"The device that I need is called a meta-cognitive processor." "An MCP chip." "And the only one in existence is own by the Vergis Corporation." "I need something stolen from the Vergis Corporation." "On Tauron." "How could my daughter have set off a bomb?" "A group known as Soldiers of The One is responsible for the bombing." "You're out here saying that Zoe was crazy." "Zoe wasn't crazy." "She wasn't." "She slammed her door, she played loud music." "And blew up a commuter train." " I talked to her." " You did?" "When?" "After she died, a virtual version of her." "An avatar." "You can't do this here!" "My husband does defense work." "I need you to step away from the lockers right now." "Now!" "Step away." " No." "What?" " Clear the hallway." "Folks, we're looking for STORY agents." "This is for your own protection!" "I exist inside a robot." "Only my best friend, Lacy, knows." "I have someone for you to find..." "Keon Gatwick." "You need to find out how they were gonna get from Caprica into the safe house on Gemenon." "I have to go to Gemenon and take Zoe's package with me." "I can maybe set up a meeting with Barnabus." "That's all I can do." "I decided to give away my most profitable invention but there is a consequence." "The board called an emergency meeting." "So if I don't come up with answers to this holoband crisis, they're going try to force me to step down from my own company." "Holobands are over?" "And this is our future." "I'm stuck in a virtual world with no way of getting out." "You need to go to the real world." "You need to find my father." "You know the address, you heard it." "I'll wait for you in New Cap City so you can find me." " Tamara sent me." " What are you talking about?" "She's in the V-World and she can't get out." "My daughter's dead." "Hey, hey." "Hey!" "Stop." "I just want you to know sir, you have our full support here." "Good to see you, sir." "Congratulations, sir." " Doctor, it's a pleasure." " Hey, how are you?" "It would appear that I've won back the confidence of the board." "Yes, how many board members came over to congratulate you?" "Oh, seven, but..." " 700." " Who's counting?" "The C-Bucs won today." "No one called me Terror Mom." "You look beautiful, Doctor Graystone." "Thank you Dr. Graystone." "Don't go doing anything fancy here." " Ah!" " No!" "Daniel, you'll kill your back." "What happened, babe?" "Did you hurt yourself?" "I'm alright." "If you'll excuse me for a moment," "I'll be right back." "What are you doing here?" "It's a party." "I love to party." "It's a private function with a guest list." "I'm not quite sure how you got in." "I donated a frak-load of money... just like all the others." "Clenched-ass gasbags in the room." "Museum doesn't care if my cubits have Tauron dirt all over them." "Just look at this... stockholders, friends." "So?" "I wonder what they would think if they knew that you'd stolen my chip and killed two of my men." "We should get together while I'm on-world discuss the situation." " Did Vergis say something to you, Daniel?" " It's nothing." "Everything's going to be fine." "What did he say to you, babe?" "It's about the U-87 contract." "He won't accept that we got the job, and he's yelling about his intellectual property." "No much merit to his arguments, but he could cause us a lot of trouble." " Dr. Xander is the gate." " Yes, allow access." "Tell him I'll meet him in the lab." "You should go on to bed." "This might take some time, sweetheart." "Really?" "You're gonna go like that?" "Sorry." "Try and get some sleep." "I know you haven't been sleeping well lately." "I worry about you." "Yeah." "You'll tell me the rest when you're ready, yeah?" "Yes." "He's bluffing." "He knows we have the MCP." "That's not bluffing." "That's knowing." "No, but I mean, if he had proof, we'd be court, or we'd be in jail by now." "Maybe if we go to jail, he doesn't get anything out of it." "I think..." "I think he wants to blackmail me." "He must have found something new." "Why else would he be here now?" "Did he say something about blackmail?" "Not in so many words." "He said that we should get together for lunch this week, and discuss our situation." "Our situation, that's it?" "He also said that two of his men were killed in the MCP theft." "But who knows if he's telling the truth?" "Serge, have Sean bring the car around, we need to go back into town." "OK, I don't think you need to panic." "You didn't commit the break-in." "He can't tie you..." "I know, but the men I hired, are Tauron." "Who knows where their loyalty lies?" "Please the gods, Daniel," "Are you telling me you went to the Ha'La'Tha?" "Not directly, no." "Not directly, but you went to the Tauron mob to rob a Tauron?" "I take it back!" "Now I'm panicking!" " Very helpful!" " Frak me!" "I need more from you in time of crisis, Cyrus!" "All right let's..." " let's think this through." " Yes." "I think you... you meet with Vergis, see what he wants." "Admit