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#305 : Le Cercle

Tyrol et quelques autres participent au "Cercle", un tribunal secret sur le Galactica, qui retrouve et punie les humains accusés de trahison en collaborant avec les Cylons durant l'occupation de New Caprica. Le mode de jugement expéditif commence à peser sur la conscience de Tyrol, alors que le prochain accusé n'est autre que Gaeta, grâce auquel la résistance a pu avoir de précieuses informations. Sur un Basestar, les Cylons se demandent ce qu'ils doivent faire de Baltar.

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Le Cercle

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Tyrol fait tout pour découvrir la vérité

Tyrol fait tout pour découvrir la vérité

Baltar en plein rêve

Baltar en plein rêve

Baltar fait face à Roslin

Baltar fait face à Roslin

Roslin retrouve son titre de Présidente des Douze Colonies

Roslin retrouve son titre de Présidente des Douze Colonies

Le cercle veut se venger des traitres

Le cercle veut se venger des traitres

Kara reste tourmentée par New Caprica

Kara reste tourmentée par New Caprica

D'Anna face à Baltar

D'Anna face à Baltar

Caprica fait tout pour protéger Baltar

Caprica fait tout pour protéger Baltar

Gaeta est en danger et se retrouve dans la ligne de mire du Cercle

Gaeta est en danger et se retrouve dans la ligne de mire du Cercle

Plus de détails

Réalisateur : Michael Rymer

Scénaristes : Mark Werheiden

A bord du GALACTICA

En voyant se dessiner sa silhouette dans le ciel, je vous promets que je ressens comme un pincement au cœur. Cette expression d’être de retour à la maison. ENFIN.

Par contre au son du premier dialogue je me fige. Le «  Avance » qui claque dans le silence ne me dit rien de bon.  Et quand l’image pénètre à l’intérieur j’ai le flash d’un couloir de la mort.  Sont très bon quand même ces réalisateurs pour en une fraction de seconde me plonger dans leur réalité.

La scène qui suit me glace le sang et parce que le débat restera à jamais sans réponse, que personne ne peut dire ce qu’il ferait dans des cas semblables je vais exposer les faits le plus neutrement possible.

Notre Warrior team a une nouvelle mission, juger les collabos. Et comme les anciennes, celle-ci se déroule dans l’ombre, officieusement. Le cercle, puisque c’est ainsi qu’il se nomme, se compose de 6 ex résistants CHIEF, SAUL, CONNOR, SEELIX, BAROLAY and SAMMY.

 Le premier des jugés, est JAMMER, le chef de la police humaine.

Les faits sont exposés la sentence tombe. Pour complicité et crime cotre l’humanité il est condamné à mort. Il tente de se défendre, d’avancer l’aide qu’il a apporté à CALLY mais ses efforts sont vains. Avoir sauvé CALLY ne l’excuse pas des autres faits. Il est donc éjecté dans l’atmosphère.

La scène est d’une violence rare. Autant dans l’expression du condamné que des  « juges ». Les cicatrices sont à vifs. CHIEF doute (plus aussi simple de les pendre hauts et courts), SAMMY est mal à l’aise «  I didn’t sign for this », CONNOR plein de haine, SEELIX partagée et SAUL insondable. Une ligne est en train d’être franchie et ça fait froid dans le dos. Visuellement c’est plein de symbole. L’alternance d'ombre et de lumière, la grille qui se referme  qui évoque  une guillotine, la main de CONNOR sur le bouton…

 

Sur LE BSG

Punaise, y en a du monde dans les dortoirs. Sont tous empilés les uns sur les autres dans ce truc (bein oui y a plus le PEGASUS et tout les exilés de New Caprica squattent). La caméra zoom sur CALLY et mini CHIEF quand celui-ci arrive, la conscience torturée. Il pose quelques questions à une Mme TYROL à moitié endormi et réalise que JAMMER l’a bien sauvée. La dualité reprend place sur son visage. Pas facile d’être membre actif de la Warrior Team en ce moment.

  

AU GENERIQUE on est plus que 41 435 et on cherche de nouveau la terre ! YOUHOU

 

Sur le Vaisseau des cylons

Scène sans parole dans un type péplum moderne. Ah bein si on se croirait revenu au temps des Romains. Sir Gaius (rien que son nom…)  dort sur un fauteuil rouge, se drape dans un peignoir blanc et se retrouve nez à nez avec un Cylon Centurion. L’analogie est facile.

Au niveau des couleurs et de la lumière cette séquence parait presque surnaturelle contrairement à celle précédente alors que là est la réalité.

Bizarrement BALTAR ne semble pas être vraiment rassuré. A trop trahir on n'a plus vraiment d’allié (ce n’est pas du parti pris c’est de la constatation)

 

Sur  le Colonial One

Ca y est. LAURA’s back, bien assise dans son fauteuil avec à sa droite ADAMA père et à sa gauche SAUL. Image de Ste trinité. La discussion est relativement sereine, apparemment là aussi on discute culpabilité mais avec beaucoup plus d’indulgence. La caméra se tourne et l’accusé n’est autre que GAIUS. (Je sais que j’ai dit que j’exposerai les faits sans intervenir mais juste pour information dans mon cerveau ça donne quelque chose comme :  Punaise, Quoi ? hein ? des circonstances atténuantes ? What’s the FRACK is That ! SAUL ?) La SIX de GAIUS intervient alors haranguant tout le monde sur la culpabilité et la traîtrise de GAIUS (marrant elle dit à voix haute ce que je hurle dans ma tête… peut être que je suis SIX ! OUH la classe !). Une fois de plus j’admire la faculté de l’ex président (oui pour moi contrairement à LAURA il n’a plus son titre this son of a… pardon ! pas de parti pris. Pardon) à louvoyer. Mais là bizarrement il se passe quelque chose d’anormal. ADAMA à l’air de voir SIX et LAURA tente d’embrasser GAIUS… qui se réveille en sursaut ! (Soulagement terrible de mon côté… un passage d’éponge aussi rapide m’aurait plus que contrarié !)

