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This article discusses a specific Cylon copy found on the battlestar Pegasus. For information on other copies of this model, see Number Six.
Gina
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Gina Inviere[2] is the alias ("inviere" is Old Gemenese for "resurrection") of a Number Six copy who poses as a systems analyst aboard the battlestar Pegasus.
Before the Fall
Gina Inviere, systems analyst.
Two years prior to the attack on the Colonies, she served as a handler of sorts for Sharon Valerii. Inviere walks her through her upcoming integration into Colonial society and reassures her that it will be just like resurrecting, and that when she awakens she'll be a whole other person (TRS: "The Plan").
She resurfaces several months before the attack on the Twelve Colonies, in the employment of Integral Systems Engineering. She presents a proposal for the retrofit of Pegasus to the Ministry of Defense and worked out the details of the CNP upgrade with Admiral Cain directly. During that time, the two grew close and eventually started having a relationship. They try to be discreet in front of the crew, but don't make it a secret either.
Working alongside Kendra Shaw on Pegasus, Inviere manages to gain the officer's trust and use of her personal access codes (TRS: "Razor").
The Fall
Shortly after the attack on the Colonies, Inviere is instrumental in finding a Cylon communications relay―in fact, a staging ground with squadrons of Raiders far in excess of what the Colonials expected. During the ensuing battle, she helps a boarding party of Centurions gain access to the ship, which leads to many casualties.
When Shaw encounters another Six, she realizes that Inviere is a Cylon and unmasks her in CIC. Inviere kills two Marines but hesitates to kill Cain, indicating that her feelings for Cain are in fact genuine, and is knocked unconscious by Shaw just as she is about to pull the trigger. Inviere is then taken into custody.
With the destruction of mankind's homeworlds and Inviere's personal betrayal and manipulation fresh in mind, Admiral Cain quickly suppresses her feelings for Inviere, and no longer treats her as a human being, but a thing. She orders Lieutenant Thorne to interrogate Inviere and to employ "degradation, fear, [and] shame" while being as creative as he needs to be. Thorne employs whippings in his torture sessions and, along with other male crew, gang rapes her, reducing Inviere to a nearly catatonic state, but ultimately fails to gain any intelligence (TRS: "Razor").
The Rise
When Pegasus encounters Galactica and her Fleet, Inviere is examined by Dr. Gaius Baltar. He is heartbroken by her state, and resolves to help her in any way he can. He convinces Admiral Helena Cain to permit her to be fed, and recounts to Inviere the story of his love for her copy on Caprica, before the Cylon attack (TRS: "Pegasus").
Inviere, speaking for the first time in many months, tells Baltar that she was not a sleeper agent; she was fully aware of her mission and expected to be killed and resurrect back among the Cylons after carrying it out, but instead was subjected to horrific torture by Pegasus' crew. She begs Baltar to kill her and put an ultimate end to her suffering. Baltar reminds her that she would just be resurrected in another Number Six body somewhere else. No longer wishing to live in any form, Inviere betrays her fellow Cylons in order to fulfill her personal death wish. She reveals to Baltar that she won't download if the unknown Cylon ship that Pegasus is tracking is destroyed.
She calls the vessel a Resurrection Ship, and that it was used to collect the consciousnesses of Cylons who die too far away from the Cylon homeworld and download them into new bodies. With no Resurrection Ship to download her consciousness, Inviere would truly die were she killed, as would any other Cylon in Galactica's fleet or the Cylon fleet pursuing them (TRS: "Resurrection Ship, Part I").
Inviere, Cylon prisoner
When she senses that the Resurrection Ship is destroyed, Inviere begs Baltar to kill her. She is incapable of killing herself, because within the Cylon religion, suicide is a mortal sin. However, Baltar convinces Inviere that she should go on living and get "justice" for what happened to her. With Baltar's help, Inviere escapes from her cell, makes her way to Cain's quarters and shoots Cain with a pistol, killing her. She then somehow manages to escape Pegasus(TRS: "Resurrection Ship, Part II").[3]
A Demand for Peace
As Laura Roslin finds herself on her death bed, Demand Peace — a movement seeking peace with the Cylons — summons Baltar to Cloud 9. Inviere has assumed a leading role within the peace movement, her followers unaware of her Cylon nature. She disguises herself by means of glasses and a different hairstyle. Inviere attempts to convince Baltar that, upon assuming the presidency, he should go up against Adama—and thus solidify the distrust of the military within the Fleet.
