That Which Lies In Between

“Ha’la’tha means always faithful to the soil. There’s something we got to be more faithful to. We choose our own path, to be faithful to each other as Adamas.”

-Joseph tells Sam as children in Caprica Dirteaters

Warning: Spoilers Ahead for Caprica Dirteaters, Ep 1×15

From the beginning, there’s always been this wall of contention between Sam and Joseph. A reason Joseph denies his heritage and there’s Sam’s contempt. The past is painful. One act of impetuousness by Sam as a child tears the family apart and causes the parents to suffer unbelievable brutality. As a child Joseph does something no child should ever have to do. Caprica Dirteaters tells the brutal accounting of Joseph and Sam’s past, of how their parents died under the regime of the Herac.

The father is physically broken by the Heracs, a beating he cannot survive. It happens when the Heracs, investigating the assault ( or death, not sure) of one of their soldiers, discover a gun in the Adamas’ home. The father is unaware Sam had taken the gun from this soldier the previous night. The Herac busts the father’s kneecaps trying to make him give up the names of the Dirteaters. In another room, the wife is beaten unmercifully, and then dies by gun execution. Joseph and Sam witness the father’s beatings from a safehaven hidden in the wall.

The soldiers leave the room. Joseph comes out of hiding. Urged by his father, he retrieves the gun. Sam, however, is the one who kills the soldiers leaving one wounded. He shoots them one by one with an accuracy no child should know. The father begs Joseph to return him to the soil. Joseph puts a bullet in his father’s head.

The Adamas are made of strong pride and family loyalty. Their rules are not necessarily the rules of the Tauron. They fight on their own terms. Bare their pain together. They decide how they will be return to the soil.

This is what the Adama story is about. Reuniting Joseph and Sam back to a strong family unit who will watch other’s back. It’s about forgiveness.

Daniel does research on the Tauron’s cultures, Ha’la’tha, Sam, and the Guatrau. He also searched for other companies taken over by the Guatrau. He discovers something disheartening. The CEOs of those companies are all dead. He appeals to Sam to save his life. In return, Daniel will send cylons to Tauron. It appears Sam accepts the deal, which forces Joseph to a position. He will stand by Sam. They’re brothers.

The Guatrau apparently is not a Tauron. Interesting. So he wouldn’t have the depth of understanding of what Sam and Joseph have gone through. He’s truly a man for cubics and not for honor.

Clarice’s husbands, chuckle, they aren’t as devout as Clarice that’s for sure. They go into the V-World to have some fun, pit their maleness against the Avenging Angels. Hah, Zoey and Tamara take them out right nicely. Cheated by shooting them instead of sword fighting. These avatars got a plan in mind. They want to cleanup New Cap city. And the husbands, they can’t ever go back again. LOL. The irony, they didn’t know that was the real Zoey (as real as real can be.)

Gara has Jordan suspended from his job using the excuse of an internal investigation into Marbeth’s death. Daniel tells Amanda, Zoey is alive in the V-world. She wants to visit her in V-world.

This is another great episode. We don’t have the specific details of the Tauron uprising. There’s no need, really. It always about the ideological difference between fractions, countries, whatever, that causes a war. Admiral Cain, BGS, was a Tauron. She watched her family die. I think I can understand better why she shot her XO. Loyalty is viewed in such high regard. Still don’t agree with it. But Taurons are just too passionate, and stubborn in their beliefs. Returning people to the soil seems to be just a way of life to them.