The episode picked up in the public relations aftermath of Amanda's revelation of her daughters involvement in the Soldiers of the One. Amanda takes a bottle to the forehead while attempting to leave work amid protesters and reporters. The Graystones are an extremely prominent family, owning a large technology research corporation and a Triangle team.
Due to less than favorable press, the companies' stock plunges, its' manufactured holobands are boycotted, and some of the teams' players quit. The attempts at drawing parallels to our own all too common media circus were somewhat successful, sometimes a bit cheesy. Daniel's advisers struggle to get him to clean up the public image, but he refuses because he feels it wouldn't honor Zoe's memory. Unfortunately, the police appear to be trying to find any dirt they can on him in order to draw attention away from their own incompetence. They had previously arrested Ben past curfew with bomb type things. To make up for it, they decide to reveal that the Graystones' house had not been searched because of Daniel's classified work with the defense department.
Joseph calls on his brother, Sam's persuasive fists to assist him in regaining Daniel's attention. He gives Daniel (who sadly just left a boxing training session) a beating meant to teach him to return calls, which was extremely gratifying to watch. He gives in and agrees to try to arrange for Joseph to see Tamara's avatar again, but he reveals it would be impossible to make an avatar for Adama's wife. I haven't really reached a point where I can decide if I like or dislike characters, but I think Daniel's headed to the dislike group. He should get beat down every episode. Shortly afterward Amanda and Daniel had a rather awkward encounter where they loved, hated, and bandaged each other up. Zoe-in-robot watches as her parents discuss and then decide that she was actually responsible for the bombing. Her roving red dot sensor attempts to look away while they frak on the table. No one deserves that.
Meanwhile, poor Lacy is just having a horrible time. Her schoolmates are being rather hostile toward the friend of 'terrorists' and creepy Sister Clarice is the only person offering any consolation. She tries to weasel information out of Lacy by telling her that since Zoe told her everything then she can too. Lacy isn't falling for it, however. The scene with them together was pretty funny to me, though I'm not sure if that was intentional. I couldn't tell if Lacy was purposefully annoying Clarice or if she's a genuine space cadet. Sometime afterward, Clarice is shown speaking with an ominous sounding person in a sort of holoband confessional about her snoopings. There's talk of Apotheosis, which sounds familiar, and prophecies, and Zoe's life-making abilities. No one in S.T.O. seems to know the whole plan.
Zoe's avatar manages to put a holoband on her robot body and get back into the virtual world where Lacy is able to meet with her somewhat face to face. She tells Lacy that since Zoe obviously didn't tell Clarice everything, then she probably shouldn't trust her either. While finding a way out of the initial blank virtual room they load into, they stumble upon a scared and confused Tamara. They're likewise confused by her lack of knowledge about the virtual world and decide she must be something Daniel made. She says she wants to leave, so they let her out of the room into the rest of the virtual world of dancing and random debauchery. This doesn't seem to go very well, but they have mixed feelings about helping her, and eventually she just goes off on her own.
We got more information about Sam in this episode through Will's point of view. The little Adama cuts school and seems to want to follow in Sam's footsteps, which amuses him and his friends. Later, time spent with Sam and his husband is just another thing in the day of William. I'm glad that it could be portrayed with little fanfare for once. It seems in pseudo-futuristic Caprica, there are better things to worry about. Also, I'm glad that Zoe is a computer genius as well as a young female protagonist. Lacy doesn't do so bad for herself either, tackling guys on the street for information and dodging creepy teachers. Yay for breaking stereotypes. Anyway, at work Joseph gets in trouble for not asking permission for special favors from the judge. The 'keep my mob friends out of prison' type of favors. It seems he's getting sloppy with his shady lawyering.
In the end, Daniel takes Joseph back into the holoband world to find nothing. Daniel is confused, and says he can't find any sign of her avatar. They assume she had, in fact, been erased. Daniel still expresses hope that he can save them. Joseph is none too happy about this. While picking up his son from dinner with Sam and his husband, he laments to him privately that Daniel only lost a daughter where he also lost his wife. He then tells Sam to "Balance it out". Daniel, seeing that his fortunes are evaporating, decides to go public with his mourning in order to turn public favor. In Zoe's little room she tells Lacy that she still needs to go to Gemenon, even in the robot body, and that she would find a way if she was really her friend. This seems to work, despite the avatar not technically being her friend. Maybe Lacy is a space cadet after all. The previews for the next episode look enticing, it appears that a Graystone/Adama feud is on order.
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