Scattered

Overview

Chaos is rampant as paramedics try to save Commander Adama's life after he is shot, and the Galactica is separated from the fleet.

Summary

On the Galactica

After the shooting of Adama, a Cylon basestar ambushes the Colonial fleet, prompting Colonel Tigh to execute an emergency FTL jump procedure for the fleet to rendezvous at another point. When the Galactica jumps, it finds itself stranded from the rest of the fleet, and in the middle of nowhere.
After being shot by Boomer, Adama is rushed to the ship's infirmary. Due to the fact that Doctor Cottle is not onboard the ship, a team of medics must work to stabilize Adama's condition.
Lt. Gaeta devises a plan to find the co-ordinates of where the fleet jumped: he networks all the onboard computers aboard the Galactica, so it will only take 10 minutes to compute where the fleet is. The only problem is that the Galactica will have to jump all the way back to Kobol, and hold off the Cylons until the calculations have finished.
Colonel Tigh goes to see the incarcerated Boomer, who insists she knows nothing about what's going on.
Apollo is given permission to leave the brig on a provisional basis by Colonel Tigh and helps lead the squadron that will attack the basestar.
Once the Galactica has jumped back to Kobol, the Viper's manage to hold off the oncoming waves of Cylon Raiders, although a Cylon troop carrier is shot down and crashes into the Galactica's starboard landing pod.
Gaeta manages to calculate where the fleet is, and successfully jumps to meet with them.
The medics successfully stabilize Adama's condition, although he is still in pretty rough shape.
The crashed Cylon troop carrier seems completely destroyed as it lays on the Galactica's flight deck, but multiple sets of red sensors soon light up from inside, and a group of Cylon soldiers make their way out of the craft.

On Caprica

In the Delphi Museum, Helo and Kara Thrace (Starbuck), after Starbuck attempts to shoot Sharon Valerii, talk about her being pregnant; Helo believes her, while Starbuck refuses to accept the fact.
After Starbuck's attempt to shoot Valerii, she absconds from the Delphi Museum's grounds in the Cylon Raider. (Exclaims Starbuck: "Bitch took my ride.")

On Kobol

On Kobol, the survivors of the Raptor crash head into the forest to avoid being seen by the Cylons.
Because Socinus is dying, Chief Tyrol, Cally, and a crewmember named Tarn go back to the crash site to retrieve a medkit. On their way back, the trio are ambushed by Cylons, and only Tyrol and Cally manage to escape unharmed.

Questions

Does Tigh recall that Gaius Baltar first tested his Cylon detector on Valerii? Or did he know in the first place?
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?
Interesting connundrum: If Kelly is the Galactica's third-in-command, then why haven't we seen (or heard) more from him in the past? It seems to be more or less contrived.
- Note: Captain Kelly is the supervisor on the Galactica's flight deck (which was mentioned in the mini-series). This may explain why the audience hasn't seen him up until this point.
Just how many aboard the Galactica agree with Adama's decision to jail Roslin?
What is the significance of the number "3"? It is prominently shown on a door that a younger William Adama enters (in Colonel Tigh's flashbacks); when Lieutenant Gaeta arranges 3 bars of soap beside each other after washing his hands in the bathroom, and is also shown during the sequence with the firewall (that Lieutenant Gaeta devises to slow down the infiltration of the Galactica's network by Cylon forces), that has 4 levels of encryption, with 3 sub-encryption codes for each barrier.
How much time has passed between the point when the Galactica finally jumps back to rendezvous with the rest of the fleet, and when the Cylons make their way out of the crashed troop carrier? And for that matter, why hasn't anyone gone to clean up the wreckage from the flight deck?
- RDM stated in audio commentary (podcast) for this episode that this landing pod - originally set up as a museum - is not in active use.

Analysis

Notes

Socinus's lungs are filling with fluid.
Captain Kelly is the third in the chain of command, after Tigh.
- Note: 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 we have not seen him before. The sudden incapcity of two superiors has bumped him up the ladder.
Adama and Tigh served on a 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.
Tigh's distrust of Baltar seems evident in this episode, particularly in the reply he made to 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.
The Cylons have unveiled a new craft in this episode: an armed troop carrier.
This episode showed 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.

Bloopers

During the scene on Caprica, Helo exclaims "for God Sake's" instead of the more Colonial "for Gods' Sakes".

Noteworthy Dialogue

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.

(in a flashback)

Saul Tigh: So, how'd you do it? How'd you get off this fracking freighter?

William Adama: Connections. Fran's father has a friend in the Defensive Committee.

Saul Tigh: So the new wife comes through for you. I wish I had in-laws with pull.

William Adama: Give me a couple years, and I'll have some pull. You watch me. I'll have my own Battlestar someday.

Official Statements

"We shot a scene where I’m in the brig, and Tigh is trying to get in my face, and I’m all, 'Just shoot me now, you pussy.' It was great." -- Grace Park, [1]

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 RDM's Sci-Fi Channel Blog

Statistics

Guest Stars

Writing & Direction

Written by David Weddle & Bradley Thompson
Directed by Michael Rymer

Production Notes

Series: 2 (2005 / 2006)
Production Number: 2.01
Airdate Order: 1 (of 20)

First Run Air Dates & Releases

UK Airdate: September 2005
US Airdate: July 15 2005
DVD Release: (UK)

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