Caprica – “There is Another Sky”

The Adama household is in a chaotic state. Willie is skipping school with Joseph sitting or rather sleeping idly by. Sam comes to the Adama house and chastises Joseph for not going to work for weeks and for not bringing Willie to school. Later, Joseph receives a phone call and learns that Willie has been skipping school. While Sam has been tutoring Willie in the ways of being Tauron, Joseph has been ignoring his son’s needs. In a disastrous attempt at being a father, Joseph decides to take his son fishing. Willie and Joseph go to the spot where they used to go fishing with Tamara and Shannon, but Willie is taunted some teenagers for being Tauron. Willie’s patience is tested; he gives in and jumps on the kid, pummeling him. Joseph pulls him off but realizes something needs to be done. Joseph realizes Willie needs closure on his mother and Tamara’s deaths and decides to have a Tauron ceremony.  In the ceremony, they give coins to the priest (presumably for the ferryman, Charon, in Greco-Roman mythology) and Joseph gets a tattoo to honor their memories.

Meanwhile, Tamara is wandering around V-world trying to find her way home, not knowing that she died in the MAGLEV bombing. She discovers an underground world where users play a Russian Roulette-type game and de-res, if they die. Although she is shot, she does not de-res, making her valuable to the gang leader for playing the “game” in New Caprica City.  Heracles guides Tamara to New Cap City. Their goal is to steal the identity of the most powerful player in the game so they can get into his vault and steal his money. Tamara distracts the guards so that Heracles can download the code. Although the guards shoot her again, she does not de-res. Heracles and Tamara make it to bank, and Heracles alters his avatar to look like the other player. He sends the guards away so that they can open the vault, but after the vault has been open for a few seconds more guards are summoned. They attempt to shoot Heracles and Tamara, but Tamara defends him and gets shot twice. Then, she makes the guards disappear.

Tamara finds the leader of the gang and brings her the money, but the leader can’t hold up her end of the bargain and tells her there’s no way for her to get out of the game because she died in the MAGLEV attack. Confronted with this fact, Tamara grabs Heracles’ guns and shoots all the users in the room. Then she walks up to the leader and says, “I’m awake,” before killing her. Tamara sends Heracles to her house, to find her father, hoping that he will know what to do. Heracles finds Joseph, just as he’s finishing up the ceremony. He tells Joseph that he saw his daughter in V-world and she needs to be woken up, but Joseph tells him that she’s dead. Heracles is shocked by this information and flees with Joseph chasing after him. Joseph doesn’t catch him, but is now on a mission to find the boy who’s seen his daughter alive.

Daniel Graystone is close to losing his company. In a surprising move, he reveals his working Cylon model to the board of directors. Although this saves him from being removed as head of the company, his speech is filled with rhetoric that would make any Cylon cringe. He calls them, “a race that will walk beside us,” but then, “tireless workers who  won’t need to be paid and do work without question.” He describes them as slaves to the human race. Despite this, Zoe obeys him when he says to pull her arm off. It seems that Zoe does not see herself as part of the Cylon race, but rather as a girl trapped in a robot body. Whatever the case, this sets the tone for the eventual clash with the Cylons.

I give this episode 4/5 Cylon heads. It kept me entertained and on my toes. I’m interested to see what Tamara becomes let loose in New Caprica City. She’s now angry, on the rampage, and showing more of her Tauron side than ever. I was a bit surprised by the wording of Daniel’s speech. His attitude directly contrasts with that of the adorable lab tech who dances with Cylon Zoe. I’m glad that the existence of the Cylons has now been made public (although there is still only one) because I think the show will move rapidly now.