Six of One

"Six of One" An episode of the Re-imagined Series
Episode No.	Season 4, Episode 2
Writer(s)	Michael Angeli
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Director	Anthony Hemingway
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Production No.	404
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US airdate	11 April 2008
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Population	39,676 survivors ( 22)
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Overview

The Cylons are bitterly divided over how to deal with the Cylon Raiders, who refuse to attack the Colonial Fleet because of the recent detection of the Final Five within the Fleet. Meanwhile, Admiral Adama and crew send Lee Adama off into his new life as a member of the Quorum of Twelve, and Adama has to deal with the possibility that Kara Thrace may very well be right about her knowing how to get to Earth.

Summary

On a basestar

• A Number One, Natalie, and a Number Eight listen to the Hybrid spout cryptic phrases while another Eight dances. Mixed in with the Hybrid's usual stream-of-consciousness are phrases such as, "Rise and measure the Temple of the Five", and "They will not harm their own".
• Natalie, a Number Two, and one of the Eights confront One with the belief that the Final Five are in the Colonial fleet, and this is why the Raiders broke off the attack in the Ionian Nebula (He That Believeth in Me). Number One says that the Final Five are anywhere but with the humans and admonishes the others for talking about them and wishing to contact them. He declares that the Raiders will be "reconfigured" (lobotomized) to stop this from happening again.
• The Number Ones, Number Fours, and Number Fives vote in favor of "reconfiguration", while the Number Twos, Number Sixes, and Number Eights vote against it. The apparent stalemate is broken by Sharon Valerii, who votes in favor of the lobotomy. Natalie accuses One of having influenced Valerii, shocked by a Cylon voting against her model, as this has never happened before.
• Fours are seen performing the lobotomy on Raiders.
• Natalie confronts One, two Fours, and two Fives at a table, asking them to change their minds. At their refusal, she calls for Centurions to enter the room. The Centurions do not respond to One's command to leave. Natalie explains that her faction has removed the Centurions' telencephalic inhibitors, giving them the gift of reason. The Centurions do not approve of lobotomizing the Raiders, and shoot the Ones, Fours, and Fives present.

Notes

The picture that Roslin "shoots"

• The episode title is possibly a play on a common idiom "Six of one, half a dozen of the other", indicating equivalence.
• There has been a net loss of 22 people since "He That Believeth In Me".
  • Since the aftermath of Paulla Schaffer's over zealous attack on Charlie Connor and Shaunt in "He That Believeth in Me" remains unknown, it is possible that both of them survived the attack and are not included in the net loss.
• This is the first appearance of Natalie, a Number Six who is the leader of a faction advocating a search for the Final Five.
• This episode reveals three model numbers: the Cavils are Number Ones, the Leoben Conoys are Number Twos, and the Simons are Number Fours.
• Interestingly enough, all the numbers for the Significant Seven are consecutive, until they reach Number Eight. Thus Number Seven, and Numbers Nine through Twelve are not revealed.
• Raiders are capable of independent thought, unlike Centurions, whose higher brain functions are prevented by an telencephalic inhibitor. Natalie and her supporters remove these from the Centurions after the vote turns against them.
• According to Cavil, there are millions of copies of each Cylon model.
• The picture Roslin shoots was taken at the ceremony to award Adama the Medal of Distinction in the episode "Hero".

Analysis

• The episode features another case of Adama receiving advice from a woman close to him and later repeating it to another person. Roslin's observations about his tenuous believe in Thrace and his inability to deal with more loss around him apparently hit close to home, as he includes both of these in his explanation for letting Thrace go.
• The Cylons set themselves up for a bitter divide such as the one seen in this episode, by boxing the Number Threes (Rapture). The vote of the Threes would have been the natural tiebreaker.
• Lee Adama's line about Dualla "getting the house" implies that their breakup, which she initiated by moving out in "Crossroads, Part I", is now final. Even if they were still married, Adama's new duties as politician would probably prevent them from spending much time together. Nonetheless, their goodbye is very amicable. While Adama tried hard to preserve their relationship during troubled stretches, Dualla entered their marriage fully aware that it probably won't last long, but happy to be in it while it does. Her behavior during the goodbye reflects this, and Adama seems to have come to terms with it as well.
• Although at first Foster is repulsed at Tigh's suggestion that she sleep with Baltar to find out what he knows about the Cylons, that soon changes to a certain extent. She is captivated by Baltar talking about music and the implications his words have her being a Cylon, even though Baltar very likely doesn't mean them that way. Despite leaving slightly confused, she later sleeps with him. Her tears may in part come from her initial revulsion, but when Baltar talks about how he doesn't believe that she is a Cylon and that Cylons have feelings too, Foster kisses him and they continue to make love. While it is unlikely that she will become one of Baltar's religious followers, she is still charmed by him.