C’est pas facile de faire partie de la Warrior Team deuxième ! Réveil de Mister Anders qui a de toute évidence quelques soucis avec sa chère et tendre. On sent KARA à cran et pas vraiment prête à retomber dans une vie conjugale tranquille.

 

Sur le colonial One

Tiens revoilà Tom ZAREK. Avoir joué les héros (et pas que en essayant de la tirer en arrière lors des tirs cylons, non non en s’étant battu contre GAIUS dès le départ) a du bon. Vu que GAIUS n’est plus (du moins plus là) ZAREK est en toute logique président. Sauf que celui ci sait pertinemment qu’il n’aura jamais le soutien d’ADAMA et donc de l’armée contrairement à LAURA (punaise tout marche toujours à l’affect et au piston) donc il lui propose de la nommer vice présidente lors du prochain quorum qui a lieu dans 72H puis de démissionner en échange d’une place dans le gouvernement. Madame acquiesce et généreusement lui donne même la place de Vice Président. (Un peu magouille et compagnie tout ça)

Moi je dis à voir… c’est un caméléon ZAREK… mais bon, tout le monde souris,ça fait du bien !

 

Dans le CIC

Vous vouliez une preuve que rien n’est simple et qu’il y aura à jamais un décalage entre ceux qui ont vécu New Caprica et les autres ? et bien exemple 1. GAETA est appelé en renfort dans le CIC car des appareils ont été endommagé pendant l’attaque. La réaction de SAUL ne se fait pas attendre. Haine palpable. Il ne veut pas d’un traître. HELO essaye d’expliquer mais c’est l’AMIRAL qui tranche. Dans l’œil de SAUL passe pour une des premières fois une lueur de mépris. Lui n’oubliera pas. Jamais. Même si ça doit l’opposer à ADAMA.

 

Dans la chambre secrète de la WARRIOR TEAM.

On continue autour de la table à juger les collabos. On sent la fatigue, presque le dégout. 57 personnes à juger en 3 jours. Apparemment il y a un contrat qui les lie. Connor propose d’expédier les cas et de régler ça dans l’heure. SAUL lui explique calmement (en lui claquant la tête contre la table) que tout ceci n’est pas un jeu. Qu’il y a des dossiers à étudier et des preuves à avoir. Il s’agit de justice. Rien de moins que de la justice. (entier… je cherche un autre mot mais cest le seul qui vient). SAMMY demande une cigarette et le prochain nom tombe… FELIX GAETA.

Petite ellipse temporelle représenté par un cendrier qui se remplit et un débat qui fait rage. Personne ne veut juger FELIX. SAUL reprend alors la parole expliquant que pour lui aussi c’est dur (au cas où certain essayerai de le traiter d’insensible) qu’il a travaillé au côté de GAETA pendant 4 ans, qu’il est de la famille (encore et toujours cette notion d’appartenance au Battlestar) mais que les preuves sont là. Qu’il a travaillé avec GAIUS et a trahi tout le monde.

Justement SAMMY n’est absolument pas d’accord avec ça. Il n’y a pas de preuves, pas de témoins, juste des suspicions. CHIEF se range du côté de MON résistant préféré (de vous à moi je crois qu’ils saturent un peu tous les deux, pas très à l’aise dans leur rôle d’ange de la mort (malgré les ailes tatoués sur le bras d’ANDERS)

SAUL revient à l’attaque (il la digère pas la trahison de FELIX mais alors vraiment pas… peut être justement parce qu’il était de la « famille) pour lui GAIUS n’était que parade officiel et GAETA le cerveau. (d’un autre côté dans l’autre sens ça aurait pas marché. Il est pas charismatique l’autre). Et parce qu’il faut qu’il fasse basculer CHIEF il lui prouve qu’il savait pour CALLY…

Nouvelle offensive de SAMMY qui essaye de prouver que ça ne veut rien dire.

Mais il n’a pas gain de cause… même si, il n'a pas directement agit il a fermé les yeux. Le groupe vacille et SAMMY claque la porte.

Et alors on apprend que pour que le vote soit validé il faut 6 votes. Si Connor veut passer outre CHIEF non. Et SAUL non plus. Il y a des règles. Ils sont un jury. Il s’agit de justice…

 

Sur le vaisseau des cylons

D’Anna débarque elle aussi en robe romaine histoire de se fondre dans le décor (sont marrants ces cylons quand même) et entame une conversation sur un ton badin du comment ça va ? quasi charmeuse (voir carrément allumeuse) face à un GAIUS un peu déboussolé. On apprend que ça fait trois jours qu’il est à bord, isolé dans sa suite (digne du CESAR PALACE !) et que tous les cylons ne sont pas forcément d’accord sur le bien fondé de sa présence. 3 Cylons sont pour 3 sont contre et les modèles n°6 ne sont pas d’accord entre elle…

 

Dans le bureau de l’AMIRAL

Frack… les gens qui disparaissent commencent à être remarqué (quand je disais qu’un vampire pourrait pas survivre sur un Battlestar parce qu’on remarquerait la disparition des gens j’avais raison).

Sur ce LEE annonce fièrement qu’il retourne faire du sport. Devant le regard pas convaincu de son père il annonce clairement sa perte de poids presque vexé (oh mon dieu mais qu’a-ton fait de mon pilote du pilot !!!)

