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class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Episode <abbr title="number">no.</abbr></th><td class="infobox-data">Season 1<br />Episode 4</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Rod_Hardy" title="Rod Hardy">Rod Hardy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Written by</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Bradley_Thompson" title="Bradley Thompson">Bradley Thompson</a><br /><a href="/wiki/David_Weddle" title="David Weddle">David Weddle</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Original air dates</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"> <ul><li>November 8, 2004<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2004-11-08</span>)</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">(UK)</span></li> <li>January 28, 2005<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday 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display: inline-table;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 50%; padding: 0.2em 0.1em 0.2em 0; text-align: center;">← <b>Previous</b><br />"<a href="/wiki/Bastille_Day_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Bastille Day (Battlestar Galactica)">Bastille Day</a>" </td> <td style="width: 50%; padding: 0.2em 0 0.2em 0.1em; text-align: center;"><b>Next</b> →<br />"<a href="/wiki/You_Can%27t_Go_Home_Again_(Battlestar_Galactica)" class="mw-redirect" title="You Can't Go Home Again (Battlestar Galactica)">You Can't Go Home Again</a>" </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class="noprint"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_season_1" title="Battlestar Galactica season 1"><i>Battlestar Galactica </i>season 1</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)_episodes" title="List of Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) episodes">List of episodes</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>"<b>Act of Contrition</b>" is the fourth episode of the reimagined <i><a href="/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)" title="Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)">Battlestar Galactica</a></i> television series. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Act_of_Contrition_(Battlestar_Galactica)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_the_fleet">In the fleet</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Act_of_Contrition_(Battlestar_Galactica)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: In the fleet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>President <a href="/wiki/Laura_Roslin" title="Laura Roslin">Laura Roslin</a> visits <i>Galactica</i> doctor <a href="/wiki/Sherman_Cottle" title="Sherman Cottle">Sherman Cottle</a> about her <a href="/wiki/Cancer" title="Cancer">cancer</a>. Cottle determines that Roslin's cancer is far beyond surgical means of removal and suggests an aggressive chemotherapy-like treatment. Due to her mother's experiences with the treatment, Roslin refuses and decides to instead go on chamalla, an alternative means of treatment. </p><p>During a party for the 1,000th landing of a Raptor pilot named Flat Top, an accident occurs, killing thirteen pilots and injuring seven more. Needing pilots, Commander <a href="/wiki/William_Adama" title="William Adama">William Adama</a> orders <a href="/wiki/Kara_Thrace" title="Kara Thrace">Starbuck</a>, a former flight instructor, to train more pilots. Haunted by the memories of her fiancé Zak Adama whose death she feels responsible for, Starbuck is overly harsh on the pilots ("nuggets") and fails them after the first day. </p><p>While discussing the situation with his father, <a href="/wiki/Lee_Adama" title="Lee Adama">Apollo</a> inadvertently reveals that Starbuck holds guilt about something to do with Zak's death. After Adama confronts her, Starbuck tearfully admits that though Zak failed basic flight, she passed him due to their engagement. As a result, he had a fatal accident that killed him. Adama angrily orders Starbuck to reinstate the nuggets and to get out his sight. </p><p>Following Adama's dressing down of her, Starbuck begins acting like an actual flight instructor, leaving her issues out of the cockpit. However, while on a flight with nuggets Hotdog, <a href="/wiki/Louanne_Katraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Louanne Katraine">Kat</a> and Chuckles, eight Cylon Raiders suddenly appear. As <i>Galactica</i> launches Vipers, Starbuck sends the nuggets back and attacks the Raiders alone in a sure suicide run, hoping to hold them off and allow the trainees to escape. Disobeying orders, Hotdog returns to help Starbuck fight off the Raiders, destroying one before his Viper is disabled. </p><p>During a dogfight with the last Raider, Starbuck is able to take it out with a shot to the "head." However, the Raider collides with Starbuck's Viper, sending both ships into the atmosphere of a nearby moon. With her Viper in a <a href="/wiki/Flat_spin_(aviation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Flat spin (aviation)">flat spin</a>, Starbuck is forced to eject and falls towards the moon.<sup id="cite_ref-Kaveney_Stoy_2010_p._196_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kaveney_Stoy_2010_p._196-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TVcaps_2011_p._3_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TVcaps_2011_p._3-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_Caprica">On Caprica</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Act_of_Contrition_(Battlestar_Galactica)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: On Caprica"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Twelve days after the fall of the Twelve Colonies, <a href="/wiki/Karl_Agathon" title="Karl Agathon">Helo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Number_Eight_(Battlestar_Galactica)#Sharon_"Athena"_Agathon" title="Number Eight (Battlestar Galactica)">the copy of Boomer</a> follow the signal <a href="/wiki/Water_(Battlestar_Galactica)" class="mw-redirect" title="Water (Battlestar Galactica)">they picked up</a> to a restaurant. Underneath the restaurant, the two discover a fully stocked but abandoned <a href="/wiki/Fallout_shelter" title="Fallout shelter">fallout shelter</a>. Helo and Sharon find an automated disaster beacon which is what led them to the shelter. Outside, a copy of <a href="/wiki/Number_Six_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)">Number Six</a> looks into the restaurant, apparently knowing Helo and Sharon are inside, but continues on her way. