Act of Contrition (Battlestar Galactica)

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"Act of Contrition (Battlestar Galactica)"

"Act of Contrition" is the fourth episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series.

Plot

After a hangar accident that kills thirteen pilots, Starbuck is assigned to quickly train replacements from the civilian population. This brings back painful memories of her fiancé, Zak Adama, whose death she feels responsible for because she had given him a passing flight exam knowing he wasn't ready. She takes aggressive control of her "nuggets" (the term for flying recruits) and then flunks them all on the first day. She is then compelled to admit to Commander Adama her role in his son's death. Hurt and angered by this revelation, Adama orders her to return the nuggets to flight status and complete their training.

During a training exercise, a Cylon Raider patrol shows up and attacks. Starbuck, with the help of one of the nuggets, fights the raiders off. However, her damaged Viper hurtles out of control into the atmosphere of a nearby planet. She goes into a flat spin and she punches out, free-falling along with the Viper.

On Caprica, Helo and Sharon Valerii track the signal they picked up to its source; a restaurant with an underground bomb shelter filled with food, water and anti-radiation medication. Meanwhile, a Model Six watches them enter the bomb shelter.

External links

"Act of Contrition" at the Battlestar Wiki
"Act of Contrition" at Syfy
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"Act of Contrition" 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