Caprica-Six

This page is about "Caprica-Six", the copy of Cylon Model Number Six who seduced Gaius Baltar in order to sabotage Colonial defenses in the Cylon attack. See the Shelly Godfrey and Gina articles for information about them. For other copies, see the Number Six article.

Caprica-Six
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Introduced	Miniseries
Death	Killed by nuclear shockwave, later reborn. (Miniseries)
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Marital Status	Single, in a relationship with a hallucination of Gaius Baltar. Previously involved with the real Gaius Baltar.
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Role	Cylon Infiltrator
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Portrayed by	Tricia Helfer
Caprica-Six is a Cylon
Caprica-Six is a Final Five Cylon
Caprica-Six is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Caprica-Six is an Original Series Cylon
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Prior to the attack, Caprica-Six was a copy of Six who played an important role in preparing the way for a Cylon invasion. We are first introduced to Caprica-Six when she observes a baby in a pram in a market place. The baby's mother is also present but then becomes distracted with someone else talking to her. Caprica-Six takes a closer look at the baby and snaps its neck and walks away looking distressed, possibly to spare it the coming nuclear holocaust.

For two years, Caprica Six lived on Caprica. Seducing the ambitious, self-obsessed, arrogant Gaius Baltar, she fooled him into believing she was a corporate spy, seeking to gain advantage over her competitors in order to secure a lucrative defence contract (Miniseries). Over the course of two years, she used Baltar to gain access to his work -- even to the extent of re-writing many of his own algorithms -- in order to subvert his own Command Navigation Program so that it could be used in the forthcoming Cylon attack to cripple Colonial forces. With the opening of the Cylon attack, Caprica Six is apparently destroyed protecting Baltar from the effects of a nuclear blast shockwave on Caprica.

She is reborn into a new body and is hailed as a "Hero of the Cylon". Just as Baltar has visions of her, Caprica-Six has persistent visions of Gaius Baltar. When she asked the other Cylons, particularly Number Three, if Baltar was still alive Three said he died along with nearly everyone else still on Caprica and the other Colonies. While living on Cylon-occupied Caprica her vision of Baltar and her own developing feelings and intuitions lead her to question some of the basic ideals that the Cylons hold dear. Unbeknownst to her, Number Three had become distressed with her lingering attachment to Baltar and sought to manipulate her feelings in order to make her unstable, thus giving Three an excuse to "box" her. Three pointed Caprica-Six in the direction of a Number Eight Cylon who was having trouble adjusting to life as a Cylon and still clinging to her old false human identity; Lt. Sharon Valerii of the Battlestar Galactica.

Resurrected Caprica-Six (Downloaded)

Through her counselling work with Galactica-Sharon she learned that Three had deceived her and Baltar was indeed alive and was actually the Vice President of the Colonies in the rag-tag fleet of survivors fleeing the Colonies. After uncovering the lie about Baltar's death she and Galactica-Sharon began to question what else the Cylons could be lying about. If murder was a sin in the eyes of God when committed by humans, why is genocide condoned by God when committed by Cylons? Questions like these began to take hold in Caprica-Six's mind and were compounded by feelings of guilt for her role in the attack on the Colonies. While trapped in a garage with Sharon, Three and Anders, Caprica is directly confronted with the hypocrisy of the Cylons (through the dry conversation), and she ultimately rejects the false "truths" of her existence and chooses instead to use her newfound celebrity to speak out against the Cylon's continuing war against humanity. Together with Galactica-Sharon she set out to bring fundamental changes to Cylon society, their first action being to save the life of Anders. (Downloaded).

Just over a year after the human colonization of New Caprica, Caprica-Six is one of the leaders (with Galactica-Sharon and a copy of Number Five) of the Cylon force that meets with President Baltar (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II).

Notes

• According to the novelization of the Miniseries by SF novelist Jeffrey A. Carver, the name that Baltar called Six before she revealed she was a Cylon during the attack was "Natasi." [nə.ˈtɑ.si] This name appears to be Polish in origin. Since this name has never been mentioned in the events of the screenplay or regular episodes, its canonical value is debatable, although nothing else has been proposed.
  • Carver stated that he pronounces "Natasi" as "Nuh-TAH-see", though fans could really pronounce it any way they want.
  • Some fans have pointed out that "Natasi" spelled backwards makes "I, Satan". When this was brought to Carver's attention he said it was an unintentional coincidence. (Source: Ragnar Anchorage forums)
• In an interview, David Eick stated that there was never a canonical name which Baltar called Number Six while she was on Caprica, and "We always liked the idea that Baltar was a man of many tastes and that there's every likelihood that he never knew her name".
• Caprica-Six's outfit after resurrection is considerably less elaborate than what she wore when working with Baltar, and she wears far less make-up, indicating that she only dressed seductively for her mission and is not in fact pre-occupied with fashion.
• The Six at the end of "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" is almost certainly Caprica-Six, judging by her reaction to seeing Baltar. However, Caprica's personality in "Downloaded" implies she might have shown humanity more compassion by, say, hailing them first, or landing outside the city, implying that her conversion of Cylon society isn't as complete as the Cavils claimed or once was but has regressed in the interm year.