Battlestar galactica who is the final five

Galen became a noncom chief engineer on Galactica. Anders turned into a pro sports star. And Tory joined politics. Cavil then placed multiple models of the remaining seven humanoid Cylons as sleeper cells in the Twelve Colonies. One, a model Six Tricia Helfer and a firm believer in the Cylon's one true God, infiltrated the human defense mainframe by infiltrating the bedroom of scientific genius, and unrepentant horndog, Gaius Baltar James Callis.

The last 50, members of humanity, led by the Galactica , limped into the cosmos, looking for a fabled planet known as Earth — inhabited, so humanity's polytheistic scriptures say, by the lost 13th tribe of humans. The Cylons relentlessly pursue the human fleet, where several of the humanoid Cylon models were still hidden. Miraculously, all of the Final Five also managed to survive the Cylon attack, and they too ended up in the human fleet.

They got horizontal, and had a baby, Hera: The first human-Cylon hybrid. Outed as a Cylon, Athena ultimately won Adama's trust and joined the human fleet as a pilot. At a particularly grim time for humanity, Saul killed Ellen for being a Cylon sympathizer. Ironic, no? When she was resurrected, she remembered everything, and Cavil kept her captive on a Cylon Basestar. Meanwhile, Saul, Galen, Anders, and Tory eventually realized they were Cylons — thanks to an eerie version of ''All Along the Watchtower'' ringing through their heads — but they all kept it a secret.

When the human fleet finally found Earth, instead of an Eden, it was a wasteland unfit for any life, irradiated some 2, years previous in a massive nuclear holocaust. It was familiar territory, however, for the Final Five: Turns out, they are Earth's only survivors. Yup, the 13th tribe of humanity were, in fact, all frakking toasters. With ''Battlestar Galactica: The Plan'' hitting DVD today, we've assembled this dossier detailing the Cylons' war on humanity to get everyone up to speed.

What they were researching was a way to re-invent resurrection technology. Organic memory transfer came from Kobol , but had fallen out of use after the Thirteenth Tribe Cylons started to procreate. The Five worked night and day to rebuild it, spurred by apocalyptic warnings from the Messengers.

Tyrol's work on the project was "amazing", but it was Ellen who made the intuitive leap that brought the system back online. The Five then placed the technology and new bodies for them on a ship they placed in orbit around Earth.

When they were all killed in the nuclear holocaust unleashed by Earth's mistreated mechanical Cylons , they were reborn in their new bodies on the ship in orbit. Realizing that the other Twelve Tribes would continue to create artificial life, they headed for the Colonies to tell the humans to treat their creations well and keep them close. Because their people hadn't developed jump drives , the Five's ship traveled at relativistic, but subluminal speed.

Time slowed down for them, but thousands of years had passed. According to Ellen, they stopped at the Temple of Hopes on their way to the Colonies, a temple that was created by their ancestors, who prayed there and got a sign that led them to Earth.

By the time they got to the Colonies, the humans were already at war with the Centurions. The Centurions were already trying to make flesh bodies. They had created the Hybrids , but nothing that lived on its own, so the Five made a deal with them: they stop the war and the Five will help them create humanoid Cylons. The Centurions agreed and signed the Cimtar Peace Accord with humanity.

The Five and the Centurions then withdrew to a mobile space station called The Colony placed beyond the Armistice Line. The Five developed the eight humanoid models and gave them resurrection technology. They created Number One first and named him John. He was named after Ellen's father and also made in his image. Number One later changed his name to Cavil as he hated the name John. Cavil helped the Five build the other seven humanoid models.

Ellen was close to Number Seven Daniel and Cavil, out of jealousy, contaminated the amniotic fluid in which the Daniel copies were maturing and then corrupted the genetic formula.

