I'll follow this Angel of Death anywhere

Wow. Razor. Wow. I'm dazed. And kind of upset.

So, BSG: Razor is kind of the story of Lt./Capt./Maj. Kendra Shaw of the Battlestar Pegasus. She served under Admiral Cain after the Cylon attack. Upon Cdr. (Lee) Adama's assuming command of Pegasus, he appoints Kendra as his XO. During a mission to recover a missing Galactica raptor crew from some obsolete model Cylons, Kendra repeatedly flashes back to her first days aboard Pegasus after the Cylon attack.

The other related plot going on deals with the webisodes and the idea of the hybrid introduced in Season 3. In the webisodes, Husker (now Adm. Adama) crash lands on a planet where the Cylons were experimenting on humans to create their humanoid versions. In Razor, he flashes back to this after Pegasus gets into a dogfight with old school Cylon raiders and Sharon (not yet Athena) shares the Cylon record of the hybrid guarded by antiquated models.

The culmination is that Pegasus sends a team, which includes Kendra and Starbuck, to rescue the missing crew and set a nuke on the Cylon basestar. Kendra ultimately sacrifices herself to complete the mission and nuke the basestar and to make amends for the sins she committed under Cain's orders (shooting civilians to threaten them into compliance). Just before blowing up the basestar the hybrid tells her that Kara Thrace is the "angel of death" of the human race and that if they follow her, they'll die. Then he repeats his "This has all happened before and it will happen again" mantra.

So, awesome (sarcasm). I'm kind of upset that we really have to be calling Kara out like this. I guess maybe this makes sense though. If there weren't incredibly strong forces working directly against her then she'd save them all immediately and there'd be no more show. All of this evidence stacking up against her, though, does seem to make a really strong case against her being the final Cylon. Either that or they're making it really, really obvious as some sort of misdirection, and she really is the last one. I'm still kind of leaning towards the idea that everyone is though.

On other notes, it always feels weird when little people are trying to order Starbuck around. It's even weirder when she listens to them. And Kendra Shaw was certainly a little bitty woman. But it was nice to see Lee and Kara getting along without all the married-to-other-people-angst. I miss that. Also, Adama's line about not thinking it was possible to find an XO meaner than Saul Tigh was probably the funniest thing ever said on that show.