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Helena Cain

2009-11-20T01:27:20Z

Sonja:

:''For information on this character's [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] counterpart, see [[Cain (TOS)]].
{{Character Data
|photo=CainH.jpg
|age=49-50<ref>According to the script for "[[Razor]]", young Helena Cain was nine years old at the time of the [[Battle of Tauron]]. See: [[Sources: Helena Cain]].</ref>
|colony=[[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]]
|birthname=Helena Cain
|callsign=
|seen= Pegasus (episode)
|pseen=Pegasus
|death= Shot in the head by [[Gina Inviere]] ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
|parents= [[Saundra Cain|Mother]] and [[Cain (father)|father]] killed in the first [[Cylon War]] <ref name="watcher-forbes">{{cite_web|url=http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2007/11/battlestar-ga-1.html|title='Battlestar Galactica: Razor' cuts to the heart of the matter|date=20 November 2007|accessdate=22 November 2007|last=Ryan|first=Maureen|format=|language=}}</ref>
|siblings= [[Lucy Cain]]† (killed in the first Cylon War)
|children=
|marital status= Previous relationship with Gina Inviere
|role=Commanding Officer, [[Mercury class battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''
|rank=Rear Admiral
|actor=[[Michelle Forbes]] [[Kyra Scott]] (young Cain)
|serial=866931<ref>Serial number is from [[:Image:Cain's dogtag serial.jpg|her dogtags]].</ref>
|cylon=
|name=
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Rear Admiral '''Helena Cain''' hails from the colony [[Tauron (RDM)|Tauron]], and is the commanding officer of the [[Mercury class battlestar]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' at the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. She is a hard woman, unafraid of making difficult decisions and unflinching in her will to do what she sees as right. These traits sometimes compel her to feel that she has been left no choice but to take controversial, unpopular and morally questionable choices.

==Biography==
===Childhood===
Helena Cain was born during the first [[Cylon War]]. On the last day of the war, Tauron was under attack by Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestars]] and [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurion]] ground forces. Her sister [[Lucy Cain]] and her [[Cain (father)|father]] were pinned down in a building under heavy fire. When her father was injured trying to escape, he told Helena to get Lucy to a shelter, before dying. The two made it out of the building, but outside Helena panicked, left Lucy in a field of rubble and ran away to hide in a container. When Cain came out again after the Cylons retreated, she found only her sister's doll on the ground ("[[Razor]]", extended version). These traumatic events were formative for her future.

===Cylon attack and guerrilla warfare===
[[Image:Cain and gina.jpg|thumb|right|Cain dining with [[Gina Inviere]].]]

When ''Pegasus'' is scheduled for an extensive overhaul at the [[Scorpion Fleet Shipyards]], Cain has regular meetings with [[Gina Inviere]], a civilian contractor working for the [[Ministry of Defense]], to work out the details of the retrofit. The two eventually become romantically involved.

Shortly before the [[Cylon attack]], Lieutenant [[Kendra Shaw]] is assigned to the battlestar as Cain's personal aide. When the lieutenant fails to make it to [[CIC]] immediately after her arrival, Cain chews her out in front of the crew, but breaks into laughter after Shaw leaves, showing that she isn't always as hard as she appears to be.

When the Cylons [[Fall of the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards|attack the shipyards]], Cain is in her quarters, working out and going over efficiency reports. She makes it to CIC and immediately orders the battlestar unmoored. When the navigational computer is discovered to be offline and nuclear missiles are inbound, Cain orders a [[blind jump]] to escape certain destruction. With many of her crew dead and the destruction of the Twelve Colonies confirmed, she holds a speech vowing to take revenge on the Cylons. However, in a private dinner with her XO [[Jurgen Belzen]], [[Jack Fisk]], Inviere and Shaw, she promises that she has no intention to unnecessarily waste lives or resources in an emotional quest for revenge.

Shortly later, a Cylon communications relay is detected, which the crew believes to be an easy target. On arrival, one squadron of Vipers is launched. However, 15 squadrons of [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s suddenly appear because, it turns out, the target is actually a Cylon staging area. XO Belzen urges Cain to recover their Vipers and retreat, but instead she seemingly forgets her earlier promise and orders the launch of all remaining fighters, which Belzen refuses to do in the face of such odds. Cain asks the XO for his side arm, and shoots him in the head with it in front of the crew. She then turned to Fisk, promotes him to XO, and orders him to launch the rest of the Vipers. Fearing for his life, he does so. At the same time, Inviere disables the main gun batteries and allows a group of [[Cylon Centurion]]s to board the ship, causing many deaths. Shaw reveals her as a Cylon agent in CIC and Cain orders her arrest. ''Pegasus'' manages to win the [[Battle of the Communications Relay|battle]], but with staggering losses.

Cain is deeply stung by Inviere's betrayal, her feelings toward her erstwhile lover turned into hatred and scorn. Cain gives [[Alastair Thorne]] free rein in interrogating the Cylon for information, suggesting "pain ... degradation, fear, shame." This sets the tone for the interrogations, ultimately leading to measures such as gang rape.

