RW735 - Eureka Rewatch S04E05-06 - Crosstrosity

 

In this episode of The Eureka Rewatch, Cory and Tom are out in the field training their AI as they discuss season 4 episodes 5 & 6, Crossing Over and Momstrosity.

Crossing Over:

Written by: Paula Yoo

Directed by: Michael Robison

Original airdate: August 6, 2010

Synopsis:  

Jack commiserates with Henry about having feelings for Alison and his annoyance with the competition for her affections from Grant while Henry confesses his nervousness about Grace coming back from her conference. Fargo shows up, nervous, anxiously awaiting their big guest, Claudia from the secret government building Warehouse 13, where they deal with mystical magical artifacts from throughout time. Fargo explains that Claudia is there to pick up his goo, which will be used to stabilize her artifacts during transportation.

Grant meanwhile is smoking like a chimney much to the asthmatic Henry’s chagrin. Together he and Henry manage to use the last transistor from 47 to activate the bridge device for just a moment, giving them hope that they will be able to get it working, if not to get back to the past, then at least to explore the future. Grace comes home and shares an awkward reunion with Henry, calling him out on his standoffishness.

Alison helps Grant, who continually comes onto her, to try to stop smoking by using a nanobot device which basically gives him a shock when he starts smoking and will work to purge the nicotine from his body.

As Claudia gets a tour from Fargo and company at GD, a sudden disturbance happens and giant trees suddenly appear inside of the building. Henry discovers they are trees indigenous to Eureka. Grace and Henry share another awkward moment. Grace asks Jack about what’s going on with Henry but he tries to explain it away.

At Cafe Diem, Jo suddenly collapses and after Allison checks her out at GD, they recover an unfired bullet from 1947 that appeared suddenly inside of her just like the trees appeared. Later on still, a fighter plane from 47 appears inside of Cafe Diem.

Jack follows a lead but the scientist under investigation is cleared when she reveals that the objects showing up show signs of wormhole activity. Jack sends Fargo and Claudia to check out some more surges while Henry tells Jack that the disturbances could be because of what he and Grant were working on with the bridge device.

As Claudia scans the area, a disturbance occurs and suddenly they find a huge fence has appeared around them with a sign saying that mines are present. As they go to move away Claudia ends up stepping on one. Fargo uses their scanner and PDA to create a mine nullifier and she is rescued, landing on top of Fargo and kissing him. Unfortunately that pressure causes Fargo’s head to activate another mine. Jack shows up after Jo investigated surges from her hospital bed. He manages to use a defuser to save them and Fargo and Claudia kiss.

Henry theorizes that the timelines could collapse with everyone being torn apart molecule by molecule. Grant starts coughing worse and worse and then starts glowing as they realize that he himself is the one pulling the objects forward in time. Suddenly a nuclear missile appears in another disturbance, and they decide they have to try and stabilize Grant. Fargo’s goo is a no go and Grant’s body begins to shut down but he presses them to keep going. Henry quickly reprograms Allison’s nanobots to purge Grant of the exotic particles and it finally works, sending all the past objects to disappear and return to 1947.

Claudia and Fargo share a nice goodbye and a kiss, Grant and Alison share a drink, Jack and Jo share another night of tv and Guy talk, and Henry apologizes to Grace for his actions that hurt her and then invites her to slow dance with him, which won’t cause her to want to still kiss him and want to be “with” him at all (insert eye roll here).

Advanced Research:

Why did Eureka and Warehouse 13 do a crossover? Allison Scagliotti (Claudia) and Neil Grayston (Fargo) met at Comic-Con in 2009. They realized they had instant, nerdy chemistry and a very similar sense of humor. When the showrunners and Syfy executives saw how well the actors got along, they realized it would be a fun cross-promotional event to blend the two worlds. The crossover officially established that Eureka (which focused on high-tech government science) and Warehouse 13 (which focused on historical, semi-magical artifacts) existed in the exact same fictional universe.

Fans have long joked or theorized that Claudia and Zane must be secret cousins or long-lost siblings because both Donovans share a lot of the same DNA; they are sarcastic, tech-savvy genius hackers with a rebellious streak and a total disregard for protocol. Both Eureka and Warehouse 13 shared showrunners and crew members at various points, so the matching last name was likely just a fun nod or a coincidence written into the script when the crossover happened, rather than a reference to a shared real-world namesake.

