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YouWillKnowTheTruth

2009-01-28T11:21:28Z

Roslin rocks: Added episode info for clues 6 and 8.

A [[Sci Fi Channel]] promotional site, known as [http://www.youwillknowthetruth.com YouWillKnowTheTruth.com] offers new clues at regular intervals regarding the final 10 episodes of [[Season 4 (2008-09)|Season 4]] of the Re-imagined Series.

The site's goal is to drum up speculation as to the identity of the [[Final Five|last unrevealed]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] and, in turn, viewership for the final episodes of the series.

The site offers the following clues:

# A quote: "You have heard my voice countless times, yet you do not know my name."
# The description of the final Cylon given by the [[First Hybrid]]: " [[Hybrid utterances|...and the fifth, still in shadow...]]" ([[Razor]])
# An audio clip of [[Kara Thrace]] breathing heavily while moving through rustling grass, and being asked "Kara what is it, what does it mean?"
# A clip of a press conference for [[Lee Adama]] where he answers a question about the fifth Cylon. His answer is edited out, and elicits an unamused reaction from [[Tom Zarek]].
# An image of a floating fetus with a glowing red spine (The red glow is a visual motif of both humanoid and mechanical Cylons)
# A clip from "[[Escape Velocity]]" of [[Virtual Six]] confronting [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] about taking on the old gods, and becoming godlike himself.
# A version of the [[Last Supper]] photograph but with [[Laura Roslin]] removed.
# A clip from "[[The Road Less Traveled]]" in which Baltar speaks to [[Galen Tyrol]] about his move from being a scientist to a more religious viewpoint.
# Adama walks through a hallway, angrily demanding a sidearm from a [[Colonial Marine Corps|marine]]. He continues to walk, opening a hatch and entering the room, then the clip goes black as Adama says, "Sit down, Cylon."
# Gaeta smokes while talking to Baltar about his interest in architecture, and says that he hopes people eventually realize who he is. The video goes black, and Baltar's voice echoes "I know who you are.".
# In an audio clip, a male voice says "every revolution begins with one small act of courage, but I hope you know how serious this will have consequences". A number of voices begin asking questions in a largely unintelligible babble. After the babble quiets down, a second voice is heard saying "serving in a corrupt administration" a third voice says "you know exactly what I'm talking about", a fourth voice says "our little secret", a fifth voice is heard saying "or anyone else" and a sixth voice says "so I guess a pity frak is out of the question". A bell deeps gongs twelve times, then the clip falls silent.
# A voice on the PA announces a fire, ordering an evacuation. Starbuck greets Narcho, who declares that he is in charge and orders her to handle the evacuation. She grabs and questions him, and he responds by telling her to get her hands off him and says that no one knows what she is anymore.
# A clip from the scene in "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]" in which William and Lee Adama, Laura Roslin and Saul Tigh discuss their secret plan to hold onto the final five until they find Earth.
# William Adama walks into a washroom and drinks an alcoholic beverage from a bottle. He then washes his face and notices the reflection of a large rip in the wall. He turns around, examining the rip.
# In this audio clip, [[Hoshi]] announces an incoming signal from ''Colonial One'', William Adama tells him to put the signal through and Gaeta asks Baltar what he wants. The signal is scrambled, Baltar says he "wants this to stop", saying "this is madness", Baltar tells Gaeta that he knows he's a good man mentions "our little secret", and offering to show him the way if he is hungry for redemption, Gaeta says goodbye and Baltar begs him to listen, the clip ends at this point.
# In this audio clip, several distorted voices can be heard speaking. The phrases "Do you remember what we said on New Caprica?", "how we talked about trying to live for today", "maybe today is all we have left", "I've earned the right to live a little before I die", "...haven't I?", "We believe the fifth Cylon to be..." and "the fifth" can be made out. When the clip is played in reverse, Tigh can be heard saying "you're the fifth."
# A clip from "[[The Road Less Traveled]]", just after [[Erin Mathias|Mathias]] is killed by the exploding [[Heavy Raider]], in which the crew on the ''Demetrius'' is discussing Starbuck and whether she is a Cylon.
# A [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/youwillknowthetruth/index.php?pageid=180 picture] showing Hot Dog and Tyrol in the sickbay standing over an empty bed.
# A [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/youwillknowthetruth/index.php?pageid=190 picture] of Saul Tigh amidst some ruins consisting of blocks of reinforced concrete. Tigh is not wearing an eyepatch, but the quality of the picture is insuffient to determine whether there is an eye in his right socket.
# Lee, Roslin and Adama enter the hangar, while Starbuck exits her Viper. They approach a Raptor manned by an Eight in a Cylon flight suit, who exits and approach the four, while Tyrol looks on from the background. Cut to black, as Roslin exclaims "Oh my god."
# Lee and Bill Adama follow Roslin through a corridor on ''Galactica''. Lee demands, "Madame president, what do we do about the Quorum?" Roslin stares back impassively. Lee continues, "You need to talk to them. We need to tell them something." Roslin turns to leave, without speaking. Lee calls after her, "It should come from their president!" Bill turns to Lee, and tells him "Carry the ball." Tigh tries to get Bill's attention as he walks past, saying "Bill, we need to talk," but the Admiral doesn't respond. Tigh mutters to himself, "A lotta things I gotta explain." This scene appears to directly follow Clue 22 - the characters are dressed identically, minus their overcoats.
# A raptor hatch opens onto a large assembly on the ''Galactica'' hangar deck. Roslin and the Adamas emerge, dressed as they were at the climax of "[[Revelations]]". Roslin attempts to address the crowd, but finds herself at a loss for words and can only shake her head ruefully. The three exit, as the crowd erupts in confusion and frustration.
# Bill Adama attempts to phone Roslin, who is in a cabin on ''Galactica'', measuring out and then angrily discarding her medication. She refuses to answer his call.
# A caption reads "1021 Hrs - Secondary Storage Bay" (on ''Galactica''). Roslin and Baltar are conferring. Roslin muses, "Who would've thought. You probably knew him better than anyone, back on New Caprica." Baltar replies, "Well, obviously his loyalties were divided even back then. It seems we both made rather bad choices when it comes to our presidential ''aides de camp'', wouldn't you say?"
# Baltar addresses his cult. "Perhaps it is God who should come down here and beg for ''our'' forgiveness! Am I right?" As he continues to rant, Tyrol and Hot Dog spot each other in the crowd, and make their way toward one another.
# Baltar is shown talking through a phone on ''Galactica''. He says, "What do I want? I want this to stop. Now. Right now. This is madness." This is the same line of dialogue heard in clues 11 and 15.
# A photo of Dualla as a young girl.
# A photo from a high angle of Kara Thrace and an unknown man sitting next to one another playing a very old and dirty piano.
# Just these numbers: "22:59:44"

