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    |photo=[[Image:Sharon Valerii promo.jpg|200px]]
{{Character Data
    |age= 20s
|photo=eight.jpg
    |colony= Claimed to be from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aerelon|Aerelon]] (by way of [[Troy]])
|seen= Miniseries
    |birthname=  
|actor= [[Grace Park]]
    |servicen= T-990429
|cylon= y
    |callsign= Boomer
|name= Sharon
    |death= [[Resistance]] (''Galactica'' Valerii), another copy killed on Caprica ([[Colonial Day]])
}}
    |parents= alleged: [[Abraham Valerii]] (deceased, father), [[Catherine Valerii]] (deceased, mother)
"'''Number Eight'''" is one of the twelve [[humanoid Cylon]] models. She is the youngest in both fact and appearance and generally associated with the name "Sharon" when interacting with humans.  Eights are known for being more empathic and compassionate than the other Cylons. Humans have particularly been exposed to two specific copies, [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]], a "sleeper" agent who served on board ''Galactica'' believing herself to be one of the human crew while unknowingly programmed as a saboteur and assassin, and [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon "Athena" Agathon]], who was assigned to seduce [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] on the planet {{RDM|Caprica}}, but fell in love with him and defected to the human side, replacing Boomer as a Colonial officer on ''Galactica''. There are numerous other copies among the Cylon populace.
    |siblings= None
    |children= 1 Pending ("Caprica" Valerii's unborn daughter)
    |marital status= Single (''Galactica'' Valerii); In a relationship with Lt. [[Karl Agathon]] (''Caprica'' Valerii).
    |role= Cylon Infiltrator, Saboteur; [[Raptor]] Pilot (''Galactica'' Valerii)
    |rank= Lieutenant (''Galactica'' Valerii)
    |actor= [[Grace Park]]
    |cylon= y
    }}


'''Sharon Valerii''' appears to be a woman in her mid-twenties. She is initially encountered aboard the [[Original battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'', where she is integrated into [[Colonial]] military life, serving as a [[Raptor]] pilot with the rank of Lieutenant (junior grade). Other variants of the Valerii model have been seen active on Cylon-occupied [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] and are also aboard the Cylon [[basestar (RDM)]] orbiting [[Kobol]] before its destruction. There are presumably other copies stationed throughout the Cylon space fleet and forces occupying the other Colonies.
== Sharon "Boomer" Valerii ==
{{mainarticle|Sharon Valerii}}
'''Sharon "Boomer" Valerii''' is a copy initially planted as a "sleeper" agent in the [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|Colonial Fleet]]. Implanted with false memories, she is unaware of her Cylon nature and serves for two years as Lieutenant Valerii on ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]'', where she is assigned as a [[Raptor]] pilot and also engaged in a secret relationship with Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]]. After the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], her underlying programming repeatedly emerges which leads her to unconscious acts of sabotage. Growing confusion about her true self results in a deep depression and a failed suicide attempt. After Valerii returns from a successful mission to destroy a Cylon [[basestar (RDM)|basestar]], she shoots Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] in the chest, wounding him critically. She is incarcerated in the [[brig]] and is shot and killed by Specialist [[Cally Henderson Tyrol|Cally]] while being moved to a specially-built holding cell.


Sharon Valerii, of all the [[Humano-Cylon]] models witnessed thus far, appears to behave with the strongest or genuine human qualities. This may be the cause of this model's tendency to have conflicts between its latent Cylon or active human personalities, or turn against its own kind.
[[Image:bsg-valerii-1.jpg|224px|right|Athena (left), Boomer (right). |thumb]]


== ''Galactica'' Copy ==
Her consciousness is downloaded and she is reborn in another body. Subsequently, she experiences severe problems integrating into Cylon society and long considers herself more human than Cylon. She eventually works together with [[Caprica-Six]] in an attempt to change Cylon popular opinion about humans and she emerges as one of the Cylon leaders jointly responsible for the end of the occupation of the [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Twelve Colonies]] and later the Cylon occupation on [[New Caprica]]. Following the failure on New Caprica, Valerii abandons her hopes for coexistence with humans and she denounces her past on ''Galactica''.


Lieutenant Junior Grade Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, serial number T-990429, appears to be a young pilot recently-assigned to shipboard operations. Assigned to flying the Raptor reconnaissance vehicle. Her inexperience is demonstrated through repeated heavy landings aboard ''Galactica'' ([[Mini-Series]]).
Later she sides with Cavil in the Cylon Civil War and is the only Eight on his side. She is in a physical relationship with Cavil, and is even aware of the identities of the [[Final Five]] and that Ellen Tigh is being held prisoner within the Cylon fleet. She appears to defect and helps Ellen escape, but it's part of a successful plan to kidnap Hera Agathon, the daughter of the Eight called Athena. Boomer is put in the brig upon her arrival on ''Galactica'' despite her rescue of Ellen, but escapes by manipulating the emotions of her old lover Galen Tyrol. She tells Tyrol that despite everything, she still loves him and thinks about him often, even creating a [[projection]] of their dream home and a daughter for them. Knowing that the rebel Cylons plan to try and execute Boomer for betraying them, Tyrol knocks out another Eight and switches her with Boomer. Boomer then assaults and switches places with Athena, and kidnaps Hera so that she can be studied on [[The Colony]]. She seems to show some remorse for kidnapping Hera, who she bonds with on the trip to The Colony, and is the only one of Cavil's faction who shows her any compassion. Boomer gives Hera back to Athena and Helo during the [[Battle of The Colony]], saying that she owed Admiral Adama a favor and she has made what was probably her last choice. Boomer is then shot and killed by AthenaWith the [[Resurrection Hub]] destroyed, Boomer's death was final.
[[Image:bsg-valerii-1.jpg|thumb|left|The Many Sides of "Sharon Valerii" (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
As a pilot, she is assigned alongside [[ECO]] [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]], with whom she has developed a close friendship. She has also formed friendships with other pilot officers aboard the battlestar, sharing off-duty activities, such as regular card games ([[Mini-Series]], [[Act of Contrition]]), all of which have helped her integrate into shipboard life and be accepted as a member of the crewShe had been serving on board ''Galactica'' for two years prior to the Cylon attack ("[[The Farm]]").


=== Agent in Disguise ===
== Sharon "Athena" Agathon ==
{{mainarticle|Sharon Agathon}}
'''Sharon "Athena" Agathon''' is a copy first encountered by [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]], when he is stranded on {{RDM|Caprica}}. She is initially assigned to seduce him by impersonating Lieutenant Sharon Valerii, as part of a Cylon cross-breeding experiment. To facilitate her mission, this Sharon was given Boomer's memories at least up until the point of leaving Helo behind on Caprica. Unlike Boomer, she is always aware of being a Cylon. Sharon later turns against her people and helps Agathon escape the planet; pregnant with his child during that time. Helo, first shocked by her true nature, ultimately accepts her as the mother of his child and declares his love for her.


