Alex Quartararo

Alex Quartararo
[[Image:File:Act of Contrition-Crashdown.jpg|200px|Alex Quartararo]]
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Colony	Triton (presumed)
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Callsign	Crashdown
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Death	KIA on Kobol (Fragged)
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Marital Status	Relationship with Ensign Davis.
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Role	Raptor ECO
Rank	Lieutenant, J.G.
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Portrayed by	Samuel Witwer
Alex Quartararo is a Cylon
Alex Quartararo is a Final Five Cylon
Alex Quartararo is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Alex Quartararo is an Original Series Cylon
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Crashdown was the callsign of a Raptor ECO who replaced Karl "Helo" Agathon (33) after Sharon Valerii left Helo behind on Cylon-occupied Caprica (Mini-Series).

Crashdown is involved with the discovery of a fresh water source for The Fleet (Water), the Cylon-held tylium mine (The Hand of God), and the planet Kobol (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I).

Despite Lt. Valerii's initial misgivings of him (she referred to him as a "refugee from Triton"), Crashdown is a loyal officer. His actions include the defense of Lt. Valerii to Sgt. Hadrian prior to Valerii's being taken away for questioning (Litmus).

He is the object of Ensign Davis' affections (The Hand of God, Colonial Day).

After Valerii attempts suicide, Crashdown accompanies a mission to investigate Kobol, which meets with disastrous results. A Cylon basestar and Cylon Raiders had already taken position above the planet, causing the destruction of one Raptor, the retreat of another and damage to Crashdown's Raptor. He pilots Raptor 1 after its pilot was killed, crash-landing on Kobol near the ruins of the Opera House (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I).

Crashdown leads the team away from a Cylon Centurion firefight successfully, but begins to show his field inexperience as he attempts to organize his team through textbook field exercises to destroy a missile battery that several Centurions have constructed from the remains of their Heavy Raider to destroy any SAR teams that try to rescue their group.

The parameters of the operation change when the Centurions shift their deployment, providing greater Cylon defense at the missile launcher, and when the DRADIS guidance dish is left relatively unprotected. Crashdown assigns Cally the likely-suicidal task of creating a diversion while the remaining team try to destroy the missile battery. Although Galen Tyrol insists that destroying the missile's DRADIS guidance dish would accomplish their mission and prevent the shooting down of the SAR operation, Crashdown's inexperience and by-the-book insistence on following his original plan blinds him to alternatives that would greatly increase their team's survival chances.

As the SAR Raptor's sonic booms announces their imminent arrival, Crashdown hastily orders Cally to begin the operation, but she is frozen in fear and refuses to move. Becoming increasingly irritated and irrational, Crashdown aims his sidearm at Cally's head and threatens to kill her if she did not follow orders. Chief Tyrol aims his sidearm at Crashdown, asking him to stand down while Crashdown counts to three in a final effort to move Cally along.

Before the final number was counted, it was Gaius Baltar who shoots Crashdown in the back, likely severing his spinal cord and piercing his heart, killing him instantly.

Later, after rescue by the SAR team, both Baltar and Tyrol lie to Captain Lee Adama and say that Crashdown died a hero in battle (Fragged).

Lt. Valerii is soon assigned an ECO in Crashdown's place for her mission to destroy the basestar over Kobol: Lt. Margaret "Racetrack" Edmonson (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II).