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* [[Paul Becker]], dancer, choreographer, and stunt performer who choreographed and portrayed a dancer in the [[Caprica (pilot)|''Caprica'' pilot]].
|subtab1_1=Paul Coufos
* [[Paul Burton]], set dresser for the Re-imagined Series.
|subtab1_2=Paul Fix
* [[Paul Campbell]], actor who portrayed [[Billy Keikeya]] in the [[Re-imagined Series]].
|subtab1_3=Paul LeClair
* [[Paul Cummings]], actor who portrayed the [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot, [[Fireball]], in the Re-imagined Series.
|subtab1_4=Paul Playdon
* [[Paul Coufos]], background actor in the [[Original Series]].
|subtab1_5=Paul Tinder
* [[Paul Fix]], actor who portrayed Commander [[Kronus]] in the [[Original Series]].
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* [[Paul Koslo]], actor who portrayed [[Billy Eheres]] in ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.
|subtab2_1=Paul Koslo
* [[Paul LeClair]], actor who portrayed various guards and crewmembers in the Original Series.
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* [[Paul M. Leonard]], co-producer of the Re-imagined Series.
|subtab3_1=Paul Burton
* [[Paul Perri]], actor who portrayed [[Royan Jahee]] in the Re-imagined Series.
|subtab3_2=Paul Campbell
* [[Paul Playdon]], writer of the episode "[[The Young Lords]]."
|subtab3_3=Paul Cummings
* [[Paul Tinder]], actor who portrayed a guard in "[[Baltar's Escape]]."
|subtab3_4=Paul M. Leonard
* [[Saul Tigh]], ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'''s executive officer who was previously named "Paul" in earlier drafts of the [[Miniseries]] before the name was changed to "Saul."
|subtab3_5=Paul Perri
|subtab3_6=Saul Tigh
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Paul Playdon (January 14, 1943―May 12,2023) was a British-American television writer and producer who contributed to the Original Series by co-writing the episode "The Young Lords."
Born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, Playdon enjoyed a career spanning several decades in American television, working on numerous prominent series in the spy, science fiction, and action genres.[external 1]
Transitioning from acting to writing, Playdon established himself as a television writer-producer during the 1960s and 1970s.[external 4] The British-born writer, just in his mid-twenties, had worked on the last season of Combat! and was freelancing when opportunity knocked.[commentary 1] He served as story editor for Garrison's Gorillas from 1967 to 1968.[external 5]
Playdon's most significant television work came on the original Mission: Impossible series. In summer 1968, interim producer Robert E. Thompson was desperately interviewing writers after the sudden departure of producers William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter following their dispute with creator Bruce Geller.[commentary 2] The day before Thompson left the show, he found the writer Mission needed: from Playdon's outline for what would become episode 62, "The Mind of Stefan Miklos," it was obvious that Playdon was perfect for the series.[commentary 3]
By the time Playdon completed his first draft, Mission had a new producer: Stanley Kallis, who immediately made Playdon script consultant.[commentary 4] Playdon recalled the sudden promotion: "It was really a surprise when Stan said, 'I'd like you to come on the show—tomorrow.' I did, and the next day I had to start writing the next script. They had nothing. The shelf was completely bare."[commentary 5]
The situation Kallis and Playdon walked into that summer of 1968 was dire. Mission was peaking in the Nielsen top ten, but behind the scenes the show had a new producer, new head writer, and for a time no executive producer, as Bruce Geller flew to Hawaii.[commentary 6] To Playdon fell the burden of producing the season's scripts and rewriting incoming material. He worked at a prodigious pace, writing twelve to fifteen pages a day with no time for story outlines, turning out a script a week until he collapsed from exhaustion in his office one late evening.[commentary 7] During these frantic weeks, Playdon contributed the series' most intellectually brilliant and densely plotted episodes, notably "The Mind of Stefan Miklos" and "Live Bait," which he heavily rewrote.[commentary 8]
Playdon became one of the series' most prolific and skilled writers, recognized alongside Laurence Heath and the team of Allan Balter and William Read Woodfield for delivering the show's most intricately plotted scripts.[commentary 9] According to producer Stanley Kallis, Playdon was a dependable and talented writer whose scripts were consistently among the best work on any series he contributed to, though Kallis also noted that Playdon occasionally clashed with fellow writer Laurence Heath over script rewrites.[commentary 10] Kallis believed Playdon could have joined Len Deighton and John le Carré as masters of the spy form, stating that Playdon was a very original writer who never approached Mission as a formula.[commentary 11]
Playdon explained the challenge of writing for Mission: Impossible: "Getting through the first script was the hardest part, as hard as what Bruce had to do for the pilot. It wasn't just a case of working out different characters—he was establishing a very ritualistic pattern which would have to be continued in each show and became trademarks and catchphrases."[commentary 12] He specialized in developing prolonged suspense scenes, explaining that the show worked best when the team had only four or five hours to complete their mission, with the clock set at the beginning packing the scripts with energy and tension.[commentary 13]
The workload was relentless. For the remainder of the season, eighteen-hour production meetings and impromptu hallway gatherings were normal, with Playdon sometimes writing scripts during the meetings themselves.[commentary 14]
Playdon served as script consultant for Year Four (1969-1970), working alongside producer Stanley Kallis and associate producer Barry Crane.[commentary 15] After his eighteen-month trial by fire, Playdon finally lost his grip on the series while writing episode 90, "Time Bomb," which greatly disappointed him and led him to feel he'd completely lost touch with what Mission was all about.[commentary 16]
Reflecting on his departure, Playdon explained: "At the time I was twenty-six, so there had been quite a catapult in my own personal career. I was being approached to write pilots, and to have people court you that way when you're that young is a little seductive, but it was also an opportunity I wanted. The education that I acquired in that year and a half on Mission would have been a ten-year education anywhere else."[commentary 17] His only regret was his hasty departure before the season concluded, though he philosophically noted that "everyone who left that show left very suddenly."[commentary 18]
In 1974, Playdon became the original producer of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, the supernatural investigation series starring Darren McGavin as reporter Carl Kolchak.[production 1] However, Playdon left the series after only two episodes due to disagreements with McGavin, who served as executive producer.[production 2] He was replaced by Cy Chermak, who had previously served as executive producer and producer on Ironside.[production 3]
Playdon served as executive producer on The Magician, starring Bill Bixby as stage illusionist Anthony Blake who used his talents to help people in trouble.[commentary 19] The series reunited much of the creative team from Mission: Impossible, including producer Bruce Lansbury and writer Laurence Heath, who wrote the pilot.[commentary 20] Despite being Playdon's first producing assignment, having previously worked exclusively as a writer on Mission: Impossible, the series faced significant challenges.[commentary 21]
The production was hampered by a Writers Guild strike in spring 1973 that eliminated crucial preparation time before the series premiered in October.[commentary 22] Writer Larry Brody, who joined the show during a staff shake-up, recalled that Playdon's approach was to emphasize fantastical villains rather than reality, though communication issues between the star and production staff hindered the series' potential.[commentary 23] Despite these challenges and lasting only one season, The Magician would later be referenced by The X-Files creator Chris Carter as an influence and was worked into the origin story of FBI agent Fox Mulder.[external 7]
Playdon retained his executive producer credit but was removed from active involvement after twelve episodes, although the show itself was cancelled after its first season.[commentary 24]
Playdon relocated from the United Kingdom to the United States, where he built his television career.[external 11] During his teenage years, he lived in Glendale, California.[external 12]
Paul Playdon died on May 12, 2023, in Silicon Beach, Los Angeles, California, at the age of 80.[external 13] His death was announced by friend Danny Biederman in a Facebook post.[external 14]
Before pursuing acting, Paul Tinder worked as a salesperson, pilot, and a model. He reportedly entered the acting profession after accidentally sending a modeling headshot to an acting agent[1].