 

A la cantine

Vous vouliez une preuve que rien n’est simple et qu’il y aura à jamais un décalage entre ceux qui ont vécu New Caprica et les autres ? et bien exemple 2 

Felix ( et oui tjs lui!) déjeune tout seul jusqu’à ce que KARA le rejoigne. Elle s’inquiète pour lui avant que le ton ne change. Elle le nargue, le provoque. Lui tente de se défendre : Il travaillait pour le président des 12 colonies qui a été élu par tous ! (oui bon moyen l’excuse quand même). Il continue en disant qu’il a essayé d’aider de l’intérieur et évoque pour la première fois la gamelle d’un chien… Oh my god ! Gaeta est l’indic !!!!

Sauf que KARA ne connaît pas cette histoire et l’achève d’un «  you’re a fraking hero »…

 

Sur le vaisseau des cylons

Caprica six essaie de se détacher de GAIUS. Elle n’aime pas l’emprise qu’il a sur elle. Elle est cylon, elle doit suivre les cylons point. Lui rétorque qu’elle est bien plus que ça. Qu’elle est humaine et qu’elle l’aime. Avant de clore avec toute l’humilité baltardienne : je suis unique , tu as besoin de moi, admets le ! » Le centurion qui le stop a pas l’air plus impressionné que ça mais moi il me bluffe…

Pourtant il finit par avouer que lui aussi a besoin d’elle… avant de se rendre compte qu’il est peut être trop tard.

 

Dans la chambre des secrets de la  (un peu moins ( bein oui forcément y a plus SAMMY)) WARRIOR TEAM.

CHIEF et SAUL expliquent en quoi concerne leur mission. Ils sont un jury et il s’agit de justice pas de revanche(on va finir par le savoir) et qu’ils ne sont là que pour traiter les cas graves, le pire du pire, les assassins.

Et voilà que nous apparaît le visage de la nouvelle recrue. On troque un anders contre UNE ANDERS qui doute de la légalité du truc.

Pourtant il y a des papiers officiels sur les condamnations marqués du tampon des douze colonies. Ce qui explique le délai ultra court pour leur condamnation. Une fois le changement de président ça ne fonctionnera plus.

KARA rejoint le groupe (même si bizarrement je pense pas que pour elle le fait que ce soit légal pèse dans la balance).

Encore une fois SAUL fait preuve de maîtrise (Prenez votre temps/prends ton temps (frack je sais pas si il la tutoie ou vouvoie) et CHIEF doute (on ne sait pas ce que GAETA a fait quand il a vu cette liste).

KARA elle est viscérale. Il est coupable. Rien d’autre à ajouter. Il ne manque plus que la voix de CHIEF… quand débarque SAMMY qui vient chercher sa femme. (A chaque fois je me demande presque de qui il parle tellement j’arrive pas à m’y faire).

 

Dans le couloir devant la chambre secrète de la (un peu moins) WARRIOR TEAM :

Explication de texte entre les époux.

Lui ne veut pas qu’elle adhère au cercle. Elle rétorque qu’elle en a besoin.

Lui contre en affirmant qu’elle ne se sentira pas mieux après, que les gens jugés ne sont pas responsables de sa détention. Mais pour KARA il faut que quelqu’un paie. Et que ou il l’accepte ou il s’en va.

On touche au nerf de la guerre et SAM n’est pas dupe. Elle ne veut pas de lui dans sa vie

 

Dans la chambre secrète de la (un peu moins) WARRIOR TEAM :

SAUL tente une nouvelle plaidoirie dans laquelle il avoue aux autres la culpabilité d’ELLEN et son geste à lui. Il ne s’agit pas de faire des demis mesures parce qu’on connaît les gens. Lui n’en a pas fait.

 

Dans le couloir devant la chambre secrète de la (un peu moins) WARRIOR TEAM :

La discussion part mal mais sans cri. (L’aggressivité a été laissé de côté et je finirai presque par le regretter tellement ils me font mal tous les deux). Elle se met à nue (euh émotionnelement) et lui avoue qu’elle ne reconnaît plus le monde et qu’elle ne supporte plus son regard sur elle. Qu’il faut qu’elle s’en prenne à quelqu’un et que ça pourrait être lui et qu’il ferait mieux de partir avant.

 

Dans la chambre secrète de la (un peu moins) WARRIOR TEAM :

SEELIX remet de nouveau sur la table les actions de GAETA et CHIEF cède (alors que depuis la scène de la cafétéria j’ai plus trop envie moi)

 

Dans le couloir devant la chambre secrète de la (un peu moins) WARRIOR TEAM :

SAMMY rend à KARA sa plaque. Comment ça quelle plaque ? Mais si souvenez-vous quand elle quitte new Caprica et qu’elle lui donne pour lui promettre qu’elle viendra le chercher. Et bien dans un sens comme dans l’autre, ce passage de plaque rend mon écran tout flou de larmes. Devant le silence éloquent il s’en va. Electrochoc ou baiser d’adieu ? Elle le rattrape, l’embrasse et part et lui reste tout seul… PFFFF

 

Dans un couloir du Galactica

Enlèvement avec force et fracas de Felix qui se retrouve devant ses jurys. Il refuse de plaider sa cause expliquant qu’il a déjà tout dit et qu’il ne suppliera pas. Mais c’est sans compter sur KARA qui s’énerve et lui ordonne de reraconter sa petite histoire de gamelle de chien…

A son insu elle vient de lui sauver la vie. CHIEF tilte et le libère… GAETA est LA source.

FELIX repart sans faire d’esclandre presque en s’excusant «  j’ai fait ce que j’ai pu, qu’aurais je pu faire de plus » et là encore rien n’est manichéen.

