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Cylon Model '''Number Three''', known to [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] as '''D'Anna Biers''', has infiltrated as a [[Colonial]] reporter for the [[Fleet News Service]] ([[Final Cut]]).
"'''Number Three'''" is a model of humanoid Cylon, female, blonde, and marked by a religious curiosity—notably surrounding the verboten [[Final Five]]—that sets her against the other Cylon models, notably the [[Number One]]s.  


==Fleet Copy==
The model was first introduced in "[[Final Cut]]" as an infiltrator in the Fleet under the alias "[[D'Anna Biers]]" posing as a reporter for the [[Fleet News Service]]. She appears to be more of a tabloid rumor-and-innuendo format news journalist and less of the conventional Fleet journalist types such as [[James McManus]].  
D'Anna Biers appears to be more of a tabloid rumor-and-innuendo format news journalist and less of the conventional Fleet journalist types such as [[James McManus]].


Biers is investigating the shootings of four civilians during a military intervention authorized by Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] in what she dubs for sensationalism's sake as the ''"[[Gideon]] massacre"''. Her efforts to interview ''[[Galactica]]'s'' crew are constantly thwarted by military protocol and stonewalling by Commander [[William Adama|Adama]], who privately acknowledges Tigh's mistakes, but seems adamant not to render any punishment.
Threes are also referred to as "D'Annas" collectively ([[The Ties That Bind]], [[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).


The social and political repercussions of the ''[[Gideon]]'' incident become too much for President [[Laura Roslin]] to ignore. The citizens of the Fleet are becoming critical of ''Galactica'' and wonder if the military places itself at a different level of self-responsibility than its citizens. Working with Commander Adama, President Roslin invites Biers aboard ''[[Colonial One]]'' and proposes something interesting to the reporter. Adama and Roslin will give Biers "unlimited" access to ''Galactica'' and her crew to create a documentary on what it is like to be the last defensive group of the Twelve Colonies, as well as allowing her to interview many of the crew on the ''Gideon'' incident.
Because of their defiance of the taboo against learning more about the Final Five, the entire line is [[Boxing|boxed]], and their consciousnesses are stored at the Cylons' central [[Resurrection Hub]] {{TRS|The Ties That Bind}}.


Biers is initially given a tour of the battlestar by Petty Officer [[Anastasia Dualla]], but finds the nuts-and-bolts technology and layout information boring. She and her photographer, [[Bell]], prefer to record and interview the candid moments of ''Galactica's'' crew--even going so far as entering the senior pilot's quarters, where a scantily-clad [[Lee Adama]] finds the intrusion most unwelcome.
[[Natalie]]'s faction in the [[Cylon Civil War]] wants to unbox the [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] who visited the [[The Temple of Five|Temple of Five]], so that the seven and the five may be united. They eventually forms a fragile alliance with the Colonials to retrieve this Three, and then destroy the Hub {{TRS|Guess What's Coming to Dinner?}}. Three is resurrected, and with the destruction of the Hub she becomes the sole Three in existence ("[[Sine Qua Non]]," "[[The Hub]]").


Biers begins in-depth personal interviews with many of the crew, including Dualla, Lieutenants [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]], [[Margaret Edmondson]], [[Kara Thrace]] and [[Karl Agathon]], as well as attempts to interview command staff such as Colonel Tigh. Of all the interviews, she desperately wants to ask Tigh many questions on his decisions in the ''Gideon'' incident, but Tigh stonewalls and evades her questions, partially from his annoyance in the situation, but also because he is distracted by a mysterious death threat left in his quarters: a verse of a poem from a Caprican poet known as [[Kataris]].
Fallen into despair with the discovery of a dead Earth, this last Three chooses to stay and die on the planet {{TRS|Sometimes a Great Notion}}.<ref>In the podcast for "Sometimes a Great Notion," Ron Moore notes that this is the last appearance of D'Anna Biers.</ref>


[[Image:CylonThree.jpg|thumb|left|Number Three model on Galactica ([[Final Cut]])]]
== Copies ==
Biers appears to be in the right place at the wrong times throughout her documentary filming. She captures the growing behavioral problems with Lieutenant [[Louanne Katraine]], a Viper pilot who later crash-lands her Viper after failing a routine landing and is found to have been abusing [[stims]] because of the pressures she endures from the loss of her family and friends as well as the demands of being a Viper pilot. Biers also captures the sabotage to a [[Raptor]] that was intended to shuttle Colonel Tigh to ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' for some downtime for the colonel as well as a bit of business on orders of Commander Adama.


