Two nuggets enter, having just completed Viper training on Pegasus under...somebody. Ensign Brent "BB" Baxton has dark hair and kind eyes. Ensign Joseph "Jo Jo" Clark has a blond jarhead and a very expressive mouth. They are very friendly and very doomed. BB mentions being "ready to kick some Cylon butt," and Starbuck -- inspiring indeed -- mutters that Beano was too. Hotdog peels the "Beano" label off the bunk and pats it onto Jo Jo's shirt. Creepy. Jo Jo stands up fast and then asks many questions about Scar and dying that allow us to get quickly filled in: Scar is the "toasters' top gun," the "deadliest Raider in the Cylon fleet," not just a special machine but "the best they got," with a "taste for nuggets." So basically he's the Red Baron. I don't have an issue with this mythology coming out of nowhere, because it didn't -- I buy that we haven't heard about it, before now, and that Scar grew to mythic status very, very quickly. You live fast, your days stretch out. It's like freshman year of college. Kat also reminds us that Captain Thrace "cut the brain out of one," which gives fuel to the theory that we've met this particular Raider before, which we'll talk about later. Having freaked the nuggets, everybody takes off to be cooler somewhere else, and Jo Jo and BB stare at each other. (And thanks also to forum poster GarySeven, who proved among other things very helpful in that he's seen a bunch of movies I have never heard of, and pointed out the reference to the John Wayne movie The Searchers, about a screwed-up Confederate soldier who obsessed on getting this Indian chief who killed his family, and the Moby Dick in question was named? Scar, yep, and the title, it referred to? "People searching for a sense of place that they had lost." So there's that.)













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