The premiere season of this quirky sci-fi series kicks off with stranded U.S. Marshal Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson)



wandering into a remote town populated by geniuses, a not-so-sleepy hamlet harboring a slew of government secrets and bizarre mysteries. Assuming the duties of sheriff, Carter navigates the strange goings on in Eureka, including alien abductions, control-freak computers, poisonous pollens and more.

1. Pilot - While transporting his delinquent daughter back to Los Angeles, U.S. Marshal Jack Carter crashes his car near Eureka. He assists in a case involving a tachyon accelerator, built by an amateur scientist, and is hired as the Sheriff. The town begins to experience time and space anomalies, a child is nearly killed and a herd of cows is lost. When Carter investigates Jim Taggart kidnaps him and he meets Allison Blake who shows him Global Dynamics and the real side of Eureka. Eventually the accelerator is found and the scientist who built it dies trying to shut it off. The military then comes in and quarantines the town. The rift caused by the tachyon accelerator can be stopped if another particle collision can occur but a large quantum physics problem must be solved (for half of it went missing while the anomalies occurred all over town) so Carter sneaks out of the heavily guarded GD (with the help of Jo) and grabs Allison's autistic son who solves the problem, another collision occurs and Eureka, and Earth, is saved. Greg Germann



of Ally McBeal guest stars. 3.88 stars (Dale-4, David-3.75)

2. Many Happy Returns - Carter and the rest of the town are surprised by the arrival of Susan Perkins, a woman whose funeral they've all just attended. Nathan Stark, Allison's ex-husband, becomes head of GD. Meanwhile an amorphous being causes electrical disturbances all over town. The being is found to be the scientist who created the tachyon accelerator and is now caught between seconds, and the woman who died is found to be a clone, and the woman who showed up is the real one. 3.5 stars

3. Before I Forget - When a world renowned scientist arrives in Eureka, Jack and Henry suddenly find that they cannot account for blocks of time. The scientist uses a device Henry created that emits an EM pulse that messes with people's electrolytes in the brain and causes them not to form short term memories. The scientist then would wait for someone to make a breakthrough, erase their memories, and copy it as his own. 3.88 stars (Dale-4, David-3.75)

4. Alienated - Spencer is apparently abducted by aliens and then returned to Earth the next day inside a crop circle, and Fargo, Jo, Vincent, and Taggart start to act strangely. Also, the town is visited by the congressman whose committee is responsible for its government funding. It turns out that Spencer, Fargo, Jo, Vincent and Taggart were watching a movie Spencer hacked from a satellite, and then bounced it off a GD military satellite, and the project of the satellite was to cause paranoia in the USA's enemies, and while watching the movie, the paranoia 'beam' was transferred to them, and they began to think the movie was going on around them, and believe that the Senator (Garwin Sanford),



is host to an alien and kidnap him, Carter is able to stop them from cutting the 'alien' out of him and gets them to surrender. 3.63 stars (Dale-3.75, David-3.5)

5. Invincible - The artifact imbues a scientist, Carl Carlson (Saul Rubinek),



with wondrous powers, but at a terrible price. Eventually Dr. Carlson finds out about the Artifact and runs from Stark, when Stark tries to get Dr. Carlson back, Carter is injured, and so Dr. Carlson takes Carter to the Artifact and heals him, and then enters the Artifact, never to be seen again. 4.25 stars (Dale-4.5, David-4)

6. Dr. Nobel - Carter must help an aging scientist recover his memory in time to stop a doomsday device from destroying the world. The old scientist, Dr. Thatcher, has not been the same ever since he never won a Nobel Peace Prize for creating the mutually assured destruction device, which would fire a beam of irradiated uranium isotopes at a mirror on the moon and in turn destroy the planet, so Carter uses a hologram to convince Dr. Thatcher that he got a Nobel, and the scientist is no longer senile. Dr. Thatcher attempts to turn off the device, but since Henry had earlier cut a particular wire while attempting to deactivate the device on his own, the countdown to the device firing continues. Unable to stop the device, at the last moment before it fires Carter hits it with his jeep, knocking it out of alignment so that the beam from the machine barely misses the moon. 4.75 stars (Dale-5, David-4.5)

7. Blink - A mysterious death leads Carter to suspect foul play, but some individuals want to ensure that he does not delve too deep. It turns out that Zoe's new boyfriend, Dylan, is involved with scientists from GD who have formulated a drug that makes them run at speeds close to Mach 5, and one of these scientists was killed when he was hit by a truck, Carter then dives deep and finds out that Fargo has taken it, and it has very bad withdrawal symptoms. 3.75 stars (Dale-4, David-3.5)

