Eureka Recap: From Fear to Eternity
Sheriff Carter and Allison are hot on Eva Thorne’s trail but they don’t call her The Fixer for nothing. She’s really covered her tracks. Deputy Jo and Zane find a bizarre container that’s designed to time release - something. They also discover 1,000 more containers and so they attempt to figure out what’s in the one they’ve got.
When Zoe and Lucas enter everyone’s favorite smart house, SARAH, the house force fields Zoe and says her DNA doesn’t match the Zoe in SARAH’s files. Of course, everyone thinks the house is broken. You know, just once I’d like to hear somebody in Eureka hear the ridiculous catastrophe on hand and go, ‘yeah that’s about right.’ These moments remind me of the X-Files when Scully’s had an alien baby, fought Sasquatch and done just about everything else under the sun and is somehow still skeptical.
Pictured: Salli Richardson as Allison Blake — SCI FI Channel Photo: Liane Hentscher
It turns out the stuff inside the sealed container is a mon-multi-polymer- oh shoot, it’s really adhesive and near indestructible. Meanwhile Carter has called General Madison, who of course was blissfully unaware of Thorne’s dirty deeds. He ain’t happy.
Allison is able to sneak the three dead bodies into Henry’s lab by switching the delivery address. It turns out the men died of old age - in 28 days. Whatever they were exposed to took them from 30-40 to 90 in a month’s time.
And it turns out Zoe was exposed to the same thing while she was in the bunker, which is why her DNA didn’t ring true with Sarah. Allison mentions she’s been feeling sick too. Zoe’s illness is the final straw for Carter and he tracks down Thorne telling her what he knows. The mysterious element the scientists discovered that aged them had the opposite effect on Thorne. She’s 107 years old and was there at the beginning of the experiment.
She planned to seal herself into the lab and take the secret with her but didn’t count on Carter’s interference. He cleared a path through the airshaft but left one canister of the “Instantaneum” goop in there by accident so they’re both trapped in the bunker. To make matters worse, the sealing of the lab cracked Eureka’s aquifer and is leaking into the groundwater. I would rather live in Gotham City than Eureka, I swear.
There’s one substance that can dissolve the indestructible goop but it’s incredibly rare, unless you live in Eureka. They’re able to get Carter and Thorne out and Henry figures out another kind of radiation can counteract the radiation that’s killing Zoe and will soon kill everyone else. But there’s no way to radiate the entire town in time unless you had an atomic bomb. As luck and runaway science would have it, the scientists from the underground bunker experiment built one years ago. With Eureka’s present day tech, it’s easy enough to detonate.
Everyone is saved and now that Carter realizes Thorne was more of a victim than a villain he doesn’t arrest her. He allows Henry to sneak her out of town and shares lunch with Allison. She’s not sick from the strange radiation, she’s pregnant with Nathan Stark’s baby. That baby we saw in the flash forward last year - so not Carter’s apparently. Curveball. We get one more curveball as Gen. Madison is fed up with Carter’s insubordination and fires him. Come on, Madison. Eureka wouldn’t be standing if it weren’t for Carter.
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2 opinions for Eureka Recap: From Fear to Eternity
John
Sep 25, 2008 at 4:04 am
exactly, i just finally figured this show out. It is the “andy griffith show” for the sci-fi set. the theme song is pretty much someone whistling. all the zany characters and send-ups just like Mayberry.
John
Sep 25, 2008 at 4:05 am
maybe i should had started it with EUREKA!!!
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