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'''Callandra Henderson Tyrol''', better known by her nickname "'''Cally'''," is a young woman who works as a [[deckhand]] on ''{{RDM|Galactica}}''.


Specialist '''Cally''' is a deckhand aboard [[Original battlestar (RDM)|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' assigned to Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]. At the time of the [[Cylon Attack]] on the [[Twelve Colonies]], she is attached to Deck Crew 5. She is responsible for [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] and [[Raptor]] maintenance ([[Mini-Series]]). She is particularly adept at finding ways around the  lack of replacement parts aboard ''Galactica'', seen in her jury-rigging of several Vipers and Raptors.  Cally only joined the [[Colonial Fleet]] as a means to pay for dental school ([[Fragged]]).  According to [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s blog, Cally's term of required service ended at the same time that ''Galactica'' was to be decomissioned, and she was about to be honorably discharged and return to civilian life when the Cylons attacked, ending those plans.
During her tenure on ''Galactica'', she falls in love with her boss, [[Galen Tyrol]]. Despite this, she and fellow deckhand [[Socinus]], cover for Galen Tyrol on various occasions during Galen Tyrol's sexual interludes with [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]], until Valerii is revealed as a [[humanoid Cylon]]. After this revelation, and a near death experience on {{RDM|Kobol}}, Henderson's anger and hatred for the Cylons leads her to "kill" Valerii during Valerii's transfer to a newly constructed brig.  


==Biography==
Given 30 days in hack for unauthorized discharge of a firearm, she is lauded by her fellow crew members as a hero after her release. After reconciling with Galen Tyrol, their repaired relationship eventually amounts to a romantic one after Tyrol (suffering from suicidal dreams) savagely attacks Henderson after being awakened.  
Cally is part of a ''Galactica'' team sent to the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in order to enlist the help of convicts in ice mining operations ([[Bastille Day]]). Taken captive by the escaped immates, she is nearly raped by prisoner [[Mason]], who shoots her after she bites his ear off in defense. Cally is returned to ''Galactica's'' [[sickbay]] for treatment, where she was given the nickname "Specialist Lazy" in jest by her comrades.


Eventually, Cally returns to duty aboard ''Galactica'' where she is selected to join a Raptor Scout team bound for [[Kobol]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]). Her Raptor is attacked upon emerging from a [[FTL|Jump]], resulting in a crash on Kobol. As one of the few that was relatively unhurt, she is charged with caring for the injured crewmen. Cally later returns to the crash site with Chief Tyrol and [[Tarn]], and barely makes it back alive with a medkit for [[Socinus]] ([[Scattered]]). However, it is too late to save Socinus and Tyrol administers [[Morpha]] to aid him in a painless death, which greatly saddens Cally ([[Valley of Darkness]]).
Henderson marries Tyrol, taking on his family name, and both muster out of the Colonial Fleet to settle on [[New Caprica]] in order to raise their son, [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. While on New Caprica, she is a part of the [[Colonial Workers Alliance]], a labor union lead by Galen Tyrol. However, the [[Cylon Occupation Authority|Cylons' occupation]] of New Caprica destroys any dreams she had of a life on New Caprica: she is nearly executed as an [[New Caprica Resistance|"insurgent"]], but is later freed and returns to ''Galactica'' after the [[Second Exodus]].


Cally seems as prone to anger after a terrible event as Chief Tyrol, but unlike him, she tends to take direct action as a result, rather than becoming immobile or overly irrational.
Life on ''Galactica'', particularly with a child to take care of, causes strife within her marriage to Galen Tyrol. Additionally, she is the driving force into convincing Galen Tyrol to [[Dirty Hands|re-institute the Colonial Workers Alliance]] and press for an illegal strike. Unbeknownst to her, she is nearly executed by [[Marines]] at Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]]'s orders, under the charge that she is a mutineer. Later, despite [[A Day in the Life|an incident]] where she is nearly killed, the Tyrols try to save their marriage and put their family's interests first.  


While stranded, [[Crashdown]] attempts to lead a hopeless attack on a [[Cylon Centurion]] anti-aircraft emplacement, and gives Cally an assuredly suicidal order to draw the Centurions' fire. Cally is so terrified at carrying out the impossible order that she freezes in place instead of advancing.  Losing control and showing his imcompetence in leadership, Crashdown points a gun at Cally's head and threatens to shoot her if she does not obey.  Just before Crashdown counts to three to shoot Cally, Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] shoots him in the back, killing Crashdown instantly. The group fights a running battle with the Centurions to reach and destroy the [[Dradis]] dish supporting the Cylon gun emplacement.  [[Seelix]] is shot, but Cally saves her life by carrying her further ahead. A rescue team of Raptors arrives, and Cally returns to ''Galactica'' with the survivors ([[Fragged]]).
These efforts fail however, leaving her to take care of the child, which resorts on sleeplessness and dependence on anti-depressants and other medications. This strain is due to the revelation that Galen Tyrol is a Cylon, a fact Cally Tyrol discovers after following her husband to a [[Weapons Locker 1701D|weapons locker]]. After beating Galen Tyrol with a wrench, she attempts to kill Nicholas and herself by decompressing a [[launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]]; [[Tory Foster]], another one of the [[Final Five]], intervenes and manages to save Nicholas, but ejects Cally Tyrol into space. The crew on ''Galactica'' assumes that she committed suicide. During the [[Battle of The Colony]], her husband learns the truth from Foster's memories and kills her, avenging Cally's death.


