4x20 Daybreak Part 2 - Battlestar Galactica Episode Guide

Battlestar Galactica

- Episode 04x20

Episode: 04x20
Title: Daybreak Part 2
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 422
First Aired: Mar. 20, 2009

Season 4 » Episode #20 - Daybreak Part 2

Battlestar Galactica - 04x20 Daybreak Part 2

Summary: Admiral Adama leads Galactica's final battle and rescues Hera from the Cylon Colony. Starbuck draws upon the meaning of Hera's musical notes to lead the fleet to a habitable world. The fate of the fleet and its relationship to Earth is revealed.

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Recap: Islanded in a Stream of Stars (01:51)

Who appeared in this episode?

Lee Adama	played by Jamie Bamber
Caprica	played by Tricia Helfer
Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii	played by Grace Park
Chief Galen Tyrol	played by Aaron Douglas
Captain Karl 'Helo' Agathon	played by Tahmoh Penikett
Ensign Samuel Anders	played by Michael Trucco
Simon	played by Rick Worthy
Dr. Sherman Cottle	played by Donnelly Rhodes
John Cavil	played by Dean Stockwell

	Season 4 / Episode 20: - Daybreak Part 2 Sharon "Boomer" Valerii: You should know... your Raptor's been destroyed. You can't go back that way. Lt. Sharon 'Athena' Agathon: Yeah, well, that's not the plan. Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: Could we please not tell her the plan?
	Season 4 / Episode 20: - Daybreak Part 2 Doctor Gaius Baltar: You know, I know about farming. [weeps for his father, who was a farmer] Number Six: [putting her arm on his shoulder] I know.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FAKE: As the camera pans up over Adama sitting by Laura's grave a small, low to the ground fence can be seen behind him. The area is supposed to be undeveloped and uninhabited.
GEOG: They're supposed to be in Africa, yet near the end when Admiral Adama and the President get in the Raptor they're situated in front of a stand of paper birch. These are trees found only in North America.
DATE: As they plan out the deployment their population on the map of earth, the map shown is of Earth today, not as it would have been at a time pre-language humans. A visible example is of Tasmania's disconnection from Australia which occurred only 10,000 years ago.

TRIVIA

CAMEO(Ronald D. Moore): man at the New York City newsstand reading about the discovery of Hera Agathon's corpse while Six and Baltar comment about it behind him
The title is based on Nietzsche's homonym work.
SPOILER: According to Ronald D. Moore's podcast, in earlier scripts it was considered killing Athena and Helo so Hera would have been raised up by Gaius Baltar and Caprica Six. Baltar being killed by Cavil was considered too. It was also thought Tigh would kill Cavil, but Dean Stockwell suggested Cavil would commit suicide. The Adama and Roslin flight scene aboard the Raptor was supposed to take place in space, not on Earth, so they both would get lost between the stars. It was also considered Adama killing himself after Laura's death, but it was dropped too. Finally, they considered the fleet would arrive to Earth during the Hellenistic period, so the Colonial religion would match with the Greeks', but they decided to make Hera the ancestor of all people on Earth so they had to reach the planet during Middle Paleolithic.
SPOILER: Ronald D. Moore decided all the ships from the Colonial fleet would be destroyed into the Sun after watching a documentary about the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, who burned his ships after his men reached Mexico, so they wouldn't be tempted to move back.
The pigeon on Lee's flashback is a metaphor of Kara.