Initially, "Boomer" Valerii is a "sleeper" agent, unaware of her Cylon status. As far as she is aware, she was born on the mining colony of Troy, the daughter of a family from Aerelon ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Troy itself was destroyed in an unexplained cataclysm, allowing Boomer's background to be established as that of an orphan.
Once on ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'', she is imprisoned in the cell built for Boomer and long seen as nothing but a "[[toaster]]". She frequently provides intelligence and earns Admiral [[William Adama|Adama's]] trust by helping the Colonial Fleet escape peril several times. Sharon gives birth on ''Galactica'' to a daughter named [[Hera Agathon|Hera]], but President [[Laura Roslin|Roslin]] considers the Cylons' interest in the baby a threat to the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] and so has Doctor [[Sherman Cottle|Cottle]] fake the child's death and give her to [[Maya|a foster mother]]. Sharon eventually marries Karl Agathon and becomes a Colonial Raptor pilot with the callsign "Athena". She believes Hera to be dead for more than a year, unaware of her presence on [[New Caprica]] or her recovery by the Cylons during the exodus from that planet. After learning the truth during a confrontation with Sharon Valerii, Athena is able to regain her daughter from the Cylons with the help of [[Caprica-Six]].


Following her arrival on-board ''Galactica'', she enters into a relationship with the ship's Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]], which is against military protocols concerning fraternization between officers and non-officers. Whether this is unintentional, or a subconcious reaction to her Cylon personality program is unclear.
Since her joining the Fleet she has become a trusted officer who is assigned the hardest of missions, at least one which being a Cylon helped her survive when it would be difficult for normal humans {{TRS|The Passage}}. She tells Helo at one point that she has to struggle to be accepted everyday because of her true nature as a Cylon, but despite that she remains loyal to the Fleet. When she learns that the Colonials plan to wipe out the whole Cylon fleet by unleashing the [[lymphocytic encephalitis]] virus, she says that she will keep her word nonetheless even if it means she's the last Cylon in existence. At one point she encounters several other Eight copies on the Rebel Basestar, who revere her since she was the first Cylon to say "no" to the overall plan and now has a child and a place among the humans. They ask her to lead a mutiny against Natalie and the other Sixes, whose leadership they blame for their current troubles; however, Athena refuses, saying that the other Eights disgust her. She explains that they should choose which side they are on and not cut and run when things get ugly, or else they'll never achieve any of the things they want for themselves.


At the time of the [[Cylon Attack|Cylon attack]], Boomer was flying her Raptor to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] with  ''[[Galactica]]'s'' last remaining operational [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] squadron to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] when they are notified of the attacks and attempt to engage two [[Cylon Raider]]s. However, the Viper squadron is destroyed (their ships powered down by their tainted [[CNP]]), and the Raptor is damaged while trying to escape, forcing Boomer and Helo to make an emergency landing on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]].  
Athena later is severely beaten by Boomer and locked, half-conscious, in one of the ship's bathroom stalls, having to watch as Boomer seduces Helo. Athena frees herself too late to prevent Boomer from kidnapping Hera. Athena seems to fall into a depression, basically ignoring her husband and stating that she doesn't think they'll find Hera alive even when a rescue is finally launched for her. Athena is part of the strike team that invades [[The Colony]] through Raptors and finds that Boomer has saved her daughter from dissection. Boomer returns Hera to her, but Athena refuses to forgive Boomer, saying that returning Hera doesn't absolve Boomer's various betrayals. Boomer agrees. Athena then shoots and kills Boomer for her actions. Athena, Helo, and Hera survive the [[Battle of The Colony]] and settle on the new [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] to live out the rest of their days in peace.


