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Previously on Eureka.

I

hate

this.

Me too. I like their tauntiness.

I know.

Hey, kids, more of espresso?

Definitely. On second thought, I'm cutting you off.

Why can't they schedule individual times for our final interviews? Because

Senator Wen is sadistic. We don't even know how long the interviews will last

what kinds of questions they'll ask. Me, in a room talking.

Oh, this can't end well. I am not exactly a sharer. I wouldn't say that.

We've passed the stress test and the physicals. We've proven we can handle

mission. What more could they want to know?

Looks like I'm about to find out.

As you know, Mr. Donovan, our goal for this election process has been to find

the best of the best in Eureka.

We've narrowed it down to the most qualified, so now we're just looking for

X factor.

And you're going to find it by digging around in my brain.

Resumes and IQs only paint part of the picture.

We want to know what drives you, what makes you want this more than the

We want to know you.

I've beaten lie detectors before.

The biocortex recorder is not a lie detector, Mr. Donovan.

It simply creates a visual representation of your memory without

that we place on ourselves.

I have nothing to hide. What do you want to know?

Hey there, stranger. A stranger?

We had dinner last night. Yeah, we did have breakfast. This is arguably the

important meal of the day. You have to be really careful.

What? Oh, why?

Because the relationship auditor told us we were going to break up, and I'm

breaking up?

Screw the DOD. They're sending a supervisor today to hear our appeal.

be here any minute.

Today? Today.

Like I said, a lot.

A smart people at the DOD. Nice, attractive bunch.

It's really subtle.

Thanks, I'm trying.

Where are we going?

Well, we're only six weeks out for the launch, so we're putting Astraeus

the ringer, running system tests on everything.

We're doing a full diagnostic workup. First up is the electromagnetic

It was designed to withstand the atmospheric conditions and the extreme

temperatures on Titan, not to mention every type of ionizing radiation.

It's not like you're going to fire a warhead at it to see if it works, are

Unfortunately, no. Not today.

Today, we're just going to turn it on.

Hit it.

Wow.

Henry, that's actually kind of impressive.

Great work, Henry. Thank you.

Pretty.

Looks like lightning.

Dr. Hughes, what are you doing here?

And a very good morning to you, too, Dr. Blake. A fellow named Larry pointed me

this way.

I've come to consider your appeal of my ruling.

I thought the DOD was sending a supervisor.

They did.

Seems the folks over there saw fit to promote me.

To be your own supervisor?

On a case you worked on two weeks ago?

I know. It's amazing.

Aren't you going to congratulate me?

Whenever you're ready.

Does no one see a conflict of interest here?

I'm trained.

To be unbiased. Of course you are. Does it hurt?

Of course not. The BioCortex recorder is completely non -invasive. It simply

records memories from the events of your past and downloads them to this little

drive here.

Well, what if there's a part of our history that we don't want to share?

based on the same technology they're using for the Astraeus interviews. They

into our hippocampus.

it will only record the things that you're willing to share. So think of

No, see, I've seen this before, and then the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man kept

going down the street. I don't know.

Well, we can always cancel the session and let my original ruling stand.

Let's continue.

So, you two claim to work well together despite your personal relationship.

But we do work well together, man. We can think of hundreds of... Excellent!

I think we have what we need.

That's it?

Well, what were you expecting, the Spanish Inquisition?

I don't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

There you go.

Oh! Are you all right?

Yeah, I had something.

Sorry about that bio thingy.

So,

I'll be in touch when I've had a chance to review these recordings.

But I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.

Your original case manager was an excellent judge of character.

Great. So, Mr. Donovan, what we really want to know is why space?

What or who inspired you to pursue it?

There weren't a lot of people I looked up to when I was a kid.

So I looked for inspiration elsewhere.

Pencils down.

Now before you disperse, don't forget that next week is Bring Your Dad to

Day, the follow -up to our wildly successful Bring Your Mom to School Day.

a good weekend.

Mr. Donovan, I'm looking forward to finally seeing your dad in person.

