Erin Mathias

Erin Mathias
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Introduced	Exodus, Part I
Death	Heavy Raider explosion in "The Road Less Traveled"
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Role	Marine
Rank	Gunnery Sergeant
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Portrayed by	Eileen Pedde
Erin Mathias is a Cylon
Erin Mathias is a Final Five Cylon
Erin Mathias is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Erin Mathias is an Original Series Cylon
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Gunnery Sergeant Erin Mathias is one of the few Marine NCOs seen in the series.

Under Kendra Shaw and Kara Thrace she leads a team of Marines that boards a Cylon basestar in order to rescue a captured Raptor crew. When the arming mechanism of a nuclear device, that they brought along to destroy the basestar, fails and she can't repair it, she rigs a manual switch. Shaw then detonates the bomb manually (Razor).

Later Mathias leads Sharon Agathon's Marine escort on New Caprica as part of Admiral William Adama's rescue operation (Exodus, Part I). She and her team repel a Cylon ambush on a preliminary meeting between Agathon and the New Caprica Resistance under Samuel Anders. She then accompanies the resistance group back to New Caprica City to discuss the rescue plan with all leaders, among them Saul Tigh, Laura Roslin and Tom Zarek (Exodus, Part I). When Adama's plans are executed, Mathias is in charge of the Marines who participate in the attack on the New Caprica Detention Center (Exodus, Part II).

Mathias is later part of the party that boards the infected basestar discovered at the Lion's Head Nebula. She is assigned to execute the prisoners retrieved from this baseship in a failed plan to infect the entire Cylon race via the download process (A Measure of Salvation).

She also leads the Marine force on the algae planet and is ordered by Lee Adama to detain Samuel Anders when he wants to rescue his wife whose Raptor was shot down by the Cylons (The Eye of Jupiter).

Sergeant Mathias leads the Marines responding to Kara Thrace taking President Roslin hostage in Adama's quarters. Later, she releases Thrace from the brig and escorts her to the hangar deck (Six of One).

Mathias is selected to join Demetrius on its mission to find Earth under the command of Thrace. Two months into the mission she dies during an extravehicular inspection of a damaged Heavy Raider, when its reactor explodes (The Road Less Traveled).

Notes

• Ron Moore named the character after Jim Mathias, the high school superintendent that preceded his father at Chowchilla Union High School .