In the aftermath of a Cylon attack, now there are Centurions aboard the ship. Colonel Tigh very nearly gets blown out the airlock (and not for the last time either, cf. 4.10, "Revelations").
The Cylon plan: split up into two groups. Send one group to Secondary Damage Control, which can apparently open up the entire ship into space and kill all the humans aboard. Send the other group of Auxiliary Fire Control, which has nothing to do with dealing with parts of the ship that are burning, but rather with controlling the ship's guns. Tigh, apparently has seen this before (actually, a deleted scene reveals that Adama has seen this before, and had the foresight to tell Tigh about it back when they were both space-bums), and is able to stop the group going to Auxiliary Fire Control. But it's up to Apollo to stop the others, which he does with the "help" of Jammer, that random, cowardly (eventually traitorous) deckhand I don't particularly like. They need explosive rounds to deal with these Centurious, even though the gang on Kobol didn't in the previous episode. Whatever. The Second Rule of Firefights is: "The good guy's weapons shall always work, unless the plot demands otherwise." (The First Rule is: "the bad guys will always miss, unless the plot demands otherwise.")
Meanwhile, Billy and Dee nearly suffer a fatal blow to their relationship (being on opposite sides of a military coup can do that), but then get back together (nearly being shot by toasters can do that). And Roslin gets a Pulp Fiction moment when the Cylons shoot through her jacket, but don't hit her. (God did it! The entire show goes out of its way to have our big skeptic, Baltar, say in the very first episode that there are random, serendipitous occurences, rather than acts of God, and even he is a believer soon enough. This is another example of what we call foreshadowing, and is therefore a reason why I don't have too many problems with the finale...)
On Kobol, Tyrol gets the spare medpack back for Socinus, but it's too late, and all they can do is euthanize him. Tarn, who died in the previous episode, was a redshirt, but Socinus was a character from all the way back in the Miniseries (even if he did only have one line there). Now the show is serious about killing off minor characters. There are more to come...
Meanwhile on Caprica, Starbuck berates Helo for falling in love with a machine (yeah, because you don't frak everything you fancy, do you, Kara?) They go to Starbuck's old apartment, where she plays a tape of piano music her father recorded. Shame it's not "All Along the Watchtower," but at least there's a curious design on the wall behind her for the writers to exploit later...
And on the subject of vaguely spoilery stuff, Tigh's last line is hilarious.
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