Friendly Fire

Friendly Fire
Air date	May 7, 2012
Written by	Amy Berg
Directed by	Mike Rohl
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Preceded by "Force Quit"	Followed by "Jack of All Trades"
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"Friendly Fire" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of Eureka.

Synopsis

The Astraeus crew tries to overcome their Matrix Eureka experience. Meanwhile, Fargo struggles with Holly's death and old animosities erupt as Parrish's latest project threatens to ignite the town.

Plot

Jack is making something resembling breakfast for the family. According to Jo (in a bath robe), Jack doesn’t cook and there’s a reason. Not even S.A.R.A.H. can cook this morning, she’s burnt the toast. Andy let’s everyone know she was a little glitchy last night too. Allison is completely uncomfortable around Jo after her virtual Eureka experience and is having a hard time even being around her.

At Global Dynamic – Fargo solemnly goes through Holly’s personal effects. He has to cut short the trip down memory lane to attend a bereavement session.

At Café Diem – Vincent’s getting ready for the Grand Reopening. Grace is a little stand-offish from Henry.

At Fargo is sitting in a soft pit of fuzzy white bunnies. The bereavement counselor states that they've had great progress made with the bunny therapy. However, Fargo is not putting up with it. He says he doesn't want to talk and yells at them that, "Unless one of you has some sort of magic pill that can fast track me through the stages of grief, I’m outta here!” The bereavement techs tell him it's not exactly a pill.

The D.O.D. wants Jo to give up the hunt for Beverly and Senator Wen. Not gonna happen. Jack tries to start the “get out” talk but Jo beats him to it. She understands that five’s a crowd. Her house will be done soon, again, and she’ll stay there until she decides what to do. She’s still not tossing out the moving away idea. Their conversation gets interrupted by a GD 911.

Parrish is freaking out because Zane is dumping all the stuff they confiscated from the matrix unit into his lab. Jo finds the sub-particle net gun they used to catch the dragon with and geeks out. Zane is still bristling every time Jack comes around. Neither guy has told Jo what happened in the VR Eureka and Jo can tell everyone, Carter, Allison, and Zane are all having issues with her. Allison is angry at her, Carter's jumpy, and Zane is standoffish to both her and Carter. Jo wants to know what's going on with everyone, but they all keep telling her it's nothing. Zane goes back to cart tug-o-war with Parrish, and in the process they knock over a canister holding a flying fire orb that promptly goes berserk. There’s a fireball on the loose in GD that can’t be tracked and has been tweaked to, not only put out fires, but also start them.

Grace and Allison catch up on some much-needed girl talk about Henry and Jack and all the weirdness from VR Eureka. Their time is cut short by a call requiring them to return to GD.

Back at GD – Jack and Jo, suited up in firemen’s dubs, mistake one of the scientists for the Firefly and cover him in white foam. Alarms go off all over GD. Jack and Jo rush to find an ignited Fargo sauntering out of a lab smiling. He’s feeling no pain. Odd thing – he doesn’t remember Holly dying. The Firefly is systematically heading down the levels. Lower level = fusion reactor.

Parrish almost has the fiery bugger back in its container until Jack storms in the door and scares it. Jack somehow chopped it into two. And the core is melting down. Both Fireflies take off out a vent that leads outside.

The team regroups to devise a plan. Fargo does a complete 180 and flips out on Parrish and Joe and Zane. The guys in the bereavement lab gave him a patch to help him get through the stages of grief. Fargo’s in the anger stage now and not being of any use. So, the plan, once they get Fargo to sit quietly, is to use some high voltage plasma generators to lure the Fire pests away from town. Parrish should be able to get the remote controls to work once he’s clear of GD.

Allison finds one of the Fireflies. Unfortunately, it’s taken a liking to the combustible engine of her SUV. She gets out just before things go boom.

Andy’s in town trying to talk Vincent into turning off his new fancy wood burning ovens. Vincent thinks it’s going to ruin the party.

Henry and Jo have turned on the high voltage plasma generator and get down to comparing notes on how folks are acting. Not one person that went into the VR Eureka has told them what happened. One of the Fireflies takes the bait and slips neatly into the trap.

At the lake, Zane and Jack are bickering over the probability algorithm Beverly built when the other Firefly arrives. It’s not playing quite as nice as the other did. It takes a few fly-by shots at the guys before it sinks itself in the lake. The water does absolutely nothing to it.

At GD – Fargo collapses on the couch in a massive fit of despair. Fargo go from nothing is worth it and we’re all going to die in some catastrophe, to Carter and Jo's relationship in the VR Eureka. Jo wants to know what he’s talking about so Zane just spills it, “you and Carter were doing it in the matrix.” Jo flips out a little, but there are more flammable issues at hand. They take a look at a scan of Eureka to find any locations giving off heat signatures. Every place in town has shut down except for Jack’s house.

Kevin and Jenna are unaware of pending doom. S.A.R.A.H failed to get the shutdown memo. And due to her glitching and a Firefly attached to her nuclear power they can’t get out. Andy tries to override the front door circuits while Jack and Jo try the skylight. Neither is having any luck until Jack uses his gun to blast through the skylight. Jack gets a Firefly right to the chest. Jo shimmies down the ladder, gets Jack on his feet and gets to Kevin and Jenna just as the house begins to go up in flames. Andy gets the front door open in the nick of time. Everyone but S.A.R.A.H. makes it out. Things get too quiet in the bunker, so Andy goes in to investigate.

At GD – Fargo has hit a paranoid stage. Henry scans the equipment for the cause of the interference but it’s not the equipment they brought from the matrix lab – it’s Zane and Fargo themselves.

The connection to the neural network altered the brain activity of everyone that went into the VR Eureka. All of the heat sources in town have been shut down so they can’t lure the burning bug. The next best thing – get all of the members from the Astraeus mission together in one place, then use Jack and his jeep to lure it there. Except that the Firefly disables the jeep and takes off after Jack, who’s holding the other Firefly trapped in a jar.

Jo and Andy arrive, just in the nick of time, to catch the Firefly in the sub-particle net that Zane invented in the simulation and Beverly had built with a 3d printer. Grace and Allison try to make heads or tails of the brain waves. Grace and Henry finally have that talk.

At Café Diem – Jo and Allison also have a heart to heart. Allison admits that everyone needs Jo. Zane gives Jo an ultimatum. The back and forth has to stop. They’re either together or they're not. Jo gets a worried look on her face but answers him with a kiss.