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Battlestar Galactica
"Blood on the Scales"
TV episode
Written by Michael Angeli
Directed by Wayne Rose
Original air date: February 6, 2009
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Rebels seize control of Galactica and take
steps to eliminate Roslin and Adama.
Read the summary of the episode at the Battlestar Wiki
Didja Know?
The opening titles show the fleet at a population of 39,603,
down 40 from the previous episode "The
Oath", presumably due to deaths on both sides of the mutiny
in that episode (mostly on the side of Adama's people since the
mutiny has just begun and had a strong element of surprise).
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Narcho
Number Eight
President Roslin
Baltar
Hot Dog
Specialist Gage
Lt. Gaeta
(dies in this episode)
Captain Kelly
Colonel Tigh
Admiral Adama
Specialist Vireem
Number Six
Leoben Conoy
Tory Foster
Tom Zarek
(dies in this episode)
Specialist Tyrol
Sam Anders
Racetrack
Starbuck
Apollo
Hera
Helo
Athena
Caprica Six
Romo Lampkin
Jacob Cantrell (dies in this episode)
Reza Chronides
(dies in this episode)
Delegate Dahlia
(dies in this episode)
Nicholas Tyrol (mentioned only)
Cally
(mentioned only, deceased)
Lida
Lt. Hoshi
Marine Parr
(dies in this episode)
Didja Notice?
At 7:50 on the Blu-ray, a Colonial landram is seen traversing
the length of the
Galactica hangar bay as Colonial One
makes its landing.
The joke Zarek tells Racetrack after
Colonial One lands aboard
Galactica ends with him giving the
punch line as, "Shall we save the kids?" and the attorney says,
"Frak them," and the priest says, "Do we have time?" Besides
being an "indecent" joke, this may be an indication that the
leaders of some religious sects in the Colonies had a nefarious
predilection for pedophilia, just as many such as the Roman
Catholic Church, have notoriously developed today.
When Romo Lampkin is taken in during the mutiny, he asks the
guards leading him away, "I don't suppose anyone's going to feed
my dog?" In "Sine Qua Non", Apollo gives Romo the New Caprica
resistance hero dog called Jake to care for.
Romo refers to the two mutinous marines guarding him and Adama
as "Wynken and Blynken". This appears to be a reference to the
Earth poem of 1889 by American poet Eugene Field, "Wynken,
Blynken, and Nod", about a child who has a dream of being a
fisherman sailing in an old wooden shoe.
When the Quorum refuses to acknowledge him as President
after the coup, Vice President Zarek has them all gunned down in chambers.
Captain Kelly holds a
Beretta CX4 Storm rifle on Specialist Tyrol at 18:55 on the
Blu-ray.
The Number Six model Cylon who comforts Baltar at 20:24 on the
Blu-ray looks to be a younger version of the typical Six
incarnation. Scriptwriter Michael Angeli says her name is Lida
in an interview with the Chicago Tribune.
At 35:57 on the Blu-ray, when Tyrol enters his service
credentials into the computer to shut down
Galactica's FTL drive, the screen gives his rank
as Senior Chief, but is also marked as "Inactive". He lost the
rank of Chief when Admiral Adama busted him down to Specialist
in "Escape Velocity"; so, he's
not "inactive", he's a Specialist. (Later, he regains the rank
of Chief in "No Exit", due to the murder of Chief Peter Laird
and Tyrol's own heroic actions against the Colonial mutiny
here.)
This episode gives Tyrol's service number as 409185.
In this episode, we get our first look at the workings of
Galactica's FTL drive.
The Marines (as usual) carry
Beretta
CX4 Storm rifles which, at the
end of this episode, are used to execute Lt. Gaeta and Vice
President Zarek for their leadership of the mutiny against the
leadership of the fleet.
Unanswered Questions
Were Gaeta and Zarek given trials for their leadership of the
attempted coup? How much time passed from their arrest to their
execution?
