Number Three (Battlestar Galactica)
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| Number Three | |
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 Number Three portrayed by Lucy Lawless |
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| Race | Humanoid Cylon |
| Gender | Female |
| Portrayed by | Lucy Lawless |
| First appearance | "Final Cut" |
| Affiliation | Cylon Infiltrator |
Number Three is a Cylon, a fictional character in the 2000s science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica. She is portrayed by Lucy Lawless.
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[edit] D'Anna Biers
Three first appeared in the episode "Final Cut" as D'Anna Biers, a reporter for the Fleet News Service. In this episode, she is given full access to Galactica by Commander Adama to film a documentary about the military. Elsewhere, Biers meets the Cylon prisoner Sharon (aka Cylon model Number Eight) and discovers she is pregnant when Dr. Cottle rushes to save her baby from miscarriage. Biers is ordered to remove the evidence by Adama on the grounds that it could jeopardize fleet security. The episode concludes with a group of Cylons watching the documentary as well as the removed footage—it is in this scene that Biers's identity as a Cylon is first revealed.[1]
[edit] Number Three
In the episode "Downloaded", another copy of Number Three appears, debriefing newly resurrected Cylons and helping them to integrate with Cylon society. When two of these Cylons, a copy of Number Six who died in the Cylon attack on Caprica and the copy of Sharon Valerii who was killed aboard Galactica, begin to show sympathy towards the humans, Three reacts with disgust. Ultimately she is killed by Six to protect Anders, a "human" resistance fighter (but is later revealed in Season 3 to himself be a Cylon); this is claimed to be the first act of Cylon-on-Cylon violence in their history,[2] although that claim ignores Sharon Valerii destroying an entire Basestar with copies of herself - and another iteration of Valerii gunning down a Number Six as she threatens Helo on Caprica. Although that incident had no bystander witnesses, the resurrected consciousness of Number Six presumably recalls it and integrates it into the assessment of the other Cylon model as 'weak'.
In the third season episode "Exodus", Number Three is plagued by disturbing dreams. She visits a human oracle who tells her that Hera, the hybrid child of Karl and Sharon "Athena" Agathon, another copy of the Sharon Valerii model, still lives and that Number Three will play a vital role in the child's destiny. Athena, now a commissioned officer of the Colonial Fleet, later infiltrates the Cylon's New Caprica headquarters. Three tells her that her child is alive, but an unbelieving Athena kneecaps her. After almost all humans have escaped the planet, Three 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, Number Three begins a series of suicides in an apparent attempt at enlightenment. In the space of time before she awakes in a new body, she experiences a vision of five figures bathed in light, whom she believes are the five unknown humanoid Cylon models.
This version engages in a sexual affair with both Gaius Baltar and Number Six, and claims to love both. However, in the episode "The Eye of Jupiter", she ends the relationship with Number Six, claiming that they have different destinies.
Because D'Anna, with the aid of the other Threes, ignored the consensus decision of the other humanoid Cylons and proceeded with Baltar to the Algae Planet, the other Cylons decided that all members of her model were inherently flawed and suffered from messianic delusions, and would therefore be "boxed" - indefinitely deactivated with their memories permanently downloaded into cold storage. The boxing is carried out by the Brother Cavil model.
Later, when the Cylons split as to 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 call for the Threes to be unboxed to end the deadlock
In the episode "Faith" the hybrid says "The missing three shall find the five from the home of the thirteenth". Six and Starbuck realize that Three, having previously seen the final five, will be able to recognize the final five from among the presumed humans in the fleet, and that 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 that resurrecting Three will enable the finding of the five and give the fleet a way home to Earth.
Number Three 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. Helo takes her to Roslin, where Three tells the President she will only reveal the identities of the Final Five once she's assured of her own safety.
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