- After Baltar's attack is repulsed, the crews of the Galactica and Pegasus carry out an attack on the planet Gamoray to acquire fuel supplies.
- A commando team consisting of Apollo, Starbuck and Boomer of the Galactica and Sheba and Bojay of the Pegasus goes down to Gamoray to destroy the anti-assault batteries. Cassiopeia insists on joining them as a med-tech. Their mission clears the way for Commander Cain to lead a suicide attack against three Cylon basestars commanded by Baltar.—The TV Archaeologist
- Baltar wields an armada of three full Cylon attack armadas against the Galactica, but is surprised when he finds his own command raider in the crosshairs of another battlestar, the Pegasus. Panicking when the Pegasus' fresh vipers suddenly enter the fray, Baltar orders a full retreat, thus sparing the heavily-damaged Galactica.
Commander Adama is all too glad for the help from the Pegasus and its maverick commander, Cain. While damage is under repair, Adama, Cain, and their second-in-commands hold an emergency meeting. Cain continues pushing an attack on the Cylon outer capital world, Gomoray, which presently houses a grid of antiassault pulsars and another phalanx of raiders, as well as massive stocks of fuel the civilian fleet desperately needs. Cain proposes landing a small infiltration team to sabotage the Gomoray base's command center; once the fuel base is secured he proposes deploying the Pegasus to counterattack the inevitable response from Baltar's fleet. Adama, still mistrustful of Cain from his sabotage of an attempted seizure of Cylon tankers, nonetheless approves the mission.
The infiltration unit initially consists of Apollo, Boomer, and Starbuck, but Bojay and Sheba join, falsely claiming they were assigned by Cain's orders, and as if this isn't enough, Cassiopeia forces her way into the mission, realizing Cain "isn't planning on coming back," which surprises Sheba.
While Baltar disgustedly discusses what went wrong with Lucifer on his command base star, he orders a new attack prepared with help from Gomoray, unaware the Colonial warrior team has already parachuted into its atmopshere - and all of them are unaware that a command ship is landing on the other side of Gomoray's main base bearing the Imperious Leader. The six warriors gun down several centurions and get to work planting solonite explosives to bunkers, but Bojay is surprised by a centurion and shot in the leg, while Starbuck and Boomer infiltrate the primary building and find the command chamber; timely charges explode the structure just as the Galactica arrives in short launch range and its vipers descend into Gomoray's atmosphere and open full fire, obliterating the surprised garrison and injuring Imperious Leader.
When Baltar - kept in the dark by the Gomoray garrison commander all this time - finally learns of the attack on Gomoray, he desperately launches his entire phalanx against the Galactica and Pegasus, while Fleet tankers begin loading fuel for the Fleet and the infiltration team shuttles back to the Pegasus, to Apollo's surprise; Cassioepia ordered the change of landing based on the medical emergency with Bojay, but still apologizes to Starbuck given her relationship with Cain; Starbuck for his part is at total peace with it all.
Cain orders the Pegasus into a direct counterattack through the Cylon phalanx, some three to one in numbers against the reinforced Colonial viper phalanx, to go after Baltar's base stars - Cain has recognized that Baltar is in command and also knows a secret about Baltar's role in the Molecay massacre years earlier that left the Pegasus a fugitive ship. Apollo is shocked and angered because Cain's goal is seizing glory and medals, the lives to be lost be damned - except his own daughter's, who he tries to divert to the main fleet but she won't have any of it.
Fleet vipers are launched and attack head-on the Cylon armada, punching open a clean corridor for the Pegasus despite escalating casualties. The Pegasus, however, does not engage the Cylon raiders, and when Lucifer informs Baltar of this, Baltar deduces that the Pegasus is a decoy, so he orders his raiders to break off and go after the Galactica - a stroke of fortune as Sheba is injured when her ship is hit, and the Pegasus is badly aflame; the surprising disengagement of the attacking Cylons proves Cain's hunch correct again, to Starbuck's amazement.
Sheba is brought to the Pegasus' medical chamber where Cassiopeia and other med-techs are already overworked with a plethora of wounded; when she disgustedly asks Cain if he's winning, he seems genuinely surprised people think of this as his own personal war - and it becomes just that when he sees his daughter badly burned in the back; he cryptically tells Apollo and Starbuck the Pegasus will be ready for the job - and both warriors realize what Adama realizes when Tigh relays what long-range telemetry is telling the Galactica, that the Pegasus is on a direct attack course toward Baltar's base stars. Adama contacts Cain to remonstrate, but Cain calmly asks Adama not to make his last battle an act of mutiny - and the realization that Cain knows he has nothing left to live for silences everyone on the Galactica.
As Cain expects, when Baltar learns the Pegasus is on a direct attack course - and learns that it is commanded by Cain, who Baltar knows wants personal revenge because of Baltar's role in the Molecay massacre - he angrily orders the recall of his fighters at once. Cain gives tearful good byes to Sheba and Cassiopeia before they launch with the other wounded back to the Fleet, under viper escort, but after launch Starbuck calculates the shuttles don't need viper escort, which Apollo realizes means he wants to disobey the orders of a man who isn't following orders himself. Agreeing, Apollo and Starbuck turn back and blast into the fray when the Pegasus approaches two base stars, Baltar dropping his ship back, and the three capital ships open fire in a fatal showdown.
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