When ''Pegasus'' happens upon a small civilian fleet, Admiral Cain decides to strip it of resources and personnel, including their FTL drives. The civilians, however, refuse the cooperate. Resistance is particularly vocal on the ''[[Scylla]]''. When a boarding team led by Shaw and Fisk fails to make the civilians cooperate, Cain orders the team to shoot the families of every conscript who refuses to obey. Shaw fires the first shot and eventually 10 people are killed, thus breaking the resistance. Cain is very impressed by Shaw's actions in the civilian standoff and promotes her to the rank of captain, explaining that Shaw has the qualities of a "razor"; someone who is able to shut down all emotions and inhibitions in battle in order to survive.

Despite the impossible odds, Cain intends to sustain a campaign of guerrilla warfare against the occupying Cylon forces. She then led the battlestar away from the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], following a Cylon fleet that trails what they discovered as the fellow battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' ("[[Razor]]", "[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]").

===Meeting Galactica===
[[image:caingalact.jpg|left|Admiral Cain, meeting up with the crew of ''Galactica''.|thumb]]
Upon meeting up with Commander [[William Adama]]'s [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] six months later, she as ranking officer assumes command and transfers personnel from ''Galactica'' to ''Pegasus'', including [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]], indicating that Adama has let military discipline become too lax. Cain is more interested in fighting the Cylons, seemingly oblivious to the point that she and the ships around her are all that was left of the human race, whose survival is more paramount than offensive assaults. While Adama initially welcomes such attacks against a mysterious Cylon force that followed the Fleet (to stop it from following them), his attitude begins to cool about Cain's very strict and unmerciful leadership.

Cain's actions also raise concerns with President [[Laura Roslin]]. Cain recognizes Roslin and her former role as Secretary of Education. After the Fleet command transfer from Adama to Cain, Roslin makes several attempts to call Cain to request supplies for the civilian fleet, but all of Roslin's calls are ignored.

After the fatal assault of one of her crew members, Lieutenant Thorne, Cain arrests Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] and Lieutenant [[Karl Agathon]] and has them flown to ''Pegasus'', under Adama's protest, since traditionally a trial is held on the ship where an incident has occurred. Cain uses ''Galactica'''s log against Adama when he asks for a tribunal; Cain notes that Adama dismissed the last council unilaterally when the verdict did not suit him. Cain summarily court-martials the prisoners herself in a matter of hours, sentencing them to death. A displeased Commander Adama orders an assault crew to ''Pegasus'' to bring his men back. Cain responds by deploying her squadrons of advanced Viper Mark VIIs against Adama's museum collection of Viper Mark IIs in a tense standoff ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).

The tense situation is ended by a sudden appearance by Starbuck, flying the [[Blackbird]] as she returns from her unofficial recon mission on the unknown Cylon ship. Starbuck transmits the pictures she took of the [[Resurrection Ship]] back to ''Pegasus'''s CIC. Upon Thrace's return to ''Pegasus'', Cain is so impressed with her performance that she promotes Thrace to Captain and ''Pegasus'' [[CAG]], replacing the competent but uncreative and inflexible Captain [[Cole Taylor|Taylor]]. Cain tasks Starbuck with planning the joint strike on the Resurrection Ship.

===Attack on the Resurrection Ship===
[[Image:Gina-Cain.jpg|thumb|Admiral Cain held at gun-point by [[Gina Inviere|her Cylon prisoner]].]]

After Captain Thrace briefs both Adama, Apollo, and Cain on her plan to attack the Resurrection Ship, Adama pulls Starbuck aside and outlines a plan to assassinate Cain following the attack. At the same time, Cain instructs [[Jack Fisk]] to lead a detachment of marines to "terminate Adama's command" after the battle ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).

When the moment arrives, both commanders back down from their assassination plots, to the relief of Thrace and Fisk.

===Assassination===

Shortly afterwards, Cain returns to her quarters and is surprised to find Gina Inviere, who escaped her cell with the aid of [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]], waiting for her. After a tense confrontation, Gina kills Cain with a shot to the head.

Cain is given a funeral with full military honors. Fisk and Thrace eulogize her; Fisk promises to command ''Pegasus'' in the same spirit as she did, and Thrace says that while she knew Cain only briefly, she admired her, and that "We were safer with her than we are without." ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]). Several months later, Adama tells his son that he can't find any faults in Cain's tactical decisions, and refuses to pass judgment on her, because he had people who kept him from going down a similar path, and never had to go through the situations Cain had to face ([[Razor]]).

== Analysis ==

Adama abandons his assassination plan because of something that was pointed out in a private conversation with [[Sharon Agathon|the second copy of Sharon Valerii]], who reminded him that during his decommissioning speech he had asked whether humanity asked itself if it deserved to survive ([[Miniseries]]). Turning on each other would have proven that the Cylons were correct about humanity.

Cain's reasons for calling off her plan were never revealed, and remain a topic of debate among fans.

== Notes ==

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=== Original Series nods ===

*Helena Cain is inspired by the character of Commander [[Cain (TOS)|Cain]] from the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Battlestar Galactica]]'', portrayed by the late [[Lloyd Bridges]].

*Unlike Commander Cain in the Original Series, Admiral Cain is a superior officer to Commander William Adama. The Original Series's Adama held a higher rank than Cain, and relieved him of command for a time in the two part episode, "[[The Living Legend, Part I|The Living Legend]]".

