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Battlestar Galactica
"A Disquiet Follows My Soul"
TV episode
Written and Directed by Ronald D. Moore
Original air date: January 23, 2009
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Adama believes that Cylon technology
will lead to habitable space, but his proposal for an alliance
is met by fierce resistance.
Read the summary of the episode at the Battlestar Wiki
Didja Know?
This study is based on the extended version of the episode
found on the complete series Blu-ray edition. It runs almost 10
minutes longer than the aired version.
Starting with this episode, the opening titles state that the
humans of the fleet are searching for a home, rather than for
Earth (appropriately enough, since Earth was discovered to be a
radioactive wasteland in "Revelations"
and
"Sometimes a Great Notion").
The opening titles show the fleet at a
population of 39,644, down 6 from the count of
39,650 from the middle of the previously televised episode
"Sometimes a Great Notion"
when Dee committed suicide. This count allows for the deaths of
Specialists Brooks and Finnegan and
Ensign "Easy" Esrin
in the webisode series that chronologically precedes this
episode, "Face of the Enemy";
it might also account for the deaths of Sweet Eight and Hard
Eight in the webisodes, but probably neither Eight could be
considered part of the fleet, just visiting "guests" of the
rebel baseship.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Admiral Adama
Colonel Tigh
Caprica Six
Dr. Cottle
Paramedic Layne Ishay
Lt. Gaeta
Dee (mentioned only, deceased)
President Roslin
Specialist Tyrol
Nicholas Tyrol
Playa Palacios
Tom Zarek
Apollo
Sekou Hamilton
Baltar
Head Six
John Cavil (mentioned only)
Helo
Cally
(mentioned only, deceased)
Hot Dog
Number Eight
(mentioned only)
Leoben Conoy
(mentioned only)
Starbuck
Reza Chronides
Jacob Cantrell
Specialist Figurski
Paulla Schaffer
Jeanne
Lt. Hoshi
Athena
Didja Notice?
Admiral Adama reads a brief passage from a book before leaving
his quarters to start his work day. The quote is from the poem
"There is a Languor of the Life" by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
In the audio commentary of this episode by Ron Moore, he says
that Edward James Olmos (Adama) grabbed the book and quoted it
at random and it just happened to be a passage that resonated
with the themes of this episode. The passage he reads is:
There is a languor of the life
More imminent than pain.
'Tis pain's successor
When the soul has suffered all it can.
President Roslin apparently has her own quarters aboard
Galactica now.
In this episode, we learn that the baby son of Cally and Tyrol,
Nicholas, is not actually Tyrol's son. Cally became pregnant not
long before she and Tyrol were married and the real father is
Hot Dog. This means, of course, that Nicholas is not a
human-Cylon hybrid like Hera as previously thought.
During the confrontation between Gaeta and Starbuck, Starbuck
remarks that 50 billion people were killed in the Twelve
Colonies during the Cylon attack. In the webisodes of
"The Resistance", Tigh stated a
figure of 20 billion. Which figure is correct?
The boy sitting with his chin in his hands during Baltar's
sermon to his flock at 35:32 on the Blu-ray is producer Ron
Moore's son, Robin. The girl seen at 36:39 is Moore's daughter,
Roxy.
The tylium refinery ship Hitei Kan is named in this
episode. Another, almost identical, tylium refinery ship is the
Daru Mozu, seen in some earlier episodes, suggesting
there are two such ships in the fleet. Yet, here, when the
Hitei Kan mutinies and jumps away from
the fleet, Colonel Tigh remarks they've taken all the fuel with
them. So, what happened to the
Daru Mozu? The ship is seemingly still
part of the fleet even after the Battle of New Caprica for it is
seen in "Guess What's
Coming to Dinner?". Did
Daru Mozu
somehow lose its capability to
refine tylium?
When the
Hitei Kan goes mutinous, Adama orders a
MARDET team to be scrambled.
MARDET is short for Marine Detachment.
At 42:12 on the Blu-ray, we see that the FTL jump of the
Hitei Kan affects the Vipers and Raptor
closing in on it, tossing them into a slight spin.
At 51:46 on the Blu-ray, the book seen on the headboard shelf of
Roslin's bed as she and Adama cuddle appears to be a volume of
the
Encyclopedia Britannica!