Blowback

"Blowback" An episode of the Caprica Series
Episode No.	Season 1, Episode 14
Writer(s)	Kevin Murphy
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Director	Omar Madha
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Production No.	114
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US airdate	4 January 2011
CAN airdate	November 2, 2010
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Overview

Lacy Rand's training as a soldier in the STO takes an unexpectedly violent turn. Jordan Duram is pushed to reveal the identity of his confidential informant. The Guatrau becomes a danger to Daniel Graystone—and puts serious doubts into the minds of Sam and Joseph Adama.

Summary

Teaser

• In the spaceport of a major city on Gemenon, Lacy Rand looks around uncertainly, and then approaches a young man to ask for directions. The two begin a conversation and lie to one another about their reasons for being on the planet, until Diego approaches them, calls Rand and Odin Sinclair by name, and leads them to a jump ship waiting to fly them and other young Soldiers of the One recruits to the retreat of the Monotheist Church.
• Sitting among other recruits, the two continue to talk as the jump ship reaches cruise altitude. Rand confesses the doubts she harbors about her monotheist faith, and Sinclair tells her that his parents had him abducted, drugged, and transported to Gemenon for training. Diego steps forward and publicly introduces himself, welcomes them all, and promises that those who survive the ordeal of training will become "warriors of the one true God." At that moment, a much larger vessel positions itself above them, fires clamps onto the jump ship, and forcibly reels them in. The recruits scream in fear, and Diego arms himself for battle.

Notes

• "Blowback" is a term used for violent, unintended consequences of a covert operation.
• Because the last five episodes of the season were rescheduled by Syfy, this was the first episode to air in Canada before the United States.
• After the cancellation of the Caprica series was announced, the original SyFy timeslot of 10:00 PM EDT Tuesday was filled by the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "A Matter of Time."

Analysis

• When Lacy first meets Odin at the spaceport, she asks, "Do you speak Caprican?" to which Odin replies, "Everyone speaks Caprican", indicating that the power and influence of Caprica have led to its native language being spoken as at least a second language throughout the other colonies. This accords with the fact that every character in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica speaks Caprican, 58 years after these events. The quasi-canon map of the Twelve Colonies lists official languages only for Caprica, Gemenon, Leonis and Tauron, which could mean that Caprican has displaced other languages on the other colonies, or that the production team didn't create a name for each one.
• The "hijackers" speak Old Gemenese, which is similar to Romanian, as established in the re-imagined series movie "Razor". The quasi-canon map of the Twelve Colonies states that Old Gemenese is the official language of Gemenon (obviously, in this case, the word "old" does not mean that it has fallen out of use).

Guest Stars

• Peter Wingfield as Gara Singh
• Jorge Montesi as The Guatrau
• Ryan Robbins as Diego
• Ryan Kennedy as Odin Sinclair
• Chris Heyerdahl as Kevin Reikle
• Anita Torrance as Mar-Beth Willow
• Panou as Olaf Willow
• Jim Thomson as Voice of Serge
• Eva Allan as Devanna
• Tom McBeath as Agent Alpert
• Calum Worthy as Cass
• James Kirk as Sagittaron Recruit
• Luc Roderique as Dex
• Matthew Smalley as Cadet Recruit #1