CARTER: Previously on Eureka...
I'm locked out of the system, the ship is about to launch and I can't stop it!
Where'd they go?
BEVERLY: The greatest scientists of our time
are wired into an artificial world that we control.
ALLISON: I see a lot of things have changed since I left.
What the hell?
Zane, can you hear me?
DEKKER: We're losing him.
But we understand our orders.
Should any of the Astraeus crew
threaten to expose the construct,
they will be retired.
We could all be inside some totally advanced computer construct
that just looks and feels like the real world.
And we wouldn't even know it.
I'm really sorry you said that.
You're killing her. She's dangerous. You know it.
(INCESSANT BEEPING)
CARTER: Want to know how they knew we were coming?
Because I told her.
Widen the search protocols and shift to level seven.
Yes, sir.
Jack, I have nothing so far...
Yeah, I've just been looking through the, uh,
pre-launch footage again,
and could Senator Wen have a device that affected the launch?
If there was a Trojan horse virus
buried in the launch code,
maybe she triggered it,
but they're written so they disappear after they do their job.
There'd be no evidence.
Hmm.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, come on, you, you saw her face, right?
When that ship disappeared, she looked relieved, she...
Jack, look...
I'm not doubting your instincts,
all I'm saying is you can't accuse
a United States senator without proof.
She will bury you and that helps no one,
so we have to tread lightly.
Sheriff Carter. Dr. Deacon.
How are you both holding up?
Oh, we were just discussing the next phase of the search.
Right. Well, I've gone through all the reports
and it's become clear that this was an elaborate tech theft.
The experts tell me that an organization as sophisticated as this,
odds are, they won't be leaving any witnesses behind...
And no offense to your experts,
but we're just gonna keep on looking.
Of course. We all will.
Stay strong.
So Senator Wen insists it was a tech theft? Yeah.
But you don't believe her? No.
Because you think that the crew was kidnapped? Yeah.
Okay, but wouldn't we have received some kind of ransom demand?
Not if the kidnappers didn't want us to know that the crew was taken.
Okay, so they hijacked the launch
to take the crew, not the ship.
Exactly.
Okay, but this would take months to plan... Yeah.
And Senator Wen couldn't do this on her own.
No, I mean...
Yeah, I guess the question is who would she... Okay.
Henry said, for this to be possible,
a virus would have to have been planted.
We had one security breach in the last year.
Beverly Barlowe. Right.
She could have accessed the computer when she brain-jacked Allison.
And, and, it was during that time
that she was named interim head of Global Dynamics by...
Senator Wen. They've... They've been working together this entire time.
Maybe. Yeah. I mean, we were so focused on what was taken,
we didn't think that something could have been left.
A virus to take over the launch. Right.
Beverly's the key to this thing.
We find her, we find the crew.
She's been on every "Most Wanted" list
since the G.D. Break-in and we have no leads.
It's like she's a ghost.
You two look like you could use a little help.
I came to you.
Is the cell really necessary?
Oh, let me think... Yes.
Now, again. Where is the crew?
That's a complicated question, Sheriff.
I know an easy way to make her answer.
Their minds are in a total immersion...
simulated reality program.
They think they're in Eureka four years in the future.
They're connected to a photonic plasma computer mainframe,
housed in a mobile neural networking lab.
But I don't know where it is.
Oh, here's a thought,
why don't you call your buddies and find out?
I had a falling out with one of my associates.
Would that be a Senator Wen?
You always were good at your job, Sheriff, yes.
She's out of control.
So your boss fired you and now you're here for payback?
She's not my boss.
She deviated from the plan
and now the entire crew's in jeopardy.
To be clear, I never intended to hurt anyone,
I just wanted to borrow their intellect for a while.
Oh, that's good of you. You're a real humanitarian.
I think so.
Rather than building better weapons for the Department of Defense...
This is crazy. I say we hand her over to the Feds.
You make that call, Wen finds out I'm here.
She finds out I'm here, she pulls the plug on the operation,
and her version of pulling the plug leaves no witnesses.
