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In sickbay, Dr. Cottle prepares to drill holes in Samuel Anders' head to relieve pressure caused a hematoma which is result of a bullet that struck him in the head (Blood on the Scales).
Anders, his head shaved and in a brace, recalls various scenes of himself in the past, saying outloud, "Among bright stars, I'm lost. There's a new tide. All the forgotten faces, all the forgotten children, we seek the forgotten language..."
When Kara Thrace demands Cottle take out the bullet, Cottle tells her that relieving the pressure is required before he can call up another surgeon from the ship Inchon Velle, to remove the bullet.
Anders continues to experience visions and talk of them as he recalls the Temple of Five, the nuked shoreline of Earth, and how Ellen Tigh loved the water.
Later, back in sickbay, Anders awakens, asking Kara to gather up the other "Finals." He remembers "everything" about his past as a Cylon and its significance.
Present day, back in Galactica's sickbay, Anders tells Tyrol, Tory Foster, and Saul Tigh of their past lives on Earth, that Foster and Tyrol were lovers. When Saul recalls trying to get Ellen out of debris as the nukes hit Earth, Anders confirms that all five of them were downloaded to a research ship high above the planet, inferring that the Five were warned that an end was coming.
When Tigh questions if the Five invented resurrection and Tory questions why such technology was needed when the Earth-bound Cylons could have children, Anders corrects them, saying that they re-invented it: organic memory transfer, originally a technology of the Thirteenth Tribe on Kobol.
Sam's wife, Kara Thrace is also at his bedside insisting that Anders rest but he refuses, needing to tell everything he recalls.
Sam T. remembers that resurrection fell into disuse when the Cylons of his type learned to reproduce biologically. The Five, in their past lives, worked tirelessly to "reinvent" that ability.
It was Ellen who made an "intuitive leap," Anders recalls, before Cottle arrives and orders everyone out.
Anders tells Tigh and the group that the reason the Five left nuked Earth with a goal of getting back to the 12 Tribes was to warn them that they must take good care of the Cylons they built or suffer the same fate as Earth. But it was too late: the First Cylon War between the Colonies had already started on their arrival.
(Tory Foster questions why the Five arrived two thousand years later. Anders notes that jump drives weren't invented yet. The Five's ship traveled at near-light speed, experiencing the effects of relativistic space travel where time slowed for them on their journey back, allowing them to stay alive.)
After Samuel T. recovers from a painful-looking spasm, he goes on talking.
The Five met with the Cylons, telling them that if they would stop the war against the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, the Five would aid them in further development of organic Cylons. The Centurions were already experimenting with the beings known as the Hybrids as shown in the telefilm, Razor, but they'd not progressed to an autonomous model.
Sam tells the group that, in exchange for peace, the Five helped develop the eight humanoid Cylon models and gave them resurrection as well.
Kara exclaims,"eight"." At the same moment all gathered realize that the "Significant Seven" was originally eight models. One model went missing.
Before Anders can clarify, he experiences a seizure....
Anders's speech continues to break up (aphasia) he frets aloud that his *new* memories might be lost to further surgery. Anders tries to talk more but his speech breaks up more in to strings of unintelligible words--aphasia, affected by the injury.
Anders continues to try to put off the surgery to tell everything he recalls, but his wife overrules him and he is prepped for the surgery.
As he is prepped Anders continues his story. He tells of the first humanoid created, Cavil, who in turn helped build the remaining humanoid Cylons. He tells them that Ellen believed that the original Centurion's belief in God would stop the cycle of violence between the humans and Cylons... but Cavil was spiteful and did not believe in God or mercy. He turned on the Five and killed them by trapping them in a compartment and venting the oxygen. When the Five downloaded, he boxed them. Later, Cavil unboxed the Five but implanted them with new memories.... He unboxed Saul Tigh first, then Ellen and the rest later.
Anders tells of Number Seven, one model they called Daniel.
Anders emphatically orders Saul Tigh to stay with the Fleet, that a "miracle" was about to happen. (My guess: Caprica Six's impending giving birth.)
Anders is wheeled off to surgery.
Big Problem plot-logic wise- Thanks to Battlestar Wiki for their superior skills at analyzing this stuff.
Illogically, despite having re-invented Resurrection technology, the Final Five and their civilization had not developed FTL Jump technology(!), although they did have lightspeed capable drives that allowed "subluminal" travel but had the side effect of time dilation. By the time the Five reached the Twelve Colonies, their brother twelve tribes and their own Cylon opponents had the use of FTL which the Twelve Colonies developed independently. Inversely the Twelve Colonies had no access to Resurrection technology. The Final Five presumably integrated FTL into all their future Cylon technology.
(Saul Tigh's military history in the First Cylon War is revealed to be false. Read much more detail at Battlestar Wiki.)
The biggest questions I was left going "huh?" about are asked by Battlestar Wiki:
-How is it possible that the Thirteenth Tribe's bio-engineering technology was far advanced of the other Twelve Colonies, but they did not have Jump-technology?
-If the Final Five did not have Jump-technology, and the Colonial Cylons' Jump-technology was on par with that of the humans, how did the Cylons develop Jump-Drives that were far more advanced than the Humans?
