The military is putting pressure on Daniel to deliver his sentient robots - putting pressure in the form of a tough-ass female colonel, who is also playing footsie with Vergis. Desperate, Daniel decides to take apart his one prototype sentient robot - aka Zoe, the first Cylon - who maybe now regrets that she outsmarted her father last week into regretfully concluding that the robot was not really Zoe, after all (though, in the BSG/Caprica land, you never really know - maybe Daniel is so far gone that he doesn't give a damn any more about Zoe, precisely because she tried so hard to delude him). Zoe in Cylon clothing is also desperate - she reveals her true identity to Philomon, who is starting to fall in love with Zoe in V-world. Zoe pleads with Philomon to help her escape. Philomon says he will - but calls security instead. Zoe hurls him across the room, in a fury, which kills him. We've seen the first human dead at the hands of a Cylon, although mostly unintentionally.
Zoe makes off in a van, and the police/military are after her. She pulls a Terminator move, and crashes through impossible barricades. If she's anything like BSG Cylons, she'll survive, but we don't know that, yet.
Meanwhile, Amanda jumps off a bridge (but we don't know if she lived or died). Clarice steps out of her car to look at Amanda, just in time to save her, Clarice's, life from a car bomb that Lacy ignites (she's forced to do this by Barnabus). Jason Street from Friday Night Lights almost certainly dies.
The only really possibly good outcome for a character in tonight's episode was Joseph's. He's finally seen his daughter Tamara in V-world, thinks she's now dead there, too, and may be giving up the holoband and the drugs for a better life back in the old analog world. He even has a woman - the real world woman behind his avatar partner - who seems to love him. But given that Tamara is indeed still alive in V-world, this part of the Adama story may not be over yet, either.
I think Caprica has really come into its own in the past few episodes, as a series powerful and intriguing even if it wasn't BSG's prequel. I'm looking forward to the second half and more.
5-min podcast review of Caprica
See also: Battlestar Galactica Caprica: Exquisite, Flawed Copies ... 1.2: Dawn of a Different Machine ... 1.3: Daughters, Missing and Present ... 1.5: Adama's Daughter ... 1.6: The Chip and its Roots
... 1.7: The Cylon and the Dog ... 1.8: The Metaphysics of Flesh
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