Show Me the Mummy:
Written by: Curtis Kheel
Directed by: Ernest Dickerson
Original airdate: August 26, 2008
Synopsis:
Jack rushes out of the bunker to avoid hearing any more of Lex’s self composed yoga music, thankful for a call to help fix an issue at GD. Upon arrival he finds an Egyptologist named Dr. Wilding, who has chained himself to an Egyptian tomb that was just transferred to the facility, determined to stop staff archeologist Dr. Sebastian Marx from opening it due to warnings on the tomb about a curse. In the end, Wilding is satisfied that he’s given them enough warnings and acquiesces.
Marx goes into the tomb with Eileen, a camerawoman and they document him opening the sarcophagus, finding the mummy of Queen Nyota.
Later in the evening, Fargo is trying to find a place to hang up a picture of Stark in the newly christened Nathan Stark Memorial Hall, when he feels a touch on his shoulder. He turns to see a decaying hand and panics and runs off. When he returns with Jack they search around and find out that the mummy in the sarcophagus is gone and Dr. Marx is lying nearby, unconscious. In her office, Allison sees a vision of Stark but when she turns on the light, there is no one there.
Marx accuses Wilding of taking the mummy but he denies it, explaining his great respect for the Egyptians who he considers the original scientists. Wilder names Marx as a sell out, and calls out his real name and past crimes, which Jo confirms. Meanwhile, Fargo tells Jack that cells that were in the paleontology lab were brought back to life with the same rays that were used to open the mummy’s tomb.
Eva talks to Henry about solving a cryptix puzzle but since she is still being cagey about her hotel plans and without knowing why she wants it solved, he refuses, leaving her to go to Zane instead who readily agrees to help.
Jack and Jo head off to see why Marx never showed up to his book signing and find him in his bathtub, running hot water, turned into a dried up skeleton. Henry begins an autopsy, quarantining the body while he works on it just in case it is a flesh eating bacteria that caused his death. Allison gets upset with all the talk about death and retreats to her car where once again she sees a vision of Nathan talking to her but disappears as quick as he appeared.
Jack,learning that Marx likely died of some type of dehydration sickness, looks into the camerawoman who is also missing and finds her in a fountain near the tomb, dead and reduced to a skeleton. Soon Fargo starts exhibiting signs of ebbing sick with the dehydration sickness as he rips open a water fountain, drinking right from the hose. They quarantine him but there’s little they can do as he starts to suffer the effects of the dehydration sickness as well, his body losing fluids rapidly.
Henry finds that the camerawoman’s body just disintegrated whereas Marx had hundreds of masses inside his stomach, keeping his body mostly intact.
Zane and Wilding try deciphering the tomb’s hieroglyphics and Jack discovers that the mummy never went anywhere, but just disintegrated into dust in her sarcophagus, the same as the camerawoman.
Allison reports that they have found microbial bacteria in Fargo’s blood that look like bugs. With Allison, they both theorize that the bugs may have been in suspended animation for centuries but have recently awakened when the tomb opened, and with water, have started to grow. Jack tries to warn Henry but it’s too late as the bugs emerge from Marx’s body and begins swarming around town, ready to infect others
After Zoe calls Jack to tell him the bugs are surrounding Cafe Diem, Jack has Lex turn off her music, which causes the bugs to leave, and when turned back on they return. They come up with a plan to use the music and draw the bugs into an enclosed area where they can use great cold temperatures to kill them. They tested the procedure on Fargo, putting him into a cryofreeze which does kill the infestation in his body.
Jack goes to Cafe Diem and blasts Lex’s music to attract the bugs, eventually running into Diem and thawing the boombox into Vincent’s freezer. The bugs follow, they close the door, and lower the temps until the bugs finally die.
Allison sees Stark again but so does Jack and the others, leaving them to realize Stark included a holographic message in the Logic Diamond he had made for Allison. She views the touching message by herself later on.
Advanced Research:
Ernest Dickerson directed Heroes season 1 episode 4 “Collision”. He also directed the Tupac movie Juice, The Snoop Dogg ghost revenge movie Bones, and the Damon Wayans and Adam Sandler movie Bulletproof.
