"Caprica" 1.05 Recap: "There is Another Sky"

Every week I make startling self-discoveries while watching Caprica. Remember last week when I realized I'd unwittingly fallen a little in love with Sam? Well, this week I discovered I've turned into a Philemon/Zoebot super shipper. When Daniel made Zoe rip off her arm at the end of the episode, I actually shouted (out loud), "Stop it, you b*stard! Stop it! Philemon is the only one who understands her!"

But I'm getting ahead of myself. (And also, maybe, a little crazy.)

So, there actually is another sky, which Tamara finds out this week after wandering around in the Matrix for Neo knows how long. She finally stumbles on some V-mobsters who are playing New Cap City (a sort of Call of Duty meets Dick Tracy) and when they realize she can't die, they agree to help her find her way out of V-world if she'll help them score some points. Given how unpleasant these V-folks are, I can only surmise in the real world they are telemarketers and convenience clerks who hate their lives. 

Tamara takes a couple of bullets, breaks into a vault and falls a little in love with a gangster. After holding up her end of the bargain, she returns to the leading mob mama, who is like, "Aww, sorry — can't help you. This newspaper says you died in a terrorist attack. Ha ha. Joke's on you."

But Tamara is a frakking Adama; her uncle is a mobster, and not for pretend. So she grabs a Tommy gun and is like, "Actually, I've been to see the Oracle — and the joke is on you." And then she kills them all dead. Or, at least, she kills them virtually dead. Which is pretty virtually satisfying.

Tamara's gangsta boyfriend is kind of half-terrified/half-turned on by her unhinged awesomeness, so he agrees to take off his holoband and find Joseph in the real world, so he can solve the mystery of The Chosen One.

But because the gods frown on Joseph Adama like rain clouds on Charlie Brown, he has just decided to let Tamara and Shannon go, and is holding a Tauron funeral for them.

He would probably still be asleep on the couch, but Willie's school called to ask if he was sick on account of missing all that class. Joseph sort of vaguely remembers having a conversation with Sam earlier in the day, wherein Sam highlighted the ways in which Joseph is an epic failure as a parent, including the fact that he forgets Willie exists most days of the week.

Sam, of course, doesn't take Willie to school; he takes him down to Little Tauron so they can have some beers and play some poker and learn some Important Life Lessons. (I think we can all agree that bad-ass Nana Adama supports this plan wholeheartedly. She probably knows Willie hasn't been to Caprica school in a month.)

Joseph, however? Not so much a fan. He rocks up into that one saloon in Little Tauron shouting at Sam about how dare he not force Willie to go to a school where everyone bullies him because of his race?