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

Guest Cast:

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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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