Thank you, coco! You said exactly what I was thinking all the way home while I was listening to the 'cast and formulated a much more coherent, eloquent response than I did. The only thing I have to add is related to what Chuck’s said in recent podcasts–actually, in several podcasts–about choice and free will. It’s not that Tory had no choice but to airlock Cally to save herself and the other new Cylons. As coco says, Tori could have let Cally live and gambled that no one would believe Cally in her paranoid state. Tori could have accused Cally of being a Cylon to shift attention away from herself. Or, Tori could have admitted to everyone she’s a Cylon and let the chips fall where they may; hey, Athena and Six haven’t been airlocked, and they gave potential Cylon Starbuck her own ship–yes, it would be a huge risk, but it is another choice. Tori chose to kill Cally (anybody else think she tailed Cally after she realized someone had been crawling behind the grating during the meeting?), plain and simple. Tori didn’t have any clearly good choices, sure, but she still had choices, and she chose the easiest and bloodiest path.
In a weird way, this “I had no other choice” mentality that Tori seems to be going with (or maybe Tori’s so immoral she doesn’t even care, I don’t know) relates to what’s been making me angry at Roslin lately. I’m with Audra in that I was trying really hard to accept Roslin’s perspective as legitimate even if I didn’t always agree with her, but boy, Roslin really lost me this episode. What makes me angry is not so much her hypocrisy–at least when somebody calls her on it (while not holding a gun to her head), she tends to acknowledge it (in this case, Adama)–but that she constructs problems as only having two possible solutions, leaving her “no choice” but to make the choice that will ensure the Fleet’s safety more than the other.
Is it dangerous to let the freshly resurrected Kara Thrace lead the whole Fleet to who knows where? Yes, she has a legitimate point. But does that mean the only other solution is to let Kara stew in the brig? Adama proved that the answer is no; there was a very workable third alternative that Roslin didn’t think of and that, since she wasn’t willing to listen to others, didn’t consider. Same goes for the judiciary system in this episode; making decisions without discussion leads one to get trapped in certain ways of thinking, which I think is what’s happened to Roslin. She’s gotten so used to making the “tough calls” that she’s afraid and not willing to allow other people to propose solutions that don’t require her to do something sketchy or underhanded. I still have hope that something will humble her a bit and get her back to listening to others like she did in Season 1, but it’s scary right now.
I apologize for the long rant, but I drove for four hours today and had very little else to think about. 
