I'll Be Seeing You:
Written by: Jaime Paglia
Directed by: Michael Robison
Original airdate: September 10, 2010
Synopsis:
In 1947, Grant meets with Adam and Lily Morgan, another member of their watchdog group. They finalize their plans to send Adam back in time to stop The Manhattan Project, the project that led to the development of atomic bombs.
Jack and Allison wake up together and after getting a call from Fargo and head into work together where they learn that they still haven’t found the DED but Henry has found an area where there is zero radiation which is odd because everything emits some type of radiation so Henry and Allison go to check it out. When they arrive there, they discover a gorge they don’t remember.
Jo confesses to Jack that she accidentally spoke to Zane as if he was her timeline Zane but there’s little they can do now as they have a mystery to solve.
Beverly explains to Grant that Adam stole the blueprints after Grant disappeared in 1947, enabling them to recreate the device with some improvements and convinces him to go back to change the world, not just as a genius, but as a god.
Zane tells Jo and Jack that he knows Grant’s file is doctored and is likely responsible for the hack. Zane also tells Jo that he hasn’t forgotten about the ring. Jo and Jack head back to her office where they go through Grant’s old personnel records, hearing a recording he made back in 1947 after he discovered Jack, Allison and company in the past. They also learn about Beverly Barlowe’s father and how he was involved and try to contact Allison and Henry to warn them but it’s too late.
Beverly activates the bridge device and it goes off, sending a pulse outward that knocks Allison and Henry’s car over. Jack arrives and finds that Allison has been killed. He breaks through a cloaking barrier and rushes into the room where Beverly and Grant are and beats on him until the device sends them both back to 1947 at the moment Jack, Allison and company originally arrived in.
Jack tells Grant that Allison died, which shocks him. They both hide to let events proceed as they happened the first time, with the plan to stop Adam from stealing the blueprints for the bridge device so that they can change history and the new bridge device won’t be built, thereby saving Allison.
Grant hitches a ride back to base while Jack hides in the background of the truck. Once there, Jack accidentally interferes with Fargo getting arrested. Grant tells him Fargo has to be arrested in order for their doubles to be able to make it back to the future as they originally had done, a matter that is cleared up easily.
Grant tries to convince Adam to cancel their plans but Adam is committed and refuses to back down. Knowing that Adam will get hurt later and need to be resuscitated by Allison with jumper cables, he takes the jumper cables away. Unfortunately, fate steps in and Allison’s CPR works anyway and Adam is safe. Jack gets arrested, with the soldiers not realizing it’s not the Jack that they originally arrested. They see Grant come in and slap Jack, ready to interrogate him. Grant manages to convince them all to leave and go after the escaped prisoners after which he reveals to Jack that he’s the Grant from the future. Together Grant and Jack decide to warn Allison of her death and Grant modifies their beacon’s transistor to their PDA’s to allow them to return home to the future. Unfortunately as Jack tries to warn Allison at the dance, he doesn’t make it as the original PDA’s go off and the original time travelers are sent forward back to their own time.
Carter commiserates with Grant but then comes upon another idea, using Grant’s recorded diary to warn himself in the future of Allison’s death.
As Allison and Henry approach the area where the radiation is missing, Jack hears the message he sent himself and rushes off to save the day, crashing into the hidden lab, and arriving early enough so that Henry and Allison get a little further away and are saved, though Beverly does slip away yet again.
Zane confronts Jo and kisses her, asking why it doesn’t feel like a first kiss. Unfortunately Zoe comes in to see Zane and the two head off together.
Jack talks with Grant who now has special credentials provided by Fargo so he can have any job he wants. Luckily though, Grant listened to his friend Lily back in 1947 and invested in a company called Johnson and Johnson and now in the present he is rolling in cash and can do anything he wants, choosing to travel.
Elsewhere, Beverly checks in with her group, telling them she has a new target, looking at a video of Jack.
Advanced Research:
Lily Morgan was played by Michelle Harrison, likely best known as Nora Allen/The Speed Force in CW’s The Flash. She was a lead in Wild Roses (he McGregor family owns a large estate and oil firm, but face complications when the previous owners' descendants refuse to sell back the land despite financial struggles, leading to tensions between the neighboring families). She was also in her share of TV movies, Hallmark/Lifetime type things (mystery and holidays). She was also in a handful of episodes of Continuum.Major Ryan was Noah Danby and he’s been in a few things farther down below the fold as a recurring character, but his main claim to fame is Painkiller Jane where he was the lead alongside Kristanna Loken (woman hunts superpowered people but finds out she has powers too).
We are shown that the year is 1947 but filtered cigarettes were not introduced in the U.S. until 1952 when Kent introduced the "Micronite" filter that, oddly, was touted for its health benefits; but was actually made of asbestos. And they were not readily available until Winston filter cigarettes were introduced in 1954.
