Kara is bemused. Sam is freaked out. Galen just laughs, because the chairness of Galen is irony and there's no antidote for irony so he laughs. Harder tells a very angry Kara that they're Cylons -- "just like the XO" -- and Galen (once again up against the wall, just like the good old days when he was getting court-martialed for killing Thorne) exhales loudly and hilariously. This joke of his.
Kara stares in their direction, but can't look at Sam. She says his name, softly, and his eyes dart to Galen's; with black humor he just nods. "Go ahead." Sam is ashamed, and quiet. "It's true, Kara."
Imagine a black stone, and a white. Look at the space between them. Examine it carefully.
The Marines take Sam and Galen away, and as he goes -- remember Antigone, how Kara screamed over her shoulder at every opportunity -- Sam begs her to check the Viper. To find the thing that's changed. But she knows the thing that's changed: it's her. Because the last thing she was thinking just now was about a bullet between Sam Anders' eyes. The very last thing.
THIS IS A WILD GUESS
Ugh, these people. So the Centurions are herding hostages through the rebel Basestar, and Hotdog's screaming, and the Eight's offering to shoot him where he stands, and meanwhile in the airlock Sam and Galen are having a Deadpanning Bee about who can whistle loudest past the graveyard as their shackled forms are pushed into a row with Saul, and Sam's winning because he manages to ask Saul, "This is a wild guess, you told them?" with a straight face, and Saul -- this is a very Cylon thing he's doing these days -- totally goes, "We should've done it day one," I guess that was sometime between pretending nothing was wrong and putting the gun and liquor on the table and calling for a four-way suicide pact and prostituting Tory and holding constant meetings about how they shouldn't be holding so many meetings, they could have fit that in, and Lee duallas for the Baseship and she hoshis in turn for the Baseship because what if they held a pissing contest and nobody came.
Meanwhile, Kara gets in her magic shiny Viper for the first time in months.
So Laura and Gaius notice the screaming hostages getting herded past but apparently they have special privileges and aren't really hostages or prisoners so much as valued guests who can't leave and even Leoben and his adorable new haircut are getting worried due to Three's whole unreconstructed retro-warfare Cylon vibe and Laura decides enough is enough and asks to go visit with Three, but Gaius points out that Three thinks Laura is just adorable, "sweetie," but isn't about to parlay with her about this, and asks to go instead because he was there in the Temple of Five when she saw the Final Five and went blind and died and all that, and really if you think about it he's to blame for everything that happened with her, maybe still is, and part of that has always been that she associates him with God for some reason and I mean, look at him now, so Laura agrees that this is a smart plan and that Gaius is a man and a human being who can actually do something useful, and sends him off to C&C and then just sits there vibrating with worries, and over on Galactica Three and Lee are still pissing and he lets her know that Galen and Sam are in the airlock now too, which freaks everybody out, even Supertoaster Tory Foster gets a little cramp in her strudel that time, and needless to say Leoben and Six are shitting it, and Lee presses his advantage.









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