You Can't Go Home Again (Battlestar Galactica)
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| Battlestar Galactica episode | |
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| “You Can't Go Home Again” | |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 5 |
| Writer(s) | Carla Robinson |
| Director | Sergio Mimica-Gezzan |
| Production no. | 105 |
| Original airdate | UK: November 15, 2004 US: February 4, 2005 |
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| "Act of Contrition" | "Litmus" |
"You Can't Go Home Again" is an episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series.
[edit] Plot
Survivor Count: 47,958
Lt. Starbuck crash-lands her Viper on a hostile planet after it was damaged during an engagement with a Cylon Raider. On Galactica, one of the pilots who was involved in the battle reports that Starbuck's Viper was not destroyed in the battle, and Commander Adama goes against better reasoning and the advice of President Roslin to organise a rescue mission to find her.
Starbuck finds herself on a barren world racked by violent winds. With an injured knee, she struggles to get to high ground hoping a search team can spot her. She encounters the Cylon Raider that attacked her, intact and sitting in a crater. Forcing open the hatch, she discovers the interior to resemble the internal organs of a creature, rather than the electronics of a machine. She climbs inside and uses the ship as a shelter.
Starbuck finds an oxygen supply and begins to hack away muscle-like tendrils that are attached to mechanical controls. She finds the controls to be similar to a Viper, and teaches herself how to fly it. She eventually activates the ship and escapes the planet to return to the fleet.
Unaware that Starbuck is piloting the craft, Capt. Apollo attempts to shoot it down, but is unable to do so when it performs wild maneuvers. After eventually spotting the words "Star" and "Buck" spelled out in tape under the Raider's wings, Apollo realises why, and the Raider is brought into the hangar deck. Safe on Galactica, Adama and Starbuck reconcile (at least partially) over Zak's death.
Meanwhile, on Caprica, Helo and Caprica-Boomer hide out at the shelter until Cylon patrols arrive. During the attack, Helo and Boomer become separated.
[edit] Trivia
- When declaring the survivor count, this episode doesn't account for those killed in the hangar deck accident of the previous episode.
- The episode's title is a reference to the 1940 Thomas Wolfe novel by the same name.
- This episode is an homage to the Galactica 1980 episode The Return of Starbuck.
- Bodie Olmos, son of Edward James Olmos (Adama), appears in several episodes as Brendan 'Hotdog' Constanza, and shares one brief scene with his father in this episode.
