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Battlestar Galactica
"Six of One"
TV episode
Written by Michael Angeli
Directed by Anthony Hemingway
Original air date: April 11, 2008
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Internal conflicts torment humans and
Cylons as they confront their mythologies — one rooted on Earth,
the other in the Final Five.
Read the summary of the episode at the Battlestar Wiki
site
Notes from the BSG
chronology
This episode takes place immediately after the events of
"He That Believeth in Me".
Didja Know?
The opening titles show the fleet at a population of
39,676, down 22 from
"He That Believeth in Me".
Presumably, these losses are from additional deaths caused by
the Cylon attack on the fleet that occurred in that episode.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode
Colonel Tigh
Helo
President Roslin
Admiral Adama
Dee
Lt. Gaeta
Starbuck
Sergeant Erin Mathias
Marine Nowart
Hybrid
Number Eight
Number One
Natalie Faust
Number Two
Number Four
Number Five
Chief Tyrol
Tory Foster
Sam Anders (Longshot)
Cally (mentioned only)
Baltar
Number Six
Boomer
Racetrack
Athena
Hot Dog
Apollo
Narcho
Ensign Seelix (Hardball)
tattooed pilot (unnamed)
Head Baltar
Romo Lampkin (mentioned only)
Didja Notice?
Starbuck reminds President Roslin of the visions she used to
have of the how ancient artifact called the Arrow of Apollo
would point the way to Earth and how she, Starbuck, helped her
obtain it and use it to activate a planetarium in the Tomb of
Athena on Kobol. These events occurred in the pair of 2-part
episodes
"Kobol's Last Gleaming"
and "Home".
This episode introduces a Number Six who advocates
to the rest of the Cylons
searching for
the Final Five, despite their
programming not to. This Six is referred to in scripts as Natalie
Faust, who had posed as a Gemenon reformer on that planet in her
role of helping to pave the way for the Cylon assault against
the Twelve Colonies. Her name is only ever mentioned on screen
in the later epiosde "The Hub", and by first name only.
Number One remarks that there are millions of copies of each
Cylon model.
At 19:30 on the Blu-ray, we see that Admiral Adama has put back
together the model sailing ship he tore apart
in his grief and anger over Starbuck's death in
"Maelstrom".
Head Baltar appears to Baltar himself for the first time. He
previously had only appeared to Caprica Six. It's never quite
stated that this is the same Head Baltar who appears to Caprica
Six, but he behaves and dresses similarly.
At 31:18 on the Blu-ray, some new pilot names are seen on the
pilot's ready room whiteboard: Digger, Famous, Sniper, and
Catbird.
At 35:44 on the Blu-ray, the ring-ship Zephyr
is seen being repaired from the heavy damage it took
during the Cylon attack on the fleet that occurred in
"Crossroads" Part 2. |
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Tory Foster has sex with Baltar in order to get close to him
to learn what he might know from his Cylon contacts about the Final
Five, particularly the fifth, unknown, one. She starts to cry
during the sex act, claiming to Baltar that it's something that
always happens for her during sex. It seems she must just be
covering for feeling humiliated at having to sleep with Baltar,
because she did not appear to be crying when she had sex with
Anders in
"Crossroads" Part 2.
In this episode,
the Twos, Sixes, and
Eights remove the telencephalic inhibitor installed in the
Centurions to give them the ability to reason for themselves.
At the end of the episode, Starbuck is given the spaceship
Demetrius and a small crew to search for Earth in the
opposite direction of where the fleet is heading. The
Demetrius was a sewage recycling ship of
the fleet.