As Biers passes through [[sickbay]] during her documentary, she makes a highly unusual find. [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Sharon Valerii]] is alive and being treated in sickbay. The existence of this second copy of the known [[Cylon agent|Cylon infiltrator]], who was thought to be dead by [[The Fleet (RDM)|The Fleet]], is too much for Biers not to document. However, Commander Adama intercepts Biers and demands that she give him the intriguing footage of Valerii. Biers pointedly asks why Adama  is harboring this known Cylon in secret aboard the ship, and suggests that news of Valerii's existence could ruin Adama in the eyes of the Fleet. Adama evades the question and redirects it at Biers, asking whether exposure of this second Valerii's existence to the Fleet would do anyone any good. She surrenders a tape to Adama, but unknown to him,  Biers retains the actual footage of Valerii in secret for herself.
===Fleet copy===


Biers gets an opportunity to document what happens in [[CIC]] during a Cylon Raider raid at the Fleet.
{{mainarticle|Number Three (Fleet copy)}}


As Biers is editing the documentary, reviewing the footage from the senior pilot's quarters, she sees [[Joe Palladino]] on his bunk with a copy of a book by Kataris. Biers' knowledge of Palladino's involvement in the ''Gideon'' incident immediately determines that Palladino is the likely suspect in the death threats. She and Bell grab their photo gear and rush to Tigh's quarters to find that Palladino has bound Tigh's wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]] and threatens to shoot Colonel Tigh with a sidearm. Tigh manages to talk the agitated lieutenant down and disarm him, where [[Colonial Marine Corps|marines]] take the wayward Viper pilot away.
[[Image:CylonThree.jpg|thumb|left|Number Three model on ''Galactica'' {{TRS|Final Cut}}]]


Bier's final documentary is reviewed by Tigh, Adama, and President Roslin. While Tigh is initially perturbed at the documentary's unshiny look into Colonial military life, Adama finds it a good story, "warts and all." The documentary is broadcast to the Fleet, with Biers concluding the documentary with a rousing monologue:
The first copy of Number Three is introduced in "[[Final Cut]]," posing as a documentary filmmaker chronicling the "[[Gideon]] massacre" and, later, life aboard ''[[Galactica (TRS)|Galactica]]''. Her report is transmitted back to Cylon-occuped {{RDM|Caprica}}, along with information on [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Agathon ''neé'' Valerii]]'s survival and successful pregnancy.


:"I came to ''Galactica'' to tell a story. In all honesty, I thought I knew what that story was before I ever set foot here. How an arrogant military let their egos get in the way of doing their job safeguarding the lives of the civilian population. But I found the truth was more complex than that. These people aren't Cylons. They're not robots blindly following orders and polishing their boots. They're people. Deeply flawed, yes, but deeply human too. And maybe that's saying the same thing. What struck me the most is that despite it all: the hardships, the stress, the ever-present danger of being killed-- despite all that, they never give up. Never lie down in the road and let the truck run them over. They wake up in the morning, put o­n their uniforms, and do their jobs. Every day, no pay. No rest. No hope of ever laying down the burden and letting someone else do the job. There are no relief troops coming, no Colonial fleet training new recruits every day. The people o­n ''Galactica'' are '''it'''. They are the thin line of blue separating us from the Cylons."
Her status following the arrival of the Cylons on [[New Caprica]] is uncertain but she likely joined the Cylons there as her model would have been exposed by the appearance of other Number Three's.


