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Battlestar Galactica
"The Son Also Rises"
TV episode
Written by Michael Angeli
Directed by Robert Young
Original air date: March 11, 2007
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Apollo finds himself in the
unenviable position of acting as security for Baltar’s attorney.
Read the summary of the episode at the Battlestar Wiki
site
Notes from the BSG
chronology
Apollo remarks to his father that it has been two weeks since
Starbuck died (in
"Maelstrom").
Didja Know?
The title of this episode is a play on the title of the classic
1926 Ernest Hemingway novel The Sun Also Rises.
The opening titles show the fleet population at 41,399, down one
from the previous episode "Maelstrom",
seemingly to account for the death of Starbuck in that episode,
though in the teaser of our current episode, Baltar's attorney,
Alan Hughes, also dies before we see the population total shown
here, which would make the fleet population 41,398.
Starting with this episode, Katee Sackhoff's name is not listed
in the opening titles for the rest of the season due to the
death of her character, Starbuck, in the previous episode.
Writer
Michael Angeli has stated the first name of Romo Lampkin's
character was created by taking the first two letters of the
first name and the first two letters of the last name of
executive producer Ronald Moore.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Admiral Adama
President Roslin
Tory Foster
Captain Elias Meeker (mentioned only)
Starbuck
(mentioned only, deceased)
Sergeant Mike Gibbons
(mentioned only, presumed deceased)
Commander James Jonasson (mentioned only, presumed deceased)
Commander Myron Ruth (mentioned only, presumed deceased)
Sam Anders
Racetrack
Specialist Figurski
Apollo
Skulls
Colonel Tigh
Lt. Gaeta
Baltar
Alan Hughes (dies in this episode)
Athena
Cally
Playa Palacios
reporter (unnamed)
Karen Fallbrook
Helo
Hot Dog
Narcho
Romo Lampkin
Billy Keikeya (in photo only, deceased)
Lance (Lampkin's cat)
Faye (Lampkin's wife, mentioned only, not named until "Sine Qua
Non")
Prosecutor Cassidy
(mentioned only)
Joseph Adama
(mentioned only, deceased)
Caprica Six
Captain Kelly
Chief Tyrol
Marine Henry Cheadle (presumably dies in this episode)
Marine Allan Nowart
Dee
Didja Notice?
Captain Elias Meeker, commander of the Gideon is
randomly chosen as one of the judges for the trial of Baltar. He
is not seen until "Crossroads" Part 1. The Gideon was
previously seen in "Resistance".

At 2:11 on the Blu-ray, a commendation for valor and
bravery for Starbuck during action at Hill ER5, also known as
Blue Mountain Retreat is seen. Since her rank is shown as
captain on the commendation, it must have been during her rescue
of Anders and the others in
"Lay Down Your Burdens"
Parts 1 and 2.
Seconds later, a disciplinary notice for her is
seen. Her rank is shown as lieutenant a couple of times and
corporal another time, all for the same incident!
A second disciplinary notice from when she was a
private is also seen. It shows the disciplinary request was
initiated by Sergeant Mike Gibbons and regards her failure to
display respect to superior officers.
Another document, a Colonial Forces Record of
Disciplinary Proceedings shows she served aboard the battlestar
Triton while she was a junior lieutenant under
Commander James Jonasson. She went through a court martial
proceeding against her made by Commander Myron Ruth. The names
are references to Jamie Jonasson and Myron Ruth, set decorators
on the series.
At 11:21 on the Blu-ray, notice that the book President Roslin
gave Admiral Adama in "A Day in
the Life", Blood Runs at Midnight, is sitting on
his desk with a bookmark about 1/3 of the way through it.
Helo becomes CAG in this episode when Adama assigns Apollo to be
security for Baltar's new attorney, Romo Lampkin.
At 13:30 on the Blu-ray, Lampkin shows Apollo a copy of the book
Law & Mind: The Psychology of Legal Practice by Joseph
Adama. Joseph Adama was Apollo's grandfather and one of the main
characters of Caprica.
At 21:08 on the Blu-ray, Adama remarks to Apollo that Baltar's
trial begins in two weeks.
At the start of Lampkin's interview with Caprica Six about
Baltar, Six remarks, "In the time I've known him, he's made a
sport out of mendacity and deception. He was narcissistic,
self-centered, vain. I'm the one who should have stabbed him."
She is referring to Baltar being stabbed in the neck with a pen
by Lt. Gaeta in "Taking a Break from All
Your Worries".
Marine Cheadle realizes there may be a bomb set to go off on
Lampkin's door and pulls the man away, while the explosion downs
Cheadle instead. It's not explicitly stated, but it seems that
Cheadle was likely killed in the explosion.
When Apollo challenges his father on being a judge in the trial,
Adama retorts, "...like the four other men picked, I'm capable
of listening to the evidence and making an ethical decision."
He says "men", but one of the four other judges picked is a woman, not a man,
as will be seen in
"Crossroads" Part 1.
At 40:37 on the Blu-ray, the model sailing ship Adama was
working on and partly broke apart in
"Maelstrom" is seen on a shelf in
his quarters.
At 41:50 on the Blu-ray, Apollo pins Starbuck's picture up next
to Kat's on the memorial wall, just as Starbuck had requested of
him should she die before he in
"Maelstrom".
Memorable Dialog