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In this episode of The Eureka Rewatch, Cory and Tom grow up but self isolate as they discuss season 3 episodes 1 & 2, Bad to the Drone and What About Bob?
Bad to the Drone:
Written by: Jaime Paglia
Directed by: Bryan Spicer
Original airdate: July 29, 2008
Synopsis via Eureka Wiki (with edits):
Jack is concerned and not happy about the “big step” that Zoe is taking, a part-time job working at Café Diem, especially with a fusion reactor being the source of the Cafe’s power.
Allison and Stark are talking about the proposal he gave Allison, with her uncertain given their first marriage failed and that he always put his work first.
At GD, the team readies their test of the Viper, an anti aircraft defense system when Eva The Fixer Thorne comes in, assigned there by the DoD to clean things up and get things worker make efficiently and within budget.
The test begins and one drone that Dr. Edison calls Martha, is expected to beat the Viper in the test. Viper knocks out all of the drones except for Martha who somehow attacks and disables the Viper before flying off, not responding to any commands.
Jack visits Henry in prison but he fires his lawyer and says that he is guilty of everything he has been charged with. Jack tells Henry that he did it to save Allison's son and to that Henry says, “Some things can’t be forgiven.” Across town, DoD agents are collecting everything from Henry’s garage as evidence. Jo lets it slip that Stark proposed to Allison.
Jack meets Eva before he is tasked with finding and getting Martha back before any more damage happens and talks to Edison, but he has no clue what happened with Martha, saying that she is a learning computer and that she learns at an incredible rate. Jack likens her to a teenager who is temperamental and dangerous.
Martha finds her way to Cafe Diem and hovers in front of Jack’s jeep. Jo arrives and points her laser gun at her but Martha goes into battle mode and emits a sonic blast that takes out all the windows in the jeep. The two manage to get Martha to follow them to the sheriff’s station and despite turning invisible, they get her trapped in the jail cell. Martha blasts a hole in the station's wall and escapes while Stark comes by and mocks the fact that Jack thought a jail cell was going to stop Martha. Eva is there and says that since Jack has been in Eureka, the incidents have tripled, saying numbers don’t lie, insinuating that it’s Jack’s fault, while she compliments Stark's management style.
Jack and Jo arrive at Edison's house but only his wife Mina answers the door with champagne and two glasses. Edison soon pulls up and they talk in his workshop, as he has no clue where Martha is and that he did not program Martha to turn invisible like she did, but she will likely need to return home in order to recharge. Stark th en shows up with his team and bolstered by Eva’s compliments, confiscates Edison's life work.
While talking with Zane, he tells Jack that Martha could recharge with any fusion reactor and they race off to Cafe Diem. Zoe is in the fridge there looking for supplies for Vincent when she gets lost. She mistakes Martha for a shuttle robot of Vincent’s and helps Martha charge her battery who then shows her the way out of the large fridge and then disappears again.
Jack and Jo enter with blasters and try to flush Martha out when Eva and Larry enter Café Diem and Martha shows herself and shoots toward Larry and hits the book he's holding before Jack and Jo take Martha down with their proton blasters. They later find a transmitter attached to Martha and confront Edison’s wife Mina about it. Mina admits to having adjusted Edison’s programming so that Martha could out perform the drones and show her husband as a success but denies having placed the transmitter.
The investigation leads them to Larry who planted the receiver and controlled her with a device hidden with a copy of Eva’s book. He wanted to impress Eva with his technological prowess.
Back at GD, Martha awakens and escapes again, this time with the other drones. Martha goes to Zoe’s house but when Jack arrives the drone is gone and Zoe is fine, saying that she thinks Martha was trying to help Zoe get away from Jack.
Back at Global Dynamics, only a few beacons for the EM Pulse shield surrounding Eureka remain after the drones attack. Jack tells them to power down the beacons and to let Martha go, saying Martha is like a teenager that needs to blow off steam but will eventually come back and relax. Eva disagrees but Jack tells her that she was just trying to set Zoe free after Jack grounded her but Eva tells Stark to call in air support to shoot the drones down. Both Stark and Allison believe Jack, leaving Eva to call General Mansfield who orders them to get their forces in the air and attack Martha.
Jack tells Allison to lower the shield as a sign of good faith but it is up to Fargo to “accidentally” shut the shield off. Stark orders the fighters to not attack unless they are attacked first. Edison rigs up a communication device to Martha and Zoe tells Martha that running away doesn't solve any problems and that parents are there to help you out. They manage to talk the drone down and all is saved.
