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| Pilot
airdate: January 22, 2010
directed by Jeffrey Reiner
written by Ronald D. Moore and Remi Aubuchon |
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| 58 years before the fall of the Twelve Colonies, the planet Caprica is the seat of Colonial government and culture. The seemingly idyllic society is beginning to feel the strain of rapid technological advances, religious extremism, government corruption, and a powerful underworld.
 Daniel Graystone is Caprica's leading scientist in the field of cybernetics, on the verge of perfecting a protoype robotic soldier. Joseph Adams is a lawyer trying to raise his children as Capricans despite his family's close ties to the notorious Tauron mafia.
Tragedy strikes both men when their daughters are killed in a terrorist attack by monotheist extremists. When they discover that Zoe Graystone had created a virtual avatar of herself before her death, Daniel and Joseph become unlikely partners in a desperate attempt to blend cybernetic technology with virtual reality to bring back their lost children.
 Adams finds he must embrace his true Tauron heritage and leverage his mob connections for this scheme to work, and Graystone recklessly repurposes his own technology to give Zoe new life... by creating the very first Cylon.
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- Joseph Adama: "My name isn't Adams. Our family name is Adama."
- Sam Adama: "I will pray to Mars and all the gods for a swift and terrible vengeance to come to those who have torn your wife and daughter from this world."
Joseph Adama: "There are no gods, Sam."
Sam Adama: [In Tauronese] "Then all the more necessary to make our own justice."
- The First Cylon: "All targets neutralized. Program completed. By your command."
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 - A great deal of bigotry towards other colonies (especially Tauron) permeates life on Caprica.
- There are no flowers growing anywhere on the planet Tauron.
- Monotheism is considered a blasphemous and extremist (even dangerous) practice in the polytheistic Colonial society.
- The influence of the Tauron halafa (mafia) extends into the upper levels of the Caprican government.
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 Sister Clarice's act of forming an infinity symbol out of a ring of water on her desk is a reference to the early days Christianity, when persecuted Christians secretly identified one another by drawing half a fish symbol in the dirt (if the other person completed the symbol, they each knew the other was a also Christian).
 - Much of Caprica City is recognizable as Vancouver, British Columbia, where the series is filmed.
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 - Caprica takes place 58 years before the events of Battlestar Galactica, when William Adama was 11 years old (making Commander Adama 69 at the time of the Cylon Holocaust).
- William and Lee Adama of Battlestar Galactica claim Caprica as their home. In the Caprica pilot, however, it is revealed that their family actually comes from the colony of Tauron.
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- In BSG, an adult William Adama says, "You cannot play God, then wash your hands of the things that you've created." Does he know about his father's (and sister's) role in the creation of the Cylons?
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Season 1 of Caprica kicks off with an airing of the 2-hour series pilot on Friday, January 22, 2010, at 9 PM on SyFy, followed by episode 1.1 (Rebirth) on January 29.
The pilot is also currently available on DVD and digital download.
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