:"Lieutenant Gaeta told me a remarkable statistic. Not a single member of ''Galactica's'' crew has asked to resign. Not o­ne. Think about that. If you wore the uniform, wouldn't you want to quit? To step aside and say, "Enough. Let someone else protect the Fleet." I know I would. But then, I don't wear a uniform. Most of us don't, most of us never will. The story of ''Galactica'' isn't that people make bad decisions under pressure. It's that those mistakes are the exception. Most of the time, the men and women serving under Commander Adama get it right. The proof is that our fleet survives. And with ''Galactica'' at our side, we will endure. This is D'Anna Biers, Fleet News Service."
This copy is presumed deceased, as she is more than likely [[boxing|boxed]] with her entire line and her consciousness destroyed with the [[Resurrection Hub]] ("[[Rapture]]," "[[Sine Qua Non]]," "[[The Hub]]").  
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==="[[Downloaded]]" copy===
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[[Image:Biers Downloaded.JPG|thumb|right|Number Three model on Caprica {{TRS|Downloaded}}]]


But the Fleet is not the only group that sees the documentary. A group of humanoid Cylons on Caprica--copies of [[Aaron Doral]], [[Number Six]], another [[Sharon Valerii]] copy and one other person, hidden from view initially in the theater where they sit, watch Biers' documentary (including, surprisingly, the footage of the Sharon Valerii copy in sickbay that Adama had presumably confiscated) with great interest. The Valerii copy remarks in surprise about the survival of her pregnant doppleganger on ''Galactica'', and the others are very intent on monitoring the pregnancy and survival of the Cylon/human hybrid fetus. The mysterious 4th person in the theater is revealed: a second copy of D'Anna Biers, which notes that the Raiders that intercepted ''Galactica'' were used to relay the documentary and its forbidden footage of Valerii from themselves to a nearby Cylon fleet for transmission to Caprica, at the price of some loss of Cylon material.
This Number Three is first introduced in "[[Downloaded]]" in her attempt to box [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]]. After the two Cylons convince the others that they made a mistake when they [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|launched their all-out attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies of Kobol|Colonies]], she later oversees the [[Cylon Occupation Authority|occupation]] of [[New Caprica]], the recovery of [[Hera Agathon]] from Colonial hands, and later leads the Cylons' search for both [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and the [[Final Five]].  


==Other Copies==
This later search for the Final Five, verboten by a cultural imperative of Cylon society, leads her to the [[Temple of Five]] where she receives a vision that identifies the Five. She later dies as a result of this vision, only to be resurrected and summarily [[boxed]], a process overseen by the [[Number One]]s. However, a [[Cylon Civil War]] instigated by [[Natalie]] (a [[Number Six]]) leads to her later unboxing by Cavil and [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]], with the belief that she can convince the rebels to stop rebelling. She offers her rather violent reply to this (by killing Cavil), and is summarily rescued by [[Karl Agathon]] and an [[Number Eight|Eight]], and—with the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]]—is the last Three in existence and the only Three to ever reach Earth.
[[Image:Biers Downloaded.JPG|thumb|right|Number Three model on Caprica ([[Downloaded]])]]
Another version of Number Three was also in charge of "Downloading" [[Cylon agent]]s, and presided over the returns of both [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)|Sharon]]. Like her counterpart in the movie theater, she is assisted by a Five, Six, and Eight.


Yet another Three (or possibly one of the previous two) enlisted "[[Caprica-Six]]" to help "reintegrate" the Sharon Valerii model known to humans as "Boomer" (Three and Six were previously friends from Six's own reintegration). Though her motives were outwardly altruistic, her conversation with them is filled with double meanings, trying to subtlely nudge both into exposing that they were "corrupted" by their close human interaction.  Three's real goal is to assess the risk factor of these "Heroes of the Cylon" to the status quo, due to their different perpectives on the war and the genocide, and later [[boxing|box]] their consciousnesses when she became convinced they were a threat to the Cylon collective society.
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=== Other copies ===


Three is later trapped with both Caprica Six and "Boomer" Valerii beneath a garage after capturing [[Anders]]. With a hint from her internal "Gaius Baltar", Six deduces the truth. Shortly thereafter, Three resolves to kill Anders in spite of her previous agreement. But "Caprica" proves Three's assessment correct, and smashes her in the skull with debris ([[Downloaded]]).
A Number Three demonstrates her oratorical skills by giving a speech at the graduation ceremony of the [[New Caprica Police]] and is blown up shortly afterwards, along with many of the other attendees, by [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]], whom she has just congratulated {{TRS|Occupation}}.  


Number Three (or at least this particular Number Three) appears to be a strict devotee of the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon religion]].
Later on, two Threes form part of the Cylon counsel in the command center of a baseship, where they first learn of the virus which threatened to infect their ship. After Baltar returns with further information from the baseships, one of the Threes makes the decision to abandon the infected baseship to its fate, angering the [[Hybrid]] {{TRS|Torn}}.


