Something occurs to me concerning the kinds of clues that are purported to be left throughout season 1. The Last Supper picture is a mirror image of the Da Vinci painting in terms of its placement of the "apostles". Most people think that the empty seat in the BSG Last Supper is the Judas placement but its not. That would be Tyrol holding the knife. So I wonder about mirrors being clues. For example: Sharon opens a locker and sees Cylon written across the mirror. Lee opens his locker and has a strange flashback. I'm not sure what other "mirrors" are shown in season 1. But in Season 3, Baltar sees the virtual character and a mirror image of himself. Just a random thought.

Something about the Comicon convention. James Callis says "watch this space". I can't really disclose how I know this information; but it means, if something was deleted, you should pay attention to it. I think this is a reference to cut scenes. As an expample of their importance as clues:

In the Last Supper picture. Tyrol is looking at a glass of water. So I went back to the deleted scenes for the the episode "Water". The scenes that were cut were scenes that give away too much information about Sharon being a cylon. The cut scenes with Tyrol indicate clearly that he knows Sharon was involved with the bombing of the water tanks. He also knows that it is impossible for a human to enter these tanks and place the bombs. He suspects her but covers up for her. This is too much information so these scenes were cut.

In a cut scene from the first episode "33"; an opening sequence was cut. If you watch this scene frame by frame at the point where Galactica jumps you will see an image of the Eye of Jupiter/Mandala in its wake. The next image is that of Lee with a smile on his face.

I also believe that mirrors and photographs, or the concept of mirror images, yield clues. I think that is the clue we are given in the Last Supper picture being the reverse or mirror image. I seem to recall a photo of what I thought were Zack and Lee but both boys had dark hair. This doesn't fit with the other photos in Adama's quarters that we are used to seeingof Zack and Lee. I have been looking at the photos in cut scenes and Adama's quarters for this picture. I believe it is a picture of young Lee and his deceased twin brother because they were much younger than the other pictures. I am surprised at how many pictures that I didn't notice in Adama's quarters. Photos represent people who are lost to us as in the photo gallery in the main gangway. There is also the picture of Ellen in the mini-series getting her cylon eye burned out. This is a clue in the same way that the mirror that Sharon looks at has the word cylon written on it and the flashback scenes, I keep coming across in cuts scenes and in 33 and Water. And there is the mysterious photo of the unknown person (with back towards us) originally in the CAG and then in Laura's ship, taken on the day Caprica was destroyed. There is also the strange commentary on 33 where David Eick refers to Grampa Adama and the twins. I don't think that Lee is the final cylon, but I think he is influenced by the final cylon. If he did lose a twin brother a at young age, it could explain why Adama and his wife split and why Lee is so upset about the loss of Zack. I know this is a stretch but I think the Da Vinci code plot is a strong possibility and twins have a "special" connection with each other and apparently there is always a dominant twin.

OK, here's another possibility - Romo Lampkin

In Romo’s quarters on the Galactica, there is a plaque on the wall that appears to have Masonic symbol of the calipers.

Mysterious, seductive, thief, liar, wears dark glasses (eyes are the window to the soul, cylon raider knows Anders by scanning his eye; eye of Jupiter); takes them off when he is influencing someone.

Says he knows Lee’s grandfather well and hated him. Lee’s grandfather may be the first hybrid (the first cylon experiment; my children think I am god); because he defended the most venous and heinous criminals.

How does Lampkin know him? Lampkin appears to be about Lee’s age? We are given to think he knows him by studying his books and case histories; but Lampkin speaks as though he knows him personally. Lampkin uses this connection to make a connection with Lee. He even tells Lee that he looks like his grandfather. How does he know this? Lampkin would have had to know Joseph Adama when he was Lee’s age to make that comparison. A personal connection is extremely unlikely but Lampkin speaks about this connection very personally.

