This is a time of reckoning. A time when the characters are forced to come to terms with what they are and what they might become. A president, no longer able to hold on to the belief that she is leading her race to salvation, is shocked to the core and falls to pieces. Even Admiral Adama is unable to bring her to her senses. That colleague is Dee, who has been devastated by the discovery that Earth is a barren wasteland, and after a final date with her ex-husband, kills herself. This rocks many people, Lee Adama especially, but it is his father that takes it harder still. Forced to face what they have all had to go through and the decisions that he has made, he has a moment of crisis – but he comes through it with the help of Saul. Lastly there is the revelation in the last few moments of the episode – where Saul discovers that somehow his ex-wife, a wife that he murdered, is in fact the fifth Cylon. This leaves us with the question that is still unanswered about Starbuck. In the end we are left with a race of Humans and Cylons, working together to find a new world – brought together by the ashes of an old one. 19 January 2009