== Notes ==
* The name "You will know the truth" is a verse from the Bible (John 8:32<ref>[http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/john/john8.htm New American Bible reference.]</ref><ref>[http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Jhn&c=8 King James Version reference.]</ref>).

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Talk:YouWillKnowTheTruth/Archive 1

2009-01-27T20:48:35Z

Roslin rocks: /* Adding info as clues appear in episodes? */

==Transcripts==
IMO we should make transcripts of the audio clips from clues 11 and 16, as it's hard to make out everything being said. -- [[User:Gordon Ecker|Gordon Ecker]] 09:29, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Agree. Here's a stab at it. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 03:10, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

===Clip 11===
Clip opens with a monologue from a male voice, which sounds like Tom Zarek:
"Every revolution... begins with one small act of courage... but I hope you know how serious this is. I hope you understand that this... will have consequences."
This is overlaid with a repeating pattern of pops and clicks, like an old vinyl record. It repeats ten times at full volume (up until "understand"), then three more times as the clip fades out, until "have consequences" is practically inaudible. There are a couple more words after this that I can't make out.

As we fade out of Zarek, we fade in to crowd noises. I think I can hear another whispered male voice saying "one second in D-block..." or "once I get into D-block..." Then, we get a new interference sound effect, reminiscent of the radio static from "Crossroads", and the volume of the crowd noises rises dramatically.

Baltar: "This is madness"

Male Voice: "...served in a corrupt administration"

Baltar: "You know exactly what I'm talking about. Our little secret."

Female voice: "Or anyone else" (I think the female voice is Tori or an Eight (in cold, assertive mode), but I can't be sure - maybe Starbuck? Definitely not Roslin, Three or Six.)

Gaeta: "So I guess a pity frak's out of the question, then?"

[Twelve clock chimes]

===Clip 15===
Hoshi(?): "They're communicating with Colonial One, sir."<br />
Adama: "Let's hear it!"<br />
Gaeta: "What do you want, Gaius?"<br />
Batar: "I want this to stop right now. This is madness. Felix. I know you're a good man. You're going to do the right thing. You know exactly what I'm talking about."<br />
Tigh(?), overlaid: The fifth, you're-.<br />
Baltar: "Our little secret. But I forgive you of that... [unintelligible]. If you are hungry for redemption, this is not the way."<br />
Gaeta: "Goodbye, Gaius."<br />
Baltar: "Felix, please. Listen-"

This is almost certainly a composite scene. Many of the sentences from Baltar's long speech sound like they've been spliced together from different clips.

== Adding info as clues appear in episodes? ==

My thought is that as the video and audio clips appear in aired episodes, the clues should be updated with that info. I'm updating my own list as such, but I wanted to get others' opinions before making all those edits. Thoughts??
--[[User:Roslin rocks|roslin_rocks]] 20:48, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Talk:YouWillKnowTheTruth/Archive 1

2009-01-27T20:45:41Z

Roslin rocks: /* Adding info as clues appear in episodes? */ new section

Laura Roslin

2009-01-18T22:08:12Z

Roslin rocks: Fixed link to TV Guide article

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'''Laura Roslin''' serves as Secretary of Education at the time of the Cylon attack, later becoming president of the Twelve Colonies.
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== Background ==

*Roslin, an unmarried<ref name="marital">According to the February issue of ''Sci Fi Magazine'', actress Mary McDonnell indicates that, according to the [[series bible]], Roslin has dated, but has never married. (Scans available on [http://www.livejournal.com/users/reedfem/158883.html Ramblings of a dorkish nature])</ref> former teacher, worked with [[Richard Adar|Richard Adar]] when he was a mayor. Over the twenty years in politics, she herself has risen in political rank to the office of Secretary of Education.
*Adar, a married man, and Roslin are in a sexual affair<ref>According to a December 2005 [http://www.galacticastation.com/Archives/2005/dec05.html interview] with Mary McDonnell in TV Guide, President Adar, a married man, was having an affair with Roslin in the twilight of his term.</ref> during the events of a teachers strike that she is trying to mediate, to Adar's objection.
*Roslin learns that she, as did her [[Roslin's_mother|mother]], has breast cancer. Unfortunately, the diagnosis is grim, as the cancer has already spread.
*Roslin sat in the Government Plaza after her doctor's appointment, where she saw [[Gaius Baltar|Gaius Baltar]], the famous scientist, walking and kissing an attractive blonde, but pays it little attention.
*Roslin successfully resolves the teachers strike crisis, but Adar vehemently disagrees with her method, and asks for her resignation. She asks him to defer the matter until she returns from the decommissioning ceremonies on battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.
*Despite being thrust into the role of President in highly unusual and stressful circumstances, Laura Roslin initially proves herself both tough and capable within the role. Initially in awe of Commander Adama, and worrying that he didn't hold her in high regard ([[Water|Water]]), she quickly overcomes her doubts and fears to be able to make the required decisions at the right time, and also stand up to Adama himself ([[You Can't Go Home Again|You Can't Go Home Again]]). She is always prepared to put the safety and destiny of the Fleet first, no matter what the cost of her actions ("[[Flesh and Bone|Flesh and Bone]]", "[[Home, Part I|Home, Part I]]", "[[Home, Part II|Home, Part II]]", "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]") while remembering her limitations and fears.
*Roslin is rarely hesitant to make controversial decisions unilaterally, but often must deal with the significant ramifications of her choices.

