Eureka

2005 • SYFY
4.8
1.69K reviews
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Season 2 episodes (13)

1 Phoenix Rising
7/10/07
Recently, after Henry (Joe Morton) traveled through time to save Kim (Tamlyn Tomita), the woman he loved, from deadly exposure to the mysterious artifact in Section Five, he and Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) both enjoyed four years of a happy alternate future. Jack married Allison Blake (Salli Richardson) and Henry married Kim. Unfortunately, when that timeline destabilized, Jack had to force Henry to return to the past and let Kim die, restoring the proper timeline.
2 Try, Try Again
7/17/07
In coordination with Allison Blake's (Salli Richardson) first day as leader of Global Dynamics, the facility's massive computers undergo an eight-hour reboot, audit and reset. While the computers are offline, Global's storage vault supervisor, Victor (Don Thompson), reports that a suspicious blank spot has been discovered on a shelf. An item is missing.
3 Unpredictable
7/24/07
As Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) plans a surprise party for Zoe's (Jordan Hinson) 16th birthday, his ex-wife and Zoe's mom, Dr. Abby Carter (Olivia D'Abo) strides into his office. She reminds Jack that they made a deal: Zoe could live with Jack for one year, after which she would return to live with Abby. Jack urges Abby to reconsider, confessing that he's never even told Zoe about this arrangement. Abby holds firm. A year has passed and she is determined to take Zoe home with her.
4 Games People Play
7/31/07
On the same day that Henry (Joe Morton) starts his new job at Global Dynamics, Jack's (Colin Ferguson) ex-wife Abby (Olivia D'Abo) prepares to take Zoe (Jordan Hinson) home with her to Los

Angeles. Zoe is furious that her father won't fight for her to stay. She's so upset that she's using a personal therapy device called an A.T.S. to confront her anger and fears in a virtual-reality version of Eureka.
5 Duck Duck Goose
8/7/07
Science fair day at Eureka's Tesla School is a high-stakes competition among the town's teenage geniuses for a coveted first prize: a career-making internship at Global Dynamics. Events,

however, conspire to distract Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) from this powder keg of adolescent ambition. Most prominently, a meteorite hits his Jeep and when he visits Global Dynamics to find some answers, he's snared in a new security field that Dr. Jane Harrington (Anna Galvin) has designed to immobilize intruders.
6 Noche de Suenos
8/14/07
After a truck carrying toxic waste from Global Dynamics has a serious crash, Allison (Salli Richardson) orders Jack (Colin Ferguson) to investigate. As the truck's driver recovers in Global's infirmary, Jack and Lupo (Erica Cerra) check out the incident and find nothing amiss. A couple nights later, however, several people at Global share a dream in which the trucker dies - and in the morning, the man really is dead. The only reason that Jack believes this crazy story is that he and Lupo just shared a dream, too.
7 Family Reunion
8/21/07
Over the years, a team at Global Dynamics has stored various people in cryostasis, but, while updating their system, they discover that a 50-year-old tank contains an unidentified body. Stark and Henry revive the man, who turns out to be Dr. Pierre Fargo (Tygh Runyan) - Douglas Fargo's (Neil Grayston) grandfather.
8 E=MC...?
8/28/07
Allison (Salli Richardson) wants to hire Zane Donovan (Niall Matter), a brilliant young particle physicist, to help Stark (Ed Quinn) and Henry (Joe Morton) research the universe's earliest moments using a Chaotic Inflation Device that can, essentially, re-create the Big Bang. Zane, however, has just been arrested for stealing 3.1 million dollars from the government. As a result, Allison orders Jack to keep Zane in custody until he proves that he can be trusted.
9 Sight Unseen
9/4/07
Callie (Sonja Bennett), Eureka's friendly dry-cleaner, reminds Jack (Colin Ferguson) that today is his one-year anniversary in town. Jack is too busy to celebrate. Moon rocks at Global Dynamics are sprouting radioactive crystals for unknown reasons; a substance

called polyethylene glycol is missing from the town's pharmacy; and Zoe (Jordan Hinson) has a minor car accident during her first solo-driving excursion. (Her far-fetched excuse is that she hit

