Editing Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down

{{disline|This episode is also known under its draft title, "Secrets and Lies."  Its official title is "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down."}}
{{Episode Data
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| title=Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down
| series=
| season=1
| episode=9
| guests=
| writer=[[Jeff Vlaming]]
| story=
| director=[[Edward James Olmos]]
| production=109
| rating= 2.1
| US airdate=2005-03-04
| CAN airdate=2005-03-12
| UK airdate=2004-12-13
| dvd= {{Season 1 NTSC DVD release date}} '''US'''<br/>{{Season 1 PAL DVD release date}} '''UK'''
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| next=[[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]
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: ''[[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh's]] world is turned upside down when [[Ellen Tigh|his wife]] arrives on ''{{RDM|Galactica}}''&mdash;but is she all she claims to be?''

== Summary == 
* [[Laura Roslin]] comes aboard ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'' as [[William Adama|Adama]] receives a report that [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar’s]] [[Cylon detector]] is operational.
* Unable to shake off [[Leoben Conoy|Conoy’s]] words to her {{TRS|Flesh and Bone}}, she wants Adama to take the test first; he reluctantly agrees.
* When a lone [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]] shows up, [[Lee Adama]] is ordered to intercept, and [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] is stunned to learn Adama is off-ship.
* The Raider is crippled, and a [[Raptor]] is dispatched to gather intel on it, particularly how its [[FTL]] drive operates.
* Adama returns to ''Galactica'' on a [[Raptor]] with a further shock for Tigh: his wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]].
* Roslin calls Baltar to check on the progress of Adama’s Cylon test – only to find Adama has cancelled so that a woman called “Ellen” can be tested. Roslin orders Baltar to restart Adama’s test immediately.
* Roslin summons Tigh to ''[[Colonial One]]'', reveals her suspicions regarding Adama, and challenges a defensive Tigh over Adama’s behavior in leaving ''Galactica'' unannounced.
* Tigh takes the wind out of Roslin’s sails when he states Adama was off-ship so he could collect Tigh’s missing wife.
* After Tigh has left her office, Roslin calls Baltar and orders him to stop Adama’s test and resume Ellen’s.
* Later, at a dinner in Adama’s quarters, Ellen behaves with a mixture of her old self – trying to play footsie with Lee Adama under the table, and trying to flirt with him over the table – and a strange curiosity concerning [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].
* Adama deflects her probing by asking how it could be that she got aboard a ship, the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'', without anyone having any knowledge of her or of treating her during her alleged 3 weeks of being unconscious.
* Ellen simply shrugs off the questions in her apparently drunken state and breaks up the party with her “drunken” playing.
* As she and her husband return to their quarters, they encounter Baltar, with whom she openly flirts, both annoying Tigh and raising [[Number Six|Six]]’s curiosity.
* After Baltar has departed, Ellen deflects her husband’s anger at her behavior by claiming Adama wants her, then dragging Tigh after Baltar.
* In Baltar’s lab, a row is brewing over the various tests that should have been carried out; things become more complicated when Tigh and his wife arrive, and the disagreements and suspicions become a three-way argument, which is broken up when Adama, Lee and Tigh are summoned to [[CIC]].
* The Cylon Raider has stopped behaving oddly, and is on a collision course for ''Galactica''. [[Alert Fighters]] are dispatched at Tigh’s order, and the Raider is destroyed.
* Later, back in Baltar’s lab, Ellen’s test results come through and are apparently green. Baltar, however, simply states to Six that having everything turn up green makes life a lot easier.

=== On Caprica ===
*{{callsign|Helo}} and [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Valerii]] are trying to avoid the Cylons by running through the storm drains under a city.
*Valerii has a plan&mdash;she claims to have overheard the Cylons discussing a huge base at [[Delphi]], she believes they can steal a ship from there and get off the planet.
*[[Aaron Doral|Doral]] and [[Number Six|Six]] are definitely affected by the fact that even though Valerii has run off, she is experiencing emotions they have never had&mdash;as is Helo.

