RW744 - MCU Rewatch - The Marvels

 

In this episode of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan came for the team up and stayed for the girl power as they discuss The Marvels.

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Our Favourite Trivia:

Originally was scheduled for release in the summer of 2023 however it was delayed until November 2023 and re-shoots were done to change the story.

Nia DaCosta is the fifth woman to direct a Marvel film, after:

• Lexi Alexander - Punisher: War Zone (2008)

• Anna Boden - Captain Marvel (2019)

• Cate Shortland - Black Widow (2021)

• Chloé Zhao - Eternals (2021)

Nia DaCosta is a big comic person, she was constantly looking to the original comics for details on the Kree, the Accusers, and more.

Megan McDonnell, a story editor on the Marvel-based series WandaVision (2021), penned the script for The Marvels.

Director Nia DaCosta revealed at Dublin's second annual screenwriting festival, Storyhouse, that she had always wanted to direct a Marvel movie because she's a big comic book fan, but her experience working on The Marvels turned out to be less than what she imagined. She spoke frankly about the behind-the-scenes process at Marvel Studios and how she tried to lean into their style of filmmaking, which was very different from her own. In the end, DaCosta says that the finished product was not the movie she pitched to Marvel Studios and wasn't even the film she originally shot. She blamed the failure of the film on not having a finished solid script when they began production and the studio's push to finish the movie before its tight scheduled release date.

Deadline estimated that Disney lost $237 million from this film, and proclaimed it the biggest box office bomb of 2023.

The comic book version of Monica Rambeau was codenamed Captain Marvel, Photon, Pulsar, and Spectrum, among others, in various iterations. Photon, Pulsar, and Spectrum are all among the code names Kamala suggests for Monica in this movie.

Emperor Drogge, is another refugee Skrull leader who is seeking a new home through nonviolent means. In Secret Invasion (2023), Talos tells Nick Fury that Drogge's Skrull colony is the only one that did not migrate to Earth in secret.

SABER is an acronym that stands for Strategic Aerospace Biophysics and Exolinguistic Response. It seems to be an extension and continuation of Fury's SWORD initiative, an outpost that's meant to serve as an early warning and defense against space threats, and a hub for alien species such as the Skrull, who come into direct contact with Earth.

The film confirms the true nature of Ms. Marvel's bangles, as they are revealed to be the powerful Quantum Bands. Quantum Bands have been around in the comics since 1975 and typically belong to a version of Quasar. Building on the implications provided in Ms. Marvel (2022), the MCU's version of Quantum Bands are tied to Kree mythology.

Carol Danvers' personal starship is called the "hoopty". There was no reference to the name or where it came from in the movie, only as this was newly released as merchandise through Lego toys.

The training montage in the middle of the film, where Carol, Monica, and Kamala learn to work together with their entangled powers, is scored to the Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic." The track was their first single off their fifth album, Hello Nasty. The MCU is no stranger to the Beastie Boys; in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), the climactic action scene is scored to "No Sleep till Brooklyn."

Due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA Actors Strike, much of the pre-release marketing for The Marvels did not include the involvement of the film's actors. The settlement that brought an end to the strike was ultimately reached just a day before early previews for the film began rolling out. This was similar to the marketing for Season 2 of Loki (2021), which was also affected by the same strike. After the strike ended, Iman Vellani made a surprise appearance before a showing of the film at the El Capitan in LA.

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Guess who's back? Well, it's their entrance into the MCU proper, so let's discuss Deadpool and Wolverine.

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RW743 - Eureka Rewatch S04E13-14 - Glimpse the Air

 

In this episode of The Eureka Rewatch, Cory and Tom predict they could just float away as they discuss season 4 episodes 13 & 14, Glimpse and Up in the Air.

Glimpse:

Written by: Ed Fowler

Directed by: Michael Robison

Original airdate: July 25, 2011

Synopsis: 

Fargo, with Holly’s help, begins interviews for people wanting to go to the Mars moon, Titan, for a special mission with everyone in GD vying for a spot.

