Omega Girls:
Written by: Eric Wallace & Jaime Paglia
Directed by: Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Original airdate: August 8, 2011
Synopsis:
Fargo turns over control of GD to Allison/Beverly, and she immediately starts to put her plans into place.
After Alison/Beverly kisses Jack goodbye at GD, he notices something different about his girlfriend and asks Henry for his help in figuring it out. A check reveals that the local hospital and state police have no record of any accident or accident victims being treated. Henry turns to Zane to help him hack into the infirmary records but first Zane needs to create a computer problem so that he will be called in to work on the computers and thereby have access to all he needs. While he does that, he asks Henry about the complications of relationships after his time travel trip. Henry acts surprised as if he is clueless but opens up and the two have a heart to heart about it.
Once Zane gets into the records, they find Alison‘s scans which show the implant inside of her. Jack develops a ruse to get Alison down to his office which ends with him locking her in the cell. Unfortunately Alison/Beverly activates her plan B which puts everyone in the entire town to sleep, a result of having placed something inside of them during the Titan mission inoculations.
Meanwhile, Jo picks up Zoe to drive her into town and the topic of Zane is brought up and the two get into it with Jo not able to reveal to her about the time travel and alternate Zane she almost married. Their arguments are cut short when they arrive in town and find everyone passed out everywhere.
They get Jack and take him to GD, noticing a non-GD helicopter above. Jo goes to try and find Alison while Zoe tries to revive her dad. Alison/Beverly uses a stun gun Jo and locks her in her own jail cell, heading down to section 5 with her cronies, Dekker and Crony 1, who arrived on the helicopter, though she keeps suffering from feedback from the neural link as Alison tires fighting back from within her own mind.
Zoe tries contacting Jo but Alison/Beverly talks to her without the walkie talkie and tells her that Jo passes out like everyone else. As she talks to her, Zoe recognizes the way she speaks and calls her out as Beverly. Alison/Beverly sends Crony 1 to go and get her but Zoe outsmarts him and knocks him out. Dekker goes after her as Alison/Beverly breaks into the computer core and begins transferring data. Zoe manages to stun Dekker and get away, rescuing Jo who goes after Alison/Beverly while Zoe tries something new to revive her dad, which at first shows signs of killing him, but Jo encourages her, sparking an idea in her and she manages to awaken Jack. Jo catches Alison/Beverly and stuns her, saving the data but Dekker and Crony get away.
Henry later confirms the data is safe but they don’t know how much Beverly got or where she is. Zoe tells Jo she won’t stand in her way concerning Zane while Jack takes his daughter aside to tell her the truth about what happened in 1947.
Advanced Research:
Salli Richardson-Whitfield directs an episode this season and next. She directs a lot of one-off episodes, including shows like Agents of SHIELD and Black Lightning.
Martin Cummins played Dekker. He’s been 132/158 episodes of When Calls The Heart (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), season 14 premiering 2027. He was in the movie Boot Camp (follows unathletic Whitney Carmichael, who signs up for an intense summer boot camp to reinvent herself and falls for her personal trainer. She then finds the strength to embrace her true self and ignore the others' expectations). He was the Sheriff and Mayor in Riverdale for 78 of their 137 episodes. He was a lead in a number of Hallmark style mysteries as well as The Song To My Heart (an organic tea shop owner helps a music sensation write lyrics for a new solo album), Cold Zone (freezing storm coming), and Not With His Wife (with Jewel Staithe, Forensic accountant Monica Bolland tracks down white-collar criminals, but when her husband Josh, an undercover agent for the FBI, is killed, she goes undercover herself to find his murderer. She gets a bookkeeping job with a criminal cartel but her cover is blown just as she discovers the devastating truth about her husband and the forces that brought him down). He’s had a starring role in Poltergeist: The Legacy (a secret society of poltergeist experts locate, retrieve, confiscate, or otherwise do what it takes to fix haunting situations). He’s had some recurring roles in the new V series, Kyle XY, Dark Angel (21/42), he was in Painkiller Jane, Smallville, Stargate SG1, and Friday the 13th Part VIII.
