Now that's how you do a stand-alone episode that doesn't feel like filler. A run-in with a Raptor puts Colonial One in the shop, leading to yet more flirting between Laura and Bill and also exposing the first thread in a whole messy sweater of civil rights, eminent domain, child labor, Marxist bloviations, and anger management. It is Chief who unravels the sweater, at his wife's behest, but it turns out she's been reading Gaius Baltar's new book, Fomenting Civil Unrest Among Dirty Poor People, which it turns out is easy as pie. Chief finds himself informally returning to his New Caprica role head of the Fleet's labor unions, with the glares of Madame President and William Adama making for some pretty awkward dinner conversation. At one point, for example, Adama goes all Helena Cain and threatens to line Cally up against the bulkhead and shoot her; even worse, he doesn't follow through. He kind of has a point, which is scary but involves how you deal with labor concerns during wartime: tricky, for obvious reasons. Roslin invents both prior restraint and book-burning, so she's still on her awesome trajectory. Chief gets his work-sharing system in place, and is granted official labor leadership by the President, who gets everything she wants without really giving up any ground at all. Meanwhile, Seelix is the victim of a glass-ceiling mentality that says only Capricans and the upper classes are allowed to be Viper pilots, but later on she becomes the newest nugget. She's not as annoying as Kat, but I think she's a worse person, so we'll see how that works out. She's pretty awesome in this episode, anyway. The trial inches forward after a really excellent scene between Tyrol and Gaius in which Baltar admits that his Caprican poshness is just an affectation, and he's really Aerolon, like Boomer was. Then they go to the races, and he embarrasses the Chief with a long, drawn-out story about how his auntie was burglarized while on her death-bed, claiming that "them as pinched it done her in," but Chief's too busy noticing that Gaius is right about everything, again, some more, and leading to the destruction of humanity in a whole new labor union-based way, and also adding some weird Hitler shades to his Jesusness. Next week, we meet an up-and-coming pilot named Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, who may well have a destiny of some kind. You might remember her from a long time ago on this show.