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The survey crews don't make it to the surface of Kobol as planned. This is because the three Raptors jumped into the middle of a force of Cylon Raiders -- and a Cylon basestar. One Raptor is destroyed. One crashes on the surface.
And one makes it back to tell the tale.
Before they can launch the rescue attempt, Adama knows, they're going to have to take out the basestar. Their resident expert at impossible plans also happens to be the only pilot who can fly their captured Cylon Raider. Starbuck, therefore, is working on the plan.
She and Adama are leaning on a railing overlooking the flight deck when she brings up Earth. Asks him how much longer it'll be until they get there.
Adama doesn't lie. He misdirects. Deflects.
And later, when she's supposed to be running the final tests on the autopilot and nav systems on the Raider, she calls in on a scrambled channel, tells Adama that she'd believed him, believed in Earth.
All eyes in the CIC are on Bill Adama.
"I want you to remember one thing," he tells her. "I do not regret anything that I did. Be sure that whatever you're going to do -- " And she's going to do something -- why else would she call? " -- you don't regret it later. Do you understand me?"
Starbuck, out in space, spools up the Raider's FTL drive and jumps away from the fleet.
***
Who wanted to use the Raider to jump back to Caprica and get the Arrow of Apollo?
You use my people to spy on me, he'd told Laura Roslin, and that's going to put us at odds.
Adama has sat by and watched as she's pumped his XO for information, asked Lee to give her information (which he's done), had her advisor attempt to set up some kind of romantic arrangement with his communications officer to get information out of her (which worked), and now --
Now Starbuck. With the Raider.
(The Raider is a military asset. Starbuck is family.)
Roslin has crossed the hair-thin line between poor leadership and putting the fleet in danger. If she undermines the command of Galactica, she's setting up the ship to suffer breakdowns in command at a critical moment, and then that's it for all of them. For the human race.
When Roslin calls, Adama informs her that he's terminating her presidency, effective immediately.
When she informs him that if he wants to stage a coup, he's going to have to come over to Colonial One and arrest her, he gives the order to organize a strike team. Saul gets to command that one.
Adama has a Cylon basestar to take down.
***
Boomer's in the infirmary, but she can fly, and while Crashdown was on the Raptor that crashed down (who the hell gave him that call sign, anyhow? Adama wonders), he's the ECO, and Adama needs a pilot.
The mission: using a transponder to show up on the basestar's DRADIS as a Cylon ship, Boomer and her temporary ECO (Racetrack, a good kid, an angry kid, a smart kid) will approach the basestar, make the basestar think it wants to land, fire a nuke into the docking bay, and jump the hell out of there.
Boomer says she can do it.
Adama tells her she has to.
***
Back in the CIC, he gets a call from Saul, over on Colonial One: they successfully arrested Roslin, but not before Lee put a gun to Saul's head and said that arresting the president was wrong, no matter what bad decisions she has or hasn't made.
"Bring him here," Adama says, quashing his anger, and when Saul asks what they do about Roslin: "Put her in the brig."
That's when Boomer and Racetrack show up on DRADIS, and Dee patches them into the speakers.
"Mission accomplished."
Over the cheers, Adama tells Dualla to bring them home.
At least one thing went right today.
***
He watches Roslin get put in the cell.
It doesn't make him any less angry.
He doesn't speak to her.
***
Lee's standing in the CIC, cuffed; Bill stops on his way back in, and looks at him.
There's not a damned thing to say. Not yet.
He continues across the deck to Boomer and Racetrack, who are trying not to look too proud of themselves. Adama doesn't care. As far as he concerns, they deserve to. They're responsible for taking down a Cylon basestar -- the only good thing to come out of today. "Congratulations to both of you. You carried out a very difficult and dangerous mission. And you did it despite any personal misgivings you may or may not have had."
He doesn't look over his shoulder at Lee as he says this. He doesn't need to.
"And for that I'm very proud. Thank you." He shakes Racetrack's hand first. He moves to shake Boomer's. Boomer raises her sidearm and shoots him in the chest.
Bill staggers back. Boomer shoots him again. He can hear Lee screaming. He falls against Command and Control, falls sprawled on the table. There's going to be a mess. Lee's shouting something at him. He can see Saul, and he tries to tell Saul it hurts, what the hell does he think he's doing, pushing on a pair of bullet holes, but he can't say anything. His head falls back in Lee's cuffed hands, and two words come through loud and clear -- oh, Dad -- and that's that.