=== Behind-the-Scenes ===

*Actress Michelle Forbes said on her character, "She’s lost perspective. People ask, ‘Is she insane? Is she psychotic?’ I hope that’s not how she came across because that was never the intention. I think some individuals can appear to be that way, but this is a woman who did what she had to do in order to survive during some very brutal conflicts. Along the way, Cain lost her sense of judgment as well as her sense of reason and rationale. That was all very interesting for me to play. Usually in TV you’re given one characteristic and you dare not stray from that, so it was neat to have such a difficult, fascinating woman to play. In "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I|Resurrection Ship]]" it really comes to light the path of sadism that these people have gone down and we’re fully able to see exactly what happened to this group aboard the Pegasus. There were some pretty difficult choices they had to make, too, in regard to the Cylon prisoner Gina and that whole dynamic." [http://www.greatlink.org/dcisV2.asp?url=http://www.greatlink.org/shownewsitem.asp?item=5201]

*Cain's sexual orientation was revealed in ''Razor'', which Forbes, in the "Making of" featurette on its original DVD release, stated came as a surprise to her.

*Forbes guest starred as Dara Timicin in the ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "[[MemoryAlpha:Half a Life|Half a Life]]" and had a recurring role as Ensign [[MemoryAlpha:Ro Laren|Ro Laren]] during the last three seasons of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'', with the character at one point earmarked to join the spinoff series ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''. ''Battlestar Galactica'' executive producer [[Ronald D. Moore]], also a ''TNG'' veteran, wrote for her character in the episodes "[[MemoryAlpha:Disaster|Disaster]]" and "[[MemoryAlpha:The Next Phase|The Next Phase]]".

=== Production ===

*Cain's given name, Helena, was not spoken in dialogue initially, but was posted in episode summaries on Scifi.com (initially misspelled as "Nelena"). Her name is first spoken by Colonel [[Jurgen Belzen]] in "[[Razor]]".

*Cain's habit of expediting meetings by conducting them without chairs is borrowed from UN Ambassador [[Wikipedia:John R. Bolton|John R. Bolton]] (Source: [[Podcast:Pegasus#Act 2|Podcast:Pegasus]]). Within the show, the lack of chairs is said to stem from her preference to stand because of her back problems ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).

=== Separate continuity ===

* In [[Dynamite Entertainment]]'s [[comic]] books, Helena Cain and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' make a one-shot appearance in ''[[Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus]]'', and she is mentioned again in ''[[Battlestar Galactica: Origins 6]]''. In ''Origins 6'', Captain [[Alexa Cain|Alexa "Pugnacious" Cain]] is noted as Helena's mother, who had divorced her husband well before the [[Battle of Tauron]]—the last battle of the First Cylon War. However, "Razor" makes it clear that Helena's mother was named "[[Saundra Cain|Saundra]]", and that she was on [[Hypatia]], [[Tauron]] at the time of that last battle, which is when she died.

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2009-11-10T02:31:02Z

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== Overview ==

: ''Chaos is rampant as paramedics try to save Commander [[William Adama|Adama]]'s life after [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|he is shot]], and ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' is accidentally separated from the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].''

: '''''Note''': This is part one of a two-part episode. Part two is "[[Valley of Darkness]]".''

== Summary ==
=== Teaser ===
* Moments after [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] is shot by [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], [[Lee Adama|Captain Adama]] yells out for Doctor [[Cottle]]. Since he is not onboard, [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] searches for him.
* Medics arrive and take Adama to sickbay. Meanwhile, Boomer wonders what has happened, and in response, [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] has the [[Marine]]s take her to the brig.
* Also, Tigh receives brief flashbacks from his early military career, where he meets up with Adama, and tells him he is his new shipmate.
* [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] then reads a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] on [[DRADIS]], preparing to ambush [[The Fleet (RDM)|the fleet]]. Dualla locates Cottle onboard the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]''. However, he has to wait, and Tigh orders the fleet to make an [[Emergency jump coordinates|emergency]] [[FTL]] jump.
* Other crewmen wonder what they are to do with the survivors of the surface of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. Tigh replies by saying that the people down there will have to wait.
* Meanwhile, Apollo is taken to the brig alongside [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] and is given news that Adama has been shot twice. Apollo wants [[Venner|Corporal Venner]] to remove his cuffs, but is denied.
* The entire fleet apart from ''Galactica'' safely jumps away. It is then ''Galactica'''s turn. The ship jumps to another location in space. However, Gaeta read DRADIS, and sees nothing on screen. They have somehow lost the fleet, and is stranded in space, alone.