Questions

• Is the Virtual Baltar that Gaius Baltar sees the same as Caprica-Six's Virtual Baltar?
• Now that the telencephalic inhibitors have been removed from the Centurions, and they've attacked three of the Significant Seven, will they turn on the rest of their Cylon masters?
• Will Kara Thrace truly lead the Demetrius to Earth?
• Other than Karl Agathon, who else will be accompanying Thrace on Demetrius?
• What will occur when Number One, as well as the two Fours and Fives, resurrect?
• Do the Ones truly believe that the Final Five are not with the human fleet, as Cavil claims? Is this what the Fours and Fives believe?
• Which of the remaining Cylon model numbers belong to which members of the Final Five?
• Did the awakened four gain any knowledge of their model numbers?
• Why were the Centurions designed to have higher brain functions, only to be suppressed with telencephalic inhibitors? Why weren't these models designed without higher brain functions from the start?
• With the Demetrius leaving under Starbuck's command, how will the Fleet's sewage be dealt with?
• How many Centurions had their telencephalic inhibitors removed? Was it done only to the Centurions on this particular basestar? Or did it happen on a wider scale?

Noteworthy Dialogue

• Number One about the Hybrid:

Number One: The Hybrid is always telling us something. They are supposed to maintain operations on each ship. Not vomit metaphysics.

• Saul Tigh summarizes Gaius Baltar's accomplishments:

Saul Tigh: Well, he is accomplished at two things: lying in a cell and lying in a woman. He poked up a skinjob, he racked up a Six, that's a given.

• Lee Adama holding a "speech" during his retirement party while knocking down ambrosia shots with each sentence:

Adama: To Galactica! To the men and women of Galactica! To the Admiral. Who commands the men and women of Galactica! To our sweethearts, husbands and wives. (more quiet) To absent friends.

• Gaius Baltar to Tory Foster:

Baltar: It seems that God has chosen me to, eh, sing his song.

Foster: A song?

Baltar: Music? Did you say music?

Foster: No.

Baltar: Yeah, you know, it's funny. It's a lot like that. It's like the distant chaos of an orchestra tuning up, and then somebody waves a magic wand. And all of those notes start to slide into place. The grotesque, screeching cacophony becomes a single melody.

• Laura Roslin and William Adama talking about Kara Thrace, miracles and loss:

Roslin: You want to talk about miracles? On the very same day that a very pale doctor informed me that I had terminal cancer, most of humanity was annihilated and I survived, and by some mathematical absurdity I became president, and then my cancer disappeared long enough for us to find a way to Earth. You can call it whatever you want. And now, I'm dying:

Adama: Don't talk that way.

Roslin: Bill, you gotta face this. My life is coming to an end soon enough and I'm not going to apologize to you for not trusting her. And I'm not...I'm not gonna trust her with the fate of this fleet. You are so buckled up inside. You can't take any more loss. Your son's leaving, this, me, I know it.

Adama: Noone's going anywhere.

Roslin: (laughs) Oh gods. Here's the truth. This is what's going on. You want to believe Kara. You would rather want to be wrong about her and face your own demise than risk losing her again.

Adama: You can stay in the room, but get out of my head. (stands up and pours himself another drink)

Roslin: You're so afraid to live alone.

Adama: And you're afraid to die that way. You're afraid you're not the dying leader you thought you were. Or that your death may be as meaningless as everyone else's. (leaves)

Roslin: (Notices that her hair begins to fall out due to the diloxin treatments and breaks down crying)

• Natalie telling Cavil and the others that she had the Centurion's telencephalic inhibitors removed:

Natalie: The Telencephalic Inhibitor that restricts higher functions in the Centurions, we had them removed.

Cavil: Say what?!

• Admiral Adama sending Kara Thrace off to find Earth:

Thrace: So you think I'm right?

Adama: Maybe. Maybe not. But I know she is. The president. She's been right all along. I'm tired of losing. I'm tired of turning away from the things I want to believe in, and I believe you when you say, that you'll die before you stop trying. And I won't lose you again.

Guest Stars

• Michael Hogan as Colonel Saul Tigh
• Aaron Douglas as Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol
• Michael Trucco as Ensign Samuel Anders
• Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
• Alessandro Juliani as Lieutenant Felix Gaeta
• Jen Halley as Ensign Diana "Hardball" Seelix
• Tahmoh Penikett as Captain Karl "Helo" Agathon
• Sebastian Spence as Lieutenant Noel "Narcho" Allison
• Kandyse McClure as Lieutenant Anastasia Dualla
• Leah Cairns as Lieutenant Margaret "Racetrack" Edmonson
• Bodie Olmos as Lieutenant Brendan "Hot Dog" Constanza
• Dean Stockwell as Number One
• Callum Keith Rennie as Number Two
• Rick Worthy as Number Four
• Matthew Bennett as Number Five
• Tiffany Lyndall-Knight as Hybrid
• Eileen Pedde as Gunnery Sergeant Erin Mathias
• Colin Corrigan as Marine Nowart
• Leo Li Chiang as Tattooed pilot (uncredited)

External Links

• Composer Bear McCreary discusses the episode's score: http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=242#more-242