Syonpsis: Everyone's enemies start coming out of the woodwork this episode. Graystone's competitor, Tomas Vergis is convinced that Graystone was involved in the theft of the MCP device and the death of two men in the process. Though he strings him along for the episode, in the end he reveals he's Tauron through and through, and that means he wants blood for blood from Graystone. Sister Clarice's little cabal of monotheists have a small drive that can surreptitiously copy data from any computer. Hoping it will help them get the Zoe avatar, she goes to the Graystone residence and, after getting Amanda a little tipsy, gains access to the lab and downloads his computer contents. Whether or not this gives her access to Zoe, we don't yet know. Lacy's still trying to get help getting Zoe-bot to Geminon, and Zoe learns Philemon, the tech geek, is a lonely soul who can't get a match on his internet dating profile. So she posts a fake reply as "Rachel" and meets him in the V-Club in disguise -- a Clark Kent disguise that amounts to a pair of glasses and being clumsy. Seems like a sweet gesture, but I doubt Philo will see it that way when he learns the truth.
Let's deal with that story first. I suppose it was only a matter of time before Zoe tried something like that with him, since there's really on other way they can keep flirting when she's a robot. It's also a bit depressing that guys like him can't get girls unless someone overhears his private moments and pities him. I credit Philo for immediately saying that "Rachel" looks just like Zoe Graystone. Zoe bluffs it off by saying she thought having an avatar that looked like Zoe would keep the perverts away (but it only incited them). But why doesn't Zoe just create an entirely different avatar image? Or steal one from some other girl? Then again, I guess that would amount to holoband catfishing.
Should Philo be on a holoband date when he's working?
The episode opens with a visit to Vergis Industries in Tauron City. But I'm left confused as to whether Tauron City is on Tauron or is just a city of Tauron people on Caprica. I would love it if we could see or hear of another city on Caprica to break up the homogenous nature of this planet.
The next scene is set in a museum and is the worst scene of the episode for me due to the location chosen. I know they are shooting this in Vancouver, and there's a lot they can get away with by fudging things and visual effects to make it Caprica. But this "museum" was just a museum full of what appeared to be Tlingit art; totem poles and native pieces celebrating the Raven. This immediately takes me out of the world of Caprica because I start questioning who the people are that made these things. I shouldn't be thinking about indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest, but I am. Are we to believe there is some similar culture on Caprica? Raven veneration and other sorts of native paganism and animal worship seem very different from the Greco-Roman polytheism of the rest of the populace. Did the ancient Capricans make these things? Are they from some other colony? Or are we meant to believe that these are the works of the original natives of that world before the Capricans came and colonized it? We have no context for any of it and it felt very bizarre to see such things so prominently displayed. I couldn't pay any attention to the scene between Vergis and Graystone. It was distracting.
While we're on the subject of religion, let's look at the Cylons and the one God. It seems the series is setting up that the reason the Cylons were monotheistic is that Zoe was monotheistic and that was imparted to them. But on BSG there WAS a god of some sort because we saw his angelic emissaries. So is this real god the god of the STO? Is he okay with the bombings in his name? It all just seems to go weirdly in circles. How did this monotheistic movement start? Was it by divine revelation?
Adama buys a holoband in hopes of getting in touch with Tamara. But he can't access the V Club because that's an illegal hack. We see instead the "welcome screen" for first-time users. I thought that was a nice touch. He now needs to find the kid who told him about Tamara.
Not much more to say about this one. Stuff happened, but it more just a series of stepping stones to move the story forward.
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