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| Role | Giving birth to a Human-Cylon Hybrid, currently a POW on Galactica. | |
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| Portrayed by | Grace Park | |
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This page is about the copy of Cylon Model Number Eight first seen on Caprica, who loves Helo and becomes pregnant. For the Sharon Valerii first seen on Galactica, who loves Galen Tyrol and is shot by Cally, see Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy). For information about the various copies see Number Eight.
Biography[edit]
When Helo is left on Caprica, the Cylons use him in an elaborate experiment. Key to this experiment is another copy of Valerii, with copies of Aaron Doral and Six acting as overseers for the experiment. This second Valerii "rescues" Helo from capture by Six and Cylon Centurions. Unaware of Valerii's true nature, Helo genuinely believes this Valerii copy to be the "Boomer" he knew from Galactica. Following his rescue, Valerii leads Helo to "her" Raptor, now in the hands of Cylons, convincing him that they have no direct way off of the planet (Water).
Following this, and having received a "Colonial signal" on the radio receiver they are carrying, she leads Helo to a city where they find a fully-equipped "fallout shelter" in which two people can live in reasonable security, hidden from above-ground Cylon operations, and with sufficient supplies to last a considerable period of time (Act of Contrition).
The Experiment[edit]
The purpose in establishing this "nest" is to elicit an emotional response in Helo towards Valerii. When this fails, and he continues to express a desire to get off the planet, the Cylons arrange for Valerii to be "captured", determining that if Helo does not seek to rescue her, the experiment has failed, and he must be killed (You Can't Go Home Again).
Following Helo's "rescue" of Valerii, genuine concern and mutual need result in the two having sex (Six Degrees of Separation), an accomplishment she reports to Doral and Six. A new hideout, a cabin in the woods, is being constructed for Helo and Valerii, and she is instructed to lead him there and have him stay with her - or kill him if he attempts to leave (Flesh and Bone).
Faced with this, and the realization that she has herself fallen in love with Helo, Valerii disobeys her instructions and attempts to lead Helo to Delphi, where they hope to steal a vehicle and get off the planet (Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down). On the way to the spaceport, Valerii shows signs of being pregnant: she succumbs to a bout of morning sickness (The Hand of God) and develops a ravenous appetite (Colonial Day).
Helo's Discovery[edit]
On reaching Delphi, Valerii and Helo break into the Cylon facilities to reach the spaceport. When Helo encounters yet another copy of Valerii, he draws the initial conclusion that she is a human clone created by the Cylons, and goes on the run alone (Colonial Day). When Valerii catches up with him, her emotional condition is so confused that she challenges him to shoot her (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I). Helo is only able to wound her, and takes her with him to use her to somehow get off Caprica. While Helo keeps her at gunpoint, she leads him to the Delphi Museum. Waiting out a storm in a nearby ruined building, Sharon tells Helo that her love for him is real and that she is pregnant with his child.
When she and Helo come across Starbuck, who lands near the museum to retrieve the Arrow of Apollo, Thrace realizes instantly that Valerii is a Cylon and attempts to shoot her. Helo stops Thrace and reveals to her that Valerii is pregnant (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II). Starbuck is convinced that Caprica-Valerii must be a Cylon copy of the "real" Sharon on Galactica. Caprica-Valerii tries to convince her that they are both Cylons and both of them is just as "real" as the other, by remembering the first time they met, to no avail.
Valerii and The Resistance[edit]
After Thrace attempts to kill her, Valerii escapes in Thrace's Cylon Raider to save the life of her unborn child (Scattered). After tracking them for several days, Valerii returns to Helo and a Caprica resistance movement to aid them in finding the missing Thrace (The Farm). Valerii steals a Cylon Heavy Raider and arrives at the rescue scene to destroy several Centurions and rescue the entire resistance group. Convinced that this Sharon copy can be sufficiently trusted, or at least give useful information on Cylon activity, they allow Valerii to join them as they take the Heavy Raider back to the Fleet.
When Valerii walks aboard the Astral Queen, Lee Adama spots her, grabs Valerii and places his gun to her head, obviously angry that another Valerii copy exists (the Galactica copy having shot his father, William Adama). Helo immediately places his gun against Adama's head, but President Roslin urges both men enough to drop their weapons, and orders Valerii to be ejected out the airlock. Valerii pleads for her life, telling Roslin she knows the precise location of the faction's objective: The Tomb of Athena. Roslin reconsiders and places Valerii in the brig. Roslin later confirms that the Cylon is actually working on their side because Valerii wants her child and Helo to remain safe from what Roslin interprets as a mothering instinct.
