Battlestar Galactica (2003)/The Eye of Jupiter (1)

The Eye of Jupiter (1)
Season 3, Episode 11
Airdate	December 15, 2006
Written by	Mark Verheiden
Directed by	Michael Rymer
Fleet Survivors	41,402
← 3x10 The Passage	3x12 → Rapture (2)
Battlestar Galactica (2003) — Season Three

The Eye of Jupiter (1) is the eleventh episode of the third season of Battlestar Galactica, and the forty-fourth episode overall. It is the first part of a two-part episode, including Rapture (2).

Edward James Olmos (Admiral William Adama), Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslin), Katee Sackhoff (Kara "Starbuck" Thrace), Jamie Bamber (Major Lee "Apollo" Adama), James Callis (Dr. Gaius Baltar), Tricia Helfer (Number Six), Grace Park (Lieutenant Sharon "Athena" Agathon / Sharon Valerii)

Michael Hogan (Colonel Saul Tigh), Aaron Douglas (Chief Galen Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Captain Karl "Helo" Agathon), Nicki Clyne (Cally Tyrol), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Felix Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Lieutenant Anastasia "Dee" Dualla)

Special Guest Star: Lucy Lawless (D'Anna Biers)

Guest Star: Michael Trucco (Samuel Anders)

Guest Star: Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy)

and Dean Stockwell (Cavil)

Cast: Brad Dryborough (Hoshi), Eileen Pedde (Sgt. Mathias), Alisen Down (Barolay), Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (Hybrid), Diego Diablo Del Mar (Hillard), Aleks Paunovic (Sgt. Fischer), Tygh Runyan (Pvt. Sykes)

Plot Overview

While on the algae planet, The Temple of Five is discovered, which could provide a path towards Earth. Their attempt to unlock its secret is interrupted by the arrival of the Cylons. When their lives are bartered for the sake of giving up the temple, Adama must decide whether the loss of it and the ground team, including his son, are worth sacrificing to ensure that the Cylons don't find Earth.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Crews are processing the algae on the planet in the star cluster.

• The Temple of Five is discovered with radiocarbon dates as 4000 years old, about the time of the Thirteenth Tribe's exodus. The Temple is said to house an artefact known as the Eye of Jupiter, which is a marker to Earth. Roslin finds that it was built by five priests in dedication. Tyrol tries desperately to find the Eye of Jupiter.

• The Cylons converge on the planet, but don't fire. They wish to board and a Heavy Raider brings D'Anna, Cavil, Boomer, and Baltar. They offer to let them go if they hand over the Eye of Jupiter.

• Unbeknown to Galactica, Three launched a Heavy Raider filled with Centurions upon to the planet that slipped by DRADIS.

• Gaeta discovers that the star in the system is on the verge of going supernova.

• To protect the Temple, Lee drafts Anders and the other civilians.

• D'Anna and Baltar leave for the planet in a Heavy Raider, accompanied by others. Spotting it, Adama orders a nuclear strike of the planet. The Cylons detect the radiological signature and an argument ensues on recalling the Raiders.

Characters

• Tyrol is inexorably drawn toward something that leads him to the Temple of Five.

• Kara and Lee go behind Dee and Anders's back to cheat. However, Lee can't do it. He proposes she divorce Anders, but she won't do it.

• Boomer tells Athena that Hera is alive, but sick. Adama confronts Roslin on faking her death. She admits to it, angering Adama. Having it confirmed, Athena wants to get her child.

• D'Anna and Baltar visit the Hybrid. It states the five will only be revealed to "the chosen one." D'Anna is oblivious to the Hybrid looking directly at Baltar when she says it.

• D'Anna breaks off she and Baltar's relationship with Caprica-Six.

• Kara's Raptor is shot down. Anders is adamant to get her, but Lee won't let him.

Trivia

The Show

• Despite having appeared in several episodes together, this marks the first time Boomer and Athena are seen meeting and interacting with each other.

Behind the Scenes

• According to Jane Espenson, who wrote the previous episode, this episode was originally titled with the name Zeus. Ron Moore explained that it was changed later to Jupiter simply because it sounded better.

• The temple's interior is the same abandoned factory that served as the large room on Ragnar Anchorage where Doral is left at the end of the miniseries.

Quotes

• (being escorted through Galactica)

Number Six: It feels like old times, doesn't it?

Baltar: I can't believe how much I actually miss this place.

Number Six: You know you can't return. They'd toss you out the nearest airlock, and then throw a party.

Baltar: Yes, I know. Still, I can't help feel I'm finally... home.

Number Six: If you're really a Cylon - a member of the Final Five - these feelings are just part of your programming, part of your cover.

Baltar: And if I'm a human being after all - if I'm not one of the Final Five, then this is the last chance I get to see my kind again.

• (Baltar and three Cylon models are being escorted when they run into Athena)

Athena: Colonel, wait.

Cavil: Well, look at this. Should we salute?

Athena: (indicating an Eight model) That's Boomer.

Tigh: The one who shot the Old Man. Well, you just lost your visiting privileges.

• Adama: What's your offer?

Number Three: You give us the Eye of Jupiter, we let you go.

Cavil: And, we'll throw in Baltar.

Baltar: What are you talking about?

Number Three: Indeed.

Baltar: What's he saying?

Cavil: I'm improvising. Throw in something, sweeten the pot. Besides, I suspect that the Admiral and Madam President would enjoy some nice, quiet, private time with the former leader. Am I right?

Tigh: It's worth thinking about.

Adama: Definitely worth thinking about.

• Kara: Can I make a suggestion that you won't like?

Lee: Do you make any other kind?

• Gaeta: Sir, I am not one to look to religious signs, but I can't get my head around these odds. That human and Cylon both converge on this planet, at this exact moment, just as the star's about to go supernova?

Adama: I'm not a religious person, Mr Gaeta, as you both know. So if this is the work of a higher power, then they have one hell of a sense of humour.

• Helo: You, of all people.... know what it's like to loose a child.

Adama: The difference is your child's still alive. And eventually, I hope you become grateful of that.