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LEE ADAMA leads a group of Viper fighter pilots from the Galactica in a seemingly endless series of "jumps" that take them from one part of the universe to another. For 2 days, the vipers have been chaperoning civilian spaceships on these jumps in an effort to elude the CYLONS, the race of robots hell bent on destroying humanity. As is happening too often, the CYLONS show up earlier than expected and begin firing on their ships. President LAURA ROSLIN notes there are now fewer than 50,000 human beings alive; if they want to find a planet and regenerate the species, they need to get away from the enemy robots. The exhausted crew prepares for the next jump in 33 minutes.
Meanwhile, HELO, who has been stranded on the Cylon occupied Planet Caprica, wanders through the dangerous wilderness and is almost sniffed out by some Cylons, who step on land mines before they uncover him.
Back on the Galactica, Sharon Valeri & her new flight officer, CRASHDOWN, discuss the latest rumours that the Cylon robots have taken on a resemblance to human beings. Sharon is sceptical. Laura notes that the number of living humans are dropping; over 300 civilians and fighters have been lost during the last few jumps. Baltar voluntarily slips into another daydream involving Number Six who teases him. During a staff meeting on the ship, Baltar "wakes up" from his daydream when he hears a familiar name mentioned, Dr. Amarak. Baltar gets very nervous when he hears that the doctor has been trying to speak with President Roslin.
Elsewhere on the ship COLONEL TIGH and DUALLA, are briefing COMMANDER WILLIAM ADAMA on the last jumps. Tigh suggests the possibility that "sleeper agents," somewhere in their fleet, are sending out their destination coordinates before they jump, enabling the Cylons to be waiting to intercept them. Adama barely pays attention to this theory. He's very worried about the crew's sanity and ability to function due to exhaustion. He orders the ship doctor to pump them full of stimulants.
On Caprica, HELO is captured by Cylons, including Number Six.
The crew begins plans for the next jump when Dualla realizes that one civilian ship, the Olympic Vessel with 342 civilians onboard, remains unaccounted for. The crew discusses the strange disappearance of the vessel. This was the ship that contained Dr. Amarak.
Suddenly, the Olympic Vessel comes back into view, unharmed. Via radio, the Galactica crew asks the staff of the Vessel how they were not blown up by Cylons, but they don't know… On Galactica, Number Six tells Baltar the Olympic Vessel had been infiltrated by Cylons awhile ago; this is why they were not destroyed during the last attack.
Independently, the Galactica crew comes to the same conclusion; the Olympic is infected with Cylons and must be destroyed. Laura makes the sober decision to order the ship blown up. Kara, Lee and Sharon fire on the ship, destroying it. Lee has a heart-to-heart about the morality of this decision with his father. He's torn by what they did; Adama sees it as necessary business. Billy tells Laura that despite the fact that the ship was blown up, their population number has grown by one; a baby was born on he Rising Star ship.
HELO is almost killed by a group of Cylons, when at the last second Sharon appears and saves him.
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