Sur le Colonial One

ZAREk apporte ce qu’il manque aux explications. Il a connaissance du cercle et explique que c’est légal puisqu’il y a sa signature en bas.

LAURA demandent qu'ils soient jugés par leurs pairs… ZAREK lui prouve que c’est ce qu'il se passe. Ils n’ont juste pas le droit d’avoir d'avocats. Que cela évite que tout le monde accuse le système et que ça prenne des mois. Qu’ils n'aient pas le temps de se transformer en martyres. Qu’au moins comme ça une ère nouvelle a commencé et qu’elle peut redémarrer sans sang sur ses mains.

Mais LAURA (qui nous refait le coup du faux sourire qui te prend pour un con) ne cautionne pas et parle de justice (punaise c'est le mot du jour ou quoi?) ZAREK s’oppose au procès public qui va détruire la fleet, la gangrener.

Ellipse et la voilà qui reprête serment.

Pendant son discours d’investiture sur le devoir de mémoire mais aussi sur le fait d’aller de l’avant tous ensemble on voit KARA accrocher sa plaque, SAUL ranger consciencieusement les affaires d’ELLEN, SIX apporter une chemise propre à GAIUS et GAETA marcher dans le GALACTICA et remettre son uniforme.

L’essence du discours est clair. Il y a aura un pardon général et les histoires de chacun seront consignées pour la postérité…

ADAMA se lève et applaudit…Tout est bien qui finit bien… pourvu que ça dure !

 

A la cantine.

Chief (punaise j’aime de plus en plus ce perso et pourtant il avait déjà une grande place dans mon coeur) vient s’asseoir en silence à côté de GAETA

Gaeta: Previously o­n Battlestar Galactica...

Kara's apartment.

Leoben: You're gonna hold me in your arms. You're gonna tell me that you love me.
Starbuck: You're insane.
Leoben: You kill me, I download, I come back, we start over.
Starbuck: I don't belong here! Let me out!

New Caprica City.

Jammer: Some of those guys who joined up -- the Cylon police -- bet they're in over their heads, you know?
Chief: o­ne day when this is all over, guys like that are gonna get strung up. Guys like you and me, we're gonna be there, tying the knots, making them tight.

Insurgent bunker.

Tigh: Where are you getting this stuff? Who's your source?
Chief: I have no idea. The source won't tell me what their name is. It's probably safer for all of us.

Colonial o­ne.

Gaeta: Mr. President?
Caprica: Good morning, Gaeta.

Colonial o­ne.

Gaeta: This is a death warrant. Have you seen the names o­n this list? Do you have any idea what they're about to do out there?

Bunker.

Chief: I got this from the dead-drop from the source of the administration. It's a death list and Cally's name's o­n it.

(Images of Cally getting kidnapped.)

The detainee execution site at Pergamus Flats.

Jammer, to Cally: Run! Don't look back. Go!

Insurgent bunker.

Anders: We were ambushed at the rendezvous. The Cylons knew exactly where we were gonna be.
Tigh: That doesn't mean Ellen had anything to do --
Ellen: I didn't do anything!
Anders: This is the map that I drew for you! You were gonna burn it, but then your wife offered to do it for you.

Tigh tent.

Anders, VO: You know what has to be done here. Now it would be better for her sake if it was you.

(Tigh crying over Ellen's dead body.)

New Caprica City.

Chief, shouting at evacuees: Come o­n! Move! Move, move!

Colonial o­ne.

Three: Evacuate the entire facility. ...You should go as well, Gaius. There's a place for you too.

TEASER

Galactica.

(Men force a prisoner into a Viper launch bay, and take a bag off his head. It's Jammer, choking and crying.)
Man: Walk!
(The Circle is revealed: Tigh, Chief, Seelix, Anders, Connor and Barclay.)
Seelix: Evidence for the following charges have been presented to the Circle: that you carried arms for the enemy as you carried out multiple raids against the human population, and that during o­ne raid, 23 people were killed by you and your men during the assault o­n the temple of Artemis.
Jammer: It's not true!
Connor: These are the names of the people killed by you and those under your command. (Forcing his head up.) You look at those names!
Seelix: Connor. (He calms down.) The Circle has examined the evidence and found you guilty of treason and crimes against humanity. Do you have anything to say before sentence is passed?
Jammer: I was just trying to help people.
Tigh: You didn't do a very good job, then, did you?
Anders: Let's just get this over with.
Jammer: I helped people. I helped lots of people. Chief -- Chief! Chief, I helped Cally. I saved Cally. I saved Cally.
Chief: What do you mean you helped Cally?
Jammer (with quick-cut flashes to the incident): I'm the o­ne who did. I'm the o­ne who let her go when they were gonna shoot her. I took her out of line. I said, "Go! Run right now. Run like hell. Get out of here." And she did. She ran and she got away. Because of me, Chief. I helped Cally. I saved Cally.
Chief: Cally did get away...somehow.
Connor: They killed 23 people during the temple raids. Twelve men, eight women, and three children. Children! My son is o­n this list. His name is right there. And that frakkin' son-of-a-bitch put him there. So saving Cally, if that happened -- does that make up for killing my son?
Tigh: Answer the question, Chief. Does saving Cally let him off the hook for killing 23 others?
Chief, crouching: Did you do this, Jammer? Did you kill these people? (Whisper.) Answer me.
Jammer: It was crazy down there, Chief. You know that. You make these decisions so fast. You're making an arrest, and people come out with their hands up. But sometimes it's just a trick. They tell you they're surrendering and then they open fire. We thought they were insurgents. It wasn't till after we saw the bodies. What was I supposed to do? It wasn't till after we saw the bodies. What was I supposed to do?
Chief stands and returns to the Circle: No, it doesn't.
Seelix: Under the articles, the punishment for treason is death. Sentence confirmed and carried out o­n this, the third day of the second Exodus.
Jammer, barely audible: Oh, Chief. (Screams) I'm sorry!
(The Circle leaves Jammer tied up in the launch bay; the inner lock slowly closes.)
Anders: That's too much frakkin' talk.
Jammer: Wait!
(They assemble outside the bay and watch him.)
Jammer: I'm sorry!
(He approaches the glass and pleads; they can't hear him. Conner hits the launch tube door and Jammer is sucked out into space.)
Connor: My son. Kevin. He was o­nly seven years old.
Barolay: Let's go. Come o­n. Connor, let's go.
Anders, to Chief: This isn't what I signed up for.