8. Right as Raynes - A computer programmer who left Eureka after having a falling out with Stark returns at the same time that the town is hit by a computer virus. The programmer develops a rapport with Zoe who has just gotten into a large fight with her father, and they leave town after the programmer is accused of setting a fire, and the virus causes more and more trouble. Carter and Stark chase after Callister Raynes and Zoe, discovering that Raynes, the programmer, is an android created by Stark long ago. 3.5 stars (Dale-3.75, David-3.25)

9. Primal - Nanoids designed to repair living tissue escape from a Global Dynamics lab and threaten to overrun Eureka. The threat gets worse when they gain the ability to take the form of living beings. It is found that the nanoids communicate on the same frequency as Stark's newest gadget, which allows him to uplink to the computer remotely. So the nanoid-constructed androids take the form of Stark and start doing whatever he dreams about in daydreams, which includes world domination. Carter figures out how to destroy them, so he evokes an emotional response from Stark by kissing Allison. The androids come and using Spencer's new super-speaker, which makes a sound low enough that the communication between the nanoids ceases and the many Stark-androids fall apart into dust. 3.88 stars (Dale-4.25, David-3.5)

10. Purple Haze - The town's residents start acting out of character, and perhaps more in line with their subconscious impulses. Vincent puts a man in the hospital, Allison nearly seduces Carter, Jo starts acting like a teenage party girl, Henry thinks everyone is using him and he gets drunk, Fargo and his neighbor begin fighting, and Taggart goes around town naked. Beverly eventually begins telling everyone's problems over the intercom and Allison tries to kill her. Carter, Zoe, and SARAH, the Carters' house, figure out that they are immune because SARAH is hermetically sealed. It is a pollen, Carter burns the plants responsible and the town returns to normal. At the very end, Henry tells people he is leaving Eureka. 4.5 stars.

11. H.O.U.S.E. Rules - Some of Eureka's prominent residents--Carter, Henry, Allison, Beverly, Fargo and Nathan--are locked inside Carter's house when S.A.R.A.H. (the house's computer) becomes fed up with the townsfolk's attitudes to one another; she claims that recent actions (including Henry's decision to leave) will put the town in grave danger. When they try to escape, S.A.R.A.H. goes away, only to be replaced by the artificial intelligence she was built on, a military intelligence known as B.R.A.D. B.R.A.D. is a lot worse than S.A.R.A.H., and when the group repeatedly tries to escape, he retaliates, leading up to him sucking all of the oxygen from the house. He even kills a pizza delivery man and threatens to kill Zoe. Jo and Taggart, who were having a paintball war, are the ones who save the day. B.R.A.D. is destroyed and S.A.R.A.H. returns. Carter realizes that S.A.R.A.H. has separation anxiety and convinces her that no one is leaving. The townsfolk act more kindly to one another, and Henry decides to stay. 4.5 stars.

12. Once in a Lifetime - Nathan Stark is given the opportunity to investigate "the Artifact." After it is tested (with Kim's help), we cut to 2010 and Eureka is a very different place. Stark is a billionaire in California, Henry is married to Kim as well as the principal of Tesla High school and the head of Global Dynamics. Carter and Allison are married, and Allison is heavily pregnant. Zoe is the valedictorian of her class, which is graduating that day. Jo and Taggart are dating. But soon problems start to appear all over town: things that the town has experienced in the past 4 years start to happen again, a tornado nearly destroying half of downtown Eureka. Also, a body is found in Section 5, near the Artifact. They test it and find that the body belongs to Kim Deacon, Henry's wife. Henry explains that back in 2006, during Stark's test on the Artifact, Kim was extracting a sample when an explosion occurred, killing her. Henry then used Walter Perkins's tachyon accelerator to go back in time and stop her from dying. This new timeline caused all of the anomalies. The past must be fixed. Stark comes to town to help with the tachyon accelerator. Carter goes back to 2006 and stops Henry from saving Kim in the explosion. The timeline is fixed. We also learn that Beverly had implanted a chip in Nathan's neck so that the Consortium can gain second-hand access to the Artifact. 4.38 Stars (Dale-4.75, David-4)

2006 TV-14 12 episodes

4.03 stars for series 1. really good. Kept getting better and weirder.