Tinder pursued an acting career that included work in New York, where he met his future wife, Vaughn Taylor, while filming a show[1]. He starred in over 450 episodes of television and numerous feature films[2], with credited appearances in The A-Team, The Bionic Woman and Magnum, P.I. He and Vaughn Taylor were part of the small percentage of SAG-AFTRA members who made their living from acting, collectively featuring in hundreds of TV show episodes and commercials and producing two films[1].
During his career, Tinder was mentored by director Garry Marshall[2][1] and taught by famed acting coach Warren Robertson[1], among others. He noted that Marshall's auditions for film and television were full frame, wanting to see actors "fill the air," emphasizing physical as well as emotional and verbal truth[2].
Paul Tinder and Vaughn Taylor-Tinder, described as former Angelenos[2], transitioned to teaching acting[1]. They brought their style of specialized, intensive training for theater, film, and television to San Antonio, Texas[2]. They decided to share the expertise and challenging techniques they learned from their own teachers in New York and Hollywood[1].
They co-founded Performing Arts San Antonio (PASA) in 2009 and opened its doors with a tribute show on New Year's Eve 2010. PASA initially focused on educational programs, starting with summer camps using rented spaces. Their training method is characterized as different from typical community, regional, or educational theater, being more akin to an immersive college BFA program. The goal of PASA's training was to help students become competitive in major markets like New York and Los Angeles. PASA trained individuals from age 10 to adult, offering intensive classes designed to challenge actors to deeply fulfill a character based on relationship and experience, rather than just playing the story. They brought their extensive experience from their acting careers to their teaching and directing. Over 2,000 students passed through PASA's programs, with students cast in MTV series and web series[2].
While well-known for its training, PASA also staged productions using open casting, which was initially a struggle for acceptance as a producing entity in San Antonio. PASA was located centrally to pull from a large geographic area, choosing the under-served north side over downtown San Antonio[2]. The theater space was set up bistro-style with tables, allowing for intimacy and immersive moments where the fourth wall could be broken. Notable productions included the U.S. premiere of Wicket: A Star Wars Parody Musical in March 2019[3]. PASA collaborated with the creators to develop Wicket further than its initial workshop[3]. PASA also started programs like "Assorted Nuts" and "Kindermusic" for younger students[2]. PASA garnered several Alamo Theatre Arts Council awards during its operation[1].
Following the closure of PASA, Paul Tinder and Vaughn Taylor continued hosting acting classes and camps. They subsequently moved to Spring, Texas, to be near their daughters[1].
The couple establish their teaching classes to The Woodlands area through their new venture, Be Scene Acting, focusing on training for television and film performances using a curriculum emphasizing emotional connection, responsiveness, and organic character development. They aim to provide actors with the tools needed to compete with Hollywood-trained actors now working in Texas and offer real-world advice on navigating the industry, such as joining unions and avoiding uncredited extra work. They also continue to host weekend camps and online classes for students in San Antonio[1].
Paul Koslo (born Manfred Koslowski; June 27, 1944 – January 9, 2019) was a German-born Canadian character actor who portrayed Billy Eheres in the Galactica 1980 episode "Spaceball".
According to interviews, Koslo could still remember American Sherman tanks rolling down the street, and waiting for American soldiers to throw out Hershey's Chocolate and Wrigley's bubble gum to the local children during the occupation.[commentary 1] It was in Germany where he first learned of cowboys and Indians from the GIs, his first real taste of anything related to film.[commentary 2]
No more than a year after he arrived in Canada, Koslo saw his first film, a Tarzan movie. Ever since, he wanted to be an actor.[commentary 3] His family later moved to British Columbia, where he got a part-time job working for his brother-in-law. He described himself at the time as being somewhat of a rebel. In high school, he would cheat in track races,[commentary 4] and he and his friends would lock series of combination locks together in the locker room.[commentary 5] As a teenager, he was drafted by the Canadian Mounties to fight a forest fire, from which he made quite a lot of money. He used the money to hitchhike across North America twice.[commentary 6]
Koslo auditioned for the National Film School in Montreal and was accepted, but was kicked out a year later.[commentary 7] However, as luck would have it, he was asked to do an audition for PBS's Crime and Punishment by an executive who saw him while he was walking through the CBC parking lot.[commentary 8] An acting agency took notice, and from there the acting jobs came easier, leading him to California.[commentary 8]
Koslo's acting debut was in a little-known 1966 movie called Little White Crimes (also known as Flux), and he was also doing an off-Broadway production of Hair in New York, which ran for four months.[external 2][commentary 8] He first broke into films at age 22, and then appeared in a rush of movies taking advantage of his youthful looks.[external 1]
Koslo started his career in cult films of the early 1970s, including Nam's Angels (also known as The Losers, which was later referenced in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction), Vanishing Point (1971), and The Stone Killer (1973).[external 3]
His most notable early role was opposite Charlton Heston in the science fiction film The Omega Man (1971), where he played Dutch in an unusually sympathetic co-starring role.[external 2] During the filming of a dramatic rescue scene in Dodger Stadium, Koslo accidentally hit Heston in the head with one of his character's pearl-handled pistols, breaking the skin and causing the star to bleed.[commentary 9] Heston was stunned and shocked at first, but later was gracious about the accident.[commentary 9]
In rare, in-depth interviews with both Psychotronic Video magazine and Shock Cinema (issue No. 14), Koslo spoke candidly about his experiences working in several films with Charles Bronson and in The Omega Man with Heston.[external 4]
In the Highway to Heaven episode "The Torch," he played a leader of the American Nazi Party. Koslo found it difficult to deliver his character's often bigotry-riddled dialogue, and during the filming of a scene set at a Nazi rally, the cast and crew were heckled by passers-by, since the scene was filmed on location in downtown Los Angeles with swastikas decorating the outside of a building.[external 4] He also appeared as Jesse James in The Dukes of Hazzard seventh-season episode "Go West, Young Dukes."[external 4]
Koslo appeared in the Stargate SG-1 fourth season episode "The Serpent's Venom" as the Goa'uld torture master Terok, who worked in service of the System Lord Heru'ur.[commentary 10]
Unfortunately, most of Koslo's film work in the 1990s and beyond was direct-to-video fare, such as Chained Heat 2 (1993), Robot Jox (1989), and Inferno (1999).[external 1] His latest producing credit was the 2015 JFK documentary A Coup in Camelot.[external 1]
Koslo was a founding member of the MET Theatre in Hollywood since 1974.[external 1] He met his wife, Allaire Paterson, at the MET Theatre when he produced a one-woman show called Purple Breasts, a critically acclaimed play she co-wrote and starred in.[external 1] They married on January 4, 1997, and had one daughter together, Chloe.[external 1]
Koslo was the owner of the historic Rock Inn (also known as Red Rock Inn) in Lake Hughes, California, which he purchased in 1975 but leased out in 1995.[commentary 11] He lived in the Lake Hughes area north of Los Angeles.[external 1]
Paul Koslo died on January 9, 2019, from pancreatic cancer at his home in Lake Hughes, California, surrounded by his family.[external 3] He was 74 years old. He is survived by his wife Allaire, daughter Chloe, sister Karin, brother Georg, and extended family.[external 3]
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Born in Vancouver and raised in nearby White Rock, Campbell spent most of his younger life wanting to be a carpenter, most likely due to the influences of his handy father and grandfather. And, despite a lingering love of acting fostered by performing in a high-school play, Campbell eventually did become a carpenter, framing houses for four years. But "after one too many wood splinters," he enrolled in the Capilano College theater program.
