The cliffhanger ends with Starbuck handing her gun over to the President to prove she's herself. All it does is prove to Roslin, who's got mortality on the brain lately, that Kara's being prodigal with her life because she's got spares. So she shoots at her! But misses, thanks either to her chemo, innate goodness, or the machinations of one or more supernatural forces. Knowing this show, it's all of the above.

Sadly, the missed shot shatters the Admiral's portrait of himself with Laura, presaging a pretty intense showdown between them once Kara's back in the brig. In Adama's quarters, they filibuster nastily about each other for ten hours or so, and of course are totally right, to the point that Bill becomes an alcoholic and Laura's hair starts falling out.

Lee visits Kara in her cell and they talk about nothing, but then make out, and he tells her he believes her. Then he gets a surprise going-away party/slow clap from the entire military, including Dualla, who's like, "You ruined my life, on purpose! Here's a hug." Then he goes off to be the new Quorum member for I think Sagittaron, which is kind of sickening if you think about it.

On the Basestar, a new Six named Natalie goes totally Hermione Granger about the Raiders, whom Cavil has decided to lobotomize after their encounter with Anders. There's a split vote between the Sixes, Eights, and Twos (Leoben) -- who note the irony of treating the Raiders like dumb machines -- and the Fours (Simon), Ones (Cavil), and Fives (Doral) -- who are jerks. The heartbreaking tiebreaker? Poor old Boomer, who knows a little bit about desperately wanting to just be a lobotomized machine that doesn't think or feel or hurt or remember. She makes more Cylon history by dissenting from the other Eights, but I'm sure nothing horrible will happen there. Boomer usually has such an easy time.

Luckily, realizing the futility of the parliamentary system when dealing with an atheocratic zealot like Cavil, Natalie retaliates. I feel like I'll be saying that a lot. This time, the nataliation lies in giving sentience to the Centurions, who take out the Ones, Fours and Fives (that we can see, and possibly all of them) in a big old bloody Michael Corleone blowout. It's awesome.

Bill visits Kara and yells at her for pissing off the President, but Kara calls him out for acting like Laura's girlfriend, so he chokes her and leaves her in jail. Later, he reconsiders and sets Kara up with a literal garbage scow and skeleton crew so she can go find Earth. Because he believes her and all, but Laura Roslin is scary as balls right now, and you can't really blame him for doing this on the DL.

Best part: Gaius meets Chip Gaius (who specifies that he's "separate" from Six, but we'll see) for the first time, and as you can imagine, they fall in complete and total gay love immediately.

Another part: coincidentally, just as the words "written by Michael Angeli" cross the screen, Tigh orders Tory to prostitute herself to Gaius on the off chance that he knows anything about the Final Final. He doesn't, of course, but she lets him screw the polytheism out of her anyway, and cries the whole time, but apologizes for it, because apparently some women just cry during sex, and it doesn't necessarily mean anything's the matter, so you should probably lecture them on religion. While they're crying. While you're fucking them.