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When Boomer finds herself sitting soaking wet she is understandable a little concerned as she doesn't appear to have any idea how she got there; she is even more concerned when she opens her kit bag and finds a detonator along with her change of clothes. Things get even worse when she goes to return the detonator to the arms locker and finds that six more are missing. Panicking in case she is accused of taking them she goes to the chief, he wants to report them missing but before he can the ship is rocked by an explosion; five of the detonators have exploded causing much of the ship's water supply to be lost into space. This would be bad enough if it was just Galactica's water but it was also supplying water too much of the fleet. Raptors are dispatched to nearby systems to try to find a planet with water and just as it looks as if there aren't any the screen in front of Boomer states that they have found water… strangely however she appears to have difficulty saying what she has found even though it looks as though she wants too… of course she doesn't know that she is a Cylon. To remind us of that fact we see another Boomer apparently helping Helo back on Caprica.

This episode may have lacked the spectacular space battles of the season opener but was still taut as the viewer is left wondering whether Boomer will get identified as a Cylon, whether she will do something even worse without even knowing it or whether the chief will get implicated alongside her. Grace Park put in a great performance as Boomer and Aaron Douglas was good as Chief Tyrol. Away from their story it was fun to see how Commander Adama and the President went along with the various official protocols while secretly hating it just because they thought the other expected it.

This would be a good episode if the later episodes didn't create plot holes. In The Plan, we learn that Cavil was onboard Galactica and had quite total control of the other Cylons - at least at that point. Now, the outer skin of Galactica is nuke-proof and those few blocks of the explosive G4 created 10m+ holes in the water tanks. So, we can assume that 1 kg (two pounds) of the explosive is as strong as a single 5 ton bomb or even more powerful. Now, if the Cylons onboard Galactica gained access to ~ 10 such charges with detonators (she could access the whole armory!), why didn't they destroy Galactica (bridge, hangars) when we know that Cavil/the Cylons had relatively free reign there? This simply doesn't make sense.

+ the stupid water thing, described below.