As she seduces him while bringing him pain, a group of masked men break in, launch tear gas, deface Baltar's shrine and beat up anyone they can find.
Baltar declares that people are not being told the truth and begins defacing the temple, crushing the items on the altar and denouncing the priestess as a witch.
In Galactica's sick bay, Adama meets Roslin, bringing a novel to read aloud during her cancer treatment.
Down in the brig, Colonel Tigh pays a visit to Caprica Six and asks how she can cope with her guilt in the deaths of billions of human beings.
On Colonial One, the Quorum meets where Lee Adama challenges President Roslin's latest emergency decree, in response to the religious attacks, which restricts assemblies to twelve people or fewer.
Racetrack tries to drop the matter saying that nobody was hurt—"It was human error"—but Tyrol becomes furious and challenges any of the witnesses to face him and say that he "frakked" up.
Adama dismisses Tyrol from Deck Crew Chief of Galactica with rank demotion to Specialist, then commands him to appear for a duty reassignment the following morning.
Later, Roslin visits Baltar in the brig where she tells him that she doesn't have long to live and warns that her impending death has left her willing to act outside of the law and conventional morality.
At the sect's quarters, Baltar and several members are barred from entry to their home by a guard at the door who says he is enforcing Roslin's emergency decree against assembly.
Lee Adama then arrives and declares that the Quorum has overturned Roslin's decree and that the people are free to assemble as they please.
As the speech continues, the scene briefly moves to the Demetrius, where Starbuck has fallen asleep atop her navigation charts.
In the original draft for the beginning of season four, Tom Zarek was behind the Sons of Ares and encouraged its attack on Baltar's Cult.