
Survivors: 47,958
Air Date: January 28, 2005 Written By: Bradley Thompson & David Weddle
Directed By: Rod Hardy
Cast
Luciana Carro as Kat
Lorena Gale as Priest Elosha
Colby Johannson as Flat-Top
Tobias Mheler as Zak Adama
Donnelly Rhodes as Doc Cottle
Sam Witwer as Crashdown
Plot Summary
Starbuck trains a new batch of pilots, dredging up painful memories of Zak Adama, whom she passed as a Viper pilot when he should have failed. When the trainees are not perfect, she fails them all. Adama learns that she may be responsible for Zak's death and orders her to complete the training for the new pilots. Meanwhile, Laura Roslin learns that she has only a few months to live. After a flight deck accident kills 13 pilots and wounds many others, Kara is thrust into service as a flight instructor and ordered to turn a group of civilian pilots and academy washouts into full-fledged Viper pilots.The assignment brings back painful memories for Kara. She can't forget how she let Zak (Commander Adama's son and her lover) pass Basic Flight when he wasn't ready, and how it ultimately cost him his life. Determined never to repeat the mistake, she flunks out the would-be pilots on their first day.She is immediately confronted, first by Lee, then by Adama, and forced to admit to the Commander her role in Zak's death. Adama orders her to continue training the "nuggets." Meanwhile, Sgt. Hadrian continues her investigation into the detonators found in Sharon's spacecraft, and President Roslin consults the ship's doctor about her cancer.Far away on Cylon-occupied Caprica, Sharon and Helo find a secret cache of food.Favorite Lines
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