"She asked him why do humans deserve to live."
A. Your post#129 makes some excellent points. Just wanted to give you a nod for that.
B. But in regards to statement above made by Boomer, I'm starting to think the humans do NOT deserve it. Why? Because, after the destruction of their homeworld and the deaths of billions of Capricans, these fools STILL aren't on 24/7 Battle Alert and STILL allowed Cylon Blonde to escape last week. They still 'have issues' with obtaining data from captured Cylons thru torture. "Noone noticed any shuttles being launched", some lackey said last week at end of show after Cain was wasted.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
(don't get me wrong - I'm a big BG fan!)
I think this is the premise of the whole series. Do humans deserve to survive? Is humanity deserving of redemption? It's almost as if humanity is facing a test for redemption, not just physical survival. Look at it this way. When people take the 'ends justify the means approach,' bad things happen to them. Cain killed by a cyclon is one example. Look at Crash's death on Kobol. He was going put people at risk that didn't need to be put at risk and he died. Even in the most hopeless situations, when people are put first, the door to further survival was opened.
I don't agree that the escape of the cylon was not feasible. Look at how another #6 appeared then dissappeared in one episode and that was on the Galactica. The other male cylon that was captured was found hiding in a locker. These things think like machines. They are very good at hiding for days or weeks in places no human would go. There is no true discomfort for them. That female cyclon may never have left the Pegasus. She may have hid and bid her time. Or she could have gotten into the computer systems to hide her flight passage.
The first episode 33 did have the fleet on battle alert constantly. The 250 some odd Cyclon attacks cycled every 33 minutes shows this. That 130 hours without rest or break for the entire fleet. There is no way that a COndition 1 could be maintained indefinitely. Even if it was, the cyclons seem to know how to evade the high security conditions. That's why they are more insidious than in the 70's version.
Given Baltar's promise to her of a place to hide, she probably escaped with his help.