With the Raptor repaired, they undertake an unexpected rescue operation, lifting a number of children and adults from the planet. However, this is at the expense of Helo, who gives up his place aboard the Raptor so that Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] can be rescued ([[Mini-Series]]).
==Other Copies==
[[Image:Boomerraincoat Colonialday.JPG|thumb|170px|A Number Eight copy at the [[Delphi]] spaceport.]]
*Shortly after the [[Cylon Attack]] ends, an Eight in a pale blue tunic is one of four 'rebirth nurses' who greet [[Caprica-Six]] following her rebirth (this takes place at the same time as the events of the middle or end of the [[Miniseries]], but is seen in the much later episode "[[Downloaded]]").
*An Eight wearing a gray coat is witnessed by Helo at the spaceport at [[Delphi]]. She notices him and draws a gun on him, but is quickly shot by the Sharon with him.  This reveals to Helo that his Sharon is a Cylon {{TRS|Colonial Day}}.
*Multiple nude copies of the Eight model are present on the [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] over {{RDM|Kobol}} and confront [[Sharon Valerii]] outside the Raptor she has landed within the vessel, telling her that they love her and will see her again {{TRS|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II}}. They are blown up along with the rest of the Basestar when the warhead planted by Valerii detonates. Despite having time to act, they do nothing to stop the warhead and apparently activate Valerii's Cylon programing once more as she later shoots Commander Adama without the usual trigger for her programing being present.
*An Eight is among a group of rebirth nurses, possibly the same one that midwifed Caprica-Six, who welcome the reborn Sharon Valerii. Valerii becomes hysterical after seeing and hearing this copy.
*A copy of Number Eight is seen at the end of "[[Final Cut]]," also wearing a grey coat like other Eights on Caprica, remarking in delight that the Sharon who escaped Caprica with Helo and Starbuck is still alive (and saying, "I told you" to the Number Five copy sitting next to her).
[[Image:Eights.jpg|right|224px|Eights onboard a Cylon [[basestar (RDM)|basestar]].|thumb]]
*Numerous copies of Eight are seen on Cylon occupied Caprica throughout the episode "[[Downloaded]]".
*Several Eights are part of a group of humanoid Cylons blown up on New Caprica by a bomb planted by [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Galen Tyrol]] as they approach a group of Centurions exiting from a Heavy Raider which has just landed.
*Another Eight sits next to Valerii on ''Colonial One'' during the [[Cylon Occupation Authority]]'s discussion of the suicide bombing of New Caprica City's power station and the subsequent proposal that harsher measures be adopted. She does not speak during the meeting.
*An Eight, referred to in script as "Sweet Eight," seduces [[Felix Gaeta]] on New Caprica. She offers to check on and, when possible, rescue prisoners whom he cares about. Secretly aware that Gaeta is working with the human resistance, "Sweet Eight" saves a few token humans from Gaeta's lists and orders the remainder killed as being valuable to her human enemies. Much later, "Sweet Eight" kills everyone else aboard [[Raptor 718#Galactica Raptor|Raptor 718]] except Gaeta, including another Eight, in order to save oxygen for herself and Gaeta. Gaeta discovers this and she reveals her actions during the occupation of New Caprica. Gaeta then kills her (''[[The Face of the Enemy]]''). [[Gaius Baltar]] was aware of her actions on New Caprica ("[[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]"; confirmed in "The Face of the Enemy").
*An Eight can be seen practicing a Cylon version of [[Wikipedia:Tai Chi Chuan|Tai Chi]] in the episode "[[Torn]]" while nude.
*Another Eight is among the infected Cylons captured by ''Galactica'' as part of the Colonials' plot to infect the Cylon race with the virus from the [[Lion's Head beacon]]. She and the others are executed by Karl Agathon before the plan can be put into action {{TRS|A Measure of Salvation}}. Because no [[Resurrection Ship]] was in range, her death is final.
*The Number Eights in the episode "[[Six of One]]," with the exception of Sharon Valerii, are supporters of the Number Six [[Natalie]]. They are excited at the prospect of discovering the [[Final Five]] and vote with the [[Number Two|Two]]s and [[Number Six|Six]]es against the lobotomization of the [[Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]].
*The Eights in Natalie's group decide that they need to mutiny and turn to Athena to lead the rebellion. She refuses and tells them they need to pick a side and stick with it. One is mortally wounded by a Centurion (which is then killed by Starbuck) while attempting to disconnect the Hybrid. She apologizes to Athena asking for forgiveness admitting that Athena was right. Athena doesn't grant it, but [[Samuel Anders]] holds her hand and comforts her as she dies {{TRS|Faith}}.
*Another copy works with Karl Agathon during the attack on the Cylon [[Resurrection Hub]]. When she gives him a massage like his wife does, he asks her about it and she say that she was curious about Sharon Agathon, so she downloaded her memories from the last time Agathon resurrected {{TRS|Rapture}}. This makes her Sharon Agathon to some extent, complete with an emotional attachment to Karl Agathon. She is aware that it is an awkward situation for Karl, but is still annoyed when he rebuffs her. Shortly after, she helps him by giving a speech to the reluctant Viper pilots that motivate them to trust the Cylons. During the battle she and Karl take a Raptor to the Hub to retrieve the unboxed [[Number Three]]. Afterwards, she is furious when she learns that the humans double-crossed them and have no intention of handing over the Three {{TRS|The Hub}}. In a deleted scene for the episode she is shot seconds after this revelation by a Cavil that was part of a boarding party. Helo kills the Cavil and goes to help her, but she's dead.
*A pilot Eight, referred to as "Hard Eight" in script, is aboard Raptor 718 when it becomes separated from the Fleet. While attempting to repair a loose connection using deckhand [[Brooks (RDM)|Brooks]]' pliers, she is fatally electrocuted, after which it is discovered that the insulation had been stripped from the pliers. "Sweet Eight" is later revealed to have stripped the insulation, intending to kill the deckhand in order to save oxygen (''[[The Face of the Enemy]]'').
*Several copies work around ''Galactica'' applying the organic resin.
*Another copy is either knocked out or killed by Tyrol and used to replace Boomer so she could escape.
*Another copy has to forcibly restrain a Six who nearly gets into a fight with a human worker.
*Another Eight (or possibly the same one that restrained the Six) is mortally wounded during the hull breach on ''Galactica''. She asks to see Colonel Tigh, who she knows by this point is her "father," as the Final Five are the creators of the eight numbered models. Tigh visits this Eight on her deathbed and thus she is able to die with some peace.
*The remaining Eights who survived the [[Battle of The Colony]] presumably joined the human race with the rest of the Cylons.


Following this, Boomer works hard within the fleet, initially assisting [[Laura Roslin]]'s attempts to gather together as many surviving civilian ships within the Colonies as possible, finding a number of ships critical to the fledgling fleet's survival (such as a fuel tanker) ([[Mini-Series]]); she has also been engaged in other critical acts that have aided the continued survival of the fleet, such as the discovery of a [[tylium]]-rich asteroid, replete with an active Cylon mine ([[The Hand of God]]). It is her Raptor which also locates a source of water to replenish the fleet ([[Water]]).
==Notes==
*[[Ronald D. Moore|Ron D. Moore]] stated in an interview for ''TheFandom.com'', "There is no original human Sharon. The idea is not that there was likely an original human model that they were copied from. The idea was that these models of Cylon were sort of developed out of their own study of us. The Cylons on some level looked at humanity and said 'You know what? There's really only 12 of you.' If these are the 12, and sort of if you look at them they each represent different archetypes of what humanity is." This is contradicted however in [[No Exit]] when it is revealed that [[Cavil]] was created in the image of Ellen's father.
*The two notable Eights, [[Sharon Valerii]] and {{callsign|Athena}}, met for the first time in the [[Season 3 (2006-07)|Season Three]] midseason finale "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]". Before that, they were often in the same episode but never shared a scene.
*[[w:Valerii|Valerii]] is the male plural form of the Roman name of the family Valeria. Valerius is the singular form.
*Neither Eight with extended time with the Colonials refers to her lover by his first name on screen during the first two seasons. During that time, Sharon Valerii calls [[Chief Tyrol]] by "Chief" instead of "Galen," while Sharon Agathon uses [[Karl Agathon]]'s callsign, Helo. Ronald D. Moore explained in his blog that no one had ever really called Tyrol "Galen" before, and hearing Valerii say it during her death scene would have distracted from the emotional impact of her death. Moore compared it to the Seinfeld episode when Kramer's first name is revealed to be "Cosmo"; i.e. the viewers would be unused to Tyrol's previously unknown first name. As for Agathon, everybody usually just calls him "Helo". Sharon Valerii referred to Chief Tyrol by "Galen" for the first time while speaking to [[Cally]] in the Cylon Detention Center on [[New Caprica]], long after their romantic relationship had ended. Whereas Sharon Agathon calls Helo by his first name, Karl, in "[[The Woman King]]".
*''[[Caprica (series)|Caprica]]'' producers [[Kevin Murphy]] and [[Jane Espenson]] have stated that one of various ideas for the future of the series discussed, but not finalized, by the writing staff was that [[Tamara Adama]] became the archetype for the Number Eight model.<ref>{{archivelink|live=No|url=http://www.capricatimes.com/the-caprica-times-exclusive-interview-kevin-murphy|title=''The Caprica Times'' Exclusive Interview: Kevin Murphy}}</ref><ref>[http://twitter.com/#!/JaneEspenson/status/66023637202903040 Tweet by Jane Espenson]</ref>


