BSG 1.8 Flesh And Bone

Something of a return to quality, this episode, with the finding of another Cylon in the fleet there was the opportunity for Starbuck to interrogate him to find out what makes them tick. This produced some interesting debate about the Cylon's soul, their beliefs, their God. . .

Fundamentally the Cylon believed that when he died his soul would find its way to another body and he would live on. Starbuck challenged this idea and suggested that it was just his programming telling him this; that he had been made to believe this idea so he would not fear death. Ultimately, it came down to a question of faith - and when he was flushed out of the air lock it was clear that there was a lot of doubt about his beliefs, from both himself and Starbuck.

Interestingly, the Cylon spoke of how he could understand the patterns of the universe, and this enabled him to see into the future. He gave Starbuck a prophecy about how she would see the Kobol Gods and make it to Earth. If the Cylon really can see into the future, then it was intriguing that the episode started with Laura, the President, having a dream vision of the Cylon looking as he would when he was flushed out of the air lock.

If Laura can see the future, does this make her a Cylon?

Or, like the Cylon suggested, is Adama actually a secret Cylon?

The show is certainly having some fun raising this suspicion about the place, and only Gaius and his Cylon detector can resolve the matter! And it will be interesting to see how he acts with the information that Boomer is actually a Cylon. Will he believe his test? Will he tell the authorities? I would imagine he has to act on this information.

Meanwhile Cylon Boomer and Helo were shown on Caprica. I wonder if the plan for these two is basically to mate? Could it be that simple? That the goal is for Helo to love and impregnate Boomer to find out what the result is? Time will tell.