Colonel Tigh’s life is turned upside down when he discovers that his wife is among the survivors and allegedly desires reconciliation.

At the end of the previous episode, President Laura Roslin was left with five little words that have been eating at her. ‘Commander Adama is a Cylon.’ Of course, it was a Cylon who told her on his way to execution, the possibility eats at her. Since Dr. Gauis Baltar’s Cylon Detector is finally ready to be put into use, she suggests to Adama that he be the first to be tested. In the meantime, she gets Billy to ask Dualla (they are iout on date) whether Adama “The Old Man” has been acting strangely.

In the laboratory, confronted with thousands of blood samples, Baltar’s moans that his Cylon detector’s hitch is that it takes eleven hours to test one blood sample. Eleven hours times almost 48 thousand people. Sixty-one years. The sheer monotony of the task ahead of him weighs heavily on Dr. Baltar. Things are further complicated when Adama shows up with Colonel Saul Tigh’s wife Ellen in tow. Ellen was long-presumed dead and when Saul sees her he’s overcome with joy. Adama is more guarded however, as he doesn’t quite buy Ellen’s story – that she was in a hospital unconscious – given her history of marital infidelity.

While Adama wants to make Tigh happy, he first wants Ellen’s blood secretly tested in the Cylon detector Baltar finds himself torn between Laura and Adama on the Cylon testing since Laura is upset when she hears that Adama has cancelled his test and put someone else in his slot. Leoben’s warning comes rushing back to Laura and she orders Baltar to resume Adama’s test. When Laura finally discovers the other person Adama wanted tested is Ellen Tigh, she tells Baltar to go ahead with her test.

By now, everyone has met the obnoxious, recklessly flirtatious Ellen Tigh. The Tighs’ relationship slides back into a trainwreck of drunkenness and destructive bickering. Ellen tries to alienate her husband from his crew by claiming that Adama had hit on her and touched her at dinner.

A lone Cylon Raider has popped up in front of Galactica, disappearing and reappearing like a wounded bird. The initial reaction is to destroy it, but then Col. Tigh suggest they can learn something from this ship that they could use for Galactica’s captured Cylon Raider. And a wise decision it is, as they wind up learning how to use the captured Raider’s Faster-Than-Light (FTL) drive…something that may get to Earth.

In the final scene, Adama, Rosling, Lee, and the Tighs ends up in the Baltar’s laboratory. Everyone’s Cylon suspicions come to the forefront. Laura admits to Adama that she thought he might be a Cylon (though his erratic behavior was due to him trying to track down Ellen Tigh in secret) and Adama admits to Tigh that he suspected Ellen as a Cylon…something he says just as Ellen walks through the door. The tense moment is broken when Adama and Tigh are called to CIC where Tigh launches attack fighters to finally dispose of the wounded Raider.

Meanwhile, on Caprica, the other Sharon and Helo have grown even closer. Her having sex with him was always part of the larger Cylon plan. However, her falling in love for him was not. Sharon’s tirelessness astounds Helo, who is having difficulty keeping up to her in their flight through the sewer systems. “How can you just keep going?” he asks. “Adrenalin,” she lies. Meanwhile, the Humanoid Cylons above-ground express some jealousy at Sharon’s connection to Helo, and her apparent ability to feel in ways that they can not.

So, asks Number Six, since every result you give is a negative, tell me...What was the real result of Ellen Tigh's Cylon test?
"I'll never tell," smiles Baltar.

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