==Character History at a Glance==

* After attending the decommissioning ceremonies for the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', when the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] leaks through [[wireless]], Roslin begins rescue of stranded civilian ships in Caprican space. The [[Case Orange]] automated beacon response assigns Roslin the role of president after Adar and other high-level government officials are dead or incapacitated.
*Roslin successfully persuades ''Galactica'' commander [[William Adama]] away from a suicidal counter-attack against the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], and towards helping the survivors of humanity escape from occupied Colonial space.
*Roslin and Commander Adama begin their leadership together under an uneasy understanding. Where she is responsible for all civil leadership issues among the surviving Colonials, Adama is responsible for all military decisions ([[Miniseries]]). However, the dividing line is not always clear between the two leaders. Roslin establishes a fledgling civilian [[government]] and reestabishes a new [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]].
*Roslin chooses [[chamalla]] extract as an alternative to [[diloxin]], remembering her mother's malaise with that treatment. Her illness remains a secret until she relates her chamalla-induced visions of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] to priest [[Elosha]], who connects them to [[Pythia]] and ancient Colonial prophesy ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]).
*After research, Roslin convinces Lt. [[Kara Thrace|Thrace]] to use the captured Cylon Raider to return to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in search of the [[Arrow of Apollo]], a possible key to the true location of [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).
*Commander Adama stages a [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|military coup]] in retaliation and she is incarcerated aboard ''Galactica''. Adama is soon shot by [[Sharon Valerii]], leaving the Fleet in the hands of [[Saul Tigh]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).
*From her cell, Roslin eventually tells the Quorum of Twelve of her role in the [[Sacred Scrolls]], and begins to gain significant underground civilian support for her cause. After escaping ''Galactica'', Roslin takes a third of the Fleet back to Kobol, with the help of rival [[Tom Zarek]], to search for the Tomb. Starbuck meets Roslin's fleet with the recovered Arrow, and a hazardous expedition on Kobol begins, aided by a second copy of the [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Cylon]] and Elosha, who is soon killed, leaving Roslin with a gap in her spirituality for a time ([[Home, Part I]]).
*The recovered Commander Adama gains refreshed insight on the need for the Fleet to stay united, and [[Home, Part II|finds Roslin's expedition]]. The leaders reconcile. Roslin's gamble on faith pays off big for humanity, and the group gains a map and their first waypoint to the true location of Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).
*After this, Adama's and Roslin's respect for each other grows stronger and their leadership in managing fleet business becomes more cooperative, asking each other for advice and correcting each other as needed, starting with a potentially disruptive tabloid expose of the ''[[Gideon]]'' shootings.
*After a near-disastrous [[Pegasus (episode)|military confrontation]] between Adama and Admiral [[Helena Cain|Cain]], Roslin forces them to concentrate on [[Resurrection Ship|more important matters]]. Privately, Roslin tells Adama that Cain, whose power can radically affect the remnant of humanity both Roslin and Adama have strived so hard to protect, must be killed if Adama and the Fleet are to survive.
[[Image:Roslinadama.jpg|Roslin and Adama.|thumb]]
*After the battle, and Admiral Cain's death, Roslin, now more frail with her illness, promotes William Adama to admiral. The new admiral gives the president a kiss, establishing a more personal aspect to their friendship ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).
*Roslin is miraculously saved by the injection of stem cells <ref>In the commentary track for "Epiphanies", Ron Moore states that a longer explanation of Roslin's cure was filmed that explained that the blood's stem cells cure Roslin. However, the scene was cut because he was afraid it would be too complicated and thought of as [[technobabble]]. The character's updated biography on the official Scifi.com site does confirm that stem cells from the hybrid were the actual cure. As such, Battlestar Wiki treats this data canonically as with information found in most deleted scenes.</ref> from the Cylon [[Hera Agathon|hybrid fetus]], which apparently eradicates her cancer ([[Epiphanies]]). In the hours prior to the cure, however, Roslin remembers her last days on Caprica, including the attractive blonde with Dr. Baltar, her vice president. She now recognizes the woman as a [[Number Six|humanoid Cylon]].
*Roslin returns to work with a dispassionate, zealous manner, including an attempt to stop the [[Black market (organization)|black market]], handling the terrible loss of [[Billy Keikeya]], and the upcoming presidential election. After Keikeya's death, Roslin appoints [[Tory Foster]] as her aide.
*Roslin's decision to enforce a no-abortion law to aid in repopulation complicates what might have been an easy reelection. Her own vice president, Dr. Baltar, challenges Roslin for the presidency. After the Agathon's child is born, Roslin, fearing both for the child's safety and its significance to the Cylon, has the child's death faked ([[Downloaded]]).
*When [[New Caprica]] is found, Baltar uses the discovery to wedge the election to his favor. Roslin gives Foster tacit approval to rig the election; Foster, with the aide of Tigh and Dualla replace one ship's ballot box en route to the counting room, but the fraud is subsequently discovered by Lieutenant Gaeta. In a reversal of their earlier roles, Admiral Adama confronts Roslin about her actions, admitting the he doesn't like Baltar either, but adamant that they would be criminals if they stole the election, justified or not. Roslin listens to her friend, but remains convinced that it is the wrong choice and that they just give up. After the correct results are revealed, President Baltar first order is to begin the colonization of New Caprica.
*Early in the colonization, Roslin finds time to relax on New Caprica. She meets with Admiral Adama, who also takes in some time to unwind. The two friends comfortably chat about matters small and not-so-small over [[New Caprican leaf|smoking]] and drinking, and later gaze at the stars together, allowing themselves to relax, lying outside, close to each other. Roslin worries that, amidst their temporary comfort, the Cylons could return, but it is nice to have what they have for the time being ([[Unfinished Business]]).
[[Image:2BATgyC05.jpg|Roslin as a teacher on New Caprica.|thumb]]
