We start off nicely in the sci-fi world of New Cap City, two Deathwalkers squaring off. (More of this, the Cricket chirps!) Not too surprisingly, Tamara Adama is a little resentful of the fact that Zoe Graystone killed her in the real world. “Remember the Maglev bombing?” “Oh, that.” “Yes, that!” (Alas, the dialog leaves something to be desired.) Quite a few other people are none too pleased they lost their friends or family on that train either. Zoe may not be able to die in v-world, but she sure can feel pain when they punch and kick, and shoot and stab her. Through flashbacks we learn that Zoe was responsible for creating the avatar program that is behind the holoband virtual reality. There was also some gibberish about virtual doppelgangers that doesn’t hold much water. At any rate, nothing brings girl closer than a good cat fight. So, in the end Tamara agrees to help Zoe find her higher purpose.
For her part, Sister Clarice Willow is holding Lacey hostage, not in her remote log cabin, but in the attic of her monotheist polygamous community home – and drugging her water. After letting her suffer for a bit, just enough to make her desperate, Clarice gets enough information to let the girl go – well she sends her away to the terrorist training camp on Gemenon. Meanwhile Amanda is ransacking the cabin for STO clues, but to no avail. In all their double-dealing, they manage to convince each other that it would be a good idea for Amanda to live with Clarice and her various husbands and wives.
Enough board members have been blackmailed into reinstating Daniel Graystone as executive officer of his own company. Quite naturally, Joseph Adama informs him that they now need to take care of Tomas Vergis. Daniel offers Tom a pact. As two powerful businessmen they can combine resources and drive Guatrau’s Ha’latha to the ground – and return them to the soil whence they came. But his Tauran stubbornness disallows him a good deal when he gets one. His enemy overcame him, and now he must die. He plunges the blade in his chest like Cato at Utica.
For her part, Sister Clarice Willow is holding Lacey hostage, not in her remote log cabin, but in the attic of her monotheist polygamous community home – and drugging her water. After letting her suffer for a bit, just enough to make her desperate, Clarice gets enough information to let the girl go – well she sends her away to the terrorist training camp on Gemenon. Meanwhile Amanda is ransacking the cabin for STO clues, but to no avail. In all their double-dealing, they manage to convince each other that it would be a good idea for Amanda to live with Clarice and her various husbands and wives.
Enough board members have been blackmailed into reinstating Daniel Graystone as executive officer of his own company. Quite naturally, Joseph Adama informs him that they now need to take care of Tomas Vergis. Daniel offers Tom a pact. As two powerful businessmen they can combine resources and drive Guatrau’s Ha’latha to the ground – and return them to the soil whence they came. But his Tauran stubbornness disallows him a good deal when he gets one. His enemy overcame him, and now he must die. He plunges the blade in his chest like Cato at Utica.
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