Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III

"Galactica Discovers Earth, Part 3" An episode of the Galactica 1980 series
Episode No.	Season 1, Episode 3
Writer(s)	Glen A. Larson
Story by
Director	Sidney Hayers
Assistant Director
Special guest(s)	Robert Reed (Mortinson) Richard Lynch (Xavier) Pamela Susan Shoop (Dorothy Carlyl) Sharon Acker (Anne) Richard Eastham (General Cushing) Vernon Weddle (1st Cop) David Moses (2nd Cop) Brion James (Biker/Willy) Mickey Jones (Biker/Donzo) Duncan Mackenzie (1st Pilot) Bruce Douglas (2nd Pilot) Eddie Firestone (Derelict) Frank Downing (1st Guard) Don Maxwell (2nd Guard) Fred Holliday (Mr. Brooks)
Production No.	1.3
Nielsen Rating
US airdate	1980-02-10
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DVD release
Population	survivors
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Overview

The Battlestar Galactica and the Colonial fleet reach the planet Earth, but soon realize that the Cylon fleet, long thought to be gone, has trailed them to the fabled planet, and will stop at nothing to extinguish all human life.

Summary

• With time running out, the team splits up. Dillon and Stockwell go to sabotage the rocket, while Troy and Jamie head into the rocket base bunker to confront Xavier.

• Reaching the launch pad Dillon fires on the V-2 just as it takes off with his laser and destroys it.

• Xavier having failed, comes immediately under suspicion by the Nazis, and is declared to be a spy.

• Troy and Jamie, who are still disguised as German soldiers, haul Xavier away.

• With Xavier captured, the Galacticans and Stockwell now turn their attention to making sure the convoy to Auschwitz is stopped.

• Flying through the air on their motorbikes, Troy and Dillon fire on the German guards, while Stockwell releases the Jewish prisoners.

• Jamie, realizing where/when they are in history, explains that the Nazis can't pursue them, since the D-Day landings have begun and the local German units have all been ordered to defend Normandy.

• The time has come to return to 1980, and Stockwell says a sad goodbye to Jamie.

• Just as they are approaching the Vipers, Xavier escapes, activates his invisibility screen, and gets away.

• Returning to 1980, Troy and Dillon land their Vipers in California and proceed to drop off Jamie at a bus station.

• As the Greyhound drives away with Jamie aboard, a sheriff recognizes Troy and Dillon from a wanted poster.

• The sheriff pursues the duo in his squad car, but the Galacticans again escape into the air on their bikes.

• Arriving back at the field where they parked their Vipers, Troy and Dillon discover the ships are being hauled away by the local military and police.

• Troy and Dillon discover this is due to a boy having discovered their Vipers, and go to find young Willy at school.

• Once there, they discover Willy has been getting beat up for his spreading of tall tales about spaceships by a bully named Tucker.

• Troy and Dillon make a deal: if Willy will tell them where the Vipers have been taken, they'll lend him one of their wrist computrons.

• Willy agrees, and uses the computron to go invisible and torment Tucker.

• Having gotten even with the bully, Willy tells the Colonials the location of their ships, and also mentions there was a third Viper, which was the one belonging to Xavier!

• Colonel Boomer comes to see Adama to bring him up to date on the developments, and Adama has all the Colonial missions to Earth recalled until Xaxier can be located.

• Xavier in the meantime has returned to Los Angeles, and after seeing a UBC news broadcast, determines to go to the studio to look for Doctor Mortinson.

• Xavier convinces two LAPD officers to give him a lift to UBC.

• Arriving there, Xavier uses invisibility to lose the officers, who have grown suspicious.

• Xavier identifies himself to Dr Mortinson as one of the visitors from space.

Xavier and Mortinson

• Arriving at Mortinson's beachside home, Xavier goes tries to convince the scientist about the benefits of returning to various time periods in to change Earth's history.

• Troy and Dillon track down Jamie at UBC to loop her in on events.

• Jamie calls Mortinson to warn him about Xavier, but before Mortinson can react, Xavier pulls a gun on him.

• Arriving at UBC, Troy and Dillon meet Jamie, and together they head out to the base where the Vipers are being kept, in hopes of capturing Xavier.

• Jamie lures away one of the sentries and Troy and Dillon are able to sneak in. As they do, Xavier materializes in his own Viper and proceeds to the base's generator to suck up enough power to launch.

• Xavier spots the Colonials and shoots at them, before putting Troy down with a stunner.

• Before Troy can stagger back to his feet, Xavier takes off, leaving Mortinson behind.

• A dozen sentries are now bearing down on them, but Troy and Dillon dispatch them effortlessly with a few laser stun blasts.

• Dillon jumps into his Viper and discovers Jamie already in the back seat.

• Launching their ships, Troy and Dillon pursue Xavier into space, but they open fire too late and Xavier's Viper enters a timewarp.

Troy Jamie and Dillon aboard the Galactica

• Troy, Dillon and Jamie return to the Galactica, and meet with Adama in his quarters.

• Adama reveals that Xavier has gone to 18th century to interfere in the history of pre-Revolutionary America.

• Jamie agrees to help Troy and Dillon with their next mission.

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