When Captain Lee Adama recruits prisoners to retrieve an underground water supply from a desolate ice moon, several Galactica officers are held hostage by a charismatic anti-government leader.
This is the episode that guest stars Richard Hatch as Tom Zarek.
From Richard Hatch interview @ scifi pulse
Basically, I play a Nelson Mandela style political rebel and leader named Tom Zarek, who has been a captive on the Prison Barge for 20 years. In the episode, I lead a prisoner rebellion and challenge the political agenda of the president and commander Adama. Zarek is a character who is extremely motivated and will not back down if he feels in his heart that he is right.
It struck me today that every single character in this has some flaw in their character. I don't think that is a bad thing, on the contrary, it is very human, and since this show is meant to be about humans vs robots in makes sense. It also makes good drama.
That, together with a complete lack of a 'reset-button' each week, and the story begining to build momentum, layering further complications upon choices and decisions that have previously been made, is making it a 'must see' programme for me.
And there doesn't seem much chance of it being cancelled in mid-story, which generally happens to everything else that I get interested in.
Just when Adama is going to press Baltar on his Cylon detector, he backs away again. You can see his total disdain for him though.
And I'm afraid that the Boomer still on Caprica who went back to rescue Helo is really a Cylon. The Cylons said so. And I'm sure that the Boomer on Galatica is one too after last week. Strangely, no one on Galactica seems to think that, certainly not Tyrol. And the scene where Tigh catches them hugging was clever. He says something like -- you're not fooling anyone -- and I was sure he was going to say something about the bombs, but he only meant her and Tyrol.
