11:00 A.M. at the university hospital, Beth had stepped into Number-Eight's room and saw her talking to Barry. Number-Eight saw the surprise look on Beth's face as she stared at Barry. Number-Eight then tried to play Barry's presence off by saying loud enough for Beth to hear, "It's nice to meet you Barry Sage, but you should go back to your room."
Barry looked at Beth for a second. As he turned to face Number-Eight again, he said, "It's nice to meet you, and don't worry, I'm sure your memory will return."
Barry walked towards the exit, but before he was able to walk out of the room, Beth asked, "Mr. Sage, it's obviously that you're a patient here in the hospital, but is there a reason why you're not in your room?"
"I hate just laying in bed and I like meeting people," said Barry. "Is there anything wrong with that?"
"Not at all, but if you are well enough to explore the halls and meet people then perhaps you are well enough to be discharge from this hospital," said Beth. "Who's your doctor?"
"Her name is Dr. Bailey, and she had mentioned that she wants to keep me for another twenty-four hours for observation," said Barry.
"Most likely, Mr. Sage, she wants you to stay to make sure that there is no complications, but if you keep wandering the halls the way you are and complications do set in then you will do more harm to yourself than good."
Barry read Beth's nameplate and said, "Thanks for your concern, Dr. K. E. O'Brian. I do feel okay though."
"If you feel that good then perhaps I should talk to Dr. Bailey in your behalf and get her to discharge you," said Beth.
"You don't have to do that," said Barry. "I'll stay in my room."
"I think that would be best," said Beth.
Barry just nodded. He then walked out.
When Beth faced Number-Eight, Number-Eight said, "You seem to have a problem with people talking to me."
"It's not that I have a problem with it, it's that I just can't help noticing that for a person who can't remember her proper name or anything else, you do attract a lot of visitors," said Beth as she picked up Number-Eight's chart. "Also by you being in the ICU, you are not really allowed visitors unless he or she is a direct family member."
"How long do I have to stay in ICU, Dr. O'Brian?" asked Number-Eight.
As Beth looked at the chart, she said, "Your vitals have been stable for the past twenty-four hours so I think that you can be put in a normal room at any time today. I have to talk to Dr. Eisen… my supervisor before I change your room though. Before I go and talk to my supervisor, is there anything you need?"
"I'm good, thank you," said Number-Eight.
Beth put the chart back and said, "Then I'll go and talk to Dr. Eisen about getting you out of ICU."
"Thank you," said Number-Eight.
Beth just nodded. She then turned and walked out.
Rebecca was at the nurse's station in the emergency ward and going over someone's chart when Beth stepped up. When Rebecca looked up and saw Beth she said, "Dr. O'Brian, I was just about ready to look for you."
Beth looked at Rebecca in a curious manner and asked, "Why were you about to look for me?"
"Dr. Ryder won't be in tonight and I'll need you to work the midnight shift so at one o'clock I want you to clock out and return at ten tonight," said Rebecca. Beth looked at her watch. "I recommend that you get some sleep during the time you're not here."
"You do know that Dr. Ryder is the chief resident and you're replacing him with an intern?" asked Beth.
"You're not taking over Dr. Ryder's duties," said Rebecca. "Dr. Ritter will be in charge in Dr. Ryder's absence and he just wants another pair of hands."
Beth said in a sarcastic tone, "I see it's going to be a joyful night."
"Do you have a problem with Dr. Ritter?" asked Rebecca.
"We got off on the wrong foot with each other and since then we avoid each other when possible, and if we can't avoid each other then we just tolerate each other," said Beth. Rebecca grinned and slightly shook her head. "He and Carlos are very chummy though."
"What happen between you and Dr. Ritter?" asked Rebecca.
"The day I met Dr. Ritter, he was taking me and the other interns from patient to patient and asking us questions about each one," Beth began. "I was able to answer more questions than the other interns and a lot of my answers were word for word from the medical book. After I gave him the sixth textbook answer his words to me were, 'I hate a kiss ass, so you wasted your time memorizing the medical book to impress me.' My temper soared and I quickly told him that I have an excellent memory and that I didn't memorize anything. He didn't believe me and he basically told me to keep my mouth shut from then on."