This wiped out the copies permanently, and as Anders said of Daniel: "he died", indicating that the original Daniel was lost as well TRS : " No Exit ". Cavil rejected mercy. He had a twisted idea of morality and despised the Five for contaminating their creations with human weaknesses and Centurion religious ideals, so he turned on them. He trapped them in a compartment and then he took the oxygen offline. Cavil boxed the Five at first but ultimately unboxed them and downloaded them into new bodies, blocking their true memories and implanting false ones, then introducing them one by one into the colonies.

He introduced Saul first, not long after the war. And then Ellen. Cavil put the Five into the human population in order to truly show them what humans are like. He hoped that when they died and resurrected which restores their real memories they'd be ready to admit they were wrong.

The truth behind the music that triggered their knowledge of their true selves has yet to be revealed. Cavil erased all knowledge of their identities from his siblings and his was the only Cylon model that knew their identities afterwards, but he kept at least one new body for each of them to download into.

When Ellen was killed by Saul, she downloaded into a new body on a Resurrection Ship. With the destruction of the Hub , the Five are the only ones who know how to rebuild resurrection technology, but Ellen claims it would take all five working together to rebuild it and even then she's not sure they could do it TRS : " No Exit ".

When the attack on the Twelve Colonies happened, the Cavils prepared a new body for each of them aboard a Resurrection Ship sure that they couldn't survive what was coming and sure that they would download, regain their true memories and apologize for their views on the humans.

When the attacks came, the Five managed to survive without dying and downloading to new bodies: Tyrol and Saul Tigh were aboard Galactica , Anders was in the mountains on Caprica doing some high-altitude survival training, there was a Simon there, but he was unaware of Anders's true nature, Tory was driving down a road in Delphi and was hit by a nuclear shockwave, but survived as her car protected her enough although she was injured and Ellen was in a bar on Picon with Cavil when it was hit by a nuclear shockwave.

The bar was destroyed and Ellen severly injured, however she survived and Cavil kept her that way as he felt she hadn't learned her lesson and still needed to. Cavil then personally escorted her onto a rescue Raptor and to the Rising Star before planting himself as a clergyman on Galactica. Another Cavil infiltrated Samuel Anders 's resistance movement and delayed relaying the location to the other Cylons to see if Anders had changed.

Anders hadn't, but his views on humanity changed the Cavil, who was presumably boxed eventually for his beliefs TRS : " The Plan ". After Boomer helps Ellen escape from Cavil, the Five are finally reunited although Anders is pretty much brain dead except when he acts as a Hybrid for Galactica. The Rebel Cylons decide that perhaps they should leave the Fleet for good now that they have all of the Five and leave it up to the Five to decide. Saul and Anders vote no, Tory and Tyrol vote yes and initaly Ellen is undecided.

In order to spite her husband as she's angry at him for his relationship with Caprica Six and Caprica's pregnancy by him, she votes yes, but after Caprica Six miscarries, she changes her mind saying that humans and Cylons should be together and she only voted yes out of anger.

When Admiral Adama calls everyone to talk about the rescue mission for Hera Agathon, Ellen tells Tory they're both going, and although Tory initaly protests, Tyrol convinces her to go and all of the Final Five go on the rescue. Helo and Tyrol prevent a Pegasus crew member from raping Boomer, accidentally killing another crew member in the process.

Cain sentences them to death, but Adama refuses to hand out the punishment. Cain and Adama plot against one another, while Baltar cures Roslin's cancer with amniotic fluid from Boomer's fetus. Gina shoots Cain in the head, killing her, and sets off a nuclear bomb, destroying half the fleet. The surviving members, including Galactica and Pegasus, now captained by Lee Adama, discover a new planet they name New Caprica.

Baltar runs to replace Roslin, campaigning on colonizing a new world, and wins the presidency. Boomer gives birth to her baby, Hera, but is told that the baby has died, with Roslin planning on hiding the baby from the Cylons, lest they find out she exists and worship her. The season ends jumping forward one year, with Baltar's presidency somewhat a failure, the Adamas running an orbiting fleet, Starbuck and Anders married, and Roslin gone back to teaching.

