Laura Roslin watched bewildered as they led Lt Sharon Valeri into the brig under heavy guard with a blaster pointed directly at her head. She moved forward in the cell, and looked at Sharon Valeri. She looked dismal with bruises about her face.

"What the…?" she started to ask, when Col. Tigh came into the brig with his blaster drawn, Laura watched stunned.

"Madam President move back away from the prisoner immediately. Now! Move to the back of your cell. I'll be with you presently." Tigh ordered.

She immediately obeyed without question, which was unheard for her. There was an iron quality in Tigh's voice that left no room for argument. She immediately sat back on the bench at the back of her cell, and waited until Tigh finished.

Tigh spent some time talking with Lt. Valeri, but Laura could not hear what was discussed. She watched fascinated waiting for Tigh to come. She figured she would learn soon enough what had happened. She also started to wonder where Captain Adama was. She would have expected him to be in the brig by now. Something big was happening, she knew. Now just what exactly had happened in the past few hours that she had missed was the question.

Tigh sent for the medic to dress Sharon's wounds. Tigh signaled to the guard to open Laura's cell.

"Madam president if you would follow me please. We have some urgent things we need to discuss. .The doctor also tells me that he wants to see you in Life Station when we are done." Tigh looked at her for a moment to see if she would offer anything.

She remained silent and simply gave him a small nod of acknowledgement.

"Colonel, I need something to eat if that would be possible. I haven't been able to keep much down lately."

Tigh nodded as they moved from the brig. Tigh waved away one of the marine guards as he started to follow.

"Madam President I'm going to take you to your quarters. I think that will be private enough to discuss what has happened and what were going to do about this whole mess."

"Colonel where is Commander Adama?". Something was obviously very wrong and it involved the Commander or his son. That might explain the condition one alert blared over the ship earlier.

"In your quarters, I'll fill you in, and you and I will work out some details that need to be addressed."

Laura nodded and the walked in silence. The marine guards saluted as they walked through the entrance to her quarters.