=== The Sleeper Awakens ===


However, at the same time she is apparently supporting the fleet, Boomer's underlying Cylon programming periodically emerges. Her Cylon programming sabotages ''Galactica's'' water tanks, which results in the initial water shortage ([[Water]]). Later, she may have assisted a copy of [[Aaron Doral]] in access to a munitions store aboard ''Galactica'' to construct a bomb which very nearly kills [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]]. 
==References==


Having "awoken" shortly after the bombs used to destroy ''Galactica's'' water tanks were planted to find herself soaking wet ([[Water]]), Boomer's human personality becomes increasingly concerned that she is not all she appears. Her worry increases when she experiences a certain "attraction" to a captured [[Cylon Raider]], and is able to give insight into how it can be properly assessed and understood ([[Six Degrees of Separation]], [[Flesh and Bone]]). Her concerns are further elevated when, following the bombing by Doral, ''Galactica's'' [[Master-at-Arms]], Sergeant [[Hadrian]] suspects her and Tyrol of Cylon complicity ([[Litmus]]).
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Isolated from Tyrol following this event, when he ends their relationship following the arrest of Specialist [[Socinus]] ([[Litmus]]) and facing Tyrol's own suspicions concerning her activities immediately before the bombing, Boomer finds herself emotionally isolated and stressed. She takes the Cylon detector test created by Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]]. Baltar hides the true results to cover himself from recrimination from other Cylon agents and lies to Boomer, telling her she is not a Cylon ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Boomer finds short solace in his test results and now deals with accusations from others when she finds the word "CYLON" written on the mirror of her locker ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]).


Confused and isolated, Boomer withdraws into herself, and attempts suicide, but finds herself initially unable to do so. During her second attempt, she is interrupted by Doctor Baltar who, rather than discouraging her, essentially gives her his blessing on her attempt. Following his departure from the bunkroom, Boomer does shoot herself. However, her Cylon personality apparently interrupts the attempt, and Boomer can only severely wound herself in the face ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).
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=== Boomer's Dark Discovery and Demise ===
 
After [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] absconds with the captured Raider intended for an attack on a basestar orbiting [[Kobol]], Commander Adama orders Boomer and ECO [[Margaret Edmonson|Racetrack]] to use an [[Cylon Transponder]] in their Raptor to infiltrate the basestar place a nuclear warhead within to destroy it. The mission is a success. However, when the weapon would not auto-release from the Raptor after landing, Boomer exits the ship and into the expanse of the basestar's interior, where she encounters a dozen copies of herself, confirming her worse fear. Boomer escapes in the Raptor while her copies caress the weapon just before it detonates and destroys the basestar. Back on ''Galactica'', her encounter with her copies on the basestar presumably forces Boomer's Cylon personality to emerge once more. She visits [[CIC]] to accept thanks from Commander Adama, then shoots and seriously wounds him ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).
 
She is summarily restrained by guards and is jailed in the [[brig]].  During her emprisonment, Tigh attempts to forcibly extract information from her. Sharon's human and Cylon personalities appear to stonewall him ([[Scattered]]).  Chief [[Tyrol]] is later thrown in the same brig cell by Col. Tigh because he is wrongly suspected of being a Cylon.  While imprisoned together, Boomer tries to convince Tyrol that her feelings for him were real and important, but he rejects her utterly and said he would kill her if she touched him.
[[Image:Sharondeath.jpg|Sharon dies in Tyrol's arms.|right|thumb]]
Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] later enters the cell, austensibly to collect a blood sample from Tyrol to prove his innocence using the [[Cylon detector]], but instead Baltar injects Tyrol with a potent toxin that would kill him in a matter of seconds if Baltar doesn't give him an antidote. Baltar did this to interogate Boomer, because he knew she loved Tyrol and wouldn't want him to die. Baltar interrogates Sharon, demanding to know how many other Cylons were in the Fleet. Boomer, near hysterics, protested that she didn't know.  Baltar insists that somewhere in her subconscious mind, underneath all of her programming and false memories, she truly ''did'' know and with a stressful enough stimulus such as placing Tyrol's life in danger it would come forward.  At the last second, she cried out that there were eight other Cylons in the Fleet. Baltar revives Tyrol.  Subsequently, Baltar intended to perform numerous mental and physical tests on her, like a "lab rat".
 
Soon after, while being transferred to a new reinforced cell in the [[brig]] built to hold Cylons, as a large crowd of crewmembers jeers at her and calls her a traitor, an enraged [[Cally]] breaks through the crowd holding a gun and shoots Boomer at point blank range.  Dying in Tyrol's arms, her last words were "I love you, Chief" ("[[Resistance]]").
 
Boomer's body was then moved to the morgue, and autopsied.  The now recovered [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] visited her corpse, asked "Why?" aloud, and wept over her body.  Commander Adama gave Cally a slap on the wrist by sentencing her to only 30 days in the brig for discharging a weapon without authorization, and she was never tried for murder since Boomer was merely yet another enemy Cylon destroyed ("[[The Farm]]").
 
{{spoiltext|According to an  [http://www.thefandom.com/Article50.phtml interview] with Ron D. Moore, Galactica-Boomer is not dead.  When Cally shot her ''Galactica'' was close enough to one of the Cylon ships near Kobol that her consciousnes was downloaded into another body and she woke up.  [[Downloaded|The episode]] pretaining to this storyline is rumored to either have been moved to the end of Season 2 as a special episode, moved back to Season 3 or terminated altogether.  Time will tell whether anything actually comes of this plotline.}}
 
== Caprica Copy ==
[[Image:Cshva.jpg|thumb|"Caprica Valerii" (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
 
When [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] is left on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], the [[Cylons]] use him in an elaborate experiment. Key to this experiment is another variant of Valerii, with copies of [[Aaron Doral]] and [[Number Six|Six]] acting as overseers for the experiment. She is initially encountered "rescuing" Helo from capture by [[Number Six|Six]]. Unaware of Valerii's true nature, Helo genuinely believes this Valerii copy to be the "Boomer" he knew from ''Galactica''.  Following his rescue, Valerii leads Helo to "her" [[Raptor]], now in the hands of Cylons, thus convincing him that they have no direct way off of the planet ([[Water]]).
 
Following this, and having received a "Colonial signal" on the radio receiver they are carrying, she leads Helo to a city where they find a fully-equipped "fallout shelter" in which two people can live in reasonable security, hidden from above-ground Cylon operations, and with sufficient supplies to last a considerable period of time ([[Act of Contrition]]).
 
=== The Experiment ===
 
The purpose in establishing this "nest" appears to be to elicit an emotional response in Helo towards Valerii. When this fails, and he continues to express a desire to get off the planet, the Cylons arrange for Valerii to be "captured", determining that if Helo does not seek to rescue her, the experiment has failed, and he must be killed ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).
 