:''In Lucy Lawless' words "She's like the ultimate narcissist. She believes that she is the pure form, so she is constantly trying to bring everyone else in line with her worldview".  D'Anna Biers was supposed to appear in a subplot of "Downloaded" in which she conspired with [[Gina]] to kidnap [[Hera]]. The episode ran overtime and the scenes, which were indeed filmed, were cut.''
A Number Three on another baseship repeatedly taunts and tortures [[Daniel Novacek]] prior to his seeming escape. Novacek "kills" this copy, which is allegedly diseased, and makes his "escape" to the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]]. However, this was all part of a Cylon plan for Novacek to take revenge on [[William Adama]], and his exit is observed by another Three, who laughs mockingly {{TRS|Hero}}.  


Number Three again demonstrates her orational skills by giving a speech at the graduation ceremony of the [[New Caprica Police]] in "[[Occupation]]" and is blown up shortly afterwards, along with many of the other attendees, by [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]], whom she has just congratulated.  
Another Number Three refuses the Cylon consensus that the fleet of [[Heavy Raider]]s carrying D'Anna Biers and [[Gaius Baltar]] to the [[algae planet]] must be told to stand down ([[Eye of Jupiter]]). Instead, she gives the return order to all the craft except the one with Biers and Baltar on it, reasoning that Admiral Adama would never destroy the [[Temple of Five]] and kill his own people over just one ship. This incident makes it clear to the other models that Biers no longer cares about consensus, and that the other Threes are with her {{TRS|Rapture}}.


In "[[Exodus, Part I]]" Number Three visits an Oracle on [[New Caprica]] after having strange dreams that caused her to question her faith. These dreams, which focused on [[Sharon Agathon]] and her baby [[Hera]], led her to seek out more information about the death of the child. After speaking with Doctor Cottle, she was convinced that the child was still alive. She would confront Sharon with this information after discovering her on the planet, only to be shot once in each knee so that she couldn't signal for help from the other nearby Cylons.
All Number Threes are subsequently boxed {{TRS|Rapture}}. Biers herself is revived during the [[Battle of the Resurrection Hub]], and all the other copies are lost with the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]] {{TRS|The Hub}}. Since she is the last, her death marks the extinction of her model.
 
After escaping New Caprica, Three visits a captured Baltar in his room aboard a Cylon Baseship. She gives him his pills, at the same time as she acts in an interestingly seductive manner with him. Baltar however, seems to reject her, asking about what will be done to him. Three tells him that the Cylons are unsure of his vote, and that they are even split on what to do with him, with only one model missing from the vote and on whom the decisions rests, the Sixes.([[Collaborators]])
 
[[Image:Season 3 - Promo - AMOS - Number Three.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Number Three on the Cylon Baseship.]]
Later on, two Threes form part of the Cylon counsel on the bridge of a Baseship, where they first learn of the virus which threatened to infect their ship. After Baltar returns with further information from the Baseships, one of the Threes makes the decision to abandon the infected Baseship to it's fate, angering the Hybrid.
 
After returning to the main fleet, Three learns from Caprica Six that Baltar lied to them about what he saw on the infected warship. She then proceeds to torture Baltar, first through body-wide electroshocks, and then with a sonic device which damages his eardrum, hoping to learn more about the disease. Near the end of the torture/interrogation, Baltar tells Three (calling her "D'Anna") that he loves her, which makes her stop and presumably feel something for him, for she caresses him as he falls unconscious.
 
In the episode [[Hero]] she is shown getting out of a bed with a still sleeping Baltar and Caprica-Six, indicating that she has started a relationship with at least Baltar, and possibly Caprica-Six as well.  This copy continues to experiences prophetic dreams and visions, resulting in her ordering a Centurion to shoot her in the head so she may experience further visions in the time between death and rebirth. 
 
She continues doing this daily, which attracts the attention of Baltar. He confronts her and accuses her of deliberately killing herself to experience resurrection, which leads her to confess to him what she's been doing. Three tells Baltar that when she dies she sees the faces of beings who she believes to be the "[[Cylon Models|Final Five]]", the Cylons no one has seen. Baltar asks her if she's seen his face, suspecting himself of being a Cylon, but Three states that she cannot remember. After each download, the memory quickly fades, but she has managed to draw a few sketches of what she recalls before forgetting. These sketches, however, are too surreal to reveal the identities of the Final Five.
 
