Founders' Day:
Written by: Jaime Paglia
Directed by: Matt Hastings
Original airdate: July 9, 2010
Synopsis:
One year after Zoe left for Harvard and Tess left for Australia, Jack’s bachelor pad has become quite messy, which Tess mentions as her and Jack have another virtual date, courtesy of Fargo’s hologram projectors. Unfortunately, the relationship has hit the point where both she and Jack are realizing they don’t really work as a couple and they break things off.
Elsewhere in town, everyone is getting ready for Founders’ Day, a celebration of the founding of Eureka. Jack passes by Kevin who is messing around with an old piece of technology on display, making a cryptic comment that Jack overhears.
Jo returns to the sheriff’s office to see Zane in the cell, a ruse to catch her off guard as he suddenly proposes to her. Unfortunately Jo is so surprised she doesn’t know what to say and goes quiet while Jack comes in and prematurely congratulates them. Zane walks out, crushed, much to Cory’s delight.
Jack heads out on his run, but as he takes a call everything around suddenly shifts, and he finds himself on a road with much shorter trees, and much less pavement. He flags down an approaching vintage looking car, and talks to the driver, seemingly in costume for Founders’ Day. The man, Doctor Trevor Grant, drives Jack back to “town” which turns out to be the military base “Eureka” where Jack is quickly knocked out by Ryan, head of security, and secured to a hospital bed.
He soon finds Allison posing as a nurse who helps him escape, and they quickly figure out that they have somehow traveled back to 1947. They soon discover that Jo is there and causing her own brand of trouble before getting arrested, as well as Fargo who ended up in jail after appearing in town naked and promptly jailed.
Allison uses modern CPR techniques and a makeshift defibrillator from a car battery to save a soldier which gets the attention of Trevor. Ryan has been finding the Eureka gang’s PDAs and starts investigating, searching for the missing Jack.
Jack finds Henry, who luckily was able to pose as a mechanic easily. They talk about Tess mentioning a large amount of solar flares putting out negative energy that hasn’t been seen in such amounts since the late 1940’s and combined with a massive satellite dish in the Eureka camp, theorize that as a possibility for how they time traveled to the past. When they get into Einstein’s office they find the machine that Kevin was messing around with and Henry theorizes that Kevin must have created a link between all of them with it. Grant finds them and while their story of time travel seems fantastic, is inclined to believe them after Henry talks about the Einstein-Grant bridge theory that he himself was historically known to be a part of.
Allison helps Jo and Fargo escape, but is then confronted by Ryan, asking her to reveal Jack’s location but she pushes back against him. Trevor goes with Jack to help rescue Allison while Henry readies the beacons that he and Trevor worked on to help them get back to their time. Jack wears Trevor’s jacket and hat to hide undercover. Trevor distracts Ryan while Jack comes from behind and knocks him out. He quickly recovers and the entire base security team starts searching for Jack and Allison who hide on the dance floor, trying to bide their time until Henry can activate the beacons. Just as security starts to see them, Jack, having forgotten his beacon in his other jacket, takes Allison’s hands in his at her insistence, not wanting to leave him stranded alone. Jack kisses Allison for luck, and the beacons activate and they are all sent back to their time period.
Having returned to their own time, they all rejoice, but suddenly notice the statue of Archimedes is not made of granite anymore but of bronze. They head out to see if anything else has changed. They discover Kevin is no longer autistic, Zane is still in the jail cell but never dated Jo and is still an immature mischief maker in town which crushes Jo who had decided she wanted to marry him, Henry finds out that he is married to a woman named Grace who is working in his garage with him, and Jack discovers that Tess never left for Australia but instead stayed with Jack and the two have been having a great relationship over the last year.
At Cafe Diem, Vincent greets a new customer who asks for Allison Blake, a new customer named Trevor Grant.
Advanced Research:
Trevor Jackson plays the new Kevin. He is likely best known as Aaron Jackson in Grown-ish, the spin off from Black-ish. He was also a main character in the 2025-26 season of Grey’s Anatomy (S21-22).