"Well, just do your job and if any problems arise from Dr. Ritter, I'll handle it," said Rebecca.
"Yes, Dr. Eisen," said Beth. "Dr. Eisen, I actually came to talk to you about Jane Doe. "
"What about her?" asked Rebecca.
"Since her vitals are stable and strong I want to move her out of ICU and into a regular room," said Beth.
"You have my approval," said Rebecca.
Beth gestured down the hall and said, "I'll go find her a room now."
"Before you go, you should know that Dr. Snyder told me that you done a good job during that bypass surgery," said Rebecca.
Beth grinned and said, "Thanks."
"You're welcome," said Rebecca.
Beth turned and walked away.
On board the Galactica and in Cmdr Adama's quarters, Cmdr. Adama and Pres. Aryan Kellogg were looking over the recording that Apollo and the others retrieved from the Greys' space station. Pres. Kellogg, a man with a dark skin tone, won the presidency of the colonies eleven months ago and was backed during the election by the former president, Pres. Roslin as a candidate.
After watching a ten-minute segment of the America Civil War their attentions were drawn to a knock at the door. Cmdr. Adama yelled out, "Enter."
Seconds later Jessica Randall, one of the genetic duplicate from Earth, walked in and said, "You wanted to see me, Cmdr. Adama."
"I do, Jess," said Cmdr. Adama. "Step over here and tell me what I'm looking at."
Jess stepped up to the computer screen and when she saw what it was, she said, "That's looks like a movie of the American Civil War. That's good acting, but the cameraman kept a distance from the scene though. I also don't recall seeing this movie before. Overall, I would say good acting, but bad filming."
"This not a movie," said Cmdr. Adama. "This is a recording of an actual event."
"That's not possible," said Jess. "We never possess the technology during that time in our history to make that recording."
"People on Earth didn't record this." Cmdr. Adama saw the confusion in Jess' eyes as he continued to say, "The Greys recorded it."
"You are in contact with the Greys?" asked Jess.
Cmdr. Adama shook his head and said, "We found an abandon space observatory belonging to the Greys several hours ago. This was from that."
"How long ago was the American Civil War?" asked Pres. Kellogg.
"A little over a hundred and forty years ago," said Jess. "If you are at all curious, the soldiers in the blue uniforms are union soldiers from the northern states. They were also called Yankees. They are fighting to preserve the Union of the United States as a whole. The soldiers in the gray uniforms are confederate soldiers from the southern states. Eleven southern states had attempted to break away from the United States and form an independent country known as the Confederate States of America."
Pres. Kellogg asked in a surprised tone, "The confederates didn't win their war?"
"They didn't," said Jess.
"In this battle the Union soldiers are getting slaughtered and judging from this, I would have guessed that Union would have lost," said Pres. Kellogg.
"Actually the confederacy won most of the major battles before the battle of Gettysburg," said Jess. "The battle of Gettysburg lasted for three days and when the Union won that battle along with another battle on a different battlefield on the exact same day, the war shifted in the Union's favor."
"What sparked the war?" asked Cmdr. Adama.
Jess looked at Pres. Kellogg and hesitated to answer. Pres. Kellogg and Cmdr. Adama looked at Jess in a curious manner. She then finally answered, "Earth has a dark and appalling history. As far back as our earliest recorded history groups of people were captured and forced to become slaves. Africans are the last of the group of people to be captured as slaves and Africans have a dark skin tone like you do, Pres. Kellogg." Pres. Kellogg shook his head and sighed in disgust. "The people in the European countries who migrated and eventually formed the Unites States had a light skin tone. Before the American Civil War, the southern states were slave states and the northern states were mainly Free States. The issue of ending slavery was a volatile subject and when Abraham Lincoln, a man who was very much against slavery, won the presidency of the United States, the people in the Southern states felt that they had no choice, but to secede from the Union."
"Was slavery ended when the Union won?" asked Pres. Kellogg.
"Slavery did, but the injustice towards the African-Americans didn't end until more than a hundred years later," said Jess. "Even now you will find resentment on both sides among a percentage of the population. I don't know what that percentage is though, but that resentment is shrinking with each generation."
"That's good to know for when we reach Earth and interact with them," said Cmdr. Adama.