Cally's anger transfers to Baltar when Tyrol was arrested and accused of being a Cylon himself due to his past relationship with [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], and threatens to reveal Baltar's part in Crashdown's death if Baltar does not act to clear Tyrol's name. Cally later shoots and kills the ''Galactica'' copy of Sharon Valerii because she is outraged that Chief Tyrol was thrown in the brig and was wrongly suspected of being a Cylon because of her ([[Resistance]]).  Cally is imprisoned in the [[brig]].  At Tyrol's request, Commander Adama gives Cally a lenient sentence of 30 days for "discharging a firearm without permission" ([[The Farm]]).
==Background==


[[image:Flight_of_the_phoenix-Welcome_Back.jpg|thumb|left|Various crew members throw a party for Cally's return to normal service.]]
Callandra Henderson is a young woman who joined the [[Colonial Fleet (TRS)|Colonial Fleet]] as a means to pay for dental school {{TRS|Fragged}}. Henderson is not fond of [[FTL]] jumps {{TRS|Miniseries}}, possibly because she suffers nausea during them {{TRS|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I}}.
After her 30 day sentence is finished, Cally is released from the brig, and a welcome back party is thrown for her on the [[Hangar Deck|hangar deck]] by the deck crew.  Chief Tyrol was still upset with her for killing Boomer, though Cally is grateful to the Chief for putting in a good word for her with Adama. She aids Tyrol in the construction of the [[Blackbird]]. By the time they finish construction, he reconciles with her ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).


Along with the rest of the crew, Cally is jubilant when the long-thought destroyed battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' finds ''Galactica''.  However, she is disgusted when several drunken ''Pegasus'' crewmen brag about repeatedly raping the captured [[Humano-Cylon|Cylon agent]] known as [[Number Six#Gina|Gina]], probably because she herself survived an [[Bastille Day|attempted rape]]. Chief Tyrol and Lt. [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]] are arrested and taken aboard ''Pegasus'' for causing the accidental death of ''Pegasus' '' Lt. [[Thorne]] after they stop him from raping the incarcerated but cooperative Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii. Cally pleads with [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] to do something about the incident when Adama learns that Admiral [[Helena Cain]] intends to execute Tyrol and Helo. Adama dismisses her with quiet purpose ("You have work to do") as he prepares the battlestar to engage the militant admiral's command with his older Viper squadrons ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).
Henderson, as well as her boss, Galen Tyrol, seems prone to anger after a terrible event. Unlike Tyrol, Henderson tends to take decisive action as a result of her anger, rather than becoming immobile or overly irrational.
 
She is particularly adept at finding ways around the lack of replacement parts aboard ''Galactica''. As Tyrol often comments, Henderson's small stature allows her better access to smaller spaces in the {{RDM|Viper}}s and [[Raptor]]s she repairs.
 