You and me both.

My dad wasn't what you'd call reliable.

Perfect.

So I learned to rely on myself.

My dad really wanted to be here, but he sent some pretty cool photos from

Discovery.

And he's the mission commander, so that means he's in charge of a lot of

important stuff.

The bad thing about having an astronaut for a dad is that he's gone a lot, but

it's kind of cool knowing he's out there somewhere.

And hopefully, he'll be coming home soon.

So you hacked into NASA's mainframe in the fifth grade?

I created a false identity.

I photoshopped his picture into the images.

I should have gotten an A.

You should have been expelled.

I was, actually.

So why an astronaut? Why not make him a spy or a pro -athlete? Yeah, it's what I

wanted to be.

And still do.

And yet you tell us the story of your first felony.

How is that supposed to convince us?

Because you need me.

When the pressure's on, I know how to improvise. I've been doing it my entire

life. We're assembling the best team of 20 out of hundreds of applicants.

You're a loner, Mr. Donovan.

You said so yourself. You never depended on anyone your entire life.

By definition, you're not a team player.

Then cut me.

If I haven't proven myself by now, I never will.

But I'm done jumping through hoops.

You all have yourself a good day.

What's going on? Main engine test. I mean, they powered up just fine, but now

they won't accept our command to shut down.

Thrusters are about to engage, and we are locked out of the control.

The mooring clamps are failing.

What happens if the thrusters engage inside?

The ship will tear a hole right through GD.

the emergency checklist and we're still locked out so i'm going to bypass the

control panel and access the secondary system can we just cut the fuel supply

astraeus's engines generate thrust using self -sustaining magnetic fields to

accelerate the ion no fuel thank you but if i

flood the engine compartment With xenon gas, it should accelerate the ions so

quickly that they overwhelm the field. Yes, that's what I was going to say.

The morning class, we're about to break loose. We're out of time.

No, no, no, no, no. It's working.

It's working. The magnetic field overloaded and cut off the engine, and

powering down.

Well, the good news is, you know, the engines work.

You think?

Except I'm still not getting any readings for automation error.

Well, what caused it?

I am so bummed we missed the thruster test.

I mean, who doesn't love thrust?

Yeah, well, probably for the best. Me and engine tests are kind of like cesium

and water.

Explosives? Big time.

You know, maybe we should do some more practice questions.

I mean, you can never be too prepared. No, Doug, we went on this run to take

minds off the internet.

An excellent idea.

Best not to focus on the many.

Many ways that you could choke.

Well, me the best man, blah, blah, blah.

Oh, now I'm really stressed.

I'm kind of homicidal.

Isaac is just trying to psych us out. We will do something else to relax.

Although, there's kind of not much left.

Yoga didn't work. Meditation didn't work.

We tried everything.

Well, not everything.

Oh?

You know, when you first came to Eureka, I never thought we'd end up like this.

I mean, I did FTL you into the woods.

I've had worse first dates.

This is great.

Best idea ever.

You still stressed?

Not even a little.

Because you're kicking my wizard's ass.

Or at least you were.

Let's see how your Orc King feels about a little fountain of flame in your face.

Harsh.

Well, I still forgive you. Oh, really? Mm -hmm.

Is that yours?

It's for you.

Your phone?

Oh, my interview.

My phone. Where is it?

I'm not ready. I don't even know what I'm saying. No, Doug. Just be yourself.

Wait.

For luck.

I'll leave the game here.

For later.

Hey.

You find anything yet?

The hull looks clean.

Oh, wait.

What's that?

Looks like a piece of metal jammed into the electron recombination grid.

Wow.

What? I'm studying.

So, uh, what do you think? Maybe somebody got cut from the Astraea's

they're feeling jilted? You think it's the next candidate?

Nah.

Shit didn't do that to itself.

Uh, Dr. Worth?

Excellent! You found my missing photovoltaic capacitor!

Well, not so excellent. It was rammed up the backside of the Astraea's.

Ouch.

Here, take a look.

