Quotes for
Number Six (Character)
from "Battlestar Galactica" (2004)

"Battlestar Galactica: The Eye of Jupiter (#3.11)" (2006)

Dr. Gaius Baltar: Can't believe how much I actually miss this place.
Number Six: You know you can't return. They'd toss you out the nearest airlock and then throw a party!

Dr. Gaius Baltar: [Walking through Galactica with the Cylon delegation] I can't believe how much I actually miss this place.
Number Six: You know you can't return. They'd toss you out the nearest airlock and then throw a party.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Yes, I know. Still, I can't help feeling I'm finally home.
Number Six: If you're really a Cylon, one of the final five, then these feelings are just part of your programming, part of your cover.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: And if I'm a human being after all, if I'm not one of the final five, then this is the last chance I'll get to see my kind again.

Brother Cavil: We have a stand-off, very predictable. They have the Eye and they'll nuke it if we try to take it, and we'll shoot them down if they try bringing it up to Galactica.
Leoben Conoy: Are we sure that they have it? How do we know they're not bluffing?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: You don't.
D'Anna Biers: We Threes feel that we can't afford to take the chance.
Brother Cavil: I think we're missing the big picture here. We have the oppotunity to rid the universe of the human pestilence, once and for all.
Number Six: We can discuss that after we get the Eye of Jupiter, after we find the path to Earth.
Brother Cavil: Let me point out that it doesn't matter if we find Earth in five days, or if we find Earth in five thousand years. We're machines. We'll still be around to savor the great miracle. So let them destroy the Eye, if indeed they have it. We have to take advantage of the situation and take down Galactica once and for all... or we could stand here and do nothing.

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"Battlestar Galactica: Guess What's Coming to Dinner (#4.7)" (2008)

Number Six: Our ship can heal itself. But most of our Raiderswere destroyed in the ambush. We're asking for you help here. We can't do it alone.
President Laura Roslin: What could possibly motivate us to trust you now? What have you got?
Lt. Sharon 'Athena' Agathon: The boxing facility resides within the Cylon Resurrection Hub. This hub controls the functions of every Resurrection ship in existence.
Lt. Sharon 'Athena' Agathon: It protects itself by periodically jumping to a new set of coordinates and relaying them back to the Baseship.
Number Six: [Standing up] Madame President, you asked for a reason to help us. Vengeance. You destroy the Hub, Cylons lose their ability to download. All of us.
President Laura Roslin: Why would you be willing to lose your ability to resurrect?
Number Six: We're rebels. We can't go back. What matters most to us is being with the Five. D'Anna will be able to identify them. We'll take you to the hub if you help us unbox D'Anna.

[the President is addressing a meeting of the Quorum with Admiral Adama and other members of the military behind her]
President Laura Roslin: I am here because I want to tell you face to face that I believe in this mission and what it means for our future. I'm here to profess my trust in our new allies. I'm here to ask you to listen. I'm here to ask for your support.
President Laura Roslin: [to the marines at the door] Bring her in.
[the Six that's the leader of the rebel Cylons walks in amidst a sea of hostile faces. She comes and stands beside the President]
Number Six: In our civil war, we've seen death. We've watched our people die. Gone forever. As terrible as it was beyond the reach of the Resurrection ships, something began to change. We could feel a sense of time, as if each moment held its own significance. We began to realize that for our existence to hold any value, it must end. To live meaningful lives, we must die and not return. The one human flaw that you spend your lifetimes distressing over... Mortality is the one thing... Well, it's the one thing that makes you whole.
[Looking at Starbuck who's standing at the back in front of the door]
Number Six: I believe it was no accident that we were found by Kara Thrace. It was destiny. She asked me to leave my people, and I accepted. No matter what the sacrifice, even if it should mean my death...
[Trance-like fade to memories of the Hybrid speaking to Starbuck]
The Hybrid: Thus shall it come to pass. The dying leader shall know the truth of the opera house. You are the harbinger of death, Kara Thrace.
[Suddenly we are back at the meeting with Starbuck looking dazed and glancing toward the President]
Number Six: Our destiny. Our future. Begins here. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak.
Admiral William Adama: Take her out.