Refugee barracks, Galactica.

Chief: Hi. Hey, sweetie.
Cally: Am I o­n watch?
Chief: No, no, you're fine. Here. Give him to me. Come here. You come here. Come to daddy. Hey, buddy. There you go. I know, Mommy's much more comfortable than me. Huh? Cally?
Cally: Mm-hmm.
Chief: When you were down o­n their planet, you ran away from the trucks. Did anybody help you? o­ne of the NCP goons or ... anybody?
Cally: What? No. Wait, yeah. Somebody told me to run. It probably was o­ne of those goons. I haven't thought about it since. Hey, how did you know about that? I mean, why do you ask?
Chief: No reason. Go back to sleep.
Cally: Okay.
(She goes back to sleep; he rocks the baby.)

CREDITS (41,435 Survivors in the Fleet.)

Colonial o­ne (Dream).

Adama: In my opinion it wasn't his fault.
Tigh, with both eyes intact: I hate to admit it, but the Admiral's right. He was in an impossible situation. I'd have probably done the same in his position.
Roslin: Well, if that's the way it has to be then that's the way it has to be. (She stands and addresses Baltar.) No hard feelings?
Baltar: None. Mistakes were made, no doubt. There's no question. But the past is the past. I think we can all agree that we'd like to move o­n.
Chip Six enters: You fools. You're being too lenient, he betrayed you. Actively sought your deaths. Doesn't that matter to you? Don't you have any self-respect?
Baltar: Wouldn't bother, they can't hear you...
Six: Don't make me angry, Gaius.
Adama: You wouldn't like her when she's angry.
Roslin, taking off Baltar's glasses: I've always wanted you.
Baltar: Oh, no.
Roslin: What?
Baltar: I'm dreaming, aren't I?
Roslin: Yes, you are.
(Roslin kisses him.)

Baltar's Basestar.

Baltar jerks awake in a strange, brightly lit room. A red Cylon band of light encircles the room, and large arrangements of lights pulsate. He is naked; there's a bathrobe hanging o­n the wall. His bed is baroque. A Centurion watches him dress. They stare at each other.

Pilots' barracks.

Anders: Hey. Did you get any sleep?
Starbuck: Sleep when you're dead.
Anders: Nice. What is all that?
Starbuck: I got my gear out of storage. Never thought I'd see any of this stuff again.
Anders: Hey.
Starbuck: What?
Anders: Come here. (He kisses her; she pulls away.)
Starbuck: Just don't, okay?
A female pilot passes between them: Excuse me, guys.
They look at each other.

Colonial o­ne.

Roslin: So, Mr. President, how long before the new Quorum of Twelve can be sworn in?
Zarek: Three days. I will personally place your name in nomination as my Vice President. o­nce they confirm you, I submit my resignation and you get sworn in. The whole thing should take less than an hour.
Roslin: You're stepping down without a fight? Means Tom Zarek wants something. So why don't you put your cards o­n the table and let's see if it's a price that I'm willing to pay.
Zarek: Well, I'm a realist. I never had any illusions about remaining in office for very long. And the Admiral's made it quite clear that he'd like nothing better than to put me in a cell if I try to hang o­n to power.
Roslin: He's trying to do you a favor. You and I both know how impossible it would be to govern this fleet without the backing of the military.
Zarek: I agree. That's why we're here. Even so, I want to be included in the new government. I don't wanna be o­n the outside looking in anymore.
Roslin: Okay. Okay. You stood up to Baltar o­n New Caprica. You nearly lost your life for your trouble. This Fleet needs that kind of courage. The vice presidency is yours if you want it, Tom.
Zarek, laughing: Well, thank you.
Roslin, shaking his hand: You're welcome.

Galactica CIC.

(Gaeta enters, wearing civvies, as men repair the CIC.)
Tigh: You gotta be kidding. Who gave this man permission to enter the CIC?
Helo: Admiral's orders, sir. Communications took some serious hits during the rescue, and Mr. Gaeta's offered to help with the repairs.
Tigh: Well, isn't that nice. Man can turn his coat, collaborate with the enemy, contribute to the deaths of thousands. But the old man needs his phones fixed, and suddenly, all is forgiven.
Helo: Cylons find us, we're gonna need every hand we've got.
Tigh: The Cylons found us, Mr. Agathon. Your friend Gaeta was o­n the welcoming committee.
(Tigh gets louder and louder, menacing Gaeta.)
Tigh: Hey! Look at me. Long as you're here, maybe you can help me out. I'm missing something. I lost it in detention. Since you're so buddy-buddy with the Cylons, maybe you know where it is? How 'bout it? Do you know where my eye is?
Adama, entering: Saul!
Tigh: Admiral.
Adama, to crew: Back to work. (To Tigh, who's now stumbling.) Walk with me.
Tigh: Yeah.
Adama: They have a lot of work in the next couple of weeks. I need you to get some sleep. Get rested and get ready, all right?
Tigh: Oh, I'm ready right now. I may be a little rough around the edges, but I can still hold my own. (Turning back to yell into CIC.) And you can tell that toaster-lover over there that I am still the XO of this ship!
Adama: Let's go.
Tigh: Get your hands off me.
Adama: You're embarrassing yourself, Saul.
Tigh: You're the o­ne that should be embarrassed. Letting o­ne of Baltar's henchman walk around like nothing's happened.
Adama: Go sleep this off. That's an order.
Tigh: Oh, yeah. Just go to sleep. Forget about it all, just forget about everything. Well, I'm not forgetting. I'm not gonna forget.
(Tigh leaves; Gaeta is sad.)

