Review: 'Battlestar Galactica' - Revelations

Somehow the final five became the final four, and Earth isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

In "Revelations," the "mid-season finale" of the final and fourth season of "Battlestar Galactica," there are indeed many revelations.

Revived Cylon Deanna (Lucy Lawless) is awake and in control. She has human hostages on the Cylon mother ship, including President Roslyn (Mary McDonnell). She uses her knowledge that four of the final five are on Galactica, four crucial to leading the way to Earth. The Cylons want to find Earth as much as the humans do. Deanna kills a human hostage and threatens to kill more if the four cylons don’t reveal themselves and lead the way to Earth.

Tory (Rekha Sharma) is the first to embrace her Cylonhood and volunteer to join the Cylons, not revealing herself immediately. She volunteers to go to the Cylon ship to give Roslyn her medicine. Once she gets there, she tells Roslyn that she is one of the final four Cylons, and that she will no longer take orders from her.

The three remaining closeted cylons find they are drawn to a particular viper on Galactica -- one that also has the interest of Kara (Katee Sackhoff). All four don’t know why, but there is something about the viper that is different, and they need to figure it out.

In the meantime, Tigh (Michael Hogan) is experiencing guilt over the death of the first hostage. As Deanna threatens to kill more, he is faced with the inevitable dilemma of either coming out as a Cylon or allowing more people to die if he remains silent. He chooses to do the former, revealing to Adama (Edward James Olmos) that he is one of the four Cylons.

Adama is so traumatized by the revelation that he has a nervous breakdown and stops functioning at the time when he is most needed to decide what Galactica should do -- about the hostage situation, about the Cylons, and about finding Earth.

Tigh suggests that if Adama threatens to flush him out of the airlock, Deanna will back down. He also offers to reveal who the other Cylons are.

Tigh is arrested and brought to the airlock. Shortly afterward, Tyrol (Aaron Douglas) and Anders (Michael Trucco) are also arrested and brought to the airlock. The four have been revealed, and with Adama drunk and incoherent, and Roslyn held hostage on the Cylon ship, it’s up to Acting President Lee Adama (Jamie Bamber) to decide what to do.

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