Sacrifice

"Sacrifice" An episode of the Re-imagined Series
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Overview

The Cloud 9's lounge is under attack by terrorists who are convinced that Sharon Valerii is playing the military. The leader of this quartet, Sesha Abinell, demands that the invaluable Valerii be brought to her -- otherwise Ellen Tigh, Anastasia Dualla, Lee Adama, Billy Keikeya and others will be executed.

Summary

• Lee Adama, Ellen Tigh and Anastasia Dualla find themselves in a hostage situation aboard Cloud 9.

• Three men and a woman named Sesha Abinell take them hostage. Sesha's husband was killed aboard the Greenleaf when the Cylons attacked it ten weeks ago, and she decides to exact vengeance.

• Sesha demands that Admiral Adama and President Roslin turn over Cylon Sharon Valerii to her, seeking Valerii's life in compensation for her husband's.

• Marines, with the help of Kara Thrace, make an incursion to try and regain control of the situation by force, but it does not go well. Two are killed, along with one of the hostage-takers. Lee is wounded badly, and the event only exacerbates the already tense situation.

• Sesha is infuriated that Adama and Roslin continue to allow one of their greatest enemies to live in their midst, even caged. She believes that Sharon is compromising the security of the fleet, and that the Cylon holocaust was due to similar Cylon infiltration of the military.

• The situation prompts Adama to once again consider the value of Sharon Valerii to him. Speaking with Valerii, she reminds Adama that she saved the fleet five or six times. Adama asks if she would reveal the identities of other Cylon agents in the Fleet. She refuses.

• Admiral Adama agrees to give the terrorists the dead body of Sharon Valerii in return for the hostages. However, he secretly delivers the dead copy of Valerii known as Boomer. By the time the terrorists realize the ploy, they fall under attack by Marines. In the chaos, Billy Keikeya joins in the assault, protecting Anastasia Dualla and the injured Lee Adama. However, he is quickly shot to death.

• As Dualla stays with Lee Adama in the infirmary, promising to stay with him until he recovers, Laura Roslin grieves the death of Keikeya, who had become "the closest thing [she] had to family".

Questions

• Who leaked out the information that Valerii was on Galactica?
  • Now that this information has been confirmed, thanks to the actions of Abinell and her conspirators, what kind of blacklash should Roslin and Adama expect to face?
• Are members of Demand Peace still on Galactica? Are they part of Admiral Adama's crew?
  • Was Demand Peace even involved in this attempt? Could Sesha Abinell acted alone, recruiting people that were related or knew Sesha's husband?
• Who will become Roslin's new assistant? Was there a replacement groomed for the position at all previous to the events in this episode?
• What will happen to Billy's cadaver? Will he be buried in space or stored in the morgue?
• Where did Abinell and her people get the weapons? Were they purchased from the Black Market?
• Now that Lee Adama's been shot, will it only worsen his depression?
• What was Ellen Tigh playing at? (She practically gives away Thrace's cover and announces that she is the wife of Galactica's XO.) What was the purpose? Was there one at all, or was Ellen Tigh just being an idiot again?
  • Based on her demeanor, it would be safe to say that she was looking out for her interests, knowing that her position (being the colonel's wife) would keep her relatively safe.
• Is the relationship between Apollo and Dee against military protocol in the same way that Tyrol and Valerii's relationship was, or have the rules on colonial officers dating now been relaxed ?
  • All of the rules seem more loosely-enforced than before the attack—contrast Starbuck's imprisonment in the Miniseries with the complete lack of consequences when Starbuck and Apollo trade blows in Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I, or when Kat hits Starbuck in Scar.

Analysis

• Sesha Abinell's husband, Ray was killed during a Cylon attack ten weeks prior to this episode. The only change in the survivor count which remains unaccounted for was between "Home, Part II" and "Final Cut". The attack which killed Ray may have been the "Cylon contact" which Saul Tigh alluded to in "Final Cut" as having taken place ten days prior to that episode.
• The final scene recalls that of Resurrection Ship Part II, except that Starbuck and Dee's roles are reversed.

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Guest Stars

• Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh
• Unknown as Chu
• Unknown as Vinson
• Unknown as Page
• Michael Ryan as Ray Abinell
• Adrien Hughes as Lt. Terry Burrell
• Erica Carroll as Civilian
• James Upton as Environmental Specialist
• Georgia Hacche as Petty Officer Sion

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