Meanwhile, Jack plans a summer trip to the baseball hall of fame for him, Alison, Kevin and Jenna, with Alison loving the idea aside from her continuing headache. Zane walks downstairs, which reveals to Jack and Allison that he and Jo seem to be getting… closer. Later at work, Jo tells Zane that last night was the last time they will be together but she is clearly not sticking to that as she has said that exact thing to him several times over the last few weeks.

Zane introduces Jo and Jack to his PALS, Predictive Algorithm Lenses, a type of contact lens that has the technology embedded into them to scan the surroundings and predict where possible security issues could happen. Jo tries them out and it shows her issues with Zane, his past criminal history, history of aliases, and his narcissistic tendencies. Zane proudly shows off the giant well that acts as the data processing center for the PALS.

Jo and Jack head to Parrish’s lab where she sees with her PALS that ipe is going to burst, and lets Jack try and fix it, allowing the goo inside to break through and cover Jack as revenge for saying that he was a real cop and didn’t want the PALS.

Holly asks why Alison hasn’t put in her application for the trip to space, seeing as how she wrote the book The Blake which created and set the standard for space medicine. She declines, but Jack can tell she does want to try out.

Fargo and Holly begin their interviews but Fargo is super quick to cut people off and deny them access, especially Parrish, but gladly pushes Henry through to the next round. Holly and Fargo begin bonding and he asks her out for dinner and while at first she thought it was a working dinner, he clarifies it’s more of a date and she agrees.

Talking with Jack, Jo, via her PALS, sees Parrish and another scientist named Dillon arguing and causing an explosion when Dillon’s experiment falls. She quickly jumps in and catches the canister as the arguing scientists get out of control. The experience convinces Jack that he should give the PALS a try.

Henry checks in on Alison who is experiencing another headache. She drops some lore about how Kevin’s father died in their original timeline and wanted to turn her dissertation into a book. When Jack comes by and Allison says she really doesn’t want to go to space, he can tell, via his own PALS, that she is lying and wants to.

At Cafe Diem, Jo’s PALS predict Parrish choking on one of his banana slugs, and Jack intervenes to swipe the slug out of the air before it can happen. Next however, Jack and Jo see a prediction of Zane walking into the cafe followed by a huge explosion due to happen within hours. The PALS go offline and Jo quickly goes to Zane and asks why the PALS aren’t working, without telling him that it’s him in the prediction. Zane mentions that the PALS seem to be overtaxing his system for some reason. Jack goes to Parrish to find out if he’s responsible for the explosion due to his mention of nitroglycerin earlier but he manages to rule him out. His talk of the project however, makes Jack realize that it’s in her best interest if Alison goes on the mission to space.

Fargo and Holly ask what’s going on, seeing Jack and Jo’s distress, but Holly lets it drop that Fargo has been doing the interviews very quickly, almost like he has a sixth sense about people. That leads Jack to realize that Fargo also has installed PALS Into himself, and Zane explains that it’s Fargo’s unauthorized use of them that is now overtaxing the system. As they argue about what Fargo did, Jo accidentally lets it drop that Zane could die and he bumps his head, causing the injury that they saw in the PALS.

Alison suggests using the recorded information with Henry’s holographic projection project to better inspect the footage the PALS recorded. Jack tells Alison that she should go to space and says he will take care of her kids so she can have this chance at her dream. She promises to think about it.

Holly tells Fargo she’s really liking the way he took control of the interviews, and that it even helped her to get more comfortable with doing the interviews herself. Fargo tells Holly about his use of the PALS, that he wanted to impress her, but she gets upset because the project is very important to her and using experimental technology was not the way to go about preparing for the mission, leaving her to storm off.

With Henry’s help, they investigate the explosion and determine that the explosion actually didn’t start at the cafe, but farther away at GD. Fargo steps up and orders immediate evacuation for all personnel, working with Jo to make sure whine will get out safe, and puts Holly in charge of transferring the FTL drive. Fargo’s decisiveness impresses Holly who tells him she knew he had it in him, leaving him feeling much better after their earlier conversation.