Claudia was played by Allison Scagliotti, best known for her role in Warehouse 13 for 60 episodes. She was also in a show called Stitchers as a main cast member, along with Sally Richardson-Whitfield (secret government agency solves crimes by entering the minds of recently deceased individuals, 31/31). She was the lead in a movie called Chastity Bites (1600’s countess bathes in the blood of virgins to stay young and survives to present day and continues her ritual). She is also a musician and a ballet dancer who would often play around Toronto while filming W13. IRL she has a relationship with Saul Rubinek, much like Claudia and Artie on the show do.

Dr. Wheeler was played by Olivia Chang who has had a lot of experience on different series like Warrior (during the Tong Wars in the late 1800s, Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy from China, immigrates to San Francisco and becomes a hatchet man for the most powerful tong in Chinatown, 30/30), the Jason Momoa led series See (far in a dystopian future, the human race has lost the sense of sight, and society has had to find new ways to interact, build, hunt, and to survive. All of that is challenged when a set of twins are born with sight, 16/24), Deadly Class (Marcus, a disillusioned teen, is recruited into a storied high school for assassins. He is forced to maintain his moral code while navigating a ruthless curriculum and vicious social cliques, 6/10), The Stand (2020, 4/9), Marco Polo (movie, then series 2014-16, 19/20), and The Staff Room (go behind the doors of a high school teacher’s lounge, 12/12). She was a lead in the movie SWAT: Under Siege (a SWAT compound comes under fire from an international terrorist who relentlessly and violently pursues a mystery man who was apprehended by Seattle SWAT after a raid went horribly wrong), a bit higher on the cast list of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (Grace MacCaullay battles old wounds with her estranged sister Faith MacCaullay while rival occult dynasties hunt them through a deadly contest that promises power, survival, and betrayal before dawn), Lucky Star (2024, when reformed gambler Lucky falls victim to a tax scam, he returns to playing poker to recover his losses while his family struggles to make ends meet), Deeper: The Rebirth (A journalist is caught up in a woman's brutal revenge against two men who mistreated her in the past), Unspoken: Diary of an Assassin (2017), Sheltering Season (2022, a woman finds herself isolated in her remote home with her brother who is seeking forgiveness for the darkest moment in their family history), Skye & Chang (when a stunt goes horribly wrong, Mia, the leading lady, believes she is a target for murder and hires Chang as her bodyguard. Meanwhile, Kisik, a young scientist, is desperate for Skye to help her uncover an alien conspiracy to destroy humanity. The two women have superpowers or something), Messages Deleted (Matthew Lillard, a screenwriting teacher is forced to live out the plot of a screenplay idea he stole from a student, who now seeks revenge), and The Rape Of Nanking (2007, In 1937, Japanese forces invaded Nanking, China, committing mass rape and murder in unprecedented violence. Depicts a young woman's fight to expose this horrific historical atrocity).

Momstrosity:

Written by: Terri Hughes Burton & Ron Milbauer

Directed by: Michael Rohl

Original airdate: August 13, 2010

Synopsis: 

As Jo showers, she suddenly finds herself being watched by Kevin’s school project: taking care of a small AI powered robot called an Emo. Deputy Andy shows up but Jack hands him off to Jo who also says that she didn’t call him. SARAH offers to help Deputy Andy do a diagnostic to check for malfunctions and he plugs into her mainframe.

Jack, thinking it may help the boy open up about his possible curiosity about the fairer sex, asks Alison to let Kevin go with him, Henry, and Fargo on a camping trip, and she agrees. Henry backs out of the camping trip to help out Grace, asking Jack if he is going to make a move on Allison or let Grant sweep her away from him. 

Grace's project involves reading short term memories and when she mentions the word elation, he has a memory of seeing Grace. She is flattered and jumps into his arms but he again balks at her. He reveals the truth to her about his time travel but she is disbelieving and angry, leaving the room. Henry chases after her but the memory probes on his head overload and knocks him down.

Meanwhile Allison runs an experiment with Larry, measuring and mapping parts of his brain, but the machine goes haywire and starts to prepare to dissect Larry’s brain. Allison manages to shut it off and Zane discovers there is a foreign subroutine in the programming that wasn’t there before. Given that he’s received other calls about similar situations they are trying to find the source so they can get rid of it.

Jo gets a call about a problem at the loading docks and finds Kevin’s Emo with Tiny, the bug-like robot that is being sent to NASA. She retrieves it for Kevin and as they get ready to leave, Andy asks Jack about how to woo a woman. Grant asks if he can come along and Jack first refuses but once Grant asks Alison what her plans are, he changes his mind and takes him along.