=== Act 1 ===
* [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Number Six]] are inside the [[Opera house]], where they look down at their child. Baltar wonders if the baby is methodical, but Six tells him that the baby is real, Six is the mother and Gaius is the father. She may not be born yet, but will be soon. Six then wonders if Gaius whishes to hold her. Hesitantly, he says yes and is about to pick up his daughter.
* This turns out to be a dream, and Gaius is lying on the ground, muttering "am I the father?"
* He, like the crew of [[Raptor 1]] are on the surface of Kobol, near the ruins. [[Diana Seelix|Seelix]] gives [[Socinus]] some [[serisone]] to help him breathe. [[Cally]] presses Baltar to carry something, since they plan to walk to the tree line and await rescue.
* While checking the supplies, the team hears a sonic boom, and knows that the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylons]] are coming. The team plans on moving now. [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]] first wants to see if they have everything first, but [[Crashdown]] tells him they do not have anytime, and rush it to the tree line to hide.
* On ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', Tigh changes his bloodsoaked clothes, with [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]] wonders what happened to the fleet. Tigh explains that every watch they update their emergency jump calculations with new star fixes to compensate for inertial drift, and then transmit them to the rest of the fleet, but this time ''Galactica'''s was updated, but the fleet weren't. When he mentions [[Gaeta]] forgot to send the fleet the upgrades for the FTL, Ellen wants Tigh to blame Gaeta, but Tigh says that it wasn't "the kid's fault", which Ellen says is unlike Tigh.
* She then tells him that he is to take charge of the fleet. Tigh tells her that it is not his command, no matter how much Ellen wants him to be.
* Later, Tigh tells the crew in [[CIC]] that this is Adama's command, and it will be until the day he dies, and they will not let him die. After telling them to get back to work, he goes to Gaeta and [[Aaron Kelly|Kelly]], who has an idea on how to locate the rest of the fleet. If they jump back to their original coordinates, their navigation computers can use the star fixes to generate a best fit solution for the fleet's location. However, it will take 12 hours to locate the fleet, and with a basestar in the area, they won't hold off the basestar for 12 hours.
* In the brig, Apollo and Roslin talk about wanting the ship to return, since Starbuck will lose the fleet, should she return with the [[Arrow of Apollo]]. Roslin apologises to Apollo for making him go against his own father. Apollo admits that he didn't do it for anyone, just did it.
* On Kobol, the survivors arrive at the tree line. Before they stop, Baltar sees a cot nearby.
* The team stops, where Seelix looks for some more serisone. Tyrol wonders how Socinus is doing. He says that he can hear birds, something no one has heard for a while.
* Seelix cannot find the serisone. Crashdown wonders why they didn't get the second one. [[Tarn]] must have forgotten to bring the second medkit. Crashdown orders him to go back to the Raptor and retrieve it. Chief and Cally convince Crashdown to give Tarn some backup, which he allows. But they have to hurry, as Socinus' lungs are filling up with fluid, and they need more serisone fast.
* In [[Delphi]], [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], in the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]], [[Kara Thrace]] and [[Karl Agathon]] look over the body of the dead Six. [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon]] tells them that they have to leave, as her consciousness is [[download]]ing into another body soon.
* Starbuck is getting apalled that they have to listen to a Cylon, though Helo tells her that Sharon has gotten him this far. Sharon also tries to convince Starbuck she's on her side, and recites a certain memory of Starbuck's.
* She reacts by pulling out her gun, attempting to kill her. Helo tries to stop her, since Sharon is pregnant. She doesn't listen and pulls the trigger, but Helo makes her miss, and tells her that Sharon is carrying his child.
* Starbuck tells him what he was thinking, having feelings for a machine. After some more arguing, they hear a noise, the engines from the [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] Starbuck arrived in. The two run to the outside, where they see Sharon take off in the Raider and flies away. After it is gone, Starbuck exlaims "bitch took my ride."

=== Act 2 ===
* Tigh visits the sickbay, where he has another flashback of his past with Adama in a bar, where Adama tells him that he is going back to the fleet.
* At the end, Tigh talks to [[Layne Ishay]], who tells him that Adama has lost a lot of blood, and the bullets tor up his spleen. They need Cottle to fix him. However, with Cottle out of the question, he asks Ishay to go in herself to save Adama, and, for now, is promoted to doctor. She is to assemble a team to get in there.
[[Image:201 02.jpg|thumb|Tigh brutalizes Valerii during her interrogation.]]
* Tigh then leaves for one of brigs to question Boomer, who is cuffed in her cell. He tells her how many other Cylons are in the fleet, and who ordered her to shoot Adama. Boomer says that no-one ordered her to do it. Seconds later, her Cylon nature kicks in, and tells Tigh "just get it over with, you frakking coward."
* Angered, Tigh beats her, and orders one of the Marines to give him a sidearm. He contemplates shooting her, but after brief flashes involving a door with the number 3 on it that is about to be opened. He stops himself, and leaves her in the cell, while walking out of the brig.
* Tyrol, Cally and Tarn return to the Raptor crash site on Kobol, where they manage to find the missing medkit. After retrieving it, they head back to the tree line.
* On the way back, Cally wonders why she gets to carry the medkit, even though Tarn lost it. Tyrol tells her that for the next week back to ''Galactica'', he will do some hanger deck mop-up.
* Their conversation is interrupted by the sound of gunfire. While, Cally and Tyrol take cover, Tarn is shot twice in the chest. Tyrol gives Cally the rifle so she could cover him while trying to get Tarn, who is shot again, near the groin. Tyrol manages to get to him, and picks him up. While running away from the firing Cylons, Cally and Tyrol runs away, but Tarn is shot again in the back.

