Survivor count: 39,675

For the second episode in a row, series star Jamie Bamber does not appear. James Callis is heard throughout the episode, but is never seen.

Episode writer Seamus Kevin Fahey also wrote several of the Battlestar Galactica comics (of the "Origins" and "The Final Five" series) and would later co-write The Face of the Enemy webisodes.

Number Eight: They call you Athena now. You even wear the uniform like you're one of them. You were the first to say no.
Athena: No to what?
Number Eight: The entire plan. You joined the humans, you had a child. You showed us that we don't have to be slaves to our programming. We wanted the same thing, but it turned out to be a disaster. The Sixes have made one mistake after another. They have to be stopped before they get the rest of us killed.
Second Eight: Ask.
Number Eight: You could help us.
Athena: You want me to lead a mutiny against the Sixes.
Number Eight: It's the only way.
Athena: You guys make me sick.
Number Eight: Why?
Athena: Because you pick your side and you stick. You don't cut and run when things get ugly. Otherwise you'll never have anything. No love, no family. No life to call your own. Now you can guys can either help me or get the hell out of my way.

Roslin: But this god that Baltar refers to, it is the Cylon God. You know that, don't you?
Emily Kowalski: If he's the one and true God, he belongs to all of us. Otherwise, he's not much of a god, is he?
Roslin: Exactly. He isn't much of a God, he's a fantasy
Emily Kowalski: Oh, Laura. And the Lords of Kobol are real? Reigning from a metaphysical mountaintop in those silly outfits. Zeus handing out fates out of an urn like - like they were lottery tickets. "You're gonna work on a tylium ship. You're gonna be an admiral. You're family's gonna be evaporated in an attack on the Colonies, but you'll survive for three more years in a moldy compartment on a freighter till your body starts to eat itself up alive." Those are the gods that you worship? Capricious, vindictive.
Roslin: But they're not meant to be taken literally. They're metaphors, Emily.
Emily Kowalski: I don't need metaphors. I need answers.

(as a Number Eight is bleeding to death)
Natalie: It's as if she doesn't even see us anymore.
Anders: She's looking past us. I've seen that look many times, but never in the eyes of a Cylon.