But the Cylons finally discover their new planet, and the fleet jumps away to safety, leaving the planet alone for Cylon takeover. Season 3 begins months into the Cylon takeover of New Caprica with the humans surviving as best they can. Colonel Tigh loses an eye in Cylon prison, then learns his wife was helping the Cylons, so he poisons her. Baltar tries to act as a liaison between humans and Cylons, but he's really just a puppet.

Starbuck is being held prisoner by Leoben, Cylon model Number Two, in an apartment-like prison. He tries to win her affection, claiming that he's created a child using her harvested eggs, but Starbuck kills him repeatedly, only to have him resurrect in a new body. Tyrol and Anders contact Galactica and Pegasus, who have been plotting a rescue mission on their own.

Apollo, commanding the Pegasus, has gained a lot of weight and married Dualla. Adama grew a mustache. Hey, everyone dealt with it in their own way. The rescue mission is successful, but the Pegasus is lost to incredible damage. Boomer, having turned on the Cylons, is renamed Athena, and she and Helo learn that their baby Hera is alive and captured by the Cylons along with Baltar. Meanwhile, Cylon model Number Three, D'Anna, begins repeatedly killing herself and resurrecting because every time she dies she has visions of something called "The Final Five" — five other Cylon models that no one knew existed.

When the humans land on an algae planet to gather food supplies, Tyrol discovers the Temple of the Five, also known as the Temple of Hopes, which holds the "Eye of Jupiter," which will help them find Earth. The Cylons, having learned about the Final Five and the Temple through D'Anna's visions, find the humans and offer a truce if they give up the Eye, but Adama refuses. The final few episodes of season 3 get a little chaotic, with Adama putting Baltar on trial, Apollo coming to his defense, and the humans jumping away to safety but seemingly giving up on finding Earth.

Roslin's cancer returns. Starbuck, who's been acting strangely, flies off in a daze following an invisible Cylon raider, but her ship gets caught in atmospheric pressure and crushed. Starbuck is presumed dead In a major finale twist, four of the Final Five are revealed.

They hum along to a plinky plunky version of "All Along the Watchtower" and meet each other secretly in a hangar deck, fully realizing who they are. In the season's final moments, the fleet is attacked once again by Cylon forces. When Apollo and the other viper pilots seem like they're about to be blown to bits, Starbuck's plane suddenly appears. She tells Apollo over the com that she's been to Earth and knows how to get there.

With Starbuck back from the dead, all hell breaks loose. Humans turn against humans and Cylons against Cylons. Baltar becomes the center of a monotheistic religion and recruits followers. Apollo joins the Quorum of Twelve. The rebels want to wake up Number Three D'Anna who had been boxed after her repeated suicides.

The rebels team up with the humans. In exchange for helping the Cylons fix one of their ships, rebooting D'Anna, and finding the Final Five, the humans can destroy the Resurrection Hub, the ship controlling all Cylon resurrections, thus making them mortal.

When Roslin visits the stranded ship to talk with its Hybrid, the Hybrid reboots and jumps away, taking Roslin, Baltar, and a number of humans.

The team successfully destroys the Resurrection Hub and wakes up D'Anna, reuniting back with the fleet. There's an intense standoff among the humans and Cylons, with D'Anna demanding to know the whereabouts of the Final Five she's seen them in her visions which leads to Tyrol, Tigh, Tory, and Anders revealing themselves as Cylons.

In the ensuing chaos, Starbuck's viper emits a signal, finally leading them to Earth. The humans and Cylons agree to investigate, only to find the planet completely destroyed — a nuclear wasteland irradiated long ago. The human and Cylon alliance is devastated. With "Earth" a nuclear wasteland, they have no potential home and no further answers to their questions.

As they explore "Earth," Starbuck makes an alarming discovery: her own ship, crash-landed on the planet with the charred remains of a body that looks exactly like her. She died in the crash, apparently, but was brought back to life, leading her and others to wonder if she is the fifth and final Cylon.