Following Helo's "rescue" of Valerii, genuine concern and mutual need result in them making love ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]), which she reports to Doral and Six. A new hideout, a cabin in the woods, is being constructed for Helo and Valerii, and she is instructed to lead him there and have him stay with her there - or kill him if he attempts to leave ([[Flesh and Bone]]).
 
Faced with this, and the realization that she has herself fallen in love with Helo, Valerii disobeys her instructions and attempts to lead Helo to [[Delphi]], where they hope to steal a vehicle and get off the planet ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]). On the way to the spaceport, Valerii shows signs of being pregnant: she is sick ([[The Hand of God]]) and develops a ravenous appetite ([[Colonial Day]]).
 
=== Helo's Discovery ===
 
On reaching Delphi, she and Helo attempt to break into the Cylon facilities and reach the spaceport, but when Helo encounters another copy of Valerii, he draws the initial conclusion that she is a human clone created by the Cylons, and goes on the run alone ([[Colonial Day]]). When Valerii catches up with him, her emotional condition is so confused that she challenges him to shoot her ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]). However, Helo is only able to wound her. He takes her with him in the hope she can help him get off of Caprica.  While Helo keeps her at gunpoint, she leads him to the [[Delphi Museum]].  While in a nearby ruined building for a storm to pass, Sharon tells Helo that her love for him is real and that she is pregnant with his child.
 
When she and Helo come across Starbuck, who has landed at [[Delphi]] to extract the [[Arrow of Apollo]], Thrace discovers that Valerii is a Cylon and attempts to shoot her.  It is Helo, unable to bring himself to kill the Cylon, who stops Thrace and reveals to her that Valerii is pregnant.  ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]) Starbuck is convinced that Caprica-Sharon must be a Cylon copy of the "real" Sharon on ''Galactica''.  Caprica-Sharon tries to convince her that they are both Cylons and both of them is just as "real" as the other, by remembering the first time they met, to no avail.
 
=== Valerii and The Resistance ===
 
After Thrace attempted to kill Valerii, she escapes in Thrace's Cylon Raider, likely attempting to save the life of her unborn child ([[Scattered]]). After tracking them for several days, she returns to Helo and the [[Resistance (movement)|Caprica resistance]] to aid them in finding the missing Kara ([[The Farm]]). Valerii steals a Cylon [[Heavy Raider]] and arrives at the rescue scene to destroy several Centurions and rescue the entire resistance group. Convinced that this Sharon copy can be sufficiently trusted, or at least give useful information on Cylon activity, they allow Caprica Boomer to join them as they take the Heavy Raider back to [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]].
 
When Valerii walks aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', [[Lee Adama]] spots her, grabs Valerii and places his gun to her head, obviously angry that another Sharon copy (like the one that shot his father) exists. Helo immediately places his gun against Adama's head. Roslin manages to calm both enough to drop their weapons, and orders Valerii to be ejected out of the airlock. Valerii pleads for her life and tells Roslin she knows the precise location of the [[Laura Roslin faction|faction's]] objective: The [[Tomb of Athena]]. Roslin reconsiders and places Valerii in the brig. A later discussion by Roslin with Valerii confirms for Roslin that the Cylon is actually working on their side because Valerii wants her child and Helo to remain safe; Roslin believes what constitutes as a mothering instinct and love for Helo in Valerii is currently driving her motivations sufficiently to trust her.
 
Valerii accompanies Roslin's party to [[Kobol]]. Valerii knows the specific passages of the Tomb in the scriptures of the [[Sacred Scrolls]] by memory and, based on the passages, plots the group's path along a ridge nearby. As [[Elosha]] examines a gravestone marker along the ancient trail, the handcuffed Valerii senses danger.  She is too late to warn anyone; two "Bouncing Betty"-style antipersonnel mines detonate, killing Elosha. At the same instant, a group of Centurions open fire. As others hide or return fire, Valerii vaults away, with Lee Adama in pursuit, believing she is trying to escape. Valerii scoops up a grenade launcher lying ahead, and Lee Adama thinks she is about to fire on him when she aims for the last Centurion and destroys it ("[[Home, Part I]]"). At camp, Adama and Thrace are perplexed that Helo now still loves Valerii, although he knows she's a machine.
 
While walking she tells Helo she knows that her child is a girl.  Commander Adama's search party arrives at Roslin's camp. The warm reunion of the two leaders and family was intterrupted when Adama sees this second copy of Sharon Valerii. Commander Adama immediately tries to choke her to death.  He releases her after experiencing terrible chest pains (probably the result of his recent surgery, or from anxiety), as she says "And you asked 'why'?" (mysteriously referencing what Commander Adama said over the body of the dead ''Galactica'' Boomer copy).
 
[[Tom Zarek]]'s follower, [[Meier]], tries to convince her to help him kill both Adamas. Valerii believed her ''Galactica'' counterpart was being held in the [[brig]], but Meier informs her that she was killed.  She expresses her outrage to Helo that the crew just let Cally kill Boomer, with Cally receiving only 30 days in the brig as punishment.  Valerii tells Helo that Commander Adama and the others don't think Cylons are people; they think she's a thing and not a person -- a thing they may kill once they no longer need her.  Valerii pretends to take up Meier's proposal to kill Commander Adama and Lee Adama, but after they all draw their weapons she shoots Meier instead, saving the lives of both Adamas.  She announces to Commander Adama that she is not the same Sharon that shot him, and that she is not a sleeper agent with hidden protocols waiting to activate; she makes her own choices.  She surrenders the weapon to Commander Adama, to everyone's surprise.


