“Taking a Break from All Your Worries” is episode thirteen of season three of the new Battlestar Galactica.
In the previous episode, “Rapture”, Gaius Baltar was recaptured. He’s in his cell making a rope as Number Six tells him he’s doing the right thing. Gaeta bolts awake as Number Six tells Gaius it’s time to learn the truth and pushes the bed out from under him. The marine guard won’t let Gaeta go see Gaius. Gaius wakes in a Cylon tank, surrounded by three Sixes. Gaius is pleased; he didn’t betray anyone because he is a Cylon. He always knew he was different. Special. The Sixes start scratching him and say he isn’t Cylon. He’s human and he died. He’s pushed under and Six kisses him. Only it’s the marine guard using CPR. Gaeta heads to find Cottle.
Apollo is telling Chief Tyrol he will be surprised. Tyron has seen a bar before. Except that this one is not hidden away. Tyrol and Cally had a fight; he toasts to marriage. Why they build bars.
Dr Cottle tells Adama, Roslin, Tigh and Gaeta he warned them about the dangers of sleep deprivation and Gaius’s hunger strike isn’t helping. Tigh is willing to let him die but the president needs him to talk. If the Cylons saw what they did, they might be on their way to Earth already to lay an ambush. She wants the doctor to ensure Gaius eats and Tigh will put in a security camera. The president calls Gaeta back to ask why he’d gone to see Gaius in the middle of the night. Gaeta says he couldn’t sleep and though Gaius might talk to him.
Apollo arrives back at his quarters, the worse for drink, and gets a look from Dee. She isn’t happy but checks they are still on for dinner. Apollo has passed out.
Roslin arrives at Gaius’s cell; she has brought his glasses, like he did for her in “Precipice”, and lights a cigar. Gaius was not happy about a tube being forced down his throat. She tells him that’s nothing to what happened in his cells on New Caprica. Gaius says they were Cylon cells. An academic distinction. Roslin wants information on the Cylons. She asks about the defence mainframe and the blonde woman. Number Six warns Gaius the president ill flush him out an airlock. Gaius insists they are all lies; he did not collude in the genocide of his own people. Not knowingly, anyway.
The president shows Gaius photos of people killed on New Caprica as Tigh is watching. She calls Tigh in and tells him to toss Gaius out the airlock. Gaius demands a fair trial and, as he’s pulled by the remembrance wall, says he knows a man on it. His lab assistant on Caprica for three years. He introduced the man to his wife, was godfather to his children. He wouldn’t do anything to harm this man or his family. He’s not a murderer.
Roslin and Tigh meet with Adama. The whole airlock thing was a ploy that failed. Tigh wonders if Gaius is braver than he thought; Adama suggests Gaius may have known it was a bluff. He has an idea. The military ran an experimental interrogation program involving the use of hallucinogens. It might get Gaius to talk, but it’s dangerous, especially for someone in Gaius’s condition.
Anders has come to see Starbuck. He’s been thinking about what Leoben said about her special destiny. What if there’s something to it? Why would he spend months waiting for Starbuck’s return, just so he could walk out on her? Why would she survive the fake house with Leoben, just so she could ditch him? Does she love Apollo? Maybe.
Apollo and Starbuck, Starbuck and Anders, Apollo and Dee, all are trying to work out where they stand in their various relationships. Do the two principles want to be with their current spouses, or with each other? Meanwhile, Gaius is being interrogated through the use of drugs.