Gina Inviere

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This article discusses a specific Cylon copy found on the battlestar Pegasus.

For information on other copies of this model, see Number Six.

Gina Inviere
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Introduced	Pegasus
Death	Suicide (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II)
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Role	Cylon infiltrator
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Portrayed by	Tricia Helfer
Gina Inviere is a Cylon
Gina Inviere is a Final Five Cylon
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Gina Inviere is an Original Series Cylon
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Gina Inviere in the separate continuity
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Gina Inviere^[1] is the alias ("inviere" is Old Gemenese for "resurrection") of a Number Six copy who poses as a systems analyst aboard the battlestar Pegasus.

Several months before the attack on the Twelve Colonies, while in the employment of Integral Systems Engineering, she presented the retrofit of Pegasus to the Ministry of Defense and worked out the details of the CNP upgrade with Admiral Cain. During that time, the two grew close and eventually started having a relationship. They try to be discreet in front of the crew, but don't make it a secret either.

Working alongside Kendra Shaw on Pegasus, Inviere manages to gain the officer's trust and use of her personal access codes.

Shortly after the attack on the Colonies, Inviere is instrumental in finding a Cylon communications relay. During the ensuing battle, she helps a boarding party of Centurions gain access to the ship, which leads to many casualties.

When Shaw encounters another Six, she realizes that Inviere is a Cylon and unmasks her in CIC. Before being knocked unconscious and taken into custody, Inviere kills two Marines but hesitates to kill Cain, suggesting her feelings for Cain were genuine.

With the destruction of mankind's homeworlds and Inviere's personal betrayal and manipulation fresh in mind, Admiral Cain quickly suppresses her feelings for Inviere, and no longer treats her as a human being, but a thing. She orders Lieutenant Thorne to interrogate Inviere and to employ "degradation, fear, [and] shame" while being as creative as he needs to be. Thorne employs whippings and gang rape in his torture sessions, but ultimately fails to gain any intelligence (Razor).

When Pegasus encounters Galactica and her Fleet, Inviere is examined by Dr. Gaius Baltar. He is heartbroken by her state, and resolves to help her in any way he can. He convinces Admiral Helena Cain to permit her to be fed, and recounts to Inviere a story of his love for her copy on Caprica, before the Cylon attack (Pegasus).

Inviere, speaking for the first time in many months, reveals her awareness of her true nature^[2] and her mission as a soldier. She begs Baltar to kill her and put an ultimate end to her suffering. When Baltar reminds her that she would just be resurrected in another Number Six body somewhere else, Inviere reveals to him that it won't happen if the unknown Cylon ship that Pegasus is tracking is destroyed.

She calls the vessel a Resurrection Ship, and that it was used to collect the consciousnesses of Cylons who die too far away from the Cylon homeworld and download them into new bodies. With no Resurrection Ship to download her consciousness, Inviere would truly die if she were killed (Resurrection Ship, Part I).

When she senses that the Resurrection Ship is destroyed, Inviere begs Baltar to kill her. She is incapable of killing herself, because within the Cylon religion, suicide is a sin. However, Baltar convinces Inviere that she should go on living and get "justice" for what happened to her. With Baltar's help, Inviere escapes from her cell, makes her way to Cain's quarters and shoots Cain with a pistol, killing her. She then somehow manages to escape Pegasus (Resurrection Ship, Part II).^[3]

As Laura Roslin finds herself on her death bed, Demand Peace — a movement seeking peace with the Cylons — summons Baltar to Cloud Nine. Here, Inviere assumes a leading role within the peace movement, her followers unaware of her Cylon nature. She disguises herself by means of glasses and a different hairstyle. Inviere attempts to convince Baltar that, upon assuming the presidency, he should go up against Adama -- and thus solidify the distrust of the military within the Fleet.

Because of the extreme sexual abuse she suffers on Pegasus, and atypical of her model, Inviere abhors intimate contact of any kind, as observed when she bites Baltar when he instinctively tries to kiss her. After Roslin recovers from her cancer -- thanks to Baltar's perceived unappreciated efforts -- Inviere is given the nuclear warhead earmarked for Baltar's research as part of his Cylon detector (Epiphanies).

Following Baltar's election as president of the Twelve Colonies, he visits Inviere once more aboard Cloud Nine, attempting to explain to her that because of his new duties he'd be unable to see as much of her as they'd like. After he remarks that he'd make what time he could on New Caprica, she tells him that she wouldn't be leaving the ship to join the new colony. Angry, Baltar attempts to leave the room, but Inviere simply says "stay," while proceeding to undress, choking back her physical aversion in a desperate attempt to make him stay with her. They share an intimate interlude.

While Baltar is being sworn in as president, Inviere sits naked on the floor of her room in front of the nuclear warhead. The timer running, The Cylon once known as Gina Inviere cries softly as the device detonates, blowing up herself, Cloud Nine and several ships in the vicinity. One year later, the radiation signature from this explosion leads the Cylons to New Caprica, beginning an occupation of the planet (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II).

With the Resurrection Ship destroyed, the death of Inviere is presumed final.^[4]

Notes

• Gina is a reference to some fans' derisive nickname for the Re-imagined Series, GINO meaning "Galactica In Name Only". This itself is an allusion to RINO and DINO, both derogatory political terms used in the United States.^[5]
• In real life, "înviere" is Romanian for "resurrection."^[6]
• Gina has darker hair than the other Number Six copies before "Torn". It is unknown whether she has naturally white hair which she dyes honey-blonde (another part of her disguise), or other Sixes have naturally honey-blonde hair which they dye white. When Caprica-Six is reborn (Downloaded) her hair is white. In "Torn", a Six with even darker, raven-black, hair appears.^[7]
• Gina was supposed to appear in a subplot in "Downloaded" in which she conspires with D'Anna Biers to kidnap Hera. However, the episode ran long and all of the scenes involving the scheme were cut.
• After escaping from the Pegasus and joining the Demand Peace movement, Gina takes to wearing spectacles. It's unclear as to whether the Cylon legitimately needs to wear glasses (suggesting Cylons can have bad eyesight just like humans, or perhaps an after-effect of her torture), or if this is part of a disguise as her model of Cylon is one of those known by the humans.

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