=== The Cooperative Cylon ===
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Subsequently, Valerii was brought aboard battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' and imprisoned in a new reinforced cell designed to incarcerate [[Humano-Cylon]]s, built originally to hold the copy known as Boomer.  [[Number Six]] tells Dr. Baltar that Sharon's baby will be born in that cell.  Number Six considers Sharon and Helo's biological child to be hers; she says that she will be its "mother" and Baltar will be it's "father" ([[Home, Part II]]).
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While in her cell Sharon nearly has a miscarriage, and has to be rushed to [[Sickbay]] where Dr. [[Cottle]] succeeds in saving her baby's life.  The humanoid Cylon known as [[D'anna Biers]], posing as a reporter for the Fleet News Service, stumbles upon Valerii while filming her documentary in Sickbay.  D'anna threatened to expose that Adama harbors a Cylon aboard ''Galactica'' which may turn the Fleet against him, but he confiscated what he believed was Biers' tape of Valerii.  In reality, D'anna secretly switched tapes and kept the real one.  This critical information was not broadcast in the final cut of her documentary distributed to the Fleet, but it was broadcast back to the Cylons on Caprica (by way of two Raiders that attacked ''Galactica'' in order to get within transmission range). The humanoid Cylons watching in on Caprica (including a copy of D'anna and yet another Valerii copy) were surprised yet overjoyed that Helo's Valerii copy was still alive (they were apparently unaware that she had survived).  They were incredibly concerned that her hybrid child would survive, saying that it must be protected at all costs ([[Final Cut]]).
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When ''Galactica'' experiences mysterious computer failures and system malfunctions from yet another Cylon virus, Commander Adama orders Helo to show the incarcerated Valerii the strange Cylon code. Valerii identifies it as a very virulent [[Logic bomb]] that will take control of the ship and kill off the crew if she does not help. Reluctantly, on advice from President Roslin, Commander Adama brings Valerii to [[CIC]], where Valerii cuts her arm open and connects her body to a fiber optic line to communicate with ''Galactica's'' mainframe [[Computers|computer]] and communication channels. The process is painful both to Valerii and to the crew watching the spectacle. With Valerii now with access, she takes into her a portion of the logic bomb code, then instructs Lieutenant [[Gaeta]] to wipe the hard drives of the system computers to erase all Cylon virus traces for good. ''Galactica'' is a sitting duck to a massive Cylon fighter force on the outskirts of [[DRADIS]] range while Valerii makes adjustments to the code. She resends the code out on the communication channels to the Cylon fleet. In a reversal of the events suffered by the Colonials in the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], every Cylon fighter loses power and weapons. Adama's Vipers have a [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|free-for-all shooting]], destroying every Cylon fighter without a single Colonial casualty ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
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=== The Cylon "Interrogator" ===
 
After ''Galactica'' reunites with battlestar ''Pegasus'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] sends Lieutenant [[Thorne]] to inspect the incarcerated Valerii. He beats her and attempts to sexually assault her while his guards watch. Fortunately for Valerii, both Agathon and Tyrol find out about Thorne and what was done to his previous [[Number Six#Gina|prisoner]] and arrive in time to stop him. Tyrol accidentally kills Thorne in the process, and both Agathon and Tyrol are arrested by the ''Pegasus'' guards and taken to Cain's battlestar, where a summary court-martial leaves Agathon and Tyrol pending execution by Admiral Cain. Commander Adama sends a [[Marines|Marine]] force and his Viper squadrons out and tells to Cain over [[wireless]] that he is getting his men. Valerii and all of the fleet await  news on the survival of her "past" and current love as a standoff between the battlestars begins ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).  The attempted rape of Caprica-Sharon resulted in her receiving a hairline fracture in one of her ribs, and extensive bruising notably on her wrists when marines were holding her down.  She was in a state of shock long after it ended.  Commander Adama personally appologized to her that it happened aboard his ship.  (([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]])
 
=== Future episodes ===
 
{{spoiltext|According to an [http://www.thefandom.com/Article50.phtml interview] with RDM, Caprica-Sharon's pregnancy storyline will come to a 'conclusion' by the end of season 2.  Also, during the early episodes of the second half of season 2, the ''Galactica'' crew will debate whether or not they should force her to have an abortion rather than allow the Cylon's experiment to conclude and possibly pose a threat to them.}}
 
==Other Copies==
*At the end of the [[Mini-Series]], a copy of Valerii wearing the Colonial Raptor Pilot Uniform appears to be leading the group of Humano-Cylons who recover the [[Aaron Doral#PR Executive Copy|PR Executive Copy of Aaron Doral]] from [[Ragnar Anchorage]].
**It is possible that the this is the same individual as the Caprica copy. While, at the time the [[Mini-Series]] had been filmed, there were no plans to have [[Tahmoh Penikett]] reprise the role of [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], the ending of the [[Mini-Series]] forms a link to "[[33]]", establishing that the Cylons have developed a plan for Helo's presence on Caprica.
*A copy of Valerii is witnessed wearing a grey coat at the spaceport at [[Delphi]]. However, she is immediately killed by Helo's Valerii copy ([[Colonial Day]]).
*Multiple copies of the Valerii model were encountered on the [[basestar]] over [[Kobol]]. It is likely that they were dispatched to the Raptor in order to activate some latent portion of the ''Galactica'' copy's Cylon personality ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).
*A copy of Valerii is seen at the end of "[[Final Cut]]", also wearing a grey coat like other Sharons on Caprica, remarking in surprise that Caprica-Valerii is still alive.
 
==Notes==
*[[Number Six]] rhetorically asks Baltar in "[[Flesh and Bone]]" why he thinks that Valerii got her callsign, "Boomer." As shown twice in "[[Water]]" and with her destruction of the basestar in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]", the ''Galactica'' Valerii appeared to have a penchant for blowing things up. This is not coincident with her [[Boomer (TOS)|namesake]] from the Original Series, who did not show this tendency.
**Number Six could probably have been using sexual innuendo when she rhetorically asked why the ''Galactica'' Valerii's callsign was "Boomer"; for example, as demonstrated in "[[Six Degrees of Separation]]" (Actress Grace Park said in interviews that she was so determined to make an enthusiastic lovemaking scene, i.e. copious amounts of moaning, etc., that when the scene director finished they flat out said their footage would have to be ''heavily'' edited).
** Alternately, this may be an in-joke to the anime ''[[Wikipedia:Bubblegum Crisis|Bubblegum Crisis]]'' (and its spin-offs). ''Bubblegum Crisis'' generally focuses on a futuristic police force in conflict with rogue androids with a human appearance, or "synthetic humanoids", referred to as ''[[Wikipedia:boomer (anime term)|boomer]]s''. Some of these (such as Cynthia in BGC1 '''Tinsel City''') are completely unaware of their nature as synthetically created beings.  (Of course, [[Boomer (TOS)|Boomer]] from the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|original ''Battlestar Galactica'']] predates this usage.)
*[[Wikipedia:Valerii|Valerii]] is the male plural form of the Roman name of the family Valeria. Valerius is the singular form.
*In an interview for thefandom.com Ron D. Moore stated that "'''There is no original human Sharon.'''  The idea is not that there was likely an original human model that they were copied from. The idea was that these models of Cylon were sort of developed out of their own study of us. The Cylons on some level looked at humanity and said “You know what? There’s really only 12 of you”. If these are the 12, and sort of if you look at them they each represent different archetypes of what humanity is".
 
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"Number Eight" is one of the twelve humanoid Cylon models. She is the youngest in both fact and appearance and generally associated with the name "Sharon" when interacting with humans. Eights are known for being more empathic and compassionate than the other Cylons. Humans have particularly been exposed to two specific copies, Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, a "sleeper" agent who served on board Galactica believing herself to be one of the human crew while unknowingly programmed as a saboteur and assassin, and Sharon "Athena" Agathon, who was assigned to seduce Karl "Helo" Agathon on the planet Caprica, but fell in love with him and defected to the human side, replacing Boomer as a Colonial officer on Galactica. There are numerous other copies among the Cylon populace.

