Lay Down Your Burdens

"**Lay Down Your Burdens**"
"Lay Down Your Burdens"
Battlestar Galactica episodes
Episode nos.	Season 2; Episodes 19 & 20
Directed by	Michael Rymer
Written by	Ronald D. Moore (Part 1); Anne Cofell Saunders (Part 2); Mark Verheiden (Part 2)
Original air dates	March 3, 2006; March 10, 2006;
Guest appearances
	Dean Stockwell as Brother Cavil; Leah Cairns as Racetrack; Richard Hatch as Tom Zarek; Michael Trucco as Samuel Anders; Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster; Erica Cerra as Maya; Callum Keith Rennie as Number Two;
Episode chronology
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"Lay Down Your Burdens" is the two-part second-season finale of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series. Part 1 aired originally on the Sci Fi Channel on March 3, 2006; Part 2 aired on March 10, 2006, as a 90-minute special.

The episode focuses on the discovery of a harsh but habitable planet and the election of Gaius Baltar as the new President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, running on a platform of settling the survivors of Twelve Colonies on the planet, naming it New Caprica.