Battlestar Galactica belongs to Universal Studios and I have no claim to it.
A/N: The story "The Cylons' Infiltration" is a jump-ahead story of the "Zodiac: The Genetic Duplicate." I have plans to continue writing on the "Zodiac: The Genetic Duplicate" however, I just wanted to jump ahead slightly. For the people who haven't read "Zodiac: The Genetic Duplicate." I'm going to re-introduce my characters as the characters appear.
To anyone who is interested "Zodiac: The Genetic Duplicate" is located in the original Battlestar Galactica category. I know "Zodiac: The Genetic Duplicate" is in the wrong category; however, when I wrote the first chapter, I originally had planned to make the story for the original series. Someone suggested that I make it into the new version and so I did. I left it in the original section so people wouldn't have to question as to where it went.
Sorry for the changes to chapter 1, but someone pointed out that getting to Pluto in three hours is impossible for a sub-light engine. I hope my changes are more feasible.
The Cylons' Infiltration
On a Wednesday in the month of December at 12:00 P.M. local time in the United States, the news radio began with, "Today marks the one year anniversary of the final message that the militaries across the globe received containing formulas and a friendly warning of a possible threat from a robotic race known as the Cylons.
"The only clue as to who sent the fourteen messages to the militaries is the signature, 'A friendly voice from the twelve colonies of Kobol.' Now after one year later, and using the knowledge that was given to us from an unseen ally, personnel from the countries United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and Japan, will begin to construct what will be known as the Titan-Alpha space station. This space station will built in an orbit around our sun close to the asteroid belt in order to utilize the ore in the asteroids itself. The asteroid belt obits around ours sun between Mars and Jupiter.
"The Titan-Alpha space station itself will be a movable space station and its construction is estimated to take seven to ten years to complete. Once completed, the space station will become a home to over ten thousand military personnel, and will have the firepower of more than twenty battleships. It will hold approximately thirty squadrons of the United States' newest fighter, the X-9 Eagle and thirty squadrons of the Great Britain's newest fighter, the R-5 Starbuster.
"As most people know, the first X-9 Eagle was completed three months ago. Lt. Col. Marcus Willibee was the test pilot who lunched from the U.S.S Kitty Hawk and within a few hours after launching he was returning home after circling Mars. When Lt. Col. Willibee did return to Earth, his first words where, 'I could have gone to Jupiter or even further, but I was following orders not to.' The construction of the first R-5 Starbuster was completed one week after Lt. Col. Willibee's flight.
"In a related topic, congress has passed the bill to start colonizing the moon. The construction for that is to start January of next year, and like the Titan-Alpha space station, the colony on the moon will be a joint military outpost. A small portion of the moon's outpost is estimated to be finished and manned within two years along with sections of the outpost being added on, on a yearly basis. The entire project might take long as a hundred years. Congress is optimistic that civilians; possibly even whole families can migrate to the moon in less than thirty years. In other news…"
In Beth O'Brian's hometown, at an university hospital, Beth, the twenty-five-year-old surgical intern, was walking into one of the small conference rooms to join six other surgical interns; Christopher (Chris) Gates, Megan Bailey, Benjamin (Ben) Simms, Carlos Sanchez, Miles Thiemann and Alexandra (Alex) Freeman. Beth had her long red hair in a French-braid. The tip of her hair lay a couple inches from her waistline.
As Beth was taking an empty seat between Ben and Alex, she asked, "So who is our new supervising doctor?"
"Her name's Dr. Rebecca Eisen," said Ben.
"Does anyone know anything about her?" asked Alex.
"I heard she was a star surgeon from Seattle Washington," said Miles. "Mr. Schumacher offered her a good sum of money to come here and take charge of us."
"I still can't believe that Dr. Lopez is dead," said Megan.
Beth saw a mournful expression on Chris' face. She then asked, "Chris, are you okay?"
Chris looked at Beth and asked, "Why wouldn't I be okay?"
"You seem to be taking Dr. Lopez's death harder than everyone here," said Beth.