At the campsite, Jack collects everyone’s cellphones and technology so they can rough it, but Fargo has set up his Ai powered tent, his own version of “glamping.” Kevin is immediately bored and Jack asks him about what happened with Emo and Jo but Kevin doesn’t seem to know. Grant sides with Kevin that they shouldn’t be talking about it and Kevin insults Jack. Grant pulls Kevin away to learn how to start a campfire. Jack shows up later with a piece of technology to start up the fire, changing his mind on its use during their trip. He and Grant start to trade insults back and forth, talking of Grant’s date with Alison and Jack countering with how Alison trusts Jack’s judgement, until Grant pushes Jack about his relationship and attraction for Allison. Kevin slips away, and after they find him later, Kevin reveals he is angry that Jack never told him. When Kevin asks if Jack loves his mother, he hesitates and Kevin walks off back to camp, angry.

Jo responds to a problem at Cafe Diem and it’s revealed that Vincent’s Ai clone is refusing to serve customers what they ordered, only giving them healthy options. While there, Andy shows up and begins reciting a love poem to Jo. 

Grace talks with Henry and asks him if he’s in love with her and he says he was starting to get to know her. He tries to explain why he couldn’t tell her the truth but she’s angry because he is basically a stranger, and wants her own Henry back to which he says he wishes he could.

When Kevin and company get back to camp they find Fargo has been trapped by the ai tent who did not want Fargo to go outside of it, and Fargo warns them he saw something in the woods.

Back at GD, after SARAH calls Jo asking if Andy had mentioned her, they realize that the subroutine came from SARAH who wanted Andy to like her and gave him additional programming taken from Emo so he could experience feelings and emotional attachment. Jo and her team head out to try and track down Tiny who escaped from the transport truck.

At the campsite, Tiny shows up and starts chasing them. They manage to elude Tiny with Jack acting as a distraction. Fargo, Grant, and Kevin make it to the car with Tiny racing after them. They manage to pick up Jack and use the car’s communication system to learn from Alison that they have a trap set for Tiny. When they reach the trap, Tiny grabs Kevin and holds him down, ready to strike, but Alison yells at it to stop. Tiny repeats her words and they realize that Tiny just wants Emo, having been infected with the emotional attachment programming.

Zane ends up fixing the AI systems with Andy reluctant to erase his new emotions. Zane agrees to let him keep his emotions and keep it quiet, thinking it would be good to have a friend in law enforcement. Jack later tells Kevin that he does indeed love Alison and Kevin says it’s ok with him then if they want to date. Jack tells Grant to not start planning any weddings yet while Grant says may the best man win.

Advanced Research:

Terri Hughes Burton & Ron Milbauer often collaborate, they got their start writing an episode of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers and Power Ranger Zeo. They went on to write the script for Idle Hands which stars Devon Sawa and Seth Green. They then returned to television to write and produce series such as Supernatural, Eureka, Warrior Nun, and most recently Star Trek: Discovery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-w4OdGXdbM&list=PL1HAI_vv2eXennw5Neo87gA83qwJ3dwEZ

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RW734 - Eureka Rewatch S04E03-04 - All the O2

 

In this episode of The Eureka Rewatch, Cory and Tom attack their self worth as they discuss season 4 episodes 3 & 4, All the Rage and The Story O2.

All The Rage:

Written by: Kira Snyder

Directed by: Michael Rohl

Original airdate: July 23, 2010

Synopsis:  

Fargo freaks out trying to deal with General Mansfield since he doesn’t know all the details of what the general asks about. Allison explains to him that Mansfield’s latest request deals with the non lethal weapon division, under Dr. Parrish. As he and Jo head down to talk with him, they notice many employees seem scared of Fargo. Parrish and Zane push back against Fargo because they know their work isn’t ready for demonstration yet but reluctantly try, trying to use a weapon to calm down angry bees but nothing happens. Fargo leaves, yelling at them to fix it all. Later, Fargo finds another non lethal weapon in the hallway which explodes and covers him in a strong immovable glue against the wall. Jack agrees to look into the situation with Jo and figure out who left the weapon out.

At Cafe Diem, Jack is trying to walk the minefield of Tess being excited about moving in. Trevor notices his discomfort and calls him on it but fails to take responsibility for the fact that all of their problems are his direct fault.

At Henry’s, Trevor asks him to work with him on trying to get the machine working again, finally convincing him. They do make some progress until suddenly, Henry’s tools start disappearing every time they touch them. They go through theory after theory about what could be happening until Grace comes in later and reveals that it was all a prank to get back at her husband after alt timeline Henry magnetized all of her pots and pans previously. They laugh about it but Trevor notes that Henry seems to be having a crush on his wife.