nothing." "Agree to nothing." "Maybe he'll show his hands." "That's better." "Thank you." "Your car is ready, Daniel." "I'll be right up." "I need to see someone else first, find out who knows what." "Who?" "Your mob friend?" "Welcome!" "Ay." "Welcome back to Virtual Graystone Industries." "I represent Daniel Graystone and I'm here to get you started on your adventure." "I need to find Tamara." "I can provide a variety of activities." "What are you interested in?" "Getting my wife and daughter back!" "Let's see, you like to play golf." "Go to any directional terminal..." " I don't need this." " And enter the word "golf."" "I don't need menus." "Take me to the hacked worlds." "The product you have purchased only provides access to legally acquired and licensed applications." "Criminal penalties for accessing unlicensed areas can include fine of up 352 cubits..." "We have some business to discuss, you can pull yourself away from my product for a minute." "What the frak are you doing?" "An old lady very kindly let me in." "Yeah, well, I'm gonna have to talk to her about that." "I think you should get out." "You swore that Vergis would never find out." "You lied to me." "What are you talking about?" " He knows." " Vergis knows?" "About the MCP?" "You people are supposed to be very good at this, which can only lead me to the conclusion that you set me." "If Vergis knows," " then he just found out." " You set me up?" "Somebody in your lab bragging?" "Oh, no, this is no one on our end." "I've been covering you." "Ever since that bloody chip landed in my hand." "It's impossible." "If Vergis knew, I'd be dead already." "Stealing from the friend of the Guatrau?" "The Guatrau would have to make amends." "So let's talk about something real, OK?" "I got a visit from a kid, said he talked to Tamara." "That's a scam." "You lied to me about that!" "She's gone." "Both our daughters are gone!" "No, she's there!" " It's impossible!" " I told you before!" "Hey, son, it's okay." "Go back to bed." "You're wrong." "You better watch your step." "Let's go Sean." "I wonder what they would think if they knew that you'd stolen my chip... and killed two of my men?" "And killed two of my men?" "Traffic is jammed on the 802 driveway this morning due to the latest holocafe bombing." "Authorities will only say they suspect STORY involvement, but have no leads..." "Who's setting these bombs?" "We think it's Barnabus." "The STORY cells should be battening down, not calling attention to them..." "Clarice, listen, it's not important, okay." "No but it's just infuriating, that's all." "We'll deal with Barnabus later." "Now, Olaf has found something" "I believe will be very helpful for us, so please, just listen." "It's cutting-edge." "It's called the swive drive." "It interfaces wirelessly to compress and copy data." "So, if Zoe's programs were in a computer and we used that..." "Then we'd have it." "We would be able to re-create the living Zoe avatar." "Just like he did, and as a matter of fact, we believe that we could create living avatars for any dead person, as long as they have enough data stored on the system." "Well, it's not just a living avatar." "It's a continuation of the soul into eternity." "I mean, that's what we all knew it was about." "And I'm certain that's what Daniel was talking about" " on Sarno." " Yes, yes." "And Zoe's avatar program must be on Graystone's computer at his home lab." "Now, we need you to go there." "And get that program." "Hello?" "Hello." "This, um, Sister Clarice from Zoe's school." "Oh, hey, sister." "Please, call me Clarice." "Um, what I wanted to say was that I... saw you on Sarno, and I thought you were wonderful," "And I just wanted to tell you that." "Thank you so much... that's, um..." "It's incredibly kind of you to call and tell me that." "And, um, actually, I just wanted... come round if I could... you know, my way of saying goodbye, seeing her room." "Yeah, well, if you'd called a couple of days ago..." "The GDD... they... they searched the room, and they... they took everything." "I'm afraid there's nothing left to see, Clarice." "It's... it's an empty room." "Oh." "Well, um..." "I have some books, actually." "I..." "Zoe left some books at school." "I could, um, bring them round to you, if you like." "I mean..." "You know why this is bad, right?" "If the Guatrau finds out we stole from an other Tauron, he's gonna want to know why." "Is there anything that they can link back to us?" "If you got time to ask if a bullet's coming at your head, there probably isn't." "If it's gonna blood back on me, I need to know." "Did you do your job?" "Hey, I handled my business." "Now you go out and you handle yours." "You know I would deny in public, but I really believe that you cannot get a truly excellent Tauron steak." "I always find that you have to over season." "What are you doing?" "Hmm?" "You come all the way here." "You accuse me of theft." "You accuse me of