Oh, they nicked it!

Totally useless to me now.

Any idea who could have gotten their hands on this?

Anyone. Everyone. As you can see, there's plenty of foot traffic around

Well, if you'll excuse me, a new photovoltaic capacitor won't build

Any other brilliant ideas?

Which side of this thing was stuck in the estrus?

Okay, then how does the other side get nicked? Well, it could have been fired

some kind of projectile weapon.

That makes sense.

I mean, it's up pretty high, and someone would have seen our guy if he used a

ladder. Yeah, if we find our weapon.

We find our shooter.

I'll measure the groove on this thing, see if I can pinpoint what fired it.

That's not so bad.

Stage two.

My face is on fire.

You're lucky it was a mild chemical burn.

All better?

You may have missed a spot.

Okay, I think we're in enough trouble as it is. My, I can't believe we're

trying. Hey, do you think there's a connection between the ship sabotage and

your decontamination?

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, if you think about it, both incidents have been... No.

No, no, I have no idea.

Weird, though, that there'd be a trail of maze kernels.

Weirder than what, dry cranberry?

No, weirder.

Well, I guess I will.

Of all the candidates, why should we pick you?

Why do you want this?

It's what I've dreamed of since I was a kid. Everything I've done has been

towards this goal.

And yet, you have quite a history of making, shall we say, questionable

The most recent includes wormholing Dr. Martin.

What? No, no, no. I swear, we've only just kissed.

The FTL incident, Dr. Fargo.

So, why should we think your decision -making skills on this mission should be

any different?

All right!

Awesome, awesome!

Radical Raccoons, give me some love, give me some awesome love!

Hey! Hey, guys! How's everybody doing? All right! All right, Rocketeers! 24

hours till our annual engine contest and... We will roast! We will roast!

All right! Okay! The team with the best test burn is going to take home the

prized Golden Rocket Trophy!

My question for you is, can anyone dethrone the four -year reign of the

possums?

I'm not sure, I'm not sure, but we're all going to find out tomorrow.

All right, who's ready to build some rockets?

Yeah, let's go, come on.

This engine's going to burn too hot. We need that power if we're going to stand

a chance of kicking possum butt. But it's not faint. The whole thing could

ignite. Shh, don't look now.

Awesome possums are headed this way.

Oh, look.

It's the radical rejects. And little Douglas.

You do realize that the engine's supposed to power a rocket.

The thing won't even make it off the ground.

Oh, our rocket's going up. Right up here. Big talk.

From such a little boy.

Hey, whoa. Fellas, fellas. Come on.

Listen. We work in the spirit of scientific discovery.

We leave the eagles at home.

Okay? All right, everybody?

Back to work.

Rockets. All right. Later, losers.

I really hate that kid.

What is it we study here? The way of thermal propulsion, sir.

And what is that way?

Thrust first.

Thrust hard. No mercy, sir.

We're toast.

Guys, I have an idea. It's over, Fargo. There's no way we can win. Yes, we can.

The excess heat from the engine can be the additional power we need.

We'll turn those possums into roadkill.

And first up, our returning champions, four times in a row, the Awesome

All right, Possums, you ready to show us what you got? Yeah. Okay, in five,

four, three, two, one, burn!

Good job, Awesome Possums. A

perfect burn. I guess we shouldn't be surprised.

Next up, the radical raccoon.

All right, all right, here we go. In five, four, three, two, one.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to present this trophy for

place for the 10th annual Galaxy Camp Rocket Engine Competition to our

the Awesome Possums.

just don't get a trophy.

I guess my temperature calculations were a smidge off.

You think?

Let's pray.

You put on one heck of a show, Mr. Fargo.

I was testing my new thermocouple design.

It's very impressive.

Don't you get it? I blew it.

Maybe.

It was awesome.

I'm going to keep this.

I want to show your design to the gang back at JPL.

Take my card.

Get your parents to give me a call sometime.

I see big things for you.

The thermocouples that overloaded led to a new design which now generates power

for the RTGs aboard the Cassini spacecraft.