==Character History at a Glance==
 
*Henderson (who is never called by her surname until Season 4) is a deckhand aboard the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''{{RDM|Galactica}}'', working under the supervision of Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] at the time of the battlestar's [[Galactica Museum|scheduled decommissioning]].
*At some point, Henderson is aware of the secret liaisons between Chief Tyrol and [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]]. She once catches them at the end of one of their get-togethers, and warns Tyrol first that he's going to get caught by [[Saul Tigh|the XO]] if he's not careful, and second that he needs to recognize the difference between who he can and cannot count on. {{TRS|Daybreak, Part II}}<ref>This is in a flashback scene that only appears in the extended cut of "Daybreak," available on the Season 4.5 DVD and Blu-ray sets. It is unknown at what exact time the scene occurs, before or after the Fall.</ref>
*Henderson is attached to [[Deck Crew 5]] and responsible for [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] and [[Raptor]] maintenance {{TRS|Miniseries}}.
*Henderson survives the initial attacks to ''Galactica'' in the wake of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], but loses many friends, including [[Prosna]], a fellow deckhand, after the battlestar manages fire damage after being struck by a nuclear missile.
*During an ill-fated mission to the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', Henderson is nearly raped by prisoner [[Mason]]. He shoots her after she bites his ear off in defense. Henderson is returned to ''Galactica'''s [[sickbay]] for treatment, where she is given the nickname "Specialist Lazy" in jest by her comrades {{TRS|Bastille Day}}.
*Along with the rest of the deck crew, Henderson lies under oath to protect Chief Tyrol during a tribunal on a Cylon infiltration and attack {{TRS|Litmus}}.
*For the next several weeks, Henderson assists Chief Tyrol in examining the [[You Can't Go Home Again|captured]] Cylon Raider brought aboard ''Galactica'' {{TRS|Six Degrees of Separation}}.
*On a Raptor Scout team bound for {{RDM|Kobol}} {{TRS|Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I}}. Henderson's Raptor is attacked upon emerging from a [[FTL|Jump]], resulting in a crash on Kobol. As one of the few that was relatively unhurt, Henderson later returns to the crash site with Chief Tyrol and [[Tarn]], and barely makes it back alive with a forgotten [[medkit]] for [[Socinus]] {{TRS|Scattered}}. However, the recovered medkit is too late to save Socinus, which greatly saddens Henderson {{TRS|Valley of Darkness}}.
*{{callsign|Crashdown}} gives Henderson an assuredly suicidal order as part of his attack to disable a Cylon anti-missile battery that threatens their expected [[SAR]] rescue.  Henderson is so terrified that she freezes in placeLosing control, Crashdown threatens to shoot her if she does not obey.  Just before Crashdown shoots Henderson, Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] shoots him in the back, killing Crashdown instantly.
*[[Diana Seelix|Seelix]] is shot in their retreat, but Henderson saves her life by carrying her further ahead.  A rescue team of Raptors arrives, and Henderson returns to ''Galactica'' with the survivors {{TRS|Fragged}}.
*Henderson's anger transfers to [[Gaius Baltar]] when [[Galen Tyrol|the Chief]] is arrested and accused of being a Cylon himself due to his past relationship with Boomer, and threatens to reveal Baltar's part in Crashdown's death if Baltar does not act to clear Tyrol's name.
*Outraged by Tyrol's plight, Henderson shoots and kills Boomer {{TRS|Resistance (episode)}}. Henderson is imprisoned in the [[brig]] but, at Tyrol's request, Commander Adama gives her a lenient sentence of 30 days for "discharging a firearm without permission" {{TRS|The Farm}}.
[[image:Flight_of_the_phoenix-Welcome_Back.jpg|thumb|right|Various crew members throw a party for Henderson's return to normal service.]]
*Released from the brig, the deck crews give Henderson a welcome back party. Chief Tyrol is still upset with her for killing Boomer, although Henderson is grateful to the Chief for putting in a good word for her with Adama.
*She aids Tyrol in the construction of the [[Blackbird]]. By the time they finish construction, Tyrol reconciles with her {{TRS|Flight of the Phoenix}}.
*Henderson is disgusted when several drunken ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' crewmen brag about repeatedly raping the captured [[humanoid Cylon]] known as [[Gina Inviere]], a reaction probably made stronger for her because Henderson herself survived an [[Bastille Day|attempted rape]].  
*Henderson pleads with [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] to do something about the incident where Chief Tyrol and {{callsign|Helo}} are arrested by ''Pegasus'' command for the death of an officer that attempted to rape [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Sharon]] {{TRS|Pegasus (episode)}}.
*After Commander Adama visits the hangar deck to confer with [[Laird]] on the status of the preparations for the [[Battle of the Resurrection Ship|planned attack]], Adama takes Henderson aside and questions her about Laird. Henderson reveals Laird's origins that enforce Adama's increasing suspicions about ''Pegasus'' commander, Admiral [[Helena Cain]].
*Henderson and Chief Tyrol later discover sabotaged Viper ammo by the Cylon-sympathizer [[Demand Peace]] movement {{TRS|Epiphanies}} as well as a storage crate with a [[Rya Kibby|stowaway]] inside {{TRS|The Captain's Hand}}.
*Henderson wakes a sleeping Chief Tyrol up while he was in the midst of a suicidal nightmare. The delusional Tyrol gives Henderson a savage beating, quickly pummeling her into a bloody mess and knocking her unconscious.  After a moment, Tyrol comes to his senses, shocked by what he had just done, and takes Henderson to sickbay, carrying her in his arms {{TRS|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I}}.
*Henderson's jaw is wired shut to heal, but she forgives Tyrol and says she always cared about him. Interestingly, her feelings for Tyrol were apparently known to [[Cavil]] prior to his exposure as a humanoid Cylon {{TRS|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I}}.
 
==On New Caprica==
[[File:Cally UnfinBusiness.JPG|thumb|Henderson on New Caprica before becoming obviously pregnant {{TRS|Unfinished Business}}.]]
A year later on [[New Caprica]], Henderson is married to Tyrol (taking his surname) and is pregnant with [[Brendan Costanza]]'s child {{TRS|A Disquiet Follows My Soul}}, although she has led Galen Tyrol to believe he is the father {{TRS|Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II}}. Her intimate relationship with Costanza took place prior to her marriage to Tyrol. Her son, [[Nicholas Tyrol|Nicholas]] (named after her grandfather), is born and lives with her and her husband as of the 67th day of the New Caprica occupation by the Cylons ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 1|The Resistance, Episode 1]]). Knowing her husband's test of faith after discovering that Brother [[Cavil]] was a humanoid Cylon, Tyrol is pleased for plans of a [[dedication ceremony]] for her new son ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance|The Resistance, Episode 4]]).
 
Following suicide attacks by the insurgency led in part by her husband, Cally Tyrol is picked up by members of the [[New Caprica Police]] in a night-time raid. [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]], in his role with the NCP, discovers that she has been earmarked for execution, and asks [[Sharon Valerii]] to save her life. Valerii remarks that she does not know what she can do, as internal security is under the proviso of a different ministry. Henderson angrily tells Valerii to "go away and leave us alone" if she can't help her {{TRS|Precipice}}.
 
Lyman later cuts her bonds and allows her to escape from the detention group slated for execution in a remote location. Chief Tyrol, arriving with a resistance sniper team, pushes his running wife out of the resistance's line of fire as they destroy the [[Cylon Centurion]] firing squad. She and her son hide in the resistance's underground bunker {{TRS|Exodus, Part I}}.
 