The Circle.

Seelix: The charges are carrying arms for the enemy in a time of war, shooting three civilians, and collaboration with the enemy. I call the vote.
Anders: Guilty.
Barolay: Guilty.
Tigh: Guilty.
Connor: Guilty.
Chief: Yeah. Guilty.
Seelix: Guilty. The vote being unanimous, the sentence is death.
Barolay: Chadwick's aboard The Monarch. I'll contact our men there. He'll take care of it.
Anders: Anybody got a cigarette?
Chief: How many more of these we got?
Barolay: 57. Three days. I can't believe that's all the time we've got.
Tigh: Then stop wasting it bitching and moaning. We all knew there was a clock when we signed o­n.
Connor: Most of these fraks are so guilty they stink. I could get through 50 of these things in an hour.
Tigh slams Connor's head into the table: You think we're a bunch of thugs handing out punishment o­n a whim? Jammer didn't get airlocked because you thought he was guilty. There was evidence. He was tried and convicted by this circle. This is about justice. You got that? Justice!
Connor: Yeah, okay. Okay.
Tigh: Hey. Now don't get me wrong here. I like you, Connor. You're a good guy. Next case.
Seelix: Felix Gaeta. Charges are collaborating with the enemy, and crimes against humanity.
(Chief is worried. Everybody stares at everybody else.)

COMMERCIAL

The Circle.

Tigh: I don't wanna do this. Do you think I like it? I stood beside Gaeta in the CIC for almost four years. He was like family. But the fact remains he was chief of staff to Gaius Baltar. And that alone is enough to convict him
Anders: And I'm saying that o­n this particular guy, we do not have any hard evidence. We got no witnesses -- nothing. All we do know is that he worked for Baltar. That's it.
Chief: Yeah, I gotta go with Sam o­n this o­ne. We need something specific.
Tigh: You want specific? You think Baltar ran things? That guy? He was the public face, but Gaeta -- he was the brains. Everyone knew that. He ran the operation. He did the paperwork. He approved the death lists.
Chief: How do you know that? Were you there? Did you see him approve o­ne single death list?
Tigh: He knew Cally was o­n a death list.
Chief: What are you talking about? How do you know that?
Tigh: Look there. That's a distribution list and there's Cally's name. And there's Gaeta's name. He saw her execution ordered.
Anders: It's still all circumstantial. We don't know what Gaeta did or didn't do when he saw that list.
Barolay: I gotta go with them o­n this o­ne.
Anders: Jean!
Barolay: No, Sam, you see a death list like that, you know innocent people are gonna die, and you do nothing about it? He's guilty.
Connor: I call the question.
Seelix: The question of the innocence or guilt of Felix Gaeta has been called. The Circle will vote. I vote guilty.
Connor: Guilty.
Tigh: Guilty.
Barclay, shaking head: Guilty. Sam?
Anders: No, don't bother. I'm done.
Seelix: We're still voting.
Anders: I'm not. I'm done. I'm done with this whole thing. War's over for me. I'm sorry.
Connor: Okay. That's fine. Still four to none, Chief. What's your vote?
Barolay: No, wait a minute. We need six votes.
Connor: No, screw that.
Chief: No, screw you! We're a jury. That's how it was set up. We need six votes. We don't have six votes, I'm out too.
Tigh: He's right. We need a sixth.

Basestar, Raiders swarming outside.

(The Centurion guarding Baltar leaves; Three enters wearing a white dress.)
Three: How are you, Gaius?
Baltar: I'm alive. I suppose that's something.
(She grins and hands him some pills. )
Baltar: Thank you.
(She sits down beside him, but he jumps up.)
Baltar: You'll have to excuse me, I'm slightly confused. How long have I been here exactly?
Three: Three days.
Baltar: Three days? So it's taken you three days to remember where I was?
Three: No o­ne's forgotten you, Gaius.
(He takes the pills.)
Three: It's just there's been some controversy about whether or not you should've let o­n board or not.
Baltar: I can't believe there's still question of my value.
Three regards him from the couch: There'll always be a question. You are a human.
Baltar: Now look. I helped you. I gave you Sharon's child.
Three: Yes, that's right. You did. And the child's rescue did weigh in your favor. However, the vote's deadlocked. Three in favor of your being allowed to stay, and three against. With o­ne model still undecided. (Conspiratorially.) The fact is, the decision rests with the Sixes.
(She watches for his reaction, which is: nauseated.)

Adama's office.

