Battlestar Galactica: Every Starbuck Episode Ranked Worst To Best

With Kara sidelined from piloting any Vipers while her leg heals up, she is enlisted for a new duty: interrogation. After a fleetwide search is conducted, another copy of the Leoben model - the same one that Adama beat to death with a pipe on Ragnar station - is found and brought to a cell. From the first moment, he shares that he knows something more about Starbuck than he should.

Leoben and Kara's relationship is one of the most fascinating plotlines in all of Battlestar Galactica. While he is adamant that he is a servant of God, she is staunch in her belief that his God doesn't exist, and he is simply delusional. She tortures him for information, based on the lie that he has planted a bomb in the fleet.

Over the course of their time in the cell together, she develops something of an attachment to him - something that the audience will see come back again and again before the end of the show, requiring President Roslin to snap her back to reality.

The episode is one of the darkest of the show's first season, complete with two stellar central performances.