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==Laying the Foundation for Season 4==
Although the plot elements of ''Razor'' not told through flashbacks fit between "The Captain's Hand" and "Downloaded," numerous references in the episode foreshadow events that unfold in Season 3. During a flashback to Admiral Cain's speech aboard Pegasus, a Tyrol clone wearing a marine uniform is shown; Chief Galen Tyrol was revealed as a Cylon at the end of the episode
The bulk of the references to events in Season 3 are given by a Cylon hybrid aboard an obsolete base star, who utters more coherent statements than the models aboard modern base stars:
"[F]our, glorious in awakening" refers to the revelation of Colonel Saul Tigh, Roslin's aid Torrey Foster, resistance fighter Samuel Anders, and as mentioned before Chief Galen Tyrol as humanoid Cylons. "[T]he seven, now six" refers to the Cylon models known by the beginning of Season 3, who oversaw the destruction of the twelve colonies and the occupation of New Caprica. One entire line of these seven models, Number 3 (Lucy Lawless, known as the D'Anna Biers Cylon) was deactivated because the other six concluded she was dysfunctional. On New Caprica, one of the seven (a Number 5, known as the Aaron Doral Cylon) chastises another, Caprica (a Number 6), for commiting the first act of Cylon-on-Cylon violence in history, demonstrating that the seven models believed themselves without sin. The "promised land" is presumably a reference to Earth.
The most significant revelation of ''Razor'' also comes from the hybrid: "They must not follow Kara Thrace. She will lead the human race to its end. She is the hearld of the apocalypse, the harbinger of death." This dramatically impinges on Kara "Starbuck" Thrace's message that she had found Earth at the end of the episode Crossroads.
==Differences Between DVD and Broadcast Version==
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