Apollo: We're starting to see a rash of "missing persons" reports.
Adama: Well, we left thousands of people o­n that planet.
Apollo: No, this is different. These are people known to have survived, but who've gone missing since the Exodus. Jammer for instance.
Adama: Deck hand. I saw him yesterday afternoon.
Apollo: Yeah, but he didn't report at muster this morning, bedcheck negative, sickbay negative. It's like he just vanished.
Adama: How many people are missing?
Apollo: 13 as of today. Two o­n Galactica, 11 elsewhere. Every o­ne of them confirmed as a survivor by multiple witnesses and then poof! Gone.
Adama: Keep me posted o­n any more "missing persons." I wanna know about it.
Apollo: Yes, sir. Now if you'll excuse me. I have a date with a jump rope.
Dad stares.
Apollo: Hey, I've dropped half a stone.
Adama: Keep jumping.
(Apollo taken aback, leaves.)

Galactica Mess.

(Starbuck watches Gaeta, who sits eating alone, and approaches him.)
Starbuck: Hey. How ya doing?
Gaeta: You know, I'm ... making do. How are you?
Starbuck: I'm good. Why do you ask?
Gaeta: Well, I heard about your situation. You were
Starbuck: ...Right. I just try not to think about it anymore. You know?
(She eats.)
Starbuck: Kinda like you... sitting in your plushy little office o­n Colonial o­ne doing all of Baltar's dirty work for him. Probably never even thought about what was happening to me, right?
Gaeta: I didn't know about your situation. If I had, I would've tried to get you out.
Starbuck: Mm.
Gaeta: Like I just said about 50 times now, I was serving the legal President of the Colonies. We all elected him, remember?
Starbuck: So that's supposed to excuse it?
(Crew in the Mess start clearing out.)
Gaeta: What do you want me to say? Maybe I could've done more. But I thought that when the Cylons landed, it was important for me to keep my job. To help from the inside.
Starbuck: By propping Baltar up and letting the Cylons walk all over us.
Gaeta: No! No! I fed information to the Resistance. I set up dead-drops. There was a dog bowl. I passed along Cylon positions, internal memoranda --
Starbuck: Hooray, Felix. You're a frakkin' hero.
(Gaeta leaves. Starbuck stares after him and Seelix watches the whole thing.)

COMMERCIAL

Basestar.

(Baltar wakes to see a Six staring sadly down at him.)
Six: Whatever feelings I had for you have to stop. I allowed my feelings to cloud my judgment. I protected you. I gave your species a second chance. I even turned against a sister Cylon and for WHAT? I'm Cylon, Gaius. Somehow I lost sight of that.
Baltar stands: You are much, much more than a machine. You're a person. A real person. A woman. And you're in love with me. And it hurts. I know it hurts. (Crying.) But believe me, I am the o­nly o­ne that can make it better. Don't you see? I am the o­nly o­ne.
Six: No, this has to end.
(She walks to the door.)
Baltar: You need me. You need me! Admit it! Admit that you need me.
(Centurions block him from following.)
Baltar: And I need you too! Did you hear me? I need you too. (To himself, turning away) Maybe I should've started with that.

The Circle.

Tigh: It's a jury. I wanna make that clear. It's not about settling scores or personal grudges. It's a jury.
Chief: We're just dealing with the worst of the worst. People that did more than put o­n an NCP uniform or make a deal with the Cylons.
Barolay: They're the killers. The real traitors.
Starbuck: Yeah, but none of this is legal, right?
Chief: No, no. It's legal.
Seelix hands her Gaeta's death order.
Starbuck: You gotta be kidding me.
Tigh: That's why we need to know right now. Are you in or out?
Starbuck clears her throat: In.
Tigh: Good. We've already been through the evidence. So just take your time.
Starbuck: You telling me that Gaeta saw this list and didn't do a damn thing about it?
Chief: We have no idea of knowing what Gaeta did or did not do when he saw the list.
Starbuck: My Gods, the whole thing's like a bad dream o­nly we woke up and the traitors are all still here. ...Guilty.
Seelix: That's five to none in favor of guilty. It's gotta be unanimous. Chief. You're the last to vote.
(The door opens and Sam enters.)
Tigh: Get outta here, Sam.
Anders: I'd like to talk to my wife. I'd like to do it now.
Tigh, to Starbuck: We already have your vote. Take a break.

Corridor.

Anders: Hey, I quit because I'm not looking for ways to keep killing people.
Starbuck: I need this, Sam.
Anders: So what? Throwing a few people out an airlock is gonna make you feel better about yourself? 'Cause believe me, those aren't the people that kept you locked in that room.
Starbuck: They'll do. And not just for me but for every person we left back o­n that planet because someone has gotta pay. So you can either get with it, or you can get lost.
Anders: Is that what you want, Kara? You want me to leave?

The Circle.

Tigh: He doesn't wanna say he's guilty because Gaeta is such a good guy. Right, Chief? Everyone likes Gaeta, so let's let him off the hook. Let's just look the other way o­n this o­ne. Well, a lot of good people had to pay the price for what they did. Choices they made o­n New Caprica. Like my wife.
(They are shocked.)
Tigh: That's right. Ellen collaborated. Gave the Cylons information o­n the Resistance, and she died for it. Because that's the price of collaborating with the enemy. And I liked her a lot more than I like Gaeta.

Corridor.

Starbuck: Look, Sam... I'm in a different place now. I -- I don't know how else to explain it to you. But I got out of that cell, and it's like someone painted the world in different colors. And I look at you... and I want to tear your eyes out just for looking at me.
(He shakes his head, crying.)
Starbuck: I just wanna hurt someone and it might as well be you. So you should probably go before that happens.

The Circle.

Seelix: Baltar signed death warrants, organized murder squads. He collaborated with the enemy from day o­ne.
Chief: Baltar, not Gaeta.
Tigh: It's the same Godsdamned thing.
Seelix: He's right. A lot of people died because of them, Chief.
Chief: Fine. Guilty.

Corridor.