=== Act 3 ===
* The trio manage to eveade the Cylons. Tyrol checks up on Tarn, but after a while, he stops breathing, and dies from his injuries. Cally tells him that Socinus needs them now. After retrieving his [[dog tag]]s, the two leave Tarn's body behind.
* In ''Galactica'''s bathroom, Dualla approaches Gaeta, and tells him that their current situation is hardly his fault, but Gaeta still feels somewhat guilty. After Dualla leaves, Gaeta notices the bars of soap, and after putting them all next to each other, he has an epiphany, and presents his idea to Tigh and Kelly.
* In CIC, Gaeta says he could find the fleet's location in 10 minutes if they network the ship's computers.
* Kelly objects to the idea, believing that Adama would have never approved the plan as networking the computers would allow the Cylons to send a computer virus to disable the ship.
* Gaeta says that he can devise a series of software firewalls to buy the ship time to locate the fleet and have Cottle save the Commander.
* Tigh goes ahead with the idea, and preps the ship for a jump to their last location. He then has another flashback, where his younger self and Adama are working for the Colonial Military again, due to [[Carolanne Adama|Adama's wife's]] connections to the [[Defense Subcommittee]]. Confident, Adama tells Tigh that he will command his own [[battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] one day.
* Tigh manages to parole Apollo, who agrees to this. As he is released, he says he will obey Tigh's orders and will not attempt to release Roslin, and will not promote insurrection among the crew. While leaving, Roslin wishes Apollo luck, and wants to talk with Tigh after the mission. Tigh however, tells her they have nothing to talk about.
* In CIC, Gaeta has networked all the ship's computers and has set up five firewalls in case the Cylons send a virus. Gaeta admits that he could do with Baltar's help. Tigh says he believes in him, and will take his word "over that shifty son of a bitch any day."
* The crew counts down to five, and soon jumps to their previous location. While the computers are calculating the location of the fleet, they pick up multiple [[DRADIS]] contacts; a basestar and raiders, who are quickly zeroing in on ''Galactica''.

=== Act 4 ===
* ''Galactica'' holds off the Cylon waepons fire, while the [[Viper Mark II|Vipers]] are launched to intercept the raiders. Those in the cockpit include Apollo, [[Kat]], [[Flyboy]] and [[Hot Dog]].
* One of the Raiders sends a [[Cylon computer virus|computer virus]] to ''Galactica'', which Gaeta detects. Soon enough, the first firewall is breached while the computers are calculating the route.
* While engaging the Raiders, Apollo notices a [[Cylon Heavy Raider|strange Cylon vessel]] approaching ''Galactica''. Apollo follows it and has Kat to assist in destroying it.
* While the ship is taking hits from missiles, Ishay and her team operate on Adama. When his heart stops beating, with the defibrillator unoperational, Ishay resorts to doing things the old fashioned way, and asks for a knife.
* In the brig, [[Venner|Corporal Venner]] asks for [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] to pray with him.
* The second firewall is breached while the calculations are halfway through. Soon enough, the third firewall is also breached.
[[Image:Flakfield.jpg|thumb|Apollo nears the flak field while trying to stop the Heavy Raider.]]
* Apollo nears the strange Cylon vessel, which turns around and tries to destroy Apollo's Viper. He manages to damage the ship, but it still heads towards ''Galactica''. Kat soon urges Apollo to disengage the pursuit, since he is approaching the flak field. Eventually, Apollo has no choice but to disengage. The Heavy Raider soon crashes into ''Galactica'''s starboard flight pod.
* Ishay opens up Adama's chest and performs a heart massage.
* The fourth firewall has been breached - one more, and the Cylons will gain control of ''Galactica'''s computers.
* While the Vipers destroy more Raiders, the calculations are completed in time. Gaeta quickly disconnects the computers.
* All Vipers are ordered back to the ship. Once they are all back, Tigh orders a jump to the fleet's supposed location.
* After the jump, Gaeta reads DRADIS, where he reports several signals, all Colonial. The fleet is found, elating the crew. Tigh orders the ''Rising Star'' to send Cottle over the ''Galactica'' ASAP.
* In sickbay, Tigh congratulates Ishay for her work to revive Adama, and stop the bleeding. After she leaves, Tigh talks to Adama, and wonders if he could hear him.
* Tigh has another flashback, involving the same "3" door. Tigh is about to burn his uniform after soaking it with lighter fluid. He hears a knock on the door. After some hesitation, he answers it, where he sees two MPs, courtesy of "Major Adama", who informs Tigh that he is promoted to the rank of Captain.
* After the flashback, Tigh tells Adama that he shouldn't let him back into the service, and to let him die along with the other billions of people during the Cylon attack. He never wanted command, and urges Bill not to die.
* Meanwhile, in the starboard flight pod, the crashed Heavy Raider seems completely destroyed as it lay on ''[[Galactica]]'s'' museum, but multiple sets of red sensors soon light up from inside, and a group of [[Cylon Centurion]]s make their way out of the craft.