"Beth, Dr. Lopez was late leaving the hospital because I stopped him and asked for his help on a patient," said Chris. "Ten minutes after he does leave the hospital, he dies in car accident on the interstate. If I didn't stop him then he might be …"
Beth interrupted with, "Chris, what happened wasn't your fault. Dr. Lopez's job was to help us when we needed it."
"It's Beth's fault that Dr. Lopez died," said Carlos.
Beth looked at Carlos in a confused manner and asked, "Why is it my fault?"
"You get visions of things that don't concern you, so you should've gotten a vision of the accident Dr. Lopez was involved in," said Carlos.
"Oh, I see what's going on," said Beth. "Carlos, it's been two months since I warn Cathy about you being a Casanova so get over it already."
In a loud and agitated manner, Carlos said, "You had no right, Dr. O'Brian, to tell Cathy about my past relationships."
Beth responded with, "Okay, first of all, you asked Cathy to go out with you while you were stringing two other girlfriends along and secondly and the most important, Cathy is my friend so that alone gives me the right to tell her about your other two girlfriends."
"At that time, you two barely knew each other, so don't give me that crap about you were being a loyal friend," said Carlos.
Rebecca was several feet from the conference room and heard the exchanged of words that was taking place between Beth and Carlos. Rebecca was carrying files on her seven interns.
"I make friends very easy, so it doesn't manner if I knew Cathy for ten minutes or ten years," said Beth.
"You know what your problem is, is that I have relationships" said Carlos. "Now when was the last time you had a boyfriend?'
"You don't know anything about my love life so don't even pretend that you do," said Beth.
"Like me, you have been an intern at this hospital for six months and during that time, I haven't heard of you being with a guy once," said Carlos. "You're right, I don't know anything about your love life, but I do know you haven't been with a guy for more than six months. You do like men, don't you?"
As Rebecca was walking in, Beth blurted out, "Oh screw you, Carlos." Beth along with the others turned and looked at Rebecca.
Rebecca said with a sarcastic tone, "Excuse me, but I must be lost. I was told that my surgical interns are in this room, but I think I walked into a room with a bunch of high school students. Can one of you point me to the correct room?"
"We are the interns," said Alex.
"You seven can't be my interns," said Rebecca. "I was under the understanding that my interns were professionals and not squabbling school kids."
"I'm sorry for my part of the squabbling," said Beth.
"And who are you?" asked Rebecca.
"I'm Beth O'Brian," she said.
Rebecca picked out Beth's file and asked, "Are you Dr. Kimberly E. O'Brian?"
"Yes, Ma'am, but I go by Beth," she said.
"Call me Dr. Eisen; not Ma'am and to me, you are Dr. O'Brian," she said.
"Yes, Dr. Eisen," said Beth.
"Dr. O'Brian, you can squabble all you want outside this hospital, but inside this hospital you will conduct yourself as a professional doctor," said Rebecca.
"Yes, Dr. Eisen," said Beth.
"All of you are to conduct yourselves as professional doctors," said Rebecca.
Everyone, including Beth, said almost in unison, "Yes, Dr. Eisen."
Rebecca went through the names of the others six interns to learn who was who. After going over the names, she said, "Dr. Freeman; Dr. Simms and Dr. O'Brian, at six o'clock you three will have been here for twenty-four hours, so you three are two leave this hospitals and I do not want to hear of you stepping foot in this hospital again for twelve hours."
Alex and Ben said, "Yes, Dr. Eiesen."
Beth said, "Dr. Eisen, not every day, but most days I stick around after my shift and read to some of the kids in the children ward."
"I heard that about you, Dr. O'Brian," said Rebecca. "I also believe it's good for the children so I won't step on your tradition, but when visiting hours are over, I expect you to act like any other visitor and leave the hospital."
"Yes, Dr. Eisen," said Beth.
"Also I don't want you performing duties as a doctor while reading to the kids during your off duty hours and when six A.M. rolls around, I expect you to be here bright eyed and bushing tailed," said Rebecca.
"Yes, Dr. Eisen," said Beth.
Rebecca then began to conduct her briefing and fifteen minutes into her briefing, Beth's cell phone sounded. Beth looked at who was calling, and then press the button not to answer.
"Dr. O'Brian, was that call hospital business?" asked Rebecca.
