The Plan debuts on Blu-ray and DVD on October 27th.

Outside of making Helfer's Battlestar Galactica vampisms look like the model of restraint, last night's episode pushed the season firmly into its endgame: Awesome is about one step away from finding out Chuck's secret (even as Helfer's Alex Forrest, a secret agent for whom not even a stereotypical stripper at a bachelor party routine will stand in the way of her mission, may have ruined his relationship with Chuck's sister), Sarah tracks down Chuck's dad (Not seen in the episode but having his identity ruined less than a minute later by the promo for next week), and even General Beckmann coming around to the idea of a Chuck and Sarah relationship. But will anyone remember that when they think back on what happened? Oh no. They'll all be wishing that they were in Awesome's shoes, and very bad boys.

I'll give the makers of Chuck this - They definitely zig when I'm expecting them to zag. The return of Cole Barker, British superspy who acknowledges his influence by telling his torturers that his name is "Bond, James Bond" when we first saw him this week, wasn't used for cheap "will they, won't they" soap operatics between Chuck and Sarah as I'd been expecting, but instead an excuse for Sarah to finally just come out and tell someone that she has feelings for Chuck.

Similarly, the "Chuck isn't moving in with Morgan after all" B-plot didn't give us the "Chuck lets Morgan down again" moment it seemed to be heading towards, but instead let Anna take over and move in with Morgan... giving him the life that Chuck wants with Sarah. Holy plot and character development that surprise, make sense and advance the overall character arcs of the season!

All of that, mind you, was secondary to the episode's main story, which saw Team Intersect discover that Fulcrum has hoodwinked scientist Howard Busgang (played by everyone's favorite, Robert Picardo) into thinking that he's working for the government instead of a shady bunch of terrorists who claim that they're patriots working for the good of America... All would be usual Chuckery, if it wasn't for the revelation that Busgang helped create the intersect, leading to an obsessed Chuck trying to save Busgang because he's convinced that he's the key to getting the intersect out of his head.

He fails, of course - and sadly, because I kind of wanted Picardo to stick around - but not before Busgang reveals that the mysterious "Orion" may be able to help Chuck, because Orion created the idea of the intersect in the first place and gathered all the other scientists together to make it happen. The episode ended - post Chuck telling Sarah that he was in love with her and her not saying anything because she is crazy and you can't have a Chuck without some soap operatic dumbness - with Chuck looking at a whiteboard of paranoia that he's made, trying to map out all the connections and people behind his current situation.

The introduction of Orion makes me a little nervous, I have to admit. On the one hand, I like that it feels as if we're definitely going to meet Orion (whoever he or she is) before the end of the season, if only to give closure to the question of whether Chuck is stuck like this forever that's been coming up with increasing regularity and urgency as the season goes on... But on the other, I can't quite shake the feeling that Orion suddenly being mentioned just before we're about to meet Chuck's father isn't exactly a coincidence, and that idea worries me greatly. While this show willingly gets fans like me to suspend disbelief on a lot of things, if we're going to be told that Chuck's dad invented the thing that "accidentally" ended up in Chuck's brain... Well, that's where we end up in Alias territory for real, and I think about checking out for awhile.

Of course, that may just be my own brand of paranoia, and even if it's not, we've got awhile before those episodes - two weeks before the next episode at all, in fact, and that's the one where Tricia Helfer shows up to replace Sarah and prove that there's life after BSG and Burn Notice. Personally, I can't wait.

While doing press for her character Carla on the sexy spy drama Burn Notice (which we all adore), Helfer took the time to answer some press questions on BSG and the Six. Will she be back? We've heard the rumors about the big BSG ending (do not click that link unless you want it spoiled). So does her characters climax leave room for spin-offs for her or maybe other Sixes?

Here are her Battlestar-related answers:

Will there be a conclusion to the number Six?

There definitely is, yes. For the first time I find out after five years of filming what that relationship is, so there will be a conclusion by the finale, yes."

What was it like when you shot your last episode for Battlestar Galactica?