During one of his last performances at the college, a small role in a production of Cinderella, Campbell was spotted and later signed on by a Vancouver talent manager. He has since been featured in several TV projects, including The Dead Zone for USA Network, John Doe, Black Sash and Andromeda (recurring as Lt. Bowlus). His films include The Perfect Score and a lead role in the recently wrapped Canadian independent feature Ill-Fated.
Campbell described his character, Billy Keikeya, as a "very compassionate person and... a real back-of-the-room-type of character that no one pays any attention to, even though he is really paying close attention to everything that’s going on."[Book 1]
Having never seen the Original Series, Campbell was advised by producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick to watch The West Wing as research for the role.[Book 2] He viewed the relationship between Billy and Laura Roslin as a complex one, "like a mother/son relationship in some ways, but it’s also a really close friendship, so Billy’s both the son and the confidant."[Book 3] Regarding Billy's romance with Anastasia Dualla, Campbell noted that "Billy is very attracted to Dualla... But Billy is also incredibly insecure and has no history of relationships with females, and that makes it more difficult for them."[Book 4]
In an April 2006 interview, Campbell spoke about his departure from the series:
"It was kind of my choice in a way. I was kind of given an ultimatum eventually because in between the end of season one and the beginning of season two I had actually gone to LA and booked a pilot. Because Battlestar production didn’t have me under contract, I was free to go and do that. And it was their loss if the show got picked up and I wasn’t able to come back for season two. I think that was a problem they had with a few of the cast members, that everyone was a free agent after season 1, and I think that scared them a little bit. They could have potentially lost half their cast after season 1, and I think after that, they pretty much ended up signing everyone to a contract. But I’d already been cast in another show and decided to go off on my own and see if it worked. As it turned out it didn’t work, and I ended up having a two episode hiatus after episode 4. I was gone for 5 and 6, then came back for Home Pt. 1, I think it was. Or Home Pt 2, I came back for. So after that kind of gave me the ultimatum and said sign a contract for 5 years, or we kind of need to go our separate ways. And I kind of put it off and put it off, then eventually they just said “Look, we can tell your (sic) not really committed to the show, and we can’t write story lines. So we’ve decided to kill the character. It wasn’t really a surprise, but I wasn’t expecting it to happen when it did. But I certainly wasn’t surprised that they had to do that." [1]
He first began work on the Miniseries, being hired on as an Associate Producer to complete the Miniseries due to the original AP having been overwhelmed by the number of visual effects. For the next 10 months of post-production, Leonard prepped that installment for delivery.[1]
Once the show went to series, Leonard returned as an associate producer on Season 1, then was later promoted to co-producer beginning in Season 2 and throughout the run of the series.
Prior to that, Leonard worked with David Eick on The Invisible Man as an associate producer, and worked on the genre series Sliders as a post-production supervisor.
Perri's filmography has spanned many roles that usually involve being a foil for a central character or premise in a TV episode. From comedies to science-fiction and dramas, Perri has had minor roles in several popular shows, including:
1. Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit) 2. suffocated by Number One, c. 32 BCH (resurrected with false memories) 3. Eventually died after 4 ACH settlement on New Earth
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Non-biologically: Considered a "father" of the eight humanoid Cylon models; Biologically: Liam Tigh† (miscarried at four months) with Caprica-Six
A tough but troubled man with a long history of alcoholism, Tigh has false memories of having served in the Colonial Fleet since his teenage years, seeing action in the First Cylon War. He is married to Ellen Tigh, whose death was incorrectly (though logically) presumed to have been permanent. Believing himself to be a widower, he entered a sexual relationship with Caprica-Six, with whom he sired a miscarried child named Liam Tigh.
Upon reaching the Ionian nebula, he and three othersbecame aware of their nature as Cylons. Since then, he has sporadically regained memories and knowledge of his prior life.
Saul Tigh lived on the original Earth two millennia prior to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Like all humanoids on that planet, he was a Cylon: a member of the Thirteenth Tribe. There, he was one of five scientists researching "organic memory transfer," a technology which had originated on Kobol, but fell out of use on Earth once the Thirteenth Tribe Cylons started to procreate sexually. His wife Ellen was the most gifted of the five scientists. When nuclear armageddon came, Saul found himself in the lobby of his apartment building. Hearing a voice crying out, "Saul!" from the floor in front of the tenants' post boxes, he finds his wife trapped under debris he cannot move. He pulls the lighter debris from around her, as more bombs detonate. Moments before they die, she tells him, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn... again. Together." (TRS: "Sometimes a Great Notion" and "No Exit")
The organic memory transfer they were researching was resurrection technology, the same technology their ancestors brought from Kobol. When killed by the explosions, Saul and the other four downloaded into new bodies aboard a ship they had placed in orbit. Knowing that humanity would continue to create artificial life, they made their way the Twelve Colonies to warn them about the the need to treat their creations with kindness in order to prevent a rebellion and inter-species war. Lacking faster-than-light capability, the five travelled at relativistic speeds. From the planetary perspective, their journey took approximately two thousand years.
Saul and the other four found their fears were justified. Upon their arrival, the first Cylon War was already in progress between humans and the Colonial Cylon Centurions. Saul and the others made a deal with the Centurions: end the war against the humans, and the Five would help them build humanoid Cylons. They ultimately made eight models for the Centurions, and their technology was stored in The Colony. The favoritism which Number One perceived Saul's wife, Ellen, displayed toward Number Seven drove Number One into a jealous rage. In addition to permanently destroying the Number Seven line, he suffocated Saul and the other four Cylons from Earth. Blocking their real memories, Number One implanted false ones in their minds, and deposited them among the human population in an attempt to prove to them the "evils" of humanity.