"No, Dr. Eisen," said Beth. "It was my mother."
"Now to continue," said Rebecca. She then talked for another ten minutes. Before releasing the interns, Rebecca gave each one his or her assignment.
As Beth was leaving the conference room, she called her mother back. "Mom, you called?"
"Were you in surgery?" asked Valerie, Beth's mother.
"I was in a briefing with my new supervisor, Dr. Eisen," said Beth. "So what's up?"
"Can you get away from the hospital and come by here at seven?" asked Valerie.
"I should be able to," said Beth. "Why do you want me to come by?"
"Do I have to have a reason to invite my daughter over?" asked Valerie.
Beth said in a tone as if to control what she really wanted to say, "I'll be there, mom. Is there anything else?"
"No, that's all I wanted," said Valerie.
"Mom, I have patients to check on, so I'll see you at seven," said Beth.
"Bye," said Valerie.
"Bye," said Beth. She then hung up and after putting her phone away she checked on one of her patients.
Somewhere between Uranus and Neptune, a single Cylon raider jumped into the solar system. After scanning each planet and finding a habitable planet, the Cylon made a FTL jump relatively close to the Earth's moon. Within fifteen minutes the raider did a short flyby of Earth and then jumped away.
At an air force base in the United States' west coast, Airman Ryder had seen a blimp on the screen and just after he had called out about the blimp it had disappeared.
Lt. Border stepped up asked, "What do you have?"
"Sir, I thought that something had shown up on radar, but it's no longer there," said Airman Ryder.
"Well, keep and eye on it, and if what you saw comes back then I'll get a plane in the air to check it out," said Lt. Border.
"Yes, Sir," said Airman.
Lt. Border turned and walked away.
5:55 P.M. at the university hospital, Beth was in the locker room and out of her scrubs.
Beth was in her every day clothes and was finishing up when Ben walked into the locker room. As Ben was walking up to his locker that was four lockers away from Beth's, he asked Beth, "You wouldn't be related to a blind man name Archer O'Brian, are you?"
"I actually do have an uncle with the first name of Archer," said Beth. "I was five since the last time I saw him, but he wasn't blind."
"Well, there's a blind man named Archer O'Brian who is being check for a possible heart attack," said Ben.
Beth gave Ben a curious look as she thought for a second. She then, without saying another word, put on her winter coat; got her purse from her locker; shut her locker and walked out. Beth walked up to the nurse's station first to find out what room Archer was in.
Inside the room that Archer was being examined in, Rebecca and Miles were hooking Archer up to a heart monitor.
When Beth stepped in the room, Rebecca looked at her and asked, "Dr. O'Brian, why are you here?"
Archer had a curious expression on his face and said, "Doctor, I think you are confused as to who the doctor is."
As Beth looked at Archer in a focus manner, Rebecca said, "No Mr. O'Brian. I have an intern who also has the last name of O'Brian, and she just walked in."
"My full name is Kimberly Elizabeth O'Brian," she said.
Archer thought for a second. He then asked, "Kim-Lizzy?"
Beth grinned and said, "Yes, Uncle Archer, it's me."
"I can't believe it," said Archer. "You were only six or seven the last time I saw you, and now you are an intern doctor."
"Actually I had just turned five the last time I saw you and to be honest, I'm a little upset with you and your siblings for cutting yourselves off from us," said Beth.
Before Archer was able to respond, Rebecca said, "Dr. O'Brian, your grievances will have to wait for another time. Your uncle might have had a heart attack and since you aren't and never will be your uncle's doctor, I'm going to have to ask you to leave."
"Yes, Dr. Eisen," said Beth. "I do have a question for my uncle before I leave."
"What is it, Kim-Lizzy?" asked Archer.
"What happened to your sight?" asked Beth.
"I was a cop on the bomb squad for two years, and during my last minutes on the job, what I thought was a dud had blown up in my face just after I took off my face mask," said Archer. "That was about ten years ago."
"You were a cop like grandpa," Beth commented.
"I was, and I had a real promising career going for me before the accident," said Archer.
"Brandon's a cop," said Beth.