*A year passes on New Caprica, and Baltar's administration becomes the disaster that Roslin feared. Roslin returned to teaching, running the new settlement's school. Assisted by [[Maya]], who brings her infant adopted daughter [[Hera Agathon|Isis]] (the secreted Cylon hybrid), Roslin is more comfortable watching over the pair personally.
*On the 380th day after settling on the planet, the Cylons discover the colony, as Roslin had warned, and [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|occupy the settlement]]).
*Roslin is arrested at least twice during the occupation, and is nearly killed at a firing squad were it not for the [[New Caprica Resistance]] ([[Precipice]]).During the Cylon occupation, Col. Tigh's resistance militia appear to consider themselves to be under the authority of Roslin, who acts as a government in exile/waiting with Foster as her deputy. [[Tom Zarek]], legally the Vice President and Baltar's successor, is consulted on some military plans.
*Later, during the [[Battle of New Caprica]], Zarek evacuates aboard an unspecified transport ship, and tacitly acknowledges the tenuous nature of his authority in ''de facto'' subordination to Roslin, as well as her imminent future return to formal office, when she states that she will evacuate aboard ''her'' ship, ''Colonial One''. Zarek notes the important symbolism and gives a sidearm to [[James Lyman|Jammer]] , directing him to protect Roslin ([[Exodus, Part II]]). Once the fleet is safely reassembled, Roslin, Foster, and civil servants begin clearing the trapings of the Baltar/Cylon administration from ''Colonial One'' while assembling a census and calculating their losses. It is at this time that Foster confirms that she failed to ensure the evacuation of Maya and Hera, and offers her apologies and resignation to Roslin who reassures Foster and takes something of a fatalistic view of their loss of Hera.
*Roslin allows Acting President [[Tom Zarek]] to assumes his office temporarily. In order to protect Roslin from having to deal with months of public trials which could destroy the unity of the Fleet through public "witch hunts", Zarek quickly establishes the [[Circle]], a secret tribunal to investigate, charge, adjudicate, and execute collaborators and traitors. Zarek and Roslin agree to a "musical chairs" process to constitutionally restore her to the presidency. 1: with Baltar having either died or abandoned his office, Zarek has ascended from vice president to president; 2 Zarek appoints Roslin to fill the vacant office of vice president; 3: Zarek promptly resigns the presidency and Roslin assumes the office; 5: Roslin then re-appoints Zarek to his former vice presidency and privately thanks him for his service and loyalty. With a token number of suspected collaborators having conspicuously disappeared, the newly inaugurated Roslin is able to secretly dissolve the Circle and publicly issue a general pardon for all but Baltar ([[Collaborators]]).
*Roslin's relationship with Adama and the Agathons is strained when Adama discovers that Roslin hid the Cylon baby, [[Hera Agathon]], without his knowledge ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).
*Baltar's capture from his time with the Cylons leads Roslin to first interrogate him, then put him to trial, which places new stresses on the President.
*During Baltar's trial, Lee Adama confronts Roslin on his suspicion that she is taking [[chamalla]] again. Although Roslin silently pleads with him to not go that route, Adama persists and forces her to publicly reveal that her cancer has returned. Disappointed in him, she recalls a time when they were friends and she called him "Captain Apollo."
*She has a vision in the [[Opera House]] on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] where she and an image of [[Sharon Agathon]] pursue [[Hera Agathon]], but Hera is picked up by a [[Number Six]]. A later vision reveals that Sharon Agathon shares her vision. After conferring with each other, they both visit [[Caprica-Six]], who disbelievingly confirms that she, too, experienced the vision. When the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] arrives at the [[Ionian nebula]], Roslin nearly faints, possibly having another vision ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).
*After [[Kara Thrace]]'s mysterious return, Roslin deeply distrusts Thrace, although she claims to know the way the Earth and feels an instinctive need to go there. When Roslin and Adama don't comply with Thrace pleadings, Thrace confronts the president at gunpoint ([[He That Believeth In Me]]). Thrace hands Roslin her pistol and tells her to shoot if she believes that Thrace is a Cylon. Roslin pulls the trigger, but misses, and Thrace is subdued by Marines ([[Six of One]]).
*Roslin still holds a grudge against Baltar and tries to curtail Baltar's freedoms when his new-founded [[Cult of Baltar|cult]] has violent confrontations with followers of other beliefs. Ostensibly trying to protect his followers and keep peace in the Fleet, she passes an emergency measure to severely restrict their right of assembly. Although she pleads to the Quorum to think of what Baltar did on New Caprica and what he might do with followers blindly devoted to him, the Quorum vetoes her ([[Escape Velocity]]).
*Roslin is currently on [[diloxin]] therapy, which has caused her to lose her hair and forces her to wear a wig. Throughout her treatment, William Adama comforts her at her bedside and offers her the use of his quarters when she wants ([[Faith]]).
* When a rebel Cylon faction proposes an alliance with the Colonials, Roslin goes along with it to get a chance to destroy the Cylon [[Resurrection Hub]], but doesn't want to uphold her side of bargain until they find Earth. Shortly after, she visits the [[Hybrid]] on the rebel basestar, but when it is awakened it unexpectedly jumps the ship away ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).
*Every time the basestar jumps, she has a vision of herself in an empty corridor on ''Galactica'' where she is joined by the spirit of her old friend [[Elosha]], who takes her to sickbay to show her her own death. Elosha explains that Roslin has cut herself off from the ability to love people and shows her how Admiral Adama loves her. On the basestar, a badly injured Baltar confesses to her his part in the attack on the Colonies and she decides to leave him to bleed to death, but Elosha convinces her to help him.
*She orders Karl Agathon to take [[Number Three]] to her once she is retrieved. After the battle, the Three jokingly tells her that she is one of the Final Five, but refuses to tell anyone the truth until she is sure that she is safe. Roslin also attempts to get answers from the Hybrid but the Hybrid appears to never say anything helpful, except to inform them of the fact that that Three has already been unboxed, and the reason she jumped away from the Fleet. After the ship returns to the rendezvous coordinates, she greets Admiral Adama who waited for her in a Raptor and finally admits that she loves him ([[The Hub]]).

