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.
• Ada 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 Atlas Arena, 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.
• Clarice 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 would not draw unbelievers to their fold. Clarice 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. Clarice 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 Clarice's idea, although he agrees to ask the Blessed Mother to meet with her; Clarice pointing out that she has earned the right after the terrible things she has done for the church.

Act 1

• Daniel 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, Daniel, 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.
• Daniel asks Sam and Joseph for the Guatrau's answer, but they tell him only that the Ha'la'tha will find him.

Act 4

• Xander decides not to scrap the U-87 prototype, telling the workers that Daniel 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.
• The appearance and behaviour (not the dialogue) of the bowler hat & suspenders-wearing thugs who attempt to assail Zoe seem to be inspired by Alex and his "droogs" in A Clockwork Orange.

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 "There Is Another Sky" by getting rid of programs that were in the form of guards.
• Before Zoe-A dispatches the last of the assailants, the hum of a Cylon scanning eye can be heard. This may suggest that aspects of the original pre-MCP combat programming transferred into Zoe-A when the prototype U-87 was destroyed and Zoe was uploaded into V-world. It may also explain Zoe's previously unseen prowess in battle.
• Daniel tells the Ha'la'tha that he has "lost" Amanda. This is misleading phrasing that makes it seem to the audience as though she is dead or he is allowing others to believe that she is dead. However, the next episode shows that the fact of her survival is not secret from the public.
• 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.
• STO training camps, such as the one Clarice was trained in, were first mentioned in The Caprican.
• Other religious factions on Gemenon mentioned by Diego are the "polytheist rebels" and the "Hephaistons." The latter are presumably devotees of Hephaistos.
• Lacy continues to work with Barnabas Greeley, even though her reason for serving him - delivering the first U-87 to Gemenon - is gone. Presumably she is motivated by the justified fear that he would kill her for leaving the STO.

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? (Answer: It wasn't a secret.)
• Does Greeley believe that Clarice is dead? (Answer)
• Why did the Mother ask Ferras to leave her a holoband after meeting with him?
• How did Zoe-A arrive in the V-world after the damage to her robot body?
• Do boxed humanoid Cylons (such as the Number Threes and individuals), end up in a V-world as well?
• 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? (Answer)
• How close are Amanda and Clarice now?
• How has Daniel's mother been affected by the recent controversies surrounding her family?
• How do the droogs recognize Zoe as being a dead walker? Has Tamara become aware that she is not the only dead walker? (Answer)

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