Adama pulls Boomer's body out of their little Cylon corpse repository. She does make a pretty corpse. We can see the top of a Y-incision on her chest, so I guess Baltar's keeping himself busy. Adama stares at her, and there's a flashback of Boomer shooting him. Adama says, "Why?" He puts his hand on her forehead and starts crying. Aw, poor Adama. He hunches over and sobs loudly into the corpse's torso. That's a little bit gross, Sir.
Back on Caprica, it's the kind of scene I haven't had to since Angel, where everyone trades exposition for a while. Boomer starts things off by explaining that the Cylons are researching "breeding programs." Starbuck's gotten a new outfit and is sitting in the Humvee passenger seat while Helo checks out her injuries. Helo chimes in, "They call them 'farms.'" Starbuck asks Boomer, "What were they gonna do, knock me up with some Cylon kid?" Boomer says, yup, pretty much, and adds, "We haven't been very successful so far." Anders joins the party, and explains that Cylons aren't able to reproduce biologically. Starbuck asks why they want to, and Boomer says, "That's one of God's commandments. 'Be fruitful.'" She looks at Helo as she explains that they haven't been able to do it on their own. Boomer hilariously tells Starbuck, "If you agreed to bear children, it'd be voluntary. Maybe even set you up with someone you like!" Starbuck makes a duck face and asks, "Like you two kids?" Boomer says that she and Helo are different. Starbuck asks what that means, and poor Helo is saddled with one of the dopiest lines in a while when he says, "They have this theory...maybe the one thing they were missing was love." Oof, that stings. Moore kinda-sorta explains this by noting that the Cylons believe that God is love, so they figure they have to experience love before God will bless them. The Cylons are getting way too New-Agey for me. Anyway, Helo concludes that he and Boomer were manipulated to fall in love. Starbuck rants that Sue-Shaun wasn't asked if she wanted to fall in love. Boomer looks a little exasperated and says, "They know who you are, Kara. You're special. Leoben told you that. You have a destiny." Well, Leoben did say she had a destiny. He didn't say she was special. And the only way Boomer could know that is if Leoben did get to be "reborn," right? Good for him, I guess. Helo decides this a good time to ask what the second scar on Starbuck's belly is from. Starbuck sniffs that she doesn't know, and doesn't want to after what she's heard. She zips up her jacket while Anders asked how many other women are at the Cylon farms. Boomer says there may be thousands, but adds, "I haven't accessed that data." Starbuck follows Anders a few steps away and proposes that they use the Heavy Raider to go on a search and rescue mission for more farms. Anders reminds her, "That's not why you came to Caprica."













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