"The Ties That Bind" is the third episode in the fourth season of the reimagined science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica.
In the ragtag fleet, Lee Adama becomes the Caprican delegate for the Quorum of Twelve (Battlestar Galactica), though the media's real attention is on the missing Demetrius, and its "classified military assignment".
When the group breaks apart, Tory is the last one out of the compartment and notices an out of place tile, leading her to believe that someone listened in on their conversation.
Cally proceeds to grab her son Nicky, and attempts to commit murder-suicide by having her and her child vent into space in a launch tube.
After she regains consciousness, Tory, holding the baby in another room, presses the launch button, venting Cally into space.
Total viewership for "The Ties That Bind" mostly held steady from the previous week's new episode, "Six of One".
[1] One source estimated that fewer than 500,000 additional viewers watch the show on DVRs, because the Nielsen rating estimates for DVR watching (calculated over the seven days following the episode's initial airing) do not count shows with fewer than 500,000 viewers.