"Jess, I was told that Cylons have reached Earth and judging from what I see here, my biggest fear is that there won't be anyone on Earth left when we get there," said Pres. Kellogg.
Jess slightly grin and said, "What you're seeing is deceiving more than anything, Mr. President. Granted that in the Civil War era we would've been absolutely helpless, but within a hundred years from the beginning of the Civil War, we have evolved from a single shot rifle as with the musket you are seeing to a multi-shot machine-gun that can shoot several rounds per second. We went from traveling by horses to traveling by automobiles and airplanes. We had even launched people into space for short periods at a time a hundred years after the Civil War ended. I can't say what advances there are since I was abducted, but the people on Earth were trying to perfect laser weapons when I was abducted."
"I find it hard to believe that a culture can advance greatly in so short of a time span," said Pres. Kellogg.
"Not culture; cultures," said Jess.
"Excuse me?" asked Pres. Kellogg.
"I'm not sure, but I think that there are about two hundred nations on Earth… nations being another name for tribes," said Jess. "Each nation has its own culture and actually advances at its own pace. The countries like the United States, Great Britain, France and Russia to only name a few are well-developed countries. Omitting space travel, the countries I mentioned as well as several others that I didn't mention, can come relatively close to matching the colonies in lot of the technology."
Pres. Kellogg gestured towards the screen and asked, "What made nations to go from being primitive to being well advance in only a few generations?"
"It was from World War I, World War II and the Cold War mainly," said Jess. "The United States and its allies advance as quickly as we did was because we didn't want to lose the world wars. And during the Cold War the United States wanted to remain technology superior."
"What exactly do you mean by a Cold War?" asked Pres. Kellogg.
"Two powerful and bickering nations with their weapons of mass destruction pointing at each other, and both nations daring the other to do something that can remotely be considered an act of war," said Jess. "The two main nations during the Cold War were the United States and the Soviet Union."
"How did the Cold War start?" asked Cmdr. Adama.
"The United States is a capitalist country… capitalist being free trade and privately own businesses being operated at a profit," said Jess. "The Soviet Union was a communist country. Communist being that the government owns or controls the trade so the wealth could be equally distributed among the citizens. The Soviet Union thought that the entire world should convert to communism so no citizen can become wealthy while others don't have any money to buy a decent meal or clothing."
"Is the Cold War still going on?" asked Pres. Kellogg.
"It's over," said Jess. "The Soviet Union actually dissolved itself after being in existence for seventy years; however, the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was only forty-five years."
"At least we won't get caught in the middle of the Cold War," said Pres. Kellogg.
"Commander, was there anymore data recovered from the space station?" asked Jess.
"This is all we have right now, but Lee, his crew along with three Raptors for minimal protection went back to the space station," said Cmdr. Adama. "Chief Tyrol will be attempting to install a FTL drive so we can claim the station for our use."
"Was there anything else, Commander?" asked Jess.
"That's it," said Cmdr. Adama. "You can go back to what you were doing before."
"Bye," said Jess.
As Jess was turning to walk away, Pres. Kellogg and Cmdr. Adama said, "Bye."
11:20 A.M., at the university hospital, an orderly was pushing Number-Eight's bed with her in it down the hall. Nurse Kayla Smith was walking beside the bed while pushing the IV stand. Beth was walking behind Kayla with Number-Eight's chart. Just as they were approaching Number-Eight's new room, Beth saw Tiffany walking into another room down the hall.
When Tiffany disappeared from Beth's sight, Beth said, "Kayla, make sure our patient is comfortable, I need to check on something."
"Yes, Doctor," said Kayla.
Beth held out Number-Eight's chart for Kayla to take and said, "Here's her chart."
After Kayla took the chart, Beth walked away. Seconds later she stepped up to the nurse's station and asked who was assigned to a particular room.
The nurse took a few seconds to check the computer. She then said, "The room belonged to Barry Sage."
"How long has Mr. Sage been a patient here?" asked Beth.
"He came in the night of the plane crash, but the records don't say if he was one of the plane crash victims," said the nurse.
