Unvanquished

"Unvanquished" An episode of the Caprica Series
Episode No.	Season 1, Episode 10
Writer(s)	Ryan Mottesheard
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Director	Eric Stoltz
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US airdate	October 5, 2010
CAN airdate	October 5, 2010
UK airdate	2011
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Additional Info	Season 1.5 / Mid-Season Opener
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Overview

Three weeks after a series of devastating events, different paths are followed: Daniel Graystone seeks an alliance with the Ha'la'tha in order to retake his company, Sister Clarice Willow arrives on Gemenon to ask for supreme leadership of the Soldiers of the One, and Lacy Rand and Zoe continue their new lives.

Summary

Teaser

• Amanda Graystone is presumed dead and Daniel Graystone is in rough shape, having lost control of Graystone Industries to Tomas Vergis. Vergis has secured the contract with the Caprican Ministry of Defense, and Graystone Industries is producing new Cylon battlebots.
• A teenage girl is dropped off by her mother at the stadium in Caprica City to see a Pyramid match between the Caprica Buccaneers and the Gemenon Twins. Her farewell to her mother in the car is unusually emotional. At the stadium, she shares a signal with a number of other attendees. After she sits down, she pulls out a detonator from her backpack and places it under her seat. Others do likewise. Clarice Willow is present. The stadium explodes.
• Willow takes off her holoband. The scenario was a simulation illustrating her proposal to the leaders of the monotheist church on Gemenon. One of them, Obal Ferras points out that a massive terror attack won't draw unbelievers to their fold. Willow continues her proposal. The assembled put their holobands back on and see a simulation of the "chosen" from the bombing being reborn in a V-world paradise. Willow explains that this is what will happen if the monotheist church uses the holographic avatar-producing program (created by Zoe Graystone) to offer its members an eternal life. This is what she calls apotheosis.
• Ferras is disapproving of Willow's idea, although he agrees to ask the Blessed Mother to meet with her; Willow pointing out that she has earned the right after the terrible things she has done for the church.

Act 1

• Daniel Graystone meets with the Guatrau of the Ha'la'tha with Joseph and Sam Adama in attendance. Graystone proposes that the Ha'la'tha help him take control of Graystone Industries back from Vergis in exchange for access to the avatar-producing program to bring dead people "back to life" in the V-world. He mentions the recent death of the Guatrau's son.
• The Guatrau has Sam, Graystone, and his own guards leave the room so that he can talk to Joseph privately. Joseph advises him not to accept the deal, citing his own experience with Tamara. Although the Guatrau respects Joseph's honesty, he decides to go ahead and that Joseph will represent his interests. This marks Joseph becoming a true Ha'la'tha instead of just an associate.
• Graystone asks Sam and Joseph for the Guatrau's answer, and they tell him that the Ha'la'tha will find him.

Act 4

• Xander decides not to scrap the U-87 prototype, telling the workers that Graystone may be back for it one day. The robot is boxed instead.
• Zoe-A walks through New Cap City with a dark hooded cloak on. She uncloaks as she is stopped by a group of men who identify her as a "deadwalker" and attack her. Zoe "kills" all but one of them using a katana (ejecting them from the game) and appears to be at the mercy of the remaining assailant until she causes him to freeze. Zoe identifies the mark on his forehead as belonging to the other deadwalker (Tamara-A), but the man does not know where she is. Zoe unfreezes and then "kills" him.
• Amanda Graystone receives Daniel's message from earlier. She is alive, and on a bed in a cabin. Amanda begins to dictate a response, but then Sister Willow arrives and joins her on the bed, proclaiming that it is good to be home.

Notes

• Zoe's deactivated U-87 prototype becomes the first Cylon to be "boxed." In this case, the term is twice used to describe the literal crating of the physical machine for storage and possible future repair. Decades later, humanoid Cylons will use the term to indicate the electronic detention of the personalities/soul(s) of individuals or of entire lines, without bodies. Similarly, Zoe and Tamara exist only in V-world at this point, without corporeal bodies.

Analysis

• Zoe-A demonstrates the ability to manipulate the V-world with her mind, making a human assailant freeze, much like Tamara-A demonstrated in CAP: There Is Another Sky by getting rid of programs that were in the form of guards.
• The public at large believes that Amanda Graystone is dead, but she is secretly living with Clarice Willow. Her husband knows that she is alive but allows others to think she is dead, even lying to the Ha'la'tha about it.
• The unseen and previously unmentioned mother of Daniel Graystone and paternal grandmother of Zoe Graystone is still alive.
• The term "Soldiers of the One" refers only to the militant arm of the monotheist church, and not to the church itself. The clergy like to keep themselves separate from the STO even as they find them useful. Although Clarice Willow's cover is as an Athenian nun, in monotheist circles she is considered STO and not clergy.
• Other dangerous religious factions on Gemenon mentioned by Willow are the "polytheist rebels" and the "Hephaistons". The latter are presumably devotees of Hephaistos.

Questions

• How was Sister Clarice able to secretly take Amanda away from the Pantheon Bridge, the site of Amanda's suicide attempt and her own car bombing?
• Does Greeley believe that Clarice is dead?
• How did Zoe-A arrive in the V-world after the damage to her robot body?
• Did Zoe arrive in New Cap City to start with, or did she go there intentionally after finding herself in the V-world?
• Did Zoe go to New Cap City to find Tamara-A, or did she learn Tamara was there after arriving?
• What does Zoe intend to do if she finds Tamara?
• How close are Amanda and Clarice now?
• How will the public react if Amanda turns up alive?
• How has Daniel's mother been affected by the recent controversies surrounding her family?

Guest Stars

• Meg Tilly as Mother
• Patton Oswalt as Baxter Sarno
• John Pyper-Ferguson as Tomas Vergis
• James Marsters as Barnabas Greeley
• Jorge Montesi as The Guatrau
• Winston Rekert as Obal Ferras
• Ryan Robbins as Diego
• Hiro Kanagawa as Cyrus Xander
• Feguins Toussaint as Bodyguard Sean
• Liam Sproule as Keon
• Jim Thomson as Voice of Serge
• Zak Santiago as Pann
• Aidan Dee as Hippolyta
• Kacey Rohl as Ada
• Linnea Sharples as Ada's Mother
• Greg Rogers as Businessman
• Doreen Ramus as Eldery Woman
• Chris Robson as Father of Family
• Luke Camilleri as Brewer