Daybreak, Part Ⅰ

Daybreak, Part Ⅰ is an episode of the TV series, Battlestar Galactica, and aired during the show's fourth season.
==Plot==
The episode begins with flashback sequences which play out over the episode, showing the characters as they were some two years before the Cylon attack on the colonies. Commander William Adama is reluctant to undergo a lie detector test in preparation for a civilian desk job. Elsewhere, Dr. Gaius Baltar is getting tired of his father, Julian, who is abusive to his nurse. However, Caprica Six soon informs Baltar that she took his father into a care home, where he will be happier. Laura Roslin is living happily with her two sisters, one of whom is pregnant. But later, Roslin receives distressing news that both her sisters and father were killed in a car accident. Three months after, she is set up for a blind date and is encouraged to join Mayor Adar's presidential campaign. Lee Adamameets Kara Thrace for the first time while she is seeing his brother, Zak. When Lee arrives home drunk, he notices a pigeon in his house, and he chases it away. Lastly, the flashbacks focus on Anders, who is interviewed during his sporting career, where he admits to playing for the joy of the pursuit of perfection rather than the winning.
Back in the present, Galactica is being stripped for parts to be used on other ships, while the military will be transferred to control the Rebel Basestar. The pictures of the fallen in the memorial hallway are also taken down. Baltar wants his people to have a seat on the quorum, but Lee refuses. Admiral Adama later decides to give amnesty to those who took part in the attempted coup d'état, as well as to Tyrol, who is in the brig for helping Boomer (Grace Park) escape. This allows Tyrol to take part in the mission to retrieve Hera (Iliana Gomez-Martinez), who is being studied by the Cylons to determine how Cylons can reproduce. However, Adama doesn't allow Cottle (Donnelly Rhodes) to join in, as he says that the fleet cannot afford to lose a doctor. Several others join in the operation, including the original Cylon models, and a weakened Roslin. A Raptor is dispatched to the possible location of the "Colony", only to find it located very close to a black hole, but despite the circumstance, Adama orders an attack to begin.
==Cast==
*Edward James Olmos as Rear Admiral William Adama
*Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin
*Jamie Bamber as Commander Lee "Apollo" Adama
*James Callis as President of the Twelve Colonies Gaius Baltar
*Tricia Helfer as 
**Caprica Six
**Messenger Six
*Grace Park as 
**Lieutenant Sharon "Boomer" Valerii
**Sharon Agathon
**Number Eight
*Michael Hogan as Colonel Saul Tigh
*Aaron Douglas as Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol
*Tahmoh Penikett as Captain Karl "Helo" Agathon
*Michael Trucco as Samuel T. Anders
*Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh
*Rick Worthy as Number Four
*Donnelly Rhodes as Major Sherman Cottle
*Matthew Bennett as Number Five
*Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
*Kerry Norton as Medic Layne Ishay
*Dean Stockwell as Number One
*Bodie Olmos as Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza
*Leah Cairns as Lieutenant Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson
*Brad Dryborough as Lieutenant Louis Hoshi
*Colin Lawrence as Lieutenant Hamish "Skulls" McCall
*Lara Gilchrist as Paulla Schaffer
*Colin Corrigan as Sergeant Allan Nowart
*Leela Savasta as Tracey Anne
*Darcy Laurie as Specialist Dealino
*Finn R. Devitt as Nicolas Tyrol
*Iliana Gomez-Martinez as Hera Agathon
*Tobias Mehler as Zak Adama
*Anthony Holland as Julius Baltar
*Simone Bailly as Shona
*Elan Ross Gibson as Nurse Barbara
*France Perras as Sandra Roslin
*Sarah Deakins as Cheryl Roslin
*Tiffany Burns as Reporter Carolyn
*Kevin McNulty as Frank Porthos
*Stefanie Samuels as Police Officer
*Richard Jollymore as Marine #1
*Anthony St. John as Marine #2
==Appearances==
===Characters===
*Lee "Apollo" Adama
*William Adama
*Karl "Helo" Agathon
*Gaius Baltar
*Anastasia Dualla
*Felix Gaeta
*Calandra Henderson
*Number Eight
**Sharon "Boomer" Valerii
**Sharon Agathon
*Number Six
**Messenger Six
*Laura Roslin
*Saul Tigh
*Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
*Galen Tyrol
===Locations===
*The Fleet
===Species===
*Cylon
**Centurion
**Humanoid Cylon
**Raider
*Human
===Technology===
*FTL
*Wireless
===Vehicles and vessels===
*Basestar
*Colonial One
*Galactica
*Raider
*Raptor
*Viper
===Organizations===
*Colonial Fleet
*Colonial Government
*Colonial Marine Corps
== Production ==
===Writing===
The general idea of the Season 4 finale was devised at a Las Vegas writer's retreat in 2007, and built upon at another retreat at Lake Tahoe in 2008 when it was agreed upon that Season 4 - and Season 4.5 in particular - would be more streamlined in terms of story arcs and effectively present a multi-part finale arc.Ron D. Moore podcast. The 2007-8 Writer's Guild of America strike caused a number of problems for production of Season 4.5, and a number of plot points were dropped.
One of the ideas for each three parts was for a series of flashbacks to take place that would compare the present-day characters with how they were in the two years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Some of these ideas were in fact taken from the Season 1 story bible, having never found use in the show before, like Roslin losing her family to a drunk-driving accident.
===Editing===
During post-production, the episodes were edited repeatedly to tie together the flashback sequences. Moore's scripted idea was that the flashbacks for each character be presented out of order for the audience to slowly figure out the meaning in each story. Director Michael Rymer found this to be too confusing as there were too many characters having flashbacks. Sci-Fi's producers disliked both ideas, and it was instead agreed the flashbacks for the first part be used together in one massive block at the start.
==Sources==
==External links==
*Archived podcast
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