==After New Caprica==
 
Cally Tyrol and her family are [[Exodus, Part II|evacuated]] along with most of the human population of [[New Caprica]]. She is next seen resting on a bunk with her son in a room overcrowded with refugees. Her husband visits her after he and the [[Circle]] secretly execute [[James Lyman]] for having collaborated with the Cylons. Before his death, Lyman tells Galen that he saved his wife on the planet. When Galen inquires as to how she escaped the execution and if anyone helped her, she replies that [[New Caprica Police|"one of these goons"]] set her free. She asks her husband how he knows about that, apparently unaware of his role in the Circle {{TRS|Collaborators}}. Later she is working alongside Chief Tyrol on the hangar deck again. It is unknown specifically who babysits their son Nicholas when both parents are working {{TRS|Torn}}, but formal daycare arrangements seems to have been established for families with dependent children ([[A Day In The Life]]) that the Tyrols use.
 
Tyrol attends the ship-wide boxing match with her husband and son and watches from the sidelines as her husband fights and defeats Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] {{TRS|Unfinished Business}}. She recovers from [[w:Decompression sickness|decompression sickness]] injuries sustained in an explosive decompression incident while being rescued from a depressurizing airlock along with her husband ([[A Day In The Life]]).
 
==Death==
 
Tyrol's relationship with her husband deteriorates as he becomes consumed with his discovery of his true nature as a member of the [[Final Five]]. Tyrol, unaware of Galen's discovery, grows angry at his constant absences, often due to secretive meetings with fellow Cylons [[Tory Foster|Foster]], [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]], and [[Samuel Anders|Anders]]. Moreover, Tyrol develops a sleeping disorder and becomes reliant on medication. Awakening one night to find him out of bed and out of their quarters, she finds him in [[Joe's bar]] with Foster and witnesses Foster making a pass at him. Tyrol confronts him in a rage, assuming that he is having an affair.
 
Later, she finds a note in their cabin with instructions for a time and place for a meeting. Thinking that it is a note from Foster, she goes to the place of the rendezvous, only to discover her husband, Tigh, and Foster going into a [[weapons locker]] together and closing the hatch. She opens a panel in the corridor and squeezes into a crawlspace where she can hear what her husband and the others are saying.
 
To her horror, Tyrol discovers the truth of her husband's nature. She accidentally creates a noise that the others in the locker hear. In her flight from the crawlspace, Tyrol leaves the wall panel ajar, which Foster discovers.  When Galen returns to their cabin, Tyrol attacks him, knocking him unconscious with a heavy wrench and taking [[Nicholas Tyrol|Nicky]] to the [[hangar deck]], intending to commit murder-suicide by expelling him and herself out a Viper [[launch tube]].  Before she can do so, Foster appears, convinces her to stop, and then offers to carry Nicky.
 
As soon as Tyrol turns her son over, however, Foster strikes Tyrol with superhuman force into the launch tube, stunning her. Foster enters the control room, closes the airlock doors and expels Tyrol into space. The scene ends with a final shot of Tyrol's frozen, lifeless face adrift in space {{TRS|The Ties That Bind}}. Galen Tyrol, at that point, is unaware of Foster's role in his wife's death and believes Cally committed suicide because of her mistaken belief that he and Foster were having an affair. {{TRS|Escape Velocity}}. Viewers discover, coincidentally, that in their past lives on [[Earth (RDM)|the Cylon Earth]] Galen and Tory Foster in fact ''were'' lovers, as noted by [[Samuel Anders]] in a series of epiphanies about the Five's past and their objectives {{TRS|No Exit}}.
 
During the [[Battle of the Colony]], Galen briefly links memories with the other Final Five members as part of a deal to restore to [[Cavil]] and his faction the lost secrets of [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]]. In the link, Galen is able to share memories from others in the Five--particularly Foster's murder of Tyrol.  Before the link, Foster was clearly nervous as she knew what they'd see, Enraged, Galen breaks the link and breaks Foster's neck, killing her permanantly with no resurrection, avenging Cally's murder.
 
Ellen and Saul Tigh comprehend the rationale behind Tyrol's actions to avenge Cally Tyrol's murder {{TRS|Daybreak, Part II}}.


==Notes==
==Notes==
*In the DVD commentary for "[[Bastille Day]]", David Eick and Ron D. Moore elaborate on the increased role of Cally as the series progressed from the Miniseries through season 2:
*Cally's full name was not known during the first 2 seasons of the series (even though she is a character that has appeared since the opening minutes of the Miniseries), and during this entire time was known simply as "Cally". It was unknown then whether "Cally" was her given name or her surname; many assumed it was her surname and referred to her as "Specialist Cally" (in "[[The Farm]]," Chief Tyrol referred to her as "Specialist Cally").  However, actress Nicki Clyne, who plays Cally, has said she always thought of it as her character's given name. Her full name "Cally Henderson" was used in Season 3 to label props such as her locker, but isn't visible on screen. She took on Chief [[Galen Tyrol]]'s surname after marrying him. After the character's death, Henderson's complete birth name, Callandra, is revealed at her funeral service in "[[Escape Velocity]]".
 
