Callandra Tyrol

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Birth Name	Callandra Henderson
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Nickname	Cally
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Children	1; Nicholas Tyrol
Marital Status	Married to Galen Tyrol
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Role	Deckhand, Deck Crew 5, Battlestar Galactica
Rank	Petty Officer 2nd Class
Serial Number	557067, 205873
Portrayed by	Nicki Clyne
Callandra Tyrol is a Cylon
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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.

Background

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

• 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")}
• 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

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 ^{(TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II")}. 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 ^{(TRS: "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 ^{(TRS: "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

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 ^{(TRS: "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 ^{(TRS: "A Day In The Life")}.

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Behind the Scenes

Actress Nicki Clyne described her character at the start of the series as "very naïve and... very eager to please." She noted that Cally, as the youngest person on the deck, felt like she had "a lot to prove."

Clyne also commented on Cally's defining relationship with Galen Tyrol: "Cally has a huge crush on Chief Tyrol, and she's very loyal to him. She's also a little bit in awe of him, because he's her boss and he's a very commanding presence."

Regarding the attempted rape scene in Re-imagined Series'"Bastille Day", Clyne found it to be a "very difficult scene to do," but felt it was "important to show that Cally is a survivor."

Notes

• Cally's full name was not revealed during the first two seasons of the series (despite appearing since the opening minutes of the Miniseries). During this time, it was unclear if "Cally" was her given name or surname.
  • In The Farm, Chief Tyrol referred to her as "Specialist Cally," leading many to assume it was a surname.
  • Actress Nicki Clyne stated she always considered it her character's given name.
  • Her full name "Cally Henderson" was used on Season 3 props (such as her locker), though it was not visible on screen.
  • Following her marriage to Galen Tyrol, she took his surname. Her full birth name, Callandra, was finally revealed during her funeral service in Escape Velocity.

• The Miniseries novelization (a separate continuity source) identifies her as "Jane Cally." This was created without input from the writing team. The novel Sagittarius Is Bleeding gives her name as "Callista Henderson."

• Henderson's military service was intended to end at the same time Galactica was scheduled for decommissioning.

She was about to be honorably discharged and return to civilian life when the Cylons attacked, ending those plans.

—Ronald D. Moore,

• In the DVD commentary for Re-imagined Series'"Bastille Day", executive producers David Eick and Ronald D. Moore discussed the evolution of the character:

David Eick: Nicki Clyne... 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...

Ronald D. Moore: Well she almost died! She was gonna die in the initial 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.

Moore: 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!

Moore: 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!"

Moore: 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... 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.

Moore: 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 Cally who's just this 'other mechanic' at the beginning... becomes a key element and part of the fabric of the show itself.

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• Moore revealed the origin of the 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...

—Ronald D. Moore,

• • "Calli" (καλή) is an ancient Greek word meaning "beautiful."

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Callandra Tyrol
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Birth Name	Callandra Henderson
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Nickname	Cally
Introduced	Miniseries
Last Known Appearance	The Ties That Bind
Death	Released out of an airlock by Tory Foster (TRS: "The Ties That Bind")
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Children	1; Nicholas Tyrol (biological father: Brendan Costanza)
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
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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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 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")}.

Nicholas's Paternity

Later, it is revealed that Nicholas is not actually Galen Tyrol's biological son. The child's true father is Brendan Costanza, with whom Cally had an intimate relationship prior to her marriage to Tyrol. Cally had led Galen to believe he was the father ^{(TRS: "A Disquiet Follows My Soul")}.

Vengeance

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 permanently 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")}.

References

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