== Notes == 
*The script was originally called "Secrets and Lies".  
*Three days have passed since the events of "[[Flesh and Bone]]".
*There are now 47,905 survivors in the Fleet. A loss of 49 since "Flesh and Bone". Compared to other casualty figures in the first season, this is unusually high for a three-day period.
*Colonel Tigh's drinking problem became drastically worse because of his wife's infidelity and their estrangement. 
*Keikeya's relationship with Dualla is picking up, despite his attempts to pump her for information.
*Baltar apparently has no intention of being honest about the results of his Cylon tests.
*''Galactica'' has a forward [[observation deck|observation lounge]] that has become a much sought-after trysting-place, with individuals and couples rotated through it at regular intervals.
*The Cylons have established a major base at [[Delphi]], another major city on Caprica.
*The opera music that Baltar is listening to in his lab while talking to and getting intimate with Number Six is titled "Battlestar Operatica," and was written and composed by [[Bear McCreary]]. It is sung in Italian, and directly relates to Baltar's situation. The lyrics translate: "Woe upon your Cylon heart / There's a toaster in your head/ And it wears high heels / Number Six calls to you / The Cylon Detector beckons / Your girlfriend is a toaster / Woe upon your Cylon heart / Alas, disgrace! Alas, sadness and misery! / The toaster has a pretty dress / Red like its glowing spine / Number Six whispers / By your command" (translation given in the liner notes for the Season 1 soundtrack, reposted [[Soundtrack (Season 1)#Lyrics and Translations|on this page]], with permission).
*[[Edward James Olmos]], who portrays [[William Adama]], also directed this episode. He was originally to direct "[[Flesh and Bone]]" but could not do so due to scheduling conflicts.
*Boomer does not appear in this episode.

== Analysis ==
*Continuing from the previous episode, Caprica-Sharon now seems to be honestly trying to lead Helo away from the Cylons and truly escape.
*This is the first mention of the city of [[Delphi]] and Helo's hostile reaction to the news of its being used as a Cylon hub. Plausibly the emotional reaction is due to Delphi being a spiritual center for the Twelve Colonies.
*The test apparently takes 11 hours to generate results (although Boomer’s result in "Flesh and Bone" was obtained in far less time than this – "a couple of minutes," according to Baltar, and about 60 seconds of screen-time). 
**Baltar claims in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]" that he allowed Boomer to believe she was human "for [his] own purposes". Does he have the ability to determine other Cylon infiltrators in a much shorter time frame than he chooses to admit in this episode? Perhaps he was just going through the math in his head - but then why the half-serious jokes about suicide as he contemplates the task?
**Perhaps a "positive" result with a real Cylon takes much less time, but it takes 11 hours to be definitely sure someone isn't a Cylon.
*Is it possible that the Cylon Raider is there to transmit instructions to other Cylons within the Fleet (as later in "[[Final Cut]]")?
**In a deleted scene, it is mentioned that they noticed a high-frequency burst which could have been a Cylon within the Fleet sending out a signal, but couldn't track which ship it came from.

== Questions ==

=== Answered Questions ===

{{answered questions|season=1|series=RDM|episode=Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down}}

*Is [[Ellen Tigh]] a [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]]?
*What is [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] hoping to gain from keeping the test results secret?

=== Unanswered Questions ===

: ''None yet.''

== Official Statements ==

=== Concept and Tone ===
The producers discuss the transition from the dark themes of "Flesh and Bone" to a lighter, more comedic tone, as well as the episode's title and original "Crimson Tide" inspiration.

{{Quote
| text = 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' was originally called 'Secrets and Lies', or 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' by Jeff Vlaming. And when I saw those titles on the script, I knew we had to go with 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down'. It was too good. Too good a title to let lie on the cutting room floor.
| sign = [[Ronald D. Moore]]
| source = Podcast for "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" <ref group="commentary" name="moore_podcast_tigh_title">[[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Podcast for "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down"]]</ref>
}}

{{Quote
| text = 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' began life as a very different episode than it ultimately came out to be. It was originally going to be a riff on 'Crimson Tide'.
| sign = [[Ronald D. Moore]]
| source = Moore on the original concept <ref group="commentary" name="moore_podcast_tigh_original_concept">[[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Podcast for "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down"]]</ref>
}}