"Dr. O'Brian, you can catch up with your uncle later when he's allowed visitors," said Rebecca. "Right now you have to leave."
"Yes, Dr. Eisen," said Beth. "I'm sorry. I have been told that I get carried away with conversations."
"That's an understatement," said Miles. "You are the most talkative person I have ever met."
Beth saw a smile on Archer's face and before she was able to respond to Miles' comment, Rebecca said, "Well the only thing I want to hear from Dr. O'Brian right now is the word 'bye' followed by her leaving."
Beth looked at Rebecca in a nervous manner and said, "Bye." She then looked at Archer. "Bye, everyone."
As Beth was turning towards the door to leave, Archer said, "Bye."
Beth instinctually waved bye. She then quickly and lightly tapped her head when she realized of what she had done.
"Is Kim-Lizzy gone?" asked Archer.
"Yes, she's gone," said Rebecca.
"Dr. Eisen, will you describe her to me?" asked Archer.
"Well, today is actually my first day that I took over as her supervising doctor, but I can tell you what she looks like," said Dr. Eisen. "She's about five foot, five. She has long red hair that is right now in a French braid."
"I've seen Beth in a bikini this past August and she has freckles every where," Miles added. "She also has a tattoo of a butterfly on her left shoulder."
"My mother was five foot, five with red hair and freckles too," said Archer. "I wonder how much she favors my mom. So can you tell me anything more about Kim-Lizzy?"
"Well, as far as I know, most people call her Beth, and she has a memory like an elephant," said Miles. "She quoted the medical book for Dr. Lopez one day and it was two pages long and word for word. According to Beth she only read the book once and it was one year before she quoted it."
"You're kidding, right?" asked Rebecca.
"He may not be," said Archer. "My mom was able to do that too. In fact, I remember being with my mom one day as she went to a doctor because she thought she was having memory problems when she misplaced her keys. When the doctor learned that misplacing her keys was the only time my mom couldn't remember something, the doctor was blown away by how good my mom's memory was."
"How old was your mother at that time?" asked Miles.
"I was in my early twenties, so I say that she was in her early to mid forties," said Archer.
"Wow," Rebecca commented.
"Wow, is right," said Archer. "And unfortunately I didn't get my mother's excellent memory."
When Beth left the hospital she went to her apartment that was only a few blocks away from the hospital. Beth's apartment was small and humble. It had a bedroom, a living room, a bathroom and a small kitchen.
After getting to her apartment Beth put on blue-jeans, a tacky blouse and her black high heal boots. After changing clothes she put on her coat again, put her purse over her shoulder and left again. Beth never fastened her coat. Within forty minutes Beth was parking in her mom's driveway. Beth immediately got out of her red midsize car that she owned since she graduated high school. She put her purse over her shoulder, walked up to the front door and rang the doorbell.
When Valerie opened the door and saw what blouse Beth was wearing, she said, "You know I hate that blouse and I think you wear it just to irritate me."
Beth looked at Valerie with a smirk on her face and as she walked into the house she said, "Irritating you, mom, is just a plus. I hate this blouse too, and I actually wear it because this blouse is the only piece of clothing you and I share the same feelings on."
"Why do you come over with this attitude, Kimberly?" asked Valerie.
"You are right, mom, I'm sorry," said Beth. "I do wear this blouse though so you won't criticize my other blouses and shirts."
"I did not ask you over here to fight," said Valerie.
"Why am I over here?" asked Beth.
"I ran into Ryan today," said Valerie.
Beth looked at Valerie in a curious manner and asked, "Ryan who?"
In a sarcastic manner Valerie said, "Ryan Morton; he was looking awfully bad though for being dead for two years. Your ex-boyfriend, Ryan Daniels, is who I'm talking about."
"Okay Mom, first of all, you suck at sarcasm so you really shouldn't do it," said Beth. "Second, Ryan and I broke up when he decided to go to London fourteen months ago to live so as far as I knew he was still in London and third, you and I know another Ryan. You could have been talking about the third Ryan all I know."
"I'm under the understanding that you were the one who ended things between you and Ryan," said Valerie.
"Yeah because he accepted a promotion that took him to London and I was not about to have a long distant relationship," said Beth.