Tigh began his military career as a deckhand[5]. By the second year of the First Cylon War, he was serving as a gunner's mate onboard the Brenik. His ship was boarded by the Cylons, where he and others fought in hand-to-hand combat, during the bloodiest period of that war. It was during this battle that he saw his first dead man, Duncan Rafferty, who was violently vivisected by Centurions ("Valley of Darkness," deleted scene). His ship was subsequently destroyed, but he survived. He was transferred to another unnamed ship, which succumbed to a similar fate as his original ship. Having borne witness to many a bloody combat, he became emotionally scarred, which had, among other impetuses, led him to alcoholism.
Tigh and Adama's first meeting.
Tigh eventually achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer. When Viper pilot numbers began running low in the war, Tigh was selected for Colonial officer candidate school, and was reassigned as a Viper pilot.[6] As a pilot, he demonstrated considerable skill, earning several medals while posted aboard Battlestar Athena.[7] After the cessation of hostilities, he was dismissed from service.
Tigh eked out an existence as a deckhand aboard a commercial freighter. He clearly experienced signs of post-traumatic stress disorder; he commented that every time he smelled grease or machine oil, he would nearly vomit, as this smell reminded him of the "stink" of Centurions ("Valley of Darkness," deleted scene). While onboard, he drowned himself in alcohol and, after a time, about 20 years after the war, encountered William Adama, who had not seen as much combat experience as Tigh himself. They became fast friends, and remained in touch after Adama was recommissioned into the service. Two years later, Tigh found himself reinstated into the Colonial Fleet at the rank of captain, thanks to his old friend, and now major, Adama.[8] His alcoholism has led many in the crew to view him with contempt (TRS: "Miniseries" and "33").
Following the Cylon attack, Tigh recovered some of his old verve, and attempted to give up alcohol. However, this, combined with the initial stress of flight from the Cylons, caused him to overcompensate as a martinet, frequently driving the personnel overly hard, and berating where encouragement would prove the better option (TRS: "33"). He excused this by his view that the XO is supposed to be the "hard face" of command.
"If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job."
With his drinking problem relatively under control, Tigh settled back into his role as Galactica's Executive Officer, though he still treats the ship's personnel relatively inhumanely. Apart from Adama, he seems unable to utter a sentence without cursing, or to leave any differing opinion unsneered at.
During Cylon attacks, Tigh has proven himself to be a good battle-manager and tactician. His quick actions sometimes save the ship and the Fleet from damage or destruction ("Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down," "Scattered," "Valley of Darkness").
Tigh is uneasy around President Laura Roslin(TRS: "Water"), and resents what he sees as her interfering with Adama's command (TRS: "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down") - something born out of his deep respect for Adama, which even the most heated of disagreements between them (TRS: "You Can't Go Home Again") cannot disrupt, or his general inability to accept differing viewpoints.
Tigh personally loathes Kara Thrace, one of Galactica's pilots. While grudgingly conceding she is a fine pilot, Tigh does consider her an an egotistical, insubordinate youngster, and even tries to end her active service. Tigh criticizes Adama for having a soft spot for Thrace, ignoring that his whole existence in the fleet is based on a similar soft spot (TRS: "Miniseries").
Outside of Adama, Tigh has few others he regards as confidants aboard ship; and since the initial Cylon attack, he has withdrawn from interacting with the crew during off-duty hours, making him perhaps more isolated than even Adama - who is at least held in awe, and respected by the crew.
Some three weeks after the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies, Tigh is stunned to discover his wife, Ellen, had not been killed as he had thought, but was rescued from Picon, and carried aboard the Rising Star as an unconscious "Jane Doe" by an unknown person. Later, it is revealed that the person who did that was a John Cavil-model Cylon.
Despite the emotional implications from the destruction of the Colonies and life aboard the ship, Tigh is reluctantly thrust further into politics, as his wife plays her schemes. Much to his disdain, his wife attempts to procure photo opportunities with the likes of Tom Zarek - a person Tigh views with the utmost contempt (TRS: "Colonial Day"). Additionally, Ellen seems to re-establish Tigh's alcoholism with gratuitous drinking.
Despite this, Adama sends Tigh with a squadron of Marines to arrest Laura Roslin after Adama discovers that she convinced Kara Thrace to Jump back to Caprica to retrieve a historical artifact called the Arrow of Apollo from the Delphi Museum. This action deprives the Fleet of a military asset - a captured Cylon Raider, intended to have been used to plant a nuclear warhead aboard a basestar in orbit around the planet believed to be Kobol - and convinces Adama that Roslin is abusing her authority.
Tigh realizing he's in a bit over his head (TRS: "Scattered)".
Tigh is present in CIC during the attempted assassination of Adama by Sharon Valerii. As guards restrain Valerii, Tigh attempts to stop the bleeding from the torso gunshot wounds Adama sustained in the attempt (TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II"). He keeps Lee Adama from tending to his father and throws him into the brig. However, the need for reliable officers, forces Tigh to grant Lee a parole from his arrest. After his daily duties as CAG are done, Lee promises to return to the brig when off-shift.
With Adama incapacitated and with Roslin arrested, Tigh tries to maintain order. However, his irrational and gruff command style displeases many crew members. Morale and ship efficiency began to suffer. Ellen Tigh becomes a private adviser to her husband, frequently questioning his power to command while also suggesting ways of usurping more power and quashing his opponents. Ellen Tigh's advice only exacerbates an already-deteriorating situation.
Tigh's interrogation of suspected Cylon collaborators or infiltrators is brutal. After beating, then nearly shooting Galactica copy of Valerii, other issues in the Fleet divert him from further interrogation. He orders a special cage made for her for later interrogation. Tigh also savagely interrogates Valerii's former lover, Chief Galen Tyrol as a possible humanoid Cylon himself. Tigh would have left him with Valerii in the newly built Cylon cage if Gaius Baltar did not intervene to prove medically that Tyrol is not a Cylon himself.
With Roslin in prison, uprisings begin as civilian ships refuse to supply Galactica until Roslin is released. Worse, the Quorum of Twelve demand to see Roslin. Knowing of Roslin's hallucinations in the brig, he intentionally invites the Quorum to see Roslin in her poor state in hopes of disillusioning the Quorum. However, Roslin recovers sufficiently from her Chamalla withdrawal after getting a supply smuggled to her by Corporal Venner, her guard. Tigh believes that the accounts within the Sacred Scrolls weren't to be believed, and teases Roslin in front of the Quorum on her visions. Roslin not only is able to speak to the Quorum, but decisively reinforces her decisions as well as her role in the search for the location of Earth as told in the Pythian prophesies. This act greatly impresses the Quorum, and infuriates Tigh; fearing a larger civilian government uprising led by the Quorum. Tigh institutes martial law throughout the Fleet - a move he earlier had disclaimmed - in an attempt to maintain order in a rapidly chaotic shuffle of power between the civilian and military governments (TRS: "Fragged").