All right.
Why are you here?
The program is glitching and the crew is questioning their reality.
It's only a matter of time
before they discover the truth.
Seems like a good thing.
It's a death sentence.
One of the crew members
already learned that the hard way.
Who?
Dr. Holly Marten.
Holly's dead?
By Wen's hand. It's a tragic loss.
Look, I am here to help you get the others back.
Allison, Zane, all of them.
But you're going to have to trust me.
Beverly, why would we trust you?
Because today we're on the same team.
You want to save your friends and so do I.
(HORN BLOWING)
(TYPING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Trace readings from the Strong Force Disrupter test are minimal.
Everything is looking good.
Except for that.
Hey, uh, check this out, the...
Okay, that rock, it just had a bird on it.
Um, I didn't see anything.
We should get going.
Yeah.
How did we get a collision mesh error?
The termination of Dr. Marten should've fixed the program,
but it's still glitching.
Donovan's a computer programmer.
If anyone else is going to figure this out, it's going to be him.
We'll keep him from pursuing it further.
You better.
I'd hate to have to retire another one.
She left. No warning. Just gone.
Fargo, breathe, what's going on?
Holly dumped me. By memo.
Oh, even I wouldn't do that. I know. Right?
Okay, what exactly did she say?
Just that she's flying to DC today as a permanent transfer,
that she doesn't do the long distance relationships.
I mean, I keep calling her but she's not answering.
I just don't understand.
Did I do something wrong?
Zane, you know women. No, I thought I did.
Now, not so much.
Hey, sorry, Fargo,
I couldn't help but overhear, could I offer you an opinion?
Uh, sure.
I know this is hard, but, um, let her go.
You're a catch.
There are lots of eccentric geniuses in town
who would love to have a shot at you.
Some of them even women.
Really? That's your advice?
What? Yeah, I'm just trying to give him perspective.
I mean, if Holly can't appreciate what he has to offer,
I... I say move on. Life is short.
Okay. You're going to be late.
Remind me to never let you give Jenna relationship advice.
Fargo, I'm sorry.
Yeah.
(SIGHING) All right.
I really thought she was the one.
Well, when's her flight? Maybe you still have time to catch her at the airport.
That's terrible advice.
That is awesome advice,
to show her how much I love her.
First, I'll need some Peter Gabriel!
Got to go!
Oh. What?
Someone besides you deserves to be happy.
Shouldn't you be at G.D. Working on something for the betterment of mankind?
Actually I'm heading out to the forest.
I saw something weird this morning
that I can't wrap my head around.
But whatever.
Eat your muffin. I'll come with you.
Better safe than sorry.
If what she's saying is crazy, then I'll lock her up,
but if what she's saying is right about Senator Wen,
and I think it is,
then this may be our only chance to get the crew back.
Jack, this is insane.
You expect me to trust her after everything that she's done?
We're running out of time. May I continue?
Don't push it.
The crew's in a mobile lab.
I think I have a way to locate it from inside the program.
Inside? I know Wen's remote access code.
I can log on from here and turn off the engineer's ability
to see what's happening.
That will buy us time. To do what?
Jack you into the program from here. Why?
Well, once you're inside,
you can blow up something big enough to overheat the computer.
We're thinking the Astraeus.
The original one.
The mainframe has a particular I.R. Signature
rendering a large enough explosion in the simulation
should cause a thermal surge in the computer processors.
Which would emit a particular I.R. Heat spike.
And we can trace that from the real world.
We'll have a security team on standby,
and once we find the computer,
we'll find the people hooked up to it.
Once you're in, you'll have to be
very careful around the NPCs.
What... uh, NPCs?
Non-Player Characters, anyone, anything that is not a real person.
The NPCs are programed to stop the crew from
figuring out they're in a computer construct.
With the engineers blinded, they'll be put on high alert.
If they realize you're a threat, they'll eliminate you.
Eliminate like boot you out of the program?
I don't think that's what she means, Jack.
If you die in the program... Yeah, you die here, too.
Got it.
I'll do it.