Back at GD, Eva is upset that her orders were not obeyed and says that they were all lucky. She puts Stark in charge of Global Dynamics on a temporary basis and puts Allison as the Director of Operations while she, Eva, will serve as Chairman.
Allison catches Jack before he leaves and thanks him and he talks with her again about Stark’s proposal to her and that he'll be there for her either way.
Later at Café Diem, Allison and Stark are talking and she finally accepts his proposal.
Back at Global Dynamics, in her new office, Eva pulls out a vial of blue liquid.
Advanced Research:
We’ve seen director Bryan Spicer before, he directed 6 episodes of Seaquest, and a season 4 episode of Heroes. He also directed 2 episodes of Eerie, Indiana.
Eva “The Fixer” Thorne was played by Frances Fisher. Early in her career she was in over 250 episodes of The Edge of Night (soap opera). She was a main cast member in the remake of Attack of the 50 ft Woman, Unforgiven, Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, and Night of the White Pants (the patriarch of a distinguished but crumbling Dallas family is forced to hit the town with his daughter's punk rock boyfriend) to name just a few of her many credits. She was in 5 of the 9 episodes of Watchmen, 7 of 17 episodes of Electric Easy (set in a futuristic Los Angeles in which humans struggle to co-exist with robots, known as "electrics”, forbidden love story), and she also had a run recently in The Rookie.
She played the lead role of Lucy in Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter, and the lead in Resurrection (the lives of the people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return). She had a recurring role in Sinner with Bill Pullman (Detective Ambrose employs some unusual tactics, and a deep capacity for empathy to solve his cases. His boundless dedication is driven by his dark past, leading him into powerful and often dangerously intimate bonds with his suspects). Most recently in 2025, she was a supporting cast member in The Wrong Paris (a woman joins a dating show for an art opportunity, thinking that it's in Paris, France, but it's actually in Paris, Texas).
Dr. Ethan Edison was Jonathan Young, who was in Stargate as Dr. Parrish.
Mina was played by Lauren K. Robeck. She was a main cast member in the series Critters: A New Binge back in 2019. She was also higher up on the cast list for Firefly Lane. She’s had high and low cast credits in some TV movies, such as Deadly Midwife (upon the arrival of their new baby, Lauren and Anthony hire a new mid-wife. But things may not be as they appear) and Junebug (Juniper, a book editor turning 40, is magically reconnected with an eight-year-old version of herself who questions her life choices, including the dream of writing her own stories). She was a main cast member in the movie When Mom Becomes a Murderer (after her friend's mysterious death, a teen discovers her mother isn't who she says she is and has a deadly past. Now it's a race against time to solve her friend's murder before she's next).
The term downsizing was originally coined in the 1970s by the prominent management consultant and author Charles Handy. While Handy coined it as a broader business and psychology concept, it gained mainstream popularity as a corporate and workforce reduction strategy during the U.S. recession in the early 1980s. Automakers in the U.S. coined the term in the late 1970s/early 1980s to describe the shrinking of vehicle sizes to meet new fuel economy standards.
Lee Iacocca was an American author, engineer, and executive who developed the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and then revived the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. He was president of Chrysler from 1978 to 1991 and chairman and CEO from 1979 until his retirement at the end of 1992. He was one of the few executives to preside over the operations of two of the United States' Big Three automakers.
According to the records accessed by Martha in this episode, Stark is 39, Allison is 37, Larry is 25, and Eva’s age is classified and her job is corporate consultant. Zoe is shown to be 17 but it is reiterated in the episode that she is still 16.
The bunker address is also shown as 3 Coriolis Loop. The Coriolis effect is the apparent curving of moving objects, air, or water due to Earth's rotation.
Degree Deodorant is a real brand. The product appears in the first 8 episodes of the season as a new financing deal made through Syfy Channel.
What about Bob?:
Written by: Charlie Craig
Directed by: Fred Gerber
Original airdate: August 5, 2008
Synopsis:
As Eva starts making changes to Eureka, including the cutting of 75 jobs, a hiring freeze, shutting down the museum, and making sure no food is free at Cafe Diem from now on, GD has a problem on their hands as one of their scientists, Bob, that worked in self contained self sustaining 18 square mile lab/park has gone missing. The other scientists have no idea where he is and most don’t care as they don’t particularly like him since he is rather forward with people and has a history of being a bit of a sleazy womanizer. Jack decides to go in but Eva sends Alison with him.