Adrian Hough played Dr. Wilding. He’s a working actor, best known for his role in the Apple TV series Home Before Dark (Young investigative journalist Hilde Lisko moves with her family to the small town her father left behind, only to unearth shocking secrets in her pursuit of the truth). He was the voice of Nightcrawler in X-Men 97 for 5 episodes so far, and the voice of Cliff Hanger in Rescue Heroes (an elite team of rescue personnel responding to emergencies around the world). He also appeared in Steven Segal’s True Justice.
Zak Santiago was Dr. Sebastian Marx. He is mostly a working actor, but has had some recurring roles, including Peacemaker where he played a guard for 6 episodes, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, and True Justice. He was slightly higher on the cast list in the comedy The Assistants (a comedy that revolves around the lives of four young Hollywood assistants and college students who compete for the approval of their eccentric boss), Robson Arms (residents of an old apartment complex in Vancouver's west end interact with the superintendent and the owners of the adjoining grocery store, their lives narrated through songs) and Young Blades (based on the novel The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Young Blades follows a group of youths as they cross swords with dastardly villains while keeping up on their studies at the Musketeer Academy).
At about 30:44, when Carter is on the radio, a bug is walking sideways across the screen in front of him, as if it were on the camera lens. You can also see bugs walking on the screen at 30:36, in front of the greenery on the right side of the screen below the roof line.
According to Curtis Kheel in the commentary for this episode, in his script it was established that Barlow B&B was under new management and renamed Hobson’s Hideaway, after Dr. J. Allan Hobson. Hobson was an American psychiatrist and Harvard Medical School professor widely known for his pioneering research on sleep and dreaming. He famously challenged Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic view of dreams, arguing instead that dreams are strictly biological in nature.
Phased and Confused:
Written by: Nick Wauters
Directed by: Michael Robison
Original airdate: September 9, 2008
Synopsis:
As Jack tries to figure out what’s wrong with his vintage police radio, Vincent calls him in because Lex has been pointing out the garbage items that Vincent isn’t recycling, drawing the attention of Chuck, Eureka’s pushy major domo of recycling. Zoe arrives and reveals that Aunt Lexi gave her permission to go on a yoga retreat but Jack puts a stop to that, not wanting her to miss school despite Lexi’s insistence that the girl can make her own decisions.
Zane manages to break the combination to Eva’s secret lock and it opens up a wall in the mountain nearby and they enter it to see only a long abandoned elevator shaft, leaving Zane to search for another entrance. Meanwhile at the high school, Pilar is in the basement working on algae when the wall breaks open revealing a hidden hallway and rooms behind it. With Zoe and Lucas, they start exploring.
Lexi, trying to find the recycling center, gets herself stuck inside a security force field that starts crushing her car. Jack and Henry arrive but so does a blue suited flying superhero who tries to turn the force field off but ends up leering it up even more and causing a laser launcher to start firing at them. Under Henry’s direction, the Lexi-dubbed Captain Eureka gets the machine shuts down and starts to fly off but not before accidentally wrecking Jack’s jeep with his rocket boots.
As Lexi recovers from almost being crushed to death, she has a number of people who come to see her or send flowers and balloons, showing obvious romantic interest in her. Jack begins investigating various suspects but finds that the projects that would have made the things Captain Eureka could have used were scrapped years ago.
As the Scooby gang explores the hidden building, they get freaked out by some rats and get lost as Zoe slips in some mysterious purple liquid and hurts her leg. They wander around until they bump into Zane who helps them to try and then a way out. Unfortunately while taking a break, Zoe’s boyfriend pushes a button on a computer screen which turns on all the computers in the abandoned building and drains the power, causing the entire place to go into lockdown. Trapped inside the small room with very little air left, Zane works out a way to send a numerical message through their linked phones to the outside world.
With his radio out of commission, Fargo gives Jack a special communicator that embeds itself inside of his body and allows him to mentally call people and hear them in his head, as long as their names don’t start with A or Z of course, which is good because does he really have any reason to ever call anyone with an A or Z name?