When Lee takes Lampkin to his quarters, Lampkin says “you’re pilot, king of the pilots) and later says that everyone is looking at Lee as if blood was coming out of his side. Lampkin is referring to Pontious Pilate and the wound in Jesus ribs made by the spear of Longinus/spear of destiny (which we see in Tyrol’s hands in the Last Supper Picture). The second relic from the King Arthur/Grail Legend is the chalice or Holy Grail also on the table. (which Lee is contemplating). How does Lampkin know about Jesus and the trial of Jesus. He appears to be the only person in the Galactica universe with this knowledge.

Lampkin is making a parallel between Baltar’s Trial and the Trial of Jesus.

Lampkin also give us information about his wife Faye Lampkin (or perhaps Morgan Le Fey, Arthur’s sister, in the Arthurian Legends she is a witch; her cat is named Lance (Lancelot); a cat being an occult intermediary between the witch/warlock and satan). He says he was with her for 10 years on Geminon and that they had two daughters together. He gives us to believe that they all died in the holocaust.

He says the cat didn’t bite and scratch like his wife did. He also says that he loved her so much that when she died, he thought if he could just conquer that love, he wouldn’t need her for strength. This statement resonates with Lee as he has just lost Kara.

When Lampkin interviews Caprica 6, he takes off his glasses and looks her straight in the eye. She tells him that Baltar is brilliant, narcississtic, venal etc. and she should have stabbed him herself. Lampkin asks is human and cylon love are the same? He says cylon love is not for the faint hearted and asks if her love hurts as much as his? She nods her head yes. He says perhaps she should have been nicer to her maker.

This leads me to believe that Lampkin is the 5th cylon or the maker, the one who programmed the 7 and awakens the other 4. He is the virtual entity in all cases. Caprica 6 is a recreation of Lampkin’s wife (Morgan le Faye). Her relationship with Baltar mirrors the relationship between Lampkin and his wife.
He creates Caprica 6 in the image of his wife and gives her all the same characteristics including obsessive love for Baltar. He selects Baltar because he is the most venal/narcisistic human he can find (also a characteristic of his wife or possibly himself), someone who is incapable of love and gives Caprica 6 the mission to make Baltar accept god and his love. This is a mirror image of his relationship with his wife with the roles in reversal.

In his interview with Caprica 6 he is in a sense asking her “how does it feel to have the shoe on the other foot”.

Romo also uses this exchange with Caprica 6 to make a connection with Lee. As Lee is listening to the interview he is making comparison’s between himself and Kara.

D’Anna previously told Baltar that the hybrids were insane because that they could see the face of god. She also says Leoben thinks everything the hybrid’s say means something. She tells Baltar that to see the face of god is to know madness. In season 4, Lee goes to see Lampkin. Lampkin appears insane in the exchange and is on the verge of suicide? We also find out that the cat is dead (or perhaps mummified?).

Who is Romo (Rome) Lampkin? Is he Longinus? Destined to walk the earth until the second coming of Christ on earth? Is he satan? Or satan’s instrument? During Baltar’s drug induced interrogation by Adama/Roslyn; he asks if Caprica 6 is and angel or a demon? Caprica told Baltar that she is an angel sent by god. Baltar is shaped into a Jesus figure by V6 even to his appearance. Caprica also refers to god as male. HE wants your love and HIS divine will.

Lampkin is also a thief. He steals Baltar’s pen, Adama’s button, Roslyn’s glasses, the prosecuting attorney ‘s slipper. This is symbolic of using something belonging to another person to control them (as in black magic) although he gives another explanation to Lee. He says these objects tell him something about his opponents and he also uses the pen to manipulate Caprica 6. She asks if Baltar has mentioned her and he gives her the pen saying that Baltar wanted her to have it as the only thing he could offer that hasn’t already been taken from him, that it represents his voice the only thing remaining to him and represents his love for her, he tells Caprica that Baltar loves her and the only thing he wants is to be with her. Lampkin tells Caprica 6 exactly what she wants to hear because he programmed her with this obsession and he knows that she will no longer testify against Baltar at the trial. Lee recognizes this for the lie that it is since he has been privy to all conversations between Baltar and Lampkin and knows that Baltar did not say this or give Lampkin the pen to give to 6. He then has Lee return the pen to Baltar so that Baltar can continue to write and distribute his manifesto. Along with a note saying that there is nothing more powerful than a son who steps out of his father’s shadow.

