To pick up her spirits, Dee offers to babysit Hera. Then she talks to Lee and cheers him up about taking over for Roslin and leading the fleet by telling them the truth. They have a sweet moment followed by Lee asking her out on a date, which she accepts. After their date, Dee is giddy over how strong and funny her man is. She kisses him good night after having the most fun she’s had in a long, long time.

Dee goes into the lockers to chat with Gaeta. She’s on cloud nine, humming a little tune and looking back on a photo of herself from childhood she can barely remember. Felix is still depressed about Earth, but Dualla wants to hold on to the great memory of her date with Lee.

Then she takes off her wedding ring, picks up her gun, and shoots herself in the head. Dead. I’ve now seen this scene three times, and it still sends shivers down my spine.

Gaeta rushes back in calling for a medic, but she’s already dead. Lee mourns Dualla in the morgue while his father stumbles in, drunk, offering little consolation. Lee moves on to Colonial One and changes the survivor tally from 39, 651 to 39,650.

Admiral Adama takes another approach, picking up a gun and barging in on Tigh, agreeing to have that long overdue conversation about him being a Cylon. Adama is drunk and trying to provoke a fight, talking about how Ellen was a whore who used to flirt with him. Still, Tigh refuses to fight back because he knows it’s what Adama wants and that Adama won’t actually kill himself.

After their confrontation, Adama returns to the CIC, asks Hoshi to take over for Dualla, then plots a trip to leave Earth. Admiral gets on the horn and tells the truth: they can’t stay on Earth so, like the 13th tribe, he vows to leave and find a new home. He fails to inform the fleet that the 13th tribe wasn’t human but Cylon.


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