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- Episode 02x18

Episode: 02x18
Title: Downloaded
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 218
First Aired: Feb. 24, 2006

Season 2 » Episode #18 - Downloaded

Summary: The consciousness of two Cylon models have been downloaded into new bodies and made celebrities for their success: the Number Six who seduced Baltar before the attack on the Colonies and the sleeper agent from Galactica known as Boomer. However, neither are accepting of their status.Elsewhere in the Colonial fleet, a decision must be made over what to do with Sharon's baby for fear of what the hybrid child might mean to the Cylons.

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Guest Stars:

Commander Lee 'Apollo' Adama	played by Jamie Bamber
Caprica	played by Tricia Helfer
Chief Galen Tyrol	played by Aaron Douglas
Dr. Cottle	played by Donnelly Rhodes
Medic Layne Ishay	played by Kerry Norton
Jean Barolay	played by Alisen Down
Maya	played by Erica Cerra
Hillard	played by Diego Diablo Del Mar

Episode Quotes

	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Downloaded Doctor Gaius Baltar: What are you suggesting? President Laura Roslin: I'm not suggesting anything Doctor. If I want to throw a baby out an airlock I'll do it.
	Season 2 / Episode 18: - Downloaded Number Three: Humans don't respect life the way we do. [Immediately points a gun at an unconscious, unarmed, captive human before Boomer stops her from shooting him]

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FAKE: When Cylon model #3 picks up Starbuck's dog tags, she reads the name as "Thrace, Kara". When we see the dog tags, they say "K. Thrace", with no indication of her first name (or sex).
CONT: When Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii is working out in her home, you can see a towel on her right shoulder. When she is done, she picks up a towel on the ground and doesn't have one on her shoulder.

TRIVIA

Opening credits say there are 49,579 human survivors.
"Downloaded" features the Cylon point of view of the show and shows an established society in the planet of Caprica. However, the staff didn't want to reveal yet the identity of the remaining Cylon models, so they decided to focus just in three characters: D'anna Biers (Lucy Lawless), Sharon Valerii (Grace Park) and Caprica Six (Tricia Helfer). The presence of Aarol Doral (Matthew Bennett (I)) is very limited, and despite seeing what we can guess are some copies of Simon, the actor who usually plays him, Rick Worthy didn't actually appear in the episode and they used a double actor instead.
Ronald D. Moore told in the podcast commentary for "Downloaded" that they had started to develop an episode called "The Raid", where the humans infiltrated into a Cylon space station where a conference about how to solve the human problem was taking place. The Colonials had to get more information about the Earth. Caprica Six, who started having visions about Gaius Baltar, discovered them but finally let them go. This idea was dropped, but Ron Moore wanted to show the Cylon point of view and it was finally shown in "Downloaded". The return of Caprica Six, who died in the miniseries, and she having visions about Gaius was also kept from "The Raid".
D'anna (the character who is played by Lucy Lawless) reveals her model is Number 3, Sharon's is Number 8, and Doral's is Number 5.
For the first time in the show, D'anna refers to the Number 6 copy who infiltrated into Caprica to disable the Colonies' defenses as "Caprica Six".