Jo apologizes to Zane about not telling him about his impending death and when he tells her he wishes she could just see where things go with them, she reminds him that she knows they don’t work together. They’re interrupted by Zane’s system powering back on, but then it quickly starts to overheat to dangerous levels. 

Back at Henry’s holographic recreation, they find Dillon’s canister amongst the wreckage. They ask Dillon about it and he looks at the flames of the explosion and tells them that his canister wouldn’t have produced these particular types of flames and they realize that the flames could be produced by Zane’s PAL storage and processing core.

Fargo tries to get Parrish to leave but he insists he needs to save his banana slugs as they argue. Fargo promises to give him another interview and Jack comes in to find out why they haven’t left yet. Jack realizes that Parrish’s dormancy gel could be used to help cool down Zane’s processing core. Fargo begins the work of diverging the gel to the core, taking command again as he did earlier. Unfortunately the valve in the core isn’t responding and Jo climbs down into it to activate it manually. The core begins to collapse slowly but Jo can’t get back up because of the steam popping up around her, but Zane reaches down and helps pull her up to safety.

Later Jack advises Jo should let things just be whatever they are, without worrying about labels, since she obviously enjoys being with Zane. Holly and Fargo talk about the day's events and says he’d still like to take her to dinner and she agrees, revealing she’s fine with it being a date and not a working dinner. He confesses though that he saw a prediction with the PALS of her kissing him and she freaks out because it is obviously a security risk he saw and she leaves. Back at the bunker, Alison reveals that she isn’t going to go to Titan because she enjoys her life together with Jack and her children, that this is her new dream.

Jack then gets a call from Henry and he calls him down to the lab to show him one other prediction that popped up that they missed, a prediction that Allison is a 99.08% security threat.

Advanced Research:

Ed Fowler only has a very small handful of writing credits, however, he did write a TV mini series called 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust that follows a nurse being bitten by a vampire and slowly turning. It stars Shawnee Smith (The Blob and Saw), Ted Raimi (brother of Sam Raimi and Seaquest regular), and Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead). It also features Mimi Michaels and Christopher Allen Nelson who we were just discussing in ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2.

Stan Lee played Generalissimo. Born Stanley Martin Lieber, 1922, died in 2018. Worked at Timely Comics which would later become Marvel Comics. First used Stan Lee in 1941 for Captain America Comics #3 so that he could use his real name later on writing the great American novel.

He worked with Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko to create the great heroes. Made heroes human like with flaws and money troubles and anxieties. He would outline a story, the artist drew the pages, and then Lee would later add the dialogue and captions. In the 40’s he was in the army and wrote training films with Dr Seuss and Charles Addams and Frank Capra.

The PALs analysis if Zane-

Up in the Air:

Written by: Kira Snyder

Directed by: Alexandra La Roche

Original airdate: August 1, 2011

Synopsis: 

The tryouts for the Titan mission continue with the candidates now going through their physical fitness training. Henry shows Carter his jeep, newly repaired and now coated with a special super-protective polymer that will stop it from being destroyed. Meanwhile, Jo begins her part of the training which is to put the candidates through rigorous exercises, including Zane who wants to be part of the mission.

Allison, doing her part of the checkups, suddenly experiences missing time, finding herself blanking out after seeing her supplies arrive only to wake up hours later, with all the supplies put away, with the staff swearing that she put them away herself.

Jack receives a call that somebody robbed a bank and while Jack is excited for an old fashioned bank robbery, he is soon disappointed as it seems that someone literally robbed the bank and the entire bank building is missing. Henry tells him that the bank is basically a block of osmium, the densest, heaviest material in town.

Fargo goes through his training, trying to get closer to Holly but discovers that she ended up having dinner with his rival, Parrish, who is also going through the training and taking every opportunity to one up Fargo. Jo talks with Holly about Zane who is trying out in each of the fitness groups and she reveals that Zane’s criminal record takes him out of the running for the mission.

Allison confides in Grace about how she seems to have lost part of her memory and Grace suggests it might just be because she’s overworked as a working mother. 

As Jack investigates the back disappearance, he learns that one of the safety deposit boxes had a vial of antimatter in it, realizing that it could potentially be used as a bomb. 