Valerii accompanies Roslin's party to Kobol. Valerii recites the specific passages of the Tomb in the scriptures of the Sacred Scrolls and plots the group's path along a ridge nearby. As priestess Elosha examines a gravestone marker along the ancient trail, the handcuffed Valerii senses danger but is too late to warn anyone; two "Bouncing Betty"-style antipersonnel mines detonate, killing Elosha. At the same instant, a group of Centurions open fire. As others hide or return fire, Valerii vaults away, with Lee Adama in pursuit, believing she is trying to escape. Valerii scoops up a grenade launcher lying ahead, and just as Lee Adama thinks she is about to shoot him, she aims for the last Centurion and destroys it (Home, Part I). At camp, Adama and Thrace are perplexed that Helo still loves Valerii, even though he is now aware she is a cylon.
While walking, Valerii casually tells Helo that their child is a girl. Commander Adama's search party arrives at Roslin's camp. The warm reunion of the two leaders and family is interrupted when Adama sees this second copy of Sharon Valerii. Commander Adama immediately tries to choke her to death. He releases her after experiencing terrible chest pains (probably the result of his recent surgery, or from anxiety), as she says "And you asked 'why'?" (mysteriously referencing what Commander Adama said over the body of the dead body of "Boomer" Valerii).
Tom Zarek's follower, Meier, tries to convince her to help him kill both Adamas. Valerii believed her Galactica counterpart was being held in the brig, but Meier informs her that she was killed. She expresses her outrage to Helo that Cally killed Boomer with only a minor punishment. Valerii deduces that the Colonials don't see humanoid Cylons are people; she is a thing they may destroy once they no longer need her. Valerii pretends to take up Meier's proposal to kill Commander Adama and Lee Adama, but after they all draw their weapons, she shoots Meier instead, saving the lives of both Adamas. She announces to Commander Adama that she is not the same Sharon that shot him, and that she is not a sleeper agent with hidden protocols waiting to activate; she makes her own choices. She surrenders the weapon to Commander Adama, to everyone's surprise.
The Cooperative Cylon[edit]
Subsequently, Valerii is brought aboard battlestar Galactica and imprisoned in a new reinforced cell designed to incarcerate the copy of Sharon known as "Boomer." Number Six tells Dr. Baltar that Valerii's baby will be born in that cell. Number Six considers Valerii's and Helo's biological child to be hers; she says that she will be its "mother" and Baltar will be it's "father" (Home, Part II).
While in her cell Valerii nearly has a miscarriage, and is rushed to Sickbay where Dr. Cottle succeeds in saving the fetus. D'anna Biers, a reporter for the Fleet News Service, stumbles upon Valerii while filming her documentary in Sickbay. D'anna threatens to expose that Adama is harboring a Cylon aboard Galactica, but he confiscated what he believed was Biers' tape of Valerii. In reality, D'anna secretly switches tapes and keeps the real one. This critical information was not broadcast in the final cut of her documentary distributed to the Fleet, but it was broadcast back to other Cylons on Caprica (by way of two Raiders that attacked Galactica in order to get within transmission range). The Cylons on Caprica (including another copy of D'anna and yet another Valerii copy) are surprised yet overjoyed that Helo's Valerii is still alive (they are apparently unaware that she had survived). They are incredibly concerned that her hybrid child survives, saying that it must be protected at all costs (Final Cut).
When Galactica experiences mysterious computer failures and system malfunctions from yet another Cylon virus, Commander Adama orders Helo to show the incarcerated Valerii the strange Cylon code. Valerii identifies it as a very virulent Logic bomb that will take control of the ship and kill off the crew if she does not help. Reluctantly, on advice from President Roslin, Commander Adama brings Valerii to CIC, where Valerii cuts her arm open and connects her body to a fiber optic line to communicate with Galactica's mainframe computer and communication channels. The process is painful both to Valerii and to the crew watching the spectacle. With Valerii now with access, she takes into her a portion of the logic bomb code, then instructs Lieutenant Gaeta to wipe the hard drives of the system computers to erase all Cylon virus traces for good. Galactica is a sitting duck to a massive Cylon fighter force on the outskirts of DRADIS range while Valerii makes adjustments to the code. She resends the code out on the communication channels to the Cylon fleet. In a reversal of the events suffered by the Colonials in the holocaust, every Cylon fighter loses power and weapons. Adama's Vipers have a free-for-all shooting, destroying every Cylon fighter without a single Colonial casualty (Flight of the Phoenix).
