10 Battlestar Galactica Twists You Never Saw Coming
3. Four Of The Five
At the dramatic conclusion of the third season, while the battle of the Ionian Nebula is just beginning, four people across Galactica are drawn by the ethereal music that only they can hear. As they have drawn closer and closer to their final destination, these four people are beginning to realise who they really are. They are four of the Final Five Cylons.
Tory Foster wasn't a huge surprise, in a way, since we didn't know her very well and she was only in the background for most of the time. But the others are men that we have known well for some time. Saul Tigh and Galen Tyrol have been with us since the very beginning and we first got to know Sam Anders early in the second season.
As the ethereal tones of Bear McCreary's version of All Along The Watchtower (often misattributed to Jimmy Hendrix, when it was Bob Dylan who wrote and first performed it) seep into this meeting, we wonder... is this the face of things to come? And who is the Fifth?