Kara Thrace is unraveling. While asleep, she dreams that she’s in her old apartment on Caprica with the Cylon Leoben, struggling to cover up the colorful mandala that she painted long ago. While awake, she hallucinates that a little girl—her younger self—is with her aboard Galactica and revisits painful memories of her abusive mother.

While on Viper patrol over a planet swathed in clouds and radiation, Kara’s visions get worse, and a mysterious Cylon Raider lures her down into a dangerous, mandala-shaped storm.