Lee Adama is Still the Final Cylon

I'm not really feeling a long detailed post right now, so I'll try to make this short and sweet.

From the Razor hybrid: "And the fifth, still in shadow, will claw toward the light, hungering for redemption that will only come in the howl of terrible suffering."

What does it mean when a person is described as being in shadow? Often it means hidden, but if the fifth were hidden, is he clawing towards the light. or, in this case, being revealed? No, in this case in shadow means in one's father's shadow. And if there is one character who is in someone's shadow, its Lee. After all, if I titled this post "Adama is the Final Cylon" you would think I meant Bill.

So, how is Lee clawing toward the light? Well, all season long he's been pursuing a political career, and managed to find himself as temporary president of the colonies. No doubt he's looking for a way to step out of his father's shadow, clawing for the light.

And in the howl of terrible suffering? In the beginning of Revelations, Kara said to Lee: "You know, Leoben said something to me when he was holding me in that dollhouse on New Caprica - that children are born to replace their parents. For Children to reach their full potential, their parents have to die."

The reason Lee doesn't know he's the Final Cylon yet is that he's not - he can't become the Final Cylon until Bill dies. The parents of the other four are all dead, but Lee's father lives, and Lee can't reach his full potential until his father dies. That will be the howl of terrible suffering.

That also explains D'Anna's insistence that only four were in the fleet. Lee didn't know he was one of the final five and, therefore, wasn't one of the final five - at least as far as D'Anna cared. Her goal was to get the final Cylons to join the baseship of their own free will. Lee would never have done so until he knew he was a Cylon, the same as the other four.

As for YouWillKnowTheTruth - I was going to do a big run-down of all the clues, but, like I said above, I'm not entirely feeling it, so I'll do a quick overview.

Several clues eliminate possible people from consideration - e.g., 3 (Starbuck), 7 (Roslyn), 25 (Hotdog). Others demonstrate upcoming plotlines - most specifically, Gaeta is going to go off on some sort of anti-Cylon crusade, as presaged by the end of Face of the Enemy. At the end of Face of the Enemy Gaeta is going off to talk to Baltar. Their conversation is hint #10. The "secret" that Balter refers to with Gaeta many times over is the 8 from New Caprica and Face of the Enemy. Hints 15, 24, and 26 also go to this plot line.

However, the key hint is number 11. In the background at several times the final five music can be heard playing, at at the end 12 bells chime. The crowd noise is from the press conference in hint number 4. The voice at the beginning is Tom Zarek, who we know from hint number 4 is on Caprica One. The person there along with them is Lee.