Fargo has to postpone his physical training to take care of GD administration items and talks with Alison. As she talks, she experiences another case of memory loss as suddenly Fargo is thanking her for coming up with the idea of putting her in temporary charge. Later, Fargo and Parrosh get into it again with Parrish throwing a medicine ball at him and causing Fargo to go flying away somehow.

Grace feels like she may not qualify for the Titan mission, but Henry assures her they’ll figure it out. Andy, having saved Fargo, now searches for the medicine balls that have floated away, and Henry theorizes that if the osmium medicine balls floated away, perhaps the bank somehow did as well.  At the same time, Jack finally tracks down the antimatter with Henry’s gizmo and finds the bank right in front of him. However when he gets out of the jeep, he finds out that the bank and his jeep are floating up in the air and he falls 50 feet down into the water.

Jo talks with Zane about his criminal record and he tells her he knows but is going through the training anyway to show people what they’re missing.

Back at home, Alison talks with Kevin and Jenna as she gets ready and goes outside to look for her tablet but suddenly loses memory again and finds herself walking in the middle of the street, almost being hit by a car. When she gets back to the bunker, Kevin says she’s been missing for hours.

Fargo discovers that the bank is gaining altitude, and that something is making their signals bounce around, with Holly theorizing it could be a disruption in the Higgs Field, the pervasive universal field that gives things mass. Jack tells them there was a Higgs Field Disrupter listed as being in one of the safety deposit boxes in the bank.

Jack talks with Alison and she talks about how she seems to be losing time. He’s concerned but they’re interrupted by Holly who has found out who owns the disrupter, Parrish. He maintains it is safe and inert, and should still be unless there was a source of antiparticle energy nearby which Jack reveals there is, the aforementioned antimatter.

Alison scans her brains and discovers the manmade implant inside of her.

Jack uses one of the medicine balls to float up to the back and get inside. He manages to get to the vault, secure the antimatter, which turns off the disrupter. However, as everything starts floating back to the ground, the bank is falling faster. Henry, Holly, Fargo, and Jo manage to discover a device in another safety deposit box that could be used to slow it down, successfully saving the bank and Jack from crashing.

Henry tells Grace that Alison discovered that Henry’s heart has an atrial septal defect which disqualifies him from the mission but Grace says that they make the impossible happen every day in Eureka and they’ll figure this out too.

Fargo takes up Holly’s suggestion that she would help him train and get caught up with the physical fitness he missed earlier, much to Parrish’s chagrin.

Jo and Zane talk and he tells her that she should be trying to be part of the mission too but she tries to play it off, thinking she’s not smart enough but he counters her arguments. She comments that her and the original timeline Zane never really talked like they are, as friends.

Jack and Alison talk at home and she suddenly reveals that she feels all better now. Elsewhere, Beverly is lying on a medical bed, hooked up to wires and machines, watching Jack on a monitor, as an assistant tells her that the Higgs disruptor is no longer causing issues. Beverly begins speaking, as her words come out of Allison’s mouth, revealing that she has control over her, as she tells Jack that she is feeling just fine and there’s no cause to worry.

Advanced Research:

Alexandra La Roche had a lot of TV directing credits to her name, but also has just as many credits as a script supervisor.

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RW742 - Laid to Rest Rewatch - ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2

 

In this episode of Laid to Rest Rewatch, Cory and Eoghan cage their fears as they discuss ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2.

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Our Favourite Trivia:

Bobbi Sue Luther and Robert Green Hall had split before this film started production.

Thomas Dekker and Brian Austin Green were in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Owen Yeoman was in the pilot. Michael Biehn was originally cast as King but backed out at the last minute to do another project. Robert Hall also worked Second Unit on Terminator as well as working on Make Up Effects

The character ‘Trost’ is named after Brandon Trost who recently shot coyote vs acme. He also shot crank 2, the sonic films, the naked gun remake, ghost rider 2, a bunch of Seth Rogan films and most importantly had worked as a special effects assistant.

Several Almost Human effects workers appear in the film including shop manager Erik Porn.

Robert Hall considered giving up the directors chair but he was struggling to finance his other directorial efforts so he decided to revisit this character.