{{Quote
| text = The long and the short of it was that we had just come out of a very heavy, very dark, very [[Flesh and Bone|disturbing episode]]. And the very next episode was supposed to be 'Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down' which was all about a very disturbing, very dark, very ''(''sort of'')'' unhappy episode where our two—two of our lead characters started pointing guns at one another. So there came a point when I just decided, well, let's just punt... Let's try something that's closer to a comedy, or as close to a comedy as ''Galactica'' can withstand.
| sign = [[Ronald D. Moore]]
| source = Moore on the tonal shift <ref group="commentary" name="moore_podcast_tigh_tonal_shift">[[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Podcast for "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down"]]</ref>
}}

=== Set Design and the Observation Deck ===
The introduction of the [[Observation Deck]] provided a psychological break for the crew from the metallic confines of the ship.

{{Quote
| text = It did feel right that, perhaps, there was one place; that perhaps there was one area of the ship, which accepted a window or a port to look out and that it would be a fairly confined space for the crew on these very long, deep space missions... And that there might be a place where they can go to and just stargaze. And in this situation, it seemed like there would be a lot of people lining up to try and look out at the stars, you know, a break from the monotony of staring at metal walls.
| sign = [[Ronald D. Moore]]
| source = Moore on the observation area of the ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'' <ref group="commentary" name="moore_podcast_tigh_observation_deck">[[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|Podcast for "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down"]]</ref>
}}

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

{{Dialogue
| context = [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] and [[Laura Roslin]] discuss the deployment of the first [[Cylon detector]] in [[CIC]]:
| lines = 
'''Adama''': Madam President, we are the proud owners of the universe's first bona fide Cylon detector.

'''Roslin''': Well, that is great news. So... when do we begin?

'''Adama''': Doctor [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] would like to start widespread testing as soon as possible, but there are some serious limitations, because he can only do one person at a time and verification takes hours.

'''Roslin''': So, who's going to go first?

'''Adama''': ''(thinking for a second)'' The test... right. I think people in sensitive positions should go first.

'''Roslin''': I completely agree. How about you?

'''Adama''': Excuse me?

'''Roslin''': If you're a Cylon, I'd like to know.

'''Adama''': If I'm a Cylon, you're really screwed.

: ''(Adama and Roslin both start laughing)''

'''Roslin''': Seriously, I do think you should go first. Show everyone in the fleet that they can trust the people at the top.

'''Adama''': Well then, maybe YOU should go first. ''(silence)'' All right... I'll go first.
| source = [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
}}


{{Dialogue
| context = [[William Adama]], [[Saul Tigh]], [[Ellen Tigh]], [[Lee Adama]], and [[Laura Roslin]] share a tense dinner:
| lines = 
'''Ellen Tigh''': So Bill, now the question on everyone's mind — ''(and, I do mean everyone)'' — is "Where's Earth?" and "When are we going to get there?"

'''William Adama''': Yeah... that's classified information.

'''Ellen Tigh''': Oh, there's that word again!

'''Saul Tigh''': Ellen, leave the man alone.

'''Ellen Tigh''': Come on! If there aren't privileges to being an XO's wife, then what's the point? I mean, Bill, we're all family here, so come on!

'''Roslin''': The need for secrecy is paramount, Ellen. Oh, I'm sorry. Perhaps you don't know that the Cylons look like us now.

'''Ellen Tigh''': Oh... that. Yes. Yes, I knew that.

'''Roslin''': It's recent news. Most people just found out a few days ago.

'''Ellen Tigh''': ''(thinking)'' A thing like that would travel fast.

'''William Adama''': Any one of us could be a Cylon.

: ''(The entire table goes silent)''

'''Ellen Tigh''': BOO!

: ''(Everyone jumps in their seats, while Ellen and Saul start laughing)''
| source = [[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]
}}

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Aaron Doral]]
*[[Alex Green]] as Deckhand

== References ==
{{Reflist|group=commentary}}{{episode list (RDM season 1)}}

[[Category:Episodes written by Jeff Vlaming]]
[[Category:Episodes directed by Edward James Olmos]]
[[Category:RDM]]

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