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"Battlestar Galactica: He That Believeth in Me (#4.1)" (2008)

Number Six: Yesterday, you were facing execution. Today, you're free. Why the long face?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Oh, gee, I don't know. From President of the colonies to this. King of fools. Probably best to be hated by everyone than loved by this lot. Doomed to live out the rest of my life in this loony bin. I don't know, that might have something to do with my rather savage mood swings.
Number Six: Relax, Gaius. You think I've brought you this far just to let it end here?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: I need some encouragement. A ray of hope about the future. An inkling.
Number Six: You've got me. I'm here for you.

Tracey Anne: [walking in and seeing Gaius on his knees seemly in prayer; not knowing that Number Six had been comforting him by saying she was there for him] That is so beautiful.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: [he opens his eyes and looks around] Hello. Sorry, what?
Tracey Anne: The way you were praying.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: [noticing he had his palms together in an attitude of prayer] Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, thank you, yeah.
Tracey Anne: [she comes over and sits down facing Gaius] Not some hollow ritual.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: No, no.
Tracey Anne: It's as if the Gods are right here beside you.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Well, yeah.
Tracey Anne: When I pray to the gods...
[we see Number Six watching them with interest]
Tracey Anne: I feel empty.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Do you? That's a shame, isn't it?
Number Six: Her gods are false. Tell her.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: [Tracey reaches up and strokes his hair] Well, if you feel empty when you pray to Zeus or Poseidon or Aphrodite, it's because it is. It's a totally empty experience.
[she begins unbuttoning Gaius' shirt]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: They're not real. They've been promulgated by a ruling elite, to stop you from learning the truth.
Tracey Anne: And what truth is that?
Tracey Anne: That's a very good question. What is the... the...
Number Six: There's only one God.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: [Tracey begins unbuttoning her blouse] There is only one God. In a nutshell, that's the truth. We're alone here,aren't we? The others aren't coming back soon.
[She grins and shakes her head]
Dr. Gaius Baltar: And the door's locked. All right, good.
Tracey Anne: [She takes Gaius' hands and places them on her uncovered breasts] Can you feel God's presence?
Dr. Gaius Baltar: You know what? I think I do.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: So do I.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Do you? Do you, too? We both feel...
[Fade as they start to kiss and slide toward the floor]

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"Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak: Part 2 (#4.20)" (2009)

Doctor Gaius Baltar: Over there, between those two peaks, I saw some terrain that looked good for cultivation.
Number Six: Cultivation?
Doctor Gaius Baltar: Yes. You know, I know about farming
[suddenly starts weeping for his father, who was a farmer]
Number Six: Hey
[gently puts her arm on his shoulder]
Number Six: I know.
[kisses him]
Number Six: I know you do.

Brother Cavil: [holding Hera at gunpoint after overpowering a CIC gaurd] This makes it alot easier. I just take the girl and I'm out of here!
Admiral William Adama: [with a gun trained on Cavil] Not a chance!
Number Six: Cavil, we won't let you take Hera. You know that.
Brother Cavil: I know nothing of the kind. I know I'm going to watch you chase your tail across the universe for another four years.
Colonel Saul Tigh: That's not going to happen!
Brother Cavil: This thing is the key to my people's survival, and I'm not leaving without it!
Doctor Gaius Baltar: Hera's not a thing! She's a child, and she holds the key to humanity's survival as well!
Brother Cavil: And how do you know that?
Doctor Gaius Baltar: [glances briefly at Head-Six and Head-Baltar] I see angels, angels in this very room. Now, I may be mad, but that doesn't mean that I'm not right. Because there's another force at work here. There always has been. It's undeniable. We've all experienced it. Everyone in this room has witnessed events that they can't fathom, let alone explain by rational means. Puzzles deciphered in prophecy. Dreams given to a chosen few. Our loved ones, dead, risen. Wheather we want to call that "God" or "gods" or some sublime inspiration or a divine force we can't know or understand, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's here. It exists, and our two destinies are entwined in its force.
Brother Cavil: If that were true, and that's a big "if", how do I know this force has our best interests in mind? How do you know that God is on your side, Doctor?
Doctor Gaius Baltar: I don't. God's not on anyone side. God is a force of nature, beyond good and evil. Good and evil, we created those. You wanna break the cycle? Break the cycle of birth? Death? Rebirth? destruction? Escape? Death? Well, that's in our hands, in our hands only. It requires that we live in hope, not fear.

