US Air Date: 25/04/2008

Writer: Jane Espenson

Director: Edwaard James Olmos

 “Pain is how I learn from the guilt. There's wisdom there. Clarity. You know yourself there” Caprica Six explains the essence of the Cylons to Colonel Tigh

As he mourns his wife Cally's apparent suicide, Galen Tyrol fights to conceal his turbulent emotions, which go beyond simple sorrow. His fellow Cylons – Tigh and Foster – offer him little comfort. Tigh can only see the situation through the lens of his own guilt and grief for executing his wife, Ellen. Foster (who, unbeknown to everyone, murdered Cally) urges Tyrol to shut down his negative emotions and embrace his new identity as a perfect creation of God.

Tigh has found a different way to cope with his new identity and his old guilt over Ellen's death. He has begun visiting Caprica Six in the Galactica's brig, asking how she endures the guilt of participating in genocide. As they speak, Caprica's face sometimes appears to be Ellen's. Magnetically attracted by this vision, Tigh can't stay away.
Meanwhile, a gang of religious traditionalists invades Baltar's cult, trashing possessions and beating up Baltar's followers. Baltar retaliates in kind by disrupting a traditional religious service, nearly causing a riot. He is arrested but later released. Returning to his quarters, Baltar finds Marines blocking the doors – Roslin has forbidden his followers to assemble as a group. The Six in Baltar's head tells him to defy the order. He tries to walk into his quarters and the Marines knock him down, but the invisible Six drags him to his feet over and over again. Lee Adama arrives and orders the Marines to stand down; the Quorum has voted down the presidential order, restoring the right of assembly. When Lee tells Baltar he didn't take this action to help him, Baltar cryptically responds that he did it because “your God compels you.”