Dirty Hands

A Raptor accident prompts Roslin and Adama to question Zeno Fenner, foreman of the tylium refinery ship Hitei Kan, about impurities in the craft's fuel. But Fenner has shut down production, claiming unsafe working conditions. The fleet's fuel supply is already critically low, and when Fenner makes further threats while quoting a subversive manifesto penned by Gaius Baltar, Roslin orders him arrested. In the aftermath, Adama assigns Galen Tyrol the task of producing more fuel. As he sets out on his mission, Tyrol begins to empathize with the disgruntled refinery workers and discovers that even his wife agrees with passages in Baltar's controversial manifesto. Though Tyrol is steadfast in his determination to get the refinery flowing again, he recognizes the harsh working conditions endured aboard the Hitei Kan and works out a schedule of rotating shifts. When the plan proves more problematic than he anticipated, Tyrol turns to Baltar's manifesto for answers. Tyrol has ordered a young man named Danny to work on the Hitei Kan, and after seeing the boy get seriously injured while risking his life for the good of the fleet, the conflicted chief shuts down the refinery and declares a strike -- a move which ultimately finds him arrested for mutiny.