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- For other articles with subjects containing the number "three", see: Three (disambiguation).
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D'Anna Biers | |
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| Introduced | Final Cut | |
| Death | All copies boxed (Rapture), all but one copy presumed lost with the destruction of the Resurrection Hub (The Hub) | |
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| 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, brunette and marked by a religious curiosity which sets her against the other Cylon models. The model was first encountered 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.
The D'Anna name is also used to refer to the model as a whole.
Fleet Copy
Biers is investigating the shootings of four civilians during a military intervention authorized by Colonel Tigh in what she dubs for sensationalism's sake as the "Gideon massacre". However, her efforts to interview Galactica's crew are thwarted by military protocol and stonewalling by Commander Adama, who privately acknowledges Tigh's mistakes, but seems adamant not to render any punishment.
Biers is initially given a tour of the battlestar by 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, going so far as intruding into the private areas of the pilots. She begins in-depth personal interviews with many of the crew, including Dualla, Lieutenants 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, even exploiting his weaknesses when trying to loosen him up with alcohol.
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, and the sabotage to a Raptor that was intended to shuttle Colonel Tigh to Cloud Nine.
As Biers passes through sickbay during her documentary, she find Sharon Valerii to be alive and receiving medical treatment. The existence of this second copy of the known Cylon infiltrator, who was thought to be dead by the Fleet, is too much for Biers not to document. However, Commander Adama intercepts Biers and demands that she gives him the footage of Valerii. She surrenders a tape to Adama, but unknown to him, Biers retains the actual footage of Valerii in secret for herself.
Biers realizes a connection between her documentary footage on Joe Palladino and the threat left in Tigh's quarters to a poem by Kataris, a book which Palladino had in his possession, citing Palladino as the source of the Tigh's death threats.
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 Cylons use two Raiders to relay the broadcast (which apparently included Bier's illicit footage of the pregnant Valerii) back to Caprica, where a number of Cylons watch it in a movie theater. One of them is a Number Three, who is revealed to the viewers as a Cylon (Final Cut).
"Downloaded" copy
Another version of Number Three is in charge of downloading humanoid Cylons, and presides over the returns of both Caprica-Six and Sharon Valerii. Like her counterpart in the movie theater, she is assisted by a Five, Six, and Eight.
Yet another Three (or possibly the same one) enlists Caprica-Six to help reintegrate the Sharon Valerii model known to humans as "Boomer" (Three and Six are already friends from Six's own reintegration). Though her motives are outwardly altruistic, her conversation with them is filled with double meanings, trying to subtlety nudge both into exposing that they were corrupted by their close interaction with humans. Three's real goal is to assess the risk factor of these "Heroes of the Cylon" to the status quo, due to their different perspectives on the war and the genocide, and contemplates boxing Caprica Six.
Three is later trapped with both Caprica Six and "Boomer" Valerii beneath a garage after capturing resistance fighter Samuel 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-Six proves Three's assessment correct, and smashes her in the skull with debris (Downloaded). She is later resurrected and would become a part of the Cylon Occupation Authority on New Caprica ("Occupation" through "Exodus, Part II"), as well as the primary Number Three to lead the search for the Final Five ("Torn" through "The Eye of Jupiter").
On New Caprica, Number Three visits an oracle after having strange dreams that caused her to question her faith. These dreams, which focused on Sharon Agathon and her baby Hera, lead her to seek out more information about the death of the child. After speaking with Doctor Cottle, she becomes convinced that the child is still alive. She confronts Agathon with this information after discovering her on the planet, only to be shot once in each knee so that she can't raise the alarm with nearby Cylons (Exodus, Part I).
After the human population escapes into space, a resurrected Number Three takes in her arms Hera, who was found next to the body of her adoptive mother by Gaius Baltar (Exodus, Part II).
After leaving New Caprica, Three visits an imprisoned Baltar in his room aboard a Cylon baseship. She gives him his pills, at the same time as she acts in a 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).
After returning to the main fleet, Three learns from Caprica Six that Baltar lied to them about what he saw on the infected ship. 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 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 (A Measure of Salvation).
Later, she is 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 kill so she may experience further visions in the time between death and rebirth (Hero).
She continues doing this daily, which attracts the attention of Baltar, who confronts her about it. She tells Baltar that when she dies she sees the faces of beings who she believes to be the Final Five. Later on, the two 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, an artifact which is supposed to point the way to Earth (The Passage).
Coincidentally, the Colonials arrive at this planet at the same time, which leads to a tense standoff. At its height, Three and Baltar and a Cavil depart their basestar in a Heavy Raider and head for the planet (The Eye of Jupiter). They enter the Temple of Five and manage to disarm explosives set by a the Colonials. When the system's star goes nova the interior of the temple is illuminated and a column of light shines down from above. Three 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. She steps into the light and finds herself 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 in particular she says with a surprised look on her face, "You... forgive me... I had no idea." She is pulled back to the temple and collapses in Baltar's arms. She tells Baltar, "You were right," but dies in his arms before answering about what.
Some time later, Three awakens on a Resurrection Ship with a Cavil looming over her resurrection tank. He informs her that the decision has been made to box her consciousness and her entire model line as punishment for their rogue actions. She tells Cavil that she has seen the faces of the last five Cylons and that one day he will too. Cavil then removes a device from the side of the tank and she collapses dead. Simultaneously, other Cavils are performing the same act to other Number Three models in resurrection tanks around the ship (Rapture).
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 (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 (Torn).
A Number Three on another baseship repeatedly taunts and tortures Daniel Novacek prior to his Cylon-planned "escape". Novacek "kills" this copy, which is allegedly diseased, and makes his "escape" to the Fleet (Hero).
Unboxing the Threes
Natalie's faction in the Cylon Civil War desires to unbox the Number Three line and hear what she has learned about the Final Five, so that the seven and the five may be united. The Threes' core consciousness is stored at the Cylons' central Resurrection Hub (The Ties That Bind). After coming into contact with the rebels, Kara Thrace meets their Hybrid, who repeats the first Hybrid's prophecy and assigns her the next task: join the Cylons to unbox Number Three to learn what she knows of the Final Five (Faith). Natalie's faction eventually forms a fragile alliance with the Colonials in order to unbox the Threes and destroy the Resurrection Hub (Guess What's Coming to Dinner?).
Number Three is eventually unboxed by Cavil and Boomer in an attempt to get her to convince the rebels to stop the fighting. However, when learning that the rebels are about to destroy the Hub, making their deaths permanent, she kills this Cavil model by snapping his neck. Boomer escapes while she does this. As she gets dressed, Karl Agathon and a Number Eight run into the room and take her off the hub before it destroyed. On the baseship, Three is taken to see Roslin and jokingly tells her that she is one of the Final Five. Knowing that that Roslin plans to betray the deal with the Cylon rebels and aware of her new mortality, she tells Roslin that she won't reveal anything until she is save in the Fleet (The Hub).
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 Michael Moore or Ann Coulter, though her status prior to the holocaust was never revealed.
- In behind the scenes interviews, Lucy Lawless has said that to contrast her character with Galactica's crew, Biers still wears fashionable clothes, make up, and jewelry, probably because she has access to some form of black market in the Fleet.
- Lucy Lawless's 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".
- D'Anna Biers was supposed to appear in a subplot of "Downloaded" in which she conspired with Gina Inviere to kidnap Hera. The episode ran overtime and the scenes, which were indeed filmed, were cut.