"He asked you to go with him," said Valerie.
"Actually his words were more as insisting rather than him asking and I refused for several reasons," said Beth. "Not counting his sexist attitude he had towards me the top reasons are, I was still going through medical school…"
"You could have finished medical school in London," said Valerie.
"Mom, I don't want to live in London," said Beth. "I have a firm attachment to my hometown, my family and my friends, and that was what I told Ryan."
"You can always come back to visit," said Valerie.
"Mom, I made up my mind fourteen months ago and I have not once regretted my decision," said Beth. "Now can we change the subject?"
"No because in about twenty minutes, you are to meet Ryan at the Piero's Mexican restaurant," said Valerie.
Beth looked at Valerie in an awing manner and before she had a chance to respond, her cell phone rang. She then said, "I'll deal with this in a second." Beth got her phone out of her purse. Before she answered, she looked at the number and saw that it was her older brother calling. "What's up, Brandon."
"Hey Beth, I have something to ask you, and I want to hear me out before answering," said Brandon.
Beth said in a skeptical manner, "Okay."
"I know you don't like blind dates and you really don't have to think of it as a date, but there is a guy who transferred over from the fifth precinct," said Brandon. "He saw a picture of you, me and Keith together and he would very much like to meet you. His name is Spencer Westcott, but he go by Spence; he's twenty-seven. At eight o'clock Spence and I will be at Joe's Pub and if you are capable of leaving the hospital or even willing to, you can meet us there. What do you say?"
Beth looked at Valerie before saying, "So it's Joe's Pub now and not the Shamrock Pub."
Beth heard the curious tone in Brandon's voice when he asked, "You're not being held by gun point are you?"
Beth said with amusement in her voice, "No Brandon. I'm with mom and she just informed me that my ex-boyfriend Ryan is in town and without consenting with me, she made me a dinner date for me with him. You called before I had a chance to tell her that I have a previous date already."
Brandon slightly laughed and said, "I should have known that you were with mom. So you will be meet Spence and me?"
"I'll see you and Spence in a few minutes," said Beth. "Bye."
As Beth was putting her phone away, Valerie asked, "You have a date?"
"You heard what I said," Beth replied. "And even if I didn't have a date, I wouldn't meet Ryan anyway."
"Ryan was the best thing that ever happened to you and he is here to give you a second chance," said Valerie.
Beth looked at Valerie in frustrated manner for a second and bit her lip to keep from say what she wanted to say. She said in calm manner, "Mom, if you think Ryan is that much of a catch then divorce dad and be with him yourself."
"Kimberly, by you marrying Ryan, your financial future would definitely be secure," said Valerie.
"Who said anything about him and I marrying?" asked Beth.
"That is why he's back; to propose to you," said Valerie.
Beth again looked at Valerie in an awing manner. She then said, "And you can go to the restaurant and tell him that my answer is no. And now if you excuse me, I have a date with Spence to keep."
"Fine, go," said Valerie. "You never did do the right thing, so why should you start now."
"You're right, Mom, going to medical school and becoming a doctor was me doing the wrong thing," said Beth. "Bye, Mom."
As Beth was walking towards the door, Valerie said, "Okay, I'll admit that you becoming a doctor was not a terrible thing."
As Beth reached for the doorknob she said a sarcastic manner, "Be careful, Mom. You almost sound supportive of me; bye."
"Now who's being sarcastic," said Valerie.
Beth just waved bye as she walked out the door and shutting the door behind her.
Beth walked to her car without looking back. After she got in and started the car, she put in a music CD that's relaxing to her. She then backed out into the street and pulled away.
Beth went straight to her apartment first and put on a nicer blouse. She then left her apartment and went straight to Joe's Pub. The pub was only a few miles from her apartment.
Beth walked into the pub with her purse over her shoulder and looked around for a second. Brandon and Spence, while wearing street clothes, were playing pool. When Beth saw Brandon and Spence, she stepped up to Brandon and said, "Hey, what's up?"
"Hey, you made it," said Brandon.
"Yep, I made it," said Beth.
Brandon gestured towards Spence and said, "Beth, this is Spence; Spence my little sister Beth."
