Battlestar Galactica's 15 Biggest Plot Twists And Reveals

15. The Meaning Of The Opera House (Daybreak – Season 4, Episodes 19-21)

Throughout Battlestar Galactica, multiple characters have visions of an Opera House. In the fourth season in particular, a recurring dream shows President Roslin and the Cylon Sharon 'Athena' Agathon chasing young Hera (Athena’s hybrid daughter) through the halls of this Opera House, before the child is collected by a Number Six and Gaius Baltar, and taken through an ominous door. There, Six and Baltar look up at the robed figures of the Final Five Cylons standing on the balcony above the stage.

In the series finale, the events of the vision finally come to pass. The halls of the Opera House are now Galactica, where both Roslin and Athena attempt to find young Hera who has run away after being rescued from the Cylon Colony. She is picked up by Baltar and Caprica Six, and taken through a final door into the Galactica control room, where the Five have gathered in the upper levels to recreate resurrection technology.

All of this action is intercut poetically with images of the vision, confirming that these events are what it was indicating all along. It’s a cool moment of revelation that while not being shocking, is highly satisfying.