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"Torn"

Battlestar Galactica episode

Episode no.

Season 3
Episode 6

Directed by

Jean de Segonzac

Written by

Anne Cofell Saunders

Original air date

November 3, 2006

Guest appearances

Lucy Lawless as Number Three
Rick Worthy as Simon
Callum Keith Rennie as Leoben Conoy
Matthew Bennett as Number Five
Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
Luciana Carro as Louanne "Kat" Katraine
Bodie Olmos as Hot Dog
Leah Cairns as Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson
Emilie Ullerup as Julia Brynn
Madeline Parker as Kacey Brynn

Episode chronology

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"Collaborators"

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"A Measure of Salvation"

Battlestar Galactica season 3

List of episodes

"Torn" is the sixth episode of the third season from the science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica. The episode introduced the fictional concept of the "hybrid in the Battlestar Galactica" fictional universe - a semi-organic computer which operates the Basestar. The episode disclosed in the story that some Cylon (models including the number twos to which Leoben Conoy also belonged in the universe) believed hybrid to be speaking for the one true god in the show.

Plot

After Starbuck crashes her Viper during a training exercise, Apollo strips her flight status. Colonel Saul Tigh mourns for his wife. He and Starbuck criticize the crew members who spent the occupation of New Caprica with the fleet until a disgusted Admiral William Adama orders them to stop. Starbuck cuts her hair and seeks out Kacey, whom she brushed off earlier. Tigh confines himself to his quarters and drinks heavily.

Lieutenant Felix Gaeta reconstructs Gaius Baltar's work on the location of Earth^[1] and determines that the fleet should navigate to a distant nebula shaped like a lion's head – Lion's Head Nebula. The pilots choose "Athena" as the new call sign for Sharon Agathon after she explains that "Boomer" refers to someone else.

Caprica Six and a Number Three copy tell Baltar that the Cylons plan to make Earth their new home. Hoping the Cylons will let him live, Baltar tells them about the Lion's Head Nebula.

In a conversation with Caprica Six, Baltar starts to question whether he himself is a Cylon. Caprica Six has told him in the past that there are only 12 Cylon models of which Baltar has only met 7 and he asks about the 5 models he has never met. Caprica Six declines to offer information and says "we don't talk about the other five", visibly distraught.

The Cylons send a basestar to scout the nebula but lose contact after a virus infects the ship and its crew. At Head Six's suggestion, Baltar volunteers to board the basestar so the Cylons can avoid exposure to the disease. A dying Six copy identifies an ancient beacon the crew found and brought aboard as the source of the sickness. She accuses Baltar of leading them to the nebula so they would find the infected beacon; Baltar kills her after she threatens to tell the others. Baltar omits mention of the beacon in his final report, but Caprica Six notices it in the photos he brought back.

The Cylons abandon the infected basestar. Later, Athena and Racetrack discover the basestar while scouting the nebula in a Raptor.

Reception

Eric Goldman from IGN gave the episode a 9/10 saying that it continually delivered all dramatic and upsetting thrills that the show was known for.

Notes and references

^ Whether the Earth of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica is a fictional portrayal of the real-life Earth, another planet sharing the name, or an in-universe myth is unknown to the audience at this point in the series.^{[improper synthesis?]}

External links

"Torn" at the Battlestar Wiki
"Torn" at Syfy.com
"Torn" at IMDb

v t e Battlestar Galactica episodes
Season 1	"33" "Water" "Bastille Day" "Act of Contrition" "You Can't Go Home Again" "Litmus" "Six Degrees of Separation" "Flesh and Bone" "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" "The Hand of God" "Colonial Day" "Kobol's Last Gleaming"
Season 2	"Scattered" "Valley of Darkness" "Fragged" "Resistance" "The Farm" "Home" "Final Cut" "Flight of the Phoenix" "Pegasus" "Resurrection Ship" "Epiphanies" "Black Market" "Scar" "Sacrifice" "The Captain's Hand" "Downloaded" "Lay Down Your Burdens"
Season 3	"Occupation" "Precipice" "Exodus" "Collaborators" "Torn" "A Measure of Salvation" "Hero" "Unfinished Business" "The Passage" "The Eye of Jupiter" "Rapture" "Taking a Break from All Your Worries" "The Woman King" "A Day in the Life" "Dirty Hands" "Maelstrom" "The Son Also Rises" "Crossroads"
Season 4	Razor "He That Believeth in Me" "Six of One" "The Ties That Bind" "Escape Velocity" "The Road Less Traveled" "Faith" "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?" "Sine Qua Non" "The Hub" "Revelations" "Sometimes a Great Notion" "A Disquiet Follows My Soul" "The Oath" "Blood on the Scales" "No Exit" "Deadlock" "Someone to Watch Over Me" "Islanded in a Stream of Stars" "Daybreak"
Other	Battlestar Galactica (miniseries) The Resistance Razor Flashbacks The Face of the Enemy The Plan Blood & Chrome Caprica

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