Numbuh 5

**Abigail "Abby" (Gilligan) Lincoln** a.k.a. **Numbuh 5** is the intelligent, relaxed girl second-in-command/spy in Sector V. She became a KND operative three years before the show started as shown in *Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E.*. She was trained by her older sister, Cree (Numbuh 11), and joined her sister, Numbuhs 8a and 8b, and Numbuh 9 in Sector V.

After Cree betrayed and was defected from the KND, Numbuh 5 became the leader of Sector V, until she allowed Numbuh 1 to take over after she found and hacked his grades for his KND entrance exam. She is the oldest member of Sector V. Numbuh 5 later became Supreme Leader after Numbuh 362 retired

## Background

Numbuh 5 is the intelligent, laid-back, cool, calm, responsible, book smart and streetwise agent of Sector V, and the only one with true common sense. Like Nigel, she is one of the only members of her team that takes her missions seriously. To go along with her cool personality, she refers to herself as "Numbuh 5" in third person, saying "Numbuh 5" rather than "I" most of the time. Not only is she the smartest of her team, but one of the smartest students at Gallagher Elementary School, where she is a honor student. She is more rational, as demonstrated in *Operation: O.U.T.B.R.E.A.K.*, where she did not jump to the conclusion that Numbuh 4 had cooties. She knew he was having an allergic reaction, and she does not think cooties are real.

Whilst arguably not as skilled a fighter as Numbuh's 1 and 4, Numbuh 5 is still a fearsome opponent, she is also far savvier in combat than the latter, often using a great level of ingenuity to defeat her opponents.

Unlike her teammate Numbuh 3, Numbuh 5 is very tomboyish, not having much interest in anything girly, such as Rainbow Monkeys, and is often seen in tuxedos rather than dresses (Although in *Operation: L.I.Z.Z.I.E.*, Numbuh 4 complains about her "stupid girl magazines"). However, like Numbuh 3, she is considered rather attractive, as shown in *Operation: R.O.B.B.E.R.S.*, when a member of the Six-Gum Gang tries to flirt with her, but fails since Numbuh 5 has little interest in boys. However, in *Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E.*, she is shown to have a crush on Numbuh 9 ever since she was younger and was the only one to have knowledge that Numbuh 9 wasn't decommissioned.

Like her teammates, Numbuh 5 distrusts teenagers and adults, having a fierce rivalry with her sister, Cree Lincoln, who taught her most of her skills. In *Operation: M.A.U.R.I.C.E.*, she expressed her anger of becoming a teenager to a point where she yelled at Numbuh 3 when she questions her about her birthday. After Maurice (Numbuh 9) informs her that she may be able to join him in the Teen Operative group of the KND after her 13th birthday, her anger subsided and she was reassured.

In *Operation: D.I.A.P.E.R.*, Numbuh 5 has a motherly side to her and acts like a big sister figure to most of her teammates throughout the show. It was revealed in the same episode that Numbuh 5 has a brilliant singing voice and in *Operation: M.A.C.A.R.R.O.N.I.*, she is also very artistic. Also, she seems to know the most about Numbuh 4's crush on Numbuh 3, as she teases him about it along with Numbuh 2.

Numbuh 5's passion in life is candy and ice cream. She is shown to be an experienced candy hunter with sharp candy instincts and extensive knowledge of candy artifacts and lore, as shown in *Operation: F.L.A.V.O.R.*, *Operation: J.E.W.E.L.S.*, and *Operation: C.A.R.A.M.E.L.*. She has a psychic connection to ice cream in *Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E. when the ice cream ship was destroyed. When not on KND missions, Numbuh 5 will go on a candy adventure by herself, much to Numbuh 1's annoyance. Her two best known rivals are Stickybeard and Henrietta Von Marzipan, a long-time rival and former partner.*

In *Operation: F.E.R.A.L.* and *Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.*, Numbuh 5 shows her disinterest of becoming Sector V's leader, having something to do with an incident with her teammate Numbuh 1, possibly from the events in *Operation: G.R.O.W.-U.P.* Reluctantly at the end of *Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.*, she was made leader again after Numbuh 1 went off to the Galactic KND. It was stated in *Operation: I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S.*, she became Supreme Leader of the Kids Next Door after Numbuh 362 stepped down from her position.

## Trivia

* Her most prized characteristic, according to *Operation: C.A.R.A.M.E.L.*, is her coolness, which is "quite the delicacy" for Henrietta.
* Her codename is Numbuh 5 because of her surname Lincoln, and Abraham Lincoln is on the $5.00 bill.
	+ Abigail and her family are also African-American, who were freed by her presidential namesake. As a member of the KND, Abigail expresses a similar desire to free all children from oppression.
* She and Numbuh 2 are the only members of their sector who have American-style accents.
* Most of the clothes she wears represent the flag colors of several democratic nations: red, white, and blue.
* One of Numbuh 5's skills is playing piano, as she plays the first notes of Chopin's Funeral March in *Operation: P.I.A.N.O.*.
* She is the only Sector V operative whose parent's faces haven't been seen.
* Her older brother has kids, which made her an aunt at a young age.
* Abby is 12 years old during the events of *Operation: C.A.R.A.M.E.L.*
* Interestingly, Abigail's older sister is named Cree, and the voice actress of Numbuh 5 and her sister is Cree Summer.
* She has also been temporarily delightfulized in *Operation: D.A.T.E.*. Her delightfulized look was similar to the braid girl. She also wears glasses while delightfulized and in the pilot, indicating that her eyes may have an impediment.
* Abby and Vin Moosk are the only characters to refer to themselves in the third person, though Abigail refers to herself by her code name.
* Abby is the first character apart from Lizzie and Numbuh 3 to have called Numbuh 1 "Nigie". She called him that after hearing Lizzie ask Numbuh 1 if he's going to introduce her to his friends, ending the question with "Nigie", in *Operation: L.I.Z.Z.I.E..* Abigail later called him "Nigie" at the end of *Operation: A.W.A.R.D.S.* and in *Operation: R.E.C.E.S.S.*.
* Mr. Warburton had answered once that her favorite book was the book of KND and the 2x4 technical manual.
* Abby was born in France and moved to America when she was little.
* She doesn't hate rainbow monkey's an she does tolerate them.
* She didn't really know Nigel before he joined the KND.
* The one thing she is afraid of most is numbuh 4 being president.