
After the game, everyone heads over to the cruise liner Rising Star for a huge celebration in a Studio 54-style dance hall. With Iblis' mysterious unseen help, Boomer's blue team defeats Starbuck and Apollo's gold team. Boomer tells them "I'd give anything to beat them, just once." Iblis offers to play the game through Boomer. Just before a game of triad, Iblis and Sheba visit Boomer, who is getting ready to play against Apollo. All is not lost." Iblis then disappears, leaving Baltar alone. Iblis "would have to be over a thousand yahrens old." Iblis then walks through the cell door and consoles Batlar: "Do not fear, my friend. But Iblis' smile broadens: he responds that in order for his voice to have been transcribed into a machine leader, it would have to have been done 1,000 yahrens ago. But Baltar recalls they were living beings who were overcome by their own technology 1,000 yahrens ago when their war with the humans began.

"I know you! I remember that voice! It is the voice of the Cylon Imperious leader!" Iblis simply smiles an evil smile. "Sit, Baltar! Sit, old friend!" It is Iblis. In a holding cell, a fuming Baltar paces until he hears a voice. Iblis then insists that the Council decide on his third test quickly.

But then Count Iblis (Patrick Macnee) steps forward and rebukes Baltar, using his powers to force the prisoner to his knees. Naturally, the traitor protests, insisting that the Colonists and the Cylons need each other in the face of a new threat. Baltar, apparently tried in absentia, is sentenced to life aboard the prison barge. Our enemy has been delivered." -Adama's memoirsĪs Baltar (portrayed by the late John Colicos) faces the Council, the president renounces the Cylon double-agent. There is a a jubilation unprecedented, as Baltar is brought before the Council of Twelve. Word is spreading like sunbursts through every corner of the Fleet. Baltar's ship is reaching our quadrant, and will be escorted by an elite squadron that will deliver the treasonous instrument of our holocaust directly into our hands. "This is an event unlike any we've experienced since the destruction of our civilization. The War of the Gods (Part 2) Analysis By Walt Atwood This is the review of the second half of the two part episode featuring Patrick MacNee.
