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The Pentagon decides to coordinate a regularly scheduled shutdown and reboot of Global Dynamics’ computer system with the official handoff of control from Stark to Allison. A GD employee hopes to use the opportunity to move up the corporate ladder by pushing Fargo off, and plants a small device stolen from the storage room in Fargo’s jacket. Unfortunately, a curious Fargo activates the device . . . and extremely unfortunately, it’s an extremely dangerous personal forcefield device. The device can not be deactivated and the field continuously expands. When it was first tried four years ago, the only way to stop it was to place the wearer at the bottom of a very deep bunker – and detonate a nuclear bomb with him. That sent the device’s creator into self-imposed exile in a cabin outside of town. The Pentagon wants to repeat the previous solution before matters get out of hand, but Allison allows Carter to look for an alternate way out. Carter and Jo track down the thieves, but Stark and Henry can’t find a way to shut down the device. In the end, it becomes clear that the only way to stop the device is to kill Fargo. The only question is, how permanently?

written by Charlie Craig
directed by Michael Nankin

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Carter is feeling pretty good about life, planning a surprise sixteenth birthday party for Zoe and managing to get a raincheck on a coffee date with Allison. But rainclouds quickly roll in, both metaphorically and meteorologically. Strange weather events start occurring all over Eureka, including a sudden temperature plunge at Global Dynamics’ spa that freezes an employee to death. And Carter’s ex-wife Abby comes to Eureka for a surprise visit – and plans to take Zoe back to Los Angeles with her. Carter and Abby had agreed that Zoe would only stay in Eureka for a year . . . but Carter never told Zoe, hoping he could work out a different arrangement before the deadline. When Zoe finds out, she is considerably less than thrilled.

Allison receives an anonymous e-mail with details about Global Dynamics’ research on Kevin – Stark brought him to Eureka in part because he appeared to be somehow linked to the artifact. Her frustration with Stark ebbs after Stark explains himself – and after she traces the e-mail to discover that Stark sent it in the first place. Allison also overrules Beverley and has Henry cleared to work at Global Dynamics. Her efforts to delay Henry thwarted, Beverley hurriedly leaves Eureka in order to make contact with her associates in the Consortium.

As the weather gets worse, the town meteorologist predicts a catastrophic hurricane coming soon. But even in Eureka, an accurate weather forecaster is a phenomenon that raises Carter’s suspicions.

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Guest Cast: Debrah Farentino (Dr. Beverly Barlowe), Olivia D’Abo (Abby Carter), Patrick Gilmore (Pete Pullman), Stefanie von Pfetten (Wendy Witicus), David Nykl (Stephen Witicus), Meshach Peters (Kevin), Christopher Gauthier (Vincent), Adrienne Carter (Pilar)

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Carter whacks his head while investigating a noisy researcher. Shortly after that, he gets into an argument with Zoe, who’s still mad that Carter kept his arrangement with Abby a secret, and now seems mad that he won’t fight to keep her. Shortly afterward, he sees a bright light at the sheriff’s office, and Jo seems to disappear. Even more strangely, no one in town remembers her. As Carter tries to figure out what happened, more and more people disappear, and those who are left believe Carter is going crazy. As Carter races to get Zoe to safety, he discovers that she doesn’t remember their argument from that morning. Carter realizes that he’s in a virtual reality created by a therapeutic device Zoe was using to visualize her conflicts. Carter had tried it on, but his head trauma interfered with the device. And as he tries to figure out to leave his fabricated reality, the citizens of Eureka keep a vigil in the real world, waiting for him to wake up.

written by Johanna Stokes
directed by Michael J. Rohl
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Olivia D’Abo (Abby Carter)

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As Jo battens the hatches in preparation for the high school science fair, Zoe deals with pressure from her IQ test and from classmates who want to be sure she knows her place in the intellectual pecking order. Carter’s efforts to join Allison and Stark in a workout at the gym are mercifully interrupted by a falling object that plows straight through his jeep. Henry suggests that Carter bring the object to Global Dynamics’ labs, where a bitter assistant researcher named Finn mans the telescopes and identifies the fallen object as a piece of space debris. Another piece of debris hits, and an amusing anecdote of automotive destruction becomes a serious situation. Finn does another scan of the area above Eureka and discovers that a huge field of debris is falling out of orbit and headed straight for Eureka. Carter suspects he’ll find clues as to why at the science fair . . . but the connection between the fair and Global Dynamics doesn’t run quite the way he expected.