The supply situation leads Tigh to deploying Marines in forcibly retrieving supplies. On one ship, a riot leads to four deaths and many injuries due to the pilot's inexperience in managing such a situation. Unlike Adama (who likely would have taken direct responsibility for the "Gideon Massacre"), Tigh places blame solely on the pilot, absolving himself from the incident.
The shootings, Tigh's decision for martial law, and his unwillingness to discuss anything with anyone except Ellen Tigh (and the unconscious Adama) becomes the dividing point of those wanting to press on to finding Earth, and those wanting to settle on Kobol (Season 2). Tigh's drinking spirals further out of control, leading to more erratic behavior and causing great concern regarding his ability to effectively command, particularly among the CIC staff. The situation comes to a head when Roslin, tacitly aided by other officers and crew on Galactica, escapes the brig in an attempt to hide amongst the many ships in the Fleet with the aid of Tom Zarek. Tigh chases down the escaping Raptor using the CAP, having the Viper fire across the bow of the fleeing Raptor to persuade it to return. The Raptor brazenly continues onward, leading to a crucial decision for the Colonel. Tigh allows the Raptor to escape rather than shooting it down, which would have killed Adama's son and the President and could have destabilized the fleet.
Fortunately for the fleet and Colonel Tigh, Commander Adama regains consciousness shortly after the escape and asks what had happened during his absence. Tigh confesses that he has "frakked things up good," but Adama reassures his friend, saying, "I never had much use for people that second-guessed my decisions, especially if they've never held a command. They don't understand the pressure to make a call that affects the lives of thousands, and you have no one to turn to for backup." Despite all the serious problems that Tigh created, Adama doesn't blame him, telling Tigh that whatever bad calls were made, they would pick up the pieces together (TRS: "Resistance" and "Resistance").
Both Adama and Tigh underestimate the number of ships that secede from the main fleet to join the faction that sought the Tomb of Athena with President Roslin (TRS: "The Farm"). Tigh backs up Adama while he maintains a similar official position on Roslin and the separated ships as Tigh has. However, after Adama realizes that survival of the entire Fleet would only come if everyone held together, Adama begins to prepare a journey to Kobol to retrieve the remainder of the Fleet and reach out to Roslin (TRS: "Home, Part I"). At first Tigh seems to believe that Adama is retrieving the faction by more military means, and scoffs at Roslin's religious views on the quest until he realizes that Adama is beginning to follow Roslin's information, taking her reports and visions seriously. Tigh is left in command while Adama successfully reunites the Fleet and reconciles with Roslin (TRS: "Home, Part II").
After Adama's return to command and Roslin to the presidency, for a moment the Gideon incident is almost forgotten. Before she is invited to Galactica, reporter D'Anna Biers prepares a story about the incident, which could destroy the public's view towards Tigh, and eventually Galactica. However she drops the subject in favor of a Galactica documentary. Lt. Joe Palladino, the pilot in charge of the boarding operation to Gideon, blames Tigh for the discredit to his reputation. He begins to terrorize Tigh and his wife, but Tigh later manages to subdue Palladino (TRS: "Final Cut").
Things once again turn on their head when Galactica has a chance encounter with the battlestar Pegasus, a modern type of battlestar and the flagship of Admiral Helena Cain. Cain, being the superior officer, assumes complete command of the Fleet. The naturally suspicious Tigh is wary about this mixed blessing, but takes it in stride like everything else up until now. When he begins to regularly speak with Pegasus's own XO Jack Fisk, his suspicions slowly prove to be well founded.
Fisk's conscience-clearing sessions with Tigh reveal that Admiral Cain was responsible for a set of atrocities, the most damning being the pillaging and stranding of a small civilian fleet in open space. When Tigh relays this information to Commander Adama, Adama reminisces about their own questionable activities, particularly their actions regarding the Olympic Carrier. However, Adama keeps Tigh's warnings in mind and they help him in his decision to stand up to Cain later on (TRS: "Pegasus" through "Resurrection Ship, Part I").
When the presidential election arrives, Colonel Tigh is charged with overseeing the vote tallies on Galactica. When it appears that Baltar would win the vote, Tory Foster, President Roslin's aide, approaches Tigh and Dualla to conspire to steal the election for Roslin, foreseeing certain disaster in a Baltar presidency. Tigh, never a fan of Baltar's to begin with, organises the counting of fraudulent ballots in order to keep Baltar out of office. The plot is overturned when Lt. Gaeta reports irregularities to Tigh, who all too obviously tries to sweep the affair under the carpet. Gaeta then informs Admiral Adama, who lets Tigh and Dualla off the hook and the official vote tallies are "revised" without the public learning of the Roslin campaign's attempt to steal the election.
One year later, after the fleet settles on New Caprica on the orders of President Baltar, most of the military staff have all but retired from active service. Col. Tigh is one of the few officers still serving aboard Galactica, but the day eventually comes when Admiral Adama discharges his friend and XO from his duties to let him return to civilian life with his wife. On the surface of New Caprica, the couple run into Kara Thrace at Galen and Cally Tyrol's union rally. The former colonel and captain share an unusually warm embrace, having put their differences behind them at some point in the preceding year. However, their reunion does not last as a large Cylon fleet appears in orbit over the planet and the Cylons occupy New Caprica without firing a shot. Tigh and his wife are last seen watching in utter shock as Cylon Centurions march through the streets of New Caprica City (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II").
Two months into the occupation of New Caprica by the Cylons, Tigh is organizing and recruiting for the resistance on New Caprica along with Galen Tyrol and Jammer. When the Cylons begin to find the weapons hidden by the Resistance, Tigh orders them to be stored in the Temple, believing it to be the safest place as the Cylon respect the sanctity of the Temple and will not search it, disregarding any moral concerns. When the Cylons discover the weapons, Nora is shot and Cally Tyrol and her baby barely escape. This leads several members of the resistance movement to question whether Tigh is going too far. After Tigh plans an attack that could endanger patients at a hospital, Jammer reports him to the Cylon authorities (TRS: "Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance"). The Cylons imprison Tigh and tear his right eye out. Ellen's sexual efforts with Cavil lead to Tigh's eventual release (TRS: "Occupation") though this is later revealed to be a Cylon ruse to blackmail Ellen into collaboration with the Cylons as well as find the location of a high level meeting of the Insurgency.
After Ellen is discovered to have betrayed a meeting with Sharon "Athena" Agathon to the Cylons, fellow Resistance leader Samuel Anders compels Tigh to execute Ellen for her actions. Reluctantly, Tigh kills his wife by giving her a poisoned drink after which he cries over her body.
Tigh handing Ellen her poisoned drink.Tigh actively participates in the exodus from New Caprica, leading an attack on the shipyard with Galen Tyrol, during which they are aided by Vipers launched from Galactica.
Adama welcomes Tigh back on Galactica (TRS: "Exodus, Part II)".
Following the escape, he initially resumes his post as the executive officer of Galactica, but is unable to conceal his contempt for those who colluded with the Cylons, such as Felix Gaeta. In a face-off with Admiral Adama, in which the senior officer orders Tigh to "sleep it off," it is clear that the events on New Caprica - most notably, his wife's death - are still adversely affecting Tigh. Following that he spends a lot of time in his quarters trying to cope with what happened to him on New Caprica and is temporarily replaced by Karl "Helo" Agathon.
