A Measure of Salvation

"A Measure of Salvation"
Battlestar Galactica episode
One of Galactica's prisoners, a Leoben Conoy model, lies dead in his holding cell.
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 7
Directed by	Bill Eagles
Written by	Michael Angeli
Original air date	November 10, 2006
Guest appearance(s)
Lucy Lawless as Number Three Rick Worthy as Simon Callum Keith Rennie as Leoben Conoy Matthew Bennett as Number Five Luciana Carro as Louanne "Kat" Katraine Donnelly Rhodes as Cottle Bodie Olmos as Hot Dog Leah Cairns as Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson
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"A Measure of Salvation" is the seventh episode of the third season from the science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica.

Major Apollo leads a boarding team inside the ship finding most of the Cylons are dead, however a small group is found barely alive on the bridge. The landing team also finds the mysterious cylinder device. Sharon "Athena" Agathon tries to access the Basestar's computer system to no avail. She then speaks with a Cylon copy of herself who calls her a traitor. Apollo requests permission to finish off the Cylons. However, at Captain Helo's suggestion, Admiral Adama orders the prisoners to be brought back to Galactica for interrogation.

Gaius Baltar is confronted by Number Three and Number Six, who ask why he didn't reveal the existence of the device he found on the Basestar. Baltar feigns ignorance at first, but then confesses that he did know about the device, and apologizes for not mentioning it sooner. Three and Six believe that he knows more about the device than he's letting on. They have two Centurions take him away for interrogation.

The Cylon prisoners, including Apollo's boarding party, are placed under quarantine by Doctor Cottle. Later, he determines the virus to be a strain of Lymphocytic Encephalitis, one that has caused the Cylon's brains to swell and other symptoms like high fever, stupor and disorientation.

Cottle reports to Adama and President Roslin that he can create a serum that will suppress the virus and keep the Cylons alive, without ever curing them; the Cylons will have to be given periodic injections to keep them alive. A Cylon copy of Simon is brought before Adama and Roslin. In exchange for the serum, Simon explains the Cylons' plans to find Earth. He reveals that Baltar is with the Cylon fleet and is showing them the way to Earth. Simon further explains about the probe, and how the contaminated Basestar was abandoned by the rest of the Cylon fleet.