And one makes it back to tell the tale.
Before they can launch the rescue attempt, Adama knows, they're going to have to take out the basestar. Their resident expert at impossible plans also happens to be the only pilot who can fly their captured Cylon Raider. Starbuck, therefore, is working on the plan.
She and Adama are leaning on a railing overlooking the flight deck when she brings up Earth. Asks him how much longer it'll be until they get there.
Adama doesn't lie. He misdirects. Deflects.
And later, when she's supposed to be running the final tests on the autopilot and nav systems on the Raider, she calls in on a scrambled channel, tells Adama that she'd believed him, believed in Earth.
All eyes in the CIC are on Bill Adama.
"I want you to remember one thing," he tells her. "I do not regret anything that I did. Be sure that whatever you're going to do -- " And she's going to do something -- why else would she call? " -- you don't regret it later. Do you understand me?"
Starbuck, out in space, spools up the Raider's FTL drive and jumps away from the fleet.
***
Who wanted to use the Raider to jump back to Caprica and get the Arrow of Apollo?
You use my people to spy on me, he'd told Laura Roslin, and that's going to put us at odds.
Adama has sat by and watched as she's pumped his XO for information, asked Lee to give her information (which he's done), had her advisor attempt to set up some kind of romantic arrangement with his communications officer to get information out of her (which worked), and now --
Now Starbuck. With the Raider.
(The Raider is a military asset. Starbuck is family.)
Roslin has crossed the hair-thin line between poor leadership and putting the fleet in danger. If she undermines the command of Galactica, she's setting up the ship to suffer breakdowns in command at a critical moment, and then that's it for all of them. For the human race.
When Roslin calls, Adama informs her that he's terminating her presidency, effective immediately.
When she informs him that if he wants to stage a coup, he's going to have to come over to Colonial One and arrest her, he gives the order to organize a strike team. Saul gets to command that one.
Adama has a Cylon basestar to take down.
***
Boomer's in the infirmary, but she can fly, and while Crashdown was on the Raptor that crashed down (who the hell gave him that call sign, anyhow? Adama wonders), he's the ECO, and Adama needs a pilot.
The mission: using a transponder to show up on the basestar's DRADIS as a Cylon ship, Boomer and her temporary ECO (Racetrack, a good kid, an angry kid, a smart kid) will approach the basestar, make the basestar think it wants to land, fire a nuke into the docking bay, and jump the hell out of there.
Boomer says she can do it.
Adama tells her she has to.
***
Back in the CIC, he gets a call from Saul, over on Colonial One: they successfully arrested Roslin, but not before Lee put a gun to Saul's head and said that arresting the president was wrong, no matter what bad decisions she has or hasn't made.
"Bring him here," Adama says, quashing his anger, and when Saul asks what they do about Roslin: "Put her in the brig."
That's when Boomer and Racetrack show up on DRADIS, and Dee patches them into the speakers.
"Mission accomplished."
Over the cheers, Adama tells Dualla to bring them home.
At least one thing went right today.
***
He watches Roslin get put in the cell.
It doesn't make him any less angry.
He doesn't speak to her.
***
Lee's standing in the CIC, cuffed; Bill stops on his way back in, and looks at him.
There's not a damned thing to say. Not yet.
He continues across the deck to Boomer and Racetrack, who are trying not to look too proud of themselves. Adama doesn't care. As far as he concerns, they deserve to. They're responsible for taking down a Cylon basestar -- the only good thing to come out of today. "Congratulations to both of you. You carried out a very difficult and dangerous mission. And you did it despite any personal misgivings you may or may not have had."
He doesn't look over his shoulder at Lee as he says this. He doesn't need to.
"And for that I'm very proud. Thank you." He shakes Racetrack's hand first. He moves to shake Boomer's. Boomer raises her sidearm and shoots him in the chest.
Bill staggers back. Boomer shoots him again. He can hear Lee screaming. He falls against Command and Control, falls sprawled on the table. There's going to be a mess. Lee's shouting something at him. He can see Saul, and he tries to tell Saul it hurts, what the hell does he think he's doing, pushing on a pair of bullet holes, but he can't say anything. His head falls back in Lee's cuffed hands, and two words come through loud and clear -- oh, Dad -- and that's that.