transcript of Ander's Memories:

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#1

HEre is a transcript of Anders Explanation

Credit for this work should go to SciFi Forum member:Krevvaner Thankyou

“We all worked in the same research facility. You and Ellen, you were married then too.”

“You two lived together…You were madly in love, you were planning on getting married.”

“On a ship that we placed in orbit around the planet.”

“We didn’t invent resurrection, OK. We re-invented it.”

“Organic memory transfer came from Kobol along with the thirteenth tribe. It fell out of use after our people started to procreate. We worked night and day to rebuild it.”

“Galen, your work was amazing…But it was Ellen. It was Ellen who made the intuitive leap that brought the system back online.”

“We needed to find the other tribes and warn them. We knew they would continue to create artificial life. We need to tell them, treat them well and keep em close. But by the time we got to the colonies, they were already at war with the centurions. It happened again.”

“We hadn’t developed jump drives. We traveled at relativistic, but subluminal speed. Time slowed down for us, but thousands of years had passed.”

“The centurions were already trying to make flesh bodies. They had created the hybrids, but nothing that lived on its own, so we made them deal: you stop the war and we’ll help you.”

“We developed the eight humanoid models and we gave them resurrection.”

“John, we treasured him. He helped us build the others.”

“The centurions had a single loving God. Ellen said it changed everything. If the Cylons embraced love and mercy, then the cycle of violence could end.”

“Cavil rejected mercy. He had a twisted idea of morality, so he turned on the five of us. He trapped us in a, uh, thing, uh pocket, it was a compartment. And then he took the O2 offline.”

“He blocked our access to our books, no, our memories.”

“I guessed he boxed us for a while. Introduced Saul first, not long after the war. And then the gazelle, duh, the, the Ellen.”

“Back on Earth, the warning signs that we got. It looked different to each one of us. I saw a woman. Tory, you saw a man.”

“Funny, no one, no one else could see them.”

“Seven, seven, seven was the Daniel.”

“He died. Daniel died. He was seven.”

Add to this the revelation of a hidden colony that Ellen setup

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#2

I dont think the colony they spoke of was a hidden one, I think they were talking about earth.

#3

Do you refer to the nuked Earth or a potential final earth destination for the show’s end?

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#4

I believe this is the key, Ellen helped to set up a place for them all. A promised land that they would only reach after the cycle was broken. The Pithia proficy said that the caravan of the sky would only reach the promised land after the dying leader was gone. Ron Moore said in his podcast that the show was going to earth and clearly the Earth seen at the end of Season 3 was our Earth. We are the descendants of the Cylons and Humans who came to our Earth.

#5

I’m not sure about that… I think the colony is something new that we haven’t seen before, a research facility of some kind that Ellen set up. I think we’ll find us there in the next episodes.

#6

I’m leaning towards this idea also.

#7

Thanks rjmdrum, really appreciate the transcript!

#8

i think the colony will be the mysterious Cylon Home world

#9

Here’s an idea:

Ellen is the dying leader

#10

Thanks for posting this. We’re still planning to rewatch, but this is VERY helpful.

“Back on Earth, the warning signs that we got. It looked different to each one of us. I saw a woman. Tory, you saw a man.”

“Funny, no one, no one else could see them.”

This is the part that stood out to me. Head-people.

#11

I have been thinking that too. However, I can’t get by the fact that the dying leading is supposed to have a wasting disease.

#12

Yeah, but Ellen is always wasted.

“Deep love and deep drinking.”

#13

I would have to agree that Ellen doesn’t fit the wasting disease. I still think it is Roslin and that she will likely not make it to the end of the series.

#14

Agreed. Having gone off doloxan in such spectacular fashion, she’s not long for this world.

#15

Yes, that’s what I think. We’re told that after the Armistice, the Cylons left to find their own homeworld. =Ellen’s hidden colony.

#16

Very, funny. Thanks for the laugh!

#17

Just thought I’d add a tidbit that was missing from the transcription:

“Back on Earth, the warning signs that we got… They looked different to each one of us. I saw a woman. Tory, you saw a man. Funny… No one else could see them. Galen, you thought… you saw… a ship in your head…”

The “ship in your head” part was interrupted by the Doc, nurse and Starbuck, but it’s there.

#18

Was it “ship” or “chip”?

#19

I believe that he said " you thought you had a chip in your head" this statement goes back to the first season when Baltar thought he had a chip in his head and it was making him see head 6.

#20

i drew the same conclusion, samantha. it seems to me that the chip in your head could be what tyrol inferred was a possible root cause for a given hallucination, such as head six.