Battlestar Recap " Disquiet"

Battlestar “A Disquiet Follows My Soul” Recap

Air Date: Jan. 23, 2009

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As we learned last week, there is mutiny afoot and it isn’t too hard to figure out who’s going to be onboard.

There are Cylon and parental spoilers past this point! You have been warned!

Pictured: Alessandro Juliani as Lt. Felix Gaeta — SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal

Doc Cottle is doing the sonogram on the Col. Tigh- Six baby and humans including Cottle’s assistant and Lt. Gaeta are disgusted because they’re Cylons. I’m disgusted because it’s Col. Tigh and Six.

Gaeta needs help with his leg and is quite upset because he’s not getting the same attention the Cylons are. By all means, he gripes, help the toasters first. Chief Tyrol’s son Nicky is sick with a kidney ailment. Tyrol’s ready to donate whatever blood or body parts he may need to, prompting Cottle to reveal a secret: Nicky’s not Tyrol’s kid.

Lee and Bill take a press conference and nearly all the questions are about the remaining Cylons. Reporters want to know if Tigh will keep his job as XO now that he’s been revealed as the world’s oldest looking Cylon. They also want to know about the Final Cylon and Lee has a gaffe admitting that “she’s dead.” Also, a reporter asks Vice President Zarek if he would support an alliance with the Rebel Cylons and he doesn’t comment. Yes, that was a bad press conference, folks.

Bill Adama appears to be developing an alcohol and painkiller addiction. But now he’s got to take a meeting with the staff about upgrading the Colonial ships with Cylon jump technology. There’s a funny scene here as Tyrol keeps transposing “their” with “our” referencing the technology and Tigh asks him if he needs a chart to keep it all straight. Hey, all of us might at this rate.

Gaeta is certain the Rebel Cylons aren’t handing this technology over for funsies and sure enough, the Rebels want to be absorbed into the fleet. They think that’s the best protection for when Cavil and the other Cylons show. Adama likes the idea, Gaeta is ticked.

While Bill is taking pills he shouldn’t be, Roslin is not taking the pills to keep her alive. Bill tries to convince her to sell the alliance to the quorum, but I’m not even sure she could at this point. She feels like she’s failed the fleet with her dedication to the prophecies. I feel so bad for thinking she was the Final Cylon.

Gaeta and Starbuck have a very, very uncomfortable exchange where he makes fun of her for sleeping with the enemy and she tells him she will hit a cripple. He tells her there will be “a reckoning” and begins talking strategy with his followers. Zarek and the quorum decide each ship in the fleet will get to vote on whether or not they will let Cylons board, with Lee being the only vote against.

Meanwhile the Right Rev. Gaius Baltar is preaching to his flock about how the gods have forsaken them. Tyrol shows up but he’s not there to hear the good word, he’s there to punch the baby daddy who is- Hot Dog? Oh Cally, I’m more disappointed now than I was when you took Nicky into the airlock. Of course, I should have known Edward James Olmos’ kid would get something important to do in the final few episodes.

After explaining the situation, Tyrol says he and Hot Dog will take shifts watching Nicky. It’s hard work being a daddy after all. I think now that he has no wife and no kid, Tyrol will be leaving the ship to hang with his Cylon peeps.

Then the mutiny breaks loose as a crew on one of the ships kills a Cylon. Bill has Zarek arrested and he’s apparently left a Rod Blagojevich-sized trail of evidence behind him. Bill threatens to release it all to the press. I don’t think Bill realizes how far this mutiny has gone. But he will soon enough.