Caprica 1x05

On Caprica, things are finally starting to get interesting. Tamara, the daughter of big-time lawyer Joseph Adama, died on the monorail bombing. Yet her “avatar” is trapped in the anarchic V-world, the virtual reality created by Daniel Graystone’s company as a form of teenage recreation. She has been wandering around hoping to find her way out and now approaches this woman Vesta for help, only to get shot in the stomach. (Normal V-gamers check out, take off their “holoband.”) But Tamara’s wound stops bleeding and heels. So, the Vestal priestess uses her to settle a score, break a heist, to empty the bank account of some fat man called Chiron. (Perhaps some people enjoy all these references to Greek and Roman Myths and Religion. It annoys the heck out of me!)

Meanwhile Joseph Adama realizes he’s losing touch with his son Willie, who is drifting towards the world of organized crime in which Sam Adama is an enforcer. Sam helps Joseph understand that what Willie needs is closure, that is, the traditional Tauron funerary rites to mark the death of his mother and sister. On his part Daniel Graystone has to face the consequences of his promise on Colonial TV to make the holoband technology available for free – or lose his own company through a vote of no confidence by the board. So, he barges in with his Cylon prototype – the one with the “avatar” of his daughter Zoe somehow uploaded into it (except he doesn’t know that).