Revelations

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"Revelations" An episode of the Re-imagined Series
Episode No.	Season 4, Episode 10
Writer(s)	Bradley Thompson David Weddle
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Director	Michael Rymer
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Production No.	412
Nielsen Rating
US airdate	13 June 2008
CAN airdate	13 June 2008
UK airdate	17 June 2008
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Population	39,665 survivors ( 8)
Additional Info	Mid-Season Cliffhanger Extra Act
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Overview

Lead by Number Three, the band of rebel Cylons hold President Roslin and Galactica's pilots hostage while attempting to lure the "Watchtower Four" out of hiding. Meanwhile, Kara Thrace's Viper may hold a previously undiscovered clue to finding Earth.

Summary

Notes

• This episode is the mid-season cliffhanger for the first ten episodes of Season 4. The conclusion to the cliffhanger, "Sometimes a Great Notion", will not air until 2009.
• The episode was given an advance screening in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 11th, in order to draw attention for the upcoming Emmy Award nominations.

Analysis

• How Earth came to the state which the Fleet found it in is uncertain. Given that the landing party tested the soil with a Geiger counter, and the ruins they come across are from a post-nuclear blast, it is likely that some nuclear event occurred on Earth. Given the development of nuclear technology in the 20th century, it can be surmised that the series itself is set in either our present or our future, and not in our past. (Or the series is set in a completely different universe outside of the viewers' own, entirely.)

• The area the landing party arrived at appears to be the Brooklyn side of New York City. The landing party is next to a broad river and across that river to the left is a wide bay. The other shore appears to be the edge of Lower Manhattan with a destroyed skyline of buildings. The camera pans to the right over what is ostensibly the East River until the last two seconds of the episode where at the far right edge of the screen stands a wrecked structure with a heavily abbreviated roadway. It appears to be the East Tower (Brooklyn side) of the Brooklyn Bridge. However, it should be noted that the information on this is incomplete. For instance, many speculations as to the gas giant that Kara Thrace sees in her journey from Earth (as first explained in "He That Believeth In Me") claimed that the giant was Jupiter, when this was later disproved.

Questions

• Is Number Three honest in her claim that there are only four of the Final Five in the Fleet? If so, where is the fifth and last Cylon? If she's lying, is it because she still harbors distrust for her compatriots and the humans?
• What of the other Twos, Fours, and Fives?
• What happened to Earth?
• Will the other Cylons find the Fleet and the rebels, as well as Earth? If so, will they finish what they started?

Guest Stars

• Michael Hogan as Saul Tigh
• Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
• Aaron Douglas as Galen Tyrol
• Michael Trucco as Samuel Anders
• Lucy Lawless as Number Three
• Callum Keith Rennie as Number Two / Leoben Conoy
• Tahmoh Penikett as Captain Karl "Helo" Agathon
• Kandyse McClure as Lieutenant Anastasia Dualla
• Alessandro Juliani as Lieutenant Felix Gaeta
• Bodie Olmos as Lieutenant Brendan "Hotdog" Costanza
• Keegan Connor Tracy as Jeanne
• Lara Gilchrist as Paulla Schaffer
• Finn R. Devitt as Nicholas Tyrol (credited as "Baby Nicky")
• Don Thompson as Anthony Figurski
• Brad Dryborough as Lieutenant Hoshi
• Alexandra Thomas as Hera Agathon
• Heather Doerksen as Surveillance Marine
• Leo Li Chiang as Tattooed pilot (uncredited)