Zoe Graystone
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| Age | 16 | |
| Colony | Caprica | |
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| Introduced | Caprica pilot | |
| Death | Killed in suicide bombing (Caprica pilot) | |
| Parents | Daniel Graystone (father) Amanda Graystone (mother) | |
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| Marital Status | Girlfriend of Ben Stark † | |
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| Role | Creator of first Cylon consciousness in the Twelve Colonies. | |
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| Portrayed by | Alessandra Toressani | |
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| Zoe Graystone is a Final Five Cylon | ||
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Zoe Graystone is the daughter of Daniel and Amanda Graystone. Though her parents believe her to be a typical apathetic teenager, she is a computer genius and secret fanatical monotheist.
Early Life
Zoe was born into a very wealthy family on Caprica. Though she appeared to have had a good relationship with her father, her relationship with her mother was strained, even to the point where she was unaware of major events in her life ("Rebirth," "The Reins of a Waterfall"). Her interests included playing the cello (Gravedancing). She attended the Athena Academy, where she was best friends with fellow classmate Lacy Rand. Together, they began using the holoband technology her father invented to indulge in the V-Club, a virtual nightclub frequented by teenagers, where they indulged in sex.
At some point, Zoe began dating Ben Stark unbeknownst to her parents (Rebirth), a fanatical monotheist guided by the headmistress of the Athena Academy, Sister Clarice Willow. Both Zoe and Lacy and became closet monotheists as a result of Ben's guidance. Showing her aptitude for computer programming, she created a temple within the V-Club only accessible to herself and her fellow monotheists, with an infinity symbol marking the entrance. Furthermore, she designed a program that allowed her to create virtual duplicate of herself using a compilation of various personal records, a feat that impressed even her own computer-gifted father. Zoe believed that the creation of her holographic avatar was the next step towards a divinely-inspired plan, and designed a biofeedback subroutine that allowed her avatar to feel what she felt in the real world.
Death
Fed up with her parents and the fact that her monotheism had to be kept a secret on polytheistic Caprica, Zoe planned to leave for Gemenon with Stark and Rand. Though she had a plan for her avatar once they had arrived on Gemenon, she never revealed what that plan was.
The three students leave their school and board the Lev, but Rand has second thoughts and stays behind. Undaunted, Stark and Zoe proceed, and she quickly sends a goodbye email to her parents from her computer sheet. Noticing that Stark is acting tense, she asks him what is is wrong. Apologizing to her, Stark reveals a bomb strapped around his torso. Before she has time to stop him, Stark detonates the bomb, destroying the train and killing himself and Zoe as well others on the train, including Shannon and Tamara Adams (Caprica pilot).
In the weeks after the bombing, Jordan Durham, the lead investigator of the bombing, begins to suspect that Zoe was involved in the bombing of the train, given the farewell email she sent to her parents shortly before the bombing.
Avatar
Rand visits the virtual temple after the bombing to find that the virtual Zoe still exists despite her doppleganger's death. Due to the biofeedback subroutine, she also felt the real Zoe's death, though strangely she is also covered in blood. Daniel Graystone soon becomes aware of the existence of Zoe's avatar with Rand's help. At first, he rejects the avatar as a superficial copy of his daughter. However, she is able to convince him that she is a perfect recreation of her consciousness.
Graystone then tricks Zoe's avatar and downloads her onto a media storage device, planning to insert her into his company's U-87 Cyber Combat Unit to allow her to live in the real world. Though Zoe rejects this idea, Graystone ignores her protests and loads her into the robot. Though at first the experiment seems to have succeeded, with the robot taking several steps and calling Graystone "daddy", her data quickly becomes corrupted and seemingly irretrievable, and the robot collapses.
Soon afterwords, the robot containing Zoe's avatar is stored at Graystone's lab. Suddenly, the robot reactivates with Zoe's consciousness intact. She reaches a computer terminal and contacts Rand, asking for her help.
Notes
- The name "Zoe" originally comes from the ancient Greek word for "life"[1], and is used in the New Testament of the Bible 134 times to indicate the "eternal life" or the "life after death" in heaven rewarded to the children of God[2]. This could be a reference to Zoe's own resurrection, or it could be a religious reference to the Cylons' status as the children of God, or both.
References
- ↑ Behind the Name:Zoe (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 7 April 2008.
- ↑ Biblical-Baby Names:Zoe (backup available on Archive.org) (in ). Retrieved on 7 April 2008.