I think I should go. What?
Uh, blowing stuff up is something that I can do.
If something goes wrong here,
we need a scientist.
And Jo, you have to lead the strike team.
So... I think I should go.
Should we get started then?
The bird came from here, swooped down,
straight back and right through the rock.
Well, it looks like a perfectly normal rock.
Right, oh.
What?
No. No. No stuck birds.
Very funny.
Wasn't exactly stuck to it,
it was more like a videogame.
Oh, I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation.
This is going to be a little tougher to explain.
Zane!
You know what to do? Yeah.
Wrote in on my hand.
Carter, think about that just for a second.
Right. Well, I'll memorize it.
Okay. (BEEPING)
HENRY: Beverly just blocked their visuals.
We're, um, ready to jack you in, Jack.
Nice.
Look, um, no matter what happens to me,
do not let Beverly escape again.
(SCOFFS) No argument there.
All right.
Right, so how does this "matrix me" thing work?
Have a seat, Sheriff. Yeah. I figured.
You'll replace the NPC Jack Carter that's already in the program.
All the NPCs are independent sub-routines.
They'll only know something's different if you tip them off.
So don't.
Right. Okay.
Blow the ship up quickly,
once we see the heat spike, we'll pull you back.
Right.
I sort of wish I'd played more videogames.
Except in this one, there are no extra lives,
and we won't have a way to see what's going on in there.
You'll be on your own.
Great pep talk.
One other thing. Uh-huh.
In the program, you're dating Jo
and raising Allison's kids for the past few years.
Yeah. What?
Zane!
Zane, wait, whatever I did to piss you off,
it wasn't me.
Okay, I know this is going to sound crazy.
We're in a total emersion simulation program?
Yes. Mmm-hmm.
And you're a part of it.
No, no, no, no, no! No.
The me who was here before was.
The me who is here now, this is, this is, is me.
My, my body's actually in Henry's garage.
He had to, to jack me to get at my MP3s.
NPCs. Yes, right!
(STAMMERING) Because what we have to do is build a thing
to blow up the ship and then there's
going to be a heat spike and then Henry,
he can trace it with Jo in the real world.
Yeah.
No computer version of you
could have come up with something that incoherent.
While you were holding a gun in my face.
But you were trying to kill me. What? Oh.
It feels very real. Mmm-hmm.
Okay, so we're going to try to blow up the Astraeus?
That's not going to be easy.
That ship was made to take a pounding.
I know. But that's why I wrote on, on...
Oh, I wrote, I wrote...
Great.
This is a virtual hand now. Mmm-hmm.
Um, it's, it's, um, ironic. Mmm-mmm.
I got this. That means that's a different word.
It's, uh, bionic.
(STAMMERING) Ionic.
Resonator! Yes!
That could do it. But we're going to need
the others to help us though.
Okay, we'll tell them to watch out.
If the NPCs suspect us, they will take us out.
I know. I was just dealing with one.
It is really good to see you, though.
Thanks.
Sorry. It's all right.
That really hurt.
What the frak?
Uh-oh.
Program monitoring is still offline, so we're flying blind here.
Could take hours to get the visuals back up.
I understand, Senator.
Put the primary NPC security settings on highest alert.
Can't take any chances now.
Allison. Allison.
Oh. Oh. Hey.
What? Carter, have you lost your...
No, it's not Carter.
It's Jack. It's me.
Yes. And you are with Jo. What is wrong with you?
All of this is fake.
The town, the people, everything except for the crew of the Astraeus,
you and me.
We're inside of a computer program and it hasn't been four years.
It's been a month.
I'm not seeing...
(Hl-PITCHED VOICE) Jo. Hi.
How's it going, sweetheart?
Okay. Oh.
Is everything... Fine.
I'm fine. Allison's fine. Things are, things are...
Fine. Fine.
Yeah, I don't know what... (LAUGHS)
She... Did you say something? No.
We were, we were, um, just talking about a work thing,
and Allison, um, you need to look into that.
So, um, we should go. Sorry.
