Time Immortal

This one is a fairly small one, but it’s something I’ve been mulling over in my mind, especially as I’ve watched — in the last couple of episodes of the current (and final) season of BSG — the ongoing voyage of the Demetrius. That would be, for the Reader who does not know, the ship which Kara Thrace has been given so that she could part ways with the rest of the fleet and go off in search of Earth on her own, following the traces of its memory that were left in her mind after her apparent death in Maelstrom and subsequent apparent rebirth in Crossroads, Part II.

My theory concerns which of the Final Five will be the first to be “outed” — that is, revealed to be a Cylon to other characters on the show apart from each other.

I think Sam — Samuel Anders — will be that Cylon. I think he will be the first of the Final Five who is revealed to be a Cylon to other members of, in this case, the Demetrius‘ crew.

With benefit of hindsight, it should have been obvious which of the Final Five Lucy Lawless‘ Number Three saw in the Temple of Five on the algae planet. Of all the major cast members, the Number Threes — and, in particular, D’anna Biers — had significant interactions with only a handful of people thought to be human, and she only attempted to kill one of them in particular: Anders.

It makes sense for her to profusely apologize to the final Cylon whom she had previously been seconds away from gunning down. The only other possibility, really, is Saul Tigh, although all she really did to Tigh was get him drunk and then verbally provoked an angry response from him. Compared to nearly gunning someone down, that’s small fries.

Now, we know from the last couple of episodes that the new Number Six on the Cylon scene, Natalie, is in dire straits as her faction of “rebel” Cylons was last seen getting the crap kicked out of their basestars by the ships belonging to the Number Ones (and the other two models loyal to them). Natalie has also expressed a desire to unbox the Number Threes, in part because she wants to re-unite all the Cylon models and in part because she wants to know the indentities of the Final Five (which would also build toward her goal of unification).

I’m thinking that what will transpire in the next couple of episodes is that some or all of the remnants of Natalie’s Cylon faction will stumble over the Demetrius, and since the Leoben Conoy models are in league with Natalie there will be an inevitable re-union between Starbuck and Leoben. Equally, I think that at some point within the next couple of episodes, Natalie’s faction will succeed in unboxing the Number Threes, who will (more or less) side with Natalie’s faction in the Cylon civil war.

And along the way, a Number Three will see Anders among the crew of the Demetrius and will not be able to help herself before she outs him. It will be interesting, in that case, to see Starbuck’s reaction, given her previous statement that she wouldn’t hesitate to kill Sam if he happened to turn out to be a Cylon.