Caprica 1x14

So, Syfy pulled the series off the air midway through the second half of the season last year, citing poor ratings – not too surprisingly, considering the tedious plot twists and lackluster performances. Now the final five episodes have been transmitted in one big burn-off marathon even though the whole show is already available on DVD. Here’s to commercial television at its worst! When we pick up the story, Sister Clarice sends Lacey Rand to Geminon to train with the Soldiers of the One together with a group of other students. However, things go awry when their space ship is overtaken by polytheistic zealot mercenaries. Their leader’s ramblings are difficult to follow, so his demands aren’t too clear, nor who he is negotiating with. What is clear is that they will kill the students one by one, unless his demands are met or they denounce their monotheism. The STO recruits try to calm each other and devise a plan. Lacey finally grabs a bar and wields it at the mercenaries’ leader. A fight ensues, until the STO leader steps in and explains it all has been their initial placement exercise to find out how they would function under stress, who would crumble and who would rise to the occasion. At the STO compound on Geminon Lacey is showered with praise for her courage. But there’s one doubting Thomas, aptly called Odin, who shows her an execution far off of several weaker recruits – by a Cylon no less.

Meanwhile, Amanda Graystone is still snitching at the Willows residence for Agent Jordan Duram of the Global Defense Department. Unbeknownst to them Clarice has a sympathizer on the inside, in the person of Duram’s superior Garra. For her part, before she left, Lacey told Clarice about a gold STO pin that may contain a backup of Zoe’s “Avatar” program. Clarice has Garra retrieve it from the Graystone evidence file and arrange a drop off. The missing evidence, however, tips Jordan off that there’s a leak in the force’s top brass. As a trap, he tells his superior that he has a confidential informant at the Willows, one of Clarice’s wives Marbeth. When Marbeth is murdered by Clarice, Jordan knows never to trust his superior again, but he is able to requisition a bugging device that Amanda can plant at the Willows. When Daniel Graystone confronts the Adama brothers that the Ha’latha is smuggling Cylons from his company, Joseph admits that the Guattrau is selling them for profit to the STO on Geminon. Sam is outraged that the Tauron syndicate isn’t sending Cylons to the resistance movement on their home Colony, while Daniel loathes the fact he might be charged for treason if the government finds out his exclusively-contracted military robots are sent to support a terrorist organization. The Guattrau gives Daniel no more than two weeks to finish his “Resurrection” program, but insinuates to the Adamas that whether Graysstone delivers or not, he must die. Of course, Daniel isn’t anywhere near completing the software – and the problem is that Clarice has just gotten her hands on it. Honestly, this episode wasn’t too bad – even if you have to suffer through some of the futuristic mumbo-jumbo.