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AIR-DATE: 12/9/06
Written by: Johanna Stokes and Martin Weiss
Directed by: Colin Bucksey
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Starring: Neil Grayston, Robert Clarke, Shayn Solberg, Christopher Gauthier
Synopsis Fargo invents a device which bridges the gap between human brains and computers. It’s Stark who’s linked up to it, which really isn’t the best time, as Allison’s just issued him the divorce papers, so he’s very depressed. At the same time, Taggart is using nanobugs in his veterinary work but they escape and people start to go missing. Taggart and Jack search for the little critters in the service tunnels, but they soon realise the nanobugs are replicating Stark and their mission has been activated by Stark’s megalomaniacal dreaming. They work out all they have to do is to send a low-level sound out of a powerful amp (helpfully introduced in one of the fi rst scenes by Zoe’s musician friend) and they’ll dissipate for some reason. So they do. And then it’s off to bed.
Review Eureka would be so much of a better series if it concentrated on the quirky characters and situations more than the tedious technobabble. But here we are, virtually in Star Trek: Voyager land, only with more likeable characters and slightly funnier lines. It’s a bit of a cheapy episode this, even by Eureka’s thrifty standards and the full drama of the situation is never really realised. We’re nine episodes in yet the series seems still determined to walk as lightly as a bar of Milky Way.
And the less we say about that deus ex machina ending the better…
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Dialogue Allison: “You dream about world domination?” Stark: “Not all the time.
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