murder, for the gods' sake." "And now we're sitting here discussing steaks." "We can do both at the same time." "I didn't steal your chip, and I didn't kill anyone." "There." "Now, if you'll excuse me..." "No, no." "No,." "Shh, shh, shh." "Stop." "I moved on." "You moved on?" "Then why are you here?" "I'm here to buy the Caprica City Buccaneers." "I'm sorry." "What?" "You didn't see it coming." "I was waiting to see the look on your face." "I'm offering 300 million cubits." "Why?" "Maybe I got pyramid fever." "Maybe I'm looking for a way to put our past unpleasantness behind us." "Or just maybe..." "I know... to appease your board." "You promise to get the MCP to work, and for that, you need cold, hard cash." "Are you kidding?" "12 planets and not one woman is interested in me." "But... what would it say if I checked robots?" "Hmm?" "You'd go out with me, right beautiful?" "Yeah, you know, you can laugh if you want, but you know, I'd take you out, get the joints moving," " maybe a little bit of dancing..." " What are you doing?" "Oh." "I'm sorry." "Re-examine the u-87's left arm solenoid." "There's no smoking in the lab, doctor." "Put it out." "Barnabus, Lacy said something about Zoe and Ben." "Mm-hmm." "Finishing what they started." "She needs our help." "Look, I wouldn't bringing this to you if I wasn't sure we could trust her." "** keeps our brain from going down bad path." "Get in here." "I'll show you." "An other time." "I think we were talking about my friend." "Yeah, bring her, that's fine." "If God has guided her to us, we'll hear her out." "Of course if it's not god guiding her, we'll deal with that too." " They just don't understand apotheosis." "They don't want it." "No, they just don't get it." "If the conclave would grant me an audience," "I could make them see the value of it." "They are supporting Barnabus, and you are going to have to accept that." "God calls on us to display humility and place our trust in his emissaries." "But he just does the church's dirty work." "He's not one of God's ." "I have a plan, and I can make it happen." "I just need to be given a little bit more time," "And then I can hand them something glorious." "And afterlife that we can that we can see and touch." "I just need a little bit more me." "Well, what if he really does just want the C-Bucs?" "When you first got them, you sent out announcements" " like you'd had a baby." " That's not him." "You got to have a heart to love the game." "Well, whatever." "If he's got 300 million cubits to throw our way, let him." " We need the money." " We won't need it once we give the government our prototype, and I don't want to hear anything" " about not being able to duplicate the MCP." " You have to face it." "We can't do it." " We've tried everything." " Everything, really?" "No, actually, when I say "everything,"" "I mean "everything except for one more thing,"" "because I really love dragging this out." "You're frustrated." "I'm way beyond frustrated." "There's somethin about this MCP we don't understand, and you know why?" "Because you frakkin' stole it." " It's not ours." " Shh, shh." "Well, lucky for us Daniel, the one guy who knows that for sure, he's busy trying to throw us wads and wads of sweaty cash." "The sweaty cash is bait for some kind of a trap." "I know it." "I just need to try and figure out what kind of mechanism it is." "Greetings, Sister Clarice." "Welcome to the Graystone residence." "I, uh, take it I'm supposed to respond to you." "Only if you wish." "I am called Serge." "Well that's an unfortunate name." "Ignore him." "Ignore him." "Daniel's been programming all kind of weird stuff into him lately." "Please come in." "Interesting home you have." "I thought you might feel the way about them." "About a bunch of stupid books?" "Yeah, well, they're not just books, are they?" "It's that they belonged to her." "Yes." "That they belonged to her." "You know I don't have much left of her now, thanks to Agent Duram." "Pff, Agent Duram." "Do you know him?" "He conducted a search of the lockers at the academy." "He terrorized the staff and the students." "That motherfrakker." "I'm sorry, Clarice." "Oh, it doesn't bother me at all." "You'd be shocked to hear the language the teachers use in the lunchroom." "We..." "Well, thank yo very much for this." "It means a great deal to me." "Is... is that scorpion ambrosia?" "Yeah." "Do you know it?" "Know it?" "I was practically weaned on it." " Daniel hates it, hates it." " Well, most Capricans do." "They think it's too strong, and it smells like sulfur." "I know." "They're such babies." "Gods." "I know it's a bit early in the day, but why don't we try a little bit?" "Clarice." "They took everything." "That's criminal." " Yes, it is criminal." " I'm sorry." "This room... it's just like a big open wound." " Can I give you some more?" " Thank you." "They took absolutely everything... except for a few drawings in Daniel's lab." "Oh, you've got