something invisible).
10 God is in the Details
9/11/07
On a Sunday morning, Lupo (Erica Cerra), Henry (Joe Morton), Allison (Salli Richardson) and Kevin (Meshach Peters) worship at Eureka's sparsely attended church, where Reverend Harper (Barbara Eve Harris), a former physicist, preaches. Suddenly, across town, Zoe (Jordan Hinson) loses her voice in an instant. She can't speak a word. Later that day, Allison's skin begins to glow. Stark (Ed Quinn) diagnoses it as a form of bioluminescence and discovers that it is wreaking havoc with her nervous system. If it can't be stopped, Allison will die.
11 Maneater
9/18/07
As the employees of Global Dynamics complete Dr. Anne Young's (Lexa Doig) seminar on sexual harassment, Allison (Salli Richardson) asks Jack (Colin Ferguson) to locate biological systems engineer Dr. Stone (Richard Cox), who hasn't come in to work. The eccentric scientist lovingly maintains a network of Eureka's utilities, including air conditioning and waste processing, that is inspired by the human digestive system. Without Stone constantly fine-tuning the system in the tunnels below town, things will go haywire. Methane buildups, for example, might cause toilets to explode...which is exactly what happens, moments later at the Sheriff's office.
12 All that Glitters
9/25/07
Shoppers in downtown Eureka are startled when a decorative iron statue of Pythagoras suddenly turns to pure gold. Sheriff Jack Carter's (Colin Ferguson) investigation eventually leads him to Christopher Dactylos (Michael Shanks), the statue's egotistical artist. Dactylos gives Carter an odd lecture about medieval alchemists and their dreams of turning metal into gold and then he retreats into his underground laboratory.
13 A Night at Global Dynamics
10/2/07
Following Henry's (Joe Morton) announcement that the Alchemist's Curse contagion has mutated into deadly flesh-eating bacteria, the Global Dynamics defense computer kicks into action, locking some people in and keeping others out. It transforms Allison's office into a panic room by lowering it far below Earth's surface and sealing it off completely. The four people in the office - Allison (Salli Richardson), her son (Meshach Peters), Henry and the unscrupulous Beverly Barlow (Debrah Farentino) - are trapped together.

About this show

For years, the government has been relocating the world's geniuses (and their families) to the picturesque Pacific Northwest town of Eureka, where daily life straddles the line between unprecedented innovation and total chaos. U.S. Marshal Jack Carter finds this out firsthand when he wrecks his car and becomes stranded there. After the town's eccentric inhabitants unleash a scientific creation still unknown to the outside world, Carter steps in to restore order and consequently is let in on one of our country's best-kept secrets. From unrequited love to professional jealousy, from addiction to depression, the problems of Eureka's townsfolk grow from the myriad of life's everyday challenges. But with the population's unique talents, troubled psyches and limitless resources, these small-town concerns have a way of becoming big-time problems. It is at that intersection, where human frailty and super-science collide, that Eureka begins.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
1.69K reviews
Jennifer Kokoski
August 30, 2016
I miss this show so much. It was one of those fun, good-spirited stories with a mix of SciFi and intriguing characters. Not filled with gore, sex, horror or the usual cynical content that passes for popular in today's culture. This is family-friendly humorous adventure akin to Doctor Who. The characters included Jack Carter, the well-meaning doofus sheriff who managed to pull this town of geniuses together and keep them from accidentally destroying the world. The show lasted only 5 full seasons (actually 7 since Seasons 4 & 5 where split over two years each) before falling victim to SyFy's killer cancellation curse. Season 1 established the main characters. Seasons 2 & 3 played up various relationship and Big Bad triangles, perhaps even losing it's way a bit. But Season 4 reimagined the main cast with a clever time shift and brought a direction to the series that lasted until it's very end. Unlike other shows that ended early, you do get closure (a much fought for finale episode) yet feel you were brought along for a fun ride. As it is I still miss Jack, Alison, Henry, Grace, Jo, Zane, Fargo, Holly, Vincent, Zoe, Kevin, Jenna and Baby Carter. I wish Netflix would pick it up again.
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Chris Briano
September 18, 2019
Eureka! I randomly chose this show to 'Binge Watch' as I recover from Knee reconstruction Surgery, and I got hooked. (*Note: Mini spoiler) While 'US Ranger' was transporting a 'Teen' Prisoner while driving in bad weather avoiding falling branches etc, all of a sudden, they are blinded by a bright light in the opposite direction, A vehicle mirroring their exact weaving in the Road only they are able to straighten up in time for the Prisoner to look in the other vehicle, only to see...HER FACE!
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Red
October 29, 2017
Eureka isn't usually as good as I remember it being. The intro gives it away, really- there are a lot of fantastical, sci-fi things happening, but it tends to overpower interesting character interactions (It's a little difficult to have meaningful dialogue when "Oh no something terrible is happening again") The acting is good though, and the later seasons are better at pretty much everything. Watch if you want to see good, solid sci-fi problem solving, because that's most of Eureka. If you do decide to watch, you can probably skip the first (and maybe second) season, everything you need is given through exposition or can be inferred from context.
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