Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down

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“Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down”
Battlestar Galactica episode
Ellen and Saul Tigh aboard Galactica embrace
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 9
Written by	Jeff Vlaming
Directed by	Edward James Olmos
Production no.	109
Original airdate	UK: December 13, 2004 US: March 4, 2005
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"Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" is an episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series. Its script was originally titled "Secrets and Lies".

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After her encounter with the Cylon agent Leoben Conoy, President Roslin remains suspicious that Commander Adama is a Cylon. She has even stooped as low as to use the romantic relationship of Billy Keikeya and Anastasia Dualla as a source for information on Adama's behavior. She asks him to be the first person to undergo Dr. Baltar's "Cylon Detector" blood test, which is now fully operational. Adama hesitantly agrees, but then he unexpectedly disappears from the Galactica.

Col. Tigh is left to command the ship when a lone Cylon Raider appears (possibly on a recon mission) and then tries to jump away. Tigh orders the fleet to make emergency jump preparations, but the Raider comes back, apparently malfunctioning and unable to jump away from the fleet. Tigh has the fleet to stand down and orders a Raptor to go and study the Raider as it makes a series of short rapid jumps around various points within the fleet.

Soon, Adama reappears with Col. Tigh's estranged wife, whom Tigh believed was killed during the attack on Picon. She was apparently unconscious for three weeks aboard the Rising Star. Although her wild and flirtatious behavior has always been typical of her, Adama remains suspicious of her sudden reappearance.

President Roslin contacts Dr. Baltar to check on the status of Adama's blood test. Baltar states that Adama has postponed his test and ordered that the sample of a woman named Ellen be tested. Roslin orders Baltar to resume testing Adama's blood sample.

Roslin summons Col. Tigh to Colonial One, where she questions Adama's behavior. Colonel Tigh responds that Commander Adama was retrieving his wife and reveals that her name is Ellen. Roslin then orders Dr. Baltar to resume testing Ellen's blood sample.

At a dinner, Ellen drunkenly flirts with Apollo and shrugs off Adama and Roslin's questions about how she was overlooked for so long. Adama and Roslin venture to Dr. Baltar's lab to check the results of Ellen's blood test. Baltar reveals that the test is not complete because he has had to change subjects twice already. Adama discovers that Roslin has been spying on him with suspicions that he is a Cylon. Col. Tigh and Ellen enter the fray after Ellen accuses Adama of making advances towards her. The officers are summoned to the CIC as the Cylon Raider changes its course.

Back in space, the Raider continues to fly about the fleet, eluding capture. Once it gets near Galactica however, it attempts a kamikaze dive towards an observation area where many civilians and off-duty personnel are located. Tigh had ordered the launch of alert fighters on a hunch, and the Raider is destroyed several meters from the ship. Adama praises Tigh and asks him to keep anything from coming between their friendship, including Ellen.

Later, Baltar eventually passes Ellen Tigh on the Cylon Detector, to Adama's relief. Afterward, however, when he is alone with Number Six, Baltar refuses to confirm to her whether or not he told the "truth" about Ellen's results (though his screen did indeed show green).

Back on Caprica, Helo and Caprica-Sharon avoid capture by running though a sewer system. Helo wonders why the Cylon search has intensified, and Sharon states that she "overheard" the Cylons discussing plans and deployments. She claims there is a base in the city of Delphi and that they should go there to find a ship for escape off Caprica.