sorry.

Adama: I'm not here to lecture. I'm letting you know about a promotion. I'm making you CAG again.

Kat: Sir, you know I'm not getting out of here, right?

Adama: You earned it. What you did was harder than facing a bullet. You did it without putting one other soul in harm's way. I don't know if I could have done that. I wish there was something more I could give you.

Kat: No, it's good. I'd like to be CAG very much. Thank you. (begins crying) Sir, there - there's a thing, a reason why you might not want to do this. Kara knows what it is, but I wanted to tell you myself.

Adama: I don't need to know anything other than what I already know. When you were CAG, you protected your people, made them feel safe enough to be brave. What you were gonna say, does it change that?