The Farm (Battlestar Galactica)

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Farm


Series = Battlestar Galactica
Season = 2
Episode = 5
Airdate = August 12, 2005
Production = 205
Writer = Carla Robinson
Director = Rod Hardy
Guests =
Episode list = Episode chronology
Prev = Resistance
Next = Home

"The Farm" is an episode of the reimagined "Battlestar Galactica" television series.

Plot

Survivor Count: 47,857

Commander Adama recovers enough to take command again. From hiding, Laura Roslin sends a signal to the fleet asking anyone who believes in the sacred prophecies to follow her to Kobol and help find the star map to Earth.

Just prior, Zarek had asked Capt. Apollo to make a recording denouncing his father's (Adama) regime, but Apollo doesn't go through with it. Much to the surprise and disgust of Adama and Col. Tigh, a third of the fleet make the jump to Kobol with Roslin.

Back on Caprica, Starbuck is wounded during a Cylon attack on the resistance group. She wakes up in a strange hospital. Bedridden, her only contact is with a mysterious doctor named Simon who explains she was brought to the hospital by Samuel Anders, but he has died from a shrapnel wound. She spends the next few days in Simon's care where he presses the idea that Starbuck have a baby since child-bearing women are a "rare commodity" after the Cylon attack.

Simon then upsets her when he suggests that she is reluctant to have children because she shows signs of childhood abuse. Starbuck is kept heavily sedated. She is very suspicious after an unplanned "emergency" minor lower-abdominal surgery following a pelvic examination, and her suspicions are confirmed when Simon calls her "Starbuck", a name she never revealed to him. Starbuck fakes sedation and sneaks out of her room where she overhears Simon talking to a copy of Number Six; she is horrified when she hears Simon discussing her "processing" operation scheduled for the next day.

When Simon returns, Starbuck slashes his throat with a fragment from a broken mirror. She then searches for a way out discovering a room filled with other captured human women grotesquely attached to bizarre machines. One of the women was part of Anders's resistance group, who begs Starbuck to end her misery. She destroys the machines, thus killing the women. Back in the hall, Starbuck kills Number Six by hitting her in the head with a fire extinguisher.

She finally escapes with the aid of Helo, Anders, and Caprica-Boomer, who guns down a squad of Centurions with a stolen Cylon Heavy Raider. Boomer tells Starbuck that the Cylons have been experimenting upon human women in an attempt to reproduce themselves but have been unsuccessful. Later, Starbuck promises Anders that she will return to Caprica to rescue them, although Anders admits that he doubts that he will ever see her again.

Back on "Galactica", Adama sentences Cally to thirty days in the brig for the "unauthorized discharge of a firearm" for the killing of "Galactica"-Boomer.

External links

* at the Battlestar Wiki