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"Battlestar Galactica: Lay Down Your Burdens: Part 2 (#2.20)" (2006)

[SPOILER]
Lt. Felix Gaeta: [Running into President Baltar's quarters] Mr. President! Mr. President?
Doctor Gaius Baltar: [mutters in displeasure]
Lt. Felix Gaeta: Gaius. Gaius!
Doctor Gaius Baltar: Yeah, what is it?
Lt. Felix Gaeta: The Cylons just jumped into orbit. And the fleet's jumped away.
Number Six: Judgment day.

[SPOILER]
[Doral, Sharon, and Six walk into Baltar's office]
Doctor Gaius Baltar: I'm Gaius Baltar. President of the colonies.
Number Six: I know who you are, Gaius. I know very well.
Lt. Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii: As long as you offer no resistance, you won't be harmed.
Doctor Gaius Baltar: How do I know that?
Aaron Doral: You don't. You also don't have any choice.
Doctor Gaius Baltar: How did you find us?
Aaron Doral: Oh, it was quite by accident. Actually, we were over a light year away from here when we detected the radiation signature... of a nuclear detonation.
[pause]
Doctor Gaius Baltar: Very well. On behalf of the people of the twelve colonies, I surrender.

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"Battlestar Galactica: Fragged (#2.3)" (2005)

Number Six: [Baltar has just shot and killed Lt. Crashdown] Now you're a man.

Number Six: I'm so proud of you, Gaius.
Doctor Gaius Baltar: Why? Because I've taken a life?
Number Six: It makes you human.
Doctor Gaius Baltar: Is it? Not conscious thought? Not poetry, or art, or music, literature? Murder. Murder is my heritage. Is that the lesson I'm supposed to pass on to our child?

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"Battlestar Galactica: Six of One (#4.2)" (2008)

The Hybrid: [montage of cross-fading images of various Cylon models listening to the Hybrid as she speaks] The excited state decays by vibrational relaxation into the first excited singlet state. Yes, yes, and merrily we go. Reduce atmospheric nitrogen by 0.03%. It is not much consolation that society will pick up the bits. Leaving us at eight modern, where punishment rather than interdiction is paramount. Please cut the fuse. They will not harm their own. End of line. Limiting diffusions to two dimensions increases the number of evolutionary jumps within the species. Rise and measure the Temple of the Five. Transformation is the goal. They will not harm their own.
[fade to a meeting of Cylons: a One, a Two, a Six and an Eight]
The Hybrid: Data-font synchronization complete.
Number Six: The Hybrid is clearly telling us something.
Brother Cavil: [seated authoritatively behind a desk] The Hybrid is always telling us something. They are supposed to maintain operations on each ship, not vomit metaphysics.
[looks for support from the others with no avail]
Brother Cavil: All right. I give up. What? What is she trying to tell us?
Lt. Sharon 'Athena' Agathon: They're in the Colonial Fleet with the humans.
Brother Cavil: They? They who?
Leoben Conoy: The Final Five.
[Cavil turns and looks hostilely]
Number Six: The Raiders refused to fight because they sensed the Final Five might be in the Colonial Fleet.
Leoben Conoy: They could have been caught. They could be in hiding.
Brother Cavil: No, wait, stop. Stop right now. Turn around. Go and take a cleansing walk. And I'm gonna try and forget what I just heard.
Number Six: The Final Five, Cavil, they are near! This is far too important.
Leoben Conoy: What their eyes must have seen, witnessed over time.
Lt. Sharon 'Athena' Agathon: Do they look anything like us?
Brother Cavil: [adamantly] That's enough! Don't you realize what you're doing? You're openly discussing the Final Five.
[pauses to look for chastisement in the others' faces and finding none, explodes]
Brother Cavil: THAT'S FORBIDDEN!
[pauses for effect and continues]
Brother Cavil: You're toying with our survival. Look at yourselves. Look, there's millions of Twos who have that nose. Millions of Sixes possess that mouth. Eights share those breasts and Ones have this brain. We're mechanized copies. There's a reason the original programmers clearly felt that it's a mistake for us to contact the Final Five!
Number Six: No.
Brother Cavil: [continuing despite the Six's protest] Violating that programming threatens our survival!
Number Six: Something has changed.
Brother Cavil: Thoughts have changed. Yes, they change. The Raiders changed. That's where all this started, with them. Somehow they exceeded their programming, and unlike us, they can't correct themselves. So we're gonna have to do it for them.
Number Six: [incredulously] Do what?
Brother Cavil: We'll reconfigure their neural architecture, and shave down their heuristic responses.
Leoben Conoy: Dumb them down? Lobotomize them?
Brother Cavil: They're tools, not pets. But in any case, it has to be done.
Number Six: Says who?
Brother Cavil: Says God almighty, the voice of reason, that's who! When are you gonna hear it?
Number Six: You don't have the authority to make any change without a majority vote.
Brother Cavil: Well, we'll vote. The Fours and Fives will be on my side.