The title "Omega Girls" is a play on the concept of a horror movie final girl, with Omega being the last letter of the Greek alphabet. It's also a reference to Omega Man staring Charlton Heston, the 1971 film based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Salli Richardson-Whitfield also appeared in the 2007 adaptation of I Am Legend starring Will Smith.
Of Mites and Men:
Written by: Terri Hughes Burton & Ron Milbauer
Directed by: Mike Rohl
Original airdate: August 15, 2011
Synopsis:
Weeks have passed since Alison was possessed by Beverly and she is ready to get back to work. Unfortunately Senator Wen doesn’t feel it’s the right time just yet since some of her scans do still have some readings that are still off. Wen enlists Jack to take over for Jo while she participates in more Titan training.
Jo, awakened in the middle of the night by commandos from GD, finishes up her written test of her training and then is sent to a lab in the lowest depths of GD where she sees Parrish, Fargo, and Holly also in the room. She enters, thinking that they were the ones that texted her to come there, but they thought that she was the one who texted. Suddenly the doors close behind them and Larry appears on a viewscreen informing them that he is in charge of their psychological test. Soon enough, Zane appears, having snuck his way in, wanting to prove his worth.
Wen meets with several scientists, telling Dr. Sanagustin to move to her timetable to finish building the ship. As they talk, Wen wonders where Dr. Fung is and he soon makes his appearance via view screen after his experiment caused a loud noise to break a number of glass objects as well as making the building shake. Sanagustin notes that Fung has had issues with his interstellar communication system.
Alison heads to her old office but it’s been taken over by Dr. Timmons, her temporary replacement who apologetically tells her she isn’t allowed to be there. He also meets with Henry and Grace about an experimental surgery that could take care of his atrial defect problem. Henry is so excited but Grace is nervous, and then hurt as he says it’s his decision.
Back in the isolation chamber, they are each told to fold and wire up 100 origami cranes.
As Fung’s system has another error, Alison and Jack argue due to him not supporting her in returning to work, but he almost falls into an empty elevator shaft and she saves him. Andy joins Jack to help with the investigation and Fung insists that his experiment did not cause the elevator to go missing. As they talk, another rumble goes off and the floor beneath begins to fall apart and they quickly get to safety.
In the isolation chamber, the temperature gets hotter, the bathroom is broken, and Parrish takes shots at both Fargo and Zane but they continue trying to fold 100 cranes. Zane goes to try and fix the environmental controls but it ends up blowing their cranes around.
Jack finds out that the missing parts of GD were made of tungsten and questions Sanagustin about it because she needed tungsten for the ship build, but she says she didn’t even need the tungsten because the ship is done. When they check it out, they see a ship that is completely done, much to their surprise. She explains she got the work done by pushing her construction mites to a higher level. Jack mentions that there were tiny incisions in the floor that very well could have been made by the mites. When Jack tells her to turn them off, she is unable to, and the mites continue to devour their way through GD consuming whatever tungsten they come across. She tells them that the mites were programmed by Zane.
In the iso chamber, the little idiosyncrasies of each person begin to annoy each other as they try to finish the cranes. Larry starts playing songs to mess with them further. Holly asks Parrish for extra paper for the cranes but he says no because he wants to fish his own supply first and says that if they had tied up the stowaway Zane as he suggested, there would be enough paper for everyone. Fargo offers her his paper due to him not even coming close to 100 cranes.
Alison goes to Wen and asks to be reinstated but she insists that it’s too early, stating that they need to find Beverly Barlowe first and her technology to ensure that Alison is truly ok.
Jack and Andy discover that the mites are eating all of GD in order to build it into a whole new ship.
