7:30 P.M. at a tavern five miles from the university hospital, Travis and Number-Six walked in. Number-Six spotted William sitting at the bar immediately and was gazing at him. Travis then got her attention by saying, "You can find a table. I'll be back shortly."
Number-Six just politely grinned and nodded. As Travis was walking away, Number-Six walked towards William.
The TV over the bar was on, but muted and was set to the CNN station. William was reading the streaming caption, when Number-Six stepped up beside William and said, "Perhaps you should buy me a drink."
William looked at Number-Six. He then looked at the bartender and said, "Barkeep! Get the lady what I have."
"Coming up," said the bartender.
William faced Number-Six again and said, "You're the ninth one now that I met up with."
"You're actually the first one who I found," said Number-Six. "Where are the ones who you found?"
William went through the list of which Cylons were located and where to find them. He continued to say, "I wasn't able to talk to Number-Eight because just after I got there a young red headed female doctor walked in on us. Her name tag read Dr. K. E. O'Brian."
"Dr. O'Brian was actually the doctor who treated my wounds," said Number-Six.
"I know it's impossible, but the way she acted towards me and Number-Eight was almost as though she knew what was going on," said William.
As the bartender stepped up with Number-Six's drink, Number-Six glanced at the TV and the news segment caught her eye. She quickly asked the bartender, "Does that thing get sound?"
"Let me turn it on," said the bartender. He reached for the remote and turned it on.
Once the mute was off, Number-Six and William heard, "…Without any explanation the FBI seized the wreckage of Flight 209 and everything pertaining to it from the FAA late this afternoon. However, the wreckage was seized after a FAA official had confirmed that metal not belonging to the plane itself was found alongside the wreckage which would indicate that Flight 209 was either involved in an accidental collision with another aircraft or was the target of a terrorist attack. Earlier today the president of United States had raised the terrorist alert, but he denies that it has anything to do with Flight 209 or the similar disasters that took place around the globe within the same time frame…"
William whispered to Number-Six, "It seems that these Earth humans have a talent with picking through the fragments of chaos."
"I was browsing their network earlier and this last human colony had divided themselves in two hundred tribes of various sizes," Number-Six whispered. "However, they call these tribes nations and not all of these nations get along and because of that, they have a very strict security policy."
"We better step up our time scale," said William.
"I agree, but we have to move with even more caution," said Number-Six. "Anyway, I actually came in with someone. I don't know where he went to, but I need to find a seat before he comes back."
"Have you found a place to stay yet?" asked William.
"I have and coincidently it's in the same building as Dr. O'Brian resides in, so most likely it wouldn't be wise idea for you to be seen with me there," said Number-Six. "I'll keep in touch with you as much as I can though." William just nodded. "Oh and I found a place of employment."
Number-Six told William what name she took and where to find her place of work. She then carried her drink to the first empty table she came to. Just after she sat down, she saw Travis and a second man entering the bar again from a back door. Travis saw the curious stare that Number-Six gave him.
As Travis was stepping up to the table he said, "I would offer to buy you a drink, but I see that you have one."
Number-Six glanced at her drink and said, "Don't let this drink stop you from buying me another one."
Travis grinned and said, "Okay, I won't. I'll be back in a minute with the drinks."
At the university hospital, Rebecca stepped into Number-Eight's room to check on her condition. Just as Rebecca picked up her chart, Carlos was stepping in.
Number-Eight looked at Rebecca in a curious manner and asked, "Is this usual for a different doctor to check up on me?"
"Actually Dr. O'Brian will be your doctor for the remainder of the stay, but she is gone and won't be back 'till morning," said Rebecca. "I'm Dr. Eisen, and I'm just filling in for her."
Carlos said barely loud enough for Number-Eight to hear, "Nice move, Dr. Eisen. Beth, will find out what she's hiding in no time."
Rebecca looked at Carlos and before she was able to respond, Number-Eight demanded to know, "What do you mean by that?"