[At the end of a long argument about what's to be done given the Hybrid's words and the Raiders refusal to fight]
Number Six: You don't have the authority to make any change without a majority vote.
Brother Cavil: Well, we'll vote. The Fours and Fives will be on my side.
Number Six: There will be a vote. The Raiders hear what we hear.
Brother Cavil: The Raiders are simple machines.
Number Six: No. Something extraordinary has happened. Something is calling to us. Pushing us to discover our origins, to understand our place in the universe. The Raiders are part of that, and the Final Five...
Brother Cavil: [interrupting and getting in the last word] Are anywhere but with the humans.
[cut to a meeting of four of the Five aboard Galactica]

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"Battlestar Galactica: Exodus: Part 2 (#3.4)" (2006)

Lt. Felix Gaeta: [pointing a pistol at Baltar] I believed in you!
Number Six: Whoa, whoa, Gaeta.
Lt. Felix Gaeta: I believed in the dream of New Caprica.
Number Six: Gaeta, we all did.
Lt. Felix Gaeta: No! No. Not him. He believed in the dream of Gaius Baltar. The good life. Booze, pills, hot and cold running interns. You led us to the Apocalypse...

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"Battlestar Galactica: Litmus (#1.6)" (2004)

Number Six: Don't make me angry, Gaius. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

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"Battlestar Galactica: Pegasus (#2.10)" (2005)

Lieutenant Alastair Thorne: [Dr. Baltar has been asked aboard the Battlestar Pegasus to examine their "Cylon prisoner"] Don't get too close. It killed seven of my crew. Do you want my guards to come in with you?
Number Six: Feeling scared, Gaius? Want the big, bad soldiers to protect you from the mean old Cylon prisoner?
Doctor Gaius Baltar: No, I think we'll be just fine. Thank you.
[the Cylon Prisoner is shackled to the floor]
Number Six: Oh, my God.
[the Cylon comes into full view]
Number Six: My God, Gaius, it's me! Look at what they've done to her!
Doctor Gaius Baltar: Open the door, now, please.
Computer Voice: ID confirmed. Lieutenant Thorne.
[the door opens and Baltar instantly covers his face with a handkerchief]
Doctor Gaius Baltar: [Baltar examines the other Number Six: she is in a catatonic state] She must have struggled. She must have fought back.
Number Six: [crying] That doesn't justify this!