== Notes ==

*The second season introduces the practice of showing the current Fleet population in the opening credits. Throughout this episode, that population is 47,875. That represents 12 total casualties since "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II".
* [[Socinus]]'s lungs are filling with fluid.
* Captain Kelly is third in the chain of command, after Tigh. This is demonstrated in the [[Miniseries]], as Kelly attempts to give orders on trying to stop the fires after the nuclear strike on the battlestar, while Tigh hesitates giving the order to vent the affected compartments.
** It is possible that Kelly is only third in command because of the "malefactions" of Apollo, and that, typically as fourth it is not a surprise that he is not seen before. The sudden incapacity of two superiors has bumped him up the ladder.
** While Doctor Cottle holds the rank of Major, as physician he would not be in ''Galactica's'' chain of command at all. In the military there are times when a lower ranking person will be in "operational command" of people who are technically higher in rank. This is the distinction between a [[w:staff officer|staff officer]] and a [[w:line officer|line officer]]. Line officers are those officers in general military specialties, and are eligible to command ships and other units. Staff officers, however, are only permitted to command units within their specialty (like medical personnel). Aboard ships, the senior line officer is in command, no matter the rank of any embarked staff officer. While the line officer will treat the staff officer with all courtesy and respect of the higher rank, the line officer is not obligated to follow any orders of the staff officer not within the staff order's specialty. This is how a doctor (staff position) may remove a line officer who is not fit for duty from command, but may not assume command unless ''all'' line officers are incapacitated.
* Adama and Tigh served on a merchant freighter together after leaving the military; Adama was responsible for bringing Tigh back into the military when he reentered.
* This episode marks the first (known) attempt at networking ''Galactica'''s computer systems, at least under William Adama's command.
* Tigh's distrust of Baltar seems evident in this episode, particularly in the reply he made to [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] regarding the trust he had in the Lieutenant's programming abilities over Baltar's.
* Tigh's wife has taken residence in Tigh's quarters.
* Starbuck seems to incorrectly assume that there is a "real" Sharon Valerii and that the Valerii on Caprica is just a copy of her.
* This episode introduces the first combat depiction of the Cylon [[Heavy Raider]], previously seen during "[[Colonial Day]]".
* This episode shows the first change in the intro sequence, including subtitles, a lack of the "episode clip" sequence, and the use of the theme music previously used only in the UK showings of the first season.
*[[Kerry Norton]] (paramedic [[Layne Ishay]]) is the wife of [[Jamie Bamber]] (Lee "Apollo" Adama)

== Analysis ==
[[Image:Firewallbreech.jpg|left|thumb|Gaeta's firewall under attack, but not (yet) breached.]]
[[Image:Virus Scattered.JPG|right|thumb|The virus breaches Gaeta's last firewall on the display in the upper-left corner.]]
*As Gaeta leans away from the status display to the floor to yank out the cable networking the computers (while he's not looking), the display does show that the last firewall is breached (probably why the Cylons were able to infiltrate a few but not all of ''Galactica's'' computers). Once he unplugs the network, the firewall status disappears from the screen. When he sits up and looks at the screen, it only says that the fleet position is plotted and that the network is offline.
 
*In this episode, the viewers discover that [[Aaron Kelly|Captain Aaron Kelly]] is third-in-command, but haven't really seen that much of him since the [[Miniseries]] (although he is doing his job as [[Landing Signal Officer]] in "[[Final Cut]]"), which makes this seem contrived. However, in the Miniseries, Kelly gives Tyrol an order to aid the stricken port flight pod rescue after Tigh hesitates to give an order (himself following Adama's command to tend to the matter). Giving such an order with the second-in-command standing there is something only a third-in-command would have the guts or authorization to do. Tigh did countermand him moments later to order the venting of the pod, but did not suggest he was out-of-line for stepping in. This strongly suggests that Kelly already was third-in-command, either at the time of decommissioning or as a direct result of casualties taken in the attack. Additionally, "[[Final Cut]]" seems to establish that as [[Landing Signal Officer|LSO]], he just spends most or all of his duty time in the flight pod, and thus wouldn't normally be seen in CIC. Given that a battlestar's initial defense involves the reliability of Viper launches, Kelly's rank and duties could be considered just as important as the command staff needed to initiate the launch orders.
**From [[Ron Moore]]'s blog on [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/ July 27th, 2006]:
::"The appearance/disappearance of Captain Kelly has more to do with the budgeting process on the show than any creative issue. We only have so much money to spend each week and it's not worth it to pay to bring in Kelly (or any other recognizable guest-star for that matter) unless he's integral to the plot. So, we ask you to take the leap with us and assume that characters like Kelly and Kat and Hotdog and so on, are still aboard ship and doing their jobs even when they're not featured on camera, and therefore are ready to step into action the moment we actually need them for a story."

*The starboard flight pod is significantly damaged in this episode. However, as Ron Moore states in the audio commentary (podcast) for this episode, that this landing pod - originally set up as a museum - is not in active use.
*Computers simply being networked is not a sufficient condition to allow foreign interference - why would any of the systems [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] links be connected to [[wireless]] channels? Is the infiltration that he detects originating from within ''[[Galactica]]''?
**As with any other Colonial ship, ''Galactica'' receives data all the time from exterior sources. In addition to its mainframe computer, ''Galactica'' primary computers include the FTL, Navigation, Damage Control, and Fire Control systems. The mainframe ostensibly handles wireless communications (Note [[Sharon Valerii|Caprica-Valerii]]'s request for access to the mainframe with its communications channels in "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]"). The mainframe probably ''did'' come under attack by the Cylon virus but was able to avoid infection because a Colonial mainframe may have been what the Colonials believed would be the central lynchpin in stopping any Cylon computer cracking.
**While the Colonial Fleet became lax in their computer defenses years after the [[Cylon War]], they probably believed that a networked computer system would be acceptable provided that their battlestar's mainframe computer or a robust avionics package and programming would be able to block or stop any electronic incursion. That fact might have been true -- were it not for the [[Command Navigation Program]], which gave the Cylons a backdoor to any Colonial flight computer system. Instead of ramming the main door (mainframe) down, the Cylons used the "window", entering through a lesser computer (or opening a hole in their network) to achieve the same effect. The CNP helped to bypass the defenses of the mainframe, where normal communications were probably screened and electronic attacks thwarted, to enter through another system.
**''Galactica's'' computers may have never been networked in her history before this episode. Her computers may also not be as robust as her sister battlestars. But her computers were designed to be networked or run separately since Gaeta was able to set up a network at all. It was very likely that the mainframe was part of Gaeta's ad hoc network since the other computers would not be able to gather any data from the mainframe's wireless communications. Once the connections were made, the other computers (all of which probably had less resistance or defenses to Cylon viruses) were likely more susceptible to infection than the mainframe as these computers could now "hear" the same things that the mainframe heard normally in its business (such as Cylon electronic attack sequences), but was far more able to thwart. The lesser computers became infected quickly. After a time, even the mainframe in whole or in part would be infected since the Cylon virus is remarkably adaptable and polymorphic, even turning later into a [[Logic bomb]] after learning and probing ''Galactica's'' hardware (in "[[Flight of the Phoenix]]").
**See also [http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/article.php?Article=2385 Galactica Techblog #4] by science adviser [[Kevin Grazier]].

