No Exit

"No Exit" An episode of the Re-imagined Series
Episode No.	Season 4, Episode 15
Writer(s)	Ryan Mottesheard
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Director	Gwyneth Horder-Payton
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Production No.	417
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US airdate	February 13, 2009
CAN airdate	February 13, 2009
UK airdate	February 17, 2009
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Overview

Ellen Tigh is resurrected, and she knows all the answers. Anders' condition releases a flood of visions and crucial memories.

Summary

On a Basestar

Set in the past.

Notes

Crew call sheet for "No Exit"

• This episode title (and production information) are derived from a call sheet posted by Wil McQueen.
• No Exit is the title of a 1944 existentialist play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The story references three people who are trapped in Hell, shown as a stately room with chairs and sofas. Each character in the play loathes the other two characters. The play contains the notable line, "Hell is other people!"
• Helen Tigh remarks to Sharon Valerii when she comes to escort Ellen to surgery that she "...should have brought a tumbrel." On earth a thumbrel is a two wheel cart used to carry various loads, particularly on a farm. [1] On Earth during the French Revolution in the 1780's, many condemned prisoners were carried to the guillotine in a tumbrel. Ellen sardonically was referring to this in her remark to Valerii. Depending on the historical relationship of real life events and the Colonies in the show-if any-maybe she was referring directly to the French Revolution or a similar parallel event on Kobol and/or the Thirteen Colonies.

Analysis

• In the preview for "No Exit", it is revealed that Ellen Tigh returns and she knows everything. It has also been seen that it has been 18 months since she died. The Canadian preview also reveals that Sam Anders regains his Cylon memories.

Questions

• Will Anders recover following surgery? Will he retain his memories as a Cylon if he does?
• Will resurrection technology still be salvageable, now that Anders is mostly braindead?
• Will resurrection technology ever be salvaged?
• Will Anders be euthanized?
• How will Ellen react when she discovers that Saul is engaged in a relationship with and has impregnated Caprica-Six?
• Will Ellen's return result in an awkward love triangle between her, Tigh and Caprica Six?
• Will Tory and Tyrol rekindle their old relationship?
• How will Boomer react to the news that Cally is dead?
• How will Boomer react to Caprica Six, since she was killed by her at one point?
• Are the Number Fives also aware of the identity of the Final Five? When were any of the others, other than Boomer, told?
• The introduction to this episode stated that "One [Cylon Model] was sacrificed." Does this refer to Ellen or Daniel?
• Was Number Seven named after Daniel Graystone, creator of the Cylons on the Twelve Colonies?
• Did any active copies of Daniel survive One's wrath? If so, what became of them?
• Assuming they aren't the same as the ones used to infiltrate the Colonies, what names were given to the other Cylon models?
• Will Cavil ever achieve his goal of evolving beyond his primitive humanoid form?
• Will Cavil ever be able to appreciate the gift of free will?
• How will the Cylon Civil War resolve?

Character Development

• In the episode we see Sharon Valerii for the first time since "The Hub". She has been under the tutelage of John Cavil for thee years since at least after the occupation of Caprica. Before that, when she first downloaded after Cally Henderson (the future Cally Tyrol) shot her on Galactica she still thought of herself as a human with a human out look and hated her Cylon being. She wanted and desired love and felt bitterly that she had from her POV, betrayed her friends as she expressed in Downloaded:

Sharon Valerii: What are you thinking? Do you think I care about your god?

Caprica Six: Look, god loves you.

Valerii: This is love. (Re: a picture of the Galactica crew) These people love me. I love them. I didn't pretend to feel something so I could screw people over. I loved them. And then I betrayed them. I shot a man I loved. Frakked over another man, ruined his life. And why? Because I'm a lying machine. I'm a frakking Cylon!

Ten months ago as of this episode and approximately two years after she downloaded back into the Cylon and been under the guidance of John Cavil this was her attitude to love. It occurred in a discussion with Ellen Tigh after Cavil's passionate speech about how she foisted on him the limiting form of a human body:

Valerii: Don't you feel the slightest bit of remorse for what you did to him? What you did to us?

Ellen: No. [turns her head to look at her] Because he's wrong Boomer! There is no need for remorse or blame. We didn't limit you. We gave you something wonderful!! Free will! The ability to think creatively. To reach out to others with compassion. To love.

Valerii: Love? Who? Humans? Why would I want to do that!?! Who would I want to love!?!?

Guest Stars

• Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
• Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh
• John Hodgman as Dr. Gerard