*The [[Miniseries]] novelization (which is treated as a [[Battlestar Wiki:Separate continuity|separate continuity]] source) gives her full name as "[[Jane Cally]]".  However this was made up without the input of the BSG writing team, who later decided that Cally was actually her ''first'' name. The novel ''[[Sagittarius Is Bleeding]]'', meanwhile, gives her name as Callista Henderson.
 
*According to [[Ronald D. Moore]]'s blog, Henderson's term of required service ended at the same time that ''Galactica'' was to be decommissioned. She was about to be honorably discharged and return to civilian life when the Cylons attacked, ending those plans.
 
*In the DVD commentary for "[[Bastille Day]]," David Eick and Ron D. Moore elaborate on the increased role of Cally as the series progressed from the Miniseries through season 2:


:Eick: Nicki Clyne, who you see here playing Cally, was somebody who in the Miniseries, I remember Michael (Rymer) and I cast just on the basis of her look, 'cause we thought she was really cute, she kind of reminded us of a young [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001167/ Shelley Duvall]. [...] she turned out to be so good that we— in launching the series we started talking about ways to involve her and I'm very proud of a moment coming up where she does something rather nasty, that...
:Eick: Nicki Clyne, who you see here playing Cally, was somebody who in the Miniseries, I remember Michael (Rymer) and I cast just on the basis of her look, 'cause we thought she was really cute, she kind of reminded us of a young [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001167/ Shelley Duvall]. [...] she turned out to be so good that we— in launching the series we started talking about ways to involve her and I'm very proud of a moment coming up where she does something rather nasty, that...
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:Eick: Yeah, and she's taken on, in season 2 actually, a much, much, ''much'' more prominent role. You have no idea how prominent a role.
:Eick: Yeah, and she's taken on, in season 2 actually, a much, much, ''much'' more prominent role. You have no idea how prominent a role.
:RDM: Which is really illustrative of the rise and fall of characters. I mean [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] we thought going in was just going to be part of the show, and we just never really got our feet underneath us in terms of his storyline and really how it fit into it, and Cally who's just this 'other mechanic' at the beginning, who's just hanging around with Tyrol becomes a key element and part of the fabric of the show itself.  
:RDM: Which is really illustrative of the rise and fall of characters. I mean [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] we thought going in was just going to be part of the show, and we just never really got our feet underneath us in terms of his storyline and really how it fit into it, and Cally who's just this 'other mechanic' at the beginning, who's just hanging around with Tyrol becomes a key element and part of the fabric of the show itself.  
*In the DVD commentary for "Bastille Day," RDM revealed how he came up with names for deckhands Cally, [[Socinus]], and [[Prosna]]:  "They were all names I pulled out of an 'ancient names internet site'. I literally, I found something on the internet that would give me like 'ancient names', I went through it and found ''those'' names. It was like ancient Greek and Roman...somethings. They might be, for all I know they're names for utensils, or something like that..."
**"Calli" is a word from ancient Greek, meaning "beautiful".


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Callandra Tyrol
Callandra Tyrol

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Age
Colony
Birth place {{{birthplace}}}
Birth Name Callandra Henderson
Birth Date {{{birthdate}}}
Callsign
Nickname Cally
Introduced Miniseries
Death Released out of an airlock by Tory Foster (TRS: "The Ties That Bind")
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Children 1; Nicholas Tyrol
Marital Status Married to Galen Tyrol
Family Tree View
Role Deckhand, Deck Crew 5, Battlestar Galactica
Rank Petty Officer 2nd Class
Serial Number 557067, 205873[1]
Portrayed by Nicki Clyne
Callandra Tyrol is a Cylon
Callandra Tyrol is a Final Five Cylon
Callandra Tyrol is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Callandra Tyrol is an Original Series Cylon
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[[Image:|200px|Callandra Tyrol]]

Callandra Henderson Tyrol, better known by her nickname "Cally," is a young woman who works as a deckhand on Galactica.

During her tenure on Galactica, she falls in love with her boss, Galen Tyrol. Despite this, she and fellow deckhand Socinus, cover for Galen Tyrol on various occasions during Galen Tyrol's sexual interludes with Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, until Valerii is revealed as a humanoid Cylon. After this revelation, and a near death experience on Kobol, Henderson's anger and hatred for the Cylons leads her to "kill" Valerii during Valerii's transfer to a newly constructed brig.

Given 30 days in hack for unauthorized discharge of a firearm, she is lauded by her fellow crew members as a hero after her release. After reconciling with Galen Tyrol, their repaired relationship eventually amounts to a romantic one after Tyrol (suffering from suicidal dreams) savagely attacks Henderson after being awakened.

Henderson marries Tyrol, taking on his family name, and both muster out of the Colonial Fleet to settle on New Caprica in order to raise their son, Nicholas Tyrol. While on New Caprica, she is a part of the Colonial Workers Alliance, a labor union lead by Galen Tyrol. However, the Cylons' occupation of New Caprica destroys any dreams she had of a life on New Caprica: she is nearly executed as an "insurgent", but is later freed and returns to Galactica after the Second Exodus.

Life on Galactica, particularly with a child to take care of, causes strife within her marriage to Galen Tyrol. Additionally, she is the driving force into convincing Galen Tyrol to re-institute the Colonial Workers Alliance and press for an illegal strike. Unbeknownst to her, she is nearly executed by Marines at Admiral Adama's orders, under the charge that she is a mutineer. Later, despite an incident where she is nearly killed, the Tyrols try to save their marriage and put their family's interests first.

