Zoe-A

Zoe-A
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Introduced	Caprica pilot
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Marital Status	Dating Philomon
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Role	First Cylon consciousness in the Twelve Colonies.
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Portrayed by	Alessandra Toressani
Zoe-A is a Cylon
Zoe-A is a Final Five Cylon
Zoe-A is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Zoe-A is an Original Series Cylon
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		@ BW Media
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Zoe-A is a holographic avatar created by Zoe Graystone within the virtual world as a digital recreation of her own consciousness as part of what she believed was a divinely-inspired plan to end the corruption rampant in the Twelve Colonies. Zoe-A is a physically (so to speak) separate entity from the original Zoe, but the two have practically identical thoughts and feelings.

Lacy Rand visits the virtual temple after the bombing to find that the virtual Zoe still exists despite her doppleganger's death. Due to the biofeedback subroutine, she also felt the real Zoe's death, though strangely she is also covered in blood. Daniel Graystone soon becomes aware of the existence of Zoe's avatar with Rand's help. At first, he rejects the avatar as a superficial copy of his daughter. However, she is able to convince him that she is a perfect recreation of her consciousness.

Graystone then tricks Zoe's avatar and downloads her onto a media storage device, planning to insert her into his company's U-87 Cyber Combat Unit to allow her to live in the real world. Though Zoe rejects this idea, Graystone ignores her protests and loads her into the robot. Though at first the experiment seems to have succeeded, with the robot taking several steps and calling Graystone "daddy", her data quickly becomes corrupted and seemingly irretrievable, and the robot collapses.

Soon afterwords, the robot containing Zoe's avatar is stored at Graystone's lab. Suddenly, the robot reactivates with Zoe's consciousness intact. She reaches a computer terminal and contacts Rand, asking for her help (CAP: Caprica pilot).

Zoe-R

Zoe finds herself bossed and pushed around in her robot body, as no one else at Graystone Industries is aware that she is present inside the machine and she chooses not to reveal herself to anyone but Lacy Rand. The only other person who treats her well is a young technician called Philomon. She is taken to the Graystone house for further study, because Daniel has noticed that the meta-cognitive processor is only working when inserted in one body (the body Zoe is inhabiting). In any other U-87 body, the processor fails to improve their cognitive abilities. She is initially unable to re-enter V-World because of her lack of an optic nerve (CAP: "Rebirth").

Managing to hack a way of accessing V-World, Zoe makes plans with Rand to have herself shipped to Gemenon so that she can fulfill her original purpose. The two of them encounter Tamara-A and help her escape from the Graystone mainframe into the larger V-World, unwittingly preventing her from meeting Joseph Adama later that day (CAP: "Reins of a Waterfall").

Having decided that Graystone Industries will make no more money off the holobands, Daniel takes the U-87 to a meeting of his board to convince them that the future lies in a new direction: the creation of an entire race of Cylons as intelligent but obedient laborers. Zoe-R is forced to tear her own arm off as part of the demonstration (CAP: "There Is Another Sky"). The arm is replaced (CAP: "Know Thy Enemy").

Having grown fond of Philomon and hoping she can use him to get herself out of the lab, Zoe seizes an opportunity to get closer to him without revealing herself after hearing him complain that he has had no luck finding a date online with a program called V-Match. Zoe creates a V-Match profile for herself under the name Rachel and makes a date with Philo in the V-World. Although Zoe-A disguises herself with virtual glasses, Philo notices her resemblance to the deceased Zoe Graystone. "Rachel" claims that she made her holographic avatar resemble Graystone to scare off the pervs, because Graystone has been one of the most hated figures in the twelve worlds since her mother announced that she may have bombed Maglev 27. Philo accepts this explanation and asserts that Graystone had principles (CAP: "Know Thy Enemy").

Zoe-A and Philomon have a V-date piloting simulated atmospheric Viper planes, but make an emergency landing on the virtual beach due to Zoe's poor piloting skills. By sharing her ideas about improving the V-World with generative algorithms, Zoe accidentally gives Philo the notion that Graystone Industries' problems with duplicating the success of the MCP stem from assuming it is digital when it may actually be analog (like a human system). This, combined with the family dog Caesar's familiarity with the robot, makes Daniel Graystone suspect that Zoe's consciousness was not lost and is still present in the U-87 (CAP: "The Imperfections of Memory").

Daniel attempts to make Zoe-R expose herself by telling her he will do whatever he can to help her. This fails because she distrusts him, and she continues pretending to be a mere robot. Frustrated, Daniel tries to draw Zoe out by giving her tiresome repetitive tasks while reminiscing about the destruction of their old home in a fire during the original Zoe Graystone's childhood. His nearly burning himself with a cigarette during his monologue provokes a small reaction from the robot, which he takes as confirmation of his suspicions. His subsequent attempt to expose her by surrounding the robot with fire in the yard, playing on Zoe's childhood fear of fire, is unsuccessful. Although she is greatly upset, Zoe-R continues to play dumb and does not leave the circle of fire.

Daniel gives one final test, ordering the U-87 to shoot Caesar the dog, which Zoe would never do. Zoe-R shoots Caesar, but does not kill him because the gun is filled with blanks. Believing his daughter cannot be in the robot after all, Daniel gives up. In V-World, Zoe-A tells Lacy Rand that she knew the gun was filled with blanks because her robot senses told her its weight was off, and confesses that if it had been loaded with real bullets, she might have turned it on her father. She urges Rand to get her to Gemenon before her growing anger with Daniel makes her do something she'll regret (CAP: "Ghosts in the Machine").

After enduring Daniel's torment, Zoe-R exhibits several glitches, which, along with a moved-up deadline for production, cause Daniel to order the erasure of the MCP so Graystone Industries can reverse-engineer it. Knowing that she is out of options, Zoe-R confesses to Philomon that she is the "Rachel" he's been dating. She asks him to help her escape, and he initially agrees, but instead triggers a security alarm. Enraged, Zoe-R backhands him into a support beam, killing him instantly. She then steals a van, and attempts to flee, only to be stopped at a roadblock by the Caprican military. Despondent at having killed Philomon, and beset by grief due to her interactions with her family and Lacy, Zoe-R attempts to run the roadblock, sending the van into a wild, end-over-end flip (CAP: "End of Line").