He wanted to address the lack of cell phones and cops from the first film

The film was shot in LA for a Halloween 2011 release but it was released in September.

DOP Amanda Treyz had to wear a poncho in some scenes so she didn’t get covered in blood.

Tommy’s apartment was Heather Wixon’s apartment. They crammed 30 people in there for a day of shooting.

Robert Green Hall was planning Laid to Rest: Exhumed at the time of his death. Nick Principe was working on a Sequel/prequel comic “The reflection of fear” as of 2023 but I can't see anything else on that.

Godzilla does actually have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard, in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. It was awarded on November 29th, 2004 to honor his 50th anniversary at the premiere of the film Godzilla: Final Wars.

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Back to the MCU and The Marvels.

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RW741 - Eureka Rewatch S04E11-12 - Liftoff Reprise

 

In this episode of The Eureka Rewatch, Cory and Tom blast off with a boogie as they discuss season 4 episodes 11 & 12, Liftoff and Reprise.

Liftoff:

Written by: 

Story by : Jaime Paglia & Bruce Miller

Teleplay by : Bruce Miller

Directed by: Mike Rohl

Original airdate: July 11, 2011

Synopsis: 

It’s wedding day for Deputy Andy and SARAH however, she gets cold feet and cancels it. Zane hits on Jo but Fargo puts him in his place, ordering him to finish making the ion pulse engine dampener he needs. When Zane surprisingly finishes it, he goes to tell Fargo, finding him playing around in an antique test rocket he and Henry were planning to use. Zane gets into the cockpit with him, telling him he will give him the dampener if he tells him what is going on with Jo lately. Unfortunately after he closes the hatch door, the rocket begins launching because Zane had already installed the dampener and due to Fargo playing with the switches, the launch sequence was activated.

Jack and Allison continue their flirting but Allison is back to business when the unscheduled launch comes up as an alert, and she instinctively starts calling him Carter. Jack and Jo are desperately trying to find Fargo because they need his authorization to launch the missiles to take out the rocket before it kills the astronauts aboard the international space station. They also discover Zane is nowhere to be found, knowing that he would be front and center to make fun of them all for this monumental launch mistake. With no Fargo in sight, Allison, with Henry and Larry, decide to use her override codes to launch the missiles. Jack has a hunch that Fargo and Zane were on the rocket and cancels the missile launch at the last second which annoys Allison and the tension grows between them.

On the rocket, Fargo and Zane see the missiles explode and realize that they will hit the space station. Fargo vents their oxygen to steer them off course and while they scrape the station, it is otherwise undamaged and the astronauts stay safe. Zane however keeps panicking, scared of the lack of oxygen and not wanting to die. With the rocket having its navigation and communication systems down, Fargo manages to use an old military code similar to Morse code to try and communicate with GD.

Henry reasons that if Fargo and Zane can activate the rocket’s untested faster than light drive that he and Henry were going to originally test, then he could use the Bosun Cloud Exciter to pull them in safely. Fargo comes to the same conclusion but Zane tells him that the plan won’t work because he didn’t build the pulse dampener but rather took it out of the Bosun Exciter. Fargo tries to warn GD to not start the exciter but it’s too late as Henry powers it on and it feeds back, shutting down all electricity in Eureka.

Jo manages to get some horses so she, Alison and Jack can get around. Henry sends Alison and Jack outside of town to an old communication station which hopefully was outside the range of the feedback pulse. Jo heads to Grace’s lab where she has a protected and shielded energy source that could be used to power the exciter.

Zane has a rare moment of vulnerability and tells Fargo he feels like something has happened to his brain and memories, asking Fargo if he loved someone, wouldn’t he also want to know.

Meanwhile before she can find Grace’s power source, Jo finds Andy in Grace’s lab, sad and depressed about his and SARA’s breakup. Jo realizes that Andy could be used as the power source. Unfortunately, when Carter and Allison get to the old station, they find it inoperable. Luckily, Jack finds a telephone wire connected to an old phone that they use to get in touch with NASA to use their satellites and manage to briefly call Fargo, telling them the exact time to fire up the BCE.

