V-Club

The V-Club.

The V-Club is a hacked night club in the virtual world, in which young people gather to indulge in various questionable activities. The club is a "no limits" environment featuring drug dens, group sex rooms and the "kill zone"―an area where visitors can fight others in hand-to-hand combat or with firearms. There is also a ritualistic sacrificing of a virgin on stage, an offering to the goddess of the underworld, Hecate ^{(CAP: "Pilot")}. The producers decided to open the pilot with the V-Club sequence to be provocative and immediately establish a world different from the Re-imagined Series. The original script concept was even darker, featuring a "stylized and heavily ritualized human sacrifice show" that was toned down for broadcast.

The V-Club was shot at the Orpheum theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia for the pilot episode of Caprica. This was the same location utilized for the Opera House on Kobol. For subsequent episodes, footage from the location shoot was reused in conjunction with green screen in "Reins of a Waterfall," and a smaller private space or VIP room in "The Imperfections of Memory," "Ghosts in the Machine," and "End of Line".

Director Jeffrey Reiner wanted the club to feel "almost claustrophobic" and crammed as many extras as possible into the location to achieve the energetic, crowded feel.

Zoe Graystone and Lacy Rand initially visit the V-Club for the party atmosphere, but later come to view the V-Club as a sign of the Twelve Colonies' descent into hedonism, decadence, and ennui. Graystone goes on to create a separate chamber accessible from the V-Club, where she houses her duplicate avatar in a replica of the Monotheist Church retreat on Gemenon ^{(CAP: "Pilot", "Rebirth" and "Unvanquished")}.

A VIP room attached to the V-Club provides a private meeting place, which is later utilized by Rand and Zoe-A ^{(CAP: "Ghosts in the Machine" and "End of Line")}.

Despite its illicit nature as a hacked site, the V-Club is accessible through the V-Match dating site ^{(CAP: "The Imperfections of Memory")}.

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  A woman being sacrificed before Hecate in the V-Club ^{(CAP: "Pilot")}.