Later on, she and Baltar decide to go to the Hybrid, to learn more about the Final Five from it. Instead, they manage to learn the location of a planet which is said to hold the [[Eye of Jupiter]], and artifact which is supposed to point the way to Earth. ([[The Passage]])
 
This turns out to be the [[Algae planet|same planet]] at which Galactica had recently arrived to collect algae. When the Cylons show up and four Base Ships surround Galactica, Baltar asks them to hold their fire as the civilian ships jump out. The Cylons contact the Battlestar and send Three, a [[Cavil]], Baltar and [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] to negotiate with them.
 
Three and Cavil tell Galactica that they wish to make a trade, believing them to have already found the Eye of Jupiter. They tell Adama that if they hand the Eye of Jupiter to the Cylons, they will in turn let the humans leave unharmed, and as a bonus Cavil offers to hand over Baltar to the Colonials, an offer which is well received.
 
[[Image:Leonis.jpg|thumb|right|Cylon Representative]]
Three threatens Adama by telling him that should the Colonials attempt to bring up the Eye of Jupiter onto Galactica, they would see what would happen. Adama, in response, tells her that if the Cylons try to land on the planet he will release every nuclear weapon Galactica has onto the planet, presumabley destroying the Eye. Adama then orders the Cylon be taken back to their ship, and ends the negotiations.
 
On the Base Ship, the Cylons discuss the situation, believing Adama to be bluffing. Cavil points out that they could eliminate the Galactica once and for all, and that it doesn't matter if they destroy the Eye because the Cylons would eventually find Earth one way or another. Caprica and Three disagree with him, saying that they need to get the Eye unharmed, but Cavil expresses annoyance at doing nothing. Three then tells him that there is a plan in motion, which surprises the other Cylons. She reveals to them that when their fleet jumped in, she ordered a [[Heavy Raider]] to land on the planet, using the Base Ships' arrival as a distraction. The Cylons become annoyed at not being told about this, but Three ignores them and leaves.
 
Visiting the Hybrid once again, she tells Baltar that she is very close to seeing the faces of the Final Five, and possibly of the Cylon god himself. The Hybrid tells them that the "sins" of the Final Five will be revealed only to those who enter the temple, to which Three responds (to Baltar) that they are very close to learning the truth. At that moment, Caprica interrupts them, asking them about what they are doing. Angry at not being included, she tells them that she has felt excluded from a relationship which once included the three of them. As Baltar begins to make excuses Three quickly declares that they are finished, and that her and Baltar's destiny does not include Caprica. Three tells Baltar that they need to go down to the planet themselves to learn about the truth about the Final Five, and they leave Caprica behind.
 
Three and Baltar descend onto the planet, on a group of six Heavy Raiders, which provokes the Colonials to begin preparing their nuclear weapons. The Cylons onboard the Base Ship wish to stop the raiders, but another Three tells them that D'Anna (the Three with Baltar) was adamant about going down onto the planet, and that they would not stop. Leaving the Cylons angry at her for taking such decisions without their consent, and the Colonials ready to nuke the planet, Three continues on her path to the planet, and to what she believes to be the truth about the Final Five. ([[The Eye of Jupiter]])
 
Three, Baltar and a Cavil copy enter the temple as Chief Tyrol and Major Adama prepare to set off the G-4 charges within it and collapse it.  They rush to disarm all the G-4 blocks and manage to pull the last trigger wire moments before Adama presses the trigger.  When the system's star goes supernova the interior of the temple is illuminated and a column of light shines down from above.  D'Anna believes that this is what she has been looking for and steps forward towards the light.  Realizing that she's only there for a selfish purpose, Cavil pulls a gun on her and threatens to shoot but he is killed by Baltar before he can.  D'Anna steps into the light and finds herself back in the Kobol Opera House standing before the [[Final Five]]. She approaches and sees their faces clearly for the first time, recognizing one of them she is overwhelmed and begins apologizing for the way she treated whoever she saw when she believed they were human.  She is pulled back to the Temple  and collapses in Baltar's arms, babbling incoherently as blood begins to pour from her nostrils.  She dies in Baltar's arms while he pleads with her to tell him whether or not she saw him among the five.
 