Fargo and Henry use the term DED Device.
O Little Town:
Written by: Eric Tuchman
Directed by: Matt Hastings
Original airdate: December 7, 2010
Synopsis:
As Jack and Zoe head home to visit their family for Christmas, a malfunction in the town’s EM shield protection dome means they can’t leave. As they head back to town, an alert goes off warning of an impending air strike. As Jack and Jo and her army prepare and look up, they see not an attacking plane but a sleigh pulled by 8 reindeer and steered by someone dressed as Santa Claus. Jack checks it out after the sleigh crashes and it turns out to be Taggart who is working on creating a new science of Santology, a scientific way of explaining how Santa could actually work in real life. He demonstrates how Santa could fit all the presents into one sack by using science and makes a very tiny palm-sized gift box grow to a larger normal-sized gift box with a present inside.
Meanwhile Alison shows off her love of Christmas while Jo grumpily tends to the GD Christmas party when she gets an alert from a lab and discovers a scientist, Noah Drummer trying to take home a crystallized orb which she denies him permission to do. He leaves with her. Later, she gets another alert and returns to the lab to find that the crystal orb has expanded in size, threatening to overtake the lab space and possibly all of GD if it continues to grow.
Jo can’t find any information about Drummer in the personnel files at all which leaves Jack to try and find him. Elsewhere, a secret Santa continues to have the perfect gifts for people, for Zoe a desired vinyl record, for Alison, a pair of pink bunny slippers like she had as a child, and for Fargo, a vintage Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox.
Henry and Allison make the discovery that the crystal actually isn’t growing but rather it seems the entire town of Eureka is shrinking. A quick investigation turns up that somehow Taggart’s shrinking ray got beyond the bounds of the containment field and affected the whole town. He reasons that it shouldn’t have happened unless it was used to miniaturize a very dense material. Jack notes that the mini fruitcakes that Vincent made, the ones that everyone had been enjoying all night, are especially dense, asking Vincent if he used the ray and admitting he had.
Jack also finds out that various Christmas decorations that hadn’t been affected by the ray, remaining normal size, are flying through the air or rolling down the streets causing havoc. Later, Alison explains to him why she is so gung ho over Christmas. It’s due to having a very structured holiday as a child, not even having gifts wrapped as it would be a waste of paper. Now, she tries to have the holiday she always wanted as a child.
Dr. Drummer finds Jo and talks with her, knowing he has to fix the crystal, but also asking her when she stopped liking candy canes and she replies it was when she had to grow up. Drummer goes to work with Taggart and tells Henry not to worry because he always comes through. Drummer mentions his crystal has an extra element that makes it unique, confusing Henry, who worries that while they may be able to shrink the crystal, they still need to embiggen themselves. As they worry about not making the crystal explode, Henry mentions how the big bang began expanding after its explosion and Jack points out that they kind of do want to expand. After shrinking the crystal successfully, Taggart and Jack use his flying sleigh to head to the top of the em dome and explode the crystal which then covers the town in its substance and starts enlarging the town back to normal size.
Zoe confronts Jo, having figured out that she is the secret Santa. Jo, missing her brothers during the holidays because they’re all stationed at military posts around the world, and recalling how much she used to love being with them and seeing their eyes when they opened her gifts, decided to bring a little of that to the town by giving everyone secret gifts.
Taggart realizes that Drummer is the actual Santa but Drummer says he has errands to run and leaves, saying he’ll be back next year. Jack gets his secret Santa gift which is a picture of all of his friends in Eureka and he realizes that he is actually at home here.
Advanced Research:
The boy was Alex Ferris. He’s been in a number of things such as 84 episodes of Martha Speaks, the voice of Charlie Brown in the Peanuts Motion Comics, a few episodes of The L Word, Firehouse Tales, and half of the 10 episodes of Terminal City (a woman diagnosed with breast cancer, takes over an ailing reality show, turning it into a hit as her body and life begin to change).
Dr. Noah Drummer is SNL veteran Chris Parnell. He does have a few major series to his name such as Rick and Morty as Jerry, Cyril Figgis in Archer, Wordgirl, Sir Galahad in Nature Cat, and more recently in My Adventures With Superman as Slade “Deathstroke” Wilson. He has done voices in American Dad, Breaking Bear, Family Guy, Batman the Audio Adventures, Dogs In Space, The Cinnamon Bear: A Holiday Adventure, and 30 Rock as Dr. Spaceman.
Matt Fewer (Taggart) was in Honey I Shrunk The Kids, another story that includes a shrinking ray gun.
The sleigh in this episode is the same prop used in the film Elf.
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