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Act_of_Contrition_(Battlestar_Galactica)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The show was the first written for the series by <i>Star Trek</i> veterans <a href="/wiki/Bradley_Thompson" title="Bradley Thompson">Bradley Thompson</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Weddle" title="David Weddle">David Weddle</a>. They were excited to use more complex flashback structures than in their previous television work.<sup id="cite_ref-Steiff_Tamplin_2008_p._13_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Steiff_Tamplin_2008_p._13-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The accident plot was inspired by the accident on the <i><a href="/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire" title="1967 USS Forrestal fire">USS Forrestal</a></i> during the Vietnam War.<sup id="cite_ref-Bigsby_2013_p._281_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bigsby_2013_p._281-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Trivia">Trivia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Act_of_Contrition_(Battlestar_Galactica)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Trivia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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<li>"<a href="/wiki/Fragged_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Fragged (Battlestar Galactica)">Fragged</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Resistance_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Resistance (Battlestar Galactica)">Resistance</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Farm_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="The Farm (Battlestar Galactica)">The Farm</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Home_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Home (Battlestar Galactica)">Home</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Final_Cut_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Final Cut (Battlestar Galactica)">Final Cut</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Flight_of_the_Phoenix_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Flight of the Phoenix (Battlestar Galactica)">Flight of the Phoenix</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Pegasus_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Pegasus (Battlestar Galactica)">Pegasus</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Resurrection_Ship" title="Resurrection Ship">Resurrection Ship</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Epiphanies_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Epiphanies (Battlestar 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Occupation_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Occupation (Battlestar Galactica)">Occupation</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Precipice_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Precipice (Battlestar Galactica)">Precipice</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Exodus_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Exodus (Battlestar Galactica)">Exodus</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Collaborators_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Collaborators (Battlestar Galactica)">Collaborators</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Torn_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Torn (Battlestar Galactica)">Torn</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Measure_of_Salvation" title="A Measure of Salvation">A Measure of Salvation</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hero_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Hero (Battlestar Galactica)">Hero</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Unfinished_Business_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Unfinished Business (Battlestar Galactica)">Unfinished Business</a>"</li> <li>"<a 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href="/wiki/The_Ties_That_Bind_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="The Ties That Bind (Battlestar Galactica)">The Ties That Bind</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Escape_Velocity_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Escape Velocity (Battlestar Galactica)">Escape Velocity</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Road_Less_Traveled_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="The Road Less Traveled (Battlestar Galactica)">The Road Less Traveled</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Faith_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Faith (Battlestar Galactica)">Faith</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Guess_What%27s_Coming_to_Dinner%3F" class="mw-redirect" title="Guess What's Coming to Dinner?">Guess What's Coming to Dinner?</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Sine_Qua_Non_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Sine Qua Non (Battlestar Galactica)">Sine Qua Non</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Hub_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="The Hub (Battlestar Galactica)">The Hub</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Revelations_(Battlestar_Galactica)" title="Revelations (Battlestar 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