Exodus, Part II

"Exodus, Part II" An episode of the Re-imagined Series
Episode No.	Season 3, Episode 4
Writer(s)	Bradley Thompson David Weddle
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Director	Félix Enríquez Alcalá
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Special guest(s)	Lucy Lawless as Number Three
Production No.	304
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US airdate	2006-10-20
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Overview

Lee wrestles with his order to protect the civilian fleet as Adama launches his rescue mission. Meanwhile, on New Caprica, Colonel Tigh confronts Ellen's betrayal.

Summary

• On Pegasus Lee Adama and Dualla have a conversation. Lee thinks that his father won't return from New Caprica and that the entire mission will fail. He also worries about his future responsibilities as the leader of the rest of mankind, but his wife tells him to not give up hope.
• On New Caprica Samuel Anders confronts Saul Tigh about his wife Ellen's betrayal and tells him that either Tigh "takes care" of Ellen, or someone else less sympathetic will.
• Ellen tells her husband what she did to free him and explains that she would do absolutely anything to save Saul, including betraying the resistance. Tigh consoles her and provides her a drink when she asks. She falls unconscious, her drink having been poisoned by her husband. He says that he loves her, rests his head on her corpse, and weeps.
• On Colonial One Gaius Baltar tells the Cylons that they have failed in their experiment and suggests the Cylons simply leave. A Three voices the concern that one day the descendants of mankind might excact vengeance upon the Cylons, should they be left to their own devices.
• Suddenly, dozens of explosions can be felt and seen. The Battle of New Caprica has begun.
• Tory Foster commands a team of section leaders in the evacuation and orders Maya to head for her ship with Hera.
• Anders and a large group of resistance fighters retrieve weapons from beneath the Pyramid court.
• In space above New Caprica, Galactica has deployed a squadron of Raptors and Vipers. The Raptors launch decoy drones to mimic the EM signature of Colonial battlestars. The Cylons pick them up and fall for the ruse. The Cylons move two basestars with their Raiders away from the planet.
• When Leoben leaves the home he keeps Kara Thrace in, she assaults him and tries to escape, but he knocks her out.
• Tom Zarek tasks Jammer to protect Laura Roslin as she makes her way to Colonial One.
• At the entrance to the shipyard, where the Cylons keep the grounded Colonial vessels, a team under Tigh and Galen Tyrol are pinned down by Cylon Centurions.
• The Cylons detect the decoy drones, but Galactica jumps deep into the planet's atmosphere and launches its remaining Vipers. Before falling to the ground, the ship jumps back into space. The Vipers begin to attack targets on the ground and clear the way.
• Another team led by Anders liberates the prisoners from the Cylon Detention Center. He finds his unconscious wife and carries her away, but when Kara comes to, she goes back to retrieve Kacey.
• The battle is turning against Galactica. Her FTL drives are down and there is heavy structural damage from the atmospheric entry. Four Cylon basestars are closing in and the battlestar is soon bombarded from all sides with no hope of survival. At that moment Pegasus joins the battle, Lee Adama having disobeyed his father's orders. He opens fire with the forward batteries and destroys one basestar in the opening salvo.
• The Cylons realize that they have lost and decide to evacuate the planet. D'anna Biers volunteers to stay behind and set off a nuclear weapon. She offers Baltar a place with the Cylons.
• The Colonial ships are leaving New Caprica by jumping from within the atmosphere as soon as they become airborne. Pegasus is getting heavily beaten, having left all of her Vipers back with the rest of the civilian Fleet. Admiral Adama realizes that his son planned a one-way mission and orders to retrieve his own fighters.
• On Colonial One Felix Gaeta points a gun at Baltar and accuses him of having betrayed everyone. Gaeta says that while he had been an idealist who believed in New Caprica, Baltar only thought about himself. Baltar admits to be an egotist and asks Gaeta to shoot him. Gaeta relents and give Baltar a final chance to redeem himself: stop Biers from setting off the nuke.
• With Pegasus dying, Lee Adama orders everyone to abandon the ship in evacuation Raptors he had standing by. He sets the ship on a collision course with a basestar, destroying it. The remains of Pegasus scatter, the port flightpod colliding and causing the destruction of another basestar.
• Kara Thrace retrieves Kacey, but Leoben has returned and confronts her. She appears to give in to his demands, saying "I love you," and kissing him. Then she stabs him and picks up Kacey.
• Biers searches Dodona Selloi's tent, but the oracle has left. Outside, Caprica-Six and Baltar hear a baby crying and track the sound to a group of corpses, one of whom is Maya. However, Hera is still alive. Biers sees them and Baltar gives her the child. She leaves, apparently no longer intending to detonate the nuke. Caprica-Six and Baltar also leave the planet.
• Laura Roslin and a group of resistance fighters enter the now abandoned Colonial One and are the last ship to leave the planet.
• On Galactica many people are reunited. Among them William and Lee Adama, Admiral Adama and Tigh, Helo and Sharon, and Tyrol and Kara. When Kara shows Tyrol Kacey another woman walks by and recognizes the girl as her daughter, whom the Cylons had taken away. She thanks Thrace for rescuing her. Kara is shocked by the relevation that Kacey is not her daughter after all, but gives her up.
• Admiral Adama welcomes Tigh back aboard, and tells him he brought everyone back. Tigh quietly replies, "Not everyone." The colonists in the Galactica hangar deck begin chanting "A-dam-a, A-dam-a..." and carry the Admiral on their shoulders. Adama turns to see Tigh wandering off, numbed with grief.
• Tory Foster tells Roslin that neither Maya and Hera can be found, and it seems like they did not make it off the planet. Foster apologizes, but Roslin muses that this was part of something bigger than them.
• Admiral Adama shaves off his mustache and returns to a fully staffed CIC.

