LT. SHARON VALESII awakens in the Galactica tool room; she's wet, dishevelled and her hands are covered in mysterious red stains. Next to her is her duffel bag and as she sorts through her belongings, she comes across a small-but-deadly explosive. Confused and nervous, Sharon attempts to return the explosive to the small arms locker at the other end of the ship. When she arrives there, she makes a startling discovery: six more explosive devices are missing.
Crewman BOXEY accuses Sharon of acting strangely and she gets defensive, further fuelling his suspicions. He picks her locker, searching through her belongings.
The crew is preparing for the arrival of the Colonial One spaceship and PRESIDENT LAURA ROSLIN who will give the Galactica crew a pep talk. While prepping for the landing, CAPTAIN LEE ADAMA is still wracked with guilt over the decision to blow up the Olympic Vessel and haunted by waking nightmares of their screaming faces. Lee tries to talk to his father, COMMANDER WILLIAM ADAMA, about his feelings, but Adama tells him to "live with it." Lee realizes that he is a very different man than his father.
Upon Laura's arrival, Adama gives her a detailed explanation of the ship's plan for the day: to supply a civilian vessel with water that the Galactica keeps stored onboard. The vessel will temporarily dock with the Galactica until it is fully supplied with some of the precious water.
Sharon goes to CHIEF GALEN TYROL (with whom she is having an affair) and tells him about finding the explosive in her duffel bag and her inability to account for the events of the night before. She's terrified that everyone will think that she stole the weapons. Tyrol believes that she's being set up and vows to investigate the mystery.
A major explosion interrupts the water transfer from the Galactica to the civilian vessel: the lines rupture and water begins to spill out into space, lost forever. Sharon, Tyrol, and CRASHDOWN are sent out to investigate the explosion in small vessels called raptors.
During their investigation, Tyrol discovers evidence that a series of explosives were set off, destroying the water supply. Tyrol briefs Adama, Lee, Laura, DR. BALTAR, LIEUTENANT GAETA and Tigh on his findings that the water supply was sabotaged. Adama says out loud what everyone has been thinking all along: "there's a Cylon aboard Galactica." Laura says that they must keep everything secret; despite the rumours. Baltar, still haunted by hallucinations of his Cylon lover, NUMBER SIX, is assigned the duty of screening crew members to sniff out the spy. Privately, Tigh tells Lee that Sharon and Tyrol are having an affair.
Sharon is sent out to look a water supply. During her flight, she discovers that somehow she has another explosive device with her with no idea how it got there.
As they fly around, Sharon gets a signal that her Raptor has located a planet with water. But she lies about it, radioing that she's coming up empty. After a few minutes, though, Sharon seems to be struggling with her lie; she squirms in her seat and fights internally to overpower whatever possesses her. Finally, she alerts Galactica she's located a planet with water. The ships celebrate the discovery of new water. When Sharon lands, she tells Tyrol that there is another explosive on her ship and she doesn't know it got there. He'll cover for her.
Lee bonds with President Laura over his remaining guilt and unease about the explosion of the Olympic Vessel. In Laura he finds the support and confidence he has been looking for in his father; "kindred spirits."
Tyrol walks in on Boxey holding Sharon's red-stained towel. Boxey tells Tyrol doesn't know where he got the towel, but Tyrol knows that it's Sharon's towel.
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