God is in the Details:
Written by: Eric Wallace
Directed by: Michael Rohl
Original airdate: September 11, 2007
Synopsis:
Zoe tries to schmooze Jack so that he’ll let her get a tattoo but he remains steadfastly against it. He delivers Zoe’s old unused belongings to Reverend Harper at the church who has just finished a service with a less than full congregation. As Jack goes to leave he sees his book of sonnets in the donation box and retrieves it, sparking a memory of Henry yelling at him for taking Kim from him.
As Zoe and her friends chat and decide to take a trip to a big city, since her friends have never actually been to one, they find themselves suddenly unable to speak. Stark confirms that somehow their vocal cords have become paralyzed. Jack also discovers that Zoe has a tattoo already, but lets it go due to his worry about what is happening to her voice.
Zane has a date with Jo, but it turns sour once he starts talking about his theoretical work as opposed to Jo’s concentration on practical physical applications of science. She meets Zoe later who communicates with a text to audio device and is surprised to hear about the bad date. Jo reveals it’s all about her feeling not smart enough to compete in a town full of thinkers.
Allison takes a shower at home when she suddenly starts to glow and collapses. Stark again cannot figure out what is happening and how to stop it, but he does find out that whatever is causing the glowing is also affecting her nervous system, acting as a neurotoxin and that there is limited time to stop it before she will die from it.
Jack investigates Seth who is working on bioluminescence and takes some samples of his work for testing. After Seth reports the water in his aquarium suddenly turned blood red, they discover the specialized crystalline glass of the aquarium has a hole in it, similar to the hole found in the crystalline window of Jack’s bunker and in Allison’s house. The crystallized glass is significant for reasons according to Henry.
Jack runs into Larry who is suddenly boning up on religion due to books given to him from Reverend Harper, citing the incidents that have been happening are all part of the bible. The organist Diane talks with Jack about the possibility that the things happening are being caused by the reverend in order to get more people in church, but she denies that, saying that the Reverend helped her through the death of her husband, standing up for the church leader’s character.
Jack wants to talk to Harper but Henry and Jo both can’t believe that she would be responsible. After the power goes out, another reference to the bible, they confront her. Harper is very helpful and non combative and even understanding of what the sheriff is suggesting, but when he tells her they need to take her downtown for questioning, the normally logical and fact based population begin acting like a mob, blocking him from taking her. Suddenly a squeal goes off and reveals that the church she’s a piezoelectric system to keep the organ music going on during the blackout. They take it for testing and find that it can actually cause holes in crystalline glass. They track down the head of infrasonic research and acoustics, which is Diane, the church organist.
Allison tells Stark to take care of Kevin if something happens to her and he agrees. When the test results come back and nothing is helping Allison, he turns to asking Kevin to try and use his connection to the artifact to help her. He places his hands over Allison’s body and concentrates.
Jack, Henry and Jo find Diane who has activated a temporal rift, or in her words, a portal to heaven, with Henry noting that she wants to crossover to be with her husband again. Jack convinces her to shut the machine down, with Henry reluctantly onboard. Once the machine is powered off, Zoe is able to talk, and Allison wakes up, feeling better, as people all over the town see the lights come back on and hug, relieved that their eternal darkness is over.
Jo talks with Zane and they seemingly are ready to try another date. Stark tells Allison that he doesn’t believe the machine turning off at the exact moment she was healed was actually responsible for her getting healed, crediting Kevin and his evolution.
Jack gives Henry the book of Sonnets back who claims he doesn’t remember the book. Jack, uneasy, tells Henry he considers him his best friend, as Henry acknowledges it and walks off. Zoe tells Jack that her tattoo wasn’t real, but since Jack seemed ok with it, she’d like to get a real one, to which Jack says only when hell freezes over.
Advanced Research:
Diane was played by Teryl Rothery. Her main claim to fame is Stargate SG-1 where she played Dr. Janet Fraiser. She was a reoccurring character in The Good Doctor for 24 episodes, Chip and Potato (a puppy and mouse cartoon, 39 episodes), Nancy Drew (10/62), and Travelers (humans discover how to send consciousness back through time, into people of the 21st century, while attempting to change the path of humanity, with Eric McCormack, 6/34 episodes). She was in the Arrowverse as Jean Loring for a handful of episodes, same with Superbook (a group of kids and a robot learn lessons from the Bible with the help of a time-traveling book, 6/70). She was in several made for TV movies like Miracle in Bethlehem, PA (just before Christmas, Mary Ann adopts a baby girl to raise alone. She and the infant spend the Christmas stuck in Bethlehem, PA, due to bad weather. Her only choice when the inn is full is to stay with Joe, the brother of the innkeeper), Christmas with A Crown (Hulu Hallmark-style), Made For Each Other (Hallmark), Cedar Cove (a law procedural focusing on Andie MacDowell’s judge, sees her return to the main cast for 35/36 episodes). She was a main voice in Martin Mystery (Martin and Diana, two mismatched teenagers, and Java, a massive caveman lost in time, work for an undercover bureau specializing in mysterious phenomena, 66), Gadget and the Gadgetini’s (52), Exosquad (40), and Robo Cop: Alpha Commando (40). She is currently a main cast member in Virgin River (seeking a fresh start, nurse practitioner Melinda Monroe moves from Los Angeles to a remote Northern California town and is surprised by what and whom she finds there).
