Re: BG-14: Baltar's Escape
Revisited this one today. One thing that was never made clear was just why did Baltar think it was important to have his centurions and his fighter back when he could have just as easily left on the Alliance Destroyer with the others? (Yes, I know. We needed to have him in a position to be caught again at episode's end for purposes of story convenience!)
The only "logical" explanation I can think of is that Baltar felt he needed his centurions and his fighter to help him establish his bona fides with the Alliance leadership as a way of showing them the larger forces that existed in the Universe, and thus in the event the Cylons ever reached that region of space, the Alliance would know how much they'd need Baltar as any kind of go-between (that's how Baltar would have been looking at things).
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