Sharon "Boomer" Valerii[edit]

Main article: Sharon Valerii

Sharon "Boomer" Valerii is a copy initially planted as a "sleeper" agent in the Colonial Fleet. Implanted with false memories, she is unaware of her Cylon nature and serves for two years as Lieutenant Valerii on Galactica, where she is assigned as a Raptor pilot and also engaged in a secret relationship with Chief Tyrol. After the Cylon attack, her underlying programming repeatedly emerges which leads her to unconscious acts of sabotage. Growing confusion about her true self results in a deep depression and a failed suicide attempt. After Valerii returns from a successful mission to destroy a Cylon basestar, she shoots Commander Adama in the chest, wounding him critically. She is incarcerated in the brig and is shot and killed by Specialist Cally while being moved to a specially-built holding cell.

Athena (left), Boomer (right).

Her consciousness is downloaded and she is reborn in another body. Subsequently, she experiences severe problems integrating into Cylon society and long considers herself more human than Cylon. She eventually works together with Caprica-Six in an attempt to change Cylon popular opinion about humans and she emerges as one of the Cylon leaders jointly responsible for the end of the occupation of the Twelve Colonies and later the Cylon occupation on New Caprica. Following the failure on New Caprica, Valerii abandons her hopes for coexistence with humans and she denounces her past on Galactica.

Later she sides with Cavil in the Cylon Civil War and is the only Eight on his side. She is in a physical relationship with Cavil, and is even aware of the identities of the Final Five and that Ellen Tigh is being held prisoner within the Cylon fleet. She appears to defect and helps Ellen escape, but it's part of a successful plan to kidnap Hera Agathon, the daughter of the Eight called Athena. Boomer is put in the brig upon her arrival on Galactica despite her rescue of Ellen, but escapes by manipulating the emotions of her old lover Galen Tyrol. She tells Tyrol that despite everything, she still loves him and thinks about him often, even creating a projection of their dream home and a daughter for them. Knowing that the rebel Cylons plan to try and execute Boomer for betraying them, Tyrol knocks out another Eight and switches her with Boomer. Boomer then assaults and switches places with Athena, and kidnaps Hera so that she can be studied on The Colony. She seems to show some remorse for kidnapping Hera, who she bonds with on the trip to The Colony, and is the only one of Cavil's faction who shows her any compassion. Boomer gives Hera back to Athena and Helo during the Battle of The Colony, saying that she owed Admiral Adama a favor and she has made what was probably her last choice. Boomer is then shot and killed by Athena. With the Resurrection Hub destroyed, Boomer's death was final.

Sharon "Athena" Agathon[edit]

Main article: Sharon Agathon

Sharon "Athena" Agathon is a copy first encountered by Karl "Helo" Agathon, when he is stranded on Caprica. She is initially assigned to seduce him by impersonating Lieutenant Sharon Valerii, as part of a Cylon cross-breeding experiment. To facilitate her mission, this Sharon was given Boomer's memories at least up until the point of leaving Helo behind on Caprica. Unlike Boomer, she is always aware of being a Cylon. Sharon later turns against her people and helps Agathon escape the planet; pregnant with his child during that time. Helo, first shocked by her true nature, ultimately accepts her as the mother of his child and declares his love for her.

Once on Galactica, she is imprisoned in the cell built for Boomer and long seen as nothing but a "toaster". She frequently provides intelligence and earns Admiral Adama's trust by helping the Colonial Fleet escape peril several times. Sharon gives birth on Galactica to a daughter named Hera, but President Roslin considers the Cylons' interest in the baby a threat to the Fleet and so has Doctor Cottle fake the child's death and give her to a foster mother. Sharon eventually marries Karl Agathon and becomes a Colonial Raptor pilot with the callsign "Athena". She believes Hera to be dead for more than a year, unaware of her presence on New Caprica or her recovery by the Cylons during the exodus from that planet. After learning the truth during a confrontation with Sharon Valerii, Athena is able to regain her daughter from the Cylons with the help of Caprica-Six.

Since her joining the Fleet she has become a trusted officer who is assigned the hardest of missions, at least one which being a Cylon helped her survive when it would be difficult for normal humans (TRS: "The Passage"). She tells Helo at one point that she has to struggle to be accepted everyday because of her true nature as a Cylon, but despite that she remains loyal to the Fleet. When she learns that the Colonials plan to wipe out the whole Cylon fleet by unleashing the lymphocytic encephalitis virus, she says that she will keep her word nonetheless even if it means she's the last Cylon in existence. At one point she encounters several other Eight copies on the Rebel Basestar, who revere her since she was the first Cylon to say "no" to the overall plan and now has a child and a place among the humans. They ask her to lead a mutiny against Natalie and the other Sixes, whose leadership they blame for their current troubles; however, Athena refuses, saying that the other Eights disgust her. She explains that they should choose which side they are on and not cut and run when things get ugly, or else they'll never achieve any of the things they want for themselves.

Athena later is severely beaten by Boomer and locked, half-conscious, in one of the ship's bathroom stalls, having to watch as Boomer seduces Helo. Athena frees herself too late to prevent Boomer from kidnapping Hera. Athena seems to fall into a depression, basically ignoring her husband and stating that she doesn't think they'll find Hera alive even when a rescue is finally launched for her. Athena is part of the strike team that invades The Colony through Raptors and finds that Boomer has saved her daughter from dissection. Boomer returns Hera to her, but Athena refuses to forgive Boomer, saying that returning Hera doesn't absolve Boomer's various betrayals. Boomer agrees. Athena then shoots and kills Boomer for her actions. Athena, Helo, and Hera survive the Battle of The Colony and settle on the new Earth to live out the rest of their days in peace.