Questions

• With Baltar seemingly missing at the conclusion of the episode, will his Vice President, Tom Zarek, become President? Or will...somehow...Roslin become President?
  • Tom Zarek resigned in protest after Baltar's surrender. It is possible that Roslin has the legal authority to resume the Presidency. On what legal basis this can be done remains to be seen. A previously secret Quorum vote may be the most likely means of investing her with the office.
    • Tom Zarek never said he resigned, just that he told Baltar he "wouldn't have any part in collaborating with the Cylons, and he (Baltar) got a little pissed." Also, Roslin addresses him as "Mr. Vice President." (Precipice)
• How many humans died on New Caprica during the occupation and escape? Will it be in the thousands?
  • There were around 39,000 civilians and "civilian-ized" military, like Saul Tigh, trying to get off New Caprica.
• With Pegasus destroyed, will Tyrol's fighter construction continue?
  • Since Galactica now has Pegasus' Viper and Raptor compliment in addition to its own, will the starboard flight pod now be pressed back into service?
    • With the former crew of the Pegasus onboard Galactica now, the ship has something close to (if not equal to or more than) its standard crew size. In any case, military operations should be much smoother and repairs to the ship in general are that much more feasible.
    • They'll still need to replace lost ships, even with the addition of those from Pegasus.
• What will become of Lee Adama? CAG of Galactica?
  • As Lee Adama outranks Colonel Tigh, XO of Galactica is an equally likely position. Likewise, as no such officer has been shown to date, the younger Adama might be officially assigned as the CO of the combined Galactica/Pegasus Marine contingent.
• Will Tigh become a disagreeable drunk, as he was before Ellen Tigh first boarded Galactica?
• What was left behind:
  • In order to build New Caprica City, the ships were at least partially stripped and supplies were offloaded. What remains on board them?
  • Are there any people alive remaining on New Caprica after the liberation, either willingly or due to wounds?
  • Since people brought food and medicine to New Caprica before the occupation, will there be shortages in the fleet?
    • Very likely. Food and medicine shortages will play a role in future episodes.
• If the civilian ships only needed to get a few hundred feet off the ground in order to use their FTL drives and escape, do Galatica and Pegasus need to engage the basestars? Is this just to keep the raiders, heavy raiders, and missiles from being used on the civilian fleet, on the surface below? (Note: it is not in dispute that having Galactica launch its fighters within the atmosphere is important so they could attack the centurions and few raiders there.)
• Will Gaeta be the target of persecution or assassination as a collaborator? Or will people believe in him when he is found out to be the secret informant?
• Why wasn't the DRADIS on Galactica or Pegasus affected by the nebula this time? At the end of "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II", the displays on both battlestars were riddled with static.

Notes

• There is also a TOS comic named Exodus!
• Both parts of "Exodus" were originally planned as one episode. However, it was quickly realized that the story was far too large for one episode and it was split in two. This happened before with "Scattered" and "Valley of Darkness" and "Resurrection Ship". It also helped save money because the construction of New Caprica, the extensive location shooting, the number of actors, as well as the special effects for "Exodus, Part II" were very expensive and the production was over budget.

Noteworthy Dialogue

• Discussing the failure of the mass execution:

Number Three: What would you have us do, Gaius?

Gaius Baltar: Leave. Pack up your centurions, and go. Please. Go.

Number Three: And then what? What would you do if we really just left you here? You'd live out your lives in peace and never trouble yourselves with thoughts of us again? Or would you raise your children with stories of the Cylon, the mechanic slaves who once did your bidding, only to turn against you? Killers who committed genocide against your race, the occupiers of this city until we just ran away? Would you tell them to tell the story to their children, and to their childrens' children, and nurse a dream of vengeance down through the years so that one day they could just go out into the stars and hunt the Cylon once more?

Gaius Baltar: Blood for blood...has to stop one day.

• As the two Adamas reunite after the battle:

Admiral William Adama: I guess you didn't understand my orders.

Commander Lee Adama: I never could read your handwriting.

Guest Stars

• Michael Hogan as Saul Tigh
• Aaron Douglas as Galen Tyrol
• Tahmoh Penikett as Lt. Karl "Helo" Agathon
• Nicki Clyne as Cally Tyrol
• Alessandro Juliani as Felix Gaeta
• Kandyse McClure as Anastasia Dualla
• Michael Trucco as Samuel Anders
• Richard Hatch as Tom Zarek
• Rick Worthy as Simon
• Callum Keith Rennie as Leoben Conoy
• Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh
• Matthew Bennett as Number Five
• Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
• Luciana Carro as Lt. Louanne "Kat" Katraine

Re-imagined Series definition: technology enabling travel across distances faster than the speed of light would permit, see: FTL

Re-imagined Series definition: nerve center or "bridge" of a battlestar, see: Combat Information Center

Original Series definition: the equivalent of saying "objection" in a Colonial Tribunal ^{(TOS: "Murder on the Rising Star")}

Re-imagined Series definition: Executive Officer, e.g. Saul Tigh

Re-imagined Series definition: Commanding Officer; e.g. William Adama