"Thanks for the info," said Beth. The nurse just nodded. "There's one more thing I need before I leave. As you know, Jane Doe was placed in the room down the hall. I need a round a clock record of any visitors she and Mr. Sage get."
The nurse looked at Beth in a curious manner and said in a hesitating manner, "Okay, Doctor."
"Thanks," said Beth. As Beth stepped away from the nurse's station, she took out her phone and dialed Spence. His phone went straight into voicemail. "Hey Spence, it's Beth. Give me a call when you get this message."
As Beth was clipping her phone back to her pants, she saw a man pushing a food cart and collecting dirty food trays. When she saw the man going into Barry's room, she stepped up to the food cart and waited for the guy to return.
When the man stepped out and saw Beth standing there, he read her nametag and asked, "Is there anything you need, Dr. O'Brian."
"Yeah, I want that tray that you have," said Beth. The man looked at Beth in a curious manner. "I'll give it back to you in a second."
Beth heard the skeptical tone in the man's voice when he said, "Okay." The man handed the tray to Beth.
Beth put the tray down on the cart and then picked up an empty food container from the tray. When she didn't get a vision from that, she picked up the juice container and got a vision from that. The vision's setting was in Tim's room with Tim talking his muddled words to the teddy bear. Tiffany and Barry were at Tim's bedside. Tiffany grinned at Barry and said, "Tim is feeling a lot better."
When Barry was leaning in to give Tiffany a romantic kiss, the man slightly shook Beth while exclaiming, "Dr. O'Brian! Doctor?"
Beth came out of her vision and as she was making a gestured for him to be quiet she said, "I'm fine, so stop calling out my name."
Beth saw the door to Barry's room opening when the man said, "You blacked out, Doctor."
Tiffany stepped out and looked at Beth in a curious manner. As Beth stared at Tiffany, Beth said, "I'm fine. You should continue with picking up food trays."
Tiffany saw Beth putting the juice container back on the tray. At the same time the man glanced at Tiffany he said, "Yes, Doctor."
As the man pushed his cart down the hall, Tiffany asked, "Beth, what's going on?"
"Walk with me for a moment," said Beth.
Tiffany looked at Beth in a confused manner and said, "Okay."
As Beth and Tiffany were walking down the hall and away from Barry's room in a leisurely manner, Beth asked, "Do you know the person you were just visiting?"
"His name is Barry Sage and we met a couple of hours ago," said Tiffany. "Beth, what's going on?"
"Have you heard the talk about how Flight 209 could've been brought down by terrorists?" asked Beth.
"I heard a little bit about it," said Tiffany. "What about it?"
"There have been government officials in the hospital and I'm not supposed to tell you this, but the responsible people of the crash might be patients in this hospital," said Beth. "The officials don't know who the responsible people are so if you don't know Mr. Sage before the plane crash then I recommend being extremely caution around him."
"You think Barry's a terrorist?" asked Tiffany.
"As far as I know, he might be a great man," said Beth. "I'm just leering of anyone who came in minutes after the plane crash."
"Thank you for you concern," said Tiffany.
"Tiffany, Spence knows about the possible terrorists in and around the hospital and he wants me to have a stun gun," said Beth. "He's going to get it for me and I'm going to talk to him about getting you one."
"Beth, I left Spence to get away from the violate scene and the stories of cops being killed," said Tiffany.
"He told me, but what might be getting ready to come down will beyond anyone's control," said Beth. "You should be ready for it. If not for you at least be ready to protect Tim."
Tiffany slightly chuckled which was mostly from frustration. She then said, "You must be insensitive to death for you to be with a cop and think the way you do."
"Just the opposite actually," said Beth. "Every staff member knows when a patient dies around me. I get all teary eyed and my face gets puffy. I was even very upset last night when a patient died while we were trying to get him to the O.R. I know people thought I took that death personal and in a way I did."
"If you're that sensitive then how do you do it?" asked Tiffany. "I mean, how can you be with a cop while knowing that he could be shot any day?"
"On my dad's side of the family, my grandpa was a cop in New York before he and my grandma were killed in a plane crash twenty years ago," Beth began. "One of my uncles is a cop in New York and another one was a cop in New York. Both of my uncles are still alive, but the one who is no longer a cop was injured while on duty that took him off the force. And my brother is a sergeant in Spence's precinct."
