Reins of a Waterfall
Caprica Episode Review
In which Clarice gets yanked around by a sixteen year old and Adama discovers that having a killer in the family can be convenient.
What Happened
Clarice tries to get Lacy to open up about Zoe's avatar, but Lacy is suspicious of Clarice and refuses to spill. Later, she and Zoe-A meet in cyberspace and try to figure out how to get Zoe-A and her giant killer robot body to Gemanon. While they do that, the pair stumbles over Tamara's avatar and let her out of Daniel's big black box.
Amanda's very public confession of Zoe's guilt has sent Greystone's stock plummeting. He is harassed to go on a talk show and plead for forgiveness, but resists dragging what is left of Zoe's memory through the mud.
Joseph insists that Daniel show him Tamara's avatar again, but when they go into cyberspace, she is gone. Returning home, Joseph talk to his brother Sam, pointing out that Adama lost a wife and daughter in the blast, but Greystone only lost a daughter.
Even the score, he demands.
The Good
Lacy can so tell Clarice is up to no good. I loved her routine of "Can I have...?" as Clarice is desperately trying to bond and gush and share. Lacy is going to turn out to be an interesting character, I think.
And it's always nice to see Peter Wingfield, who was Methos on Highlander, even if he is playing a standard issue Police boss. (I have this theory about actors on Highlander being automatically cool, but I'm pretty sure that's just me.)
The Bad
As much as I do like Lacy, she doesn't really think that she's going to steal a giant killer robot and mail it to another planet? Right?
The Cliche
Ugh. TV Show Host and PR Flack. They had better come up with something more interesting for Daniel's little on-air visit than him breaking down on live television and winning everyone's hearts with how "real" he is.
What Did I Think?
Joseph targeting Amanda is an interesting twist. He doesn't do things by half measures, does he? What I find unique about his character is that they aren't going for the lone voice of goodness in a family of criminals routine with him. Adama is outwardly respectable, but he just as deep as his brother when you get down to it. What he really complains about isn't the immorality of their life - it's that he's not respected enough by their criminal overlords. Guys like that Judge have no qualms about putting him in his poor little peon place and that really burns.
We'll have to see if he's willing to really take out Amanda, or if he's going to get a sudden case of the morals, fuss about for most of the episode, then change his mind at the last second and let her go with a lecture about how that makes him a better person. Either way, I hope it comes down to a real decision, not some convenient plot shrug simply because it's the end of the episode.