“Exodus: Part 1” is episode three of season three of the new Battlestar Galactica.
At the end of the previous episode, “Precipice”, Jammer had set Cally free and she was running as Cylon Centurions approached the prisoners. Gunshots sounded. Meanwhile, Caprica Boomer and the resistance were taking fire from more Centurions.
This episode starts one hour earlier. Ellen helps Tigh put a bandage over his empty socket; she says she would do anything for him. Tyrol runs in; the dead drop had a death list in it and Cally’s name is on it. They’re rounding up people. Tigh says they’re map coordinates and for the chief to think clearly or Cally’s dead. Work out where the prisoners are being taken and get there first with four others. It won’t do Cally any good if Tyrol is caught to, and the last thing the chief’s son wants is Tigh and Ellen as parents. Tyrol manages to work out the coordinates and tells another to get people together as the trucks bearing the prisoners roll out.
With Boomer’s group, Gunnery Sergeant Mathias doesn’t like the position. Boomer wants the gunny to take her men to the ridge to provide cover as Boomer heads to the rendezvous.
The chief’s group are at the execution site and Boomer is briefing Anders on the evacuation plan. Mathias from her position spots some skin jobs. Cally is running and she’s in the way as the Centurions approach; the chief runs and tackles her out of the way as his people open fire. Jammer runs. Mathias’s people take down the Centurions attacking Boomer and Anders. One of Anders’s people is searching the bodies; he brings a map to Anders taken from a skin job. He asks Anders if it’s his handwriting. Yes. Anders realises that Ellen sold them out. At the execution site, the Cavil is badly injured but not dead. Yet. The chief tells the others that they’re going home; the admiral is on his way.
D’Anna Biers bolts awake from a dream about somewhere in New Caprica City. And a baby.
Number Six is with Gaius. He asks about her day. In his office. Then says he had a fascinating chat with one of the Dorals. The Doral has a theory that the key to regaining human trust and confidence is toilet paper. Number Six says she’s spent four months watching Gaius slip into a well of hatred and self-loathing. Does he know what she’s given up for him? What with the occupation and all, Gaius hasn’t given it that much thought.
Starbuck is with her baby, talking to her and apologising for her getting hurt as Leoben returns and watches them.
D’Anna Biers finds the place she saw in the dream. She enters the tent where there’s a woman, an oracle. The oracle tells her not to be afraid. She knows who Biers is and what she is. Poor thing; it must be terrifying. Zeus sees all, he sees Biers. He sees her pain, her destiny. The gods weep for her. Biers says there is no Zeus, no other god but God. The oracle says Biers doesn’t believe that any more. She doesn’t know what to believe. That’s why she’s come. The oracle ends up telling Biers that Boomer and Helo’s child, though she doesn’t say it in those words, is still alive.
Back with the fleet, they are getting ready for the rescue mission. Pegasus and the civilian ships are heading to the rendezvous whilst Galactica is heading back to New Caprica.
The story continues in the next episode, “Exodus: Part 2”.