Daybreak, Part II

"Daybreak, Part II" An episode of the Re-imagined Series
Episode No.	Season 4, Episode 20
Writer(s)	Ronald D. Moore
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Production No.	422
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US airdate	March 20, 2009
CAN airdate	March 20, 2009
UK airdate	March 24, 2009
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Population	survivors
Additional Info	Series Finale - 2 Hour Episode
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Daybreak, Part I	Daybreak, Part II	The Plan
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Notes

• A portion of this episode was being filmed in Kamloops, BC during the week of June 16, 2008. Local extras of all ages were utilized for this scene (or scenes) and were required to have an athletic build and a clean-cut look, or to be slim with long hair or dreadlocks. Extras were auditioned at Best Western room 137 (in Kamloops) on June 12th . The rural area surrounding Kamloops was previously utilized to depict the algae planet in "The Eye of Jupiter" and "Rapture".
• Although Part I had a runtime of one hour, Part II will run for two hours. An even longer cut of Daybreak will later be released on DVD.
• This episode marks the deaths of Boomer, Cavil, Racetrack, Skulls, Tory, Anders and Roslin and the destruction of Cavil's forces.
• This episode also marks the destruction of the Galactica and her Fleet.
• Humanitity finally reaches its new homeworld, names it Earth and the humans of today are the Colonials descendants 150,000 years later.
• After the rest of the fleet jumps to earth and the Raptor leaves Galactica, the constellations of Orion and Ursa Major are seen briefly as it flies to Earth. However they're portrayed as they are in the present day and would not have looked the same 150,000 years ago due to galactic rotation and star movement.

Analysis

• The coordinates that Thrace enters, 1123 / 6536 / 5321 correspond to the notation of the Final Four theme [1]. The song is in a C# Phrygian scale (enharmonic with A major and F# minor). 1 represents C#, and each higher integer indicates the next note in the scale, such that

1 = C#

2 = D

3 = E

(4 = F#)

5 = G#

6 = A

(7 = B)

The linked graphic omits the first and last note of the theme, but both can be heard in the soundtrack during the jump montage. The second "five" (in the third chunk of four digits) corresponds to the tuplet G#/A/G#, effectively omitting the trill up to high A. Every note has the same duration except for the last two, which are twice the length of the others.

• The Virtual Beings are angels of God who came to guide Baltar and Caprica Six in their destiny of protecting Hera.
• Kara Thrace is an angel who was sent back from the dead to guide humanity to a new home the coordinants of which were hidden in The Music.
• The scene where Adama is being questioned and abruptly quits the interview references the classic Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, which also starred Edward James Olmos.
• Ronald D. Moore appears in a cameo as the man holding the news magazine in New York City.
• The shelters erected by the Colonials on Earth resemble Quonset huts, World War II-era temporary structures.
• The final scenes of this episode, in fast-forwarding through time and attempting to set the entire work as a backstory, make the ending similar to that of the film How the West Was Won.

Questions

• What becomes of the Centurions?
  • Do they go after the remnants of Cavil's forces, or go their separate ways?
• What becomes of the Baseships seen orbiting the Colony?
  • Its possible the nuclear blast could have propelled them right into the blackhole.
• Are any other human-Cylon hybrids born on Earth, or do the Twos, Sixes, and Eights remain childless?
• If it doesn't like to be called God, what does it like to be called?
• Will modern humans discover remains of Colonial technology such as Raptors?
  • That probably depends on how hard we look.
• Why do the angels still look like Baltar and Six 150,000 years later?
  • Probably so the audience will still recognize them, or it may have been a time jump of sorts by them to look into the future.
• Will humanity repeat the cycle?
• Are Thrace and Anders together?
• Do Baltar and Caprica-Six marry? Do they go into isolation like Adama and Tyrol, or will they be near a human colony?
• Do Adama and Tyrol stay isolated for the rest of his life?
• Why was Romo Lampkin chosen as President? Wouldn't a member of the Quorum of Captains have been selected?
• What became of the remaining prisoners aboard the Astral Queen? Were they sent out amongst the rest of the human population, or were all of them deposited in some geographical area completely isolated from the other humans?
• Were any of the groups provided with medicine, or medical training or at least someone with medical knowledge before spreading out among the world?
• Is God related to the Lords of Kobol or something completely different?
• Why did the First Hybrid not want humanity to follow Thrace?
• How many angels are there? Are the ones that resemble Six and Baltar the same as those that appeared to the Final Five and Thrace, or distinct?
• Why have angels not been appearing to the Final Five since old Earth's destruction, only to Baltar, Six, and Thrace?
• Since the notes of All Along the Watchtower lead to Earth, do they still serve a purpose on Earth?
• Will analysis of Hera's remains reveal that she was not a normal human?
  • No, since our reference for "normal human" is her descendants, she'd look like the rest of us.
• Does human life evolve on planets other than Kobol and the new Earth?

Noteworthy Dialogue

"Silly me.... silly, silly me." --Virtual Baltar in the last line of the series.

Re-imagined Series definition: the process of using the FTL engines to make an near-instantaneous apparent faster-than-light transport of a ship from one point in space to another