Two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, live together on a peaceful planet known as Caprica, where a startling breakthrough in artificial intelligence brings about unforeseen consequences. A spin-off of the Sci Fi Channel series \"Battlestar Galactica\" set 50 years prior to the events of that show.
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Alessandra Torresani, Magda Apanowicz, Paula Malcomson, Sasha Roiz, Polly Walker, Brian Markinson, Hiro Kanagawa, Panou, Jim Thomson, Sina Najafi, Scott Porter, Liam Sproule, Jorge Montesi
Having resumed leadership of Graystone Industries with the partnership of the Ha'la'tha, Daniel aims to hold up his end by trying to recreate the avatar programme as he attempts to perfect a digital copy of his wife. Sam's personal feelings over political turmoil on Tauron leaves him at odds with the Guatrau and even his own husband. Amanda has difficulty in earning the trust of the Willow family.
In New Cap City, a vengeful Tamara confronts fellow "deadwalker" Zoe. Clarice and Amanda depart from the cabin, Amanda to an empty home and Clarice to a kidnapped Lacy. Meanwhile, Daniel has successfully won back his company, but there's one more part of the process that Daniel isn't ready for.
A botched spaceport bombing leads Clarice to discover that her young converts have turned and uses it as an opportunity to dismantle Barnabas's cell. Agent Duram's investigations steers closer to Clarice and sows the seeds of doubt Amanda has in her. Daniel straddles a moral line as he works with the Adamas to blackmail Graystone Industries board members.
Having lost both his wife and company, Daniel approaches the Ha'la'tha with a deal to capitalise on virtual avatars as a means of defeating grief. Clarice pitches her plan for apotheosis to the doubtful leadership on Gemenon.
With his company's stock falling in price and unable to meet the contract to provide 100,000 Cylon robots in a month, Daniel Graystone has no choice but to sell his sports team to Tomas Vergis. With only a week to deliver the duplicated MCPs, he also decides to wipe the chip clean and mass produce a blank copy. Daniel's decision forces Zoe to reveal herself. Sister Clarice decides to face Barnabas and the internal challenge to her leadership of the STO head on. Barnabas isn't going to take it lying down and he comes through for Lacy but he expects her to perform a task for him. Amanda's mental condition continues to deteriorate. Sam is concerned about Joseph's apparent addiction to the v-world. Emmanuelle confronts Tamara in an effort to get her to help her father and her solution is quite drastic.
In New Cap City, Joseph Adama continues to follow Emmanuelle who introduces him to a drug - essentially a hack - to keep him in the game. He has trouble with the violence he finds there but his brother Sam has a suggestion for him. Daniel Graystone is now convinced that Zoe's avatar hasn't been lost but is inside the Cylon. He thinks he has a way to get to her but she's one step ahead of him. Amanda Graystone continues to see her dead brother and has flashbacks to the night he died. Tomas Vergis tells her about Daniel's theft of the MCP.
Amanda Graystone continues to struggle with all of the events in her life and now thinks she' seen her dead brother Darius. Sister Clarice befriends her convinced that determining Zoe's present state will give her the understanding of life ever after. Knowing that Sister Clarice is looking for her and may interfere with her leaving Caprica, Zoe pushes Lacey to finalize arrangements for their departure while trying to arrange for her own escape, in Cylon form, from her father's lab. Lacey has run into problems however. Joseph Adama has tracked down Tad Thorean and gets him to show where Tamara's avatar is to be found. Tad tries to explain to him that she isn't real but Joseph doesn't quite see it that way. In New Cap City, Joseph continues to learn the rules but is soon on his own. Daniel Graystone continues to spar with rival Tomas Vergis.
Daniel Graystone's longtime rival Tomas Vergis, a Tauron, reappears on the scene. Vergis accuses Daniel of stealing the MCP chip technology from him, something Daniel denies. He visits Joseph Adama to find out hoe Vergis got his information. Sister Clarice visits Amanda Graystone, with interesting results. Joseph Adama meanwhile buys himself a holoband, intent on finding Tamara. He also tracks down the young man who told him of Tamara's existence.
Tamara Adama is still trying to make sense of her "life" in her new world. She doesn't understand where she is or why she's there. She does begin to realize that she is not a pure game creation nor is she a human who has entered the game via a holoband. Or at least not a conscious human, which is one of the suggestions put to her to explain how she fits in. She's become friendly with a young man who spends most of his life in the cyberworld preferring it to "real" life. She asks him to contact her father. Joseph Adama meanwhile realizes that unless he can put his wife and Tamara's death behind him, his son William will take a path in life that will no doubt lead to a life of crime.
Daniel Graystone gives in to the demands of his company's public relations experts and decides to go on talk show to talk about what Zoe has done and atone somewhat for any responsibility he wears for the terrorist attack. The decision to do so doesn't sit well with wife Amanda who now feels she misspoke and that they shouldn't blame Zoe for what has happened. The public appearance doesn't start well but Daniel gets help from an unexpected source. The police continue to investigate the crime and manage to get a warrant to search Zoe's and other's lockers at her school. The agent also get a warrant to search the Graystones' house but find nothing there either. Joseph Adama meanwhile pursues his revenge and sends his brother Sam to balance the score before he has second thoughts.
The Graystones begin to pay a heavy price for Amanda's public declaration that Zoe was a terrorist who was involved in blowing up the train. She resigns her position at the hospital and is stalked by paparazzi. The company's stock is dropping like a lead balloon and Daniel refuses to launch a publicity campaign to try and set things right. He also has to deal with Joseph Adama who insists that he find a way for him to visit with his avatar daughter. Joseph's brother Sam adds a little muscle to be persuasive. Meanwhile, Zoe's avatar has found a way to re-enter the holopad world.
Daniel Graystone believes his attempt to download Zoe's avatar into a cybernetic being has failed but is pleased when the soldier-cyborgs he is developing for the government finally seems to be working. He does not realize that Zoe's persona remains and is the edge that is finally making his latest invention work. Avatar Zoe is soon in touch with her close friend Lacy Rand and together they try to make sense of what has happened to her. Zoe's mother Amanda, still overwrought by their loss, attends a public memorial service for the victims of the explosion but realizing just how little she knew about her daughter, makes a startling public announcement. Joseph Adama is trying to keep his son William on the straight and narrow and desperately wants to visit his avatar daughter. In the final test of his new cyborg-soldier, Daniel Graystone wins praise from government officials for his new cybernetic life-form node, which he calls Cylons for short.
Some 58 years before the events in Battle Star Galactica, a series of events bring two families together that will have an indelible impact on human-kind. Daniel Graystone is a successful entrepreneur having introduced major advances in technology, most notably the holopad that allows users to immerse themselves in a holographic world of their own designs. Joseph Adama is a Tauron refugee who has successfully established himself on Caprica and is a lawyer for the Tauron gangster community that paid for his legal training. Unbeknown to Graystone, his daughter Zoe has become a member of an organization that has monotheistic religious beliefs but is regarded as a terrorist organization by some, including the government. When Zoe and a friend are killed in an explosion set off by Zoe's boyfriend Dan, Adama's wife and daughter are also killed. As Daniel explores his daughter's personal holographic world...