"Dr. Sanchez, don't say another word and wait for me in the hall," Rebecca ordered.
Carlos looked at Rebecca in a confused manner and said, "Yes, Dr. Eisen."
As Carlos was leaving, Number-Eight again demanded to know, "What did he mean by that?"
"Dr. O'Brian has a trusting way about her that's all." Number-Eight looked at Rebecca in a skeptical manner as Rebecca continued to say, "Anyone who talks to Dr. O'Brian just finds his or herself opening up and confiding in her."
"Well, I'm not hiding anything and I'm tired of people insinuating otherwise," said Number-Eight.
"I assure you that the insinuation ends now," said Rebecca as she put the chart back. "Do you need anything before I go and deal with Dr. Sanchez for his inappropriate remark?"
"I'm good; Thank you," said Number-Eight.
Rebecca nodded and turned to walk away. As she was stepping up to Carlos in the hallway, Carlos said, "Dr. Eisen, I didn't know that I was loud enough for her to hear me."
"Dr. Sanchez, I know that you and Dr. O'Brian don't get along, but are you trying to get her killed?" asked Rebecca.
Carlos looked at Rebecca in a confused manner and said, "I don't understand what you're talking about, Dr. Eisen."
"There are speculations all over this hospital about the possibly of Jane Doe being a terrorist and if that's true then you were about to put Dr. O'Brian in danger by announcing that she gets psychics visions," said Rebecca.
"I wasn't thinking…" Carlos was only able to get out.
"No; you weren't," said Rebecca. "Now you are to keep quiet about Dr. O'Brian's visions."
"Yes, Ma'am." Carlos saw the look he got and corrected himself, "I mean, yes, Dr. Eisen."
"I will make sure that your follow interns and the rest of the staff know to keep quiet about it too," said Rebecca. "Now, was there anything you wanted?"
"Yes, Dr. Eisen. I need a consult on a patient," said Carlos.
Rebecca gestured for him to walk and said, "Lead the way."
Without saying a word, Carlos turned and walked down the hall. Rebecca walked beside him.
In Archer's room, Brandon with his street clothes on had stepped in. Sally, Cindy and Daniel were in the room.
Archer heard the footsteps as Sally asked, "May I help you, Sir."
"Aunt Sally, it's me; Brandon," he said.
"Come in, Brandon," said Archer.
As Brandon walked in Cindy and Daniel exchanged introductions with Brandon. Sally had also said her pleasantries with Brandon.
After Brandon stepped up to his uncle's beside he said, "So Beth tells me that you doing good."
"That's what the doctors tell me," said Archer.
"He might be able to get released tomorrow," said Cindy.
"That's good," said Brandon. He then started a causal conversation.
In a solar system that was a few light years from Earth, A Raptor and her crew had jumped into the system and relatively close to the fifth planet out of seven planets. The solar system was off the colonial's projected course to find Earth, but with the fleet again running low on freshwater and ore, Raptors were being sent out in all direction in search for supplies.
As the crew of the Raptor veered around the fifth planet, the ECO's sensors picked up a faint energy reading from an abandon space station near the second planet.
"Hey, I don't know what it is, but I'm picking up some kind of energy signature," said the ECO. "I'm feeding you the coordinates now."
The pilot was a rookie pilot who only flew one mission before this one, and when he saw the coordinates he said, "Hang on and I'll jump there."
The raptor disappeared from the fifth planet and a split second later they reappeared at a short distance from the space station.
When the pilot realized of it being a space station, he made an evasive maneuver as he blurted out, "Frak."
The ECO quickly checked his sensor reading and blurted out, "It's abandon so don't lose your head and get us killed for no reason."
As the pilot was straightening the Raptor, he said, "You couldn't tell me that this was an abandon space station before jumping in?"
"The energy reading was to faint to know what it was," said ECO. "Now if you're calm down enough, I would like to get closer and take some readings and pictures to take back to the Galactica."