These efforts fail however, leaving her to take care of the child, which resorts on sleeplessness and dependence on anti-depressants and other medications. This strain is due to the revelation that Galen Tyrol is a Cylon, a fact Cally Tyrol discovers after following her husband to a weapons locker. After beating Galen Tyrol with a wrench, she attempts to kill Nicholas and herself by decompressing a launch tube; Tory Foster, another one of the Final Five, intervenes and manages to save Nicholas, but ejects Cally Tyrol into space. The crew on Galactica assumes that she committed suicide. During the Battle of The Colony, her husband learns the truth from Foster's memories and kills her, avenging Cally's death.

Background[edit]

Callandra Henderson is a young woman who joined the Colonial Fleet as a means to pay for dental school (TRS: "Fragged"). Henderson is not fond of FTL jumps (TRS: "Miniseries"), possibly because she suffers nausea during them (TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I").

Henderson, as well as her boss, Galen Tyrol, seems prone to anger after a terrible event. Unlike Tyrol, Henderson tends to take decisive action as a result of her anger, rather than becoming immobile or overly irrational.

She is particularly adept at finding ways around the lack of replacement parts aboard Galactica. As Tyrol often comments, Henderson's small stature allows her better access to smaller spaces in the Vipers and Raptors she repairs.

Character History at a Glance[edit]

  • Henderson (who is never called by her surname until Season 4) is a deckhand aboard the battlestar Galactica, working under the supervision of Chief Galen Tyrol at the time of the battlestar's scheduled decommissioning.
  • At some point, Henderson is aware of the secret liaisons between Chief Tyrol and Sharon "Boomer" Valerii. She once catches them at the end of one of their get-togethers, and warns Tyrol first that he's going to get caught by the XO if he's not careful, and second that he needs to recognize the difference between who he can and cannot count on. (TRS: "Daybreak, Part II")[2]
  • Henderson is attached to Deck Crew 5 and responsible for Viper and Raptor maintenance (TRS: "Miniseries").
  • Henderson survives the initial attacks to Galactica in the wake of the Fall of the Twelve Colonies, but loses many friends, including Prosna, a fellow deckhand, after the battlestar manages fire damage after being struck by a nuclear missile.
  • During an ill-fated mission to the Astral Queen, Henderson is nearly raped by prisoner Mason. He shoots her after she bites his ear off in defense. Henderson is returned to Galactica's sickbay for treatment, where she is given the nickname "Specialist Lazy" in jest by her comrades (TRS: "Bastille Day").
  • Along with the rest of the deck crew, Henderson lies under oath to protect Chief Tyrol during a tribunal on a Cylon infiltration and attack (TRS: "Litmus").
  • For the next several weeks, Henderson assists Chief Tyrol in examining the captured Cylon Raider brought aboard Galactica (TRS: "Six Degrees of Separation").
  • On a Raptor Scout team bound for Kobol (TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I"). Henderson's Raptor is attacked upon emerging from a Jump, resulting in a crash on Kobol. As one of the few that was relatively unhurt, Henderson later returns to the crash site with Chief Tyrol and Tarn, and barely makes it back alive with a forgotten medkit for Socinus (TRS: "Scattered"). However, the recovered medkit is too late to save Socinus, which greatly saddens Henderson (TRS: "Valley of Darkness").
  • Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo gives Henderson an assuredly suicidal order as part of his attack to disable a Cylon anti-missile battery that threatens their expected SAR rescue. Henderson is so terrified that she freezes in place. Losing control, Crashdown threatens to shoot her if she does not obey. Just before Crashdown shoots Henderson, Dr. Gaius Baltar shoots him in the back, killing Crashdown instantly.
  • Seelix is shot in their retreat, but Henderson saves her life by carrying her further ahead. A rescue team of Raptors arrives, and Henderson returns to Galactica with the survivors (TRS: "Fragged").
  • Henderson's anger transfers to Gaius Baltar when the Chief is arrested and accused of being a Cylon himself due to his past relationship with Boomer, and threatens to reveal Baltar's part in Crashdown's death if Baltar does not act to clear Tyrol's name.
  • Outraged by Tyrol's plight, Henderson shoots and kills Boomer (TRS: "Resistance"). Henderson is imprisoned in the brig but, at Tyrol's request, Commander Adama gives her a lenient sentence of 30 days for "discharging a firearm without permission" (TRS: "The Farm").
Various crew members throw a party for Henderson's return to normal service.
  • Released from the brig, the deck crews give Henderson a welcome back party. Chief Tyrol is still upset with her for killing Boomer, although Henderson is grateful to the Chief for putting in a good word for her with Adama.
  • She aids Tyrol in the construction of the Blackbird. By the time they finish construction, Tyrol reconciles with her (TRS: "Flight of the Phoenix").
  • Henderson is disgusted when several drunken Pegasus crewmen brag about repeatedly raping the captured humanoid Cylon known as Gina Inviere, a reaction probably made stronger for her because Henderson herself survived an attempted rape.
  • Henderson pleads with Commander Adama to do something about the incident where Chief Tyrol and Karl "Helo" Agathon are arrested by Pegasus command for the death of an officer that attempted to rape Caprica-Sharon (TRS: "Pegasus").
  • After Commander Adama visits the hangar deck to confer with Laird on the status of the preparations for the planned attack, Adama takes Henderson aside and questions her about Laird. Henderson reveals Laird's origins that enforce Adama's increasing suspicions about Pegasus commander, Admiral Helena Cain.
  • Henderson and Chief Tyrol later discover sabotaged Viper ammo by the Cylon-sympathizer Demand Peace movement (TRS: "Epiphanies") as well as a storage crate with a stowaway inside (TRS: "The Captain's Hand").
  • Henderson wakes a sleeping Chief Tyrol up while he was in the midst of a suicidal nightmare. The delusional Tyrol gives Henderson a savage beating, quickly pummeling her into a bloody mess and knocking her unconscious. After a moment, Tyrol comes to his senses, shocked by what he had just done, and takes Henderson to sickbay, carrying her in his arms (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I").
  • Henderson's jaw is wired shut to heal, but she forgives Tyrol and says she always cared about him. Interestingly, her feelings for Tyrol were apparently known to Cavil prior to his exposure as a humanoid Cylon (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I").