Jack questions Zane in Cafe Diem but Zane gets very angry and storms off angrily. Jo manages to get a confession out of Parrish while Allison coaches Fargo on how to build bridges between the workers of GD. When he attempts it however, Parrish’s eyes flash red and he gets extremely angry and starts berating Fargo who he himself also gets angry and gives it right back to him. Jo orders a lockdown and quarantine as everyone is taken for tests. Jo theorizes the problem was Dr. Anson who had earlier spilled some red liquid on the floor after bumping into Fargo. They confront him and he goes full on roid rage as Jo subdues him but she shows signs of feeling the unexplained anger as well. They later find out that the liquid he spilled wasn’t a toxin but alcohol, having been driven to drink at work due to alt Fargo‘s timelines and aggressive schedules.

Tess is called in to help Allison with the testing and she confides in her about feeling that something is off with Jack when she and thought they were on the same page. Later, Allison talks with Jack, telling him he needs to talk with Tess about things.

As the rage fever spreads, the entire staff starts yelling and acting aggressively, destroying company property, trying to break into Fargo’s office, and even burning effigies of him. Jo and Fargo both get super aggressive towards Jack and Allison but Jack manages to talk them down slightly for the moment. Jo manages to subdue Zane and he and Parrish are bound and secured in the infirmary.

Tess, Jack, and Fargo go to Parrish‘s lab and discover that the bee experiment was not set correctly and caused them to get angry instead of calm and when they boosted its signal to try and get it working, the beam inadvertently affected all of GD. Tess manages to reverse the process while Jack uses Fargo as bait to draw the rage zombies away from Alison and Jo. Tess activates the cure and everyone starts finally calming down.

Parrish and Fargo sort of make up. Jack and Jo share a moment reaffirming their friendship and partnership and then he heads home to the bunker where he tells Tess that they aren’t going to work out and that she should go to Australia, something she is surprised he knew about. She leaves, tearful.

Advanced Research:

Dr. Parrish was played by Wil Wheaton. He is likely best known as the boy who could do it all, Wesley Crusher, on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He had some random TV appearances before Trek, like Highway to Heaven and St. Elsewhere. He appeared in several movies such as Stand By Me, Toy Soldiers, and The Curse (with his sister Amy). He left Star Trek to pursue bigger opportunities that didn't happen right away. He was in a movie called Mr. Stitch with Rutger Hauer and Ron Jeremy (Doctor Rue Wakeman and his team create a young man with skin and organs taken from other men and women. The creature, Lazarus, reads a lot of books and learns all about the humans. But when he meets fascinating Doctor Elizabeth English, his life changes, and he decides to escape from the laboratory). He did voices for Teen Titans (Aqualad), Naruto, Legion of Superheroes (Cosmic Boy), Ben 10 (Mike Morningstar), Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Ted Kord, Blue Beetle), and he was the voice of Perceptor in Transformers: Power of the Primes. He also made an uncredited voice appearance in the JJ Abrams Star Trek as a Romulan. He did become a main cast member in the webseries The Guild with Felicia Day (online gamers actually meet in real life). He played a twisted version of himself in The Big Bang Theory, and had a popular online show called Tabletop. Most recently, he appeared in the Big Bang Theory spinoff Stuart Fails To Save The Universe. Nowadays, he is known as a writer/producer of all things geek, and is a well-respected narrator of audiobooks. He stunned everyone when he revealed the abuse he had endured as a child on the set of many productions and has been a very vocal advocate of mental health.

The Story of O2:

Written by: 

Story by : Jill Blotevogel

Teleplay by : Eric Tuchman

Directed by: Colin Ferguson

Original airdate: July 30, 2010

Synopsis: 

Jack heads off to visit Zoe at college, bringing along a care package from Vincent and Pilar. Zoe and her lab partner have a cat they were using for their project and who happens to get into the care package while Zoe and Jack go out for food. When they return, they can’t find the cat because it accidentally activated Pilar’s spray bottle that allows fabric to match the appearance of other fabrics. On the cat’s fur, it ends up making the cat invisible and difficult to catch. Zoe gets frustrated that her dad just showed up, especially with her plans she had to attend a party, and she tells her dad that he should have called because she has her own life now. He tells her to go to the party while he tries to catch the cat. He soon realizes that the spray washes off and when Zoe returns, having decided to skip the party, they manage to trap the cat in the shower and wash it off. The two apologize to each other and leave on better terms than ever.

Meanwhile in Eureka, a rocket race to the moon competition begins and many excited young students launch their rockets under the watchful eye of General Mansfield. Zane ends up crashing a prototype flying motorcycle which causes Mansfield to order him fired but Zane’s insistence he wasn’t drunk, and Jo’s feelings for him cause her to go to bat for him, keeping there until they can finish an investigation.

