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• Number Three

Number Three (D'Anna Biers)

D'Anna Biers, portrayed by Lucy Lawless, is a female humanoid Cylon model. A reporter for the Fleet News Service, D'Anna comes aboard the Galactica in the season two episode "Final Cut" to investigate her suspicions of a military cover-up surrounding recent civilian deaths aboard the Gideon. President Roslin and Commander Adama grant her full access, believing that D'Anna will discover that military personnel deal with the same pressures and fears as the rest of the fleet, and that the events were a tragic mistake. She does just that, and documents the successful defense against a sudden attack by Cylon Raiders. D'Anna's glowing report is broadcast to the entire fleet, but is also viewed by copies of Cylon models Six, Sharon and Doral, its transmission made possible by the staged Raider attack. The presentation also includes secret footage showing that Sharon Agathon, a known Cylon, is alive and pregnant. The fourth Cylon in the group is revealed to be a copy of D'Anna.

In "Downloaded", a D'Anna debriefs newly resurrected Cylons Caprica Six and Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, who are now considered heroes among the Cylon. Identifying her Cylon model as Number Three, D'Anna quickly realizes that Six and Boomer's experiences have made them more sympathetic to humans, and their celebrity creates the dangerous possibility that they could influence other Cylons. Six and Boomer realize that D'Anna has manipulated them to behave so that "boxing", or deactivating, them is justified. They prevent D'Anna from killing human Resistance fight Sam Anders under the pretense that he should be interrogated, but ultimately Six has to kill this copy of D'Anna to save his life. Six and Boomer determine it will be 36 hours before thia D'Anna is resurrected, giving them time to speak out publicly against the continued persecution of the human race.

In season three, D'Anna is one of the Cylons overseeing the Cylon occupation of the human settlement on New Caprica. She begins having dreams that trigger a crisis of faith in "Exodus", which leads to the discovery that the half-human, half-Cylon child Hera Agathon is still alive. D'Anna, Caprica Six and Baltar flee with Hera. D'Anna later tortures Baltar in "A Measure of Salvation", believing he is hiding information about a virus that is killing Cylons. D'Anna is in a sexual relationship with Baltar and Six in "Hero", but her dreams are intensifying. She commands a Cylon Centurion to kill her so that she may resurrect, and during the process sees "something so beautiful between life and death". In "The Passage", Baltar discovers that D'Anna has been committing suicide and resurrecting over and over, trying to learn the identities of the Final Five Cylons, which is forbidden. In "Rapture", the humans and Cylons descend on the Temple of Five, believed to hold both the secret to Earth's location and clues to the Final Five's identities. Cavil attempts to kill D'Anna to stop her from learning the truth, but Baltar kills him instead. The supernova of a local star activates a crystal vision mechanism that shows D'Anna the identities of the Final Five, but she dies before she can tell Baltar what she saw. Reawakening on a Resurrection Ship, D'Anna is told by Cavil that her messianic tendencies have shown her to be flawed, so her model will be boxed.

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Threes are among the more aggressive models, and share a fatalistic understanding of the Cylon religion, believing that everything that happens is the will of God. Their religious devotion masks a deep questioning by Threes about why God allows bad things to happen (Theodicy).

Threes possess aggressiveness, advancing themselves as de facto leaders in any situation. They are often rivals of Ones and Sixes. The rivalry with the Sixes partly stems from when Caprica-Six killed a Three to save Sam Anders from torture and death. D'Anna and Caprica-Six later reconcile and both of them are involved in a relationship with Baltar. Baltar seduces D'Anna by exploring her crisis of faith, which leads to her secretly committing suicide (a major Cylon taboo) to experience resurrection. She feels these near-death experiences will answer questions regarding her faith, notably the identity of the Final Five. D'Anna eventually sees the faces of the Final Five in "Rapture". Unfortunately, as she does so, the other Cylons vote to box all Threes. Cavil tells her that what she had seen regarding the Final Five was unacceptable and that her memories would be kept in "cold storage".

Subsequently, a schism erupts among the Cylon models which pits the Ones, Fours and Fives against the Twos, Sixes and Eights. Cavil unboxes D'Anna in "The Hub", hoping she can negotiate a truce with the opposing faction, who have made an alliance with the humans and intend to destroy the Cylon Resurrection Hub. Ever defiant, D'Anna kills Cavil, and allows Karl Agathon to "rescue" her from the Hub, after which the humans destroy it with a nuclear strike. Now the last of the Threes, D'Anna refuses to give Roslin information about the identity of the Final Five until she feels safe.

