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| US airdate=January | | US airdate=4 January 2011<ref name="Caprica Cancelled by Syfy">{{cite_web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/10/27/report-caprica-cancelled-by-syfy/69960|title=Caprica Cancelled by Syfy|date=27 October 2010|accessdate=28 October 2010|last=Gorman|first=Bill|format=|language=English}}</ref><ref name="Caprica US airdates">{{cite_web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2010/11/19/exclusive-syfys-caprica-to-sign-off-tuesday-january-4-416014/8987/|title=Exclusive: Syfy's "Caprica" to Sign Off Tuesday, January 4|date=19 November 2010|accessdate=19 November 2010|format=|language=English}}</ref> | ||
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== Overview == | |||
: ''Lacy Rand's training as a soldier in the STO starts in an unexpectedly violent way. Jordan Duram is pushed to reveal the identity of his confidential informant. The Guatrau becomes a danger to Daniel Graystone—and puts serious doubts into the minds of Sam and Joseph Adama.'' | : ''Lacy Rand's training as a soldier in the STO starts in an unexpectedly violent way. Jordan Duram is pushed to reveal the identity of his confidential informant. The Guatrau becomes a danger to Daniel Graystone—and puts serious doubts into the minds of Sam and Joseph Adama.'' | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
=== Teaser === | === Teaser === | ||
*In the spaceport of a major city on [[The_Twelve_Colonies_of_Kobol#Gemenon|Gemenon]], [[Lacy Rand]] looks around uncertainly, and then walks up to a young man to ask for directions. The two begin a conversation and lie to one another about their reasons for being on the planet, until [[Diego]] approaches them, calls Rand and [[Odin Sinclair]] by name, and leads them to a [[jump ship]] waiting to fly them and other young [[Soldiers of the One]] recruits to the retreat of the [[Monotheist Church]]. | *In the spaceport of a major city on [[The_Twelve_Colonies_of_Kobol#Gemenon|Gemenon]], [[Lacy Rand]] looks around uncertainly, and then walks up to a young man to ask for directions. The two begin a conversation and lie to one another about their reasons for being on the planet, until [[Diego]] approaches them, calls Rand and [[Odin Sinclair]] by name, and leads them to a [[jump ship]] waiting to fly them and other young [[Soldiers of the One]] recruits to the retreat of the [[Monotheist Church]]. | ||
*Sitting among other recruits, the two continue to talk as the jump ship reaches cruise altitude. Rand confesses the doubts she harbors about her monotheist faith, and Sinclair tells her that his parents had him abducted, drugged, and transported to Gemenon for training. Diego steps forward and publicly introduces himself, welcomes them all, and promises that those who survive the ordeal of training will become "warriors of the [[God (RDM)|one true God]]." At that moment, a much larger vessel positions itself above them, fires clamps onto the jump ship, and forcibly reels them in. The recruits scream in fear, and Diego arms himself for battle. The Apolli invaders quickly lower an airlock seal onto the jump ship, force their way in, and shoot the adult STO soldiers dead. Their [[Kevin Reikle|leader]] speaks to his men in [[Language_in_the_Twelve_Colonies#Other_Languages|Old Gemenese]]. Sinclair whispers a translation to Rand: "The mighty gods are striking back." | *Sitting among other recruits, the two continue to talk as the jump ship reaches cruise altitude. Rand confesses the doubts she harbors about her monotheist faith, and Sinclair tells her that his parents had him abducted, drugged, and transported to Gemenon for training. Diego steps forward and publicly introduces himself, welcomes them all, and promises that those who survive the ordeal of training will become "warriors of the [[God (RDM)|one true God]]." At that moment, a much larger vessel positions itself above them, fires clamps onto the jump ship, and forcibly reels them in. The recruits scream in fear, and Diego arms himself for battle. The [[Apolli]] invaders quickly lower an airlock seal onto the jump ship, force their way in, and shoot the adult STO soldiers dead. Their [[Kevin Reikle|leader]] speaks to his men in [[Language_in_the_Twelve_Colonies#Other_Languages|Old Gemenese]]. Sinclair whispers a translation to Rand: "The mighty gods are striking back." | ||
*[[Amanda Graystone]] peeks through an open door in the Willow house at [[Clarice Willow]], who is talking out loud to someone on a [[holoband]] connection. [[Mar-Beth Willow]] comes up behind Amanda, scares her, and accuses her of spying on her wife. Amanda claims that she suspects Clarice of using [[Purple|drugs]] again, but Mar-Beth does not buy the excuse. | *[[Amanda Graystone]] peeks through an open door in the Willow house at [[Clarice Willow]], who is talking out loud to someone on a [[holoband]] connection. [[Mar-Beth Willow]] comes up behind Amanda, scares her, and accuses her of spying on her wife. Amanda claims that she suspects Clarice of using [[Purple|drugs]] again, but Mar-Beth does not buy the excuse. | ||