some drawings of Zoe's in his lab?" "Mm-hmm." "Yeah, they couldn't go in there, because there's a very important defense project going on." "Do you want to see them?" "I don't know." "Are we allowed in there?" "Who's this?" "That's what I want you to figure out." "He's a witness in a case." "I'll give these to Fred." "Mm, no no, no." "Not a PI, it's, hum, confidential." "I need you to find this kid." "Okay." "This is from the... third and fourth grade." "This one." ""Dad works hard." "Love Zoe."" "These have been here for so long," "I don't even notice they're there anymore." "Perhaps you should take them upstairs... in a more public place, have them around you." "Yeah, maybe I will." "Maybe I will." "Ooh, that's a scary thing." "Oh yeah, that." "That is the very, very important defense project that Daniel's be working on..." "Frakking ugly monster." "Did Zoe ever tell you about how much she hated Daniel's work?" "Mm, no, actually, I don't think she did." "Oh, she hated it." "She hated it." "Gods, she hated this." "Frakkin' killer robots in her house?" "She'd have gone frakking nuts." "She did say that she loved this house." "No, not this house." "Mm, she talked about growing up here, and planting a garden with you." "Not at this house." "It was the other house... that burned down when she was five." "Here I go... dark territory again." "But, listen, Clarice." "I am very drunk, and I am very glad that you came over." "I would like to thank you." "I'm just happy to give." "Barnabus?" "Welcome." "Come in." "Sit down." "So, uh, tell me, Lacy, what is it exactly that you need from me?" "Um..." "You got some, uh, cargo you want to move off world?" "What?" "What is it?" "Right, right." "Um..." "I can't tell you that." "But Zoe died trying to get it to Gemenon." "I owe it to her to see her plan through." "And you're asking for my assistance, yet you're not telling me what I'm getting myself into." "What gets unleashed when this thing gets to Gemenon?" "If you actually knew, then you would be criminally liable." "You're a very bright girl." "Thank you." "I can't help you." "I don't want to." "Go." " No." " No" "What were you thinking bringing her here?" "She was Zoe's friend." "You know how much Zoe meant to the movement." "No, what I know, is that you've gotta stop thinking with your tarse." "Maybe this is all about you feeling guilty about building the bomb that blew up her friends." "Hey!" "Don't say that!" "She doesn't know that, and... and I didn't know he was gonna use it for that." "Yeah, well, maybe, you need to explain to her how god doesn't want us keeping secrets." "I need to know that she's with us." "I need to know the same about you too." "Huh." "Look, just... just find out what the cargo is, and then we'll talk, huh?" "Someone's about to get lucky." "Rumors that Thomas Vergis has made an offer for a key franchise, the Caprica City Buccaneers." "In the wake of the bombings, the GDD has raised the threat level to seri..." "Okay, folks, thank you guys so much for coming out tonight." "We have a fantastic show." "Our first guest has been called" "One of the brightest minds of the 12 colonies." "He's an inventor." "He's an innovator." "He a philanthropist." "And from what I understand, an excellent kisser." "Ladies and gentlemen, give a big welcome to Thomas Vergis." "Thomas Vergis, ladies and gentlemen." "Here... oh, here he comes." "Looking good, hey." "You look well sir." "I look well-fed." "Mm-hmm well, here's a gift..." "Tauron cigars." "Oh!" "I am going to share these with my capable and excellent staff." "Staff look over there." "No brandy?" " You like brandy." " I like brandy." "Well, let's talk about a re-book." "Okay, wow." "All right, so, Bucs versus Bulls," "Graystone versus Vergis... these are classic rivalries." "No, no, no, I can't believe you're going there." "Danny Graystone and I..." "we're friendly competitors." "We are not deadly rivals." "We were a museum exhibit together last night." "Last night?" "Who won?" "Look, we don't fight." "Danny makes holobands, he's a toy maker." "I'm in a completely different business." "Come on!" "I'm sorry, no bad blood there." "I don't know if you saw, uh, recently, he and his wife were on the show." "Yes, I did." "Amanda Graystone..." "beautiful, intelligent woman." "My heart goss out to them and everyone who suffered in that terrible and senseless bombing." "It's, um... it's a funny thing... tragedy." "It makes you realize where your heart belongs, and I was educated on Caprica." "You know that." "And I have a couple of homes here." "Well, we can all relate to that." "Well, I, um..." "I started to think about where I belong, and... how I felt inside." "Oh." "And we're all Capricans." "I may as well make it official." "I'm gonna get my citizenship." "You cagey genius." "Wow." "Caprica loves you Thomas Vergis." "I know what he's up to." "Caprica loves you." "Are you ready to meet the love of your..." "* I want to hold