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Battlestar Galactica
"Dirty Hands"
TV episode
Written by Anne Cofell Saunders and Jane Espenson
Directed by Wayne Rose
Original air date: February 25, 2007
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Defying President Roslin and Admiral Adama, Chief Tyrol
leads a labor strike on the tylium refinery ship.
Read the summary of the episode at the Battlestar Wiki
site
Didja Know?
The opening titles show the fleet population at 41,400, up two
from the previous episode "A Day
in the Life". Presumably, two births occurred in the fleet
in the interim.
The tylium ship is revealed to be named the Hitei Kan
in a deleted scene of this episode.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Chief Tyrol
Sanchez
Baltar
Redford
Racetrack
Cally
Specialist Seelix
Anthony Figurski
Joanne Pollux
Skulls
President Roslin
Tory Foster
Admiral Adama
Dr. Cottle (mentioned only)
Xeno Fenner
Nicholas Tyrol
Head Six
Cabott
Milo
Daniel Noon
Starbuck
Didja Notice?
At 1:45 on the Blu-ray, a man with a prosthetic arm and
claw-like hand is seen working as a crewmember in the
Galactica hangar bay. Might this be a nod to the character
briefly seen as the duty officer in the
Interfleet Navigational Operations room in the BSG70 episode
"Take the Celestra" and who may have been the same character
called Ironhand in the novel
Surrender the Galactica, as
the captain of the Broadside?
At 1:48 on the Blu-ray, we see that a
crewmember in the hangar bay has a copy of Baltar's prison
writings, My Triumphs, My Mistakes. The header at the
top of the cover page of the treatise reads, "PRISON NOTES: The
truth cannot be suppressed."
Cally refers to Caprica, Virgon, and Tauron as "rich colonies"
and Aerelon, Sagittaron, and Gemenon as "poor colonies". In
episodes of the prequel series
Caprica, set nearly
60 years before Battlestar Galactica, Tauron is
considered one of the poorer colonies, her natives even called
"dirteaters" on the colony of Caprica. Something must have
changed in those 60 years to rise Tauron to a level of
wealth prominence.
Regarding the people inhabiting the tylium refinery ship,
President Roslin remarks, "Over the past two years, parents have
taught children how to operate the machinery...they have passed
along their skills." But it has been well over three years since
the fleet left the Twelve Colonies. Possibly she is omitting the
roughly year-and-a-half spent on New Caprica to make it "two
years" of parents teaching their children their skills...and yet
that's not the same as her statement of
the "past two years".
Baltar tells Tyrol he was raised on a dairy outside the town of
Cuffle's Breath Wash on Aerilon. Baltar's upbringing there was
also mentioned in
"Important Projects".
At 34:23 on the Blu-ray, a computer
console has the brand name Astro-Med, Inc. on it. Astro-Med, now
known as
AstroNova, is a manufacturer of data visualization
technologies.
When Cally is arrested as a
ringleader of the general strike of the deckhands aboard
Galactica, she tells her husband not to worry about her
because, "I've been in the brig before." Cally was incarcerated
in the brig for 30 days in "The Farm"
(technically for "discharging a firearm without permission", but
her actual crime was the murder of the Cylon called Boomer).
The workers' union that Chief Tyrol headed on New Caprica was
called the Colonial Workers' Alliance. The union is revived for
the workers of the fleet in this episode.
Notes from the audio commentary by Ron Moore on the
Blu-ray release
Moore reveals that the scenes in the tylium refinery ship were
shot at an old sugar processing factory. (The same factory was
used for some scenes at Ragnar Anchorage in
"Flight" and "Enemies Among
Us".)