He eventually becomes the apparent ringleader of the Circle, a group of six people authorized by then-President Tom Zarek, charged with bringing collaborators to justice. Tigh is among the less scrupulous members but nonetheless opposes Charlie Connor's suggestion of summary executions. Thirteen people fall victim to the Circle's mandate, including Jammer(TRS: "Collaborators").
Tigh is reunited with an old comrade, Daniel Novacek and tells him the truth of his last mission. Tigh later stops him when Novacek tries to kill Adama in revenge for being the cause of him spending years as a Cylon captive (TRS: "Hero"). Tigh also referees the boxing fights organized to boost morale (TRS: "Unfinished Business"). He returns to duty during operations to resupply the Fleet's food stores (TRS: "The Passage"). When Dr. Robert, a civilian physician, is implicated in the deaths of Sagittaron refugees, Tigh initially defends his friend, saying that he worked with the resistance on New Caprica. He clashes with Karl "Helo" Agathon over this, who insists on investigating Robert. However, when it turns out that Robert was killing the Sagittarons out of prejudice, Tigh orders his arrest (TRS: "The Woman King").
When Kara Thrace dies he is visibly heartbroken (TRS: "Maelstrom"), showing that he did truly care about her despite their differences. As the Fleet nears the Ionian nebula and Gaius Baltar's trial begins, Tigh is one of a few people who hear mysterious music on several occasions. When called to testify in court, he shows up drunk. Baltar's lawyer exploits this vulnerability and forces Tigh to publicly admit that he killed his wife on New Caprica (TRS: "Crossroads, Part I").
Saul Tigh, Galen Tyrol, Samuel Anders and Tory Foster begin to hear a song only they can hear over and over again, driving them to distraction. They instinctively come to the realization that they are four of the final five Cylons. They decide to remain loyal to the Colonials (TRS: "Crossroads, Part II").
With a Cylon fleet bearing down on them, Tigh resumes his position as executive officer again. However, almost immediately, this decision is tested by both Tigh's waking nightmares during the onset of the battle—where he believes he will kill his friend and commander, Adama, much the same way Boomer tried to—and the return of Kara Thrace, who may be a Cylon. Even amidst this, he is the de facto leader of the "Final Four" and continues to assure them that they are different than Boomer and the other Cylons. Further, he has them pledge to kill themselves should they feel any inkling of betraying the Fleet (TRS: "He That Believeth in Me").
In an attempt to learn more about what it means to be a Cylon and how they deal with pain, Tigh visits Caprica-Six in the brig and asks her how it feels to have the blood of billions of beings on her hands. Six replies that she is just as human as he is and can't switch off her feelings, but that she has found another way to deal with her pain. During their conversation, Tigh has a hallucination of his dead wife, whose body he sees the place of Six. She tries to help him cope with his feelings and share some of her perceived clarity. In act of tenderness, she removes his eye patch, but Tigh rebukes her advances. Six then punches Tigh and kisses him when he lies on the floor (TRS: "Escape Velocity").
When Natalie offers the Colonials access to the Cylon Resurrection Hub and wants to unbox the Threes in order to learn what she knows about the Final Five, Tigh reacts shocked and fears that he will be uncovered and killed. Instead of cooperation with the Cylon rebels, he urges President Roslin to just destroy the hub (TRS: "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?").
When Doctor Cottle discovers that Caprica-Six is pregnant, Admiral Adama is angry at Tigh for "giving in to his weaknesses" and being disloyal. Tigh initially counters that Adama is risking a lot for woman he cares about as well. When Adama asks what Ellen would say about his actions, Tigh becomes furious and physically attacks Adama. The two exchange blows and Adama eventually shoves Tigh to the floor, who breaks Adama's model ship during the fall. Having vented their frustrations, both calm down. Later, Adama decides to stay back in a Raptor to wait for Roslin's return. He temporarily promotes Tigh to admiral and gives him command of the Fleet. Tigh is reluctant, recalling his previous disastrous experience in command, but takes the position (TRS: "Sine Qua Non").
Tigh's anxiousness about being revealed as a Cylon is magnified when Adama returns with D'Anna Biers. However, instead of exposing him, she forces his hand by holding the Colonials on the Cylon baseship hostage, demanding that the Cylons on Galactica are turned over to them. To prevent Adama from carrying out an extremely risky and bloody rescue plan, Tigh decides to come clean himself. He confesses to William Adama, saying that he should have done so earlier. Adama can't believe his friend, but orders him arrested and brought to a launch tube. There, Tigh also exposes Tyrol and Anders. Tigh is about to be spaced, when Kara Thrace runs into the control room and tells everyone that she has found another clue towards Earth. In an unexpected move, President Lee "Apollo" Adama grants the Cylons a full amnesty. Before the final jump to Earth, Tigh sits in his quarters drinking, unsure what to do (TRS: "Revelations").
Tigh and Caprica-Six accompany the survey team to Earth's surface, where the latter reaches out for and touches the former. Following their amnesty, Tigh, Anders and Tyrol wear fatigues with no rank insignia (TRS: "Revelations, Sometimes a Great Notion"), and none is shown having any authority. Tigh's sidearm has not, however, been confiscated from his wall locker.
Back aboard Galactica, a drunken Admiral Adama storms into Tigh's quarters, armed with a marine's pistol. Grabbing Tigh's pistol from its storage shelf, charging it, and dropping it on the table, Adama orders Tigh, "Sit down, Cylon!" Tigh successfully resists Adama's attemps to encourage Tigh into drinking and to be used for Adama's "assisted suicide". Tigh tries to apologize about his revelation of being a Cylon, but Adama is beyond angry. "Is that how it worked? They program you to be my friend? Emulate all the qualities I respect. Tell me jokes...and I laugh at them." Tigh counters that he wanted, chose to be his friend. Adama throws insult after insult about Ellen Tigh, in an attempt to anger Tigh into picking up either sidearm to shoot his friend. "Do it! Or I'll do it myself!" Adama says, pointing the marine's pistol to his own temple. "I'm sorry, Bill, but this is the one time I can't help you," Tigh tells him (TRS: "Sometimes a Great Notion").
In a reversal of roles, Tigh is the sober one of the two, and gives Adama a much-needed dressing-down. After listening to Adama's story of foxes that would either fight, try to cross the river, or simply give up and float out to sea, Tigh admonishes him not be like foxes choosing to drown. He reminds Adama that he is still the commander and that Tigh is still the XO of the ship; killing himself would not help himself nor their people. Thereafter, Colonel Tigh is restored to his to his rank and position on Galactica(TRS: "Sometimes a Great Notion").
