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A month after the accident that killed Kim, Henry is still reliving it in holographic form. Carter reaches out, suggesting that the two of them help each other deal with their situation. But Henry keeps insisting that events will keep diverging further and further from the timelines they remember. Case in point: at a festival celebrating a solar eclipse, Kevin’s occupational therapist bursts into flames. Two Global Dynamics researchers suffer the same fate, and Carter tries to piece together the link between them while also dealing with the conflict between his memories and this new timeline. Another major shift occurs when Allison – not Henry – is placed in charge of Global Dynamics after Stark is removed. Carter realizes that all three victims were near the lab with the artifact when Kim died, which makes him wonder if Henry is responsible – and if Stark is next.

Season 2 Regular Cast: Colin Ferguson (Sheriff Jack Carter), Salli Richardson (Allison Blake), Joe Morton (Henry Deacon), Jordan Hinson (Zoe Carter), Ed Quinn (Nathan Stark), Erica Serra (Jo Lupo), Neil Grayston (Douglas Fargo)

written by Jaime Paglia
directed by Michael Rohl
music by Bear McCreary
main title theme by Mark Mothersbaugh

Guest Cast: Debrah Farentino (Beverly Barlowe), Matt Frewer (Taggart), Tamlyn Tomita (Kim), Christopher Gauthier (Vincent), Meshach Peters (Kevin), Garwin Sanford (Congressman Faraday)

Notes: Congressman Faraday appeared in season 1’s Alienated. Henry traveled back in time to prevent Kim’s death, and Carter traveled back to stop him, in the season 1 finale Once in a Lifetime.

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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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Over Here: Col. Lochley asks a Catholic priest to come to Babylon 5 a few days before President Sheridan is to arrive for the Interstellar Alliance’s tenth anniversary celebration. A crew member who recently returned from a vacation on Earth had been complaining of hearing voices before finally barricading himself in a section of the station. The crewman, Burke, is now restrained within a security cell and claiming to be possessed by a demonic spirit. The priest is skeptical at first, suspecting mental illness or some kind of hoax. But after a demonstration of the being’s power, he is convinced. He is unsure whether or not to try to perform an exorcism immediately, or summon additional help from Earth. If he calls for help, the word of the reason will spread. And while this may cause some panic, it would also lead to a renewed purpose for a Church that has been declining toward irrelevance. The demonic being claims this is, in fact, its purpose – that it was trapped in space by God so that starfaring humans would find reason to believe. The being’s apparent eagerness to be exorcised gives Lochley and the priest pause – there is another agenda here. But denying the demon’s wish would seem to condemn Burke to suffer, and that responsibility may be too much to bear.

Over There: En route to Babylon 5 for the anniversary celebration, Sheridan begrudgingly gives an interview to ISN. He mentions his regret that Londo will not be at the celebration to represent the Centauri, but that his ship will be picking up Prince Regent Vintari, third in line to the throne. The night before the rendezvous, Galen appears to Sheridan in a dream, and shows him a vision of the destruction of New York City. In 30 years, he says, Emperor Vintari will attempt to restore the Republic’s former glory by destroying an old adversary – Earth. This can all be prevented if Sheridan will simply kill Vintari now. But when Sheridan meets the young man, who already feels trapped by the political intrigues of the Republic, he begins to doubt that he can kill a man for actions he has not yet committed.

written by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by J. Michael Straczynski
music by Christopher Franke

Cast: Bruce Boxleitner (President John Sheridan), Tracy Scoggins (Col. Elizabeth Lochley), Peter Woodward (Galen)

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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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