The episode opens with Lee pointing a gun at someone
and then it flips to cloud Nine 48 hours earlier with Lee in bed with a
woman. It’s revealed though that she’s a prostitute.
Roslin is holding a meeting with Adama, Baltar, and the
Pegasus XO about the new Black market that has sprung up. Roslin wants to
implement a new trading policy throughout the fleet so the people in charge
have more control over the supply’s.
On his way back to the Pegasus the XO is waylaid by the
guy Lee had his gun pointed at when the episode started, and is killed.
On his way home Lee keeps having flashbacks to Caprica,
and his brush with death just a few episodes earlier.
Doc Cottle does an autopsy on the XO who’s been
strangled, and a strange disk shoved down his throat. Adama is
understandably starting a full investigation with Lee in charge. At first
Lee is reluctant but Adama convinces him it’s for the best.
Lee goes to the XO’s quarters, and they’re covered in
blood. He looks around for evidence and it’s not long before he finds cigars
and gold jewellery, presumably smuggled. Baltar makes a fuss outside the
quarters and manages to get past the guards. It’s only when he spot’s the
blood that he realises the XO is dead.
Lee confronts him with the black market items and
Baltar denies any part in it. Six turns up and warns Baltar that he needs to
be careful of bringing suspicion onto himself: he got some trust by saving
Roslin but according to Six it won’t last. Six bates Baltar for being a
coward and allowing himself to be questioned. Predictably this makes him
over-react, and just makes him look more guilty. Lee leaves and Baltar is
left alone.
Adama and Tigh talk about security, and ways to make
everyone feel more secure. Lee interrupts and tells them that the XO had
been taking supplies and re-routing them in exchange for Black Market goods.
There’s a flashback to a conversation between Lee and
the women he’s been seeing. They’re talking about shortages around the
fleet, her daughter is sick and she just an’ get hold of any medicine.
Lee goes to talk to Tigh – he’s found a bracelet that
he thinks might be Ellens in the Pegasus’s XO’s stash. Tigh confirms this
and Lee tells him where he found it. Lee confronts him and Tigh admits he’s
been trading with the Pegasus XO.
Lee goes to the gym to work out some of his anger. Dee
is there and asks him if they’re current flirting is going anywhere. Lee
tells her that he isn’t sure what to say, and she leaves.
Lee gets an urgent call and rushes over to Cloud Nine.
The woman he’s been seeing has been threatened by someone wanting to know
things about Lee. He’s getting ready to take them back to Galactica when
he’s attacked. The man threatens him, saying if the investigation continues
things could get really nasty.
He manages to fight the attacker off, just avoiding
strangulation. He passes out, and when he wakes phones a medic.
Baltar reports to Roslin. She tries to be open and
honest, asking exactly where they stand with each other. She asks about his
meeting with the XO, and he claims it was all to do with the new trading
policy. She tells him that she senses he has some un-ease about being the
future president and offers him the chance to resign, which he tells her is
complete nonsense.
Tom Zarek turns up, and Lee asks about the Black
Market. Lee tries to insinuate that Zarek is involved somehow because of the
logs, but Zarek claims he has nothing to do with it. Zarek passes on a
certain rumour that the Prometheus is the base of Black Market operations.
Lee goes to the Prometheus to find out that Zarek was
right on that score. He finds the women’s little girl locked up in a cage
with a bunch of other children.
Lee is approached by the head smuggler, who claims that
the Black Market is essential. He tries to bargain with them to save the
women and her child but it fails badly. The episode goes full circle with
Lee pointing a gun at the chief smugglers head. The guy taunts Lee, claiming
he’ll never shoot, but he does. He allows the Market to continue under three
conditions – no more killing, no more holding back medicine and no more
selling of children.
Lee makes a report to Roslin, who wants the
entire market shut down. He explains to her that this way, at least, they
can monitor the situation.
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