"The Hub": D'Anna Biers, the last remaining Three, reluctantly joins the human-Cylon joint venture to find the Final Five, who they believe know the way to Earth.

"Revelations": D'Anna, who has seen their faces in a vision, is wary, and when Leoben recommends cooperation, she reminds him that cooperation with the humans did not end well on New Caprica.

• In the basestar control room, Roslin, William Adama, D'Anna Biers and Leoben discuss the plans to return the Final Five. Biers mentions that there are only four in the Fleet and refuses to provide answers when Roslin questions her about the fifth's location. When Adama asks for their names, she expresses skepticism, suggesting that the Colonials may kill them. Roslin points out that the Colonials need them because they know the way to Earth, while Leoben recommends co-operation and D'Anna refutes him, citing the failure of co-operation on New Caprica.

In "Revelations", Leoben encourages D'Anna Biers, the last remaining Three, to assist in finding the Final Five Cylons, which will benefit both the Cylons and the humans. A wary D'Anna reminds him that cooperation with the humans did not end well on New Caprica.

Threes are among the more anti-human Cylons. D'Anna tells Baltar that she believes that humanity must die to prevent future generations of humans from seeking revenge ("Exodus" Part II). She is temporarily the leader of the "rebel" faction of Cylons that makes peace with the human fleet, but when the first Earth is found to be a devastated ruin, she decides to stay there and die rather than continuing the cycle of death, exodus and rebirth.

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D'Anna Biers, the Number Threes (Lucy Lawless), first appeared in Battlestar Galactica, season 2, episode 8, "Final Cut." D'Anna was on the Battlestar Galactica posing as a reporter for Fleet News Service, covering the Gideon Massacre and life onboard the Galactica. D'Anna discovered that Sharon Valerii was alive and pregnant. Commander Adama ordered D'Anna to remove the video evidence as it could jeopardize the fleet's security. The episode ended with a group of Cylons watching the documentary and the deleted footage, thus revealing D'Anna Biers as a Cylon.

The Number Threes were calculating and duplicitous, often manipulating humans and other Cylon models if they felt it warranted. The D'Anna's obsession with the Final Five in Battlestar Galactica led to John Cavil boxing them. When he did eventually unbox D'Anna, she killed him. Once the Resurrection Hub was destroyed, this version was the last remaining copy of the Number Threes. Midway through season 4 of Battlestar Galactica, after having found Earth to be an irradiated wasteland, Commander Adama invited the Cylon allies to join them in a search for a habitable planet. D'Anna stayed behind, however, preferring to die on Earth with her ancestors.

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Screen Rant: D'Anna Biers played the pivotal role of identifying the Final Five in Battlestar Galactica. Posing as a journalist with an obsessive religious curiosity, Biers was later revealed to be a Cylon infiltrator. What makes her stand out is her sheer force of will, which continues to transcend allegiances and loyalty throughout the entire series. While she was generally loyal to the Cylons, her obsession with unveiling the Final Five and understanding the truth behind the Cylon-Human conflict leads her to take extreme measures to meet her goals. D’Anna Biers’ contributions to the story cannot be overstated, and her appearances always indicated that something irrevocable was about to happen.

D'Anna Biers Number Three
Battlestar Galactica character
First appearance	"Final Cut"
Last appearance	"Sometimes a Great Notion"

On Caprica

"The duality of my role is very fun to play as an actor because she is saying one thing, she looks like a friend, but there is something cold about her. I’ve been reading a book called The Fantastic Bond (actual title: The Fantasy Bond: Structure of Psychological Defenses by Robert W. Firestone, PhD) and it talks about cold mothers who may have physical proximity but no warmth towards their child. There is something about that which is one of the most malignant types of mother love there is. I kind of wanted an element of that in this woman, which is why on some level she is really creepy."

Lucy Lawless on D'Anna.

"She was a zealot, she was an outlaw, she was a betrayer and yet she saw herself as a great patriot in a way."

Lucy Lawless discussing the character of D'Anna.

Search for the truth

In the third season episode "Exodus", D'Anna (it is never explained whether this is the Fleet journalist copy or the "Downloaded" copy but more likely one of these than a new one) is plagued by disturbing dreams. She visits a human oracle who tells her Hera, the hybrid child of Helo and Athena, still lives and Number Three will play a vital role in the child's destiny. Athena, now a commissioned officer of the Colonial Fleet, later infiltrates the Cylons' New Caprica headquarters. D'Anna tells her her child is alive, but a distrustful Athena kneecaps her. After almost all humans have escaped the planet, D'Anna finds Hera accidentally left behind due to the deaths of her adoptive mother and bodyguards, and takes her into the care of the Cylons.