*Meanwhile, Clarice meets with [[Alvo]] in their regular [[V-world]] room and demands that he use his [[Global Defense Department]] contacts to retrieve a [[Things_We_Lock_Away#Act_4|pin]] once owned by [[Zoe Graystone]]. Alvo pledges to do as she asks. | *Meanwhile, Clarice meets with [[Alvo]] in their regular [[V-world]] room and demands that he use his [[Global Defense Department]] contacts to retrieve a [[Things_We_Lock_Away#Act_4|pin]] once owned by [[Zoe Graystone]]. Alvo pledges to do as she asks. | ||
*GDD director [[Gara Singh]] accesses an evidence room late at night, opens a box labeled "Graystone | *GDD director [[Gara Singh]] accesses an evidence room late at night, opens a box labeled "Graystone Case," and takes out a pin in the shape of an infinity symbol before replacing the box and leaving just as quietly as he entered. | ||
=== Act 1 === | === Act 1 === | ||
*Amanda meets with GDD agent [[Jordan Duram]] in a public park with nothing to report except for Mar-Beth's suspiciousness. Afraid for her physical safety, Amanda pleads for a surveillance camera. Duram hesitates due to the risk of revealing her as his confidential informant, but he relents. | *Amanda meets with GDD agent [[Jordan Duram]] in a public park with nothing to report except for Mar-Beth's suspiciousness. Afraid for her physical safety, Amanda pleads for a surveillance camera. Duram hesitates due to the risk of revealing her as his confidential informant, but he relents. | ||
*In Singh's GDD office, Duram makes his request but does not offer a warrant to back up the request. Without it, Singh immediately demands documents on all of Duram's CIs. He flatly refuses, citing professional standards and the fact that the GDD may have a leak. Singh does not change his position. | *In Singh's GDD office, Duram makes his request but does not offer a warrant to back up the request. Without it, Singh immediately demands documents on all of Duram's CIs. He flatly refuses, citing professional standards and the fact that the GDD may have a leak. Singh does not change his position. | ||
*[[Daniel Graystone]] meets with [[Joseph Adama|Joseph]] and [[Samuel Adama|Sam Adama]] in the [[Graystone Industries]] headquarters to show them surveillance footage from a loading dock: [[U-87_Cyber_Combat_Unit|U-87 Cylons]] being smuggled offworld. Sam turns hopefully to his older brother and asks if the [[Guatrau]] has [[False_Labor#Act_5|changed his mind]] about sending assistance to rebels fighting on their homeworld of [[Tauron]]. Joseph is reluctant to answer, reminding Sam that the Guatrau is interested in money first and foremost before finally admitting that the robots are heading for the STO on Gemenon. Sam becomes outraged at the Guatrau's willingness to continue ignoring the plight of their own people, and at Joseph's complicity in helping him to ship weapons to the very group that [[Caprica_pilot#Act_One|murdered]] his own [[Shannon Adama|wife]] and [[Tamara Adama|daughter]]. Joseph tries defending himself, but Sam leaves the room. Daniel tells Joseph that selling this kind of technology to an enemy of [[Caprica_(RDM)|Caprica]] puts him in danger of being executed as a traitor. He promises that he will take the [[Ha'la'tha]] leadership down with him if that happens, and insists that Joseph set up a one-on-one meeting with the Guatrau. | *[[Daniel Graystone]] meets with [[Joseph Adama|Joseph]] and [[Samuel Adama|Sam Adama]] in the [[Graystone Industries]] headquarters to show them surveillance footage from a loading dock: [[U-87_Cyber_Combat_Unit|U-87 Cylons]] being smuggled offworld. Sam turns hopefully to his older brother and asks if the [[Guatrau]] has [[False_Labor#Act_5|changed his mind]] about sending assistance to rebels fighting on their homeworld of [[Tauron]]. Joseph is reluctant to answer, reminding Sam that the Guatrau is interested in money first and foremost before finally admitting that the robots are heading for the STO on Gemenon. Sam becomes outraged at the Guatrau's willingness to continue ignoring the plight of their own people, and at Joseph's complicity in helping him to ship weapons to the very group that [[Caprica_pilot#Act_One|murdered]] his own [[Shannon Adama|wife]] and [[Tamara Adama|daughter]]. Joseph tries defending himself, but Sam leaves the room. Daniel tells Joseph that selling this kind of technology to an enemy of [[Caprica_(RDM)|Caprica]] puts him in danger of being executed as a traitor. He promises that he will take the [[Ha'la'tha]] leadership down with him if that happens, and insists that Joseph set up a one-on-one meeting with the Guatrau. | ||
