By Jacob
Clarice gets hardcore on Barnabas when he impinges once too often on her place as the leader of their cult. He comes back at her by having Lacy and Keon blow her minivan up on the way to Gemenon. Nestor and Olaf I think will not survive the bombing, but Clarice is fine because she's busy watching Amanda jump off that coincidentally same bridge. So I guess Lacy is the loser here, because now she's in a terrorist cult for no real reason, while Clarice has like eight other husbands to spare.
Amanda and Joe have been going crazy since last week, in different ways. Joe is now a complete amp-head and just shivers and stinks on the couch, and even missed Willie's Tauron Ink Day. Amanda, since she already takes all the drugs there are, foregoes addiction in favor of jumping off this bridge once Daniel admits his part in the MCP theft/murder. At this point her once-amazing character has been such a pointless cipher for so many episodes running that it's not even sad.
Meanwhile, Assistant Evelyn -- in her guise as Emmanuelle -- realizes that getting her boss-slash-crush hooked on virtual crack was a dumb idea, and goes to Tamara for help. Tammy's resolution to this problem -- her strategy, I'm saying, for putting Joseph Adama back on the road to mental health -- is to: Let him find her, yell at him about getting a life and to stop stalking her, and shoot herself in front of him... Then shoot Joe in the face, so he can't come back and bother her anymore. Taurons are, once again, the fucking worst.
Daniel's wigging about last week's pissing contest and his continued technological failure. The Defense Ministry's stepped up their deadlines for getting the robots working, not least because they're secretly in bed with Vergis. So he tells Philo to wipe the MCP itself, before Zoë can escape the lab. (Then he heads upstairs to cook dinner and drive his wife to suicide.)
Stuck in a corner, Zoë reveals to Philo that she is a giant killer robot and his virtual girlfriend and the reincarnation of the Most Hated Girl in the Twelve Worlds, teen terrorist Zoë Graystone, but... Can they still date? The answer, an unsurprising no, leads to some regrettable blood of Philomon's getting sprayed just everywhere. Then Zoë steals a van, which, I don't think she's gonna drive to Gemenon so I'm not sure what her plan is there, but it ends up with her smashing herself into a police cordon, and I think blowing up all dead.
...So this show Caprica, the best show maybe ever, is sort of in bits now. Bloody, murder-suicide bits.
Not a great episode in and of itself, and the complete waste of Amanda irks, but for all the plotty-plot-plot there are some pretty amazing shocks and surprises and sensational watercooler moments, which I know lots of people often enjoy.
(But there's also a spiritual sense of attrition -- speaking personally -- that attends watching basically every character you love, on your favorite show, get lined up and shot in the head, one every five minutes, for an entire hour. It's sort of tiring.)
Well. See you in October, when some other show also called Caprica takes all the frakked-up burnt-up pieces that are left (which honestly, this is a show literally about resurrection and the Underworld, so that could be many pieces) and puts them together in a new configuration. As the episode title suggests.