Jack and Lex end up seeing a propane leak and call Henry but Jack’s embedded com device sparks when he tries to call Zane and it causes an explosion, setting a fire ablaze. Luckily Captain Eureka shows up and blows the fire out but ends up setting Jack’s jeep on fire before the hero walks through the fence and flies off.
Jack tries to set a trap, reasoning that superheroes usually have a damsel in distress, and using Lex as bait. Jack also explains to her that Zoe never showed up for school and while she is glad that Zoe made her own decisions, she starts to worry when no one can find her. Captain Eureka shows up for Lexi but runs away by phasing through a wall when Jack and Jo show up. Unfortunately, his phasing glitched and he lost a finger which he left behind as he escaped. Henry reasons that the man is shifting his quantum frequency so he can pass through solid objects but something glitched and part of him got stuck.
Talking with Alison they realize that all of Captain Eureka’s powers seem to have things in common with old shut down projects at GD, but Jack theorizes that the prototypes were recycled instead. As he and Jo go to find Chuck, Henry tells him that his old radio picked up a numerical message, a latitude and longitude location and another set of numbers.
Jack and Jo find the superhero costume at Chuck’s place and Chuck himself is trapped halfway inside a wall due to his phasing power shorting out again. Henry explains his body is phasing uncontrollably and begins searching for a way to fix it.
Jack realizes that the numbers Henry received are Zoe’s birthday and the location is where Eva was scanning with Henry. He confronts her and she shows them blueprints for the building they are trapped in. Henry reveals that the blueprints are incomplete and that there should be an entrance located under the high school. Jack goes in using Chuck’s phase suit and manages to get to the generator to turn the power on but he is now phasing uncontrollably. He decides to try using his embedded communicator system, shorting it out by trying to call Zoe, using the spark to overload the generator’s power button and turn on, saving the Scooby gang.
Henry comes up with a way to stop the phasing, while Lexi apologizes to Jack and starts to understand parenting and is scared of what is to come for her and her future child. Jack confronts Eva telling her to let him know what she is looking for and she flat out refuses with Jack responding that he won’t let this go. Eva goes to a secret safe and pulls out a key and then enters the abandoned building.
Advanced Research:
Mark Hildreth played Chuck. He’s done a lot of voice work lately, including Jonny Jetboy (the youngest member of a superhero family learns how to become a superhero and helps his family in protecting the high-tech city Calamity Canyon, from its many villains) and Netflix’s The Hollow where he played Weird Guy (three teen strangers awaken in a dangerous world and try to make sense of what connection they have to each other as they attempt to make it out alive). He was a main cast member in Resurrection (the lives of the people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return), Just Cause (Alexandra DeMonaco's life changed when she was wrongly convicted. Now out on parole, she fights to clear her name and find her missing daughter while working at a law firm), V (2009), and Young Blades. He was the voice of King Lotar in Voltron Force, and the main character Vert Wheeler in Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5 (a spin off of Hot Wheels: World Race and Hot Wheels: Acceleracers, Vert now has to lead his own team to stop evil from stealing battle keys from new realms called battle zones). He played a recurring character in Gadget and the Gadetinis (Lt. Gadget joins WOMP, aided by Penny and her robot inventions, Digit and Fidget. They fight crime, with Gadget bumbling while Penny does the work. Dr. George Claw remains the main villain, with other foes appearing occasionally), he was in several X-Men animated series as Pietro Maximoff (Quicksilver) and Warren Worthington III (Angel). He was in all of Sabrina’s Secret Life, credited as additional voices (there are only 5 people credited with the main cast). He was also in StarGate Infinity (30 years after the film, a Stargate veteran, four cadets, and an alien must navigate the gate network to return home after an impostor blocks their path to Earth, while evading those pursuing them).
Jody Racicot was Dr. Peterson (whale guy) and his big claim to fame is 21 episodes as a main cast member in Flash Gordon: A Modern Space Opera with Eric Johnson, Whitney from Smallville, and The Newsroom (resuscitation of the acclaimed 1996-97 series that picks up nearly a decade later. We again follow the exploits of George Findlay in this biting satire of the day-to-day operations of the mainstream news media).
The laser turret at the secure GD facility is a take on the ED-209 from Robocop, that would give “20 seconds to comply.”
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