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Number Six is a gynoid Cylon agent portrayed by Canadian actress Tricia Helfer in the television remake of Battlestar Galactica
which first aired as a miniseries in 2003 and continued as a weekly series aired in the United Kingdom in the autumn of 2004 and in North America in early 2005.

Number Six

Number Six is a seductive, blonde, statuesque Cylon infiltrator. She represents a new sequence ("six of twelve") of Cylons capable of adapting to human form and emotions. Little else is known of her earlier years.

In the beginning of the miniseries, we see her having an intense sexual affair with Dr. Gaius Baltar. Pretending to be an employee of a rival computer corporation, Number Six has Baltar slip her computer secrets from his defense work. Number Six then revealed to Baltar that she was really a Cylon, and that the Cylons will use the computer secrets that he has given her to infiltrate the Colonial defense systems, disable the Colonial military and attack the Twelve Worlds. That day, the Cylons launched their attack and destroyed most of humanity. In a twist of events, Baltar was later voted in as Laura Roslin's Vice President. In a further twist of events, Roslin may know that Baltar knew Number Six prior to the Cylon attack.

Six constantly remains in the memory of Dr. Baltar appearing as a real to him, yet invisible to everyone else. She suggested the reasons behind this were possibly a computer chip implant or insanity over his guilt. When Baltar underwent a "brain scan" (which appeared similar to an MRI), it revealed no sign of a computer chip or any other foreign object in his brain. While this briefly led Baltar to think that he had truly gone insane, he then realized that the visions of Number Six he sees could not possibly be a hallucination generated by his subconscious mind, because she was aware of facts that his own mind could not possibly know. For example, Number Six told Baltar that the first Human/Cylon Hybrid would be born in the ship's brig, and soon after the Caprican version of the Cylon Sharon Valerii (pregnant with the human Karl Agathon's child) was imprisoned in it. When Baltar confronted Six with this, she admited that she was neither a computer chip nor a hallucination produced by mental instability. When Baltar then asked just who or what she was, she simply replied that she was "an angel of God sent here to protect you".

In one episode entitled "Six Degrees of Separation", a copy of Number Six appears as "Miss Shelly Godfrey" and is visible to everyone.

Number Six can, like other of the new twelve models of cylons, retain memories and be downloaded into another body if the original body is damaged. Like her counterparts, her body was designed to mimic the human body at cellular level making them almost undetectable to testing procedures. Instances of Number Six have expressed sympathy and regret over the destruction of the colonies, and have also claimed to be in love with Baltar; it is not known as yet, however, if these feelings are genuine, subterfuge, or if they are simply a case of her programming mimicking human behavior. Her intentions and loyalties are also unclear. She has vastly helped humans by pointing out a Cylon bomb to Baltar on Galactica and helped him build a cylon detector, yet she also expresses enjoyment over what she considers the inevitable extinction of the human race.

Number Six often appears suddenly, without warning; usually only Baltar is aware of her presence. She advises and gives instructions to him; occasionally he is also "pulled" into a world within his mind where he interacts with her. In this, Number Six resembles the character of Harvey from Farscape (who in turn was based on the "imaginary" character from the Jimmy Stewart film Harvey
).

When she interacts with him in the real world, Baltar can be physically affected by them - for example, in one episode an unusually violent Number Six throws Baltar into a bulkhead and grabs him by the throat and passersby see his physical reaction to this. This has created numerous awkward moments for Baltar on occasions when the illusory Number Six decides to do something sexual with him or when he is talking with her, yet no one else can see her.

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