Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down
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| Battlestar Galactica episode | |
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| “Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down” | |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 9 |
| Writer(s) | Jeff Vlaming |
| Director | Edward James Olmos |
| Production no. | 109 |
| Original airdate | UK: December 13, 2004 US: March 4, 2005 |
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| "Flesh and Bone" | "The Hand of God" |
"Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" is an episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series. Its script was originally titled "Secrets and Lies".
[edit] Plot
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After her encounter with the Cylon agent Leoben Conoy, President Laura Roslin remains suspicious that Commander Adama is a Cylon. She has even stooped as low as to use the romantic relationship of Billy Keikeya and Anastasia Dualla as a source for information on Adama's behavior. She asks him to be the first person to undergo Dr. Baltar's "Cylon Detector" blood test, which is now fully operational. Adama hesitantly agrees, but then disappears from the Galactica.
Col. Tigh is left to command the ship when a lone Cylon Raider appears (possibly on a recon mission) and then tries to jump away. Tigh orders the fleet to make emergency jump preparations, but the raider comes back damaged without being able to jump away from the fleet. He orders the fleet to stand down, and instructs a raptor to go and study the raider as it jumps around the various points within the fleet.
Soon, Adama reappears with Col. Tigh's estranged wife, who Tigh believed was killed during the attack on Picon. She was apparently unconscious for three weeks aboard the Rising Star. Although her wild and flirtatious behavior has always been typical of her, Adama remains suspicious of her sudden reappearance.
President Roslin contacts Dr. Baltar to check on the status of Adama's blood test. Baltar states that Adama has postponed his test and ordered that the sample of a woman named Ellen be tested. Roslin orders Baltar to resume testing Adama's blood sample.
Roslin summons Col. Tigh to Colonial One, where she questions Adama's behavior. Colonel Tigh responds that Commander Adama was retrieving his wife and reveals that her name is Ellen. Roslin then orders Dr. Baltar to resume testing Ellen's blood sample.
At a dinner, Ellen drunkenly flirts with Apollo and shrugs off Adama and Roslin's questions about how she was overlooked for so long. Adama and Roslin venture to Dr. Baltar's lab to check the results of Ellen's blood test. Baltar reveals that the test is not complete because he has had to change subjects twice already. Adama discovers that Roslin has been spying on him with suspicions that he is a Cylon. Col. Tigh and Ellen enter the fray after Ellen accuses Adama of making advances towards her. The officers are summoned to the CIC as the Cylon raider changes its course.
Back in space, the Raider continues to fly about the fleet, eluding capture. Once it gets near Galactica however, it attempts a kamikaze dive towards an observation area where many civilians and off-duty personnel are located. Tigh had ordered the launch of alert fighters on a hunch, and the raider is destroyed several meters from the ship. Adama praises Tigh and asks him to keep anything from coming between their friendship, including Ellen.
Later, Baltar eventually passes Ellen Tigh on the Cylon Detector, to Adama's relief. Afterward, however, when he is alone with Number Six, Baltar refuses to confirm to her whether or not he told the "truth" about Ellen's results.
Back on Caprica, Helo and Caprica-Boomer avoid capture by running though a sewer system. Helo wonders why the Cylon search has intensified, and Boomer states that she "overheard" the Cylons discussing plans and deployments. She claims there is a base in the city of Delphi and that they should go there to find a ship for escape off Caprica.