As the pilot was maneuvering closer he asked, "Do you think this is an Earth space station?"
"I don't think so," said the ECO. "This station looks as though it's been abandon for a long time though."
Minutes later, as the Raptor was veering around to the backside of the station for more scans, the pilot and the ECO spotted marks that indicated that the station was attacked.
The ECO scanned the space station and the planet it orbited for two hours before he decided that they had enough data for them to return to the Galactica.
Minutes after the crew of the Raptor returned to the Galactica, Cmdr. Adama, Col. Tigh, Apollo, Starbuck and a few other officers were looking at the data in the wardroom. Apollo recognized a group of symbols and said, "The space station belonged to the Greys."
"Who or what are the Greys?" asked one of the officers.
"The Greys is a term that is given to us by the seven people from Earth," said Cmdr. Adama. "The people on Earth believe them to be an alien race, but they are actually a mutated race that spawned from humans while attempting to end sterility. They are also the ones responsible for abducting the humans from Earth."
"So they would know where Earth is at?" said the officer.
"They would, but judging from the appearance of that station, that station hasn't been occupied for years," said Col. Tigh.
"I was thinking more like centuries," said Starbuck.
"Regardless as to how long it's been abandon, it still may have the information we need," said Cmdr. Adama. "Lee, assemble a team and board that station. Dr. Atkins might be able to restore any corrupt files so include him with your team."
"Yes, Sir," said Apollo. "Starbuck, let's go gather our team."
"I'm right behind you," said Starbuck.
As everyone was leaving the wardroom one of the officers asked, "Was the Greys from Earth?"
"No," said Col. Tigh. "They are from Kobol Minor."
"Is that the planet that we found a year ago that had ruins of a dead human civilization?" asked the officer.
"It is," said Col. Tigh.
"Did the Greys kill the humans there?" asked the officer.
Col. Tigh looked at the officer in a manner as if he was trying to determine if the officer was serious. Col. Tigh then said, "No. The entire population of Kobol Minor died out from sterility, but for centuries before that, they were subjecting volunteers to harsh radiation experiments in hopes to find a way to stop their fate of complete sterility. They never found the way to stop their fate and during their radiation experiments the Greys were born. When the humans saw that the Greys' population was growing by a rate faster than the humans' population, the humans got scared that the Greys would eventually take over the planet. To prevent that the Greys were exiled from the planet."
"I now understand," said the officer.
"A year ago, Cmdr. Adama did speak about this on the talk-wireless," said Col. Tigh.
"I must have missed that broadcast," said the officer. Col. Tigh just nodded.
An hour later, Apollo, Starbuck, Dr. Atkins, CPO Galen Tyrol and four members of Galen's crew, while wearing full environmental gear, had broken themselves into four groups to search the station. After searching the station for thirty minutes, Galen and one of the crewman stepped into the command center.
After Galen and the crewman shined their lights around the room for a second, Galen got on his radio and said, "Capt. Adama, we found CIC." Galen then described the corridors he needed to join him.
"We'll be right there," said Apollo.
As the seconds past Galen tried to familiarize himself with the controls while waiting for the others to arrive. Galen noticed that the energy setting was set to the lowest setting and the energy cells were fully charged.
When Galen saw Apollo and the others walking in, he said, "Captain, the energy cells are fully charge. The instruments are in acceptable range. Sir, this station is still operational."
"Before we restore power to this station, I want the circuits tested," said Apollo.
"We should check for traps too," Starbuck added.
"Okay, you heard the captain," said Galen. He then assigned duties to his men.
Galen and his men worked hard for two hours to test each system. After Galen convinced Apollo that the systems were safe to be turned on, he turned on the oxygen system. As the oxygen level was slowly rising, he switched the other system on one by one. Two-third of the systems were up and running before the oxygen level was high enough to take off their helmets.
After all the systems were up and running, Dr. Atkins searched for data on the computers while Starbuck was trying to determined the station's armament.
