“Home: Part 2” is episode seven of season two of the new Battlestar Galactica.
Those on Kobol are looking for the Tomb of Athena whilst on Galactica, Adama having ordered the fleet be put back together in the previous episode, “Home: Part 1”, the commander, Colonel Tigh. Gaeta and Tyrol are looking at survey photos of the planet, the chief having personally visited it when Raptor One crashed. Tigh wonders how the president expects to find the tomb. Adama says maybe she saw it in a vision. He’s not joking. The important thing is that Roslin believes she has visions, and so do those with her. The chief still wonders how they will manage without a map or a guide. They have a guide of sorts; Caprica Boomer. Gaeta reports that no Cylon Base Ships or Raiders have been detected near Kobol. Adama wants to jump into the upper atmosphere, just in case. That’s risky, and not possible with a ship the size of Galactica. Which is why Adama is taking a Raptor. And only those necessary to the mission, as Zeus warned the leaders of blood if they returned to Kobol.
On Kobol, Boomer is saying she is putting pieces together from a lot of sources other than the scriptures. This leads into her saying the gods are false gods; Cylons know more about humans’ religion than they do. But the tomb of the one called Athena, whoever or whatever she was, is probably up ahead.
Gaius is in the room for the original Boomer, looking at it with Number Six. He doubts their child will be born in this room. Number Six never said it would be her child. Gaius wants to know who will bear it. Starbuck? Number Six starts to laugh at Gaius. She tells him to wake up and smell the psychosis; there’s no Cylon chip in his brain. She’s not real. He’s not getting secret messages from the Cylons; he’s just crazy. She’s Gaius’ own subconscious. Gaius helped the Cylons in the genocide of his species and his fragile mind couldn’t handle it. Go down to sickbay and have a brain scan if he doesn’t believe her.
On Raptor One, the chief is struggling with the map of Kobol and Racetrack takes it from him. Billy is accompanying Adama. They jump into Kobol’s atmosphere and Adama says there wouldn’t be a problem. Indeed, they didn’t actually crash.
Apollo is talking to Starbuck about Caprica Boomer. She tells him that Helo loves Boomer anyway, despite knowing she’s a machine. And Helo is their friend. Apollo reminds her that Sharon was their friend too. Boomer is telling Helo it feels like she’s back home, back in the fleet. Even though that was the other Boomer. Zarek and Meier are plotting.
Starbuck tells Roslin that the Cylons have a plan for Caprica; they’re cleaning away bodies and fixing machinery and infrastructure. And not everyone is dead. After finding the tomb, they need to plan a rescue mission. Roslin can’t think about that yet.
Gaius has his brain scan, with Number Six providing less than helpful commentary. But, by the end of the episode, it’s perhaps even less certain that Number Six is a true hallucination. Unless Gaius’ subconscious is incredibly good at leaping to conclusions from extremely limited facts.