In the iso chamber, the power goes out completely and Fargo takes charge saying that they need to find their life support systems to take care of themselves. Parrish refuses to help saying no one will help him buy Jo and Holly decide to help him while Zane goes back to crane making, eventually finding a short and working to fix it. Jo says that when they get out she will request to retake the test, thinking that Zane hacked the test so she could pass. He goes to help with the controls, sending Holly and Fargo back to their cranes. He talks her up but when she fails to get the power on with her hack, he is surprised, and ends up revealing he was sent in to try and stress out everyone else as part of the test. He realizes that something else has happened outside and suddenly the mites attack more of the tool that causes the ceiling to fall down partway. Parrish continues to think it’s all just part of the test.
Jack asks Larry to patch him through to Zane but Larry is locked out of his controls by the mites rebuilding yet again. Larry tells him he has to go down to the level to manually get them out so he and Andy head down to level Q. Unfortunately once they get down there, the mites attack Andy and disable him.
Henry discovers that the mites’ signal transducers were destroyed which is why they can’t stop them. Jack realizes that Fung’s problems with his experiment caused the issue.
Zane, Jo, Fargo and Holly try to work out a way to hold the ceiling up and Parrish reluctantly gives up his chair to help them. When a mite falls through the ceiling onto him, Parrish freaks out and screams and Zane realizes how dire the situation is. He manages to get the power source out of one of his mites and they are able to get the door open 8 inches. Holly tries to get through to the manual override but gets stuck.
Fung tells Wen he can use his sound waves to stop the mites but Alison steps in and explains that it would also disable much of GD’s essential systems. Alison comes up with the idea to use a localized pulse to knock them out since they’ve gathered around the iso chamber. They’re hesitant, even Jack, but he changes his mind and trusts her, throwing his support behind her.
Alison helps Jack navigate through the new maze of corridors but when he reaches it, the mites are building up a wall in front of it. He rushes through but his tie gets caught and he’s stuck. Luckily, Parrish has finished his 100 cranes and they use the wired cranes, Zane’s bubble gum, and a magnet Fargo took from the room’s speakers to make a makeshift lasso and with Jack they manage to get the pulse activator and shut down the mites.
Jack and Alison celebrate her being reinstated, and he apologizes for being overprotective. Holly tells Fargo she was impressed with him and he makes her want to be a team player and kisses him, after which they start making fun of Parrish together. Henry tells Grace that she was right and that he shouldn’t make these types of medical decisions alone and she asks Henry to marry her. Zane tells Jo he is being recommended for a full pardon and that he feels good now that he knows he can go anywhere or stay in Eureka not because he has to, but because he wants to.
Advanced Research:
This episode has the third appearance of the song Car Wash by Rose Royce.
Dr. Sanagustin was played by Ellie Harvie. Lately she has been a higher up supporting cast member in things like A Little Park Music (when a piano appears in the park gazebo, interfering with important work, city manager Allie joins forces with rookie cop Ryan to remove it, only to find both music and love are hard to resist), Sealed With A List (this holiday season, festive Carley sets out to conquer her list of abandoned resolutions from last year. Aided by coworker Wyatt, she finds love and the confidence to chase her dreams), her share of lifetime Aurora Teagarden mystery movies (with a bearded Niall Matter), a few Stargate appearances and has been in quite a few of Disney’s Buddies movies (Air Bud spinoffs).
Dr. Fung was played by Ben Immanuel (Ratner) who is a “that guy” with 167 credits to his name. They include Travelers, Continuum, Stargate, Agent Cody Banks, Seven Days, the DaVinci series, and even Sliders where we saw him as Tommy Greenfield in Greatfellas (mob guy getting married, Remmy is part of plan to bust them, with Mel Torme).
Timmons was Peter Kelamis and he’s a “that voice guy” who has done a ton of voice work for animated shows, such as Whiplash (Iron Man villain), Rolf in Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Yoda, Polly Pocket, Krypto the Superdog (2005), Dr. Von Headnerd (Inspector Gadget) and Geo in Ninjago. He’s best known for playing Adam Brody in Stargate Universe.
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