President Roslin's fears that Commander Adama is a Cylon are stoked when she learns he's making secret wireless calls to other ships. Then, to make things worse, a single Cylon raider appears near the Galactica and begins acting strangely after being damaged in battle.
When Adama returns to the ship with Tigh's wife, Ellen, an earthy temptress and irrepressible flirt who claims to have been in a coma since their civilization was destroyed, Roslin's suspicions increase. She orders Baltar to screen both Ellen and Adama with his newly completed Cylon-detector.
Meanwhile, Col. Tigh and the rest of the crew watch warily and gather data as the wounded Cylon raider jumps in and out of space.
On Caprica, the Cylon overseers fear that the Cylon Sharon is developing a strange feeling toward Helo — love.
After Leoban told the President that Adama is a Cylon, the fears build in her as he takes secret calls and unauthorized shuttle trips. Things come to light when Colonel Tigh's missing wife Ellen is found newly awake after a coma. Adama is wary of her and has Baltar test her tissues in his new Cylon detector instead of his, against the wishes of the President.
The irrepressible Ellen drags Tigh back into the destructive behavior of the past, especially the drinking to excess. There is a tense scene as everything comes out that Adama suspects Ellen is Cylon and everyone else suspects Adama is. Baltar announces that Ellen tested green and that she is human. When Number Six questions him about what the test result "really" was, he answered that he'd never reveal the real answer. So is she a Cylon? We don't really know yet. Only future episodes will tell. Of course one of the things about this series is that you can never really know that what you know is the truth. There's always a question about the reliability of we are seeing.
Interesting, but one of my least favorite episodes. The Ellen story just didn't fit into the drama of the rest of the series. It could of played up the witch hunt portion of the story.