*Aboard the captured jump ship, the Apolli leader communicates with local authorities by phone, promising to harm his hostages if they do not comply. As this takes place, Rand and Sinclair whisper to one another. Sinclair tells her that he has been communicating with another recruit by eye contact, preparing to strike at the inevitable moment that their captors will start to grow hungry or tired and begin to lose focus. He slowly works on unscrewing a metal rod from beneath his seat. Suddenly, the Apolli leader pulls a boy up from his seat. The boy cries and begs for his life, but he is pushed inside an airlock out of view of the other recruits. A single gunshot is fired. Rand looks out a window and sees a body tumbling toward the clouds below. | *Aboard the captured jump ship, the Apolli leader communicates with local authorities by phone, promising to harm his hostages if they do not comply. As this takes place, Rand and Sinclair whisper to one another. Sinclair tells her that he has been communicating with another recruit by eye contact, preparing to strike at the inevitable moment that their captors will start to grow hungry or tired and begin to lose focus. He slowly works on unscrewing a metal rod from beneath his seat. Suddenly, the Apolli leader pulls a boy up from his seat. The boy cries and begs for his life, but he is pushed inside an airlock out of view of the other recruits. A single gunshot is fired. Rand looks out a window and sees a body tumbling toward the clouds below. | ||
=== Act 2 === | === Act 2 === | ||
=== Act 3 === | === Act 3 === | ||
=== Act 4 === | === Act 4 === | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* "Blowback" is a term used for [[w:Blowback (intelligence)|violent, unintended consequences of a covert operation]]. | * "Blowback" is a term used for [[w:Blowback (intelligence)|violent, unintended consequences of a covert operation]]. | ||
* Because the last five episodes of the season were rescheduled by Syfy, this was the first episode to air in Canada before the United States. | * Because the last five episodes of the season were rescheduled by Syfy, this was the first episode to air in Canada before the United States. | ||
* After the cancellation of the ''Caprica'' series was announced, the original SyFy timeslot of 10:00 PM EDT Tuesday was filled by | * After the cancellation of the ''Caprica'' series was announced, the original SyFy timeslot of 10:00 PM EDT Tuesday was filled by the ''[[MemoryAlpha:Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "[[MemoryAlpha:A Matter of Time (episode)|A Matter of Time]]."<ref name="Syfy Schedule">{{cite_web|url=http://www.syfy.com/schedule/index.php?date=2010-11-2|title=Schedule <nowiki>|</nowiki> Syfy|date=|accessdate=29 October 2010|last=|first=|format=|language=English}}</ref> | ||
== Analysis == | == Analysis == | ||
* When Lacy first meets Odin at the spaceport, she asks, "Do you speak Caprican?" to which Odin replies, " | *When Lacy first meets Odin at the spaceport, she asks, "Do you speak Caprican?" to which Odin replies, "Everyone speaks Caprican", indicating that the power and influence of Caprica have led to its native language being spoken as at least a second language throughout the other colonies. This accords with the fact that every character in the [[Battlestar_Galactica_(RDM)|re-imagined ''Battlestar Galactica'']] speaks Caprican, 58 years after these events. The quasi-canon [[map of the Twelve Colonies]] lists official languages only for Caprica, Gemenon, Leonis and Tauron, which could mean that Caprican has displaced other languages on the other colonies, or that the production team didn't create a name for each one. | ||
* The "hijackers" speak Old Gemenese, which is similar to Romanian, as established in the re-imagined series movie "[[Razor]]". The quasi-canon [[map of the Twelve Colonies]] states that Old Gemenese is the official language of Gemenon (obviously, in this case, the word "old" does not mean that it has fallen out of use). | *The "hijackers" speak Old Gemenese, which is similar to Romanian, as established in the re-imagined series movie "[[Razor]]". The quasi-canon [[map of the Twelve Colonies]] states that Old Gemenese is the official language of Gemenon (obviously, in this case, the word "old" does not mean that it has fallen out of use). | ||
== Questions == | == Questions == | ||
* | *Did Reikle and his men throw dead bodies or dummies out the jump ship airlock when they pretended to execute hostages? | ||
== Official Statements == | |||
== Noteworthy Dialogue == | == Noteworthy Dialogue == | ||
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*[[Ryan Robbins]] as [[Diego]] | *[[Ryan Robbins]] as [[Diego]] | ||
*[[Ryan Kennedy]] as [[Odin Sinclair]] | *[[Ryan Kennedy]] as [[Odin Sinclair]] | ||
*[[ | *[[Chris Heyerdahl]] as [[Kevin Reikle]] | ||
*[[Anita Torrance]] as [[Mar-Beth Willow]] | *[[Anita Torrance]] as [[Mar-Beth Willow]] | ||
*[[Panou]] as [[Olaf Willow]] | *[[Panou]] as [[Olaf Willow]] | ||
*[[Jim Thomson]] as Voice of [[Serge]] | *[[Jim Thomson]] as Voice of [[Serge]] | ||
*[[Eva Allan]] as [[Devanna]] | *[[Eva Allan]] as [[Devanna]] | ||
*[[Tom McBeath]] as Agent [[Alpert]] | *[[Tom McBeath]] as Agent [[Alpert]] | ||
*[[Calum Worthy]] as [[Cass]] | *[[Calum Worthy]] as [[Cass]] | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
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