James Callis plays Trevor Grant. He is best known for playing Dr. Gaius Baltar in Battlestar Galactica. He has also starred as the voice of Alucard in Castlevania. Recently, he was in half of the episodes of Blood & Treasure (an antiquities expert teams up with an art thief to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks using stolen artifacts), 12 of 43 episodes of Slow Horses (with Gary Oldman), and the recent Bridget Jones sequel as the minor character he played in the other films. Previously he’s been in Picard, 12 Monkeys, and Kevin Hart’s Guide To Black History (Lincoln and a confederate captain). He was also the lead in a movie called House By the Lake (a struggling married couple try to reconnect at an idyllic lake house, but their relationship is tested when their young daughter begins to fixate on an imaginary friend that may or may not be real).
Adam Barlowe was played by Elias Toufexis. He was in The Expanse for 10 episodes playing Kenzo and has a long history of doing video game voices, such as in Spider-Man, Lego DC Super-Villains, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: The Fate of Atlantis amongst others. He was also in four episodes of the animated series Blade Runner: Black Lotus.
Noah Dalton Danby was Major Ryan. He was in Painkiller Jane as a main character, Connor King (Jane Vasco is a DEA agent recruited by a covert government agency that hunts genetically enhanced individuals. She discovers that she can heal rapidly from any injury and begins to investigate the source of her powers). He was in Torment as Mr. Mouse (two parents find themselves fighting to get their little boy back from a sadistic cult, who have stolen him and plan on dark ideas), Warehouse 13 (as a different character from Eureka), Defiance (13/39, in a near future after the arrival of different alien lifeforms to Earth), Bitten (10/33, Elena Michaels, the only female werewolf in existence, is desperate to escape the paranormal world, with Elias Toufexis as well), and was also a guest actor in Chucky the series.
Tembi Locke was Grace Monroe. We know her from Sliders where she played Diana Davis, a scientist working on Sliding technology with Dr. Geiger in season 5. She’s been in films such as Black Widow (a photo journalist begins to suspect her best friend Danny's new love interest could be linked to the murders of wealthy men) and series like Claude’s Crib (Claude was living the high life as a DJ and a sex fiend until one day he learns that his grandmother had passed away. He inherits her house she left behind and becomes the new landlord). Her latest work in 2023 was on a series called Never Have I Ever for 3 episodes.
A New World:
Written by: Bruce Miller
Directed by: Michael Robison
Original airdate: July 16, 2010
Synopsis:
Jack returns home to the bunker and is greeted by Tess who is actually there and not a hologram, further confused when Jack comments on her not being in Australia, clearly having no knowledge of what he’s referring to. Jack’s confusion prompts her to ask him if he’s acting the way he is because of “the thing” he asked her about but doesn’t specify what that thing is and tells him she just needs more time.
SARAH alerts Jack that Allison’s son Kevin has arrived and he enters, complaining about his mother, chatting up a storm and taking Jack’s food as Tess offers to drive him into town. A shocked Jack goes to Allison and talks with her about Kevin. She’s happy with the changes but disappointed to hear that Tess was still in town. Jack confides in Henry he feels terrible about not telling Tess what happened but Henry assures him he did the right thing. Jack tries to figure out why the original Kevin sent them back in time, wondering if it was to cure himself of autism, but Henry says it is basically impossible for him to have calculated everything in the machine in order to affect change on himself. They are both then greeted by Grace, and after she reminds Henry of the speech he has to give, Henry reveals to Jack that he is married to her.
Zane and Jo chat about why he’s locked up and when he says he has a date, she gets fed up and angrily lets him go. She commiserates with Fargo and he tells her thack is girlfriend Julia never even met him, works for Google, and is married to an astronaut.
As Jack and Allison marvel at the changes in Kevin, Trevor shows up and while they’re shocked to see him they realize he had Jack’s pda device in his pocket when the two switched jackets back in 1947. Jack promises they will work on getting him back to his own time as Trevor flirts slightly with Allison. Talking with Henry, Jack mentions that they need to fix things but Allison doesn’t want to, knowing how much Kevin has changed. Henry makes his case and she reluctantly agrees.