Beth put out her hand to shake hands and said, "Nice to meet you, Spence."
Spence took Beth hand and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you." He then kissed Beth's hand. Beth slightly grinned.
"Beth, can I get you a drink?" asked Brandon.
"Ah, sure," said Beth. "A wine cooler will be fine."
Brandon held out his pool stick for Beth to take and said, "Here, shoot for me; it's my shot and I'm solids."
Beth took the stick and asked, "Spence, is it okay for me to shoot in my brother's place?'
"Of course," said Spence.
Brandon turned and walked away. Beth put her purse on the table where Brandon and Spence had their beers. She then walked over to make her shot.
As Beth was lining up her shot, Spence asked, "So what do you do for a living?"
As Beth was making her shot, she asked, "Brandon didn't tell you." The ball Beth was shooting at went into the pocket.
"He told me a couple things about you, but he never told me what you did," said Spence.
As Beth was lining up her next shot, she said, "I'll tell you what I do, but first I want to know what Brandon told you about me." Beth then shot and again made the shot she was shooting for.
"Well, one thing he didn't tell me is that you can play pool," said Spence.
Beth just grinned. She then said, "Brandon is better than me, but I'm no slouch." She then line up her next shot. "So what did he tell you about me?'
"Actually it wasn't Brandon telling me this, but the other officers at the police station," said Spence. Beth went to shoot, but missed her next shot. "I heard that you sometimes get psychic visions."
"You know this about me and you still what to get to know me?" asked Beth.
"Why wouldn't I want to get to know you?" asked Spence.
"Well, most people who find out that I'm a psychic treat me as if I have a fatal and contagious disease," said Beth. "And truth be known, I think they have secrets that they are scared for me to see."
"Well, I have nothing in my life to be a shame of, so by you being a psychic doesn't bother me," said Spence.
Beth grinned. She then asked, "Do you know anything else about me?"
As Spence was lining up his shot, he said, "Brandon told me of how you can talk someone's ear off if you get a chance."
Beth grinned and said, "I have been known to talk until someone tells me to shut up."
"I'm a good listener, so I don't mine being around a talker," said Spence. He then took and made his shot.
"I see you are no slouch at playing pool either," said Beth.
"Thanks," said Spence.
"So what else did Brandon tell you about me?" asked Beth.
As Spence was lining up another shot he said, "He says that you are a kind person, but on the flipside of that same coin, you are a person who I definitely don't want to make mad." He again took and made his shot.
"I guess that's true," said Beth.
Spence grinned. He then asked, "So what do you do for a living?"
"I'm a surgical intern at the hospital down the road," said Beth.
A man in his mid-fifties was walking by and heard Spence asking, "You're a doctor?"
"I am," said Beth.
The man walked up to Beth and said, "Doctor. You're a doctor."
Beth looked at the man in a curious manner, and asked, "May I help you?'
The man gestured to his waistline and said, "Yeah, I have this rash that I can't seem to get rid of. I had it for about two weeks now."
Beth saw Spence grinning. She then tried to keep from grinning and said, "You really should go see a doctor about that."
"You said that you're a doctor," said the man.
"Sir, does this place look like a hospital to you and am I wearing a white coat at this time?" asked Beth.
"No to both questions," said the man.
"Then I suggest that you do go to a hospital and that you do see someone who is wearing a white coat because I do not see any patients outside the hospital," said Beth.
"I bet you are not even a doctor," said the man. "You just said that to impress your friend."
"You're right, Sir, and I do feel very ashamed of myself for saying that I'm a doctor when I'm not," said Beth. "You really should go see someone about that rash though. It may indicate a serious problem."
"Bah," said the man.
The man turned and as he was walking away Beth saw Spence holding in a laughter. She then said as she was trying to sound serious, "I'm glad that you find that amusing."
"I'm sorry; I know that wasn't funny," said Spence.
Beth grinned and said, "You're fine, Spence. I actually find that slightly amusing myself."
Beth saw Brandon returning as Spence was asking, "Does that happen a lot?"
"That was my first time that someone asked me for my medical advice outside the hospital." Brandon was walking up with Beth's wine cooler as Beth continued to say, "And I hope it was my last."