If I've learned anything over the years, it's that being bold and being

innovative go hand in hand.

So, would I make the same questionable choices during the Astraeus mission?

I'm going to try, Senator.

Thank you for your time, Dr. Fargo.

By the way, whatever happened to your rival?

The awesomest possum.

Five years in a row, ladies and gentlemen. You know, it's been a great

Five years in a row. It is a possum dynasty.

Despite the insufficient intellect of my teammates, I found a way to win.

It's been a fantastic camp for everybody. You guys were great. They

little greater.

All right. I'll see you all again next year.

Yeah. And that is how I led the possums to an unprecedented fifth.

Straight victory.

Very impressive, Dr. Parrish. Thank you for sharing.

It was entirely my pleasure.

We'll be in touch.

Ah, yes.

Yes, you will.

How'd it go, Isaac?

Please, I slayed them.

Dr. Martin, we're ready for you.

Uh... Thank you, Senator.

This is it.

Wish me luck.

You'll do great. Just relax.

Imagine them in their underwear. I find that's always helpful.

And you could always come and see me if you're still tense after your interview.

No worries.

Doug and I already took care of that.

She slayed me.

You played D &D together?

She told me she wasn't into role -playing.

Hey, Carter.

Yeah. Hey.

Hey. I heard about your chemical bath. You okay? Uh, yeah, a little itchy, but

I'm already... Is that her weapon? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You see how the gash lines

up with the bow's release mechanism?

Yeah.

Yeah, so our rod's an arrow?

At some point we're going to stop calling it a rod, right? Oh, where's the

in that?

Oh, God.

I guess today couldn't get any weirder, huh?

Dr. Parrish walked away, then I felt this burning pain on my neck, and I was

the ground.

I don't remember anything after that.

You didn't see anyone?

I don't know who did this, but they were smooth.

I never saw them coming.

What would they want with this uniform?

I have no idea.

My interview.

I'm next.

Yeah, go on, go on. Are you sure? Yeah. Okay.

And that was the second planetary nebula I discovered.

Then I turned 11.

Dr. Martin, thank you for sharing your lengthy history of your... Oh, oh, and

there was this one time at space camp.

I went to the real one, but there was another one called Galaxy Camp that got

shut down for safety violations.

Anyway, I can feed the lights to turn on at night every hour and a half, since

astronauts have to learn how to sleep with the sunrise every 90 minutes during

real missions.

That did not go over with my roommates as well as you might think. I think I

speak for everyone when I say that we really don't need to hear anymore.

Oh, but... No, we really don't.

I'm trying to stop.

Honest.

Sorry, sir. I wish you could have been more help. You're great.

Thanks.

Hey, Henry, what you got?

Well, I finished my analysis on the decontamination chamber, and it was set

auto -decon as soon as someone steps inside.

Anyone could have followed that trail.

I mean, who sets a trap with a specific target of mine? That doesn't make sense.

It makes as much sense as shooting an arrow into a stray or attacking a guard

for his uniform.

Yeah.

Well, unless they needed it to gain access to something.

Or someone.

All right, Larry, don't hover. If you want something, just ask. I want your

hand.

Warren, I thought you left it. What are you wearing?

Come on, we have to hurry.

Why? What is going on? Here.

You're going to need this.

All right, Dr. Hughes, are you on some medication?

Shh. It's almost time.

Okay, time for what?

We're going to disappear.

But it'll be okay.

Just...

Okay, what the hell are you doing?

You know, I've seen all this before.

When I was at Harvard, I lured an invisible cat into a shower using mace

kernels.

Yeah, but you didn't lure yourself into the decontamination chamber.

No, but the arrow, when you turned on the Australia

Shield, it looked like lightning. That sounds familiar.

Oh, yeah, yeah, Fargo's runaway positronic lightning array. You had to

arrow into the dump coil to ground it. Exactly. Everything that's happening now

has happened before, but to me. So you think this is a copycat?