==Notes==

*The character of Laura Roslin is unique to the ''Battlestar Galactica'' saga. She has no counterpart to the [[Original Series]], where its version of President [[Adar (TOS)|Adar]] is killed and a presidential replacement is never made. Roslin assumes more of the political-spiritual leadership of the [[Adama (TOS)|Original Series' Commander Adama]], whereas [[William Adama]] is representative of the Original Series' character's military commander aspect.

*Roslin's apparent cure in "[[Epiphanies]]" contradicts the "dying leader" clause of the [[Pythia|Pythian Prophecy]], despite the fulfillment of her role in the [[Tomb of Athena]] story arc. However, in "[[Crossroads, Part I]]", she reveals that her cancer has returned.

*Actress Mary McDonnell is perhaps best known for her role in the epic film, ''Dances with Wolves'', with Kevin Costner. Another famous role of hers was the First Lady in ''[[w:Independence Day (film)|Independence Day]]'', a film which (in a less serious tone than ''Battlestar'') depicts cocky human fighter pilots battling an genocidal enemy from outer space.

*In [[SDS|the Singer/DeSanto continuation]] of the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|the Original Series]], a female president named [[Mara]] would visit ''Galactica'' in much the same way that Laura Roslin did as part of that ''Galactica'''s decommissioning ceremony.

*The glasses that the character wears are also McDonnell's real glasses.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/index.php?cat=features&vid=37452|title=Mary McDonnell Q & A, Part 1|date=2006-10-13|accessdate=2006-10-14|last=|first=|format=VID|language=English}}</ref>

*President Roslin's appointment as Colonial president parallels US President [[w:Gerald Ford|Gerald R. Ford]], who became US Vice President and later President through appointment and succession respectively, not by election.

*The name Laura Roslin may be a combination of the first names of the incumbent US First Ladies at the time of both the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined]] and the Original Series: [[w:Laura Bush|Laura Bush]] (nèe Laura Lane Welch) and [[w:Rosalynn Carter|Rosalynn Carter]] (nèe Eleanor Rosalynn Smith).

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2009-01-18T21:43:50Z

Roslin rocks:

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== UNDER CONSTRUCTION ==

Just (and finally) registered.

[[Laura Roslin]] rocks (duh). [[Mary McDonnell]] is frakking amazing.

'''On episode: [[Sometimes a Great Notion]]'''

I've watched it twice, and still trying to wrap my head around it all.
While there were some major surprises (e.g., Dualla), I think spoilers really did ''spoil'' some of it for me (e.g., Starbuck).
So I'm hereby resolving to go spoiler-free for the rest of the season.

More structure and info to come.

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2009-01-18T21:30:21Z

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== UNDER CONSTRUCTION ==

Just (and finally) registered.

[[Laura Roslin]] rocks (duh). [[Mary McDonnell]] is frakking amazing.

'''On episode: [[Sometimes a Great Notion]]'''

I've watched it twice, and still trying to wrap my head around it all.
While there were some major surprises (e.g., Dualla), I think spoilers really did ''spoil'' some of it for me (e.g., Starbuck).
So I'm hereby resolving to go spoiler-free for the rest of the season.

More structure and info to come.

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2009-01-18T21:08:37Z

Roslin rocks: New page: == UNDER CONSTRUCTION == Just (and finally) registered. Laura Roslin rocks (duh). Mary McDonnell is frakking amazing. '''On episode: Sometimes a Great Notion''' I've wat...

== UNDER CONSTRUCTION ==

Just (and finally) registered.

[[Laura Roslin]] rocks (duh). [[Mary McDonnell]] is frakking amazing.

'''On episode: [[Sometimes a Great Notion]]'''

I've watched it twice, and still trying to wrap my head around it all.
While there were some major surprises (e.g., Dualla), I think spoilers really did ''spoil'' some of it for me (e.g., Starbuck).
So I'm hereby resolving to go spoiler-free for the rest of the season.

More structure and info to come.

Sometimes a Great Notion

2009-01-18T20:14:39Z

Roslin rocks: Addition of Roslin quote: "It's perfect. We traded one nuked civilization for another."

{{Episode Data
| image=Sometimes A Great Notion Promo 026.JPG
| title= Sometimes a Great Notion
| season= 4
| episode=11
| forumthread=2307
| extra='''Season 4.5 Premiere'''
| guests=
| writer=[[David Weddle]]<br/>[[Bradley Thompson]] <ref>Mentioned by Ron Moore in the [[Podcast:Revelation|podcast]] for "[[Revelations]]".</ref>
| story=
| director= [[Michael Nankin]] <ref name="brad">{{oldlink|title=Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques|oldid=149966|text=Confirmed}} by [[Bradley Thompson]]</ref>
| production=413
| rating=
| US airdate=January 16, 2009 <ref>http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=61270</ref>
| CAN airdate=January 16, 2009 <ref>http://www.spacecast.com/bsg/</ref>
| UK airdate=January 20, 2009 <ref>TV guide in ScifiNow Magazine and Sky Magazine.</ref>
| dvd=
| population=
| prev=[[The Face of the Enemy]]
| next=[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]
}}

== Overview ==
[[Kara Thrace]] learns that the dire predictions of the Cylon [[Hybrid]] might be correct, and a devastating discovery plunges the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] into chaos and despair.''<ref>Episode description was unintentionally accessible on scifi.com until recently. Descriptions were noted on other websites before being removed, and editor confirmed them several days ago before removal from SciFi.com. </ref>

