(Battlestar Galactica 2004, Caprica and Blood & Chrome)
Home, Part Ⅱ is an episode of the TV series, Battlestar Galactica, and aired during the show's second season.
Plot[]
Head Six tells Gaius Baltar that their child will be born in the cell built for Boomer. Baltar loses patience and starts mocking the idea that he could have a child with an imaginary woman. Six dons a casual appearance and tells Baltar that she is nothing more than a coping mechanism created by his subconscious following his participation in the genocide of humanity. She taunts him and encourages him to get a brain scan. Dr. Cottle finds nothing wrong and writes Baltar off as a hypochondriac.
Sharon continues to guide the party on Kobol based on her knowledge of (in-universe) human theology. Apollo remains suspicious of Sharon and Helo, but Starbuck vouches for them. Sharon tells Helo she has many memories as Boomer aboard Galactica and that their child will be female. Meier suggests to Zarek that they frame Sharon for Apollo's murder, but Zarek insists they wait until they've found the Tomb.
Commander Adama arrives on Kobol with Billy Keikeya and Chief Galen Tyrol. Roslin reconciles with Billy. Adama reconciles with Apollo and Starbuck. He attacks Sharon, recalling Galactica-Boomer's betrayal, but is prevented from killing her by chest pain following his surgery. Adama reconciles with Roslin, acknowledges her role in saving his and Apollo's life following the Cylon attack on the Colonies, and joins her quest for the Tomb. Tyrol approaches Sharon uncomfortably; Sharon tells him she "remembers" him and hugs him.
Meier tells Sharon about the murder of Boomer and warns her to start looking out for herself and her baby. After Adama arrives, Zarek orders Meier to stop plotting, to no avail. Sharon tells Helo she plans to "take matters into my own hands." Meier provides her a handgun, and she promises to ambush Commander Adama when they reach the Tomb. However, when the time comes, she shoots Meier instead, declares she has no hidden programming like Boomer's, and surrenders the weapon to Adama.
The ruins of the tomb when first explored.
Adama orders Tyrol to guard Zarek, Sharon, and Helo and enters the Tomb with Roslin, Apollo, Starbuck, and Billy. Starbuck inserts the Arrow of Apollo into a statue of the archer representing Sagittaron, triggering a vision of a grassy field under a night sky. The party sees constellations representing each of the Twelve Colonies, and Starbuck realizes they are "standing" on Earth. Apollo recognises a nebula among the constellations (he says it's the Lagoon Nebula, to which his father Adama says it's Astral Body M8) and concludes the fleet can plot its next direction based on it.
Returning to Galactica, Adama promises to keep the fleet unified and reinstates Roslin as President. Sharon is placed in a cell built for Boomer. Helo speaks to Sharon about their baby through a direct phone line. Eavesdropping, Baltar realizes the connection with Six's prediction for their "child". Having ruled out the possibility that Six is created by a chip in his brain, and now concluding from her foreknowledge of Sharon's pregnancy that she cannot just be his own creation, he asks what she is. She answers, "I'm an angel of God sent here to protect you, to guide you, to love you." He asks, "To what end?" She replies, "The end of the human race.".
