Just wanted to say I enjoyed your thoughts on this scene and its larger context within Lee's character development. Personally, Lee's search for moral reference points is one of my favorite things about him, and I don't think he gives up on questions of right and wrong in Season 4. But as you say, when it comes to Kara he has reached the point where his gratitude for her miraculous return trumps any rational concerns about how it was orchestrated, or any ethical concerns about the safety of the fleet. He can't think of her as an enemy, full stop - he's not even arguing that she's definitely not a Cylon. He's suggesting that even if she is a Cylon, it wouldn't change how he feels about her, or how Bill feels. And he brings up, for the first time in ages, Zak.
It's an interesting mirror to the scene from season 1 in "You Can't Go Home Again," when Bill and Lee face the fact that they've endangered the whole fleet for Kara's sake, and ask themselves how much this has been tied into their love and grief for Zak. At that time, it's Bill who says to Lee, "Kara's family. Sometimes you break the rules." Here I see Lee saying the same thing back to his father.
It's an interesting mirror to the scene from season 1 in "You Can't Go Home Again," when Bill and Lee face the fact that they've endangered the whole fleet for Kara's sake, and ask themselves how much this has been tied into their love and grief for Zak. At that time, it's Bill who says to Lee, "Kara's family. Sometimes you break the rules." Here I see Lee saying the same thing back to his father.
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