After getting inside, one of the scientist’s daughters, Teri, is attacked but there’s no sign of what. Jack finds Bob’s ripped uniform, and then a shoe covered in a clear goo that Stark and company begin analyzing and later find out is human, kind of. Stark also says they need to begin procedures for shutting down the project and reintegrating the scientists back into the real world. Eva on the other hand, wants to quarantine the whole thing and leave everyone inside, which bothers Stark given Allison is inside.
Jack comes up with a plan to trap whatever attacked Teri and eventually trap and capture Bob except he has begun to change into a lizard type creature. Stark theorizes it is some kind of reverse evolution and goes to Henry for his help, using a holographic version of him to enter the biosphere.
Teri soon goes to Jack to show him that she and the others have started mutating as well. They get very little answers from Bob as to who would have wanted to do this to him, but going back to his garden they see his plants look as if they were torched. With Henry and Stark saying that the sun could have affected the water supply, Jack confronts Derek and he comes clean. He was trying to make Bob sick so he’d have to leave the biosphere and not be able to bother Teri who he was in a sort of long distance relationship with, not knowing that his plans would affect the water and everyone else as well.
Stark, Henry, and Zane begin work on the cure but it will take time. They save some time by borrowing one of Jo’s biggest guns to deliver the cure for the mutation to the affected scientists, which Stark brings himself into the biosphere.
Meanwhile Bob breaks free and kidnaps Allison. They try to shoot Bob with the cure but he manages to evade them. Teri shows up as bait to lure Bob out and it works with Bob trying to grab Teri but she is only a hologram, like Henry, which distracts Bob enough for Jack to shoot Bob with the cure.
Soon enough Bob and all the scientists are cured and back to normal. Eva meanwhile, has questions about Henry and asks Zane about him.
While Eva watches them through a monitor, Jack lets Henry watch the sunset, something that Henry had expressed a desire to see again since he had been locked up and unable to do so.
Back at Café Diem, Eva reveals to Jack that all of the changes she had planned are cancelled and that the balance in Eureka is back. Henry comes in, revealing that Eva granted him a pardon.
Elsewhere, Eva watches old movie clips of Eureka and some nuclear tests that occurred there back in the late 1930’s.
Advanced Research:
Director Fred Gerber directed 2 episodes of the reboot series Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension. Woody Jeffreys played Bob Nobb. He’s mostly an extra here and there, with 84 credits. He has had a number of TV movie lead roles, such as A Wife’s Suspicion (a forensic investigator begins to suspect her new husband is the serial killer the police department has been hunting. This puts her and her ex-boyfriend -- a detective on the case -- in danger), Betting on the Bride (a womanizer bets that he can get someone to accept his marriage proposal after just 30 days of dating. What he doesn't know is that the woman he targets has serious commitment issues), and Killer Ending (Agatha Sayers best selling novel becomes her worst nightmare when her daughter is abducted in a copycat scenario tangled with an obsessive assistant intent on stealing her identity). He was a part of the supporting cast in the series Strange Empire (in 1869 Janestown on the Alberta-Montana border, three women band together for survival after the men in their town are murdered).
Malcolm Stewart played Rick Wallace. He was in Riverdale for 26 episodes, half as Francis Dupont and the other half as Frederich Werthers. He has been in a lot of TV Movies, such as Mingle All The Way, Christmas In Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing, and Just Add Romance. He was in two episodes of Sliders, in season 1 “Last Days” playing Allan Fontaine (an asteroid coming to earth, Arturo makes H Bomb, Remy goes to a party and possibly gets involved with swingers) and season 2 “Obsession” as Regent (Prime Oracle psychic stuff assistant).
Richard Kahan played Derek Bowers. He was in DaVinci’s Inquest and a few other walk-on roles. His biggest claims to fame are, being a main cast member in The 4400 playing Marco (4,400 people who mysteriously vanished from different points in time, only to suddenly reappear together at Mount Rainier, Washington. They haven't aged a day and slowly begin to develop superhuman abilities), and playing Gil in the series Edgemont with Kristen Kruek (the kids of Edgemont are faced with issues that happen in their lives, whether the issues are racism, homosexuality, or discrimination).