Lee asks Lampkin what he has stolen from him? Lampkin doesn’t answer Lee and we are given to think that he has not taken anything. But he has. He has stolen Kara from Lee (and Lee from Adama.)

Leoben also has an obsessive love with Kara that is similar to Caprica/Baltar. He tells Kara and Adama that “I can see more than you can imagine”; he knows about her life, mother, things she has never spoken to anyone. Of all the cylons he is the most like a hybrid and the most prophetic. He also gives the information that Adama is a cylon (Joseph Adama/First Hybrid?).

In the episode Maelstrom, the 4 are awakened by the song “All Along the Watchtower”. There are two persons speaking; The Joker and the Thief. Kara is the Joker (or wild card) and the Thief in the form of Virtual Leoben is the Thief. Kara recognizes that virtual Leoben is not Leoben. He replies, I never said I was. It is this character that convinces Kara not to fear death and to “cross over” to the place in between life and death to learn her true nature. In Kara’s final moments we see an image of a young girl bathed in light looking up and smiling (as though to her father).

Kara in the last supper picture takes the position of the Apostle John, the Disciple whom Jesus loved, Also the Beloved Disciple who’s name is unknown or hidden and Lazarus. Lazarus’ fate is to walk the earth bound in flesh until the second coming of Christ. Lazarus is also resurrected by god. This is her “fate” and her destiny is to point the way to earth having fulfilled the requirements of the second coming; all must return to earth for the last judgement and resurrection.

D’Anna may very well have seen Lampkin in the Temple of 5 (Knights Templar?). When Baltar questions D’Anna about her suicides. D’Anna shows him a series of pictures she has drawn. In a picture of the 5, there is one character with Lampkin’s hairline and in the picture previously described, there is an image of Lampkin in profile with dark glasses. It is the kind of image that if you look at it one way, you can see an image of Lampking and then it reverses into a picture of 3 faces; two of them appear to be howling, one is crying.

It’s unclear who D’Anna speaks to in the Temple of 5. It may be Virtual 6/Ellen or it could be Lampkin. When she first sees him in another suicide flashback, she frowns and looks started, incredulous. In the Temple itself, she spits out the word “you!?”. V6 is a manifestation of the final cylon in it’s many forms. It is telling that Baltar takes D’Anna’s hand at the same time she takes the final cylon’s hand in the vision. Baltar is the son of god (Lampkin’s version). Lampkin has also been with us in the form of Virtual 6 since the beginning of the show and his face is in shadow (as in the dark eye glasses).

He is also the character pulling all the strings and running the agenda and all conversations with a virtual entity whether its Baltar and Virtual 6; Caprica and Virtual Baltar; Baltar and Virtual Baltar make sense if Lampkin is the identity behind these virtual characters.

The one that is puzzling is Tight and Virtual Ellen superimposed over Caprica 6. This may be an attempt to manipulate or control Tigh (whose relationship with Ellen, mirrors that of Baltar and 6 and Lampkin/Faye) for some unkown purpose at this point.

Then there are vision which are different from virtual characters in some ways. Kara and Leoben/Father figure and Elosha/ Roslyn as well as Adama and his wife as seen in the episode with the wedding anniversary storyline. However, Adama seems to control this kind of projection. This appears to be a constructed memory palace that Adama accesses once a year.

Joseph Adama/Romo Lampkin Connection?
Creation of S7?
Projection Capability/Memory Palace correlation?
Final Cylon/Final 4 connection?
Knights Templar Connection?
Divine Bloodline?
Apocolypse/second coming?

Well, as of tonight you get the grand prize. I wonder if Moore or someone listened to you, or if you were just a really awesome detective? If the latter, you're the winner for sure!