== Summary ==

===Act 1===
* The episode skips a teaser, beginning with the "Twelve Cylons" opener and the cast credits appearing as scenes of the devastated [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] appear.
* The leaders and central staff of both [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] and the rebel [[Basestar (RDM)|baseship]] wander about aimlessly on the surface of a planet whose surface has been utterly destroyed in a nuclear conflagration for some time. [[Saul Tigh]] stands on a desolate beach, staring out at the ruins of buildings, their mangled shortened skeletons jutting up from the lands ahead in jagged spires. [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Samuel Anders]] stand about the ruins in confusion, as does [[Anastasia Dualla]], who stoops at the water's edge to mournfully examine it.
* [[Lee Adama]] grimaces as he looks about the dead landscape as [[Laura Roslin]] picks up a short rounded prickly plant, the only visible life found on the world.
* [[Helo]] reports to Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]]: Other scouts report in from around the planet. The destruction is the same all over. No signs of human life and no responses to any hails. [[D'Anna Biers]] confirms her rebel [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] confirm the same result.
* [[Kara Thrace]] stands on the surface holding her Viper's Colonial emergency locator beacon, with a [[Leoben]], trying to home in on the signal only it can read, the signal that lead them to this world. The signal of the transmitting beacon is fading from a low battery. Leoben believes it must have been transmitting for a long time.
* Baltar has a team confirming that the radiation from the holocaust has embedded itself in the plant life and water chain. Helo gives a more detailed version of Baltar's findings: the planet was nuked over 2,000 years prior.
* Roslin quips, "It's perfect. We traded one nuked civilization for another." Adama orders his [[Raptor]] to leave.
* Dualla is near a breakdown as their Raptor returns to ''[[Galactica]]''.
* The [[hangar deck]] is filled with people, anxious for any news on the new world. But Roslin, typically someone who can manage to say anything in the darkest times, can only mutter to Adama, "Get me out of here." Lee Adama tries to placate the crowd's confusion and questions, shouting that the news will be revealed in due time.

===Act 2===

* Kara Thrace and Leoben continue to narrow in on the Colonial signal when she finds the beacon: a standard issue ''Colonial'' device used for all aircraft, part of their [[Avionics|inertial navigation system]].
* Leoben finds some wreckage and reads off the number on its charred skin: "8757-NC." Kara immediately becomes agitated. "The number on my [[Viper Mark II|(Viper)]] is 8757-NC," she says--the Viper that she flew back to the Fleet after she was [[Maelstrom|apparently killed]].

* On ''Galactica'', the Agathon family plays together happily as Dualla comes over to babysit little [[Hera Agathon]]. While Dualla says to the Agathons that she "looks forward" to spending time with the child, she later tells young Agathon as her parents leave, " You have no idea what's happened, do you? Today's just another day."

* On the planet, amidst some human skeletons dug up, [[Caprica-Six]] and others find something very unexpected: the remains of a head of what is obviously a type of Cylon Centurion, similar to the old [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|original model]] from the [[First Cylon War]], but clearly not the same.

* Aboard ''Galactica'' in Baltar's lab, Caprica-Six confirms that other Centurion helmets were found with about 250 skeletons from four sites around the planet as well. A [[Number Eight]] confirms that, while the Centurion design is similar, they have never seen this design before.
* Roslin notes that, apparently, the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] created their own Cylons (paralleling what occurred in the [[Twelve Colonies of Kobol]]). Lee Adama completes her sentence: Like on the Colonies, these Cylons also rebelled against their masters.
*Baltar notes that they dug deeper to test the skeletons themselves. The astonishing fact, confirmed by his Caprica-Six, is that the every one of the skeletons themselves are also [[Humanoid Cylons|a form of humanoid Cylons]]. ''The Thirteenth Tribe were Cylons''.
* After the meeting, Lee Adama asks Roslin what she will say to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]]. But a visibly disheartened Roslin has nothing to say at all. Admiral Adama tells his son to "carry the ball" for Roslin.
*As the admiral and Roslin leave, Tigh asks to speak to his friend, but the scene is unclear if Adama stops to listen.

*Back on the planet, [[Galen Tyrol]] is attracted to a fragment of wall. As he gets closer, he hears echoes of ghosts saying things like "Fresh fruit, get your fresh fruit!" He sees a human silhouette on the wall, looking as if it were painted there. Surrounding the silhouette is weathered writing, barely readable. Tyrol touches the silhouette--and is thrown into a vision of the world as it once was, and Tyrol as he once was, wearing glasses and a sportcoat as he passes through a bustling marketplace of open carts of fruit and flowers and other goods. He stops to buy an avacado himself then continues walking. A massively bright flash of light appears as Tyrol shields his eyes--
* Tyrol falls back to the dead planet, stumbling back, falling to the ground.

* Elsewhere, Kara Thrace questions that, if her Viper is scattered about this planet, then who flew it here, and how did she herself get back to ''Galactica''. Leoben cautions her, telling her she may not like what she finds. Thrace is perturbed by his words as Leoben has been, typically, very optimistic in his words to her in the past. She questions if the news would be more disturbing to her, or to Leoben himself.

* In the [[ready room]], Lee Adama stands in thought as Dualla appears, asking him why he hasn't boarded a readied Raptor for his Quorum briefing on ''[[Colonial One]]''. Adama laments the many pilots that had once sat here, many of them lost forever over a dead dream. He doesn't want their sacrifice to be meaningless.
* Dualla tells him that his expression reminds her of what he looked like when his father said that he would [[Exodus, Part I|execute the New Caprica rescue with ''Galactica'' alone.]] When he wonders what to say to the Quorum, Dualla tells him to tell the truth. "If anyone can give them a reason to go on, it's you. Apollo." As he leaves, hesitant, he asks her to meet him for a drink later. She accepts.

