Tag: SyFy / Sci-Fi Channel

In a moment of revelation, Daniel Graystone begins addressing the Cylon as “Zoe,” but it offers no response until he starts a more aggressive probe of the machine’s central processor. In New Cap City, Joseph Adama is also continuing his quest to find the avatar of his own dead daughter, and has found a more capable guide – but also a more demanding one. Even with her greater expertise in playing the game, she has her hands full as Adama becomes more obsessed with finding Tamara… but Tamara has already begun to acquire quite a reputation in the virtual world. But both men find themselves dealing with the possibility that their daughters no longer want to be a part of their world.

written by Michael Taylor
directed by Wayne Rose
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: John Pyper-Ferguson (Tomas Vergis), Scott Porter (Nestor), Alex Arsenault (Philomon), Leah Gibson (Emmanuelle), Dmitry Chepovetsky (Cerberus), Phil Granger (Tanner), Jesse Haddock (Darius)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Facing a looming deadline to produce an army of 100,000 Cylon warrior robots for the government of Caprica, Daniel Graystone decides to cut his losses and focus on business, selling his pyramid team to rival Tomas Vergis. But pressure is increasing on Graystone to deliver that army on schedule – or ahead of it, as a high-ranking official from Caprica’s defense ministry tips her hand that it’s not a very well-kept secret that the processor at the heart of the one existing Cylon prototype was stolen from Vergis’ labs. The price for the ministry turning a blind eye to that fact will be delivery in a week instead of a month. Faced with this new deadline, Graystone decides to reformat and copy the Cylon chip, even if it erases the lase vestiges of Zoe. Zoe tries to get Lacy Rand to accelerate the timetable for getting her Cylon body off Caprica, but the price for securing that favor from Barnabas is a high one for Lacy: she’ll have to kill someone to get what she wants. Having evaded her destiny as the first in a new breed of soldiers for so long, Zoe now decides she’ll have to kill to survive. In the virtual world that is New Cap City, Tamara Adams realizes that she’ll have to appear to die to save her father, and death is starting to look like a pretty good option for escaping the hell that is Amanda Graystone’s life as well.

written by Michael Taylor
directed by Roxann Dawson
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Scott Porter (Nestor), John Pyper-Ferguson (Tomas Vergis), James Marsters (Barnabas Greeley), Alex Arsenault (Philomon), Leah Gibson (Emmanuelle), Jill Teed (Col. Sasha Patel), Hiro Kanagawa (Cyrus Xander), Genevieve Buechner (Tamara Adama)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Three weeks after the attempted suicide of his wife Amanda and Tomas Vergis’ takeover of his company, Daniel Graystone is adrift and alone. The Cylon body containing the consciousness of his daughter has been critically damaged in its attempt to escape from his lab, and what’s recovered no longer shows any signs of higher intelligence – it’s merely a fighting drone. Vergis seals his victory by putting the Cylon into mass production, delivering to the government the perfect robot soldier that Graystone could never complete.

Graystone turns to the Guatrau, the Tauron crime lord for whom Sam Adama works. He offers the Taurons a stake in a technology that could promise immortality, but is unwilling to wash his hands in the blood of others in order to demonstrate his loyalty. On Gemenon, Sister Clarice Willow is making precisely the same pitch, but to a larger and more powerful body: the church itself. By promising nothing less than the realization of resurrection and eternal life, she opens the door to more power than she even knows how to harness.

written by Ryan Mottesheard
directed by Eric Stoltz
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Meg Tilly (Blessed Mother), Patton Oswalt (Baxter Sarno), John Pyper-Ferguson (Tomas Vergis), James Marsters (Barnabas Greeley), Jorge Montesi (Guatrau), Winston Rekert (Obal Ferris), Hiro Kanagawa (Cyrus Xander), Feguins Toussaint (Sean)

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Amanda Greystone is recovering from her suicide attempt in seclusion, with only Sister Clarice Willow for company. In her absence, Daniel Greystone is – with the help of the brothers Adama – taking decisive, ruthless steps to regain control of Greystone Industries. But Amanda also notices Clarice’s frequent absences, unaware that Clarice is also out to regain control of the Soldiers of the One at any cost. Barnabus is enraged when Lacy Rand botches a terrorist bombing for the STO, and demands her unswerving loyalty even as the rest of his cell falls. None of them are above ruining the lives of others – or, if they deem it necessary, ending them – to achieve their goals.

written by Patrick Massett & John Zinman
directed by Jonas Pate
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Kendall Cross (Youngblood), Peter Wingfield (Director Gara Singh),
James Marsters (Barnabas Greeley), Andrew Airlie (Cornell), Hiro Kanagawa (Cyrus Xander)

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Zoe’s avatar carves a bloody path through the virtural world of New Cap City, searching for the girl who can’t die – the recreated consciousness of Joseph Adama’s daughter Tamara. What she isn’t expecting is the rage she encounters when she finally finds her: Tamara is fully aware that the real Zoe was responsible for the death of the real Tamara. Abducted after Clarice Willow’s assassination of Barnabus, Lacy Rand is locked up like an animal. Clarice doesn’t want Lacy’s loyalty, but rather a single piece of vital information, but even surrendering that won’t buy Lacy’s freedom. And after he stages what seems like a bloodless boardroom coup to regain control of Graystone Industries, Daniel Graystone tries to bury the hatchet with his ousted rival, Tomas Vergis. But Vergis’ Tauron code of honor leaves only one option – an option that will stain Graystone’s hands with his blood, whether he wants to kill or not.