Let's see if it holds true, because as of now, I'm convinced that the writers are frakking with all of us! :O Maybe they are the real cylons.

What he said was that they had considered making her a Cylon as far back as season 1, but never comitted to the idea.

Ellen's "mysterious" appearance on the ship can, in fact, be attributed to the fact that after the series began the writers realized that adding Ellen (who's character had been established in her absence) would be a good idea, but couldn't come up with a plausible way to introduce her. Fortunately the Cylon storyline gave them a convenient excuse, but it was in no way, shape or form decided upon, let alone finalized, until S3 (at the earliest).

If Moore is lying he'd completely alienate the very fanbase he needs to bring with him to Caprica. Fans would never forgive him, and he knows that.

Now the final mystery is whether Starbuck is Leoben's daughter or not.

I think there is more to this that a clear cut "Ellen is the final cylon." I've thought for some time that Kara was a reborn individual, not a cylon. She's like (pardon the references) the Jesus feature in the plot, arising from the ashes to save the humans/cylons. Her centerpiece has been "destiny." I don't think they are ALL cylons.

But - I think several other people are cylons. Ellen may be one, but I think there are others. My money was on Lee as he was in the shadow of his dad, reluctant to take on leadership, etc. A lot of the clues pointed to Lee. If you watch when the four cylons hear the music and go into one room, Lee is right behind them, only he doesn't make it to the room in time - a warning sound and soldiers interrupt him. There are a lot of things like that which only happen to Lee. Personally, I think Lee was switched at birth or something like that. Thinking of how to tie it all in with "Caprica," it would be good to have one of the Adama children as hybrids, cloned or cylon. Given the nature of the new show, I would think this would be an important part of the continuity.

I think it should be obvious at this point that it is not Earth of the future, but Earth of the distant past in a prehistory that has been lost to us now. The people of Earth were the 13th tribe, Cylons with a direct culture link to Kobol. The Humans and Cylons can not live on Earth and never will be, but their offspring (the next Human race, Human and Cylon mixed children) will be who repopulate the Earth. To make the next human race never again repeat the cycle of history the Colonials and Cylons are stuck in, their children will be not be given any of the Colonial/Cylon scientific knowledge and technology, but will have to start over with nothing. Their civilization becomes ours, we are the mix of Colonial and Cylon DNA.

I forgot to mention.. we also know Zak was also Kara's first husband. I bet resurrected her and sent her back.

Lots of characters come back for Daybreak- photos taken during filming show CAlly in her deckhand suit, along with Prosna and/or Socinus, and I believe Kat was there as well. They're flashbacks.

1) Kate does get a credit at the end of last weeks episode, and the actress claims she will be in *ahem* seven of nine episodes. Most likely the reason she is not credited is precisely because people were scouring the internet looking for such clues to the identity of the fifth.

2) Yes, actually, at the end of an episode is PRECISELY when you usually want to have such a reveal. Indeed, this was the case in revealing Boomer, D'Anna, Tory, Tigh, Anders and Tyrol. It leaves the audience wanting more, and allows a full episode to explore the ramifications.

3) There are nine episodes left, and still a ton of questions left to answer. They are not going to waste the little time they have left sending our heroes chasing after a red herring.

4) Zak misses on several criteria: we've never seen him before, he'd be played by a guest star, and he'd open up far, far more questions than he'd answer.

I don't think IMDB is up to date. Kandyse McClure is listed in quite a few of the remaining episodes as well.

Making Ellen the 12th Cylon Model, IS A REAL LET DOWN.

What "confirmed"? Because Moore said it in an interview? He'd say it in an interview if it were a fake-out, too.

Because the 13th tribe was a tribe of Cylons.

Moore has said that Starbuck is "something else entirely." I think it was Olmos who said her story is dark and sickening. I'm going with the obvious right now and believing it when Tight said "You're the Fifth." In the previews we see Ellen in a resurrection tub. Sure, it could all be twisted around my the creative editing, but I'm going with the simplest answer right now.