Shooting the last episode is intense. Not only do emotions run really high, because obviously this is the last time you're working with a lot of these people and you become like family over five years, but it's also very intense because last episodes tend to come in very long. I think we had a four-hour script in a two hour time frame to shoot, that we were maybe given a couple of extra days. So we really shot incredibly long hours and everybody was kind of like zombies at the end of it. So it's intense, emotions are really high, but it's also a wonderful feeling, it's a great feeling of accomplishment and camaraderie, too.

With this finale of Battlestar Galactica fast approaching, do you think that there'd be any possibility of a spin-off of Battlestar further in the future? I know they're working on the prequel, but would you see any possibility of a future spin-off, like for the series?

You know, I've never really thought about that. Without giving away the finale, I guess there sort of could be. It's definitely a closing in one respect, but now that you mentioned it, there could possibly be a spin-off. I don't expect there to be. I really don't expect there to be and I don't think that's their intention, but I guess you can never say never in this business.

I think I'm more satisfied that we'll be getting a solid conclusion for Helfer's mad Six characters, because I really want to know where this blond beauty came from and why she became such a human-loving, god fearing robot.

But if you're still hungry for more Helfer, then make sure to check out Burn Notice on Thursdays at USA. Hey, it's got Bruce Campbell too.

It seems that Helfer can't quite shake the spy-juice out've her genes following her four episode stint on Burn Notice earlier this year; according to Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello, she'll make her Chuck debut as Agent Alex Forrest in the season's eighteenth episode. The character is described as "a by-the-book ass-kicker... who shows no fear, no remorse and, much to Agent Casey's delight, is very easy on the eyes," but fans of the Chuck/Sarah melodrama shouldn't worry; Helfer is apparently only signed on for one episode. Unless, of course, she proves popular enough to bring back for a longer run...

Ausiello also spills the beans that Chuck is about to get a rival himself; British actor Jonathan Cake is to join the show as an MI-6 agent who'll be the latest character to step into the vacant spot on the eternal Sarah-Chuck-[Your Name Here] love triangle. And, unlike Helfer, Cake is apparently signed on for multiple episodes.

'Chuck' Exclusive: Helfer in! Strahovski out? [EW.com]

Talking to TV Squad, Helfer explained that the fact that she wasn't blonde, but her character was, really started to cause problems the more the show went on:

Yeah I [bleached my hair] for the mini-series, the first season and for half of the second season. When we started the second season, every episode my hair gets thinner and thinner and thinner, and shorter and shorter and shorter, and then finally it started falling out in chunks and they had to give me a wig.

I expect the internet to be full of screencaps from people checking out the state of her hair episode by episode by this time tomorrow. Don't let me down, people.

Tricia Helfer: The TV Squad interview [TV Squad]

It's a little hard to hear our question at the start of the clip, but basically we asked Helfer if Six would be sad if she succeeded in wiping out the humans, because then who'd appreciate her beauty? Helfer responded that maybe the other Cylons would still appreciate Six's beauty, but also that Six doesn't gain validation from being admired for her looks. She gets validation from doing her job, and her gorgeous looks are just a means to that end, preserving the Cylon race.

We followed up by asking if maybe whoever created the human-looking Cylons designed Six to be the most beautiful? And she responded that she doesn't think Six is any more beautiful than any of the other Cylons. (Yes, even Dean Stockwell.) But maybe, she conceded, Six is the most glamorous — but that was only because her most important mission was to get on Gaius Baltar's "good side" to get the defense codes. For Six, it was all about the mission.

And Helfer's been very happy to play other versions of Six, such as the rebel Natalie, who are less glamorous and more obviously brainy and badass. She's glad people are finally seeing the strong, competent woman she always thought Six was, instead of being distracted by the big blonde hair and the slinky dress.

Check out the front and back of the sheets, and bid away. We also took a look through the store portion of her site and noticed she's selling autographed copies of her Playboy appearance from last year, which sports some NSFW Cylon coin-slot action. All proceeds to go Tricia's favorite Kitten Rescue charity, and we're resisting the urge for a bad joke right here.