Best in Faux:
Written by: Bruce Miller
Directed by: Paul Holahan
Original airdate: August 12, 2008
Synopsis:
As Eureka’s robot dog show begins its season, several of the dogs break down mysteriously and Carter is tasked with finding out why, even though he feels it’s a waste of time, despite Allison and Eva’s insistence that the show usually ends up helping make breakthroughs in science and engineering. Dr. Mendel says that someone broke into his lab and possibly stole his synthetic mucus in order to make their dogs more realistic. While Jo and the doctor talk in another lab, Carter feels a sudden earthquake that no one else seems to notice. Even when asking Jo, Allison, Stark and other GD personnel, they deny earthquakes being possible in Eureka.
At GD, Jack and Stark meet a researcher, Dr. Fox, who deals with the running of the computer core who explains how they use Logic Diamonds in the computer. Stark asks Carter to sign off on the release of a diamond to use as a gift to Allison.
Meanwhile, Eva asks Henry to scan a particular area for signs of radiation and the exact types as well as she plans to build a hotel for visiting government officials. However, one he reveals the types of radiation there, she decides it’s not the right spot and cancels her plans.
Jack’s investigation takes him to a disgraced geologist, Dr. Hood who uses his computer to explain that he sees no sign of seismic activity below.
Allison tries on a wedding dress with a special fitting system to conform to your body shape but after Hood uses his earth tunneler machine to pop up downtown it causes her dress to jam in locking mode.
Hood tells Jack that he found evidence of build up underground but Allison doesn’t believe him due to a breakdown the man had a year earlier after he mistakenly predicted an earthquake elsewhere in the world. After he starts drilling in the middle of Cafe Diem, Jack has him stop but the man instead just leaves and goes to a nearby field and starts to monitor signs of more pressure building until the area suddenly explodes with a mud tornado. While Stark and Allison get investigations underway, they wonder if Hood didn’t create these pressure pockets himself to make himself useful once again.
Fargo discovers that the robot dogs that exploded were using circuits with Logic Diamonds installed, which is essentially cheating and a cause for concern as Eureka’s diamonds are accounted for. Jack and Hood discover that the diamonds match Eureka’s carbon signature. With no diamond mines in town, they investigate old coal mines and discover a sound wave machine that has been used to create new logic diamonds in the caves. The unfortunate side effect is that the waves have been affecting the rocks under the town as well, resulting in the buildup of magma and the results equal a volcano.
Dr. Fox admits to growing the diamonds, knowing they could change the world, and inserted them into the robot dogs to test them, not knowing that they would explode. Jack and Fargo come up with a plan to use one of the robot dogs and modify it using Dr. Mendel’s super mucus in order sniff out the source of the underground magma.
The plan works and Jack, Stark and the dog plant the explosives and escape just in time as the magma is released into the nearby lake instead of into the town. Stark gives Jack the rare compliment as Fargo shows off his winning trophy from the robot dog show where he entered his REAL dog as a robot dog.
Henry talks to Jack, telling him about the radiation survey he did for Eva, and that he doesn’t keep secrets from his friends… anymore.
At home, Jack suggests that he would be happy to help Zoe study for her advanced physics test, even though he’s clearly out of his depth,telling her he’s proud of her, which she appreciates.
Advanced Research:
Dr. Fox was played by Holly Elissa. She had one big role as a regular in the series Whistler (local snowboarding legend Beck McKaye returns home from the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics with a gold medal, only to be later found dead).
Alan Ruck was our big guest star playing Dr. Hood. Most will remember him as Cameron from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or perhaps even Captain Harriman in Star Trek: Generations.
Most recently, he was in Succession as a main cast member (the Roy family is known for controlling the biggest media and entertainment company in the world. However, their world changes when their father steps down from the company). He was in half of the 20 episode series The Exorcist. Before that, he was a main cast member in the 13 episode series Persons Unknown (several strangers awaken and find themselves imprisoned inside a small ghost town. They quickly search for answers and along the way start to question each other's motives), a cast member of a sketch show called The Edge, and a supporting cast member in the series Muscle (Survival Gym chain is in crisis when the founder dies and son Kent is arrested but he suspects stepmother Jayne. In soap opera fashion the gym's trainers run the gamut from gigolo Gianni to struggling actress Cleo).
He was the lead in the show Going Places (the production team of "The Dick Roberts Show" has their hands full booking guests for the outrageous talk show and dealing with its egomaniacal host), but really had major success with his role of Stuart Bondek in the Michael J. Fox sitcom Spin City (Mike Flaherty, the Deputy Mayor of New York City, and his team of half-wits must constantly save the Mayor from embarrassment and the media. Mike is later succeeded by Charlie Crawford)
He reprised his role of Captain Harriman in the fan film Star Trek: Of Gods and Men which also starred many other Star Trek actors.
Aurichalcite is not an ingredient used in vaccines. It is a copper and zinc carbonate mineral sometimes found as an incidental micro-contaminant in certain manufacturing environments. Aurichalcite is a delicate, pale green to sky-blue secondary zinc and copper carbonate mineral. It is famous for its feathery, needle-like crystal sprays and velvety coatings. Due to its extreme softness and fragility (1–2 on the Mohs scale), it is strictly a specimen for mineral collectors.