Because of the extreme sexual abuse she suffers on Pegasus, and atypical of her model, Inviere now abhors intimate contact, as observed when she bites Baltar as he instinctively tries to kiss her. After Roslin recovers from her cancer—thanks to Baltar's perceived unappreciated efforts—Baltar gives Inviere the nuclear warhead earmarked for Baltar's research as part of his Cylon detector(TRS: "Epiphanies").
Following Baltar's election as president of the Twelve Colonies, he visits Inviere once more aboard Cloud 9, attempting to explain to her that because of his new duties he'd be unable to see as much of her as they'd like. After he remarks that he'd make what time he could on New Caprica, she tells him that she wouldn't be leaving the ship to join the new colony. Angry, Baltar attempts to leave the room, but Inviere simply says "stay," while proceeding to undress, choking back her physical aversion in a desperate attempt to make him stay with her. They share an intimate interlude.
While Baltar is being sworn in as president, Inviere sits naked on the floor of her room in front of the nuclear warhead. The timer running, The Cylon once known as Gina Inviere cries softly as the device detonates, killing herself in Cloud 9's explosion, along with several immediately adjacent vessels. One year later, the radiation signature from this explosion leads the Cylons to New Caprica, beginning an occupation of the planet (TRS: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II").
Despite there apparently being a second Resurrection Ship in range of the Fleet not long before her death (Galactica Cavil tells his Caprica counterpart there's a ship in range), her death is apparently final. Presumably the ship was out of range by that time, as the Cylons ceased pursuing the Fleet; their discovery of New Caprica being an accident vis-à-vis Inviere's suicide bombing (TRS: "The Plan").
Gina has darker hair than the Number Six copies seen before her. It is unknown whether she has naturally white hair which she dyes honey-blonde, or other Sixes have naturally honey-blonde hair which they dye white. When Caprica-Six is reborn in "Downloaded," her hair is white. In "Torn," a Six with even darker, raven-black, hair appears. Other Sixes with darker hair than the norm seen later include Natalie Faust, Lida in "Blood on the Scales," and Tough Six in "The Plan".[6]
↑The name "Gina" is never spoken in the series until the television special "Razor". However, before that, Ron Moore used the name throughout the podcasts for the episodes where Inviere appears, and the name was widely used by fans and news writers. Her surname was not introduced even behind-the-scenes until "Razor".
↑As did Shelly Godfrey, Inviere knows how to navigate through a battlestar without being detected, including escaping from one, since Godfrey also disappears from Galactica(TRS: "Six Degrees of Separation"). It is possible that Baltar helped her escape, but this is fanwanking.
↑Cinematically, actor Tricia Helfer's hair was dyed in the lighter color in Season 1. However, the dye caused damage to her hair, so wigs are used later. The hair color of Gina is the actress's natural color.
Vultaggio made her on-screen debut in The Plan (2009), the two-hour television film that re-examined the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies from the perspective of the Cylons. She played Jemmy, a young girl living with her mother Giana O'Neill (Lymari Nadal) and stepfather Number Four/Simon (Rick Worthy) in the fleet. The character appears in sequences aboard the civilian transport Cybele, where family tensions emerge when the Number One model Cavil (Dean Stockwell) seeks out Simon to help in his plan to destroy the remaining humans.[production 1]
Later Television Work
After The Plan, Vultaggio's next confirmed screen credit appears nine years later. She played "Annie" in Quibi's When the Street Lights Go On (2020), a limited series set in a suburban neighborhood.[external 3] Beginning in 2023, she booked roles in television films and series. She appeared as "Sophie" in Disney's Prom Pact (2023), as "Darcy" in Lifetime's Confessions of a Cam Girl (2024), and as a "Gym Rat" in His & Hers (2024). On SYFY's Resident Alien, she played the recurring character Bree in the Season 3 episode "Bye Bye Birdie" (aired March 20, 2024).[external 4] She appeared in the Season 2 episode "This, That, and the Other Thing" of Fox's Murder in a Small Town as kidnapping victim "Paulina Rauch" (aired November 11, 2025).[external 5]
Film Work
In 2025, Vultaggio appeared in the folk-horror feature Keeper, directed by Osgood Perkins and distributed by NEON. The film, shot entirely in the Vancouver area, premiered at the Whistler Film Festival in December 2025 and received a theatrical release on November 14, 2025. Vultaggio played "Francis," a character whose scene was specifically noted by visual effects supervisor Edward J. Douglas as the visual reference for the film's witchling creature effects. The film was released on Hulu on June 5, 2026.[production 2]
Notes on Biographical Sources
Vultaggio maintains a private public presence. Her date of birth, family background, acting training, and professional representation remain unpublished in accessible sources. Her verified biographical information is limited to her IMDb and entertainment database credits, her self-reported location and secondary school in Vancouver, and her on-screen roles.
