Epiphanies (Battlestar Galactica)
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| Battlestar Galactica episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 13 |
| Guest star(s) | Colm Feore as President Adar |
| Writer(s) | Joel Anderson Thompson |
| Director | 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, an accident with Kat's Viper leads Chief Tyrol to discover sabotage of the 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.
Still lucid and in command, Roslin orders that the pregnancy of the Cylon spy, Boomer, be terminated. 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. The child's 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 possess fantastic healing properties which can cure Roslin's cancer. The abortion is halted.
Meanwhile, Adama arrests Royan Jahee, Demand Peace's leader, but the group continues its violent revolt, bombing the tylium refinery ship Daru Mozu and leaves 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 Number Six who lives in his head. Gina has infiltrated the sympathizers' ranks in an effort to promote the Cylon agenda.
In a hospital bed dream state, Roslin has flashbacks of the moments before the Cylon attack at Caprica, and recalls a vision of Baltar meeting the blonde Cylon woman (Number Six) on Caprica. As Roslin recovers, Baltar reads a letter Roslin had written to him in the event that she died and he had become president; the tone of the letter, which makes it clear she has never trusted him, turns Baltar against her. He then 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.