"What do you hope was your last?" asked Brandon.
Beth grinned and asked, "Do you really want to know?"
Brandon grinned and as he held out the wine cooler for Beth to take, he said, "Fine, don't tell me."
As Beth was taking the wine cooler, she said, "A man overheard me telling Spence that I was an intern doctor and asked me for medical advice."
"Don't be giving any medical advice," said Brandon. "You can be sued if something happens."
"Brandon, I'm not stupid," said Beth.
"Beth, you actually smarter than me, so I would never imply that," said Brandon. "I just don't want you to screw up your future just because you care for people."
"Brandon, I know not to give medical care outside the hospital and the only advice I told that guy was for him to go to the hospital," said Beth.
"Good and I'm sorry if I…" said Brandon.
Beth grinned and said, "Don't be sorry. I know you were being a protective big brother, and I like that of you." Brandon smiled. "Truthfully I can be accused of being a protective big sister to Keith… well older sister anyway."
"I think you were more protective of Keith while we were growing up than I was ever of you," said Brandon. Beth just grinned and made a gesture as if to agree. "So whose turn is it to shoot?"
"It's still Spence's turn," said Beth.
"Are you sure?" asked Spence.
"Yeah, you made two shots, but you never took your third shot," said Beth.
"You're right," said Spence as Beth took a drink of her wine cooler.
"Spence, there is one thing about Beth that you really need to know," said Brandon.
Beth looked at Brandon in a curious manner as Spence asked, "What is that?"
"Beth has an amazing memory," said Brandon. Beth just grinned. "In ten years from now, she will be able to tell you every conversation that we will have tonight word for word."
Beth grinned and said, "Well, it may not be word for word, but it will be close."
As Spence was lining up his shot he said, "Wow, that's amazing." He then shot and missed.
Before Brandon stepped up to shoot, Beth said, "Brandon, I saw Uncle Archer at the hospital just before I was leaving to go to mom's. He was being check for a possible heart attack."
"Did you ask him everything that you wanted to?" asked Brandon.
"No. Dr. Eisen, my new supervising doctor, told me to leave and I did," said Kim. "I'm thinking about going back later and checking up on him."
"How did he look?" asked Brandon. "I mean did you recognize him right away and that was how you knew he was there?"
"One of the other interns asked me if I was related to an Archer O'Brian, so I actually went looking for him," said Kim. "He does look like an older version of what I remember of him, so I would have recognized him anyway."
"Well the visiting hours about over so I can't go to the hospital tonight, but I will go tomorrow during visiting hours," said Brandon.
The man who asked for medical advice was walking by again as Beth was saying, "That's one good thing about me being a doctor at the hospital. I can go there after visiting hours."
The man stepped up to Beth and said, "Young Lady, we all know that you're not a doctor. So shouldn't you try something new to impress your friends?"
Brandon was about to say something when Beth said, "You are right, sir. Do you think I can get people to believe that I'm an astronaut?"
"With your gorgeous body, you should tell them that you are a super model," said the man.
Beth grinned in pleasant manner and mock, "Super model? I have to give that a shot. Thanks for the tip."
"My pleasure," said the man. "Take care."
"Bye," said Beth.
As Brandon went to take his shot, Spence asked, "So Beth, what do you do for fun besides playing pool and joking around with people?"
Beth grinned at Spence before answering.
Out of view from Earth's inhabitants, a single base ship jump into the solar system behind the Earth's moon. Seconds later ten small vessel left the base ship. Each vessel was carrying one copy of all of their human modeled Cylons. After launching the small vessels the base ship jumped away.
Several minutes later, over Beth's hometown, one of the Cylon vessels strategically collided and attached itself with a large airliner from behind. Every seat aboard the airliner was occupied. The captain of the airliner couldn't figure out what had happened, and as he was preparing for a crash-landing, he radioed, "Mayday-mayday. This is flight 209. We had been struck by an unknown object and we are rapidly losing altitude." He then reported his position.
In Canada, London, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, China, Yakutsk Russia, Egypt and Angola, the other nine Cylon vessels made their move in a similar manner to infiltrate the planet.