Elysia Rotaru played Teri Wallace. She was the lead in the TV movie A Snowy Christmas, and was a supporting actor in Dumbells with Chris Gauthier, Residue with Matt Frewer (a private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives...and their eternal souls), Girl House (a beautiful young college student moves into a house that streams video to an X-rated website. After a deranged fan hacks the site and finds out where she lives, she spends the night fighting for her life), and Heart of Clay (a dying sculptor, celebrated internationally as a modern-day Rodin, encounters an ethereally erotic and mysterious female spirit who forces him to reconcile with 7 women from his past whom he has hurt in the pursuit of his artistic success). She also appeared in Smallville as Banshee, and had a recurring role in Arrow as Taiana Venediktov. She’s done a number of voice roles as well, including Justice Society: World War II and Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths as Black Canary, Chip and Potato as Dilla, and Marvel Cosmic Invasion as She-Hulk. Zane’s shirt may be a reference to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, which houses a unique collection dedicated to beetles. At first glance, it appears to be a typical display, with dozens of specimens carefully arranged by size and species. However, the entomologist in charge of the section decided to add a special touch to the collection: a replica of the iconic Volkswagen Beetle, displayed as if it were just another beetle, carefully pinned like the rest of the specimens. Further, it may also represent computer bugs, and perhaps his new whitehat status as a reformed blackhat hacker.
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In this episode of The Eureka Rewatch, Cory and Tom are rich and trapped as they discuss season 2 episodes 12 & 13, All That Glitter and A Night at Global Dynamics.
All That Glitters:
Written by: Thania St. John
Directed by: Michael Grossman
Original airdate: September 25, 2007
Synopsis:
Shoppers in downtown Eureka are startled when a decorative iron statue of Pythagoras suddenly turns to pure gold. Jack’s investigation eventually leads him to Christopher Dactylos, the statue's egotistical artist. Dactylos gives Carter an odd lecture about medieval alchemists and their dreams of turning metal into gold, before he retreats into his underground laboratory.
More objects downtown begin to turn golden, including utensils at Café Diem and even a bracelet that Zoe's boyfriend, Lucas, just gave her. Although some people think the town has hit the jackpot, Henry discovers that the metal is changing composition because of a bizarre quasi-bacterial infestation. He warns that, as load-bearing steel beams turn into softer gold, buildings will collapse. Worse, the bacteria soon mutates, becoming a strain that corrodes gold until there's nothing left but a rusty shell, putting Eureka's entire infrastructure in danger.
Jack and Henry trace the bacteria's origin to Zoe's bracelet. Lucas tells Jack that he made the bracelet in an advanced art class at Dactylos's studio. Jack again confronts Dactylos, who admits that he has tested ancient alchemical procedures on metal in his studio. By making Zoe's bracelet out of that special metal, Lucas unwittingly unleashed the Alchemist's Curse: a metal-based plague that tricks its maker into believing he has succeeded in creating gold, only to betray the user by mutating into progressively more dangerous forms.
While Carter is distracted by the crisis, Henry, Stark and Allison intensify their obsessive, secret and conflicting quests to understand the mysterious artifact that killed Henry's beloved Kim and gave Allison's son Kevin his special powers. Stark uses his covert connections to sneak Beverly Barlowe back into town, hoping that she can be persuaded to share her knowledge of the artifact.
Allison, Stark and finally even Henry talk to Beverly privately. She tricks them into revealing their secrets to her, stokes their mistrust of each other and demands ethically questionable favors in exchange for her knowledge.
For now, Jack needs Henry and Stark to help defeat the Alchemist's Curse (which they suspect may also have ties to the artifact). As the metal corrosion is becoming catastrophic, the massive Global Dynamics edifice itself is groaning and shaking, near collapse. Although Stark contrives an antibody with help from Kevin, and Jack crawls into the unstable building crawl space to administer it, Henry reveals later to Jack that the bacteria has mutated again, this time into something that targets people. An angry Henry confronts Alison, bringing Beverly along but before she can react, the building goes into an automatic lockdown as the new mutated bacteria is detected, trapping Carter, Beverley, Henry, Allison, and Stark inside.
Advanced Research:
Christopher Dactylos was played by Michael Shanks, best known for his role of Daniel Jackson in Stargate. He was seen in Smallville as Hawkman, a movie called Escape from Mars (scientists travel to Mars and just survive against what the planet has in store for them, with Allison Hossack, vet from previous episode), a few TV movies like Under the Mistletoe, and MegaSnake. He was the lead in the 8 episodes Canadian series Unspeakable, about the emergence of HIV and Hepatitis C in Canada in the early '80s and the tragedy that followed when thousands were unnecessarily infected by tainted blood. He is currently in a Netflix movie called Time Cut (high school student accidentally travels back to 2003 and decides to stop the serial killer who murdered her sister).