Suddenly a giant mechanical bug starts crawling through the streets and shooting at everything. Tess shows up trying to stop her experiment but her controls aren’t responding as it runs away. Tess blames Zane since she kicked him off her design team for being a jackass.
Henry reveals that the PDA they had were tuned to only their specific genomes so if Trevor was transported as well, then he had to have messed with the PDA to strike it on his own. Jack decides to lock him up for lying about it so that he can’t get into any more trouble.
Jo comes out of the bathroom and shows off her very oversized uniform and worries that in this timeline she is a fat deputy. They’re interrupted by Sheriff Andy but he tells them that he’s just Deputy Andy and that Jo is wearing his uniform. Jack and Andy head off to find Tess’s bug and decide to test his memory circuits to get some info about history. Andy quickly deduces that Jack has traveled in time and is now trying to figure out what has changed with history.
Allison and Fargo discuss what is going on and when they head to her office at GD, they’re surprised to find out that Fargo is actually the head of the place with Larry as his assistant.
Jack and Tess talk while she tries fixing the bug and she tells Jack that she’s decided her answer to him about the thing is yes. Unfortunately she experiences a shock from her broken bug and is sent flying off. They get her to the infirmity while Tess mumbles about seeing a big red elf, as they discover that Allison is actually head of medical at GD.
Jo tells Jack that Zane is getting in trouble for only infractions this time, not at all like his previous life, and reveals that she has access to that info because she is actually the head of security at GD.
Henry works on the machine to see if the cells have any trace charges left and his wife gives him a little hint which impresses him.
Jack sees Allison and Kevin in Cafe Diem and while she is excited to learn about her son’s friends and girlfriends, Kevin is irritated, confiding in Jack but Jack has to run to catch up to Zane.
Band at GD, Jack, Henry and Andy discuss how the wider world is probably exactly the way they left it with the biggest changes occurring in their town only. Henry is confident they will be able to use the machine to get things back to normal but suddenly an alarm goes off and they find out that the machine has been somehow fried and damaged beyond repair. Fargo tells them the he got scans from the bug back and somehow it was overloaded with positrons, which is something that shouldn’t be happening so he leaves to redo the scans.
Jack talks with Allison given that she is the one person in no hurry to change things back but she tells him she didn’t do anything because she couldn’t even get into the lab due to not having clearance for it anymore.
Henry and Andy report that the machine does not appear to be tampered with, instead being overloaded with positrons, like the bug. Jack is frustrated and repeats Tess’s incoherent message about seeing a big red elf which Henry says is actually referring to emissions of light in low frequency or positronic lightning, a very rare but very powerful occurrence that could have overloaded the bug and the machine. Suddenly another red elf appears inside GD.
Fargo, Henry, and Jack decide that a white list project, one with no official history recording of having been authorized, could have caused the red elf to show up. They make their way to Section Five and find a positronic lightning array. In order to shut it down, Andy volunteers to try and draw the charges towards him while Jack attaches a wire to drain the lightning off and down into the bedrock. Trevor shows up to help as well and they manage to successfully stop the array but Andy is horribly damaged and will need major repairs.
Jo talks with Jack later and expresses her remorse that she didn’t accept Zane’s proposal because she loved him and he loved her and even if things are changed now, at least it would have been out there in the universe somewhere.
At Cafe Diem, Tess tells Jack that they need to talk about the movers, referring to him asking her to move in with him, something that Allison alerted Jack to earlier. He agrees with Tess that they can talk about it tomorrow, giving Jack time to figure out what to do and Tess time to relax after her insane day.
Jack, Jo, Allison, Henry, Fargo and Trevor meet and decide that they need to follow protocol and not tell anyone what happened due to it being very dangerous, in case of further changes to the timeline and a set protocol exists for these situations. Failure to follow them could result in sanctions against them. They agree to keep the secret.
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