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Messenger Six first appears to Gaius Baltar as he escapes Caprica on Sharon Valerii's Raptor during the Fall of the Twelve Colonies (TRS: "Miniseries, Night 1").
Baltar initially believes that Messenger Six is a hallucination in its first few weeks of appearances (TRS: "Miniseries, Night 1" and "33"), but later believes the Messenger's initial suggestion that she is generated from a Cylon cybernetic implant. He disproves this notion when Doctor Sherman Cottle performs an MRI scan, showing no abnormalities (TRS: "Home, Part II").
Messenger Six demonstrates awareness of events, people and places that Baltar does not appear to know consciously. She tells him of a Cylon transponder hidden in Galactica's CIC (TRS: "Miniseries, Night 2"), and appears to aid him in his conversion from atheism to Cylon monotheism through guiding him in how to destroy a Cylon tylium refinery (TRS: "The Hand of God"). The source for Messenger Six's data is initially unclear, but is later assumed to be through an act of divinity.
Baltar's visions of Six not only have the Cylon appearing with him on Galactica, but the two also envision themselves in Baltar's now-destroyed home, on the beach, and other locales. Messenger Six seems to be able to force Baltar to see additional items in his environment, such as the human skulls on Kobol, as well as visions of the interior of the ancient Opera House and an image of what Messenger Six believes to be a Cylon-human hybrid child. When an actual child does appear in the Fleet, the Messenger Six claims it is her vision fulfilled. Baltar is convinced by this that she cannot be a hallucination, but Cottle's scan appears to have ruled out the possibility that she is an implant. He asks her who or what she is, and she replies that she is an angel (TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II," "Valley of Darkness," "Home, Part II").
Over time, Baltar is seen by some characters speaking to himself, which is often the case when he is speaking to Messenger Six. In several instances, Messenger Six appears to Baltar to be a physical entity, grabbing him by his clothes or body, or assisting him with objects ([[TRS: "Six Degrees of Separation," "Taking A Break From All Your Worries"). She has even demonstrated an ability to physically interact with Baltar. On one occasion, she pushed him into a bulkhead and grabbed him by the throat. In another example, she lifted him into a standing position after he was beaten by a Galactica marine (TRS: "Escape Velocity"). In both cases, this provoked reactions from other people. Further, she appears to satisfy Baltar's sexual urges, leading to awkward situations where he is seen masturbating (TRS: "Colonial Day").
The Messenger Six has been present when Caprica-Six is near only twice. She is also conspicuously absent during Shelly Godfrey's tenure on Galactica (TRS: "Six Degrees of Separation"). The Messenger Six seems to, for the most part, vanish during the period when Caprica-Six and Baltar renew their relationship on New Caprica. When Baltar is aboard a Cylon basestar, Caprica-Six explains the projection process to him while the Messenger Six hints that this process is very similar to how she and Baltar communicate and that Baltar may himself be a Cylon (TRS: "Torn"). Messenger Six also appears to Baltar, when he discovers Hera under Maya's dead body and disappears when Caprica-Six comes near Baltar and the baby (TRS: "Exodus, Part II").
Messenger Six has a musical theme, a simple 9-note motif with a staccato xylophone and some violins, which plays behind almost all her appearances. This theme also plays without Six present in "Rapture" after D'Anna Biers collapses in Baltar's arms after her vision of the Final Five, until Baltar is pistol-whipped by Galen Tyrol.
From the end of Season 2 on, Messenger Six claims more often to be an angel from God.
Ultimately, Messenger Six is revealed to be a very real being—not a projection of something inside Baltar's mind—sent by another being that may be God. Both her and Messenger Baltar appear to both Caprica-Six and Baltar during the Battle of The Colony; Baltar and Caprica-Six are each shocked that the other can see them. On Earth, Messenger Six, along with Messenger Baltar, reveals to Caprica and Baltar that their destiny had always been to protect Hera, who was the future of both races. They leave, saying that while God's plan is never finished, the two mortals' lives will be much less "exciting" from now on.
One-hundred fifty thousand years later, Messenger Six is with Messenger Baltar in New York City, looking over the shoulder of a man reading a National Geographic magazine article about the remains of Mitochondrial Eve—the current population's latest common evolutionary ancestor, Hera Agathon. The two discuss how all of this has happened before, and whether all of this will happen again. Messenger Six believes things will go differently this time. Messenger Baltar chides her when she refers to God, saying, "You know it doesn't like that name." The two then walk off into the teeming crowds of New York City (TRS: "Daybreak, Part II").
- As with the other Sixes in the series, Messenger Six is portrayed by Tricia Helfer.