Daniel Graystone
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Children | Zoe Graystone | |
Marital Status | Married to Amanda | |
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Role | Computer engineer, creator of the first Colonial Cylon | |
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Portrayed by | Eric Stoltz[1] | |
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Daniel Graystone is a brilliant and wealthy Caprican computer engineer who creates the Colonial Cylons.
Daniel is married to Amanda and is the father of Zoe, who is killed in a suicide bombing of a subway train. After learning that his daughter uploaded her personality, memories and DNA into an online holographic avatar before her death, he becomes obsessed with recreating his daughter in the real world using the avatar. Daniel enlist the help of another grieving father, Joseph Adams (later Adama) to obtain a technology that would be better able to handle the Zoe Avatar consciousness. He does this in exchange for recreating Adams's dead daughter Tamara using the same method Zoe used to recreate herself online. Tamara, along with her mother, had died in the same terrorist explosion that claimed Graystone's daughter. Initially resistant, Adams succumbs to his own need to see his daughter and obtains the technology, an advanced Central Processing Unit chip, from Graystone's business competitor despite the competitor's adamant refusal to sell the chip. Adams, a corrupt a civil rights lawyer, uses his underworld contacts and gains possession of the chip (possibly sanctioning murder) and gives it to Daniel. Daniel fulfills his promise to Adams to "reunite" him with his own daughter. However, the meeting in Virtual Reality between Adams and "Tamara" doesn't go well with "Tamara" in a state of near shock and is frantic. She becomes even more so when she can't feel her own heart beat.
Appalled by his own daughter's and his own horror, Adams renounces Daniel's efforts and leaves. Undaunted, Daniel tries to recreate Zoe as a robot, using one of his pre-existing prototype Cyber Combat Units he is trying to win a military contract with Caprica's government with as a platform. This is what the technology was for, to install a newer more advance chip design that was superior to what Graystone's own company was making. However, there is a mishap with the download, seemingly failing after the avatar program is corrupted during download into the robot's CPU. The data is apparently unrecoverable.. Desperate, Graystone goes into and searches for Zoe-A in Virtual Reality, but to his renewed grief she is gone, the effort to have his daughter back in someway, a total failure.
Daniel then moves on to finish creation of the soldier robots to win the Caprican military contract using the stolen technology that improved his product immensely. After a spectacular winning demonstration of a prototype, He changes the name of the robot model from Cyber Combat Unit to Cybernetic Life Node: Cylon. He seems to have comes to terms with his daughter permanent death and puts aside his attempt of quasi resurrection of her. However, unknown to him (as of the Pilot episode), Daniel actually succeeds when Zoe-R, its data recovered somehow in its memory and CPU "awakens" in a laboratory. Daniel Graystone has thus created the first Cylon with a human consciousness. (Caprica pilot)
References
- ↑ "Stoltz Joins Caprica Cast", SciFi Wire, 12 May 2008. Retrieved on 14 May 2008.