Barbara Eve Harris played Reverend Harper. She had the occasional role here and there, even a handful of recurring roles, but nothing major. She’s done a number of TV / Hallmark movies like Double Holliday. She was a main cast member in the movie The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open (a woman tries to encourage a pregnant domestic abuse victim to seek help) and Messiah (when a C.I.A. officer investigates a man and his followers who attract international attention through acts of public disruption, she embarks on a global high-stakes mission to uncover whether he is a divine entity or a con artist). She was recently a cast member of the Fallout series.
Diane’s husband was named Daniel, a reference to Stargate SG-1. Her character and Daniel Jackson, played by Michael Shanks, would often share a glance at each other, leading many fans to speculate. Also, Daniel would frequently seem to "die" in many SG-1 episodes. Shanks will make a future appearance in Eureka.
We have the return of the control panel in this episode maybe, it does seem to have a new handle on it though.
Maneater:
Written by: Bruce Miller
Directed by: Michael Robison
Original airdate: September 18, 2007
Synopsis:
After a required sexual harassment training by Dr. Young, Allison asks Jack to find their biological systems engineer Dr. Stone, who is absent from work, which is a problem due to his work being the maintaining of his creation: Eureka’s biological-based air conditioning. Stone was overhauling the older parts of the system and with him missing, Henry is trying to fix it to no avail.jack asks Allison for the files on Kim’s accident and she’s hesitant being they are classified but says she will see what she can do. Allison goes to Stark and tells him that Carter is looking into things. Stark plays into her fears and says if Carter gets too far into this, it’ll lead right to Kevin and the DoD will take him away for study. He decides he needs access to all of the info about the accident and the lab as well.
Jack talks to Taggart about Stone who had talked with him about getting some new ducts put in for his wolves he was studying, working on getting them to mate through the use of some pheromones he developed. Jack then questions Stone’s wife but she says he can stay below in the tunnel for days sometimes and she just accepts it.
Upon returning to the office, both he and Jo seem to be avoiding calling their prospective love interests when Callie shows up unexpectedly with his cleaning, inviting him out for a weekend trip. Before he can answer, Jo hears a noise from the toilet in the bathroom where she is laser trimming her eyebrows, and she runs out, followed by an explosion. Henry explains that it’s due to the blockages causing the air conditioning issues, making finding Stone even more paramount.
Jack goes to Cafe Diem for lunch and is met by Mrs. Stone who comes onto him very strongly, much to a nearby Zane’s amusement. Jo then shows up and she also begins acting strangely, when Henry calls, yelling at them to get out. Another explosion happens and when the smoke clears, Jo ends up kissing Jack. Back at the office, Jo seems to be acting normally, but Zane is upset by what happened and leaves angrily.
With sewer systems causing water geysers popping up and more explosions on the way, Jack returns to the tunnels of GD to find Stone but ends up finding human bones covered in a thin dust. He reports his findings to Stark when Allison and Dr. Young begin arguing, competing for Jack’s affections with Young even kissing him before they start physically fighting. Jack is removed from the room and the women return to normal, detailing how they felt out of control.
Jack asks Taggart about his pheromones who claim they wouldn’t work on humans. They put it to the test by having women approach Taggart, stripped to his underwear, but nothing happens. They test Jack’s blood and discover that his eccrine gland is producing an overabundance of androstadiene, a hormone involved with sexual attraction, and could overload the female brain into not just attraction but violence. Taggert’s is normal, but one of his wolves’ glands is acting like Jack’s.
Still trying to find Stone, Vincent tells Jack that Stone’s usual lunch was picked up by Mrs. Stone, and they head to her goodie, finding the doctor locked in their bedroom, amidst the signs of a very active “getting busy” session. Stone tells Jack that he and his wife started rediscovering their newlywed days the previous night with Stone expressing regret it wasn’t just the old spark coming back. They go to check out the system and he discovers the problem, working on setting it back to normal.
Taggart is despondent to see that one of his wolves ate the other one due to the androstadiene overload, and calls Jack to get out of view as women start becoming aggressive and start attacking Jack’s car, with him, Fargo, and Stone just barely getting away.
Back in the tunnels, Stone manages to get the system working again, however, Jack sees dust on the floor of the wolves’ room, realizing it was the same dust that covered the bones he found. Taggart tests it and they discover it is responsible for the heightened sexual attraction. Now with the ac back online, the spores are now spreading throughout the town, infecting everyone.
They find a way to develop a counter agent but it will take several days. Jack points out that Henry was in the tunnels but no one is affected by him because he’s wearing an invisible spray-on electrostatic filter. They put the spray into the ac system and they start to see the effects of the spores decrease.
Zane confronts Jo about how he felt about seeing her kiss Jack and the two agree to start communicating and get to the point, with Jo kissing him.
Later Henry goes to get into Kim’s lab, but the door won’t open. Allison tells him she’s shutting it down and that he will be getting a new lab space. Henry confronts Stark but he won’t tell Henry anything. Jack and Callie reconnect and he realizes that when she invited him for the weekend trip it wasn’t because of the spores and they make plans to go.
Advanced Research:
Michael Robison previously wrote the Hide & Seek webseries for Eureka.
Eileen Barrett played Mrs. Stone, and she only has a few roles to her name. She reunited with Colin Ferguson in Every Christmas Has A Story.
Richard Ian Cox Played Bob Stone. He is known for his animated voice work, most notably playing Snails in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
The Payette River is a 82.7-mile tributary of the Snake River in southwestern Idaho.
