The Final Cylon
It has come to me. The identity of the final cylon. There are several key questions that led me to the answer.
Who has been with the fleet the entire time (i.e. hasn’t died)?
Who has always acted as a neutral party, treating cylons and humans alike?
Who has criticized the war between cylon and human?
Who is a hugely key figure that has saved many lives and kept the fleet’s leadership intact?
Who is the straight talker, cutting through all the crap of both sides?
Who is the one key person that has medically examined all the cylon skin jobs the fleet has encountered?
That last question should give it away.
Dr. Cottle has been with the fleet from the start. Is contemptuous of the conflict and treats all beings alike. He has always been a neutral party, treating injured human and cylon alike.
He also continually declares that there is no way to tell the difference between human and cylon even though we know that to be false (e.g. Baltar’s cylon detector). Now it may well be that he just can’t tell the difference, but I don’t buy it. I think he knows how to tell cylon from human and so he knows who the other final five are.
Or he knew who they were already. Going even more out on a limb, I think that he knows he’s a cylon and has always known that he is a cylon. He isn’t confused or surprised by this, it’s just who he is. Capable, reliable, neutral, ever there in need, and cynical Dr. Cottle.
But I’m not sure how to apply the words of the hybrid: “And the fifth, still in the shadow, will claw toward the light, hungering for redemption, that will only come in the howl of terrible suffering.”
Maybe Gaeda will start singing “All Along the Watchtower”.
