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

• Billy Keikeya proposes to Anastasia Dualla, who flatly refuses. Later on, Dualla and Lee Adama discuss the incident while on leave aboard Cloud 9, at one of the ship's drinking and dining establishments.

• Billy, also aboard Cloud 9, finds Dualla there, but an awkward moment arises when he discovers that she is with Lee. Lee leaves the two to talk, going to sit at the bar, where he encounters Ellen Tigh. Ellen begins to flirt with Lee.

• Three men and a woman named Sesha Abinell lay siege to the establishment, taking the guests hostage, and sealing the area off from the rest of the ship. Sesha's husband was killed aboard the Greenleaf when the Cylons attacked it ten weeks ago, and she decides to exact vengeance.

• Before the terrorists lay siege, Lee asks Ellen to come with him into the restroom. Ellen follows, thinking that Lee has invited her for a sexual tryst, but Lee instead had predicted the situation. As a gambit to confuse the terrorists, Lee takes Ellen's drink, which has dry ice in it, and uses it to sabotage one of the oxygen sensors. In the meantime, Ellen leaves the restroom and loudly announces herself to the terrorists.

Sesha Abinell.

• 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. She 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.

• Sesha sends one of her men into the restroom to find anyone else they haven't rounded up. Lee gets the drop on him and takes his gun, taking him out, threatening to kill him if the hostages are not released. Sesha threatens to kill Dualla if Lee refuses to surrender. Lee drops the empty threat and surrenders.

• Lee's small-scale sabotage works, and the terrorists demand repairs to be made to the ship's oxygen systems.

• Kara Thrace, along with a detachment of marines, are also on leave aboard Cloud 9. They quickly plan a recon mission — Kara disguises herself as the technician sent to repair the air system. Her job is to reconnoiter the situation and return with details.

• Kara's cover is blown when Ellen recognizes her as one of Galactica's pilots. Kara draws two pistols and begins shooting at the terrorists, aided by the marines, who enter to assist. Two Marines are killed, along with one of the hostage-takers. In addition, Kara accidentally shoots Lee. Kara and the surviving marines retreat, and the situation is only exacerbated.

• The situation prompts Adama to once again consider the value of Sharon Valerii to him. Speaking with Valerii, Adama is reminded 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. When the terrorists realize the ploy, Sesha orders the terrorist Vinson to kill Anastasia Dualla. Billy Keikeya seizes one of the terrorists' guns and kills Vinson, but is mortally wounded by Vinson's return fire as Marines storm the lounge. Sesha is killed by Marines and her body slumps atop Boomer's in a distinctly ironic moment.

• In the aftermath, 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?
  • Given that Caprica-Sharon has been taken to the middle of CIC, to Adama's quarters, to Sickbay, and transfered through open hallways, it could have been just any random crewmen by this point.
  • Now that this information has been confirmed, thanks to the actions of Abinell and her conspirators, what kind of backlash should Roslin and Adama expect to face?
  • Was it D'Anna Biers, who filmed Caprica-Boomer in the infirmary during her story on Galactica?
  • Was Gina ever made aware that Galactica had its own Cylon prisoner?
  • Have Gina and Biers been collaborating?
• Why would Adama repeatedly have Boomer brought to his quarters for interrogation/discussion, and risk her imprisonment becoming known throughout the fleet, instead of keeping her presence secret by going to her cell himself?
• Who will become Roslin's new assistant? Was there a replacement groomed for the position at all previous to the events in this episode?
  • During early episodes of season 1, nameless aides with no dialog can be seen trailing Roslin and Billy. In the DVD commentary for these episodes, RDM and Eick explain how they gradually just stopped using an entourage of aides with Roslin, and mulled over the idea of eventually working them back into the show. Perhaps this could be used to compensate for Billy's removal.
• 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.
    • Just how far does the non-association protocol even extend anymore? In "Litmus", Tyrol was willing to lie under oath (and all of his deckhands were willing to lie under oath) rather than let Tyrol face the punishment associated with continuing his relationship. Apollo and Dualla are in the same position as Boomer and Tyrol; one is an officer having a relationship with an enlisted crewman. Sharon was a low ranking officer having a relationship with the highest-ranking enlisted crewman; Apollo and Dualla have an even greater gap between them, as Apollo is among the highest-ranking officers on Galactica, and Dualla is a lower-ranking enlisted creman than Tyrol was.
    • What is the exact nature of the non-association protocol? Is it against officers having relatinoships with enlisted crewmen, or even enlisted crewmen having relationships with other enlisted crewmen? (i.e. preventing Tyrol and Cally from having a relationship).

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 I" and "Home, Part II", however, those episodes must have taken place well before Ray Abinell's death ten weeks prior to this episode. Other possibilities include Ray's death during the Battle of the Resurrection Ship, although Greenleaf would have been far from the sight of combat; or his death being offset by a birth in between episodes.
• 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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Galactica 1980 definition:  Dillon is called both a terrorist and a chauvinist by Jamie Hamilton during their phone call from the police station; he asks Troy "what's a terrorist chauvinist?" (1980: "Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I")

These are terms directly relating to Galactica 1980, some of which are based from the Original Series. For terms from that series, please refer to List of terms (TOS).

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