* Kara Thrace finds a large piece of wreckage, overturned. She and Leoben turn it over. It's a Viper cockpit, the burnt remains of its pilot still helmeted, still inside. Cautiously, she lifts the head to find it had blonde hair...''her'' hair. Thrace retches.
* As tears well up, she reaches inside the [[flight suit]] of the body to pull out the [[dog tags]]. In clear letters, the tags read "K. THRACE." A ring, her wedding band, is also attached to the chain. Leoben steps back in fear as Thrace asks for an explanation. "I--I don't have one," he says. She recalls what the [[Hybrid]] said, that she would be the "harbinger of death." She yells to the Leoben as he walks away, unable to answer her question, "If that's me sitting there, then what am I?!"

===Act 3===
* [[Samuel Anders]] finds the remains of a stringed instrument, probably a guitar. He holds the neck piece, placing his fingers on it as if to play as he recalls a song: [[The Music|"So let us not talk falsely now, 'cause the hour is getting late."]]. He drops the neck and runs to find Tyrol, sitting placidly by the wall and the vision. They both share their visions, both realizing they lived there, in that area, once. Anders recalls that he played that song for a woman he loved. They are joined by [[Tory Foster]], who also recalls that he played that song for [[Final Five|all of us]].
* "That was me," Tyrol says, pointing to the flash-silhouette on the wall, the ashen remains of his body that were bonded to the wall with the force of thousands of degrees.
* Anders angrily questions the paradox. Why they were all still alive? How did they come to the Colonies, to believe they were human? "Two thousand years is a long time to forget!" he says.

* In Admiral Adama's quarters, Laura Roslin sits on the floor. She has set fire to one of the pages of the [[Sacred Scrolls]], specifically, the Pythian Prophecy, turning successive pages to burn each into ash, one by one.
* Adama arrives to ask Roslin to help figure out a way to shore up the Fleet's quickly sagging morale. She is passive. He tells her that she'd missed her [[doloxan]] treatment. Roslin "didn't feel like it," she says, refusing to reschedule. "You just gonna...lie down and quit?" Adama asks. She laments that he took her advice to leave their Colonial solar system, of all the men and women who had died for what appears to be a fruitless series of visions.

* In the twilight, Kara Thrace creates a funeral pyre, burning the corpse of herself found in the wreckage, sitting alone as the flames consume it.

* Lee Adama and Dualla come back from her date as he humorously (and drunkenly) recalls his report to the Quorum. "We are no longer enslaved to the ramblings of Pythia, no longer pecking at the bread crumbs of the Thirteenth Tribe...We are now free to go where we want to go, be who we want to be." Dualla smiles back warmly as they kiss. But Dualla holds him back from more than the kiss, enters her quarters and locks the door. Inside, [[Felix Gaeta]] watches her as she hums. "You're glowing," he says coldly. Dualla chides him. "I want to hold on to this feeling for as long as I can." She looks at a childhood picture of herself in her opened locker, taking off her dog tags. "She has no idea what she has ahead of her," she says of her younger self. Gaeta leaves as Dualla stops humming, calmly places her wedding ring on the locker hook.
* Without any hesitation at all, Dualla pulls out a sidearm from her locker, places it against her temple, and fires.
* [[Diana Seelix]] arrives inside first, with Gaeta not far behind. Both are aghast at the sight of Dualla's body, blood pooling around her hands. They call for medics repeatedly in fear and distress as the scene ends.

===Act 4===

* Lee Adama stands by the shrouded body of Anastasia Dualla in the ship's morgue as his father enters. "She kissed me goodnight 45 minutes ago, and there was joy in her eyes. So tell me why would she do this?" Lee asks. The admiral's stony face melts into a drunken expression. "I don't frakkin' know," he slurs out, taking out a bottle of alcohol to offer to Lee, who refuses it. Anger rising in his face, Lee leaves, passing by Gaeta outside without a word.
* Inside, Admiral Adama looks under the shroud momentarily, covers Dualla's body, as he cries, holding her head, asking to himself, "What did you do?" He kisses the body, saying, "I let you down. I let everybody down."

* Adama comes out into a corridor, demands a sidearm from one of the [[marines]] standing there. Adama storms down a corridor as other stand or sit expressionless. Two men are fist-fighting, crossing Adama's path. He ignores them as he heads to Saul Tigh's quarters.
* "Sit down, Cylon," Adama says angrily after pulling out Tigh's sidearm, arms it and drops it on a table. Adama pours both of them a drink, but Tigh slowly pushes it away.
* Tigh tries to apologize about his revelation of being a Cylon, but Adama is beyond angry. "Is that how it worked? They program you to be my friend? Emulate all the qualities I respect. Tell me jokes...and I laugh at them."
* Tigh counters that he wanted, chose to be his friend. Adama throws insult after insult about [[Ellen Tigh]], angering Tigh to pick up the sidearm to shoot his friend. "Do it! Or I'll do it myself!" Adama says, pointing his own sidearm to his temple.

===Act 5===

* Tigh's gun is pointed at Adama's forehead, but he hesitates pulling the trigger. Adama goads him, "Go on," but Tigh realizes, returning Adama's insult as he rips out the gun's magazine and safes the weapon. "I'm sorry, Bill, but this is the one time I can't help you." Adama drops his gun and reaches for a bottle, but Tigh tries to stop him.
* Adama drinks from a glass anyway as he speaks of his uncle as a kid in the summers spent there, of foxes that would attack his henhouses, of the dog hunts that chased down the foxes at night, forming into a team, forcing the fox toward the river. Half of the foxes would fight, the others would try to cross the river. But some of them would turn with the current, swimming away into the sea. "Because they wanted to drown," Tigh adds. "Maybe. Or maybe they were just...tired."
* Tigh, uncharacteristically, becomes the one that gives Adama a dressing-down, telling him that he can't be like the foxes lost to the sea, reminding him that he is the commander and Tigh is still the XO of the ship, that killing himself would not help himself, or the ship.