After a few minutes, Dr. Atkins said, "Capt. Adama, the files were deliberately erased; however, I think I can restore a lot of the data."
"How long will it take?" asked Apollo.
"To be honest it could take up to several days," said Dr. Atkins.
"Apollo, this station is not designed for military operation," said Starbuck. "It has no indication of weapons of any kind."
"Why would a station that's not designed for combat be fired upon?" asked Galen.
"That would be the million-dollar-question, according to Kim," said Starbuck.
"Let me get this data restored and I might be able to answer that," said Dr. Atkins.
"Well, do what you can," said Apollo.
8:00 A.M. local time in Angola Africa near the coastline, most of the Cylons were gathered, and were preparing to committed suicide in order to be resurrected onboard one of their resurrection ship that was just outside the solo system. Just before they were able to commit the act, they saw a U.S. aircraft carrier on the horizon. Within seconds after spotting the vessel, a squadron of F-16 fighters was leaving the ship at a fast pace. After seeing what they did, they changed their plans and returned to town to find out what they could about the vessel.
9:35 A.M. local time in London England, Ryan was walking towards his office for the first time in three days. Just before reaching his office he saw his partner Neil giving Number-Six a tour of the facility. When Neil saw Ryan, Neil motioned for Ryan to come over. Just as Ryan stepped up Neil said, "Ryan, I would like for you to meet Cassandra Chadwick. Cassandra, meet Ryan Daniels."
"Nice to meet you Ms. Chadwick," said Ryan.
"I prefer Cassandra and it's a pleasure meeting you," said Number-Six. "Neil has been showing me all the robotic and automatic machinery that this facility assembles and I find every thing about it fascinating. In fact robotics is actually an obsessed hobby of mine."
"Cassandra is actually very knowledgeable in the field of robotics and she has given us a few great ideas on how to improve on our products," said Neil. "In fact, her idea will be saving this company millions in just one year alone. I initially hired her as my secretary, but as to how knowledgeable she is of what we do, I'm making her vice president in production."
Ryan looked at Neil in a skeptical manner and asked, "Did you run this by Martin yet?"
"I did and he has no problem with it," said Neil.
"What about Bradley who is currently the vice president?" asked Ryan.
"Cassandra and I have already talked to Bradley," said Neil. "I can tell that he's not happy being demoted to a supervisor underneath Cassandra, but he accepts it."
Ryan gestured towards Number-Six and asked, "How long have you known her?"
Before Neil was able to respond, Number-Six asked, "Do you have problem with me?"
"I don't know you is what my problem is," said Ryan.
"Ryan is suspicious of everyone by nature, so I'm sure it's nothing personal towards you," said Neil. "Isn't that right, Ryan?"
"There's actually only one person on this planet that I absolutely trust and…" said Ryan.
"Speaking of her, what happen with that?" asked Neil.
"If that would have worked out I wouldn't be back so soon," said Ryan.
"What happened?" asked Neal.
"I failed to listen to her fourteen months ago is what happened," said Ryan. "I thought I could make it up to her, but that bridge was burnt when I moved to London. Anyway, if Martin has no objection with Cassandra being hired as vice president of production then I'm outvoted by two to one; so welcome aboard, Cassandra Chadwick."
"Thank you," said Number-Six.
"Well, I need to do something, so I will see everyone around," said Ryan.
As Ryan was walking away, Number-Six said, "I'll see you around." Ryan just waved out of politeness.
Ryan walked straight to the security office and when he walked in, the lead officer of the shift asked, "Is there anything you need, Mr. Daniels."
"Have you met Cassandra Chadwick?" asked Ryan.
"Yeah, she was in here earlier to get her ID processed," said the security officer. "If you see her let her know that her ID is ready to be picked up."
"Let me have it and I'll give it to her," said Ryan.
"Okay," said the security officer. He then went to get the ID.