As Zane and Fargo test their power, they end up having another oxygen leak but Zane comes out of his panicked stupor to get the power going. Facing possible death, Fargo starts to tell him about the other Zane. Back on the ground, Henry activates the BCE, Fargo activates the FTL, and everyone returns home AOK.

As everyone embraces, Jo gives Zane a reluctant hug who tells her it’s good to see her, using the nickname Jojo, leaving her confused as to whether he knows the truth.

Later, Andy, now repaired, goes to SARA and asks why she stopped the wedding. She admits she isn’t sure if she’s ready to be a housewife yet, but is still wanting to spend time with him and see where things go.

Jo asks Fargo if he and Zane discussed anything in particular but they’re interrupted by soldiers ordered to take Fargo to Washington where Senator Michaela Wen is set to question him about the events that occurred and his future in Eureka.

Advanced Research:

Ming-Na Wen played Senator Michaela Wen and she is everywhere. Her biggest claim to fame is that she played Mulan. She also starred as Melinda May in 136 episodes of Agents of SHIELD, was Fennec Shard in The Book of Boba Fett, and did voices for Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai. Before all that though, she started off with 79 episodes of As The World Turns in the late 80’s, she was then in The Joy Luck (with Tamlyn Tomita, relationships between Chinese moms and daughters), Vanishing Son II (again with Tamlyn, saga of the Chang brothers, gang fights, racist feuds in LA), and Hong Kong 97 (On Hong Kong's last day of British rule a corporate assassin carries out his orders to murder a corrupt general. Unbeknownst to him, his bosses have set him up for a fall, and he must now band together with an unlikely corps of friends to survive). She played Chun-Li in the 1994 Street Fighter movie and subsequent game, she was in Starquest (year 2035, cryogenic sleep traveling to nearby earth type planet but they find out something went wrong when they awaken 100 years later), One Night Stand (guy has one night stand, goes home to family, later accidentally bumps into her one night stand and everyone is with their spouses, with Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr, and Kyle MacLachlan), Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (A scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms), 118/331 episodes of ER, voiced Detective Yin in The Batman (series), Breakdance Academy (80’s football player want to turn his heavy metal band into a boy band for popularity), a several episodes of Stargate Universe, and she lead Super Cyclone (disaster movie).

Face Meat as discussed in the episode:

Reprise:

Written by: Amy Berg

Directed by: Matt Hastings

Original airdate: July 18, 2011

Synopsis: 

Adorkable/Keet/Manic Pixie Dream Girl/rocket scientist Dr. Holly Marten has arrived in Eureka and meets Vincent who is partying up a storm, dancing along to his choice of morning music as he asks Holly what she’s listening to in ear phones. She talks about Neuro-Linguistic Programming that she has embedded into some mp3s to help her manage her social anxiety. 

Fargo however is not anticipating her arrival, knowing she was sent here from Senator Wen’s office, and learns that GD was one of the places she was recruited for and subsequently one that she turned down for a job, due to her having a plethora of options available to her, having several degrees and being particularly notable in her field. Fargo turns on some gameplay music to help himself face off against his rival.

Henry plans a six month anniversary for him and Grace and lays the romance on big time while the song Melt With You plays in the background. Wanting their mornings to always be like this, they start working on a gizmo.  

Jo is very happy with her new house and chats with Zane who was jogging nearby and he brings up the group‘s secret time travel trip, leaving Jo to head to GD to confront Fargo but before he can apologize he sees Holly and goes into attack mode, taking her to see the FTL drive. As she inspects it, Fargo activates it and sends her away to… somewhere, reasoning that Holly wanted to take the device apart and would learn about the bridge device being integrated into it so he had to take care of her.