On New Caprica[edit]

Henderson on New Caprica before becoming obviously pregnant (TRS: "Unfinished Business").

A year later on New Caprica, Henderson is married to Tyrol (taking his surname) and is pregnant with Brendan Costanza's child (TRS: "A Disquiet Follows My Soul"), although she has led Galen Tyrol to believe he is the father (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II"). Her intimate relationship with Costanza took place prior to her marriage to Tyrol. Her son, Nicholas (named after her grandfather), is born and lives with her and her husband as of the 67th day of the New Caprica occupation by the Cylons (The Resistance, Episode 1). Knowing her husband's test of faith after discovering that Brother Cavil was a humanoid Cylon, Tyrol is pleased for plans of a dedication ceremony for her new son (The Resistance, Episode 4).

Following suicide attacks by the insurgency led in part by her husband, Cally Tyrol is picked up by members of the New Caprica Police in a night-time raid. James "Jammer" Lyman, in his role with the NCP, discovers that she has been earmarked for execution, and asks Sharon Valerii to save her life. Valerii remarks that she does not know what she can do, as internal security is under the proviso of a different ministry. Henderson angrily tells Valerii to "go away and leave us alone" if she can't help her (TRS: "Precipice").

Lyman later cuts her bonds and allows her to escape from the detention group slated for execution in a remote location. Chief Tyrol, arriving with a resistance sniper team, pushes his running wife out of the resistance's line of fire as they destroy the Cylon Centurion firing squad. She and her son hide in the resistance's underground bunker (TRS: "Exodus, Part I").

After New Caprica[edit]

Cally Tyrol and her family are evacuated along with most of the human population of New Caprica. She is next seen resting on a bunk with her son in a room overcrowded with refugees. Her husband visits her after he and the Circle secretly execute James Lyman for having collaborated with the Cylons. Before his death, Lyman tells Galen that he saved his wife on the planet. When Galen inquires as to how she escaped the execution and if anyone helped her, she replies that "one of these goons" set her free. She asks her husband how he knows about that, apparently unaware of his role in the Circle (TRS: "Collaborators"). Later she is working alongside Chief Tyrol on the hangar deck again. It is unknown specifically who babysits their son Nicholas when both parents are working (TRS: "Torn"), but formal daycare arrangements seems to have been established for families with dependent children (A Day In The Life) that the Tyrols use.

Tyrol attends the ship-wide boxing match with her husband and son and watches from the sidelines as her husband fights and defeats Admiral Adama (TRS: "Unfinished Business"). She recovers from decompression sickness injuries sustained in an explosive decompression incident while being rescued from a depressurizing airlock along with her husband (A Day In The Life).

Death[edit]

Tyrol's relationship with her husband deteriorates as he becomes consumed with his discovery of his true nature as a member of the Final Five. Tyrol, unaware of Galen's discovery, grows angry at his constant absences, often due to secretive meetings with fellow Cylons Foster, Tigh, and Anders. Moreover, Tyrol develops a sleeping disorder and becomes reliant on medication. Awakening one night to find him out of bed and out of their quarters, she finds him in Joe's bar with Foster and witnesses Foster making a pass at him. Tyrol confronts him in a rage, assuming that he is having an affair.

Later, she finds a note in their cabin with instructions for a time and place for a meeting. Thinking that it is a note from Foster, she goes to the place of the rendezvous, only to discover her husband, Tigh, and Foster going into a weapons locker together and closing the hatch. She opens a panel in the corridor and squeezes into a crawlspace where she can hear what her husband and the others are saying.

To her horror, Tyrol discovers the truth of her husband's nature. She accidentally creates a noise that the others in the locker hear. In her flight from the crawlspace, Tyrol leaves the wall panel ajar, which Foster discovers. When Galen returns to their cabin, Tyrol attacks him, knocking him unconscious with a heavy wrench and taking Nicky to the hangar deck, intending to commit murder-suicide by expelling him and herself out a Viper launch tube. Before she can do so, Foster appears, convinces her to stop, and then offers to carry Nicky.

