Here Be Dragons

"Here Be Dragons" An episode of the Caprica Series
Episode No.	Season 1, Episode 17
Writer(s)	Michael Taylor
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Director	Michael Nankin
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Production No.	117
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US airdate	January 4, 2011
CAN airdate	November 23, 2010
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Overview

The Graystones search for Zoe in V-World, while a vengeful Clarice closes in on them in the real world. The Ha'la'tha turns on the Adama brothers.

Summary

Notes

• "Here be dragons" is a phrase used to denote unexplored or dangerous territories derived from the medieval practice of putting sea serpents and other mythological creatures in blank areas of maps. The most literal correspondence between the title and the episode content would be the inhospitable forest created by Zoe Graystone and Tamara Adama (unexplored) and the dragon conjured there by Zoe (dangerous) to attack Amanda in the teaser.

Analysis

• The episode contains two indications that Evelyn is the future mother of Admiral William Adama. First, she enjoys model shipmaking, as her son is seen doing in several episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Second, she mentions a brother on Tauron who uses hunting dogs to drive foxes into the water; this is the uncle that William mentions in "Sometimes a Great Notion".
• Zoe-A's brief return to the body of the U-87 prototype is the first Cylon resurrection to occur in the Twelve Colonies. Like the humanoid Cylons decades later, massive damage to her physical body caused her consciousness to upload completely to a larger computer network; for Zoe, this was V-World, rather than a Resurrection Ship or the Resurrection Hub. She is capable of downloading only to a body specifically designed for her, but unlike the humanoid Cylons who would have many genetically equivalent biological bodies available at any time, Zoe is obliged to wait until the unique U-87 prototype body was sufficiently repaired to hold her once again. However, Zoe is able to download into that body at will, whereas downloading for humanoid Cylons would be more akin to a reflex response out of the individual's control.

Questions

• Will Zoe-A continue to associate with Tamara-A in New Cap City, or anywhere else in V-World?
• Why were sailing ships (such as those discussed by Evelyn and Willie) built and used after space travel had been developed to migrate from Kobol to Caprica?
  • Spaceships were probably less efficient and more expensive means of transportation between two points on the same planet. For similar reasons, ocean vessels are used far more often than aircraft for international trade on modern-day Earth.

Guest Stars

• Scott Porter as Nestor Willow
• Jorge Montesi as The Guatrau
• Ryan Robbins as Diego
• Ryan Kennedy as Odin Sinclair
• Chris Heyerdahl as Kevin Reikle
• Carmen Moore as Fidelia Fazekas
• Sina Najafi as William Adama
• Karen Elizabeth Austin as Ruth
• Panou as Olaf
• Teryl Rothery as Evelyn
• Jim Thomson as Voice of Serge
• Christian Tessier as Francis
• Eva Allan as Devanna
• Luc Roderique as Lexon
• Lloyd Adams as Tommy
• Gerald Paetz as Armed Goon #2