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Brother Cavil is a priest who speaks with Chief Tyrol (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I) after Tyrol's maddened attack against Cally. Cavil identifies the source of Tyrol's anxiety as arising from fear that he is a Cylon sleeper agent.
A somewhat eccentric figure, Cavil is rather a harsh critic of prayer for a priest, but claims to have been preaching "longer than you [Tyrol] have been sucking down oxygen."
Cavil is portrayed by Quantum Leap's Dean Stockwell.
Quotes
- "Do you know how useless prayer is? Chanting, and singing, and mucking about with bad lines of half-remembered poetry? And you know what it gets you? Exactly nothing."
- "Oh, well, maybe because I'm a Cylon and I've never seen you at any of the meetings.", in response to Tyrol's question "How do I know I'm human?"