Here Be Dragons

Tonight's the night when the final five Caprica episodes run in a marathon on Syfy. But I'm already up to the next to last episode thanks to DVD. Basically, "now we're talking." This was a fairly packed episode that delivered on a lot of things that had only been tiptoed around in previous episodes.

As the episode unfolds, the "cunning accountant" woman who had been dogging Joseph in the previous episode goes to report to the mob boss. It turns out, she's his daughter. So naturally, it doesn't take too much convincing him that the Adamas are dirty, and he orders the hit on them. Soon, the whole family is on the run, young Willie too.

But Sam is not with them at first; instead, he's in V-World with Amanda and Daniel, looking for Zoe (who, for her part, is using her revisionist powers to make it incredibly difficult to get to her). But Amanda doesn't trust Sam, and ends up shooting him to permanently remove him from the New Cap City environment. The Graystones then forge ahead alone. (A good moment for Amanda, but all the more reason now to hate the previous episode that stalled the "chasing Zoe" plot solely to recruit Sam to come along; he wound up being basically useless.)

Daniel and Amanda are unaware that a vengeful Clarice, along with her two husbands, have broken into their house in the real world, intent on killing them. Automated security kicks in to protect the clueless V-World-surfers, but it's only a matter of time before the invaders break through. (And poor Serge gets "killed" trying to protect the family.)

At the STO training camp, the higher-ups decide the Lacy and her Cylon-controlling ability are a threat, and order her death. But she has enough friends to get the drop on the would-be assassins, then storms into the Cylon holding area and wakes them all up to do her bidding. I still remain utterly unconvinced that mousy little Lacy is actually the ruthless leader the show would have us believe, though I'll look forward to a small army of butt-kicking Cylons for sure.

Meanwhile, in V-World, Amanda and Daniel change tactics, finally entice Zoe to come to them, and Amanda has the heart to heart with her daughter's avatar that she's needed since the very first episode. And it actually works. Zoe agrees to relocate to a virtual version of the Graystone house, where together she and Daniel can work on creating a new, more human-like body (a "skin job," she calls it) to come back into the real world.

Successful, Amanda and Daniel leave V-World just in time to be caught by Clarice, and nearly executed... until Zoe comes to the rescue. There's a U-87 chassis still in Daniel's lab. (I'm thoroughly confused on this point. The one he was working on with Zoe inside it was boxed up, right? Did he have it brought back and I forgot? Is this just some other random U-87, and we're just meant to know that any U-87 could be Zoe, after the events of the previous episode?) Anyway, Zoe comes to life in the Cylon and throws the beatdown, killing one of the husbands and chasing Clarice and the other one off.

But the big changer comes in the episode's final moments. The forged travel documents the Adamas need to escape the mob are, unfortunately, at Sam's club. So they have to risk going to a place where they'll surely be found. They do, and they are. Joseph and Sam are held at gunpoint inside. Outside in the car, a nervous Willie wonders what is taking so long and goes rushing in rashly. He creates a diversion that is enough for Our Heroes to overcome their captors, but...

He gets shot -- fatally -- in the process. The final moments of the episode show the Adamas crying over the lifeless body of young Willie. Which, of course, makes all us Galactica fans go "WHAAAAAAA----????!!!!" over the death of William Adama.

A matter for the last episode to resolve, one would hope. Unless the cancellation of Caprica nipped that answer in the bud. In which case, I might just be sorry I kept watching this show.