Cast[]
- Edward James Olmos as Commander William Adama
- Mary McDonnell as President of the Twelve Colonies Laura Roslin
- Katee Sackhoff as Lieutenant Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
- Jamie Bamber as Captain Lee "Apollo" Adama
- James Callis as Doctor Gaius Baltar
- Tricia Helfer as Messenger Six
- Grace Park as Lieutenant Sharon "Boomer" Valerii
- Michael Hogan as Colonel Saul Tigh
- Aaron Douglas as Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol
- Tahmoh Penikett as Lieutenant Karl "Helo" Agathon
- Paul Campbell as Billy Keikeya
- Alessandro Juliani as Lieutenant Felix Gaeta
- Kandyse McClure as Petty Officer Anastasia Dualla
- Donnelly Rhodes as Major Sherman Cottle
- Richard Hatch as Tom Zarek
- James Remar as Meier
- Leah Cairns as Lieutenant Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson
Appearances[]
Characters[]
- Lee "Apollo" Adama
- William Adama
- Karl "Helo" Agathon
- Gaius Baltar
- Anastasia Dualla
- Felix Gaeta
- Calandra Henderson
- Billy Keikeya
- Number Eight
- Number Six
- Laura Roslin
- Saul Tigh
- Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
- Galen Tyrol
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Writing[]
Home, Part II was written during production of Season 2.0. Having realised the script for "Home" had enough extra scenes to fill up half an episode, writers Ron D. Moore and David Eick created Part II to consist of two original acts and then the final half hour intended for "Home".[1] Most of the first half of this episode was, therefore, written in a short time to pad it out, including the entire B-story with Baltar, Messenger Six and Dr. Cottle.[1] Enough padding was added that one scene had to be removed in editing.[1] Among the existing scenes that were extended was the scene where the two expedition meet up. Adama's fierce response to seeing Caprica-Sharon was not intended until Eick saw the filming of the morgue scene in The Farm, and decided that were Adama to ever see a doppelgaenger of Boomer he would "make sure she was dead."[1] Among the existing scenes that were condensed was during the camp fire as Meier tries to pressure Caprica-Sharon into joining Zarek's plot to kill Apollo. It was to include Helo being pressured into the conspiracy, but Eick and Moore mutually decided against this when whey realised he would probably be incarcerated for such an act.[1]
In terms of re-writes, the vision sequence was written very differently. The Arrow of Apollo was to be decorated with three jewels, and when put in its intended place fill in the rest of the star map in finding the way to Earth. Moore disliked the idea, and replaced it with the Zodiac projection to create a more mythological aspect of the series.[1] There was to be a second Centurion attack on the Tomb of Athena, with the roof of the tomb being destroyed and ruining the map. This would have served as a means of deliberately limiting the information Galactica would have had.[1]
Minor alterations were also required by the Sci-Fi channel's Broadcast Standards and Practices department, who objected to Aaron Douglas' line "Topography's for pussies", and Edward James Olmons' "Adar was a prick". The latter was changed to "Adar was a moron". Moore telephoned Sci-Fi hoping for a reconsideration, but it was refused.[1]
Directing[]
Due to the exteriors, number of characters and the script problems, Eick considered Home, Part II to be one of the most challenging episodes of the series.[1] Rather than a practical effect, the rain in the first half of the episode was entirely natural, with director Jeff Woolnough deciding to adapt the acting to the rain rather than waiting for it to end. Roslin's desperation in this scene was therefore ad-libbed.[1] In the sequence where Messenger Six changes her appearance to a pony-tail and sweatpants, Tricia Helfer dressed in her casual attire instead of a costume to separate Messenger Six's usual persona from what the script called for.[1]
For the camp fire scene, Woolnough faced problems due to there being too many actors to work with. Tricks were devised in splitting off the actors into sub-groups.[1]
During the scene where Adama chokes Caprica-Sharon, Olmos instructed my Moore to grip his chest to provide continuity as his character had recently come out of surgery. This was not part of the script.[1] Olmos' acting in this episode also represented the start of Adama and Roslin's personal relationship, with Olmos having objected to earlier episode scripts that made the two characters too amicable.[1]
Effects[]
Under the insistence of David Eick, the actors in Adama's Raptor expedition were subjected to high-pressure blast air to simulate the G-force expected for travelling in-atmosphere, inspired by a sequence in Thunderball. The effects team were concerned about doing this, as it had been linked to embolisms.[1] The CG and practical effects done for the Tomb of Athena's planetarium would receive some criticism from Moore, who took note that the star glyphs did not match the real-world zodiac. While he knew it was impossible to see all twelve constellations at the same time from Earth, there was no other way to explain the map scene in time.[1]
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