"Caprica" 1.06 Recap: " The Imperfections of Memory"

Where in the worlds is Sam Adama and why isn't he participating in this best-yet episode of Caprica? Clearly, Joseph needs to drop 200 cubits and buy his brother a holoband. The man can barely stay alive on Caprica, and that's with Sam stepping in to save him every ten minutes. There's no way his solo meanderings around New Cap City are going to yield anything but doom and destruction.

But, as always, Joe clearly overestimates his ability to do something right.

Joseph tracks down Tad at his real-life, non-mobster job. Well, that's not exactly true. Joseph's assistant — the one who got all touchy on his tats last week — tracked down Tad because Joseph is literally incapable of doing anything for/by himself. He skulks around outside Tad's work and finally pounces, produces a holoband, and demands that Tad take him to V-world to find Tamara.

Most people get more awesome inside V-world, but not Joseph. He ratchets up his whining to a ten: "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" Until Heracles starts explaining the rules of New Cap City, just to shut him up. Actually, there's only one rule: If you get killed in New Cap City, you can't come back, ever. So don't get killed.

Three minutes after entering New Cap City, Joseph gets Heracles killed.

(Remind me not to ever invite Joe Adama over for a two-player game of Super Mario Bros. Wii. Dude is a fun-sponge.)

Tad is livid when he rips off his holoband, and Joseph is like, "Sorry, my gay brother is the bad-ass one."

Joseph goes back to New Cap City alone, and is unsurprisingly kidnapped in eight seconds flat. (Maybe) luckily, the kidnapper is a girl-gamer who wants to extort him in exchange for helping him navigate the monochrome battlefield of New Cap City.

Amanda Graystone, meanwhile, is shouldering the queer content in Sam's absence. Keeping her promise to lose her frakking mind in public at least once per episode, Amanda goes nuts on some workers who are trying to move the Maglev memorial to another location.

In the middle of her meltdown, she thinks she sees her dead brother, so she snaps a couple of photos of him before Sister Clarice shows up to drag her away and keep her from getting smashed in the face with another bottle.

They bond over Amanda being nuts — because Clarice Willow knows a thing or two about being nuts — and it goes from friendly to flirty faster than Amanda's convertible can go from zero to ten.