* On ''Colonial One'', Lee Adama slowly wipes away a numeral "1" from the [[Survivor count|survivor count]] board as Kara Thrace arrives. Kara tells him that she lost the signal. Lee tells her the news about Dualla. Both can only wonder why Dualla did what she did.

* Adama passes by more passive crewman and some graffiti: "Frak Earth", sprayed on the wall as he heads to [[CIC]]. Ordering [[Hoshi]] to Dualla's old communications station, he orders Gaeta to find any nearby stars compatible with habitable planets, and for Hoshi to invite the rebel Cylons to their next destination. Adama addresses the Fleet, telling them that, while Earth is no longer a choice, he will find them a new home. "This is a promise I intend to keep."

* Saul Tigh greets D'Anna Biers as others evacuate back to the Fleet. D'Anna doesn't want to leave, deciding to stay behind, believing that the cycle of life will keep going on as dreadfully as before. "...and it beats the hell out of being out there with [[Cavil]]. Gonna die in the cold and the dark when Cavil catches up with us." Tigh tries to give encouragement, but D'Anna asks if he ever wanted to just give up, reminding him of Adama's story of the penned-in foxes.
* Tigh later appears to be walking into the sea. Chest-deep in water and continuing down, he has a vision...of destruction in a building, a wall of apartment mailboxes behind him. He hears Ellen, finds her trapped under debris he cannot move. As his real body pulls debris out of the water, Tigh tries to clear the rubble around Ellen. She tells him, as more bombs go off, flashing bright, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn...again. Together."
* The vision fades as Tigh realizes the truth. "Ellen...Ellen! You're the [[Final Five|fifth!]]"

== Notes ==

* [[Katee Sackhoff]] noted that this episode could have served as the series finale had the [[WGA strike]] gone longer.<ref name="roadrunner">{{cite_web|url=http://roadrunnerdm.livejournal.com/84288.html|title=Roadrunner - Newsdump from Burbank convention|date=19 November 2007|accessdate=20 November 2007|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref> However, the strike ended with sufficient time for production to resume; the previous episode was aired as the mid-season finale, with this episode airing in the first quarter of 2009.
* The scenes were among the last shot and were shot during the crew's shut down party due to the [[WGA strike|2008 Writers Strike]], so Sackhoff was unable to attend.<ref name="roadrunner"/>
*The title of the episode comes from the blues song "[[w:Goodnight, Irene|Goodnight, Irene]]", in which the singer contemplates suicide: "Sometimes I get a great notion / to jump in the river and drown." ''Sometimes A Great Notion'' is also the title of a [[w:Sometimes a Great Notion (novel)|novel]] by Ken Kesey and a [[w:Sometimes a Great Notion (film)|film adaptation]] of the same name.
*The last Cylon is finally revealed in a vision Colonel Tigh has of the past: its Ellen Tigh, his wife.

== Analysis ==
*The Cylons have testing methods of their own which can distinguish between human and Cylon remains.
*The Thirteenth Tribe Cylons were apparently all unique models and included children, based on the child's playthings found by Dualla.
*Saul Tigh also had the first name "Saul" in his past life.

== Questions ==
*What was the source of the nuclear attacks on Earth?
*Was Ellen Tigh able to resurrect after her death in "[[Exodus, Part II]]"?
*Was Ellen Tigh aware of her Cylon identity?
*Was Ellen Tigh the one who Number Three apologized to in her vision?
*What is Kara Thrace?
*Is the corpse found in the field the "real" Kara Thrace? If so, how and when did her Viper get to Earth? And how did so much of her Viper and body remain relatively intact after seemingly being completely disintegrated in the gas giant?
*Why does Thrace keep the dog tags and wedding ring found on the body?
*Will Thrace or Conoy tell anyone about their discovery? How will others respond to this information?
*How will the other Cylons respond to the discovery of the identities of the Final Five?
*How did the Final Five come to be living in the Twelve Colonies 2000 years after their deaths on Earth, without their memories and unaware of being Cylons?
*Did Thirteenth Tribe Cylons have any influence on the development of the Significant Seven 2000 years later, or was it mere parallel evolution?
*How did the Significant Seven come to be aware of the existence, though not the identities, of the Final Five?
*Are there other survivors of the Thirteenth Tribe besides the Final Five?
*Does the presence of children among the Thirteenth Tribe indicate that they reproduced among themselves?
*If the Thirteenth Tribe reproduced biologically, did the Final Five have Cylon parents, grandparents, etc. on Earth?
*Did Baltar's Cylon detector successfully identify Ellen Tigh in "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]"? If so, why did Baltar withhold that information from Number Three during their search for the Final Five?
*With Number Three staying on Earth, who will take over as the leader of the rebel Cylon faction?

== Official Statements ==
*Ronald D. Moore had confirmed that Dualla is dead and that Ellen Tigh is in fact the Final Cylon.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

*'''''Saul Tigh''' upon seeing Ellen Tigh in a flashback on Earth:''
: "Ellen - You're the Fifth!"

*''After finding her body, '''Kara Thrace''' shouts to Leoben:''
: "What am I?!"

*'''''Laura Roslin's''' assessment of Earth:''
: "It's perfect. We traded one nuked civilization for another."

== Guest Stars ==

* [[Lucy Lawless]] as [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|D'Anna Biers]]
* [[Callum Keith Rennie]] as [[Number Two]] / [[Leoben Conoy]]
* [[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]
* [[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]
* [[Brad Dryborough]] as Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]]
* [[Alexandra Thomas]] as [[Hera Agathon|Hera]]
* [[Don Thompson]] as Specialist [[Anthony Figurski]]
* [[Sonja Bennett]] as Specialist [[Marcie Brasko]]
* [[Jennifer Halley]] as Ensign [[Diana Seelix]]

== References ==
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