you in my arms *" "* I want hold you * * in my arms *" "* I want to... *" "Yes." "* oh Rachel *" "Thank you." "Hey." "Are you alright?" "That could have been bad." "Are you okay?" "Nothing but a bruised-back story." "I mean, how do people wear these things?" "They're not, huh, they're not good for you." "I know." "They throw off your center of gravity" "And totally change the curve of your spine." "I mean, they're just not natural." "I'm..." "I'm Philomon." "Oh, thank the gods." "I..." "I thought that was you standing over there, but I was kind of too shy to say anything." "I'm..." "I'm Rachel from... from V-mat." "Hi." "You know, you... you look familiar." "My gods, you... you lo... you look like Zoe Graystone." "Is that a problem?" "Uh, well, no, but I, um..." "'Cause I mean, I'm..." "I'm sure that, you know, you don't look like you know, like this." "I..." "I..." "I do actually." "Oh." "So, now I feel like an idiot." "Oh, no, no, not at all." "Um, it's just, uh... a bold statement is what I was trying to say." "Honestly, Philo?" "Can I... can I call you Philo?" "Uh, yeah, sure." "I thought looking like the most hated girl in the 12 worlds would keep all the pervs away from me in the V-Club." "Fact is... it... it actually made more of them come towards me." "But then I tried having different avatars, and, well, honestly," "I was just a little cash poor, but..." "No, that's cool." "No, it's cool." "You know, despite, what people say about Zoe Graystone." "Girl had principles." "Oh." "Clarice, can you hear me?" "Can I get you anything?" "She's drinking again, and God knows what else." "And she's convinced herself she can talk her way into military labs." "She did it." "It's activated." "Faith, Olaf." "Come on." "No no!" "Aah!" "Just, take it!" "Gods, please stop!" " H!" "Aah!" " No, please, stay out!" "Still, you wonder what they would think if they knew you'd stolen my chip and killed two of my men." "Killed two of my men." "You okay?" "Yeah, just a nightmare." "About Zoe?" "No." " Let's go to sleep." " Okay." "Hello?" "Joseph?" "Evelyn?" "Sorry, I overslept." "Grab yourself some coffee." "I found the guy." "I hope that's who you were looking for." " Great." " And I hope it's worth it." "It is." "It's, uh... yeah." "You okay?" "What?" "Oh, that's..." "I got some Tauron on me." "Oh!" "A tattoo." "Can I...?" "I mean, is it okay if I...?" "Sure." "That's good work." "Um." "Yeah, listen, uh..." "I gotta go." "I gotta go." "If I'm even a minute late," "I have this assistant who yells at me." "She's a horrible woman, terrible." "Let me, uh..." "let me get my coat and stuff." "I'll be right back down." "I take it this means that you have considered my offer." " I have indeed, and I consider it unacceptable." "I'm keeping the Bucs." "I'm sure, given what's happened between us, you're willing to discuss it." "We just did." "I'm not selling." "Veiled threat duly noted, though." "You know, if you keep going around making empty threats, you're going to seem rather toothless." "Toothless?" "That's not to say that I haven't been enjoying the little show you've been putting..." "Painting yourself Caprican, to try to take the military contract away from me." "Ah, I'm after the military contract." "Very clever, smoothing a new flag, cheering our home team." "I think your best bet though, might be to... to simply marry a Caprican woman, if you dare." "It's a really good theory, and you're in the ballpark." "Uh, I would." "I would love to take that contract from you, 'cause after all, you would deserve that, but you seem to think that the C-Bucs are a means to an end for me, and... they're not." "They're crucial." "Crucial in what way?" "You love pyramid." "As a boy, you played pyramid." "It was everything to be a C-Buc." "I wasn't very good, I'm afraid." "Well, geeks never are." "But you did the next best thing." "You bought the whole franchise, and now you get to be the puppet master with a professional ball club and your entertain ten-year-old runs around the joy of it, the joy it." "That's true." "I do love it." "It's your dream." "My dream is to tear up your dream." "You stole from me." "Well..." "I forgive that." "That's good business." "But the two deaths that you are responsible for... those men were like brothers to me." "I am no noss to their children." "See these?" "These represent the children in my life..." "My children... my children, my sister's, my Godchildren." "These two are orphans." "I am Tauron... blood for blood." "I did not kill those men." "I had nothing too with it." "You need time and money to try and get my chip to work, so... frak the 300 mil." "I'll get you 500." "I'll take the team." "I don't know if I'll ruin them or win a championship, but... whatever cuts you deeper." "Then..." "I will find the next thing you love." "Eventually, I will destroy your company, but before that you have so my precious things." "Until the debt is paid." "Thank you for the drink."