== Questions ==

* Does Tigh recall that [[Gaius Baltar]] first tested his [[Cylon detector]] on Valerii? Or did he know in the first place? ([[Resistance (episode)|Answer]])
* Regarding the firewall status display: What is not to say that the Cylons programmed the display, or more accurately the GUI interface for it, to show a false reading on their intrusion progress? (see [[#Analysis|Analysis]] for a related topic)
* Just how many aboard ''Galactica'' agree with Adama's decision to jail Roslin? ([[Home, Part I|Answer]])
* Is [[LSO]] Captain Kelly normally third in the chain of command on ''Galactica'', or would a CAG outrank him if on board the ship?
* Why do the members of ''Galactica'''s crew immediately jump to the conclusion that Lieutenant Valerii must be a Cylon? Why do they not consider the possibility that she acted in support of President Roslin or in collusion with one of the many dissident factions within the fleet, or that she is suffering from mental illness? The suspicious nature of her recent cheek wound would make this last concern particularly plausible.

== Official Statements ==

=== From [http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/ RDM's blog] ===

* 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 the [[Podcast:Scattered|podcast]] ===

* ''Regarding the bar room scenes (i.e. how [[Saul Tigh]] and [[William Adama]] met) that were filmed, but weren't fully utilized:''
*: "We were going to open this show, with just that scene, to show how the two men met. And then come into this scene we're watching now, where Tigh takes command of ''Galactica'', and Adama's been shot, and there's all this chaos. And the episode was going to continue to sort of flashback onto their relationship. On the early days of Tigh and Adama. [...] And we shot those sequences. And edited it together, and we looked at them, but ultimately we didn't like them. We just didn't feel -- they weren't quite the show. [...] You can't really put your finger on any particular person, except maybe me, because it is my concept. [...] I don't know if I created, or had the writers of this episode, [[Bradley Thompson]] and [[David Weddle]], I don't know if I really gave them a rich enough environment to tell that backstory. "
* ''On splitting the original "Scattered" into "Scattered" and "[[Valley of Darkness]]":''
*: "We've always struggled with the length of our scripts, the length of our episodes. If you look at it, there's only 40 minutes and change of actual program content. And our scripts tend to run, in the early drafts, in the 50s or low 50s. [...] 60 page scripts are not unheard of. An ideal page script for us, going into shooting, is usually around 46-47 pages. Sometimes we make that, sometimes we don't. [...] And I think we did on 'Scattered', I think in the final draft it was around 47-48 pages. The shows are still too huge. They're still too long. The style of storytelling -- I might have talked about this before -- just requires spending more time on character, creating moments, really, sort of, taking your time as you go through the show. [...] So we essentially divided it into two and created another action storyline for part two."
* ''On the scene in which Tigh is about to commit suicide:''
*:"The great thing here is this is- there's a definite homage quality in this to ''[[w:Apocalypse Now|Apocalypse Now]]'' which is one of our- a brilliant film. One of our all-time favorites and we certainly wanted to pay respect to that in certain ways with this scene. But it's not the same scene. They don't put him in the shower and sober him up. It's- he just goes off and pulls himself together. Which, for our story, is more effective. There was something great about him getting ready to light his own medals on fire with the lighter fluid and I wanted to convey this idea that he might- the whole place might go up but we didn't q- we weren't able to quite convey that."

=== Interviews===

* ''[[Jamie Bamber]] talks about the challenge of filming the episode's opening act:''

: So far this season I've been given great stuff to do, and [[Lee Adama|as my character]] I've been very careful not to apologize for the decision he made in ''[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Kobol's Last Gleaming]]''. It's the one thing that Lee can claim as his own act and he's not about to second guess himself. [[Michael Rymer]] [who directed ''Kobol's Last Gleaming'' and ''Scattered''] and I got together early on and decided that would be the case. We could have taken Lee down either path. He could have felt massive guilt in the way in which his father is gunned down seconds after betraying him, and then not having the chance to put that right. It would have been easy to go back and question what he did, but I think the character is far more interesting and stronger for not doing that. Lee is standing on his own two feet and moving forward, which he has to do. <ref name="starburst_71_19-20">Steven Eramo, "Jamie Bamber: A Man for all Seasons". Starburst, Special 71: [http://bsgmedia.org/gallery/albums/StarburstScans/BSGscan11.jpg 19]-[http://bsgmedia.org/gallery/albums/StarburstScans/BSGscan12.jpg 20]</ref>

* ''In issue #348 of ''Starlog'' magazine, p.33, Nicki Clyne (Cally) said:''

:"Cally is supposed to provide the Chief firecover by shooting at the Cylons. I focused on doing it right, because the weapons experts showed me how to aim and fire the guns, but the director said "No, you're shooting those weapons ''too'' well. Remember, Cally hasn't fired a weapon since basic training!" But I figured, "Hey, if ''I'' can learn to shoot a gun that quickly, then Cally certainly can". That was my defense!"