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"Battlestar Galactica: Bastille Day (#1.3)" (2004)

Doctor Gaius Baltar: Lieutenant Thrace! Good to see you!
Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: Good to see you too!
Doctor Gaius Baltar: Really?
Lt. Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: No!
Number Six: Oh!
Doctor Gaius Baltar: I wonder if she's a real blonde.
Number Six: I doubt it.

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"Battlestar Galactica: Resistance (#2.4)" (2005)

Crewman Specialist Cally: [Chief Tyrol has been wrongly accused by Col. Tigh of being a Cylon] I've known the Chief for years. He's no Toaster!
Doctor Gaius Baltar: He was involved with Lieutenant Valerii, who most certainly is a Toaster.
Number Six: That word is racist! I don't like it!
Crewman Specialist Cally: Sure... he's shown some bad judgment getting involved with her. But that doesn't mean he's a Toaster. You've got to help him.
Number Six: Say something, Gaius. Tell her you won't have racial epithets used in your presence!

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"Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak: Part 1 (#4.19)" (2009)

Number Six: [talking to Baltar] She's right, Gaius. The end times are approaching. Humanity's final chapters are about to be written. And you - you will be its author.

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"Battlestar Galactica: Blood on the Scales (#4.14)" (2009)

Number Six: [after he cut off her sexual advances] But, I want to make you feel better.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Cut off my legs. I ran. Again. I disappeared in the nick of time, again.

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"Battlestar Galactica: Faith (#4.6)" (2008)

[a platinum blond Six has just killed Jean Barolay and is being held down by Anders who's holding a gun to her head. Starbuck has been trying to keep Anders from taking revenge. When another Six, an darker blond and the apparent leader of the Sixes on the damaged Baseship, intervenes]
Number Six: Why sister?
Platinum Blond Number Six: [Looking down at the floor] I just couldn't let it go. On New Caprica...
Number Six: [the darker blond 6 squats down beside her while Anders continues holding her down at gun-point] She was the one?
Platinum Blond Number Six: I never did anything to her. We were working at the water treatment plant, and she just...
Number Six: I know. I remember. After you downloaded, we tried to work through this.
Platinum Blond Number Six: How do you work through something like that? Never forget her expression as I tried to scream. Just slapped tape over my mouth and threw me in that septic tank.
Ensign Samuel Anders: You shut your frakking mouth!
Platinum Blond Number Six: I still see her face when I try and sleep.
[Looking up at her sister Six]
Platinum Blond Number Six: We were trying to help these people
Number Six: I know. I know. I wish there was something I could do.
Platinum Blond Number Six: Then I'm glad it's you.
[the darker blond Six reaches down and cradles her sister's face tenderly. They kiss. She then stands up and calmly walks around behind Anders. She reaches down and pulls the trigger of the gun he's holding to her sister Six's head]
Ensign Samuel Anders: [Everyone is shocked, not quite believing what just happened. Sam jumps up and points his gun at the darker blond Six] Gods damn it!
Number Six: [Looking at Anders] No Resurrection ship. You understand? She's just as dead as your friend.
Number Six: [Walks over to Starbuck] Is that enough human justice for you? Blood for blood?a

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"Battlestar Galactica: Kobol's Last Gleaming: Part 2 (#1.13)" (2005)

Dr. Gaius Baltar: I don't understand.
Number Six: Life has a melody, Gaius... A rhythm of notes that become your existence once played in harmony with God's plan. It's time to do your part and realize your destiny.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: Which is what exactly?
Number Six: You are the guardian and protector of the new generation of God's children. First member of our family will be with us soon, Gaius. It's time to make your choice.
Dr. Gaius Baltar: But I don't understand what you're talking about. Really I don't understand.
Number Six: Come. See the face of the shape of things to come. Isn't she beautiful, Gaius?

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"Battlestar Galactica: Resurrection Ship: Part 1 (#2.11)" (2006)

Number Six: You know what I miss?... Sports.

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"Battlestar Galactica: 33 (#1.1)" (2004)

Number Six: Procreation is one of God's commandments.
Doctor Gaius Baltar: Really? Well, I'm sure someday if you're a good Cylon, he'll reward you with a lovely little walking toaster of your very own.

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