[[Image:Boxing.jpg|thumb|left|End of Line]]
 
Some time later, D'Anna awakens on a Basestar with a Cavil looming over her rebirthing tank.  He informs her that the decision has been made to [[boxing|box]] her consciousness and the consciousnesses of her entire model line as punishment for her rouge actions.  She tells Cavil that she has seen the faces of the last five Cylons and that one day soon he will too.  Cavil then removes a device from the side of the tank and she collapses dead.  Other Cavils are seen preforming similar acts to other Number Threes in rebirthing tanks around the Basestar ([[Rapture]]).


==Notes==
==Notes==
*Since Biers has not appeared in past episodes that feature the fleet-wide press, it can be speculated that prior to the [[Cylon Attack]], she was more of a tabloid investigative reporter than a mainstream journalist. She may also simply be a social commentator along the lines of [[w:Michael Moore|Michael Moore]] or [[w:Ann Coulter|Ann Coulter]], though her status prior to the holocaust was never revealed.
*[[Lucy Lawless]]{{'}} more renowned TV character, [[w:Xena|Xena]], originates from [[w:Amphipolis|Amphipolis]], an actual village situated between the Greek provinces Macedonia and [[wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]]. See also: [[Kara Thrace]].
*Biers' existence as a Cylon infiltrator brings the total number of revealed models (to the Colonial characters) to six as of "[[Final Cut]]," although her identity remained unknown to the Colonials until the return of [[Samuel Anders]] and his resistance cell in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]". A seventh agent was also revealed in that episode. This leaves five unknown models as of "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]."  [[Cylon agent speculation|Speculation on other characters]] and their true identities as Colonials or Cylon infiltrators is still ongoing.
*A few scenes on the basestar (particularly those in "[[The Eye of Jupiter]]") imply that Number Three is in a senior position to at least some of the other models. For instance, she refers to the landing of Centurions on the algae planet as "need-to-know". On the other hand, the reactions of the other Cylons to this behavior indicate that she might have exceeded her authority.
*In behind the scenes interviews, Lucy Lawless has said that to contrast her character with ''Galactica's'' crew, D'Anna still wears fashionable clothes, make up, and jewelry, probably because she has access to some form of [[black market (organization)|black market]] in the Fleet.
*Number Three (or at least some models) appears to be a strict devotee of the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon religion]].
*[[Lucy Lawless]]' more renowned TV character, [[wikipedia:Xena|Xena]], originates from [[wikipedia:Amphipolis|Amphipolis]]; an actual village situated between Greek provinces Macedonia and [[wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]]. See also [[Kara Thrace]] entry.
:''In Lucy Lawless' words "She's like the ultimate narcissist. She believes that she is the pure form, so she is constantly trying to bring everyone else in line with her world view".
*{{spoilli|At the official [http://www.ausxip.com/conventions/2006burbank/taipo-conlucy.html Xena 2006 Convention], Lucy Lawless stated that "they" turned around and asked her "Do you want to play [[God]]?"  There is a character who sets herself up as God, and Lucy would likely play her.  Her theory is that there's nowhere to go after playing Xena but to playing God!  But ''none of this is a done deal'', she cautions, because they're still working out the logistics}}
*According to [[James Callis]] in an interview<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1659 |title=Exclusive Interview: JAMES CALLIS SELLS iF MAGAZINE A BILL OF GOODS ON BATTLESTAR GALATICA SEASON 3 -PART 1 |date=2006-09-09 |accessdate=2006-09-09 |last=Elliot |first=Sean |format= |language=English }}</ref>, in Season 3, [[Lucy Lawless]]'s character (unspecified if it is D'Anna Biers or the Number Three model as a whole) "puts herself at odds with the rest of Cylon society".
*A few scenes on the Basetar (particuarly those in [[The Eye of Jupiter]]) imply that Number Three is in a senior position to at least some of the other models. For instance, she refers to the landing of Centurions on the algae planet as "need-to-know." On the other hand, the reactions of the other Cylons to this behavior indicates that Three has gotten too big for her boots. It is also implied that the individual referred to as "D'Anna" is in turn the leader of the Threes, though evidence for this could just show solidarity among the whole model and/or this particular Three being deferred to because she has the greatest force of personality, much as Caprica-Six and Boomer are the most prominent [[Six]] and [[Eight]], respectively, on the base ship.


