S1E13
Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Part 2
⚠ Spoiler alert This recap gives away what happens in this episode.
Episode Summary & Review
Summary
Infuriated that Roslin usurped his command by ordering Starbuck to steal the captured Raider, Adama decides that his only option is to storm Colonial One with marines and terminate her presidency. Starbuck reaches Caprica and finds the Arrow of Apollo in a museum, but she has to go through a copy of Number Six to get it.
Our Take
A brutal hour that pays off the season’s slow-building tension in all the right ways. The standoff between Adama and Roslin finally boils over, and the crash on Kobol gives the Cylons their most unsettling moment yet. The Starbuck fight drags a little, but everything else lands hard. This is the show firing on all cylinders, and it earns the cliffhanger.