Yeah. Jack, are we still on for lunch at the house?
You bet.
Fist bump. Here we go.
Okay. All right.
Yeah.
Now, um, as you were saying, we better go.
Come on.
This is the most ridiculous thing that I've ever heard.
Allison, it's me, Jack.
The, the, the real Jack and I'm in love with you.
I need you to trust me.
Do you trust me? No.
Really? I thought that would go differently.
Carter, adjusting to this reality has not been easy for me.
Missing all these years with my kids, seeing you with Jo...
This isn't reality. I'm reality.
This is all the fake stuff.
I wish that I could believe that.
Believe this.
(CLEARS THROAT)
GRACE: Hey, guys.
Okay, guys, we have most of the components
for an ionic resonator here at G.D.,
but I'll have to get the remote detonator from Henry's garage.
And we can power it with the fuel cell from SARAH's backup generator.
Where's Fargo? So, we really are lying somewhere unconscious?
Everything that we've experienced since the launch,
none of that happened?
You two actually believe this?
Yeah.
When I got zapped by Martha last month,
I saw these flashes of lights and people standing over me.
I thought it was just a dream.
Then I saw a collision mesh error this morning
and your boyfriend, he... Other boyfriend.
He "de-res-ed" right in front of me.
So, yeah, I'm pretty convinced.
So I haven't lost all that time with Kevin and Jenna?
With you? No. Some kiss though, huh?
Great kiss.
Guys, we're trapped in the matrix.
We know. Well, you could have told me in your message.
We're going to get you out of here.
Not without Holly.
It's impossible to leave the town,
so she's got to be here somewhere.
And I'm not going anywhere without her.
Fargo, there's something you should know.
Uh, Holly's already out.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
That's my girl.
(GASPS)
I'm disappointed.
You know, Grace, we, um...
We don't talk much anymore.
I think it's time to catch up.
You're right. Uh, we really should catch up.
Um, how about, say, dinner tonight?
Right now, though, I really have to meet Allison.
(DOOR RATTLING)
Yeah, you know, um, I think you should call her.
You're not going to make it.
Wow.
This is my exact bat!
Like, are you telling me that Beverly got all of this information
from inside the G.D. Computers?
The G.D. Personnel files are very comprehensive.
Oh.
Look at me.
I'm coaching Jenna's T-ball.
I would totally do that!
That's Kevin's graduation, and...
This is un-real.
I thought I heard you come in.
Yeah.
That's me.
I love our lunches at home.
(MOANS)
Yeah.
How about I spread out a picnic in the bedroom?
Ah! Oh! We got... We got company.
Well, he'll have to wait downstairs.
(STAMMERING) Yeah. Oh. You!
What's the matter, Jack?
You don't like what you see?
Yeah. I'm, I'm all about the eye contact...
It's... Yeah, but actually, Fargo said that I got to drive him to work,
which is urgent, so sort of a rock and a hard place.
You know, "Oh, Fargo!"
Got it! We can take... our own sweet time.
There's no rush.
We can get back to picnicking later.
I can't wait!
Yeah. Ah! Bye.
The attention to detail is astounding.
CARTER: Stop staring.
It's hard not to.
My team has a chopper ready to move out.
I want to be in the air when you get those coordinates.
Make sure you trust them. If Wen finds out...
They're my team. And my trust doesn't come easy.
You okay alone?
Yeah.
Henry, I know trusting me can't be easy for you.
I don't trust you.
I never intended to hurt them.
I wanted their ideas, not their lives.
I would have sent the crew home,
and it all would have been a bad dream.
Wen changed that.
Don't try to justify your actions with me because you can't.
I know you've struggled with Eureka's mission, Henry.
Look, Einstein himself said we cannot simultaneously
prepare for peace and for war.
We need balance in the world.
Think of what's at stake, Henry.
Philosophically, we're not that different.
Their lives are at stake, and that's all I care about right now.
And it's the only reason you're still breathing.
And do not ever compare yourself to me again.
Grace was delayed by Henry. If he suspects something...
She'll cover.