* "We shot a scene where I’m in the brig, and [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] is trying to get in my face, and I’m all, 'Just shoot me now, you pussy.' It was great." -- [[Grace Park]], <ref>http://scifi.about.com/od/bgsonscifi/a/parkinter2_2.htm</ref>

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

* ''In ''Galactica's'' sickbay:''
*:Colonel Tigh: (to Commander Adama) You never should have brought me back into the service. If you had just let me be, I'd have died back there on Caprica along with everyone else, and been happier for it. I don't want a command. I never did. Don't you dare die on me now.

* ''During a flashback sequence:''
*:Saul Tigh: So, how'd you do it? How'd you get off this [[frak]]king freighter?
*:William Adama: Connections. [[Anne Adama|Anne's]] father has a friend in the Defense Committee.
*:Saul Tigh: So the new wife comes through. I wish I had in-laws with pull.
*:William Adama: Give me a couple years. I'll have some pull. You watch me. I'll have my own battlestar someday.

* ''In ''Galactica's'' brig:''
*:President Laura Roslin: (to Tigh) Colonel, once we find the fleet, I'd like to have a word with you.
*:Colonel Tigh: There's nothing to talk about. You went up against [[William Adama | the old man]] and you lost.

* ''Tigh's pep talk to the [[CIC]] crew:''
*: '''Tigh''': This is his command. His orders are still the word of the Gods on board this ship. Just so we're clear. This will be Adama's command until the day he dies. And we are not going to let him die. So say we all.

* ''On Caprica Valerii being "right":''
*: '''Starbuck''': She's right, huh? Sharon the Cylon is right. Let's all just listen to Sharon the Cylon. Do whatever she says. Because that's a good idea.
*: '''Helo''': Hey, Kara, she helped me get this far.
*: '''Starbuck''': OK. I get it. I get it, Helo. You and I go way back, so I get it. All right? I remember how you felt about her, but she is not the real Sharon. That is some cheap, knock-off copy.

* ''After Starbuck shoots at Caprica Valerii:''
*: '''Helo''': I'm not going to let you kill her. She's carrying my child.
*: '''Starbuck''': My Gods, men are so painfully stupid sometimes! How do you know that?
*: '''Helo''': I know, all right? She's not lying.
*: '''Starbuck''': They lie about ''everything'', Helo. Their entire existence is a ''lie''. They're not human, Helo, they're machines. You can't have a baby with a ''machine''.
*: '''Helo''': I don't know what to tell you, OK? But I believe her. It's hard to describe, we've been together for a long time. I mean, I know what she is, but she's not like the others! Look at me, she is not.

* ''Lee Adama gives his word to Tigh regarding his parole:''
*: '''Adama''': All right, you have my parole. When I'm on duty, I will make no attempt to free her or sow insurrection among the crew. When I'm not on duty, I'll report back to this cell.
*: '''Tigh''': (matter-of-factly) Pre-flight brief is underway in the ready room.
*: '''Adama''': Right.

*{{audio|BitchTookMyRide.mp3|''Starbuck, upon the realization that Caprica Valerii has just stolen her Cylon Raider:''}}
*: '''Starbuck''': Bitch took my ride...

== Guest stars ==
*[[Michael Hogan]] as Colonel [[Saul Tigh]]
*[[Aaron Douglas]] as Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]
*[[Tahmoh Penikett]] as Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]]
*[[Paul Campbell]] as [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Nicki Clyne]] as Specialist [[Cally Tyrol|Cally Henderson]]
*[[Alessandro Juliani]] as Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]]
*[[Kandyse McClure]] as Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]]
*[[Samuel Witwer]] as [[Crashdown]]
*[[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
*[[Alonso Oyarzun]] as Specialist [[Socinus]]
*[[Kerry Norton]] as Paramedic [[Layne Ishay]]
*[[Kurt Evans]] as Paramedic [[Howard Kim]]
*[[Chris Shields]] as Corporal [[Venner]]
*[[Luciana Carro]] as Lt. [[Louanne Katraine|Louanne "Kat" Katraine]]
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as Lt. [[Brendan Costanza|Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza]]
*[[Jennifer Halley]] as [[Diana Seelix]]
*[[Warren Christie]] as [[Tarn]]
*[[Ty Olsson]] as Captain [[Aaron Kelly]]
*[[Nicholas Treeshin]] as Sergeant [[Watkins]]
*[[Michael Tayles]] as [[Flyboy]]
*[[Leah Cairns]] as Lt. [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]
*[[Aleks Paunovic]] as Sergeant [[Omar Fischer]]

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