written by Drew Z. Greenberg
directed by Tim Hunter
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Scott Porter (Nestor), John Pyper-Ferguson (Tomas Vergis), Hiro Kanagawa (Cyrus Xander), Genevieve Buechner (Tamara Adama), Anita Torrance (Mar-Beth), Panou (Olaf), Jim Thomson (voice of Serge), Thomas Saunders (Jon Parker), Jadyn Wong (Gamester), Luke Welland (Butcher Knife Player), Olivia Steele Falconer (young Zoe)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Daniel Graystone’s triumphant return to the boardroom of the company he founded hasn’t come without a price. Vergis is dead by his own hand, Joseph Adama and the Guatrau – the head of the Tauron mafia – now sit on the board, and Adama’s ambitious brother Sam sees the Cylons as the Guatrau’s future enforcers. Sam’s ambition, and his ascendancy in the Guatrau’s organization, have not gone unnoticed: he becomes the target of thugs who plan to oust the Guatrau from power. Graystone, overwhelmed by his own conscience and the stress of returning to work as if he was never gone, tries to seek absolution from his wife, but doesn’t quite have the nerve to ask the real Amanda for forgiveness.

written by Michael Taylor
directed by John Dahl
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Jorge Montesi (The Guatrau), Ben Cotton (Atreus), Sina Najafi (William Adama), Hiro Kanagawa (Cyrus Xander), Karen Elizabeth Austin (Ruth), Phil Granger (Tanner), Anita Torrance (Mar-Beth), Panou (Olaf), Teryl Rothery (Evelyn), Julius Chapple (Larry), Vincent Tong (Demos), Camille Atebe (Phoebe), Christopher Rogan (Military Father), Tanya Hubbard (Mother), Taya Clyne (Tessa), Evan Bird (Johnny), Phillip Mitchell (Natty Thug), Michael Nyius (Kick-Ass Thug)

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Lacy Rand is shipped off to train with the STO on Gemenon, but the STO recruits’ ship is snagged by a larger craft in the upper atmosphere and boarded by armed men who seem to be using the STO’s terroristic approach against the new recruits. One by one, hostages are chosen for execution, and nothing – from total capitulation to their captors to professions of faith in their monotheistic belief system – seems to appease the armed thugs. Lacy sees little choice but to fight back.

Daniel Graystone discovers that the Guatrau has been smuggling Cylons off-world – a clear violation of Graystone’s contract to develop them as robotic soldiers for the government of Caprica – to the highest bidder. Sam Adama is incensed when he learns that the highest bidder in question is the STO, and Graystone summons the Guatrau to a meeting on Caprica in an effort to stall for time, offering a discovery big enough to stop the Cylon shipments: resurrection from death itself.

written by Kevin Murphy
directed by Omar Madha
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Peter Wingfield (Director Gara Singh), Jorge Montesi (The Guatrau), Ryan Robbins (Diego), Ryan Kennedy (Odin Sinclair), Chris Heyerdahl (Kevin Reikle), Anita Torrance (Mar-Beth), Panou (Olaf), Jim Thomson (voice of Serge), Eva Allan (Devanna), Tom McBeath (Agent Alpert), Calum Worthy (Cass), James Kirk (Sagitarron Recruit), Luc Roderique (Dex), Matthew Smalley (Cadet Recruit #1)

Notes: The airdate of this episode reflects its original premiere date in Canada. Blowback was the next episode slated to air when Syfy abruptly cancelled Caprica and pulled the show from the U.S. schedule; the final five (appropriately enough for a Galactica spinoff) episodes didn’t air in the U.S. until early 2011, when they were aired together as a “marathon” the marked the series’ exit from Syfy’s lineup.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

A young Sam Adama watches with envy as his older brother Joseph undergoes the first rite of Tauron manhood. The boys witness a brutal crime and, determined to prove his worthiness to their father, Sam slips into the scene of the crime and comes back with a gun. When the boys’ parents are questioned about the crime, and the gun is unexpectedly found under Sam’s bed, the Adama family is immediately suspected. Sam’s quest to prove he is a man has tragic consequences for both brothers.

Thirty years later, Joseph finds himself growing disgusted with the Guatrau’s business deal to secretly ship Cylons to the STO radicals, while Sam is disgusted that the Guartrau can’t see the value of deploying Cylons to help in the Tauron battle for independence. Joseph takes the risky move of dropping some thinly veiled suggestions to Daniel Graystone, and the Adama brothers once again form a pact: they’re joining forces to go up against the Tauron crime boss.

Meanwhile, in the virtual world of New Cap City, Zoe Graystone and Tamara Adama are also joining forces and remaking the landscape of the computer-generated world in their own image…

written by Matthew B. Roberts
directed by John Dahl
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Scott Porter (Nestor), Peter Wingfield (Director Gara Singh), Jorge Montesi (The Guatrau), Aleks Paunovic (William Adama Sr.), Elisabeth Rosen (Kolibri), Sina Najafi (William Adama), Genevieve Buchner (Tamara Adama), Panou (Olaf), Teryl Rothery (Evelyn), Jim Thomson (voice of Serge), Christian Tessier (Francis), Alison Araya (Isabelle Adama), Daleal Monjazeb (young Joseph), Alexander Kambolis (young Sam), Diego Diablo Del Mar (Bartender), William C. Vaughn (Fanboy), Nicola Anderson (GDD Receptionist), Colin Decker (Herac Soldier)

LogBook entry by Earl Green