We still need the remote detonator. It won't work.
No, it'll work. You'll just have to activate it manually.
Manually?
Stuff this baby into the engine core,
flip that switch and then get the hell out of Dodge.
Wow. How much time between the switch flipping
and the fireball of destruction?
I could rig a detonation delay.
That should buy you 10, 12 seconds.
No problem.
Hi there, Sheriff.
Business on the premises?
What, um... (CHUCKLES) Funny thing...
The, um, uh... I got nothing!
(BEEPING)
We have a security breach in pod five!
There.
They're on the Columbia, headed out to sea.
That's got to be them. It worked.
Jo, we found them. I'm uploading the coordinates.
JO: I got it. I'm tracking the heat signatures.
You're about an hour out.
Not the way I fly!
We're still flying blind.
The overheating is causing a system-wide cascade failure.
Should I pull the crew?
WEN: No. No.
Our only concern is salvaging the program.
And if it fails with them inside?
Then the crew's loss is on Beverly.
We can't have this coming back to haunt us.
Dump the container overboard and save the data.
Understood.
We're going to need to shut down all non-essential systems,
so I'd have to log you out of the program.
But I'm not logged in.
Someone's using your log-in code from a Eureka IP address.
That clever bitch.
What the...
All right, now get Jack the hell out of there.
I'm trying. I can't. What are you trying to pull?
Someone severed my link to the neural computer.
Well, there's got to be another way to get him out of there.
Not safely. I have to eject him from within the system.
Any other way could be fatal.
Jack. Hi.
Are you okay? Yeah. Relatively.
Ten to 12 seconds.
Have we got our heat spike? Yeah, you bet we did.
We broke the matrix.
We really broke the matrix.
CARTER: So I take it, this wasn't supposed to happen?
ZANE: Yeah, you think?
Run! The entire program is "de-res-ing" with us inside!
We must have created a cascade failure.
If that void reaches us, we're dead!
So, run is sort of a short-term plan then?
Well, we have to slow it down.
Give Jo time to get us out.
Wait, wait, the computer world only renders areas
that we're looking at, so we need to make those areas smaller.
Right. So if we gather the entire Astraeus crew to the same place,
the program won't have to render the whole town.
And the computer won't have to work as hard,
which should slow down the "de-res-ing" process.
All right, but the crew's at Global, right?
We get them to the rotunda. Yes.
Let's roll. Grace! She's still with Henry!
All right, I'll get Grace. Okay, careful.
Hey, hey, hey.
Be careful.
Henry, um, I really have to go.
For your geological detonation?
Yes.
You're lying.
Uh, you're right.
Actually, um, I'm working on a new project.
But it's a surprise.
Uh, and I have a surprise for you.
I don't think that this...
...relationship is going to work out.
Henry! Don't move!
Jack. Uh, what's wrong?
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(GROANS)
Oh, God. That was a little unsettling.
You okay? Not even close.
Let's go.
Just trust me! Go to the rotunda now!
Go!
Looks like you and I have a problem.
Big time.
(GRUNTS)
I could keep batting you around
like a helpless little mouse.
But I am tired of playing with my food.
(SCREAMS)
Bet that felt good.
It didn't suck.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my, thank God you guys made it.
Barely. Are you okay?
Yeah. Yeah I'm fine.
Eureka's coming apart at the seams.
Yeah, waiting to be rescued is not an option.
This is a nightmare.
(LOW RUMBLING)
You're right. That's it.
All we have to do is wake up,
the same way that Zane woke up when Martha shocked him.
Right.
Okay. A big enough shock could have disrupted the electrical impulses
between Zane's brain and the matrix computer.
So, so there might be a way to completely eject from the inside?
But Zane was lucky that he didn't get electrocuted.
You could wake up for a second or never wake up again.
I feel lucky, and when I wake up,
I can get all of you out.
But you're not with us in the real world.
Small issue.
I'll do it.
I'll do it. Jinx. Just joking.
You go it, so lucky you.
Hit me.
(GRUNTS)
(GUN CLICKING)
Going somewhere?