The Cylon "Interrogator"[edit]
After Galactica reunites with battlestar Pegasus, Admiral Helena Cain sends Lieutenant Alistair Thorne to inspect the incarcerated Valerii. He beats her and attempts to sexually assault her while his guards watch. Fortunately for Valerii, both Helo and Tyrol find out about Thorne and what was done to his previous prisoner and arrive in time to stop him. Tyrol accidentally kills Thorne in the process, and both he and Helo are arrested by the Pegasus guards and taken to Cain's battlestar, where a summary court-martial leaves Agathon and Tyrol pending execution by Admiral Cain.
Commander Adama sends a Marine force and his Viper squadrons out and tells to Cain over wireless that he is getting his men. Valerii and all of the fleet await news on the survival of her "past" and current love as a standoff between the battlestars begins (Pegasus).
Valerii's attempted rape results in a hairline fracture in one of her ribs and minor bruising. Still in shock for the incident, Commander Adama personally appologizes to Valerii that it happened aboard his ship (Resurrection Ship, Part I). This is also the first time where he refers to Sharon as a 'her', as opposed to as an 'it'.
Valerii is happily reunited with Helo and Tyrol when the two are released after Adama resumes full command of the Fleet, though she is more enthusiastic to see Helo than Tyrol. (Resurrection Ship, Part II).
Roslin's attempt to abort Valerii's baby[edit]
Weeks later, President Roslin, on her deathbed, recommends that Valerii's fetus be aborted, fearing dire consequences for the Fleet.
On hearing this news, Helo is terrified, but Valerii, having cooperated fully to aid the Fleet to save herself and her child and to show that not all Cylons are dangerous, is enraged. Marines sent to inspect her and later to take her to sickbay for the procedure are forced to restrain the angry Cylon.
At the last minute (spurred by threats from his virtual Number Six), it is Gaius Baltar who learns of an astonishing ability of the fetal blood of Valerii's baby: it destroys cancer cells. Taking a small blood sample, he injects it into the dying Laura Roslin. Moments later, her cancer is "gone", according to Dr. Cottle. The abortion procedure is cancelled.
The recovering Roslin visits Valerii in her cell and smiles at the sight of Valerii stroking her belly, just as a human female would (Epiphanies).
Birth of the child[edit]
Caprica-Sharon has since given birth to the child which was born prematurely, and thus its lungs were underdeveloped and it had to spend some time in an oxygen-rich incubator. An emergency Ceasarian Section had to be performed by Dr. Cottle to save both the baby's and Caprica-Sharon's life because of a detached placenta. Helo and Sharon named the baby Hera and marveled at her while she was in an incubator. However, after believing their baby was out of danger, the baby apparently died due to her underdeveloped lungs and the failure of Dr. Cottle to be able to intubate her in time. In a state of shock Sharon nearly strangled Cottle in grief before being subdued, and subsequently fell into deep depression.
However, unbeknownst to Caprica-Sharon, her baby is still alive. In a move to not have to kill the baby but at the same time not have it raised by Sharon or risk having it captured by unseen Cylon agents, Caprica Sharon's baby was switched with another dead child. That was the child Sharon and Helo was grieving over. President Laura Roslin, Dr. Cottle and Presidental aide Tory Foster had Caprica-Sharon's baby placed in the care of Maya, a foster mother for Hera who had lost her own child. The adoptive mother does not know that the child she has taken in is the Cylon/human hybrid. (Downloaded)
Sharon's depression over losing her child only worsens. Helo convinces her to aid in the rescue of Anders and the other survivors on Caprica, in part to try and draw her out of her funk. Sharon makes the rescue possible by acting as a conduit between the Colonial Raptors and the far more advanced FTL computer salvaged from a Heavy Raider. (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I) On Caprica, Kara demonstrates a new level of trust for Sharon by throwing her a gun during the firefight with the Centurions. Later, Sharon is as perplexed as everyone else when the Cylon troops disengage and the Cylons apparently leave the planet for good. She is aware, however, that Brother Cavil, who loudly proclaims the end of the occupation to be a miracle, is a Cylon agent, and witholds this information from the others. On Galactica the good brother is exposed by Chief Tyrol, and Sharon is sent back to the Brig along with him. When asked by a distraught Helo why she didn't report this crucial fact, she replies "They killed my baby. Do you think I care about you, or us, or whether or not Adama trusts me anymore?" and then shuts him out completely. Her status and whereabouts during the year on New Caprica are currently unknown. (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II)
Notes[edit]
- This Sharon Valerii is still referred to as the Caprica copy, even though she is now on Galactica, because she was first encountered on Caprica.