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"Number Three" is a model of humanoid Cylon, female, blonde, and marked by a religious curiosity—notably surrounding the verboten Final Five—that sets her against the other Cylon models, notably the Number Ones.

The model was first introduced in "Final Cut" as an infiltrator in the Fleet under the alias "D'Anna Biers" posing as a reporter for the Fleet News Service. She appears to be more of a tabloid rumor-and-innuendo format news journalist and less of the conventional Fleet journalist types such as James McManus.

Threes are also referred to as "D'Annas" collectively (The Ties That Bind, Guess What's Coming to Dinner?).

Because of their defiance of the taboo against learning more about the Final Five, the entire line is boxed, and their consciousnesses are stored at the Cylons' central Resurrection Hub (TRS: "The Ties That Bind").

Natalie's faction in the Cylon Civil War wants to unbox the Number Three who visited the Temple of Five, so that the seven and the five may be united. They eventually forms a fragile alliance with the Colonials to retrieve this Three, and then destroy the Hub (TRS: "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?"). Three is resurrected, and with the destruction of the Hub she becomes the sole Three in existence ("Sine Qua Non," "The Hub").

Fallen into despair with the discovery of a dead Earth, this last Three chooses to stay and die on the planet (TRS: "Sometimes a Great Notion").[1]

Copies

Fleet copy

Main article: Number Three (Fleet copy)
Number Three model on Galactica (TRS: "Final Cut")

The first copy of Number Three is introduced in "Final Cut," posing as a documentary filmmaker chronicling the "Gideon massacre" and, later, life aboard Galactica. Her report is transmitted back to Cylon-occuped Caprica, along with information on Sharon Agathon neé Valerii's survival and successful pregnancy.

Her status following the arrival of the Cylons on New Caprica is uncertain but she likely joined the Cylons there as her model would have been exposed by the appearance of other Number Three's.

This copy is presumed deceased, as she is more than likely boxed with her entire line and her consciousness destroyed with the Resurrection Hub ("Rapture," "Sine Qua Non," "The Hub").

"Downloaded" copy

Main article: Number Three (Downloaded copy)
Number Three model on Caprica (TRS: "Downloaded")

This Number Three is first introduced in "Downloaded" in her attempt to box Caprica-Six and Sharon "Boomer" Valerii. After the two Cylons convince the others that they made a mistake when they launched their all-out attack on the Colonies, she later oversees the occupation of New Caprica, the recovery of Hera Agathon from Colonial hands, and later leads the Cylons' search for both Earth and the Final Five.

This later search for the Final Five, verboten by a cultural imperative of Cylon society, leads her to the Temple of Five where she receives a vision that identifies the Five. She later dies as a result of this vision, only to be resurrected and summarily boxed, a process overseen by the Number Ones. However, a Cylon Civil War instigated by Natalie (a Number Six) leads to her later unboxing by Cavil and Boomer, with the belief that she can convince the rebels to stop rebelling. She offers her rather violent reply to this (by killing Cavil), and is summarily rescued by Karl Agathon and an Eight, and—with the destruction of the Resurrection Hub—is the last Three in existence and the only Three to ever reach Earth.

Other copies

A Number Three demonstrates her oratorical skills by giving a speech at the graduation ceremony of the New Caprica Police and is blown up shortly afterwards, along with many of the other attendees, by Tucker "Duck" Clellan, whom she has just congratulated (TRS: "Occupation").

Later on, two Threes form part of the Cylon counsel in the command center of a baseship, where they first learn of the virus which threatened to infect their ship. After Baltar returns with further information from the baseships, one of the Threes makes the decision to abandon the infected baseship to its fate, angering the Hybrid (TRS: "Torn").

A Number Three on another baseship repeatedly taunts and tortures Daniel Novacek prior to his seeming escape. Novacek "kills" this copy, which is allegedly diseased, and makes his "escape" to the Fleet. However, this was all part of a Cylon plan for Novacek to take revenge on William Adama, and his exit is observed by another Three, who laughs mockingly (TRS: "Hero").

