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Laura Roslin - President of the colonies, former school teacher and cancer patient.

Pros:

• She was Secretary of Education before the cylon attack.  Is there a better way to influence another culture than through education?
• She lies, cheats, steals whatever to do what she thinks is the right outcome.  Isn’t that a cylon trait?
• She has visions.  Perhaps they are cylon messages coming through?

Cons:

• She was dying of cancer and then healed by the half-cylon/half human baby’s blood.  It would be very doubtful that cylon blood would help her out.
• She’s out of child bearing age.  That doesn’t seem to fit the rest of the female cylon pattern.
• She wears glasses.  Now, that’s not much of a big deal, but none of the other cylons have any physical defects.

Overall:

Roslin would be a prime suspect were it not for her health issues.  She’s in a prime position to really put the hurt on the humans.

Chances of being a Cylon: 8%

Helo - Karl Agathon, square jawed Raptor pilot.

Pros:

• Not much is known about Helo’s history.  He apparently doesn’t have much of a family history so probably could easily be a cylon.

Cons:

• He had a baby with Sharon, a cylon and that kid has been referred to by the cylons as "the hybrid".
• He has been very cylon sympathetic.  The last 4 revealed cylons were all very anti-cylon before they became aware.
• The last 4 revealed cylons all resettled on New Caprica, Helo stayed onboard the Galactica.  It’s not a show-stopper, but it doesn’t match the rest.

Overall:

Cylons don’t reproduce sexually, so since Helo had a baby with a cylon, it would be a one in a million shot that Helo is a cylon.  The cylons have been infiltrating the humans and matching up a cylon with another cylon doesn’t seem to be a good infiltration tactic.

Chances of being a Cylon: 1%

Lt. Gaeta - tactical officer on the Battlestar Galactica.  Righthand man to Baltar on New Caprica. Pros: He was part of the resistance movement.  We know that 3 of the 4 that have been revealed were part of the resistance movement on New Caprica.  Tigh, Anders & Tryol.  Why the hidden cylons were part of the resistance, I have no idea, but it appears to be a common thread. You wouldn’t expect him.  In fact, you probably haven’t even thought about him. Who better to have as a plant on your side than the tactical officer in the enemy fleet? He rerouted firewalls pretty fast when the cylons were trying to hack into the Galactica.  Maybe he let them in????

Cons:

• Would anyone care about Gaeta being a cylon?
• He is missing from the goofy image SciFi has on their website.

Overall:

Gaeta would be an excellent choice for a cylon.  He would be in a major position to cause complete chaos onboard the Galactica.  He’s under the radar and a loner.

Chances of being a Cylon: 34%

Kara Thrace – badgirl, renegade and lately completely nuts viper jockey.

Pros:

• She seemingly died and then came back.  Something only cylons do…
• She seems to have a major destiny that the cylons actually know about.
• She’s nuts.  She has visions about where Earth is… it seems to be more like a cylon thing.

Cons:

• It’s too obvious.  They keep building it up that she might be a cylon.  The crew suspects it and the audience suspects it.  That’s why it wouldn’t work. 
• She’s married to Anders who is a cylon.  The cylons seem to be teamed up with humans with the intention of procreation.

Overall:

We’re being led to believe that Starbuck is a cylon, but it would be a complete disaster if she really was.  We all see it a mile away and it wouldn’t be the big "reveal" or "surprise" if she was.  The issue of how she "died" and now is back could possibly be explained by her "destiny".  The new series parallels the old series in many ways and in the old series episode "War of the Gods", angels resurrect Apollo… and with the religious overtones of the show, I think we’re going to see something like that… that angels have resurrected Starbuck and not because she was a cylon.

Chances of being a Cylon: 5%

 So the big question is: Who is the last cylon?  In these series of posts I’ll break down my thoughts on the chances of each character is of being a Cylon.  My money is on two characters… but you might be surprised as to who I think.  I’ll reveal one of my top choices early.

I’m making some assumptions in the process. Assumptions: 1. There really are only twelve cylon models.  There’s no lost thirteenth cylon model or anything like that.  There are only twelve models. 2. The people who have been revealed to be cylons really are cylons.  Since they look human and we haven’t seen really any proof that Tigh and Tyrol are really cylons, it is possible that we have been misdirected.  The assumption here is that those revealed are actually cylons. 3. Cylon models don’t change form.  They have one form and cannot change it.

Last year I saw Richard Hatch from Battlestar Galactica at Wizard World.

It was pretty sad actually.  He had some film crew (I assume he hired them himself) doing some documenary on him.  At least with the 2 film guys by him he had 2 more guys than Lou Ferrigno had.