Once again in his service uniform and wearing his rank, Tigh leads the round-up of the survey crews on the Earth surface in preparation for their journey toward a new home. At the water's edge, Downloaded Three informs him of her decision to give up and die alone on Earth. Their talk reminds Tigh of Adama's fox story, and he begins to walk into the sea. When chest-deep, he is compelled to reach down. In doing so, he discovers a mangled post box hatch from his apartment building lobby two millenia earlier. Like Tyrol, he has a vision of Earth's nuclear distruction. He is wearing a civilian business suit. He hears Ellen, finds her trapped under debris he cannot move. He splashes through the water as he remembers himself digging though the rubble to reach Ellen and remembers her prophesy. Ellen tells him, as more bombs go off, flashing bright, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn...again. Together." The vision fades as Tigh realizes the truth. "Ellen...Ellen! You're the fifth!"
Col. Tigh relieves an exhausted Lt. Felix Gaeta from duty and orders him to take an ill-fated week's leave aboard Zephyr to rest and recover. After Gaeta's shuttle raptor is lost in an emergency FTL jump while en-route to Zephyr, Tigh acquiesses to Lt. Louis Hoshi's plea for a raptor and pilot with whom to search for his lover. Gaeta is the only survivor of the seven (five Colonials and two Number Eight Cylons) aboard the raptor, and explains that one of the Eights killed everyone else before being herself killed by Gaeta. After consulting off-camera with the rebel Cylons, Tigh tells him that the incident will not be investigated. Nevertheless, the incident leaves Gaeta apprehensive about their alliance with the rebel Cylons and asks to speak with Admiral Adama because, with all due respect, Tigh is a Cylon. Tigh reluctantly approves his request (TRS: "The Face of the Enemy").
Days into the Fleet's search for a new home, Caprica-Six and Saul Tigh are in sickbay where Dr. Cottle is using a sonagram to show them their unborn child. Tigh can't see the image, when Cottle quips, "Try looking with your eyes...eye." In a moment of amazement while Assistant Layne Ishay points out the elements of the sonagram, an overwhelmed Tigh albeit happy, asks for a drink. Cottle offers a cigarette instead to Tigh as he lights one for himself, to Ishay's dismay.
In Admiral Adama's quarters, Lee Adama, Saul Tigh, Galen Tyrol, Felix Gaeta and Karl Agathon meet to discuss the implementation of Cylon FTL upgrades to the civilian ships. Tyrol argues that the Cylons become valid citizens of the Fleet, with their own representative on the Quorum and Adama's oath of protection if they are to get the Cylon technology. Tigh comments after Tyrol fubbles with his proper pronouns for the situation that he might need a chart to help him keep it right.
Mutiny, Return of Ellen and the End of the Journey
Felix Gaeta leads a mutiny alongside a coup lead by Tom Zarek in order to gain control of the Fleet. Adama and Tigh are captured, but manage to escape and meet up with Lee and Kara. They make their way to a forgotten airlock where Baltar and Roslin escape in a Cylon Raptor to the Rebel basestar while Adama stays behind to try to retake Galactica. Tigh insists on staying with him despite being a likely target due to being a Cylon and Adama tells him that "its been an honor to serve with you my friend." (TRS: "The Oath") The two are knocked out by a stun grenade and captured by marines led by Captain Aaron Kelly who Tigh insults. He's taken to the brig where Caprica-Six, Helo, Athena and Anders already are, but they are rescued by Kara and Lee. However, Anders is seriously hurt and Kara stays behind to get him to Doctor Cottle. The freed prisoners find Kelly who defects and shows them where Admiral Adama is about to be executed and they arrive just in time to save his life. Tigh holds a gun on Narcho who's in charge of the firing squad and forces him not to tell Gaeta the truth. After Narcho refuses to help retake the ship, Tigh goes to shoot him, but is stopped by Adama who has him tied up instead. Tigh is part of Adama's march to retake CIC and helps recapture it without firing a shot, ending the mutiny. (TRS: "Blood on the Scales")
Tigh later learns some of his history from Anders who has regained his Cylon memories after being shot in the head during the mutiny. (TRS: "No Exit") He is also shocked when a missing Raptor shows up carrying Boomer and his wife Ellen who had downloaded into a new body on a Resurrection Ship after he had killed her and had been a prisoner of Cavil until Boomer helped her escape. The Rebel Cylons are excited to have all of the Final Five with them and want to leave the Fleet and leave it up to a majority vote of the Five. Tigh, remembering that Anders told him to stay with the Fleet, votes to stay and given what Anders said, they take it as a vote to stay as well, Tyrol and Tory vote to go, but Ellen is shocked and undecided after learning that he got Caprica-Six pregnant. He later asks for a private meeting with Ellen, but she summons Tyrol, Tory and Caprica-Six to tell them that they're going to leave the Fleet, doing it just to spite him as she knows how much he loves the Fleet. Tigh refuses to go saying that they can go without him and if Caprica-Six really wants to go, she can go too, but he is not going. Ellen uses this to say he loves the Fleet and Bill Adama more than he loves either of them, but Caprica-Six suddenly goes into distress and starts to miscarry the baby. A horrified Ellen apologizes saying she only wanted to hurt him, not Caprica-Six or the baby. She tells them that they can stay and should and that she'll move to the Rebel basestar and leave him alone. He at first pushes her away, but eventually allows her to comfort him. She tries to get him to tell Caprica-Six how much he loves her, but he can't seem to do it. Caprica-Six miscarries and their baby dies in the womb. Later Tigh goes to Admiral Adama and cries about his lost son (TRS: "Deadlock"). The death of their baby is also apparently the end of the relationship between Tigh and Caprica-Six.
Tigh is with Ellen, Tyrol and Tory in Joe's Bar when Kara starts playing the music, surprising them all. (TRS: "Someone to Watch Over Me") Afterwards he's shocked when Admiral Adama decides to order Galactica's repairs to stop and the ship to be scrapped for parts. The two share a toast to the ship (TRS: "Islanded in a Stream of Stars").
When Adama calls for volunteers for a rescue mission for Hera Agathon, Tigh volunteers immediately alongside Ellen. (TRS: "Daybreak, Part I") During the Battle of The Colony, Tigh coordinates the battle with Admiral Adama in CIC. When a fire breaks out near Anders, he goes up with Tyrol to put it out and stays on the balcony afterwards. During the attempt to get Cavil to stop all of this and release Hera who he has taken hostage in CIC, Tigh offers him resurrection if he agrees to let Hera go and stop chasing humanity. After he agrees the Five combine together to send the plans for resurrection to The Colony and Tigh calms a nervous Tory by saying they forgive her sins when she gets worried about everyone seeing everyone else's memories. Tigh is shocked to discover that Tory murdered Cally and can only watch as Tyrol kills Tory in revenge. After Galactica jumps away, Tigh resumes his duties as XO and reports that Galactica suffered critical structural failures and "broke her back" and can't jump anymore. After landing on their new home planet that they name Earth, Tigh and Ellen say goodbye to Tyrol who plans to go off and live as a hermit and Tigh forgives him for killing Tory, saying he'd have done the same thing if someone had done that to Ellen. Tigh and Ellen rekindle their relationship and go off to spend the rest of their lives together (TRS: "Daybreak, Part II").
