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AIR-DATE: 29/8/06
Written by: Andrew Cosby and Jaime Paglia
Directed by: Jeffery Levy
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Starring: Neil Grayston, Chris Gauthier, Shayn Solberg, David Quinlan, Tom Tames
Rating: 4/5
Synopsis Jack is investigating a very battered dead body found at the bottom of a hill. Every bone in its body is cracked, and it’s almost as if it was killed by falling miles from the sky. They find a chip in his body, which means he was something to do with Global Dynamics. Lordy!
Stark is pitting two teams against each other to produce the prototype for a (deep breath) hyper velocity anti-missile shield array for the Pentagon. They don’t have much time to finish it and Fargo, bless the little tyke, is worried. The other team, from the esteemed (we’re told) Section 5, seem to be on course to finish in time. But (splutter splutter) how?
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Henry works out that the body must have hit a car, but the person must have been travelling at 588 mph. Impossible, right? Noooo. It turns out the researchers have been using this new drug that makes them move at incredible speeds, but the drug is dangerous and obviously they are guilty of giving the drug to the man who died because of it.
Jack works out that it must be easy to spot the addicts, because they’ll be eating huge amounts of food to replenish their energy. This proves easy as all he has to do is go down to the canteen and find the people with triple portions. “I don’t care what they say,” he says, “but no canteen food is that good.” He questions the research team. During cold turkey they tell him what the drug is and who concocted it. It was Dylan, the intern who’s currently seeing Jack’s daughter. Dylan pulls him from the car and says the drug was the only way he could do the work and impress Global Dynamics enough to keep him. Jack knocks him out with an impressive baseball throw to the head.
After that he joins the rest of his Eureka-ites in a nice and communal baseball game. How very American.
Review One of the best Eureka episodes so far. It’s an interesting idea about a drug that makes people move faster, but with the added twist that this drug really is a narcotic with cold turkey-inducing withdrawal symptoms. There are some cool small elements too, such as Henry’s pen, which reproduces a three-dimensional hologram of anything you point it at. Oh, and the speeding effects are always good to watch.
The best episodes of Eureka seem to be the ones that encompass as many of the full cast as they can juggle. But it’s still too small a cast. It would be good to start filling it up and giving some of the more minor characters full episodes. For a series seemingly founded on the word “quirky” it still doesn’t feel different enough.
Dialogue Zoe (When walking through her school for the first time.): “Good God, it’s nerdvana.”
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