Credits! Trumpets of Pomposity! Flashbacks! Last night, I had a sour apple margarita, and now we’re ready for part two of the original Pegasus episodes.
“You’re finished, Adama!” Baltar has yellow teeth. He cackles maniacally, and rather convincingly. The cylons retreat! Adama asks Cain to land the fighters on the Pegasus, since the landing bays on Galactica are in flames.
At the meeting, on Galactica (sure fixed the landing bays fast, didn’t we?) Cain insists on his original plan - attack the base on Gamoray. Everyone argues fine points of strategy - Apollo, Tigh, Adama. Back in his office, with just the two commanders, Adama worries that the tanker incident will happen again - he doesn’t want any more surprises from Cain. His wooly eyebrows jut out in a particularly concerned way. But, there’s no other choice but to go with Cain’s plan.
Cassie finds Cain in the corridor and she emotes at him, wants to go with him, but he won’t let her. I guess that’s the last of the relationship conflict. We won’t see Cain again, from the way this is headed.
Sheba and one other Pegasus pilot are assigned by Cain to the ground crew. Apparently I’m the only one who can see what Cain is doing? Starbuck makes a pass at Sheba that goes nowhere - one of his better attempts, actually. They’re packing up to go. Why a ground crew? I have no idea. Apparently it takes a ground crew to do whatever it is they’re doing.
Cassie finds them and proves that I’m not the only one who sees what Cain is doing - she insists he doesn’t intend to come back from this. She also decides she’s going to go with the ground crew as their med tech. Sheba insists she’s right and Cain isn’t coming back, but Apollo overrides her and insists we’re going to follow orders.
A shuttle takes the group down, and they parachute into the capital city of Gamoray, firing as they come down. They run around in the dark firing at centurions. Starbuck says they’re taking out anti-assault batteries - oh, that’s why they did this! Guess I missed that.
A cylon is giving a speech about furthering the perfection of the cylon race. The bombs our team set are going off, and the cylons start scrambling. Starbuck in his black leather/pleather/vinyl stealth suit climbs up into the control room with Boomer and shoots a bunch and pitches a bomb, and they bug out.
Apollo and Sheba, delayed by a dramatic moment with a wounded Bojay, arrive just as the control room blows up. Oh.
Cylons are lurching out into the street just in time to be blown up by vipers. Civilian cylons apparently wear face masks like kabuki performers and satin robes with hoods. They appear to wear uncomfortable shoes, judging from the way they walk before being shot.
Baltar and his Rubber Jowls want to attack the fleet. Lucifer informs him that Imperious Leader is on Gamoray, and that IL no doubt will think ill of him for letting the fleet Baltar was sent to destroy have their way with Gamoray.
The fuel depot is secured and the tankers are sent in. The ground force takes off in the shuttle - who’s going to protect the tankers? They land on Pegasus because Cassie insists Bojay is hurt badly and needs attention asap. Starbuck and Cassie exchange words - she still can’t make up her mind.
Apollo argues with Cain - again, Cain’s changed up and is going after the four - three? - base stars and Baltar. He reminds Cain that Sheba will be going into battle too. So he goes looking for her, and Sheba is in sickbay where apparently Cassie is the only person there other than Bojay, and where is the Pegasus doctor? Sheba walks away from Cain, and he looks at Cassie and goes after Sheba. Sobby scene, goodbye dear dada, yadda yadda.
Everyone takes off in their vipers. They clear a corridor through the fighters and go right through, with Pegasus right behind. Baltar misinterprets and decides on a strategy based on what he thinks they’re doing, not what they’re actually doing. He thinks Pegasus is a decoy.
Pegasus is on fire, under attack, and darn if it doesn’t look like exactly the same footage as when the Galactica was on fire. Baltar orders the cylons away to Gamoray to protect the Imperious Leader, unintentionally giving the Pegasus a break to recover.
Sheba comes back wounded. At this point, it’s hard to keep track of who’s where, and why, but it’s looking like Apollo is taking the wounded back to the fleet because he knows what Cain is planning.
Adama contacts Cain, as all men in his family are apparently mindreaders, and orders Cain to come back — Cain tells him the wounded and nonessential personnel are on the way and he’s gonna do what he’ll do and you can’t stop me Adama, neener neener.
Baltar’s fuming over ‘what is he doing WHAT WHAT’ and Lucifer is miles ahead of him — it’s Cain. And Baltar realizes it’s not gonna be fun, and demands all fighters come back. So much for protecting Imperious Leader.
Cain is psychic and knows the cylon fighters are on the way back, and so tells Starbuck he’s not sticking around - he’s going back and Cain’s going forward, and that’s that.
Sheba, going by on a gurney on the way to a shuttle, begs her daddy to let her stay in a manner more like a four year old than a twentysomething fighter pilot.
With the shuttles and extraneous personnel gone, Cain waves around his pokey stick and struts around his bridge, and orders the ‘electronic defense shields’ to maximum power. Plug in fresh D cells, guys, we’ve got to deflect lasers!
Oh look, there goes Apollo and Starbuck disobeying orders. Surprise, Surprise. Let’s watch them each take on a base star. And win. What good fortune, to be cast regulars and therefore invulnerable.
Pegasus launches missles, which look like nukes rising from silos until you see the base stars, when the missles seem to morph into huge orange energy beams. Am very confused now. Guess I know how the special effects folks must have felt.
Adama, Apollo and Starbuck visit Sheba in sickbay and welcome her to the family, since Cain’s vanished into the depths of space. Or something. Did Cain survive to chew more scenery and whack people with his silver-tipped pokey stick? Guess we’ll never know.
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