Billie Pearce

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“	So you have to know by now, I’m always one step ahead.	„
	~ Billie taunts Jessie.

Belinda "Billie" Pearce is the main antagonist of the Disney+ TV series National Treasure: Edge of History, a spin-off in the National Treasure franchise. She is a notorious treasure hunter and black market dealer who is bent on finding the mysterious treasure. She is also Jess' arch-nemesis after she had her father supposedly murdered.

She was portrayed by Catherine Zeta-Jones, who also played Velma Kelly in Chicago, Victoria Siebert in Side Effects and Katja Petrokovich in Red 2.

Personality[]

Billie is very greedy woman who is willing to go to extreme lengths to get what she wants. She is incredibly ruthless and will kill whoever she has to to achieve her goals. Despite her ruthless nature, she cares for her late brother and right-hand woman, Kacey Hasler.

Appearance[]

Billie is a blonde woman who wears a gray coat.

Biography[]

According, Billie was revealed that she was once a penniless orphan until she came across something or someone that helped her get her the riches she required. By the time she was an adult, Billie has became a shrewd, stylish businesswoman. Billie plans avenge the death of her brother, Sebastian, who was all she had. She blames Rafael for the murder and plans to kill him. Overtime, she became obsessed with finding a hidden treasure and finds a map that was under the ownership of Jess' parents which the latter is also on the search. Desperate to find the treasure, Billie sets on a journey to collect the treasure.

On her private plane she gets a notification that someone is at Peter Sedusky's house. she is curious why that person was there for ten minutes. She sends her two henchpeople, Kacey Hasler and Nate to find a letter Peter was talking about. While Billie admires the sword of Hernán Cortés, they report back that they don't have the letter, and the girl didn't have it either. Billie thinks the girl lied and sends them to ransack her apartment.

Billie decides to lure Oren Bradley into a trap with the sneakers. She then contacts Jess Valenzuela and threatens Oren's life to get the Aztec Relic she found.

When Oren starts to suspect something, Kacey knocks him down and Billie now takes him hostage. Now Jess agrees to trade the relic for Oren, but in a crowded place like the USS Kidd gift shop. Billie agrees to those terms.

At the gift shop, Billie approaches Jess, but they are interrupted by the Clerk. Jess eventually gives her the relic, but just as Billie is about to leave the store, an alarm goes off, Billie hand off the relic to Nate who was passing by, and uses her status and a lack of purse to convince to arriving MP to let her go.

Back at her private jet, Billie places the Aztec Relic into a scanner, which reveals a keychain inside the box.

Having learned that the box is a puzzle box, Billie lets Nate to open it. Once the Aztec relic has been opened, Billie brings out the second relic for Nate to work on. Now having two-thirds of the map, they piece it together as much as the can. Billie recognizes Iztaccihuatl, which was marked with a jaguar head symbolizing a sacred place.

Billie flies to Iztaccihuatl and manages to quickly find the caves. Inside, there are carvings from three cultures, Incan, Aztec, and Mayan, confirming that the Daughters of Plumed Serpent were there. But Billie notices that Mictlan and Xibalba are mentioned, making her suspicious of a trap. Right after Nate falls to his death, and Billie retreats from the caves.

On a flight back Billie and Kacey mourn Nate. Billie then receives a message with Elvis Presley's clue.

Billie visits the board of Cras Est Nostrum in New York, they want her off the hunt, but she ensures her commitment, and reveals the Elvis clue. On her way out however a board member attempts to acquire the relics for himself. Kacey handles his muscle.

Billie and her crew attempt to decode the Elvis clue. As Dario's algorithms doesn't come up with a credible answer, Billie Thinks the Twin-tongued serpent is Malinche. Thinking there might be a lost Malinche's codex, she goes to Cayman Islands' black market. She offers Caligula's lost mosaic for exchange of Malinche's codex. The Auctioneer assures her that Malinche's codex doesn't exists, but after Billie persists, he reveals a Cortés journal that has Malinche's writing in it.

Billie takes the Cortés Journal to an expert in University of Mexico City to get it translated. Dr. Torres proves the journal fake however, as the writing style does not match Cortés' handwriting. Billie is disappointed and throws the journal in the trash.

When Dario reveals that Jess and her friends have found the bug they planted on Oren by showing and old video of Oren's, Billie recognizes the necklace Jess is wearing. When Kacey checks on what Jess and the group is up to they piece together that they want to take part in the Governor's Ball. Knowing that Meriwether Lewis' Journals are kept at Governor's Mansion, Billie connects the dots and realizes the clue pointed towards Sacagawea.

Billie arrives at the ball and sees Jess running, she uses the opportunity to offer her a ride to escape the police. Billie manipulates Jess into thinking that they are on the same side. Kacey explains to Jess that Billie had taken her in when she was homeless and had nothing, explaining her loyalty to her. Jess ends up escaping Billie and Kacey and reuniting with her friends, who she drives off with.

Agent Hendricks reveals that he is Salazar and works with Billie and Kacey to hunt down the treasure they are after. Once most of the crew is dead and Kacey is left injured, Hendricks shoots Kacey dead, calling her a liability. This leads Billie to realize that Hendricks was the one who murdered her brother. Hendricks admits to this and Billie shoots him dead, proclaiming herself as the new Salazar.

She confronts and attacks Jess and her friends, but is defeated by Jess and Liam, Liam holding her at gunpoint. She is arrested by the authorities and sent to prison.

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Trivia[]

Billie is the first antagonist in the National Treasure series to be a female and to be introduced in a TV series instead of a film.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, who plays Billie, is a fan of the National Treasure films.

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