Alison heads off to a conference, leaving Jenna and Kevin with Jack. They sit at Cafe Diem with Kevin annoyed because Jack has become domesticated and they can’t have fun anymore. Jo calls about what happened and Jack asks Kevin what hypothetically could have happened to someone who was sent through the FTL and Kevin goes gung ho about going to help. Vincent interrupts them to offer a martini while Kevin grabs Jack’s keys and takes off in his jeep. With Jo, Jack finds him in the woods near the BCE having found Holly who remains her positive adorkable self and is excited and intrigued by the whole experience, never having the chance to do much field work. Zane comes up with an idea to try and hide the origins of the FTL in exchange for Jo getting naked, telling her they have to talk about things but she says that they don’t exist as a couple in this or any timeline.

Alison ends up getting a flat tire and sees another car that is stopped with a young girl looking over the edge of the road at a crashed car, desperately trying to call to her father below. Alison climbs down to try and help but finds that the father must have walked away from the crash site in shock. Eventually they find him, and the girl calls for an ambulance and the man is saved.

Kevin says he doesn’t know why he went after Holly so suddenly as he and Jack head back to the sheriff’s office, taking back Jenna from Deputy Andy who stepped in to help babysit. Jo drives home and sees Zane who just finished torching her house, burning it to the ground. Zane is apprehended and handcuffed to a chair while Jo is put in the holding cell to calm down. Jack theorizes that both Zane and Fargo were acting crazy because of their exposure to the FTL, and Jo heads off to DG to get Zane checked out while Fargo continues his rants against Holly. 

Jo tries getting in touch with Henry but he’s not answering his phone so Jack and Kevin head towards his garage when they see a bunch of rocks floating in the air. Holly shows up in lieu of Jo who is herding all the dogs who were let out of the animal behavior science lab at GD. She explains the rocks are still moving but at an imperceptible rate. As they discuss what would happen if a person got stuck in the stasis field, Kevin steals the jeep again to get back to the sheriff’s office to look something up on the computer, while he absentmindedly sings Bad Boys, the theme song from Cops. He complains that it’s been stuck in his head all morning and Jack checks out the playlist he had used which contains song titles that seem to mirror the behaviors of Vincent, Fargo, Zane and Kevin. Kevin explains that the jukebox in Cafe Diem is the server that holds the music for all of Eureka so they all have equal access and that there was an update that very morning. 

Back at Henry’s house, he and Grace are already stuck in the stasis field embracing each other.

Meanwhile at GD they discover the stasis field will reach them in 7 minutes and Jo orders an evacuation. Jo, Zane, Fargo and Holly discuss the incidents and what could be happening. Holly comes to the realization that they were all not hypnotized but influenced, as in her Neuro Linguistic Programming tracks. Zane says that the jukebox downloads all music files from any outside source and could have embedded Holly’s NLP program into the town’s music, explaining the strange behaviors. They track the field back to Henry’s garage. Holly works on a fix and uploads it to the music server but as they try to make it out of GD, they too are caught in the field.

Having arrived at Henry’s, Jo shows up having been influenced by the song I Shot The Sheriff. As she goes to fire, Jack leaps into the stasis field. Kevin shows up and tries to explain to her why she should stop but she’s still under the influence. Kevin plays the song Why Can’t We Be Friends and she manages to break free and help Kevin get inside to disconnect the stasis field machine while she jumps onto Jack to take the bullet as the field drops and everyone returns to normal. Luckily, she was wearing a bulletproof vest.

Fargo is still angry about what happened and he and Zane confront Holly about being Senator Wen’s henchmen. She tells them that she is there to evaluate the FTL to see if they qualify for a 20 billion dollar grant.

Zane apologizes to Jo about what happened to her house, telling her that he wants to know what they used to be to each other. She kisses him, telling him that they are nothing to each other. He grabs her and pulls her close again and kisses her, this time for longer and Jo doesn’t pull away.

Allison returns to GD but has a headache, taking some meds to help. Inside her brain, a small device attached inside her glows. The scene shifts back to earlier in the day when Alison helped the girl but this time, we see there is no girl but Beverly Barlowe instead, who uses an accomplice to drug and sedate Alison from behind, telling him that they will make sure Alison remembers what they want her to remember, before sending her back to GD.

