Writer:	Michael Angeli
Director:	Robert Young (III)
Star:	Tricia Helfer (Number Six/Caprica Six),  Grace Park (Sharon Valerii/Sharon "Athena" Agathon),  Jamie Bamber (Lee "Apollo" Adama),  James Callis (Gaius Baltar),  Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslin),  Edward James Olmos (William Adama)
Recurring Role:	Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster),  Ty Olsson (Capt. Aaron Kelly),  Don Thompson (Anthony Figurski),  Michael Hogan (Saul Tigh),  Alessandro Juliani (Felix Gaeta),  Aaron Douglas (Galen Tyrol),  Tahmoh Penikett (Karl "Helo" Agathon),  Nicki Clyne (Cally Henderson Tyrol),  Colin Lawrence (Hamish "Skulls" McCall),  Michael Trucco (Samuel Anders),  Sebastian Spence (Noel "Narcho" Allison),  Kandyse McClure (Anastasia "Dee" Dualla),  Bodie Olmos (Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza),  Leah Cairns (Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson)
Guest Star:	Tyler McClendon (Alan Hughes),  Mark A. Sheppard (Romo Lampkin)

Admiral Adama reads through Kara's personnel file at the beginning of the episode. The file contains the following records:

1. Combat Citation with a Field Commendation for Valor and Bravery
2. Pilot Performance Decreement
3. Disciplinary Notice with charges for assault on a superior officer, drunk and disorderly conduct while on leave, disobeying a direct order from a superior officer, and absence from Duty Without Leave
4. another Disciplinary Notice
5. Record of Disciplinary Proceedings. (edit) The model ship smashed by Admiral Adama at the end of "Maelstrom" (the previous episode) can be seen behind his desk in a scene near the end of the episode when he and Lee are talking. The main mast of the ship appears to be askew, reflecting the damage caused by Adama. (edit) Katee Sackhoff did not appear in this episode except in photographs. She was not listed in the opening credits either. This is the first episode in which one of the seven primary stars did not appear in the opening credits. Stars such as Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Grace Park and Tricia Helfer have not always appeared in every episode, but they had always been listed in the opening credits. (edit) As of the beginning of this episode, there are 41,399 survivors in the fleet, one fewer than at the beginning of the previous episode. (edit) Tricia Helfer read the "Previously on Battlestar Galactica" line at the beginning of this episode. (edit)

Romo Lampkin: Everybody has demons. Them, Baltar, you, me. Even the machines. The law is just a way of exorcising them. That's what your father's father told me. You want to know why I hated him? Because he was right.
Lee: So you hated him because he was right, and I hated the law because it was wrong. Because of what... of what it put him through. I mean, he defended the worst of the worst. I remember reading about him. The outrage. Helping murderers go free. What I don't understand is why he put himself through all that abuse.
Romo Lampkin: You think he gave a flying frak? Joe Adama cared about one thing. Understanding why people do what they do. Why we cheat our friends, why we reward our enemies, why we go to war, sacrificing our lives for lost causes. Why we build machines in the hope of correcting our flaws and our shortcomings. Why we forgive, defying logic and the laws of nature with one stupid little act of compassion. We're flawed. All of us. I wanted to know why, so I did what he did. I spent my life with the fallen, the corrupt, the damaged. (edit) Roslin: Well, it's so comforting to know that you're not afraid. You're not afraid to represent the most hated man alive. The question is why?
Romo Lampkin: For the fame, the glory! (edit) Lee: (quoting his grandfather) Lee, be a good boy. Just don't be too good. (edit) Romo Lampkin: There is no greater ally, no force more powerful, no enemy more resolved, than a son who chooses to step from his father's shadow. (edit)

During the opening credits, when we see glimpses of the episode's scenes, we can clearly see Baltar tossing away his mattress in search of something. However, this scene was not used in the episode's final cut. (edit) According to the Record of Disciplinary Proceedings in her personnel file, Kara served on the Battlestar Triton when she was a JrLt. (edit)

The Son Also Rises
The title is a reference to the novel The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. The novel explores the suppressed emotions and buried values of the so-called "Lost Generation" of post-World War I British and American expatriates. Hemingway's title comes from the Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:5: "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth." (edit)