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: '''Amanda''': We're not company spokespeople, we're parents!
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: '''Daniel''': Parents? Actually, no, we're not.
: '''Daniel''': Parents? Actually, no, we're not.
* ''[[Ruth]] imparts unique advice to young [[William Adama]]:''
: '''Ruth:''' You think you only get things from friends? You get the best things from ''enemies'', because they're ''scared'' of you.


== Guest Stars ==
== Guest Stars ==

Revision as of 20:31, 26 February 2010

Gravedancing
"Gravedancing"
An episode of the Caprica Series
Episode No. Season 1, Episode 4
Writer(s) Jane Espenson
Story by Michael Angeli
Jane Espenson
Director Michael Watkins
Assistant Director
Special guest(s)
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Nielsen Rating
US airdate USA February 19, 2010
CAN airdate CAN
UK airdate UK
DVD release
Population {{{population}}} survivors
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Overview[edit]

Daniel readies himself for his appearance on Backtalk with Baxter Sarno. The GDD carry out searches on the Athena Academy and the Graystone home. Sam waits patiently for his moment to kill Amanda, but Joseph is slowly overcome with regret for calling in the hit on her.


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Summary[edit]

Teaser[edit]

  • Somewhere in Caprica City, a closed and empty Holo Cafe is bombed. Three hours later, Director Gara Singh and Agent Jordan Durham discuss the bombing, believing it to be either copycats or Soldiers of the One. During the conversation, Durham preens himself on obtaining a warrant from the Inter-Colonial Court on Libran, whereby they are not only permitted to search the Graystone Estate, but also the lockers that Zoe Graystone may have used at the Athena Academy. Singh gives his blessing on making the school search a media spectacle, but stresses that Durham should make the search "tasteful."
  • At the Willow home, Desiree, Nestor, Olaf and Clarice Willow awaken in the morning. As Nestor and Clarice start to be intimate, Clarice receives a call on her cellphone. She abruptly leaves the bedroom, leaving the rest of her partners to wonder what just happened.
  • Out on the steps of a building, Clarice Willow "accidentally" bumps into another man, taking out an e-sheet from the man's pocket. On it she types in "GDD RAID COMING," sends the message, and disposes of the e-sheet in a trash can.
  • Keon Gatwick receives Willow's message at Athena Academy and removes his detonators and explosives, throwing them into his bag. Just as he finishes, Agent Durham and various GDD agents are followed by reporters and Sister Willow. Durham announces that they are executing a search, and GDD agents begin cutting off locks and force students to empty their packs.
  • During the raid, Lacy Rand approaches Gatwick and asks him to follow her shortly after she leaves, so that they may talk. Instead, he chooses to walk away, leaving her behind.
  • At the Graystone Estate, Daniel Graystone reviews the list of talking points for the Backtalk with Baxter Sarno show. Daniel discusses how best to divorce his late daughter from the holoband technology with Priyah Magnus and Cyrus Xander, but is not pleased with calling his daughter troubled. Amanda Graystone briskly walks by, leading Daniel to note of her displeasure with his appearance on Sarno's show; Xander asks if she'll make another scene that'll contradict Daniel's statement, leading Daniel to assure him that this will not be the case.
  • When talking to Magnus, he very directly notes that the holoband wasn't the problem, thus earning her praise. They continue the pow-wow.
  • Outside across the river from the house, Sam Adama watches via bincoulars the ongoings inside the Graystone Estate from inside his car. He receives a phone call from Joseph Adama, who asks why Amanda was not killed yet. He tells his brother about Graystone's visitors and asks how much of a bloodbath Joseph would desire. Joseph quickly backtracks, realizing that he doesn't want one; Sam asks Joseph if he still wants Amanda killed. Joseph assures him that this is still his desire; Sam tells his brother to have patience and ends the conversation.

Act 1[edit]

Act 2[edit]

Act 3[edit]

Act 4[edit]

Notes[edit]

Analysis[edit]

  • The public's deep suspicion of the Holoband as discussed on Backtalk With Baxter Sarno is mirrored in real life Earth over worries of the Holoband's presumed predecessor in the Colonies, the Internet. Much of the same issues of parental control, the youth losing its way on it due to, as the adult public sees it, nefarious forces are much the same as the public worries of the net on Earth in First World Nations, particularly with social networking sites. This phenomena is called a Moral Panic when a new powerful trend that generates anxiety in a population, mostly among the middle age adult and older as they worry as to the effect on the new cultural touchstone on children, teenagers and young adults; in particular adolescents. Past Moral Panics have included video games in the 1980's through the early 21st century, Hip Hop Music, in particular Gangsta Rap in the 1990's, Skateboarding in the 1970's, Rock 'n Roll music in the 1950's and 1960's, Comic books in the 1950's. Such panics sometimes involved congressional investigations such as The United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency in early 1954 to investigate the Comic Book industry over what it saw as very violent content of detective and horror comic books. This lead to the voluntary adoption of the industry created Comics Code Authority to police itself. Then the Congressional investigations of content in video games deemed to have a violent content in 1993. As with the Comic Book industry in the 1950's such concerns led the video game industry to adopt voluntary ratings rankings of video games such as the ESRB rating system in the United States and Canada, as well as the PEGI rating system in Europe to placate public and governmental concerns and to head off actual governmental regulation (congressional attempts failed due to First Amendment issues). Daniel Graystone at the spur of the moment pledged to take the profit motive out of using the holoband in response to public suspicion that it was somehow the holoband, which seems overwhelmingly "populated" by teenagers that caused Graystone's "troubled" daughter to blow up the commuter train. Graystone pointed out that it was because her daughter saw lack of moral direction on the Holoband that lead her to join the STO, not that it caused her to lack moral direction.

Questions[edit]

Official Statements[edit]

Noteworthy Dialogue[edit]

Amanda Graystone: Look, can't you go out there and say that this is a very sad time for our family, and that we need time to process?
Daniel Graystone: It just doesn't play. The car should be here by now. Serge?
Amanda: "Just doesn't play?!" Doesn't play? Did you actually hear what you just said? It won't play?
Daniel: I don't have time for this—
Amanda: You sound like Cyrus. "It just won't play," Daniel?
Daniel: I'm about to go on international television.
Amanda: We're not company spokespeople, we're parents!
Daniel: Parents? Actually, no, we're not.
Ruth: You think you only get things from friends? You get the best things from enemies, because they're scared of you.

Guest Stars[edit]

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