Move in.
To the left.
Hey, remember me?
We got to get the others out.
Give me a hand to that control panel.
I feel kind of limp here.
I'm going to let that one go.
I missed you, JoJo.
Anytime, Zane!
If he even got out alive!
Jack, what about you?
Well, Henry and Beverly are working on it.
Well, Henry is.
Damn it.
Try something else. You have to reestablish a connection to him.
I am doing everything I can. Trust me.
Beverly! Stop! Stop!
Dr. Deacon, I don't know what Miss Barlowe has told you,
but we just recovered the bodies of the crew.
The invasive neurological experiment she was performing
left no survivors.
She is lying, Henry.
This is our only chance to get everyone out.
Henry, whatever she did to your wife and the rest of the crew,
she is doing to Sheriff Carter.
We have to unhook him from all this...
If you do that, he will die.
Henry, that is how she killed Holly Marten.
Can't we just unplug them?
No. It's like ejecting a flash drive on the computer.
You can't just yank it out or...
Fatal system error.
Henry, think about everything that this woman
has done to you, all the lies that she's told.
Do you really think that she has the Sheriff's interests at heart?
I'm going to arrest her now.
Please don't force me to arrest you too.
Okay. Just wait.
Uh, before you do that, Beverly, duck!
Jack, just don't let go! Never.
Love it when you call me Jack.
Welcome back, Allison.
Jack is still in there.
He doesn't have much time. Can you get him out?
No, he's integrated at a different source.
He has to be ejected from there.
Henry, come in. We have the crew.
Is Carter okay?
Henry?
JO: He's not answering.
JO: Henry, do you copy?
Beverly!
Henry, can you hear me?
Can anyone hear me? Can you copy, please?
BEVERLY: I'm here, Jo.
Log me back on and I'll pull Sheriff Carter out.
You take this one. Go ahead.
Henry, anytime now!
Anytime now!
Whoa!
(SCREAMING)
(GROANING)
Henry. Henry, you okay?
You okay? Oh, hey!
Hey! Hey!
Welcome back. Thanks.
What about the others?
They got out. What happened here?
Uh, I had to. I had to trust Beverly with your life.
She got you out, Jack. Where is she?
Don't know.
You...
I asked you to do one simple thing.
Hey. One.
I call next on the phone.
Holly must be worried sick.
Can you just...
Hey, Fargo, why don't you take a little walk with me?
Yeah, I don't think so.
My legs ain't working so well.
Yeah. It's okay.
I'll hold you up.
Welcome back, Captain. Sorry about the mess.
We're still under construction.
Planked fig with pancetta and goat cheese?
Sounds wonderful.
Thank you. You're welcome.
Could you stop grinning at me?
It's kind of freaking me out.
Oh, come on, Grace, now when could this face ever freak you out?
Still feeling limp?
Funny.
I heard you cut your walkabout short because of us.
So, you going to head back out?
We'll see.
Oh, yeah?
Well... I'll drink to "we'll see."
Still haven't got the squeezing out of your system, have you?
Sorry. I'm just happy to have my family back.
My very young, young family.
Well, we're happy not to be old, aren't we, Jenna?
(LAUGHS)
It's nice to have things back to normal.
Yes, normal.
How is the happy reunited couple?
Happy.
Okay. Okay.
How are you doing? Good!
I got to get drinks! I got...
There you go. Thanks.
Sorry. One sec.
Hey, Andy. Hey, boss.
You okay?
I just don't understand.
Everyone on the crew seems to be afraid of me.
Did I do something wrong?
No. I think it'll pass.
Sometimes it just takes people a little while to adjust to...
To reality.
Would you excuse me for a sec?
Okay.
Hey, Fargo.
You lied to me.
I was trying to protect you
until we got back. Uh...
Sorry.
But I couldn't protect her.
I know.
Neither could I.
You put me in here.
It seemed appropriate.
Are you really that naive?
I'm a US senator and you're a wanted felon.
No one's going to take your word over mine.
I'm untouchable.
I know.
Hello?