Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II
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Plot Summmary
Part Two
Willy arrives home, rushing home to tell his dad he's found a pair of spaceships. His dad is skeptical but is eventually persuaded to have a look. When Willy's father sees the Vipers, he calls the police.
Meanwhile, Jamie has reached the UBC television studios, where her interview is going poorly. During the interview, she is interrupted to take a phone call from Dillon. Realizing that the pair are now in trouble with the law, Jamie refuses to talk and hangs up on him. Then, Dr. Mortinson calls Jamie, having determined she was the somehow connected with Troy and Dillon. Overhearing part of this conversation, Mr. Brooks, the UBC station manager, offers Jamie a reporting job if she can wangle an interview with Mortinson, a Nobel laureate who rarely does interviews. Jamie accepts and offers to meet Dr Mortinson.
Shadowed by a UBC camera crew in a van, Jamie goes to meet Mortinson as planned, and Troy and Dillon manage to catch up to her on the way. When Mortinson arrives, he is pleased to meet the Colonials, but also recognizes that Jamie is attempting to capture him on film. Troy suggests they leave, and the four get into the doctor's car. As the UBC van sets off after them, Dillon gets quickly frustrated with Mortinson's attempts to lose their pursuers, and grabs the wheel himself. Of course, Dillon has never driven an automobile before, and a crazy car chase ensues, resulting in Dillon plowing the car into a shopfront. The four are without injury however, and Troy Dillon and Jamie manage to escape by use of the invisibility screen.
Adama contacts the two warriors and instructs them to return to the Galactica immediately. As they make it back to their vipers, Jamie refuses to leave them alone, so they end up bringing her with them to the Galactica. The Vipers streak thorugh the night sky just in time to be seen by Willy, his Dad and the police - but the police discount them as shooting stars.
Arriving at the Galactica, an amazed Jamie accompanies Troy and Dillon to the briefiing with Adama. While the two were away on Earth, Xaviar has been arguing with Adama over the merits of introducing technological advancements to Earth in 1980, and has decided to take matters into his own hands. Xavier has stolen Dr. Zee's time machine, to travel to Earth's past and by altering history speed up the technological development of the planet. Doctor Zee ulitmately determines that Xavier has gone back to Germany during World War II to introduce Galactican technology to the Nazis.
Troy, Dillon and Jamie launch for Earth and using Doctor Zee's space warp travel backwards in time. The process alters the fabric of their clothes, leaving their uniforms white in color. Arriving in the skies over 1944 Germany, thee Colonials avoid the pursuing Luftwaffe, and Troy and Dillon land the Vipers in a field. As they are contemplating their next action, they trio see a B-17 sail into view, under heavy flak. The plane is downed by anti-aircraft fire, but a lone parachutist makes it down. The parachutist is Major Stockwell, who is in Germany to try and sabotage the new V-2 rocket which is being tested at a nearby rocket base.
On their way to the rocket base, Troy, Dillon, Stockwell, and Jamie observer a transport of Jews about to be shipped to Auschwitz. They manage to free a single young girl, and take her with them as they head to a home owned by one of Stockwell's contacts. Suddenly, the SS arrives to raid the house, but again the invisibility cloak does the trick and the time travellers and Stockwell are able to avoid capture. Promising to help those who were taken by the SS later, Troy determines that they need first to find Xavier.
Xavier is indeed at the rocket base, posing as a British rocket scientist with Nazi sympathies, and is overseeing the testing of an augmented V-2 - equipped with a Galactican pulse jet. Dressed as German soldiers, Troy Dillon Stockwell and Jamie infilitrate the base in time to see the V-2 sitting on the pad, awaiting the test that could give the Nazis the upper hand in World War Two, altering Earth history.