Number Two

This is a general overview of the Number Two model line. For information on specific models of Number Two, refer to the links in the article below.

Number Two
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Introduced	Miniseries, Night 2
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Role	Cylon infilitrator, Prophet / misinformant
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Portrayed by	Callum Keith Rennie
Number Two is a Cylon
Number Two is a Final Five Cylon
Number Two is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Number Two is an Original Series Cylon
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"Number Two", better known as Leoben Conoy, is a humanoid Cylon first encountered at Ragnar Anchorage. He fancies himself as a prophet with predilections for enlightened monotheistic religious dogma, whereas he is more likely to sow the seeds of doubt or mis-information, weaving lies in the fabric of truth and faith.

Ragnar Anchorage Copy

Number Two is first encountered at the Ragnar Anchorage, where he poses as an arms dealer and calls himself Leoben Conoy. It is likely that he was assigned with the monitoring of this depot station as the war began, gaining intelligence on battlestars that visited there. Alternatively, he may have been tasked with stealing away or destroying the ammunition (or the station itself) to prevent its use by the Colonials.

Conoy is already sick from the radiation around Ragnar, suggesting he had been there for several hours before Galactica's arrival. He becomes trapped aboard the station with Commander Adama after a warhead is accidentally detonated. As they try to find another way out of the station, Conoy reveals his true nature to Adama through conversation, initially by claiming to be something of a philosopher. Identifying Conoy as a Cylon on the point of death, Adama challenges him and learns of the Cylon's ability to transfer their consciousness to another body when dying. Only Leoben can't -- the radiation of Ragnar is interfering with his ability.

A fight ensues, during which Conoy exhibits unnatural strength and speed. Adama manages to kill him by forcing his head over a venting steam pipe then bludgeoning him to death with a flashlight. He then brings Conoy's body back to Galactica for examination. Samples from this body, when burned, reveal synthetic materials -- which permit Adama, Colonel Tigh and Dr. Baltar to deduce that Cylons could mimic humans in appearance (Miniseries).

The body is later stored in the ship's morgue (Flesh and Bone).

Later, three copies of Number Two are among the group of Cylons that rescue Aaron Doral, abandoned on Ragnar by the Colonials after Dr. Baltar fingers him as a humanoid Cylon, and debrief him.

Gemenon Traveler/New Caprica Copy

Main article: Leoben Conoy (New Caprica copy)

Not long after the Fleet's first encounter with a Number Two on Ragnar Anchorage, another copy is found stowing away aboard the Gemenon Traveler. Kara Thrace is assigned to interrogate Conoy, who claims to have planted a nuclear device somewhere in the fleet. While she resorts to drastic measures to obtain details on the bomb's location, Thrace finds herself being drawn into Conoy's vision of life and empathizes with him when Laura Roslin orders his execution. Eventually, Roslin orders him ejected from the Gemenon Traveler's airlock.

During the Cylon invasion of New Caprica, Conoy kidnaps Thrace and holds her in an apartment located within the Cylon complex built in New Caprica City. He attempts to befriend her with food and politeness, but his attempts initially fail, as Thrace refuses his kindnesses and assaults and kills Conoy at least five times. Conoy then introduces Thrace to Kacey, who he claims is his and Thrace's biological daughter and uses the child to break down Thrace's resistance. During the Battle of New Caprica, he uses Kara's desire to take Kacey to force her to say she loves him. Eventually, she stabs him in the stomach and kills him one final time as he collapses on the floor. Eventually, it turns out the girl was simply a human child kidnapped on New Caprica.

Starbuck's Virtual Leoben

Main article: Virtual Leoben

An unknown entity that takes the form of Leoben Conoy guides Kara Thrace through her past and her unresolved issues with her long-dead mother, Socrata Thrace (Maelstrom).

Other Copies

A copy of Two on a Cylon basestar

The Caprica Resistance captured and interrogated their own copy of a Two, as Samuel Anders sarcastically quotes his philosophy to Kara Thrace (Resistance).

A smattering of Twos are witnessed in the background of the park and cafe scenes in "Downloaded" .

Several Twos are present on the Cylon baseship that Gaius Baltar wakes up on shortly after he and the Cylons flee from New Caprica. Caprica-Six tells Baltar that his model believes the hybrid model who controls the baseship is speaking the "words of God" in her endlessly incoherent diagnostic babble (Torn).

Another Two is recovered from an infected baseship by Galactica. He is going to be part of their plan to infect the entire Cylon race with the virus spawned from an ancient probe. However, he and the other Cylons captured by Galactica are killed by Karl Agathon before they are within download range of a Resurrection Ship. Because he is out of range, the death of this Two is permanent (A Measure of Salvation).

At the standoff between Galactica and several basestars over the algae planet, a Two states that the Temple of Five and Eye of Jupiter are far too important to be risked over the testing of Adama's bluff to nuke the planet (The Eye of Jupiter).

After the Battle of the Ionian Nebula, the Twos vote with the Sixes and Eights to put a stop to Number One's lobotomization of the Raiders, who refuse to fight for fear of harming the Final Five (Six of One) after a Raider's detection of one in the Colonial Fleet (He That Believeth In Me).

Notes

• The model number for Leoben Conoy is revealed in the Season 4 episode, "Six of One", along with numbers one and four. Previously, this model was referred to by his alias both by the humans and the Cylons.

• Laura Roslin inadvertently referred to him as "Leoben ConROY" during "Flesh and Bone", which had to be edited when it was used as a sound bite in an intro segment in a subsequent episode.

• Conoy is the name of a township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

• Leoben is also the name of city in Austria, it is an hour north of the city of Graz and is home to the University of Leoben.