written by Ethan Lawrence
directed by Michael Lange
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Matt Frewer (Taggart)

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On the way home from a jogging session with Allison, Carter saves Fargo from being hit by an out-of-control tractor trailer hauling Eureka’s consolidated waste. One uncomfortable detoxification session later, Carter is ready to head off to dreamland . . . but the next morning he discovers that his subconscious was broadcasting into other people’s dreams. And he’s not the only one – dozens of people have shared dreams, with many an uncomfortable secret exposed. Fargo experiences the truck driver’s dream of dying – just before the driver’s lungs fail. Carter discovers that Vincent hasn’t shared any dreams, so he gathers the dreamers in Café Diem to see if the location has any effect. It doesn’t, which leads to a few more embarrassing dreams shared – and to Jack getting an image of Henry erasing his memory. Several dreamers don’t wake up at all – they have an elevated chemical level in their bloodstreams that leads to paralysis. Carter finds the first link between the dreamers when he learns that they were all used as subjects in an experiment to utilize people’s unused brainpower during sleep – but something else is exacerbating the problem. The last piece of the puzzle falls in place when Allison admits that she and Stark were using an experimental device to let Allison communicate with Kevin in her dreams. The process is working, and dream-Kevin seems prepared to show Allison something about the nature of the artifact. But first, they need to find a way to cure the dreamers.

written by Jaime Paglia
directed by Eric Laneuville
music by Bear McCreary

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When Carter discovers that Jo is supplying Zoe with double espressos (against Carter’s wishes) in exchange for beauty magazines, he takes great pleasure in teasing them both. His fun is interrupted by a call from Allison, and even though he’s still giving her a bit of a cold shoulder because of the dream device, he agrees to investigate the latest problem at General Dynamics. Workers have discovered that a cryogenics chamber from the 1950s originally thought to be empty is decidedly occupied – and its inhabitant is waking up. The first person ever to be revived from cryo-stasis turns out to be Pierre Fargo, Douglas Fargo’s grandfather. Pierre insists that he was put in the cryo chamber against his will, and that even though the police have a signed resignation letter on file, he had no intention of leaving Eureka. Indeed, he was planning to propose to his girlfriend Belle, Douglas’s grandmother. Pierre also claims that many of the discoveries credited to Andre Sandrov – a leading figure in Eureka – are actually based on his work. Nathan is initially skeptical, but Carter pursues the investigation – while Zoe starts an investigation of her own into her father’s past. Pierre’s major concern is initially restoring his good name, but when a side effect of the stasis accelerates his aging, it looks like he may not have much time left to do anything.

teleplay by Anne Cofell Saunders
story by Jane Espenson
directed by Michael Lange
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Tygh Runyan (Pierre Fargo), Scott Hylands (Andre Sandrov), Christopher Jacot (Larry), Terence Kelly (Charlie)

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Global Dynamics is about to embark on one of its most significant projects ever – a recreation of the Big Bang itself. To ensure the project’s success, Allison wants to add a little more brain power. When a recruiter brings Zane Donovan, a recently-arrested genius hacker and physicist, to town, it seems like a good fit for all concerned. Except for Donovan, who has a long history of going his own way, and for Carter and Jo, who have keep tabs on him until he proves himself to be trustworthy. After Donovan hacks Carter’s credit card information, it seems like that is a very long way off. A larger concern is the Big Bang experiment – Henry, Nathan and Allison have all begun to lose intelligence and regress to a more adolescent mindset, and as a result Henry lets the containment field around the experiment deteriorate. Unless Carter can find someone to fix the problem, the explosion will be disastrous. But every expert in physics and in human biology has also been afflicted with deteriorating intelligence – except for the one that’s just committed a jailbreak.

written by Bruce Miller
directed by Tim Matheson
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Christopher Gauthier (Vincent), Niall Matter (Zane Donovan), Allison Hossack (Dr. Emily Glenn), Bill Mondy (Sam Lovejoy), Gabrielle Rose ()

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