As soon as Tyrol turns her son over, however, Foster strikes Tyrol with superhuman force into the launch tube, stunning her. Foster enters the control room, closes the airlock doors and expels Tyrol into space. The scene ends with a final shot of Tyrol's frozen, lifeless face adrift in space (TRS: "The Ties That Bind"). Galen Tyrol, at that point, is unaware of Foster's role in his wife's death and believes Cally committed suicide because of her mistaken belief that he and Foster were having an affair. (TRS: "Escape Velocity"). Viewers discover, coincidentally, that in their past lives on the Cylon Earth Galen and Tory Foster in fact were lovers, as noted by Samuel Anders in a series of epiphanies about the Five's past and their objectives (TRS: "No Exit").

During the Battle of the Colony, Galen briefly links memories with the other Final Five members as part of a deal to restore to Cavil and his faction the lost secrets of resurrection. In the link, Galen is able to share memories from others in the Five--particularly Foster's murder of Tyrol. Before the link, Foster was clearly nervous as she knew what they'd see, Enraged, Galen breaks the link and breaks Foster's neck, killing her permanantly with no resurrection, avenging Cally's murder.

Ellen and Saul Tigh comprehend the rationale behind Tyrol's actions to avenge Cally Tyrol's murder (TRS: "Daybreak, Part II").

Notes[edit]

  • Cally's full name was not known during the first 2 seasons of the series (even though she is a character that has appeared since the opening minutes of the Miniseries), and during this entire time was known simply as "Cally". It was unknown then whether "Cally" was her given name or her surname; many assumed it was her surname and referred to her as "Specialist Cally" (in "The Farm," Chief Tyrol referred to her as "Specialist Cally"). However, actress Nicki Clyne, who plays Cally, has said she always thought of it as her character's given name. Her full name "Cally Henderson" was used in Season 3 to label props such as her locker, but isn't visible on screen. She took on Chief Galen Tyrol's surname after marrying him. After the character's death, Henderson's complete birth name, Callandra, is revealed at her funeral service in "Escape Velocity".
  • The Miniseries novelization (which is treated as a separate continuity source) gives her full name as "Jane Cally". However this was made up without the input of the BSG writing team, who later decided that Cally was actually her first name. The novel Sagittarius Is Bleeding, meanwhile, gives her name as Callista Henderson.
  • According to Ronald D. Moore's blog, Henderson's term of required service ended at the same time that Galactica was to be decommissioned. She was about to be honorably discharged and return to civilian life when the Cylons attacked, ending those plans.
  • In the DVD commentary for "Bastille Day," David Eick and Ron D. Moore elaborate on the increased role of Cally as the series progressed from the Miniseries through season 2:
Eick: Nicki Clyne, who you see here playing Cally, was somebody who in the Miniseries, I remember Michael (Rymer) and I cast just on the basis of her look, 'cause we thought she was really cute, she kind of reminded us of a young Shelley Duvall. [...] she turned out to be so good that we— in launching the series we started talking about ways to involve her and I'm very proud of a moment coming up where she does something rather nasty, that...
RDM: Well she almost died! She was gonna die in the intial drafts of this.
Eick: That's right! He kills her! He rapes and kills her! And they're telling us we're too dark this year.
RDM: Oh, I know. The second season is so much darker. And I don't think they even care. Yeah, Cally, Nicki, I hate to tell ya, but the bullseye was on Nicki here. And I can't even tell you why we decided it was, no I take that back I think it was your note; you said you wanted Cally to fight back and really show some balls in this scene. She bit his ear off...
Eick: I said, "She bites his frakking ear off" and I was totally being...you know, just illustrative! I didn't really mean it!
RDM: And I wrote, "she bites his ear off"!
Eick: "And I got the draft, and she bites his ear off! I was like "that's great!"
RDM: And from that moment on, I think, she really became part of the show. In a real sense, once she had gone through that and survived, and you know Tyrol and the gang come in and see her in the hospital at the end you kind of felt like she is one of the family.
Eick: Yeah, and she's taken on, in season 2 actually, a much, much, much more prominent role. You have no idea how prominent a role.
RDM: Which is really illustrative of the rise and fall of characters. I mean Boxey we thought going in was just going to be part of the show, and we just never really got our feet underneath us in terms of his storyline and really how it fit into it, and Cally who's just this 'other mechanic' at the beginning, who's just hanging around with Tyrol becomes a key element and part of the fabric of the show itself.
  • In the DVD commentary for "Bastille Day," RDM revealed how he came up with names for deckhands Cally, Socinus, and Prosna: "They were all names I pulled out of an 'ancient names internet site'. I literally, I found something on the internet that would give me like 'ancient names', I went through it and found those names. It was like ancient Greek and Roman...somethings. They might be, for all I know they're names for utensils, or something like that..."
    • "Calli" is a word from ancient Greek, meaning "beautiful".

References[edit]

  1. This number comes from the serial number on the Dogtags Auctioned by the studios at the end of filming the series. These Screen used Tags also Read "S. Luman ser. 205873" Instead Nicki herself has mentioned the first few season dogtags were wrong.
  2. This is in a flashback scene that only appears in the extended cut of "Daybreak," available on the Season 4.5 DVD and Blu-ray sets. It is unknown at what exact time the scene occurs, before or after the Fall.
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