A Night at Global Dynamics:
Written by: Jaime Paglia
Directed by: Michael Lange
Original airdate: October 2, 2007
Synopsis:
Following Henry's announcement that the Alchemist's Curse contagion has mutated into deadly flesh-eating bacteria, the Global Dynamics defense computer kicks into action, locking some people in and keeping others out. It transforms Allison's office into a panic room by lowering it far below the Earth's surface and sealing it off completely. The four people in the office — Allison, her son Kevin, Henry and Beverly— are trapped together.
Having glimpsed Beverly, Jack demands that Stark stop keeping secrets and explain what's going on. Stark reveals that Kevin has been mentally enhanced but physically weakened by the mysterious artifact from. If Stark can't break the link between the boy and the artifact, Kevin will die so in desperation, Stark took custody of Beverly from the DoD to help him.
Donning protective suits, Jack, Taggart and Stark hurry into the heart of the Global Dynamics complex, hoping to reach Allison, while at a remote computer terminal at Jack's house, Fargo and Zane guide them through the locked-down building. After they survive contamination scares and attacks from the defense computer, they discover the truth: Henry lied and there is no flesh eating bacteria.
Inside the panic room, Beverly tells her she works with a consortium of people who have the world’s best interests in mind and want to protect and care for Kevin, preventing him from being a lab rat for his entire life.
Henry reveals that they can escape using a Subatomic Reconstructive Transport, or S.R.T., which can teleport a person out of Global. Allison is reluctant to send her son through the untested machine, especially after Beverly endorses the idea, but Kevin is weakening so Allison must let Henry try, but not before she gets into a fist fight again with Beverly because… reasons? Allison gets the upper hand when Henry comes in and wants to explain, with Kevin backing him up.
Stark guesses Henry's plan, but says that the process filters out impurities, and while it COULD disconnect Kevin from the artifact,
Henry needs to use Kevin’s original unaltered DNA in order to be successful. With help from Fargo and Zane, Jack and Stark manage to survive more of the building’s defenses while Taggart leads other survivors to safety, even overcoming the computer’s attempts to trick them.
Henry says he was fooling Beverly, realizing that the alchemy formula could help Stark and Allison to separate Kevin from the field, however he cautions that his autism will likely return. Beverly confronts them, begging them to not disconnect him, but Henry is insistent. Beverly pulls a knife on him but Jack and Stark show up just in time to capture her at gunpoint. Stark informs Henry about the need to use the original DNA, and blames Henry for keeping secrets instead of coming to him, but Henry says nuh uh, it’s your fault. Regardless, Allison provides the DNA file she was given long ago by Stark and they send Kevin through. He appears in the next room safely transported.
Jo convinces the General to not use thermal cleaning to destroy all organic material in the building while Fargo and Zane work together to gain access to the building’s systems and reset it, finally succeeding. Beverly escapes by using the teleporter.
Stark later asks Allison to marry him again while Henry takes the blame for the entire incident, turning himself over to the DoD.
Advanced Research:
Sean Millington has around 50 credits to his name, all primarily guards, security officers, and slaves. He was featured prominently in a 21 Jump Street episode as an athlete who is accused of drug use, stars Kareem Abdul Jabar.
Before opening the door to the morgue, which he believes could potentially be filled with "zombies," Taggert melodramatically says "You want every single second." Matt Frewer, who plays Taggert, starred in Dawn of the Dead (2004) where his character's dying words are "You want every single second."
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In this episode of The Twilight Saga Rewatch, Cory, Eoghan and Rose are pushing the limits of risk as they discuss New Moon.
Trailer:
Our Favourite Trivia:
New Moon spans 7 months (September 2005 - April 2006 according to the books)
The budget was upped to $50M for New Moon (from $37M in Twilight)
Production swapped to using wigs for Alice, Jasper, and Rosalie in New Moon
The visual ‘nod’ to the books covers continues (the burning bowl of bloody bandages)
They actually shot scenes on location in Tuscany, Italy. (Montepulciano specifically)
They're not true werewolves, just wolf shifters. And yes, this distinction is important, and comes up in a later film.
During production, they had behind the scenes free iTunes “episodes” you could download in the lead up to the movie releasing which showed their VFX process.
In the books, Bella has a part time job at Mike Newton's family's sporting goods store… this was omitted from the movies. (But referenced in 50 Shades)
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In this episode of The Eureka Rewatch, Cory and Tom believe in the power of women as they discuss season 2 episodes 10 & 11, God is in the Details and Maneater.
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.
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