Another scientist, Dr. Ramsey, reports that his supply of TAP, terraforming atmospheric processing fluid, a way of producing breathable air from rocks and soil for use on other planets, has gone missing. Zane is the obvious culprit due to the TAP being capable of getting one super high but he denies it. Henry and Fargo inspect the prototype remains and find that the fuel tank is completely drained. Jo enlists Deputy Andy, complete with a newly made body and face, to find some birds that may have been affected the same way Zane was when he crashed. He ends up finding out that metal beams at the crash site are all super corroded and he has somehow started to catch on fire himself.

Jo talks with Zane and he questions why she seems so intent on helping him. She tells him she doesn’t want him to be that guy who ends up back in prison, but he says she is wasting her time. She lets him go but as she heads out to her car, Zane is there waiting for her. As they drive together to find Andy, they suddenly start to feel drowsy and pass out. Deputy Andy is there when they wake up and he pushes them back to town, rather than start up the car, because the area has so much oxygen that it’s in danger of exploding.

Allison’s tests reveal that Zane somehow has an excess of oxygen in his system, indicating hyperoxia and could result in blindness, something that happened to the birds that died.

At Cafe Diem, the town is betting on whose rocket will reach the moon first with Kevin’s in the lead, despite Allison’s earlier worry that he wasn’t going to do well. Trevor watches the race with interest and asks Kevin about how he came up with his rocket solution. Trevor goes to Allison later and explains that what Kevin made seemingly goes against the rules of the competition.

They realize that the TAP would work as a rocket fuel if it was irradiated at the right frequency and given that Fargo and company had changed the frequencies up, and that the TAP is self expanding, they’re in danger of causing a giant explosion.

They talk with Kevin about the rocket and he denies using the TAP which is when Alison reveals that she did it, hoping to help him be successful. Henry and Fargo activate the rockets’ self-destruct codes in order to avoid the explosion but one rocket keeps coming: Larry’s rocket, in which he did not include a self-destruct module due to it being too heavy and wanting to win the race. Trevor asks Allison why she did it and she admits it was a lapse in judgement and is having trouble adjusting to the new Kevin and just wanted things to go right.

Kevin comes up with a solution to release hydrogen balloons into the air in order to mix with the extra oxygen and create rain after the explosion occurs. Mansfield threatens to remove Fargo from the position of head of GD. As everyone waits to see if Kevin’s plan works, Zane calls Jo his old nickname for her of JoJo and she catches a glimpse of the Zane she knew. Luckily they all soon see that Kevin’s plan works perfectly. Unfortunately, Larry’s rocket is still heading back to Eureka and ends up hitting Jo’s house.

Jack returns from his college visit and invites Jo to stay with him at the bunker.

Advanced Research:

Jill Blotevogel has had a long career going back to the late 90’s. Some highlights include the Tin Man mini series, and adaptation of The Wizard of Oz that starred Zooey Deschanel, and she developed and wrote Scream: The TV Series.  

Dr. Ramsey was played by Jamie Kennedy, once the host of his self titled prank show, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment. He’s probably best known for the Scream series of films as Randy Meeks. Other credits include James Gunn’s The Specials, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Dr. Doolittle 2. He was a lead role in Jennifer Love Hewitt’s The Ghost Whisperer as Professor Eli James for 45 episodes, The Cleveland Show as Federline Jones, and about half of the 52 episodes of Fanboy and Chum Chum (two kids dress up as superheroes and cause havoc, animated, David Hornsby and Nika Futterman). He was also in Tremors 5: Bloodline and Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell, and most recently he was in the movie Portal in the Pines (a rural fireman discovers that a secret particle collider has opened a portal to hell).

Deputy Andy is now played by Kavan Smith, best known as Major Evan Lorne from Stargate: Atlantis. He was also in Mission to Mars with Sliders star Jerry O’Connell. He has done his fair share of Hallmark style movies, and was in 2 episodes of Dirk Gently. He had a recurring role in the series Rogue (an undercover detective, tormented by the possibility that her actions contributed to a tragedy, infiltrates a crime syndicate), and half of the 40-some episodes of The 4400. Most recently, he was in 134 episodes (of 158) of When Calls The Heart with Elizabeth Thatcher (a young schoolteacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west). 

Jake was played by Keenan Tracey. He has had a few minor roles, such as Gunner in the Bates Motel series, several episodes of The 100, and a TV miniseries called Rogue Files: Reparation (no synopsis available).

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RW733 - Eureka Rewatch S04E01-02 - Founders World

 

In this episode of The Eureka Rewatch, Cory and Tom head all the way back into a big change as they discuss season 4 episodes 1 & 2, Founders' Day and A New World.

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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