Boomer calls him "Baltar's pilot". Since Baltar says he was caught by the Cylons "between the President's Battlestar and my own", he must have been in a shuttle. Of course, he is lying, but someone must have flown him home. Charybdis is our only suspect at this point.

just loved those triad outfits. The crush I had on Dirk and Richard escalated due to this episode. Still drool over those tiny little outfits even to this day!

BSG I am with ya 100% on this :P: :love: :blush:

What would the costumes have been like if there'd been a women's triad league in the Fleet? :D

To me, this episode has always been a slow one, but it , like "Man with Nine Lives" shows how the fleet has other thngs to do besides fight Cylons.


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Since each Colony was hit, we have to assume it was a Colonies-wide sabotage. Since it would have been impossible for Charybdis to have been on all 12 planets in the timeframe required, he probably used a virue or tapeworm program, to make sure all the defense systems went down at the proper time. Hence, he could have both sabotaged the defense computers, and flown Baltar where he needed to go.

I think it more likely that Charybdis sabotaged the computers *before* piloting Baltar to the Atlantia and then getting him off safely before the attack began.

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You admire the triad players for their minds, right?

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Do like Benedict's mention of the uniforms on the documentary.. "We were like pieces of meat", joking of course. Murder's a good little episode though the story behind one scene, where Lockhart and Spang wedgied Benedict and Hatch.

Oh and seeing Brock Peters in Galactica wasn't too bad.

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A rival of Starbuck's, Ortega (Frank Ashmore) is found dead and evidence says he did it; Apollo takes on his defence (his Protector) in the legal case but he lacks experience. Boomer and Apollo investigate and find that circumstantial evidence indicates that the killer is one Karibdis, the man who helped disable the Caprican defence systems for Baltar and thus allow the Cylon forces to attack ... who is now living in the fleet under an alias. Baltar is recruited from the Prison Barge as he's the only one who can spot Karibdis.

Usually considered one of the weakest BG episodes and and it's thumpingly obvious that Starbuck isn't a murderer from the off, but the script, production and performances are good enough to distract from the fact that the resolution is a foregone conclusion. Throw in two other suspects with secrets to hide and given that the writers had only two days to get this script done, it's surprisingly engaging.

This is still a filler episode and a minor entry in the sense of the series taken overall but I found that I enjoyed it much more than previously with this viewing. There are several nice little aspects to this episode that indicate the wider Colonial culture like the broadcasts, the Triad game and the fact that many in the fleet follow the sport (also seen in War of the Gods).

It's also interesting in how it portrays Ortega as a blackmailer; a sound bit of depth to a Colonial Warrior that we hadn't had before; a shame he hadn't been a semi regular. I also found the depiction of the Colonial legal system interesting; it would've been good to see that explored in the further seasons.

Of course the 2003-09 remake did explore the darker, negative side of the premise to the hilt; sadly, it didn't deal with the positive side much.

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I would be good to have a graphic novel of Saga of a Star World that incorporated more of the Baltar-Karybdis plot to sabotage the colonies.

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Yes. Pulling off the utter surprise of the Cylon attack obviously took a great deal of planning and agents in place. More of that would have been good.