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This episode was ostensibly about Chief dealing with Cally’s death, but it was chock full of other conflict-filled goodness, including Chief causing a ship to go down due to an error (?), then demanding that everybody tell him he frakked up instead of feeling sorry for him. Chief’s grief was either an act or short-lived, unless he was faking his argument with Adama to get himself demoted. Probably a little bit of both. I assume it’s because he doesn’t want to cause any more “accidents” while repairing ships, like the Raptor mishap in this episode, but maybe he just doesn’t want to help out the fleet anymore. Speaking of his argument with Adama, Chief made a great point when he said Adama had been willing to throw Cally against the bulkhead and threaten to shoot her a few months back. Also, it was about frakkin’ time they dealt with Chief’s loss of Boomer, especially now that he realizes he’s a Cylon, too, since he must be feeling some major regret.

Tigh tried to get some “Cylon” answers from the Six who is being held prisoner, and after he excused the guards, she started beating the crap out of him. So what did he do? Asked for more. Instead, she started making out with him. Plus Six kept switching back and forth from looking like Ellen to her usual self. I don’t know what the connection with his deceased (by his own hand) wife Ellen is—just memories dredged up by Cally’s funeral, a sign that Ellen is the 12th Cylon, or even that she was an older version of Six—but whatever it was, they definitely made some kind of connection.

I don’t know exactly where they’re going with the Adama/Roslin relationship, but I hope something happens fast. They’ve replayed almost the same scene practically every week this season. I like that Roslin went in and confronted Baltar face-to-face about his new cult, although I don’t like her attitude about allowing some diversity in the fleet. Lee’s reaction to her ban on assemblies of more than twelve people was the correct one, despite the danger it might pose. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, people who are willing to give up freedom for security deserve to have neither.

And Lee’s override vote came just in time to rescue Baltar. After Head Six convinced Baltar that he’d be okay if he just walked past the marine guards, he got the snot knocked out of him with the butt of a rifle. Then Head Six CARRIED BALTAR—yes, I rewound my Tivo several times to make sure—against his will up to the marine again, to get smacked to the ground one more time. Not only was this a cool scene, but it brings up all sorts of questions about the true nature of Head Six. This wasn’t one of those scenes where we see how it looks to Baltar, then to everyone else. Baltar was actually suspended like a marionette as she forced him to confront the guard again. Veeeeeerrrry interesting, indeed.

This episode was so interesting, in fact, that I didn’t even realize what was missing until after it was over. We didn’t even get to see the aftermath of the Cavils’ attack on the other Cylons, and we barely got a glimpse of what was going on with Starbuck and the others on their mission. I guess we can’t have it all.

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