Saul Tigh:"You have been secretly visiting my wife?
Bill Adama: "No!.. yes.. but it's complicated..."
Ellen Tigh: "I told you! He's been after me for years!
Bill Adama: "What??"
Ellen Tigh: "Now, boys, boys, don't fight over little ol' me."
Laura Roslin: "Ellen, be quiet!"
1 week after Ellen's test for cylon.
"I think that's all, Madame President. If you'll excuse me. Have a nice day."
Bill Adama turned around without letting Laura answer him and left the room. As usual. She sighed…. You deserve it… to believe a frakking cylon and to sneak out and to spy him on his own ship and to involve his best friend…
"OK. I crewed up! How long he is intending to remind me that!?" she exclaimed 4 hours later in a complete anger while Billy was reading the agenda to her. Her aide's face was tired but calm and didn't ask what was this absolutely unconnected to the agenda sentence. He had become accustomed to the fact that, since her suspicions of Adama being a cylon, after every meeting with him, The President came back in a bad mood and never listened to anything.
"Maybe you should apologize…" Billy suggested quietly.
"To apologize? For doing my job and protecting the fleet?"
'No, for believing the enemy, not him."
Laura gave Billy a stern look. "I'm not intending to look like a guilty schoolgirl"
Billy shrug his shoulders and, giving up to make Laura focus on the agenda, left her alone.
In the meantime, Galactica
Elen Tigh was not a woman to forgive easily. Bill Adama humiliated her and had to pay the price. Noone plays with Tigh's wife without consequences.
But how to revenge on the Commander of the fleet?
By taking away his friend- impossible. This naïve husband of hers was following Adama like a puppy. Pathetic.
By taking his son? The same boring story. Despite… she had other plans for the young Adama…
By causing chaos in his fleet? Too risky.
And then it came. The brilliant idea. Laura Roslin.
Ellen noticed how the two of them were looking at each other at the dinner last week. And how Roslin reacted when she announced that Bill had been after her for years. There was something more than irritation in the President's voice, ordering her to be quiet…. Something in her tone sounded too interesting…. If Ellen managed to destroy the connection between these two, she would have her revenge and Bill would be sent in hell. Soo perfect.
"What are you smiling at?" asked Tigh.
"Nothing, honey. Just making a plan for the week. It's so boring when you're at work. I had to find a hobby"
"Did you find one ?"
"Oh, yeah… I found…"