Col. Tigh is unabashedly pro-human and has stayed fiercely loyal to William Adama and the Fleet despite almost being killed by his son Lee "Apollo" Adama in a rage over his - from Lee's point of view - lifelong deception of his father and the Fleet. He has faced such deadly hostility, but has persevered perhaps in part, if not in whole, because he shares such prejudice himself. This is including serving in the Resistance on New Caprica and having no compunction in blowing up Cylons and alleged collaborators alike. He was often the first to call for the execution of any Cylons found among them. He even killed his own wife Ellen Tigh for betraying the Resistance essentially under Samuel Anders' orders.
When he finds out he is a "skinjob" he is, of course, stunned. He has a waken nightmare of himself repeating the act of Sharon Valerii shooting Admiral Adama under programming. He pledges with the other three Final Five Cylons aboard Galactica to remain loyal and at their post, but if any of them including himself showed signs of working against the interest of the Fleet via hidden program, they should be killed or turned in. Since his discovery his loyalty has not wavered. Indeed he was disappointed in Tory Foster's defection to the Cylons and Galen Tyrol's wavering of who he should belong to. Sam Anders has a similar attitude as Tigh for being loyal to humanity but not as strong - or at least not stated as strongly.
Tigh has fully accepted his Cylon nature to the point he cohabitates with Caprica-Six who is carrying the couple's child. During the mutiny he is willing to die by the side of his best friend and commanding officer William Adama despite Adama's drunken attempts to bait Tigh into killing him only days earlier. He has said that mankind has a lot to answer for regarding the treatment of the Cylons before the Second Cylon War began, but he actually argues to Tyrol and particularly Tory Foster that it is by no means entirely the fault of humankind for their own destruction:
NO! Maybe we share the guilt with the humans but we don't get to just shove it off onto them.
Like Tyrol and Foster, he has no independent recollection of his life before Cavil killed him and implanted false memories, but he was, as related by Samuel Anders, one of the Five to stop the First Cylon War the Colonial Centurion Cylons were raging some 40 years before so his attitude may moderate, but probably won't change his pro-human outlook.
Tigh is supposedly a third-generation Colonial soldier. His father was a decorated fighter pilot killed in combat and his grandfather served under President Mueller. Also, Tigh was a published military historian until personal problems became apparent (TRS: Miniseries, deleted scene). However, given Tigh's recently-revealed Cylon nature, his family history may be a fabrication. Tigh's interest in military history has not been mentioned on screen after the Miniseries, although he mentions various Cylon tactics in use from the Cylon War that came to save Galactica after being boarded by Centurions(TRS: "Valley of Darkness").
A different serial number is given in "He That Believeth in Me" on Starbuck's gun-camera shots of Earth's moon: 245A-34DC.
Tigh's first name has been given as "Paul" on a number of websites. This is initially based on an early version of the script(PDF file), which has Adama speaking to "Paul" in their discussion of his fight with Kara Thrace. In the podcastcommentary on the episode "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down," Ronald D. Moore has indicated that the character's name initially was Paul Tigh. The name had to be changed due to legal issues that Moore was unable to recall in that podcast.
Tigh's (albeit false) age is one of the only ones which can be accurately deduced. According to a deleted scene from "Valley of Darkness," he served on the Brenik when it was boarded during the second year of the Cylon War. Tigh says that he was "just a kid. Virgin. Teenager." It is known that Colonial Day is the anniversary of both the unification of the Colonies, and (roughly) the outbreak of the Cylon War[9], and was 52 years ago (TRS: "Colonial Day"). Thus, Tigh is between 63 and 69 years old at the beginning of Season 2.
In the DVD commentary of "Act of Contrition," Ron Moore notes that actor Michael Hogan won the role of Tigh over Donnelly Rhodes, who was one of two other actors vying for the part. Rhodes went on to play the role of Dr. Cottle, Galactica's CMO.
Tigh's Cylon identity may be alluded to as early as "Occupation": not only does he have only one eye at this point, but the Cylon "scanning eye" sound effect can be faintly heard as he looks toward the open door of his cell when Cavil enters to tell him that he has been released.
In several interviews included on the Season 4.0 DVD, actor Michael Hogan cites fan polls that indicated Tigh was considered one of the least likely characters to be a Cylon. This would also seem to extend to the production crew, as a highlight of the 2006 Gag Reel shown at the San Diego Comic Con was a comedic segment suggesting that Tigh was the "13th Cylon".
Despite being a Cylon and unlike the other members of the Final Five, Tigh doesn't really display Cylon abilities. This is likely from him not embracing his Cylon side like the others do to various extents: Tory shows Cylon strength and joins the Cylons on the baseship as well as connecting to the datastream in the final episode, Tyrol shows Cylon resilance, strength, the ability to tell Cylons apart, projection and is able to connect to the datastream, Anders is physicaly connected to the datastream and acts as a Hybrid as well as displaying a Cylon IFF signal when scanned by a Raider, while Ellen resurrects and acts like a Cylon in her new body, but the only time Tigh displays his Cylon abilities is when he connects to the datastream to transmit the Resurrection data.
In the original script for "Hero," Tigh's conversation with Daniel Novacek includes additional dialogue about their shared past, including references to a woman named "Eileen the Machine" who had "no front teeth."[script 1] This character reference and the associated conversation about their military history was removed from the final aired version.
The screenplay depicts Tigh conducting a specific peripheral vision exercise with his hand, moving it in and out of his field of vision while saying "I see it," which provides more detail about his psychological state than shown in the aired episode.[script 2]
The script contains extended dialogue between Tigh and Novacek where Tigh reveals more details about the aftermath of the Valkyrie mission and its impact on Adama's career, describing Galactica as Adama's "graceful retirement."[script 3]
↑"Cylon Intelligence Report: Personnel File: Saul Tigh." Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine. Feb./Mar. 2006: 62. - He has recently been revealed as a Cylon presumably making this point moot.
↑Tigh was supposedly born in 69 BCH, ("Valley of Darkness" deleted scene), and Season 3 takes place in 2 ACH.
↑Ibid. "Saul Tigh entered the fleet as a deckhand, but rose through the ranks, and was a CPO (Chief Petty Officer) by the time the First Cylon War broke out."
↑Ibid. "Tigh joined the Colonial officer candidate school, and was reassigned as a Viper pilot, something he excelled in, earning a string of medals in his post aboard the battlestar Athena."
↑Ibid. "Adama reenlisted with the service, and Tigh spent two years drinking before Adama pulled strings to get him back into service. Tigh was straightening his life out when he met his wife Ellen, whom he courted and married within two months, about 7 years before the Miniseries. Unfortunately, Ellen did not take well to military life, and her repeated infidelities drove Tigh back into the bottle. The two separated shortly before the Cylon attack.
Paul Becker is the actor, writer, stunt performer, and choreographer who, in addition to choreography work on the Caprica pilot, also portrayed the role of a V-Club dancer in said pilot.
Perri's filmography has spanned many roles that usually involve being a foil for a central character or premise in a TV episode. From comedies to science-fiction and dramas, Perri has had minor roles in several popular shows, including:
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