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Number Three
Human Name	D'Anna Biers
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Introduced	Final Cut
Death	All copies boxed (TRS: "Rapture"), all but one copy presumed lost with the destruction of the Resurrection Hub (TRS: "The Hub")
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Family Tree	View
Role	Cylon Infiltrator/Journalist
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Portrayed by	Lucy Lawless
	Number Three is a Cylon
	Number Three is a Final Five Cylon
	Number Three is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
	Number Three is an Original Series Cylon
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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)

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

↑ In the podcast for "Sometimes a Great Notion," Ron Moore notes that this is the last appearance of D'Anna Biers.

[1] In the podcast for "Sometimes a Great Notion," Ron Moore notes that this is the last appearance of D'Anna Biers.

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-'''D'anna Biers''' is known in [[The Fleet (RDM)|The Fleet]] as a [[Colonial]] reporter for the [[Fleet News Service]] ([[Final Cut]]). 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]].
+"'''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.
+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 [[Boxing|boxed]], and their consciousnesses are stored at the Cylons' central [[Resurrection Hub]] {{TRS|The Ties That Bind}}.
-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.
+[[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]]").
-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.
+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>
-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.
+== Copies ==
-Biers begins in-depth personal interviews with many of the crew, including Dualla, Lieutenants [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]], [[Margaret Edmonson]], [[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]].
+===Fleet copy===
-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.
+{{mainarticle|Number Three (Fleet copy)}}
-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 [[Humano-Cylon|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.
+[[Image:CylonThree.jpg|thumb|left|Number Three model on ''Galactica'' {{TRS|Final Cut}}]]
-Biers gets an opportunity to document what happens in [[CIC]] during a Cylon Raider raid at the Fleet.
+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.
-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.
+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.
-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:
+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]]").
+{{clear}}
+==="[[Downloaded]]" copy===
+{{mainarticle|Number Three (Downloaded copy)}}
+[[Image:Biers Downloaded.JPG|thumb|right|Number Three model on Caprica {{TRS|Downloaded}}]]
-:''"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.''
+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]].
-:''"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 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.
-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 chuckles in surprise at 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.
+{{clear}}
+=== 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 Clellan|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 [[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}}.
+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}}.
+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, [[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]].
+*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|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 ==
+{{reflist}}
-*D'anna Biers is  one of two [[Humano-Cylon]]s revealed in [[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season 2]] so far.  Her ultimate goals may have originally been to turn the civilians against ''[[Galactica]]'', but this plan may have been later abandoned.  Her current goal seems to be to keep tabs on [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)|Caprica-Valerii]], being held in ''Galactica's'' [[brig]].
-*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.
-*Biers' existence as a Cylon infiltrator brings the total number of revealed models to six as of "[[Final Cut]]". This leaves six unknown Humano-Cylon models as of this episode.  [[Humano-Cylon#Speculated Infiltrators|Speculation on other characters]] and their true identities as Colonials or Cylon infiltrators is still ongoing.
-*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.
-*Lucy Lawless has stated that she will return as D'anna in 10 episodes of season 3 (fully half of the 20 episode season, though they might be interspersed throughout the season).
-*At the official [http://www.ausxip.com/conventions/2006burbank/taipo-conlucy.html Xena 2006 Convention], Lucy Lawless stated that:
-{{spoiltext|(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}}
-*A recent issue of the magazine [http://www.lucylawless.info/battlestar-galactica/episode-guide/BSGseason2-ep18-downloaded.php ''Entertainment Weekly''] elaborated on Biers' upcoming role in the series, stating {{spoiltext|''The 10-episode arc, starting next season, will detail D'Anna's emergence as leader of her human-hating species, the Cylons. "I'm disinterested in playing a bleeding-heart Cylon," [Lucy] Lawless giggles. Besides, she points out cryptically, "no evil person thinks they're evil."''}}
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Number Three

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Portrayed by	Lucy Lawless
Number Three is a Cylon
Number Three is a Final Five Cylon
Number Three is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Number Three is an Original Series Cylon
Related Media
		@ BW Media
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[[Image:\|200px\|Number Three]]