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Battlestar Galactica
"The Passage"
TV episode
Written by Jane Espenson
Directed by Michael Nankin
Original air date: December 8, 2006
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Galactica's pilots must lead the
starving fleet through a radioactive star cluster to a new food
source.
Read the summary of the episode at the Battlestar Wiki
site
Didja Know?
The opening titles show the fleet population at 41,420, down two
from the previous episode
"Unfinished Business". The
loss is not specifically explained, but may be due to the
contaminated food that plagues the fleet in this episode.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Athena
Admiral Adama
President Roslin
Dr. Cottle
Helo
Hot Dog
Starbuck
Kat
Racetrack
Apollo
Narcho
Number Three
Baltar
Caprica Six
Lt. Gaeta
Dee
Enzo
Number Six
Number Four
Number Eight
Colonel Tigh
Lt. Hoshi
The Hybrid
Chopper (mentioned only)
Didja Notice?
At 2:06 on the Blu-ray, the Astral Queen is seen to
have sustained
widespread minor
damage to its hull, possibly
corrosion from its time parked on the surface of New Caprica at
the end of last season and the beginning of this one.
Dr. Cottle says the algae they've found on the algae planet
tastes bad, but it's almost pure protein.
At 8:51 on the Blu-ray, a model of the Colonial Movers ship is
seen on the information management table in CIC as the command
crew discuss how to safely recover loads of algae from the
planet. The two ships below it must be the freighters Gemini
and Thera Sita.
In this episode, we learn that Kat's real first name is Sasha;
we don't learn the last name. She assumed the name Louanne
Katraine from that of a girl who died two days before the
annihilation of the Twelve Colonies by the Cylons in order to
hide her identity as a drug runner on Caprica when she joined
the fleeing civilians in the fleet.
At 12:03 on the Blu-ray, the three Cylons walking in the
corridor behind Baltar and Number Three suddenly pause for just
a second, all at the same time. Why the pause in their pace?
Baltar and his Number Three continue their discussion without
pause.
Enzo has a tattoo on his neck that may be a medusa.
Colonel Tigh resumes his post in CIC in this episode. Admiral
Adama told him he needed him back in
"Unfinished Business". Lt.
Gaeta doesn't look too happy about it, probably because Tigh had
previously publicly accused him of being a sellout to the Cylons
during the occupation of New Caprica and did not want Gaeta
reinstated to duty on the Galactica.
During the first outbound hazardous journey through the star cluster, the fleet
loses the Adriatic, a ship never officially seen in the series but which
was previously mentioned in "Home"
Part 1 (see that study for a possible visual identification
of the Adriatic). During a later flight through the cluster, the
Carina is lost; this was the first and last appearance
of this ship in an episode.
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Number Three has been killing herself and resurrecting
so she can see what happens between death and rebirth.
She tells Baltar that she can't remember most of what
she sees, but makes quick sketches of what she thinks she saw
before she forgets it. One of the sketches she shows him
is of a hooded face that is reminiscent of the Beings of
Light from BSG70. |
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| D'Ana's sketch |
Beings of Light from
BSG70 |
When Baltar and Number Three enter the Hybrid's chamber, the
Hybrid is mumbling, "One degree. Angle nominal. Seascape
portrait of the woman-child cavern of the soul. Under pressure
heat ratio. Ions of evolution have buried their fuse," and
"Throughout history, the nexus between man and machine has spun
some of the most dramatic and compelling..."
Baltar tries to decipher the message given to him by the Hybrid,
"Find the hand that lies in the shadow of the light. In the
eye of the husband of the eye of the cow." Baltar realizes
that the "eye of the cow" may be a reference to the goddess
Hera, who he says is sometimes called "cow-eyed Hera." The
ancient Greek goddess Hera, who considered the cow one of the
sacred animals, was sometimes called
"cow-eyed Hera." Hera was also married to Zeus (Roman
Jupiter), as Baltar and Three declare here.
Kat sacrifices her life due to lethal radiation exposure to
bring the Faru Sadin through the star cluster.
Adama reveals to Kat that his wife had thought that both of
their sons were going to be daughters when she was pregnant.
A number of previously unheard or rarely-heard pilot call signs
are seen on the air group organization chart at 41:30 on the
Blu-ray. They are: Two Times (Ricky Richardson), Sever (Troy
Minds), Spender (Ahumada Salas), Feline (Analy Amante), Shark
(Lyla Elway), I-Zyk (Frank Pooley), Lefty (Shirley Ingot; a set
decorator named
Shirley Inget worked on some season one episodes),
Bones (John Lavell), Fuzzy (Jarrell Kief), Deadbolt (Oein
Parker), Sonny (Ronald French; Ron French was a producer on the
series), Buzzer (Tony Lort; an assistant accountant on the
series), Flash (Daniel Sissons), Kitty Kat (Izo Ruedel), Brakes
(Wera Pocha), Spider (Terry McCall), Doom (Cole Netzger), Snitch
(John Burke; a set designer on the first season of the series),
Hiccup (River Brigden), Falcon, (Delphi Birch), Ruins (Chac
Choben; both the name and call sign are likely a reference to
the ruins of
Chacchoben, an ancient Mayan city), Trip (Jose
Montero), Flim-Flam (Clay McKenzie), Beetle (Becca Andrewson),
Spacewalk (Kirk Donner), Buttermilk (Keenan Van Dyk), I-Boogie
(Leticia Holmes), Creeper (Erika Mercantele), Slick (Jacob
Calabros), Bomber (Drew Wilson), and Tailgate (Bryan Smith).
At the end of the episode, Starbuck pins a photo of Kat on the
Galactica's memorial wall right under the photo of
Reilly's unnamed girlfriend that Kat put there in
"Scar".