I Do Over:
Written by: Thania St. John
Directed by: Matt Earl Beesley
Original airdate: August 19, 2008
Synopsis:
As Allison’s and Nathan’s wedding day has arrived, Jack goes about his morning routine, accidentally cutting himself shaving and spilling ketchup on his shirt. He also welcomes his sister, Zoe’s Aunt Lexi, to town, albeit a few days earlier than he expected. At GD, he and Allison learn that Eva is firing more people and they are sent to tell the victims. Jack can’t find a maintenance worker named Leo and is instead bathed in a bright light when he enters Leo’s dark workspace. Jack leaves and gets ready for the wedding, telling Allison before it starts that he will always be here for her, and the wedding goes off without a hitch until halfway through a bright light appears in the sky and Jack finds himself back at home, at the start of that very day again.
Confused, he goes through his routine, still cutting himself shaving and this time Zoe spilling ketchup on him. Seeing that his day is repeating, he tries telling Allison, then Stark and Fargo but they don’t believe him. He attends the wedding but this time, based on Lexi’s advice he tells Allison how he really feels and kisses her but she doesn’t reciprocate, calling him a true friend. Once again, the wedding proceeds until a bright flash of light resets the day.
Jack begins fast tracking the day, answering questions before they’re asked and trying to get Stark and Fargo to not turn on GD’s new atomic clock which will make them the universal owners of worldwide time, but they and Eva refuse. Stark tells him that time going backwards would start deleting people from existence. After Stark heads off to the wedding, Jack forces Fargo to turn the clock off at gunpoint but it does nothing and later, at the wedding, once again the day resets, but this time, Jack notices a cut on his face, larger than the one he got shaving, and realizes that some things are being carried through each time loop.
Jack rushes off to GD and tries to tell them again, but they still don’t believe him but he eventually finds out that the maintenance worker Leo is GD’s time maintenance worker and he seeks him out. Leo says he didn’t know what is up with time loops but blames Eva, telling him he is haiku to sign the redaction papers when he brings them by. Jack confronts Eva, but she evades his invite to the wedding, saying she has something important going on elsewhere. Jack inadvertently insults Lexi after which Zoe reveals that Lexi is in town for help because she’s pregnant. Jack confronts Eva on the land that Henry scanned for her and asks to see a controller she is holding for the equipment setup nearby. He presses it and the day resets again, this time with Jack experiencing broken bones and more injuries but also holding Eva’s remote.
Henry confirms that Eva is not involved with the time instances, explaining that the remote is for scanning for physical measurements. He tells Jack about Leo’s work in the past which involved trying to bending light to alter time. Jack confronts Leo and he admits he accidentally cussed the time loop while trying to get his theory to work before he got redacted. He activated his particle decelerator early and found himself stuck in a ten hour time loop and has been trying to fix it. He decides to try and manually sync up his machine with the GD clock but it doesn’t work and he is killed and the day resets again, this time with Jack suffering even more injuries.
He goes to Stark and dictates Leo’s formula he memorized and Stark finally starts to take him seriously. Stark, Fargo and Jack check out Leo’s lab and Stark understands what has to be done. Jack tells Allison to get to the wedding, hiding what he and the others are trying to do. Jack suggests trying to use the new atomic clock as a timer instead. In the meantime, and worried about the time loop killing everyone, Jack goes to Cafe Diem and acts nicer towards his sister, bringing them closer together.
Back at GD, the attempt to fix the loop fails due to not being able to sync the clock automatically. Stark decides to do it manually, and despite Fargo volunteering to do it instead, Stark enters the machine and begins the synchronization. He asks Jack to take care of Allie in case something happens, telling Jack he’ll see him around. As Fargo works the buttons, the sequence begins and Stark manages to manually sync the machine up, stopping the time loop. They celebrate the success but Stark is frozen in time before fading away into particles.
Jack goes to Allie, and breaks the news to her as he holds her in his arms.
Advanced Research:
Ever Carradine was Lexi Carter. She was in Marvel’s Runaways (after discovering a dark secret about their parents, a group of teenagers band together to run away from their homes in order to atone for their parents' actions and to discover the secrets of their origins), a main cast member in Conrad Bloom (as young NYC copywriter faces 1990s adulthood challenges, he navigates relationships with the important women in his life: mom, sister, ex, boss, and co-worker), a recurring role in Once and Again (a divorced father and a soon-to-be divorced mother meet and begin a romantic courtship which is always complicated by their respective children and their own life problems. With Billy Campbell and Sela Ward), a main cast member of Lucky (a dark comedy dealing with the lives and addictions of compulsive gamblers set in Downtown Las Vegas), a main cast member in Commander In Chief (MacKenzie Allen becomes the first woman American president after she ascends to the job following the death of president Teddy Bridges. With Geena Davis), and most recently she was in 28 of the 66 episode series The Handmaid’s Tale (set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship).
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