The Imperfections of Memory

"The Imperfections of Memory" An episode of the Caprica Series
Episode No.	Season 1, Episode 7
Writer(s)	Matthew B. Roberts
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Director	Wayne Rose
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US airdate	March 12, 2010
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Overview

To continue her goal of obtaining Zoe's avatar, Clarice carries on her friendship with Amanda who is being haunted by visions of her dead brother. Heracles guides Joseph through the hazards of New Cap City. Zoe and Lacy continues their respective efforts to get the U-87 to Gemenon while Daniel is still being pressured by Vergis to sell the Caprica Buccaneers to help work on the meta-cognitive processor.

Summary

Notes

• The Delphi Convalescent Institute appears to be the same location the Cylons use as a farm after the Fall, and where Kara Thrace and other women are kept prisoner. Indeed, in The Farm, Simon states that the building was formerly a mental hospital.

Analysis

• It seems clear now that Zoe-A is deliberately seducing, rather than simply courting, Philomon, with her goal evidently being to use him as a means to escape Graystone's lab. However, Lacy's question regarding Philomon's attractiveness indicates she thinks that's not the only reason Zoe is approaching the roboticist.
• Zoe-A and Lacy clearly differ on whether the latter has disappointed the former yet, underlining some tensions between the two. Lacy indicates she hasn't, because that Zoe-A isn't Zoe and so her sudden refusal to board the maglev doesn't count. Zoe-A, however, seems to believe that she really is Zoe, if only in personality, an idea well in line with Sister Clarice's theory of apotheosis.
  • If Lacy hadn't refused to board the maglev, she would be dead and unable to help Zoe-A.
• During the drug binge at the Dive, Clarice let her monotheism slip, as noted by Amanda Graystone who questioned which god she was talking about when she said "God." It is unclear if Amanda suspects Sister Clarice's true allegiances, but it is clear that Clarice is in danger of breaking her cover.
• While an interesting theory and one that would theoretically explain why the MCP has not yet been successfully copied, Zoe-A's explanation to Philomon about letting a program "grow" rather than building seemingly contradicts several points. Notably, of course, is Zoe-A's very existence - Zoe-A is repeatedly described to be a perfect copy of Zoe Graystone, rather than simply an imitation or look-alike. In this case, making an identical copy of her shouldn't be impossible, which Zoe-A's statements and later Philomon's reiterations of such to Daniel seem to imply. A possible explanation exists in the Significant Eight, in which each individual of a particular model line are all theoretically one personality, but who in practice tend to act very differently (particularly the Sixes). Zoe-A might also mean some kind of controlled growth that is distinct from a line by line copy, as Daniel has been attempting.

Questions

• Is there any weight to Clarice's theory that God is speaking to her through Amanda and Zoe? Amanda claims she saw Clarice's face while she was recovering in the Institute. Could this be evidence of a higher power at work, just as the Angels influence events during and after the Fall?
• Following on from this question, could there be a connection between Amanda's visions of her brother and the apparitions that appear to people in the Fleet sixty years later?
• Does Clarice's belief that a person seeing others who aren't there is evidence of divine intervention indicate that she has read about prior appearances of the Angels?
• How will Daniel go about testing his theory that Zoe-A is in the U-87?
• Why hasn't Tamara-A simply come out and met her father?
• Is Zoe-A a "perfect" copy of Zoe Graystone, as both she and Daniel seem to believe? Or is there an underlying difference, as Lacy seems to? Similarly, is Tamara-A a perfect copy of Tamara Adama?
• Is there any attraction at all on Zoe-A's part towards Philomon or is she simply using him to escape?
• Will Philomon's proposed method (based on Zoe-A's suggestion) of AI development work in solving the MCP problem?

Noteworthy Dialogue

Amanda and Clarice are smoking in the Dive, discussing Amanda's visions.

• Amanda: Do you remember that old saying? "All this has happened before, and all this will happen again"?

Guest Stars

• John Pyper-Ferguson as Tomas Vergis
• Alex Arsenault as Philo
• Leah Gibson as Emmanuelle
• Hiro Kanagawa as Cyrus Xander
• Liam Sproule as Keon
• Feguins Toussaint as Bodyguard Sean
• Panou as Olaf
• Richard Harmon as Heracles/Tad
• Chris Shields as Louie
• Jesse Haddock & Johnston Gray as Darius
• Rif Hutton as Rhetoric Host #1
• Paul Pape as Rhetoric Host #2
• Steve Elliot as Doctor
• Sean Campbell as Construction Worker
• Hannah as Caesar the Dog
• Jim Thomson Voice of Serge (uncredited)