Revelations

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

Teaser

Act 1

Act 2

Act 3

Act 4

Act 5

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. ^[1]

Analysis

How Earth came to the state which the Fleet found it in is uncertain. Given that the landing party tests the soil with a Geiger counter, and the ruins they come across appear to be from a nuclear blast, it is likely that some nuclear event occurred on Earth. Together with the clear remnants of a modern civilization, this means that the series is set in the future and not the past (barring that is is set in an alternate universe).

The area the landing party arrives 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.

As D'Anna airlocks one prisoner during the course of the episode, the population of the Fleet when it arrives at Earth is 39,664, not counting the Significant Seven Cylons who have now joined them.

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?

Official Statements

Noteworthy Dialogue

Admiral Adama is in a high degree of distress to the point of breakdown and has passed out drunk onto the deck of his quarters. he has just ordered Colonel Saul Tigh, now known publicly to be a Final Five Cylon after his confession to Adama to be used as a bargaining chip in the hostage crisis with the Rebel Cylons; and to his possible death. Lee finds him and drags his father's sobbing form to a bulkhead where he cradles his father from behind.

Adama: [Crying, Sobbing, dispair...]

Lee [voice quavering]: Dad listen...No one suspected, no one! Not with his record. Not what he did on New Caprica. His eye... What happened to his wife... Come on, let's get up.

Adama: What have I done? [breathlessly] All of the people I've sent to die? For what? For what!?!

Lee [quietly] For Earth...

Adama [angrily]: There is no Earth. [Sobs] It is a frakkin' joke! There is no Earth! [Sobs]

Lee: Okay dad, listen to me...[firmer and takes his father face between his hands] Listen to me!! Pull it together!!

Adama: I can't...

Lee [frustrated]: Yes you can! Come on!

Adama: I can't....

Lee [frustrated] Yes you ca...

Adama: I can't.... I can't kill him... I can't kill the bastard! I can't....

Lee: Okay, okay dad [he cradles his father's face]