In response to dreams which she believes are messages from God, D'Anna begins a series of suicides in an apparent attempt at enlightenment. She is determined to learn the truth despite suicide being a major taboo in Cylon society. In the period of time before she awakens in a new body, she experiences a vision of five figures bathed in light, whom she believes are the five unknown humanoid Cylon models, the "Final Five".

D'Anna engages in a sexual affair with both Gaius Baltar and Caprica Six, and claims to love both. However, in the episode "The Eye of Jupiter", she ends the relationship with Caprica Six, claiming they have different destinies. Ignoring the consensus decision of the other humanoid Cylons, D'Anna proceeds with Baltar to the temple on the algae planet. Cavil finds her in the temple and orders her at gunpoint not to proceed any further, realizing she has come to find out the identities of the Final Five. However, Baltar shoots him from behind. D'Anna continues and finds herself in a glowing room surrounded by five hooded beings in gleaming white robes. She moves closer and finally sees their faces, realizing who they are. She asks one of them for forgiveness, saying she never knew. She then slumps to the floor and dies, with Baltar pleading for her to tell him if he's one of them ("Rapture").

Boxing and unboxing

As D'Anna resurrects, Cavil is present, displeased with her for disregarding the Cylon taboo against seeking out the Final Five, which he himself programmed to cover up his tracks. He claims the Cylons have reached a consensus that all members of the Number Three model are inherently flawed and suffer from messianic delusions. All copies would therefore be "boxed" — deactivated with their memories placed into cold storage. The boxing is carried out by Cavil.

Later, when the Cylons split over whether or not to seek out the Final Five Cylon models, which they learn are in the Colonial fleet, the Number Twos, Sixes, and Eights (except Boomer) call for the Threes to be unboxed to end the deadlock.

In the episode "Faith", the hybrid says "The missing three will give you the five who have come from the home of the thirteenth". Six and Starbuck realize Three, having previously seen the final five, will be able to recognize the final five from among the presumed humans in the fleet, and as the five are "from the home of the thirteenth" they are from Earth, the home of the thirteenth tribe of humans. Thus they believe resurrecting Three will allow the five to be found and give the fleet a way home to Earth. It turns out much later, in the episode "Sometimes a Great Notion", that "who have come from the home of the thirteenth" is to be taken literally on a different level.

The copy known as D'Anna is revived by Cavil in "The Hub". Cavil hopes she will be able to mediate peace between the warring Cylon factions, but she kills him and is taken away by Helo and a Number Eight. All other copies of Number Three are destroyed during the attack on the Resurrection Hub. Helo takes D'Anna to Roslin, where D'Anna tells the President she will only reveal the identities of the Final Five once she is assured of her own safety.

Standoff and alliance

In "Revelations", D'Anna becomes the de facto leader of the rebel Cylons, and informs Adama and Roslin she will hold members of the Galactica crew hostage until the Cylons in the Colonial fleet — she notes there are only four, not five — rejoin their brethren. D'Anna then accompanies Adama to the Galactica, declaring her demands to the assembled crew (and the Final Four, all of whom are present); Lee Adama, acting as president, assures her he will make no effort to stop the Four from leaving if they so choose; Tory Foster acts immediately, leaving with D'Anna under the guise of delivering Roslin's medication to her. The others hesitate, and D'Anna soon begins executing hostages. After Col. Tigh reveals himself, as well as Tyrol and Anders, D'Anna responds to Lee's threat to execute them by targeting the Colonial Fleet with the basestar's nuclear weapons. Baltar successfully persuades her to stand down, and Lee shortly thereafter reveals to her Starbuck's discovery of a Colonial signal apparently coming from Earth. Though at first hesitant, convinced the humans would never forgive the Cylons and their conflict would never end, she agrees to Lee's proposal they go to Earth together. She is a member of the landing party that discovers the planet to be an irradiated, post-apocalyptic wasteland.

At the conclusion of "Sometimes a Great Notion", Saul Tigh approaches D'Anna to tell her the fleet is about to leave. D'Anna chooses to stay behind on Earth. She tells him: "You know all this is just going to happen again and again... and again. So I'm getting off this merry-go-round." She adds she would rather die on Earth with her ancestors than at Cavil's hands in the cold and dark of space.

D'Anna, the final Number Three copy, remains behind on the wasteland of the original Earth.