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Jake Ryan (born 2 September 1983) is an Australian actor. He was a member of the Australian national Taekwondo team for eight years, before an injury led him to pursue a career in acting. Since 2003, he has appeared in various feature films and television series. He played the recurring roles of Ray "The Blizzard" Blissett in Underbelly and ...
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Childhood
Helena Cain was born during the first Cylon War. On the last day of the war, Tauron was under attack by Cylon basestars and Centurion ground forces. Her sister Lucy Cain and her father were pinned down in a building under heavy fire. When her father was injured trying to escape, he told Helena to get Lucy to a shelter, before dying. The two made it out of the building, as a result of panic and likely injury Lucy had sustained when she tripped over some broken concrete, Helena left her in a fi...
Cylon attack and guerrilla warfare
When Pegasus is scheduled for an extensive overhaul at the Scorpion Fleet Shipyards, Cain has regular meetings with Gina Inviere, a civilian contractor working for the Colonial Ministry of Defense, to work out the details of the retrofit. The two eventually become romantically involved. Shortly before the Cylon attack, Lieutenant Kendra Shaw is assigned to the battlestar as Cain's personal aide. When the lieutenant fails to make it to CICimmediately after her arrival, Cain chews her out in fr...
Meeting Galactica
Upon meeting up with Commander William Adama's Fleet six months later, she as ranking officer assumes command and transfers personnel from Galactica to Pegasus, including Lee Adama and Kara Thrace, indicating that Adama has let military discipline become too lax. Cain is more interested in fighting the Cylons, seemingly oblivious to the point that she and the ships around her are all that was left of the human race, whose survival is more paramount than offensive assaults. While Adama initial...
Adama abandons his assassination plan because of something that was pointed out in a private conversation with the second copy of Sharon Valerii, who reminded him that during his decommissioning speech he had asked whether humanity asked itself if it deserved to survive (TRS: Miniseries, Night 1). Turning on each other would have proven that the Cy...
Original Series nods
1. Helena Cain is inspired by the character of Commander Cain from the original Battlestar Galactica, portrayed by the late Lloyd Bridges. 1. Unlike Commander Cain in the Original Series, Admiral Cain is a superior officer to Commander William Adama. The Original Series's Adama held a higher rank than Cain, and relieved him of command for a time in the two part episode, "The Living Legend".
Behind-the-Scenes
1. Actress Michelle Forbes said on her character, "She’s lost perspective. People ask, ‘Is she insane? Is she psychotic?’ I hope that’s not how she came across because that was never the intention. I think some individuals can appear to be that way, but this is a woman who did what she had to do in order to survive during some very brutal conflicts. Along the way, Cain lost her sense of judgment as well as her sense of reason and rationale. That was all very interesting for me to play. Usuall...
Production
1. Cain's given name, Helena, was not spoken in dialogue initially, but was posted in episode summaries on Scifi.com (initially misspelled as "Nelena"). Her name is first spoken by Colonel Jurgen Belzen in "Razor". 1. Cain's habit of expediting meetings by conducting them without chairs is borrowed from UN Ambassador John R. Bolton (Source: Podcast:Pegasus). Within the show, the lack of chairs is said to stem from her preference to stand because of her back problems (Resurrection Ship, Part II).
In the Command & Conquer saga, Kucan portrays the series' most iconic character, Kane, the messianic/prophetic leader of a pseudo-religious mass movement with transhumanist ambitions called The Brotherhood of Nod. [3]
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Showing all 10 items. Jump to: Photos (7) Quotes (3) Photos. Quotes. [last lines] Commander William Adama : [Cain has not given Tyrol and Helo the courts martial that she promised she would, and has sentenced them to death. Adama argues over the radio] You told me they'd get a fair trial. What kind of trial could they have possibly had?
Callan Ryan Claude McAuliffe (born 24 January 1995) is an Australian actor. He is known for his roles as Bryce Loski in Flipped and Sam Goode in I Am Number Four. He appeared as young Jay Gatsby in the 2013 film The Great Gatsby. From 2017 to 2022 he starred on The Walking Dead as Alden. Early life.