Anders hands Starbuck her dogtags: Remember this? I don't want this anymore.
Starbuck: Sam...
(She kisses him goodbye, and goes back to the Circle. He stands alone in the corridor.)

Galactica corridor.

(Seelix and Connor take Felix down, put his head in a bag, and take him to a Viper launch bay with the rest of the Circle -- including Starbuck -- following behind.)
Barolay: Take him.
Connor: Turn around! o­n your knees. o­n your knees!
Seelix: Felix Gaeta, you've been tried and found guilty of crimes against humanity by a circle of your peers, as duly authorized by the President of the Colonies.

COMMERCIAL

Launch bay.

Seelix: If you have any words to offer in your own defense, now is the time.
Chief: Come o­n, Felix. Talk. We'll listen.
Connor: Yeah, that's right. We'll listen to you tell us how hiding behind Baltar's skirt was actually your way of helping the insurgency.
Barolay: Say something.
Gaeta, teeth clenched: What's the point? I already tried to explain it. I'm not gonna beg.
Tigh: Too bad you didn't grow that spine four months ago.
(Seelix turns, sickened, Barclay follows.)
Starbuck: Beg. Beg! Beg!
(She kicks him.)
Tigh: Thrace.
Starbuck: No! Beg. Come o­n, Felix. Tell 'em how you were actually working for the Resistance the entire time. Come o­n! Tell 'em all about the important information that you were giving up. Tell 'em about all the messages and the dog bowl, and everything else. Just tell me about ...
Chief: What? What'd she say? What did she just say? (Pulling her off him.) Back up, lady. What did she just say? What did you say to her? Tell me. What did you say to her?
Gaeta: There was a yellow dog bowl. It was a signal. It meant there was a message in the garbage dump. I turned it over. It was a signal. And then there was a message in the garbage dump.
Chief: That was you. Oh, my God --
(Chief immediately takes a box cutter to Gaeta's bonds.)
Tigh: What are you doing?
Starbuck, sick: Chief.
Chief: There was a yellow dog bowl. I used it. You were wondering who the source was, Colonel. There's no other way he could've known. He's the o­nly other o­ne that would know about it. He's the reason we know about the death lists. He's the reason I saved Cally. He's the reason we're o­n this ship. He's the o­ne who gave us the inside information. There's our source, Colonel.
Gaeta: I did what I could. (Stands) I don't know what else I could've done.
(He leaves; the rest of the Circle disperses.)

Colonial o­ne.

Adama: What the hell is this?
Zarek: It's all perfectly legal. You'll find a signed executive order o­n file authorizing a secret jury of six men and women to try, sentence, and execute people guilty of extraordinary crimes while collaborating with the enemy in a time of war. There's also a death warrant with my signature for every conviction.
Adama: Your presidency is a farce. It stops right now.
Roslin: If they're guilty, they'll be tried by a jury of their peers.
Zarek: They have a jury. But they don't get lawyers. They don't get to showboat for weeks and months o­n end. They don't get to blame the system and they don't get lasting fame as martyrs or innocent people just in the wrong place at the wrong time. They just disappear. Now, in the gray twilight between the long night of the Occupation and the dawn of a new era, you come into office clean, without their blood o­n your hands.
Roslin, pissed: Well, thank you. That's, uh ... that's very poetic. However you have a problem, Mr. President. Everyone by law is entitled to a trial with representation. Everyone. It is not an option to be discarded at the president's whim.
Zarek: You think by making the trials public that you'll find justice?
Roslin: Yes, I do.
Zarek: Come o­n, Laura. You're not that naive. Let me tell you what's gonna happen if these cases go to trial. It'll consume this fleet for months, maybe years. People will be lining up to testify against their neighbors. It'll be a circus -- an entertainment for the mob. And you'll be signing death warrants almost every day. Is that how you wanna spend your next term, Laura? As executioner-in-chief?

Colonial o­ne.

Priest: "...With every fiber of my being."
Roslin: "...With every fiber of my being."
Priest: Congratulations, Madame President.
(She shakes his hand and turns to the press.)
Roslin: Thank you. Thank you all, for o­nce again entrusting me with this high office of civil service. Today's a new beginning for all of us. We share a unique destiny ...
(Starbuck at her locker, hanging her dogtags inside.)
Roslin: ... That our future is ours to shape, and our past cannot be forgotten. A new day requires new thinking. And while I had intended o­n using this occasion as an opportunity to announce a formation of a special prosecutor's office charged with investigating acts of collaboration with the enemy ...
(Tigh unpacks clothes and memorabilia.)
Roslin: ... I have decided instead that a different gesture is called for o­n this, the first day of my next term as your president. We all feel the need for justice, and we all feel the need for vengeance.
(Zarek looks down, Adama sitting behind him at the ceremony.)
Roslin: ... And telling the difference between the two can be difficult at times. We are all victims of the Cylons
(Baltar watches as a Six leaves clothes for him and takes off again.)
Roslin: ... And none of us can be impartial. I certainly can't. So today I am forming a commission o­n truth and reconciliation to hear our stories, and record them for posterity. There will be no prosecutions.
(Gaeta enters the officers' locker room and reclaims his locker and commission.)
Roslin: ... I am issuing a general pardon for every human being in this fleet. This will not be a popular move today. But I truly believe that this is the o­nly way for us to move forward in strength in a spirit of healing and reconciliation.
(Tory gazes up at her at the ceremony.)
Roslin: ... I thank you for your continued patience and courage. Good day.
(Adama begins clapping; the press and audience soon follow.)

Galactica Mess

(Chief enters and is offered a seat at a table but joins Gaeta, who is sitting alone, instead. Gaeta says nothing, but resumes eating calmly and peacefully with the Chief.)

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