Other Copies[edit]

A Number Eight copy at the Delphi spaceport.
  • Shortly after the Cylon Attack ends, an Eight in a pale blue tunic is one of four 'rebirth nurses' who greet Caprica-Six following her rebirth (this takes place at the same time as the events of the middle or end of the Miniseries, but is seen in the much later episode "Downloaded").
  • An Eight wearing a gray coat is witnessed by Helo at the spaceport at Delphi. She notices him and draws a gun on him, but is quickly shot by the Sharon with him. This reveals to Helo that his Sharon is a Cylon (TRS: "Colonial Day").
  • Multiple nude copies of the Eight model are present on the basestar over Kobol and confront Sharon Valerii outside the Raptor she has landed within the vessel, telling her that they love her and will see her again (TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II"). They are blown up along with the rest of the Basestar when the warhead planted by Valerii detonates. Despite having time to act, they do nothing to stop the warhead and apparently activate Valerii's Cylon programing once more as she later shoots Commander Adama without the usual trigger for her programing being present.
  • An Eight is among a group of rebirth nurses, possibly the same one that midwifed Caprica-Six, who welcome the reborn Sharon Valerii. Valerii becomes hysterical after seeing and hearing this copy.
  • A copy of Number Eight is seen at the end of "Final Cut," also wearing a grey coat like other Eights on Caprica, remarking in delight that the Sharon who escaped Caprica with Helo and Starbuck is still alive (and saying, "I told you" to the Number Five copy sitting next to her).
Eights onboard a Cylon basestar.
  • Numerous copies of Eight are seen on Cylon occupied Caprica throughout the episode "Downloaded".
  • Several Eights are part of a group of humanoid Cylons blown up on New Caprica by a bomb planted by Samuel Anders and Galen Tyrol as they approach a group of Centurions exiting from a Heavy Raider which has just landed.
  • Another Eight sits next to Valerii on Colonial One during the Cylon Occupation Authority's discussion of the suicide bombing of New Caprica City's power station and the subsequent proposal that harsher measures be adopted. She does not speak during the meeting.
  • An Eight, referred to in script as "Sweet Eight," seduces Felix Gaeta on New Caprica. She offers to check on and, when possible, rescue prisoners whom he cares about. Secretly aware that Gaeta is working with the human resistance, "Sweet Eight" saves a few token humans from Gaeta's lists and orders the remainder killed as being valuable to her human enemies. Much later, "Sweet Eight" kills everyone else aboard Raptor 718 except Gaeta, including another Eight, in order to save oxygen for herself and Gaeta. Gaeta discovers this and she reveals her actions during the occupation of New Caprica. Gaeta then kills her (The Face of the Enemy). Gaius Baltar was aware of her actions on New Caprica ("Taking a Break From All Your Worries"; confirmed in "The Face of the Enemy").
  • An Eight can be seen practicing a Cylon version of Tai Chi in the episode "Torn" while nude.
  • Another Eight is among the infected Cylons captured by Galactica as part of the Colonials' plot to infect the Cylon race with the virus from the Lion's Head beacon. She and the others are executed by Karl Agathon before the plan can be put into action (TRS: "A Measure of Salvation"). Because no Resurrection Ship was in range, her death is final.
  • The Number Eights in the episode "Six of One," with the exception of Sharon Valerii, are supporters of the Number Six Natalie. They are excited at the prospect of discovering the Final Five and vote with the Twos and Sixes against the lobotomization of the Cylon Raiders.
  • The Eights in Natalie's group decide that they need to mutiny and turn to Athena to lead the rebellion. She refuses and tells them they need to pick a side and stick with it. One is mortally wounded by a Centurion (which is then killed by Starbuck) while attempting to disconnect the Hybrid. She apologizes to Athena asking for forgiveness admitting that Athena was right. Athena doesn't grant it, but Samuel Anders holds her hand and comforts her as she dies (TRS: "Faith").
  • Another copy works with Karl Agathon during the attack on the Cylon Resurrection Hub. When she gives him a massage like his wife does, he asks her about it and she say that she was curious about Sharon Agathon, so she downloaded her memories from the last time Agathon resurrected (TRS: "Rapture"). This makes her Sharon Agathon to some extent, complete with an emotional attachment to Karl Agathon. She is aware that it is an awkward situation for Karl, but is still annoyed when he rebuffs her. Shortly after, she helps him by giving a speech to the reluctant Viper pilots that motivate them to trust the Cylons. During the battle she and Karl take a Raptor to the Hub to retrieve the unboxed Number Three. Afterwards, she is furious when she learns that the humans double-crossed them and have no intention of handing over the Three (TRS: "The Hub"). In a deleted scene for the episode she is shot seconds after this revelation by a Cavil that was part of a boarding party. Helo kills the Cavil and goes to help her, but she's dead.
  • A pilot Eight, referred to as "Hard Eight" in script, is aboard Raptor 718 when it becomes separated from the Fleet. While attempting to repair a loose connection using deckhand Brooks' pliers, she is fatally electrocuted, after which it is discovered that the insulation had been stripped from the pliers. "Sweet Eight" is later revealed to have stripped the insulation, intending to kill the deckhand in order to save oxygen (The Face of the Enemy).
  • Several copies work around Galactica applying the organic resin.
  • Another copy is either knocked out or killed by Tyrol and used to replace Boomer so she could escape.
  • Another copy has to forcibly restrain a Six who nearly gets into a fight with a human worker.
  • Another Eight (or possibly the same one that restrained the Six) is mortally wounded during the hull breach on Galactica. She asks to see Colonel Tigh, who she knows by this point is her "father," as the Final Five are the creators of the eight numbered models. Tigh visits this Eight on her deathbed and thus she is able to die with some peace.
  • The remaining Eights who survived the Battle of The Colony presumably joined the human race with the rest of the Cylons.

Notes[edit]

  • Ron D. Moore stated in an interview for TheFandom.com, "There is no original human Sharon. The idea is not that there was likely an original human model that they were copied from. The idea was that these models of Cylon were sort of developed out of their own study of us. The Cylons on some level looked at humanity and said 'You know what? There's really only 12 of you.' If these are the 12, and sort of if you look at them they each represent different archetypes of what humanity is." This is contradicted however in No Exit when it is revealed that Cavil was created in the image of Ellen's father.
  • The two notable Eights, Sharon Valerii and Sharon "Athena" Agathon, met for the first time in the Season Three midseason finale "The Eye of Jupiter". Before that, they were often in the same episode but never shared a scene.
  • Valerii is the male plural form of the Roman name of the family Valeria. Valerius is the singular form.
  • Neither Eight with extended time with the Colonials refers to her lover by his first name on screen during the first two seasons. During that time, Sharon Valerii calls Chief Tyrol by "Chief" instead of "Galen," while Sharon Agathon uses Karl Agathon's callsign, Helo. Ronald D. Moore explained in his blog that no one had ever really called Tyrol "Galen" before, and hearing Valerii say it during her death scene would have distracted from the emotional impact of her death. Moore compared it to the Seinfeld episode when Kramer's first name is revealed to be "Cosmo"; i.e. the viewers would be unused to Tyrol's previously unknown first name. As for Agathon, everybody usually just calls him "Helo". Sharon Valerii referred to Chief Tyrol by "Galen" for the first time while speaking to Cally in the Cylon Detention Center on New Caprica, long after their romantic relationship had ended. Whereas Sharon Agathon calls Helo by his first name, Karl, in "The Woman King".
  • Caprica producers Kevin Murphy and Jane Espenson have stated that one of various ideas for the future of the series discussed, but not finalized, by the writing staff was that Tamara Adama became the archetype for the Number Eight model.[1][2]


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