"So you just use to what can happen?" asked Tiffany.
"To be honest, I was never around my uncles because of a family feud that started at my grandparents' funeral, so I can't really say that I'm used to it, but I'm emotionally strong enough to deal with it if it happens," said Beth.
Tiffany grinned and said, "You think you are anyway."
Beth grinned and as she nodded she said, "I think I'm emotionally strong enough. Anyway, to get back on subject, I think you should get and keep a stun gun with you."
"What if I just stay away from Barry and anyone else who came in around the time of the plane crash?" asked Tiffany.
"He'll want to know why you all of a sudden turned cold towards him and he may not be a terrorist," said Beth. "However, if he is a terrorist then you might be indirectly telling him that we suspect him as being a terrorist."
"I know how to handle it," said Tiffany. "So I'll pass on getting a stun gun."
Beth said in a skeptical manner, "Okay. It's your call."
Tiffany put her hand on Beth's arm and said, "Honestly, I can handle it." Beth had the same vision as she had before, but it had changed. Barry was no longer standing in the room when Tiffany was at Tim's bedside. Tiffany slightly shook Beth. "Beth! Beth, what's wrong?"
Beth looked at Tiffany with a slight grin on her face and said, "I'm fine."
"You froze for a few seconds," said Tiffany.
"Yeah, well, I do want you to keep this to yourself, but I sometimes get psychic visions when I touch objections or when I get touched," said Beth.
Tiffany thought for a second. She then said, "You do suspect Barry as being a terrorist. You were attempting to get a vision from the items off his food tray."
"Okay, I'll admit I was trying to get a vision that would prove one way or another," said Beth.
"Did you get a vision?" asked Tiffany.
"I actually got a vision of you and Mr. Sage watching Tim playing with his teddy bear," said Beth. "During the vision, I saw Mr. Sage went to kiss you, but I came out of the vision before I saw the actual kiss or how you reacted to it."
"What did you see when I touched your arm?" asked Tiffany.
"Actually I saw a variation of the same vision as before, but this time, Mr. Sage wasn't in the room as you watch Tim play," said Beth.
"Well, your suspicion of him has actually made me slightly suspicion of him, so that attempted kiss you saw in your vision won't even get the chance to happen," said Tiffany. "Anyway, I'm going to return to Tim's room."
"I need to get back to work, so I'll see you later," said Beth.
Tiffany nodded and said, "Okay, I'll see you." Tiffany then turned and walked away.
Beth went to Number-Eight's room and when she stepped up to Number-Eight's bedside, she said, "I'm sorry to run out on you the way I did, but I saw something that I had to check on."
"The nurse and orderly made sure that I was comfortable," said Number-Eight.
"Good," said Beth. "If you're okay here then I'm going to go."
"I'm good," said Number-Eight. "Bye."
"Bye," said Beth. She then turned and walked out. Beth was a short distance from Number-Eight's room when her phone rang. She looked at the number before answering. "Hey Spence."
"You called me?" asked Spence.
"I did," said Beth. "The thing I originally called for kind of resolved itself, but I do want to tell you that I'm leaving the hospital around one today; except I have to be back at ten to work through the night. Most likely I will take a nap as soon as I get home, but you can call me when your shift is over."
"Beth, what resolved itself?" asked Spence.
"I don't want to say over the phone," said Beth.
"Well, my partner and I are actually on our way there so I can get that shot and visit Tim," said Spence. "You can tell me then. Do you want me to bring you something to eat?"
"No, thanks," said Beth. "I'll eat when I get off at one."
"Suit yourself," said Spence. "Anyway, my partner and I are about ten minutes away."
"I'll see you in ten minutes," said Beth. "Bye.
"Bye," said Spence.
After Beth put her phone away, she went back to Archer's room.
On board the Greys' space station, Galen and his men had dismantled the propulsion unit to the station and began building a hybrid propulsion unit that could utilize their FTL drive.
On the command center of the station, Dr. Atkins had restored visual recordings belonging to the original station's commander; however, the recordings were in the Greys' language. After a thirty-minute segment of one of the recordings was copied, it was sent back to the Galactica by way of one of the Raptors to be translated.