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Overview

Cylon Centurions board the Galactica and wreak havoc, and Lee leads a team of Marines to try and stop them.

Summary

On Galactica

After jumping successfully to the Fleet's location, the Galactica's power systems shut down.
After landing on Galactica, Lee Adama, Kat, Hot Dog, and Flyboy are walking through the corridors with flashlights. Flyboy stumbles into a Cylon Centurion -- the Cylon kills him and the rest attempt to flee.
As Hot Dog and Kat flee up the stair way, Lee attempts to kill the Cylon. A small group of marines come from behind the Cylon, using an explosive round is able to take it out. Unfortunately, it was their last one, they'll have to get more as it is the only round that works against the centurions.
Lee's group goes to the storage locker on deck 12. They find a survivor and, unfortunately, only six explosive rounds.
Gaeta states that the Cylon virus has infected some of the ship's isolated computers when they were networked; he has teams cleaning them out.
Tigh gets reports that some of the Cylons have been taken out by teams throught the ship. He suspects that the Cylons are heading towards two sections of the ship -- one of which is aft damage control -- in order to vent the ship. (After the ship is vented and the crew terminated, Tigh states that the Cylons would turn Galactica's guns on the Fleet.)
Lee gets into contact with CIC via a portable phone. Tigh orders him to go to the aft damqage control section to stop the Cylons from overriding the safeguards that prevent the ship from being vented.

On Caprica

Helo and Starbuck discuss how the Cylons have a habit of fooling everyone.
Starbuck leads them to her old house, where she reminesces about how she hated it and how she keeps fighting because it's the only thing she knows.
They later leave driving Starbuck's old army truck.

On Kobol

Baltar has a dream where Adama drowns Baltar's daughter.
When he wakes up, he is in Number Six's arms, surrounded by human skulls and bones. Six tells Baltar that they were victims of human sacrifice, and that the Scriptures were lies, fabricated to cover up how barbaric life on Kobol really was.
When he returns to the others, Baltar is harangued by Crashdown.
Tyrol is feeling responsible for Tarn's death, but Cally snaps him out of it.
The two return with the medkits, but it is too late to save Socinus' life. Telling him that he is going home, Tyrol reluctantly kills him with an overdose of morpha.

Questions

The remains Baltar and Six find cannot be thousands of years old; they would not have survived in the open. Did the Thirteenth Colony leave Kobol recently? Do humans, at least until recently, still inhabit Kobol? Or were all the remains merely fabricated by Six?
Why would later humans have felt it necessary to cover up the nature of civilization on Kobol? Is it related to the reason why Kobol was abandoned in the first place? How would the Cylons have found out? Or did Six just make it up?
How did Tigh know where the Centurions were heading? Did the Cylons use this tactic in the first war?
- Note: It is stated in the series bible that during Tigh's enlistment in the first Cylon War, his ship was boarded -- it is likely that he learned of these tactics during this conflict. (see: Saul Tigh)
Is Helo starting to fall for Starbuck?
How did Starbuck end up with a military truck?
Where is Galactica's Sharon Valerii during these events?

Analysis

Notes

First episode without an appearance by Sharon Valerii (except in opening montage).
Helo reveals to Starbuck that the Cylon's recovered the bodies and brought them to cremation centers, hence the lack of bodies.
Socinus, initially slated to die in early drafts of "Scattered", dies in this episode -- euthanised by Tyrol.
Colonials used internal combustion engines (Starbuck's Humvee). Probably not fossil fuel burning, though, assuming the Kobol's refugees arrived on the Colonies only thousands of years rather than the millions of years it takes for fossil fuels to form. This is also assuming that it was the Colonists that brought organic life along with them to the Homeworlds (terraforming). As Kobol's wildlife (birds and trees and such) is identical to Caprica's, this is likely the case.

Noteworthy Dialogue

Official Statements

"We've almost completed shooting the opening of Season Two, with Michael Rymer back at the helm filming a two-parter written by David Weddle & Bradley Thompson called 'Scattered' and 'Valley of Darkness.' Things have been going well so far, with a good mood on the set and a feeling of satisfaction and pride running through the whole team at their accomplishments in year one and anticipation for year two." --

From RDM's Sci-Fi Channel Blog

"Apollo's betrayal of Adama's decision to arrest the president is detracting from the believability of the show for me. I'm listining to your podcast of ep. 113 as I write this and you just said Lee is "a more capable, more competent, leader . . .". He's also struck me as a fairly honorable character. If he had doubts about this mission I think he would have at least voiced them and then not gone along with the strike team so he would not have been put in the position he was. I hope you won't use Adama's near death experience at the end of season one/start of season two to "write off" these betrayals, esp. Apollo's. His was much more unforgivable considering his relationship with Adama, his leadership role in the fleet, and the battle between the president and Adama. I find it hard to see Lee continuing as CAG after this. "

You bring up valid points and we are planning to play out the consequences of Lee's decision as it impacts both him and his father over the course of the season. --

From RDM's Sci-Fi Channel Blog

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Writing & Direction

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Production Notes

Series: 2 (2005 / 2006)
Production Number: 2.02
Airdate Order: 2 (of 20)

First Run Air Dates & Releases

UK Airdate: September 2005
US Airdate: July 22 2005
DVD Release: (UK)

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 == Questions ==
 *The remains Baltar and Six find cannot be thousands of years old; they would not have survived in the open. Did the [[Thirteenth Colony]] leave Kobol recently? Do humans, at least until recently, still inhabit Kobol? Or were all the remains merely fabricated by Six?
-*Why would later humans have felt it necessary to cover up the nature of civilization on Kobol? Is it related to the reason why Kobol was abandoned in the first place? Or did Six just make it up?
+*Why would later humans have felt it necessary to cover up the nature of civilization on Kobol? Is it related to the reason why Kobol was abandoned in the first place? How would the Cylons have found out? Or did Six just make it up?
 *How did Tigh know where the Centurions were heading? Did the Cylons use this tactic in the first war?
 ** '''Note:''' It is stated in the [[series bible]] that during Tigh's enlistment in the first [[Cylon War]], his ship was boarded -- it is likely that he learned of these tactics during this conflict. (see: [[Saul Tigh]])