User:Mderezynski/Sandbox/The Oath (Battlestar Galactica)

Plot
In the previous episode, it became known that the fleet's leadership wants to upgrade the fleet's jump drives using Cylon technology. Felix Gaeta, betrayed by Cylons on several occasions, vehemently opposes the plan. Finally, he makes a pact with Tom Zarek, as of then not fully disclosed, to, in his words, rectify things that have gone wrong.

In The Oath, his plan finally unfolds.

Gaeta helps Zarek to jailbreak off the Galactica onto Colonial One. There, he talks Lee Adama into leaving the ship and heading back to Galactica, to request from Admiral Adama the reason for letting Zarek go. In the meanwhile, Gaeta organizes a full scale mutiny on board the Galactica. Kara Thrace notices the uprising, and tries to get confirmation on what is happening, but is denied the information, being repelled on the grounds of her status being unknown after the events of Sometimes A Great Notion. Officers of the fleet who have mutinied, among them prominent people like Racetrack, but also Narcho and Skulls, take Lee Adama hostage upon arrival on the Galactica. He is promptly rescued by Thrace. They both together flee, and decide to remedy the situation to whatever extent is in their reach.

Rebel crew imprison Samuel Anders, as well as Karl and Sharon Agathon, and their child, Hera Agathon, together with Caprica-Six in a brig cell. In the CIC, Admiral Adama and Saul Tigh are being taken hostages too. Soon after, however, they manage to overwhelm their captors and break free. They meet up with Lee Adama and Cpt. Thrace, who just helped President Roslin meet with Gaius Baltar in order for her to use Baltar's wireless transmitter to address the fleet and try to bring the people back into order. Together they make their way to Storage Bay Two, from where Galen Tyrol has promised to take the Admiral and the President into safety, onto, as it seems, the rebel Cylon base star.

Zarek keeps control of the situation from Colonial One, conferring with Gaeta in the CIC over wireless. His intentions were, as it turns out, to have Adama killed, and he is unsatisfied that this didn't take place.

Alone in the storage bay, Baltar and Roslin come back closer together. They realize that they finally have more in common than it seemed all along. Roslin finally makes it off the Galactica with Tyrols help, Gaeta however orders their Raptor to be destroyed. In a final turn of events, Saul Tigh and Admiral Adama defend the storage bay from where the Raptor took off, only to be attacked by rebel marines, with their fate, as of now, remaining unknown.