4:00 A.M. local time in Beth's hometown at the children's hospital an oxygen tank with a defected valve in the dock area had exploded. The incident caused moderate damage to only the dock area with no injuries, but the hospital officials had order an immediate evacuation of the hospital until they could rule out terrorism. The children from the hospital were taken to the various hospitals around the cities.
At Beth's apartment, Spence had stayed the night. Both of them had fallen asleep in the nude minutes after having sex several hours before.
At 4:10 A.M. Beth abruptly woke up. Just as she turned towards the lamp on her nightstand to turn it on, the phone rang. The phone was next to the lamp and it rang twice before Beth picked it up and said, "Hello." A brief moment later Beth accidentally woke Spence up when she abruptly sat up and blurted out in a concerned manner, "Oh my god. Did anyone get hurt?"
When Spence opened his eyes and saw Beth on the phone, he asked, "What's going on?"
Beth glanced to where Spence had his trousers and said, "Answer your cell phone."
"It's not…" Spence was able to get out when his phone began to ring. "Ringing?"
As Spence was getting out of bed to answer his phone, Beth said, "Cathy, give me thirty minutes and I'll be there."
Spence was answering his phone as Beth was hanging up hers. Spence watched Beth as she was getting out of bed. While looking at Beth he asked, "What's going on, Schmidt?"
As Spence was being called in for crowd control at the children hospital, Beth was getting clean underwear and bra from her drawer. After getting the items she waited for a second when she saw Spence hanging up his phone. When Spence looked at her again, she asked, "You're being called in too?"
"Yeah, there was an explosion at the children's hospital and since the hospital is in our precinct, I'm being called to help control the traffic," said Spence.
Beth stepped up to Spence and gave him a quick kiss. She then said, "I'm going to take a quick shower. Do you need to use it before I get in there?"
"I do actually," said Spence. "Before I do that though, how did you know that my phone was going to ring?"
"When it comes to the phone ringing or someone knocking on the door or even some kind of alarm sounding, I actually hear it within three seconds before it actually sounds," said Beth. "Now go do what you need to do in the bathroom, so I can get in there."
Spence nodded, but instead of walking away, he grinned and said, "You look very sexy standing there without any clothes on."
Beth grinned and said, "You look all sexy standing there too, but I really need you to hurry and I think you do too."
Spence grinned and nodded. As he turned towards the door leading into the living room he said, "I'm hurrying."
As Spence was using the bathroom, Beth put on her bathrobe and sat on the couch while waiting for Spence to get done.
As Spence was stepping out, Beth stepped up to him and said, "After you get dressed you can let yourself out." As Spence nodded he leaned towards Beth to give her a kiss. The kiss lasted a few seconds before Beth pulled away. "Call me later."
Spence grinned and said, "I will. See you later."
"Bye," said Beth. She then went into the bathroom.
Thirty minutes later, Beth, without any makeup on, was entering the university hospital. Her long hair was again pulled back into a ponytail. As soon as Beth walked in Cathy stepped up to her and handed her a fax that was sent by Ryan. The fax had Number-Six's picture along with the words, "Is this one of them?"
When Beth gazed at the picture, Cathy asked, "What does that mean?"
"It's something personal actually," said Beth. "Thanks for giving this to me." Beth put the fax into her purse and then gestured down the hall. "Well, I better get my scrubs on."
"Hurry, Beth," said Cathy. "It's getting back up with kids around here."
Beth nodded and walked away. When Beth was far enough from Cathy, she took her cell phone out and called the number that Clarence had given her.
As the hours slowly passed and more and more people became aware of the incident at the children's hospital, accusations of it being a terrorist act had escalated. The Iraqi refugees were the ones who were blamed.
Three hours had passed since the explosion when William and a few others Cylons were walking down the sidewalk together and were hearing the accusations that were going around.
William looked at the others and said, "These Earth humans look for someone to blame without waiting on the truth to come out. We can use that against them. We will create random incidence in a manner that they will blame each other."