Another Number Three refuses the Cylon consensus that the fleet of Heavy Raiders carrying D'Anna Biers and Gaius Baltar to the algae planet must be told to stand down (Eye of Jupiter). Instead, she gives the return order to all the craft except the one with Biers and Baltar on it, reasoning that Admiral Adama would never destroy the Temple of Five and kill his own people over just one ship. This incident makes it clear to the other models that Biers no longer cares about consensus, and that the other Threes are with her (TRS: "Rapture").

All Number Threes are subsequently boxed (TRS: "Rapture"). Biers herself is revived during the Battle of the Resurrection Hub, and all the other copies are lost with the destruction of the Resurrection Hub (TRS: "The Hub"). Since she is the last, her death marks the extinction of her model.

Notes

  • Lucy Lawless' more renowned TV character, Xena, originates from Amphipolis, an actual village situated between the Greek provinces Macedonia and Thrace. See also: Kara Thrace.
  • A few scenes on the basestar (particularly those in "The Eye of Jupiter") imply that Number Three is in a senior position to at least some of the other models. For instance, she refers to the landing of Centurions on the algae planet as "need-to-know". On the other hand, the reactions of the other Cylons to this behavior indicate that she might have exceeded her authority.
  • Number Three (or at least some models) appears to be a strict devotee of the Cylon religion.
In Lucy Lawless' words "She's like the ultimate narcissist. She believes that she is the pure form, so she is constantly trying to bring everyone else in line with her world view".

References

  1. ↑ In the podcast for "Sometimes a Great Notion," Ron Moore notes that this is the last appearance of D'Anna Biers.
Characters in the Re-imagined Series


Main: William Adama | Laura Roslin | Kara "Starbuck" Thrace | Lee "Apollo" Adama
Gaius Baltar | Number Six | Number Eight

Supporting: Saul Tigh | Galen Tyrol | Karl "Helo" Agathon | Felix Gaeta | Anastasia Dualla | Cally Tyrol
Samuel Anders | Tory Foster | Ellen Tigh | Billy Keikeya

Recurring: Hera Agathon | Jean Barolay | Helena Cain | Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza | Sherman Cottle
Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson | Elosha | Anthony Figurski | Jack Fisk | Louis Hoshi | Louanne "Kat" Katraine
Aaron Kelly | Romo Lampkin | James "Jammer" Lyman | Hamish "Skulls" McCall | Number One | Number Two
Number Three | Number Four | Number Five | Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo | Paulla Schaffer | Diana Seelix | Tom Zarek

List of Deceased Characters

Cylons in the Re-Imagined Series, Caprica & Blood & Chrome


Robotic versions:

Earth Cylon Centurion | U-87 Cyber Combat Unit | Civilian Cylons | Cylon War-era Centurion | Cylon Centurion

Cylon progenitor: Zoe Graystone

Humanoid versions:

Thirteenth Tribe/Final Five: Samuel Anders | Tory Foster | Ellen Tigh | Saul Tigh | Galen Tyrol

Significant Eight: Number One | Number Two | Number Three | Number Four
Number Five | Number Six | Number Seven | Number Eight

Craft and baseship hybrids:

The Colony | Basestar | Raider | Heavy Raider | Freighter | Reconnaissance Drone
Hybrid | First Hybrid | Resurrection Ship | Resurrection Hub

Cylon/human hybrid: Hera Agathon


Characters that died during the Re-imagined Series


Civilians: Richard Adar | Jean Barolay | Jacob Cantrell | Elosha | Billy Keikeya | Laura Roslin | Tom Zarek

Military: Jurgen Belzen | Helena Cain | Tucker "Duck" Clellan | Anastasia Dualla | Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson
Jack Fisk | Felix Gaeta | Barry Garner | Louanne "Kat" Katraine | Peter Laird | James "Jammer" Lyman | Erin Mathias
Hamish "Skulls" McCall | Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo | Kendra Shaw | Socinus | Kara "Starbuck" Thrace | Cally Tyrol

Cylons: Samuel Anders | D'Anna Biers | John Cavil | Daniel | Aaron Doral | Natalie Faust
First Hybrid | Tory Foster | Gina Inviere | Simon O'Neill | Sharon "Boomer" Valerii

See Also: Survivor Count | List of Deceased Pilots

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