Who's the fifth cylon? Answer 2: Anastasia "Dee" Dualla

Oh, the fifth cylon is definitely, decidedly, undoubtedly Dee. There's only one piece of evidence, but it's a doozy: her name.

Anastasia is the feminine form of the Greek name Anastasius, which means "resurrection." As in the ship.

This can't be an accident. If the producers of Battlestar Galactica had named a character Erectus, you would assume that he's a prick. And when they name a character Resurrection, you assume that she's a cylon.

Dualla implies a dual nature -- someone who is not what she seems. Dee is a Sagittaron, and Sagittarons are pacifists. In fact, Sagittaron refugees were reluctant to board the Galactica, simply because it was a warship (The Woman King). But Dee volunteered to serve in the Colonial Fleet Reserve, despite her people's pacifism.

What other aspects of a dual character does Dualla display? None, really. And that's exactly why she is suspected of being a cylon. She's deep in the closet, so to speak, like at least one other character we could name.

Next suspect: Helena Cain.

Who's the fifth cylon? Answer 1: Felix Gaeta

This cat is one of the most mysterious of the regular recurring characters on Battlestar Galactica. What do we know about him? Not much:

a) He was involved in genetics research before joining the armed forces to push buttons in the control room and shout, "Dradis contact!"

b) He knows that Gaius Baltar entered the Temple of Jupiter and could have seen the Final Five cylons -- and then he tried to kill Baltar, and later lied on the witness stand to make Baltar look even less credible than he already seemed;

c) We know nothing of his childhood and young life. It's as if he appeared in the world as an adult.

d) He's probly an INTJ, and those people are frakkin' weird. It's like they come from another world.

e) When D'Anna Biers caught a glimpse of the last cylon, it was someone she recognized. D'Anna had known Gaeta.

Here are the arguments for Gaeta being a human being and not a cylon:

1) He supplied information to the insurgents on New Caprica. Let's ignore that some of the insurgents turned out to be cylons.

2) His balls don't clank when he walks.

3) Cylons frak like bunny rabbits. Gaeta doesn't frak anyone as far as we know, unless it's behind a closet door.

Next suspect: Anastasia Dualla

Introducing The Final Cylon

The fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica begins Friday night. This blog exists to discuss all things Battlestar Galactica. We will talk about whether the fleet will find Earth. (Of course they will.) We will muse about what kind of childhood Col. Tigh had -- if he had one at all. (Were his memories implanted?) We will rank our favorite Baltar quotes (My personal No. 1, spoken to Romo Lampkin and Lee Adama at the end of the Season 3 finale: "What about me?") We will wonder how the Final Five cylons were inserted into the fleet.

And we'll kick it off with a series of posts wondering: Who is the final cylon? You could call it either the fifth of the Final Five, or the 12th cylon. We have our theories. We'll start with one crew member who, like Tory Foster, is a cipher with no discernable past.