With four months under Cylon occupation, a resistance group has gathered support on New Caprica in the hope of Adama executing a rescue mission. However, the most effective method of striking at their occupiers may mean crossing an unspeakable line, not just for the Cylons, but for their own people.

Gaius Baltar visits Laura Roslin, who has been detained by the Cylons. In order to appear friendly, he hands her back her glasses, but then expresses his outrage and disbelief at the suicide bombings carried out by the resistance. He demands that he and Roslin publicly condemn these actions. Although Roslin initially expresses understanding for the resistance, when Baltar presses her to condone their attacks, she remains silent.

Tyrol receives disturbing news from a secret source within Baltar’s administration while Colonial detainees face a Cylon firing squad on New Caprica.

On Pegasus, Dualla reads a communique and can't believe that Admiral Adama wants to release Sharon Agathon from incarceration and send her to New Caprica to establish contact with the resistance. Equally disbelieving and furious, Lee Adama orders a Raptor be prepared so he may meet with his father. However, the admiral believes he can trust Agathon and refuses to listen to his son's advice.

The Circle, a secret tribunal on Galactica, decides the fate of Jammer and other Colonials who aided the Cylons during the occupation of New Caprica.

Starbuck and Tigh create divisions between those who suffered under the Cylon occupation of New Caprica and those who stayed with the fleet. Also: Baltar tries to prove his worth to the Cylons.

The crew of Galactica discover a deadly virus that could potentially wipe out the entire Cylon race. The only question remains, is it ethical to use it?

A man is discovered by the fleet after being inprisoned by the Cylons since before their attack on the Colonies. Unfortunately, his return brings with it a dark secret from Adama’s past.

A boxing arena set up to relieve tension among the crew stirs up memories of personal events on New Caprica before the Cylon occupation.

A food shortage leaves the fleet with no option but a dangerous passage through a radiation field to a planet they hope to harvest. A light shown on Kat’s past puts her in a decision over her future. Meanwhile, Baltar tries to find out what Number Three has been up to with her recent repeat downloading.

While on the algea planet, The Temple of Five is discovered, which could provide a path towards Earth. Their attempt to unlock its secret is interrupted by the arrival of the Cylons. When their lives are bartered for the sake of giving up the temple, Adama must decide whether the loss of it and the ground team, including his son, are worth sacrificing to ensure that the Cylons don't find Earth.

Led by Three’s obsession, the Cylons close in on the temple with Lee and Anders trying to buy Tyrol time to find the Eye of Jupiter. Meanwhile, Sharon attempts to find her baby as Dualla rescues Kara on her husband’s orders.

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An easily treatable illness strikes refugees on Galactica, especially among Sagittarons who refuse medical treatment on grounds of tradition. Helo, assigned to oversee the civilians, believes the Sagittarons’ claims that a doctor is killing them when many wind up dying shortly after his treatment.

On their anniversay, Adama is reminded of his first wife, Carolanne, who he seemingly lets haunt him throughout the day. Meanwhile, Tyrol and Cally, who have been having their own marital problems, become trapped in an airlock with oxygen leaking into space.

As the process of refining the fleet’s tyluim becomes difficult, the pressure is put on the workers to keep maintenance, while they in turn simply want better working conditions. A book written by Baltar and smuggled out into the fleet helps to tighten this tension in the knuckle draggers who feel they are being treated like a lower class.

After dreaming of Leoben and the mandala she painted as a child, Kara's fitness for flight is questioned when she encounters a Cylon Raider no one else sees. It is then that the issue of her destiny as spoken of by Leoben comes into the foreground.

The episode also has two intriguing scenes away from the main story. One involves Zarek, who warns Roslin about the consequences of having a trial for Baltar. He calls it a potential "hurricane" of civil unrest and potentially violent backlash. As Roslin notes, he seems positively frightened of the possibilities. I'm relieved to finally see Zarek in the role of vice president again, but I couldn't understand (1) why exactly he believed Baltar's trial would spark such an extreme reaction from the populace, and (2) given that Zarek is Sagittaron, why wasn't he a part of the main story as well?

The trial of Gaius Baltar begins, bringing startling revelations to light, and piting a father and son on opposing sides. In the meantime, Galactica tries to find out if the fleet is still being tailed by the Cylons.

A testimony from an unexpected witness helps closes out Baltar’s trial to a verdict. Meanwhile, the music that Tigh, Tory, Galen, and Anders hear grows louder, causing them to face an unsettling possibility.