Epiphanies (Battlestar Galactica)
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| Battlestar Galactica episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 13 |
| Guest stars | Colm Feore as President Adar |
| Written by | Joel Anderson Thompson |
| Directed by | Rod Hardy |
| Production no. | 213 |
| Original airdate | January 20, 2006 |
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"Epiphanies" is an episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series.
[edit] Plot
Survivor Count: 49,598
Cancer-stricken President Laura Roslin lies near death in the Galactica's sickbay. Elsewhere in space, a dangerous incident with Kat's Viper leads Chief Tyrol to discover sabotage of Viper ammunition by a civilian crewmember named Asha Janik. Janik admits allegiance to "Demand Peace", a secret group of Cylon sympathizers who believe the fleet's "attack-and-run" tactics are becoming futile and the Cylon war unwinnable. The only way ahead is to negotiate with the Cylons.
Still lucid and in command, Roslin orders that the pregnancy of the Cylon spy, Boomer, be terminated as she views it as a threat to the entire fleet. At Number Six's behest, Vice President Gaius Baltar, who is poised to assume the presidency upon Roslin's death, protests that a half-human, half-Cylon child would make an ideal case study. According to Six, it is their child, after all. The child's biological father, Karl "Helo" Agathon, is also outraged by Roslin's decision.
Admiral Adama is determined to carry out Roslin's final decree until Baltar discovers that the hybrid fetus's blood cells may possess fantastic healing properties which could cure Roslin's cancer. The abortion is halted.
Meanwhile, Adama arrests Royan Jahee, the leader of Demand Peace, but the group continues its violent revolt, bombing the tylium refinery ship Daru Mozu and leaving the fleet short of fuel and vulnerable to enemy attack.
An even more ominous threat emerges when Baltar once again connects with Gina the flesh-and-blood version of the Number Six who lives in his head. Gina has infiltrated the sympathizers' ranks in an effort to promote the Cylon agenda and destabilize the fleet.
In a hospital bed delirium state, Roslin has flashbacks of the moments before the Cylon attack at Caprica, and recalls a vision of Baltar meeting the tall blonde Cylon woman (Number Six) on Caprica. She realises the truth - Baltar was working with the Cylons. However as Roslin recovers thanks to Baltar's experimental treatment, Baltar reads a succession letter Roslin had written to him in the event that she died making him president. The tone of the letter, which makes it clear she has never trusted him or thought highly of him, turns Baltar against her.
The Demand Peace group is appeased by President Roslin and they agree to stop their attacks against fleet targets for now. However, Vice President Baltar discreetly arranges for the nuclear warhead, which was given to him by Adama for his Cylon Detector project, to fall into the hands of Gina and the Cylon sympathizers, which places the entire fleet in mortal jeopardy.