Not only a handful of people knew about Fargo's experiment, Zoe's the only one

who knew about the invisible cat.

And the uniform, I feel, 63 years ago in another timeline, so... So maybe it's

somebody you told.

Or somebody's reading your mind.

We got to talk to Warren.

We're running out of time.

For what?

I don't know.

You have to go somewhere.

It's important.

Okay, Warren. Dr.

Hughes, listen. There is something very wrong with you, okay?

But I am going to take care of you. Just let me get you to the infirmary. I know

what's happening.

These are mind games.

You're not Allison.

You're her.

Beverly.

Listen to me. We need to get you to the infirmary, okay? Come on. Be gone,

demon!

Listen, Jack, her injuries.

I tried. I'm sorry.

Slow, slow, slow, slow.

What happened?

He's acting out of memories. Well, mine, anyway. He got zapped.

When he touched your neural interface. That's when we assume it happened. Easy,

easy, easy.

So the search must have transferred the recordings over to him somehow.

And now he thinks he's me. Well, more like an avatar, like a character in a

video game of your life. And he's playing the hero. Exactly.

You better find him. He's exhibiting all the clues. Classic signs of a severe

dissociative disorder.

Very erratic, and it's only going to get worse. Your memories are overriding his

own, and if you don't stop it, there won't be anything left of him.

Grace is studying the neural record. It's examining a way to reverse it.

Hang on.

Hey, Vince, what's up?

I don't even know how he got in there.

Have you said anything?

Just that he thinks the jukebox is some sort of voodoo magic machine.

Let me guess. It's telling people what to do.

I thought we took care of that after that little NLP incident with Holly. The

jukebox is fine.

He is.

Hey, Warren.

Think it's time you come out of there?

Exactly. Time.

We have to stop it before it stops time.

We have to get to Henry's garage.

Well, all right. Let's do it.

You want to...

Take a little walk across the street with me first.

Ah!

The ethane!

It's in the air! It's everywhere!

It's in the air!

I can't breathe!

Sheriff, he's freaking everyone out.

Hey, buddy, we fixed the air, remember?

Fargo, Holly, they sucked up the ethane fog with the... The evac thingy. Yeah,

with that. Why is he talking like you? Long story.

Let me show you something.

Hey, I like your uniform.

Thanks.

You can't do this.

Beverly Parlow knocked everyone out.

She's trying to take over GD.

I remember that one.

Isn't that ridiculous,

Darren?

So, uh, you arrested him?

Well, I reckon I don't get jukeboxed, but yeah.

All right, look, um, Grace and Allison think they have a way to fix him. Oh.

Short -term memory is stored in the hippocampus. So if we fry the neurons in

that part of the brain, it might prevent your memories from sticking with him

permanently.

You want to give him amnesia? Basically.

There are some risks involved, but he's actually in no position to argue.

Hide a key in there in case I lock myself in! Oh, yeah, well, that was

Yeah.

For the record, I've only used the hide -a -key once, though.

Whatever you say, Jack.

Why are you here, Miss Lupo?

I want to go to Titan.

Do you really?

I mean, it's a wasteland.

Desolate, dangerous.

You have a good life here. Why leave this for that?

Like a good challenge.

You can't do it, Joe.

Sorry. Come on, Rico. I want a turn. I'm not afraid.

You should be.

Woo -hoo!

Woo!

Holy cow.

That was amazing.

My turn again.

Kids, dinner.

Last one there sucks.

Let's go, let's go.

Also them.

Being raised by a dad and three brothers wasn't easy.

You know, for me or my dad, I always had to keep up with sometimes painful

retail. Joe, what did you do?

Hi, Dad.

Hold on a second,

monkey. How's that feel?

I'm fine, Dad.

Look. Joe, you don't always have to keep up with your brothers, okay? It's not a

contest. I'm just saying you don't have anything to prove. Not to me or anybody.

She's proud of you, Joe.

I hope you know that.

Nice cat.

Next time, leave the dangerous stuff to the big boys.

Let me know when you see any.

Let's go.