Advanced Research:

The girl, Bonnie, was played by Marie Avgeropoulos, who is best known for playing Octavia Blake in the series 100 for 100 episodes. She’s been in a few movies since then, such as King of Killers (Garan is a part of a group of international hitmen who are contracted to take out the most dangerous killer in the world, only to find out they are the ones being hunted), The Painter (an ex CIA operative is thrown back into a dangerous world when a mysterious woman from his past resurfaces), and Super Dicks (Stoner comedy, dicks or detectives investigate a doctor who gives people super dicks, some kind of glowing strong and impressive implants). She was also in the recent Queen of the Ring. In the past she was a lead in the movie Isolation (true story, pirates try to hunt and steal a young couple’s identities), A Remarkable Life (woman helps a friend overcome his depression after his wife cheats on him with a woman), Dead Rising: Endgame, Numb (couple in money trouble discover GPS coordinates to rumored gold and team up with mysterious hitchhikers to find it), Tracers (bike messenger wanted by the Chinese mafia escapes into the world of parkour), the series Cult (investigation of mysterious deaths surrounding the show within a show, 10/14), and Fugitive at 17 (teenage computer hacker on the run to find out who really killed her friend). 

The dad was Cameron Bancroft. He got his start in 64 episodes of 374 episodes of Beachcombers (professional lumber salvagers in British Columbia), a lead in Love and Human Remains (guy comes out as gay, serial killer stalks the city), Just One of the Girls (Corey Haim, bullied teen disguises himself as a girl to hide), Moment of Truth: To Walk Again (paralyzed marine and his recovery), For The Love of Nancy (Tracy Gold, parent of an anorexic woman try to help her), She Stood Alone (female naval officer sexually harassed and legal battle after), Extreme (series with James Brolin, search and rescue in the Rockies dealing with romance as they face daredevils living the extreme life), To Brave Alaska (true story of two yuppies try to survive in Alaskan wilderness), The Cape (17/21, select NASA astronaut corps members train at Kennedy Space Center), and lead the series Code Name: Eternity (alien takes on human form to capture a rogue alien and a woman helps him understand human relationships and ideas while forming an alliance).  

Felicia Day is here! She plays Holly Marten. She started off in shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer for a hot minute, movies like Bring It On Again, and even had a movie early on called June (young violinist working in a coffee shop by day, searches for true love and meets him but he’s engaged to a less than nice woman). Shortly after that she became addicted to World of Warcraft which inspired her to create The Guild (66, eventually crowdfunded), which led to her becoming a nerd heartthrob in things such as Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and a viral Guild music video.

She was in a not-so-great SyFy movie called Red: Werewolf Hunter (modern day Little Red Riding Hood), and voiced various roles for a few video games as well as half of the 60-some episodes of Annoying Orange. She’s done voices for Skylanders Academy, Stretch Armstrong & The Flex Fighters, Spider-Man (series), guest starred in a few episodes of Supernatural, and recently was a lead in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival. She was in a 2024 movie called Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox (with Danny Trejo, Keith David, and Joel McHale, what if you kill your younger self) and just last year was in the movie Exes (Two former FBI partners framed for terrorism and on the run in a war zone must team up to survive - only problem is they're divorced - and absolutely hate each other, with Mark Sheppard).

Jo’s house is at 4020 Coriolis Loop. Jack’s bunker was previously established to be at 3 Coriolis Loop.

Songs featured in the episode: 

FULL PLAYLIST: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXf6ZeVRuFV8&si=kanc9Rl0_Nv6ZhEk

Get the Party Started by P!nk

Eye of the Tiger by Survivor

I Melt With You by Sugarcult (Continuity error lists the original Modern English version)

I Shot the Sheriff by Bob Marley & The Wailers

Why Can’t We Be Friends by War

Burning Down the House by Talking Heads (referenced only)

And She Was by Talking Heads (referenced only)

Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads (referenced only)

Bad Boys by Inner Circle (referenced only)

99 Red Balloons / 99 Luftballons by Nena (referenced only)

Hips Don't Lie by Shakira (ft. Wyclef Jean) (referenced only)

Further Playlist: 

There are a couple of visual effects errors; the songs and artists are on the wrong labeled columns, and later they click on I Melt With You by Modern English but the cover opens.

Further Resources:

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