Number Eight

Number Eight
Human Name	Sharon Valerii
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Portrayed by	Grace Park
Number Eight is a Cylon
Number Eight is a Final Five Cylon
Number Eight is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Number Eight is an Original Series Cylon
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Number Eight is one of the twelve Cylon human models. She is the youngest of the seven known models and Eights have have been the Cylons with the most extensive human contact, resulting in at least two interspecies relationships and a Cylon/human hybrid child. Humans have been exposed to two specific copies in particular, Sharon Valerii, a "sleeper" agent who served on board Galactica, and Sharon Agathon, a Cylon defector now appointed as an officer in the Colonial Fleet.

Sharon "Boomer" Valerii

The Many Sides of Number Eight

Main article: Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)

Sharon "Boomer" Valerii is a copy of the Cylon human model Number Eight who is initially planted as a "sleeper" agent in the Colonial Fleet. She is unaware of her true 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 Galen Tyrol. After the Cylon attack, her underlying programming repeatedly emerges which leads her to unconscious acts of sabotage. Growing confusion about her true self result in a deep depression and an ultimately 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 jailed in the brig and soon afterwards killed by Specialist Cally.

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.

Sharon Agathon

Main article: Sharon Agathon

Sharon Agathon is a copy of the Cylon human model Number Eight who is first encountered by Karl "Helo" Agathon, when he is stranded on Caprica. She is initially assigned to seduce him by impersonating Lt. Sharon Valerii, as part of a Cylon cross-breeding experiment, but later turns against her Cylon nature and helps him escape the planet; pregnant with his child during that time. Once on Galactica, she is imprisoned, but over time earns Admiral Adama's trust by helping the Colonial Fleet escape peril several times and she is eventually appointed as an officer of the Colonial Fleet. Agathon gives birth on Galactica, but her child Hera is subsequently hidden from her and she believes her to be dead. She is married to Karl Agathon.

Other Copies

Number Eight copy at Delphi spaceport (Colonial Day)

• Shortly after the Cylon Attack ends, a copy 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).
• At the end of the Miniseries, a copy of Eight wearing a Colonial flight suit appears to be leading a group of Cylon agents who recover the PR Executive Copy of Aaron Doral from Ragnar Anchorage.
  • It is possible that this is the same individual as the Caprica copy. While, at the time the Miniseries had been filmed, there were no plans to have Tahmoh Penikett reprise the role of Helo, the ending of the Miniseries forms a link to "33", establishing that the Cylons have developed a plan for Helo's presence on Caprica.
• A copy of Eight is witnessed wearing a grey coat at the spaceport at Delphi. However, she is immediately "killed" by Helo's Eight copy (Colonial Day) after noticing and attempting to shoot Helo.
• Multiple copies of the Eight model are 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).
• An Eight is among a group of rebirth nurses, likely the same ones that midwifed Caprica-Six, who welcome the reborn "Boomer" Valerii. She becomes hysterical after seeing and hearing this copy.
• A copy of Eight 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 (and that she had told the Number Five copy sitting next to her as much).
• Numerous copies of Eight are seen on Cylon occupied Caprica throughout the episode "Downloaded," the episode where it was revealed that she is the eighth in the sequence of twelve Cylon models.
• 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 Boomer 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.

Notes

• As a matter of trivia, neither copy of Eight with extended time with the Colonials refers to her lover by his first name onscreen. "Boomer" Valerii calls Chief Tyrol by "Chief" instead of "Galen," even as she dies in his arms. Caprica-Valerii has yet to call Lt. Agathon "Karl". Ron Moore explained in his blog that no one had ever really called Tyrol "Galen" before, and hearing Valerii say it would have distracted from the emotional impact of her death (RDM revealed his first name in his blog, and it has only been mentioned on screen twice, briefly at the beginning of "Resistance" and by Felix Gaeta in "Precipice"). Ron D. 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" (Starbuck has only briefly called him "Karl" once or twice). Boomer calls Chief Tyrol "Galen" while speaking to Cally in the Cylon Detention Center on New Caprica, well after their romantic relationship has ended.
• 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."