I followed in my brother's footsteps.

Matched every honor, every achievement.

And I've never backed down from a challenge since.

Sounds exhausting.

It was.

But it was worth it.

It's how I ended up in Eureka.

Well, your brothers definitely won't be able to match you this time. I'd say

going to Titan would trump anything that they could do on Earth.

If you can hear me, pick up the radio.

Warren, pick up the radio.

Who is this? Right. Warren, you're not thinking like yourself right now. Why

don't you just pull over and we can talk about it?

No, I can't stop.

I have to save her.

What are you talking about? Save who?

Who are you saving?

Allison. I've had over heels in love with her, and I have been since the day

met. I've got to stop Grant and Beverly.

The warehouse?

The warehouse was set up inside a holographic field.

A mirage. He's heading for a cliff.

Yeah, he's got a thumb on the wheeze right over there.

Oh, trust me.

Oh, trust me.

Oh, trust me.

him off before he gets to the cliff.

Yeah, well, he's a quarter mile away from the cliff. We've got to go now.

All right.

I trust me.

I trust me.

Warren, I know what you're thinking right now, and whatever you do, do not

yourself. How do you...

I'll take it to her.

No. I saw her.

What?

Well, we shorted out the neural pathways and suppressed the acetylcholine

production in the basal forebrain. So hopefully that will inhibit his ability

retain short -term memory. But these techniques have never been used for this

purpose before.

Maybe an hour or... Maybe two.

Two. Good. Great. You want to go for dinner?

The man holds the key to our future. We just fried a bunch of neurons in his

brain and you want to go out for pizza?

No, I want to go for Chinese.

But there's nothing to do here but wait, so we should go.

Are you sure?

Go. We'll call you when he wakes up. You see, I think we should let the fortune

cookie decide our future.

Oh, yeah, that's a good plan, wouldn't hope.

It's from the senator. She had to head back to Washington.

They've made their final selections for the Australia's mission, and she wants

me to inform the candidates.

You guys need me? No, we're good. Come on. Come on.

Hi.

Hey, yourself.

Um... The list is about to come out with the final selection.

So I've heard.

I asked Allison if I could...

make it, Joe.

You're so sweet, Carter, but, uh, I know.

Did, uh, did Zane make it?

Uh, yeah.

Joe, how could you know?

I withdrew many from consideration.

You what?

I'll let, I'll let you two try guys.

Why would you drop out? We worked so hard for this. We all did.

You really earned it, Zane.

Congratulations.

You're really not going to tell me.

Did you hear what I said?

You're going to Titan.

No, we did this together.

We should be going together.

Space isn't my dream.

Not like it is for the rest of you.

To me, it was just another challenge.

If you're going to travel a billion miles for something, it's got to mean

than that.

Did you?

Did you?

We made it! We made it!

Yay!

Sorry.

Congratulations, Dr. Martin.

You earned it.

Thank you, Isaac.

Mighty baby, you perish.

Your selection is merely another example of bureaucracy rewarding mediocrity.

I weep.

Titan.

We made it!

We made it!

I can't believe I passed out.

That must have been some delicious wine.

Oh, it was.

Vincent grows his own grapes. He has a vineyard in his backyard.

Strange, though. I can't remember anything from the whole day.

It's not like you let us on a crazy car chase and nearly drove off a cliff.

Well, it was really great to see both of you, and I have the recordings right in

here. But I don't need to look at them. It's just a formality.

We figured as much. I mean, really.

No one in their right mind would keep the two of you apart.

You... You guys, you're perfect together.

I don't know what it is, but...

I just feel such an incredibly strong connection to you. I just, I just, I get

you. You know?

Yeah. And obviously, we both, I mean, we feel the same.

Both of us, absolutely.

I am going to miss you guys so much.

Ditto, Warren.

Bye. Bye.

Call me.

Will do.

Who was that?

You know, emotional memories and declarative memories are accessed from

different parts of the brain. I wonder if when Grace and I were doing that...

Let's not overthink it.