| Smarter Carter | |
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| Air date | June 18, 2012 |
| Written by | Paula Yoo & Ed Fowler |
| Directed by | Alexandra LaRoche |
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| Preceded by "In Too Deep" |
Followed by "The Honeymooners" |
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"Smarter Carter" is the ninth episode of the fifth season of Eureka.
Synopsis[]
Carter gets to meet Allison's equally genius older brother. Carter's intelligence begins to suddenly increase exponentially, and Allison needs to find out why before it kills him.
Plot[]
Zane, Fargo and Henry are trying to make the 'AI' house compatible with, Holly, who is now a Trans-human life-form, by constructing a Neuro-Digital interface. Holly has cabin fever, but they are working on it. When Fargo tells her that she is indeed stable, but must remain put for now, she phases out. Next she pops into the bathroom, where Zane is washing his hands, and pleads with him to figure out a way for her to be free.
Zane goes to Global Dynamics to brain storm with Henry and while they are compiling data to help Holly – Jo Lupo comes in. Zane explains that Holly is not happy in the 'Smart House' explaining to Jo that they need some equipment in order to resolve this dilemma. Jo is reluctant but finally gives them the nod. She leaves to head off visit with Doctor Parrish while Zane and Henry commence the process of making Holly whole and human again.
As Kevin is explaining his project on an 'Alternative to Silicon Computing' for the 4th time to Carter, we are drawn outside the Sheriff’s Office where there is crashing, running and yelling. Carter is immediately attacked by a pair of computerized, motorized legs or as Allison’s brother, Marcus says 'Gams”! Dr. Marcus Blake and Sheriff Jack Carter might have gotten off on the wrong foot but Allison is determined for them to get to know each other.
Turns out the Bionic limbs were a concoction of Zane and Henry’s. But when Jo recovered them from the Sheriff’s office and brought them to Henry’s shop, Zane informed her that they had moved past that phase of thinking. In the meantime, Holly has rematerialized at the shop and with Zane and Henry preparing to try a 'Biological Fabrication' of Holly, a living breathing body using Holly’s DNA and printing her on a lattice. The 3D printer their using, uses living cells. They're trying to do all of this, without Fargo finding out.
Jo leaves the shop agreeing to keep quiet about the copying job, at least for now. Zane confidently says 'Gonna Make Us A Woman'! Allison’s brother, Marcus letting her know that Carter is not Nathan Stark. Well, Allison knows that and doesn’t want him to be.
With Dr. Isaac Parrish, hot on the heals of the missing equipment, Zane and Henry need to hurry up with the 'Copying' project ASAP. Jo is trying to head him off, but for how long will this work?
Allison, Jack, Marcus and Kevin are having dinner. It seems okay, on the surface, but Marcus is throwing deliberate jabs at Jack. So far, Jack is catching them just fine and even spurts out something about Flexible Microprocessors and now were really in left field. Allison comes down to see Jack studying both her book and her brothers. As soon as she leaves, SARAH tells Jack that his experiment in the oven is finished. When SARAH questions Jak as to why he's doing this, Jack tell SARAH that he is dealing with 'Practice' and Marcus is dealing with 'Theory'.
Things seem to speed up at this point. Jack becomes a one man wrecking crew with Justice and dispenses with Deputy Andy, telling him that he is no longer needed and to take the day off and watch a movie.
Jo is trying to throw Parrish off the trail of missing equipment by asking him to team up with her on the investigation – he’s pretty smart.
Back to Zane and Henry. Holly’s worried that she will end up looking like a creepy department store mannequin. Zane assures her that she will not look like that. They are simply testing the processor on a blank and the processors are online. Switches are turned percentages are being reached, all the way to 100 percent. There is a pulse, but then the system overloads and the head melts.
Back at Global Dynamics, Jo is still trying to convince Parrish that she has the hots for him. He admits he does feel something for her, although they must keep it professional. Jo agrees and tries to draw out the investigation even longer by suggesting they conduct the interviews together.
At Café Diem, Marcus is having his book signing with Kevin and Allison on hand. Allison is commenting to Kevin about Jack being up all night reading Marcus’s book as well has hers. She’s worried, what exactly is going on with Sheriff Carter?
Jack comes in with what looks like notes on a lot of the pages of Marcus’s book and says he has some questions. Marcus doesn’t seem surprised until Jack actually asks about something on page 158, about an organic transistor or something functioning properly at room temperature and that the non thermal properties were not taken into account. He says that the processor will overheat. Marcus gets a bit testy but Jack says he can prove it. Jack has built a processor, installed it in Marcus’s car.
Marcus assures Carter and Allison that his design is sound, gets in and starts his car. However, there is something spinning up, and it starts sounding like it’s gonna blow up. It does, to which Jack yells 'Tough Break' at Marcus, smiling the entire time.
Allison is getting nervous and has a determined look on her face as she confronts Jack in the Sheriff’s office and hits him with a syringe to get a sample of blood. Jack’s planning on reconfiguring Andy’s hard drive and Allison has a bit of a problem with that. She’s ready to do some neurological testing on Jack and he is not adhering to her ideas at the moment. He’s talking crazy and says if he blows up Andy that they can just order another one.
When Allison gets the results of Jack's blood test she finds a cognitive enhancement drug in his system. Kevin admits to Allison that he has given some to Jack. He just wanted Marcus to respect Jack. While Allison is getting the truth out of Kevin, Sheriff Carter with Marcus looking on, has Andy in the chair, operating on his hard-drive. The power is surging – Andy seems to be okay, says he has a tingling in his artificial neurons. Jack answers the phone and its Allison, she wants to see him now. He’s understands that Kevin dosed him with an Alpha GPC, but doesn't care. Jack tells Allison he's in the middle of a scientific history. While Jack is on the phone, Andy says he needs to get more power since this processor is using massive amounts to keep it running. Jack doesn't hear him and by the time he hangs up the phone and turns around and Andy has disappeared.
About that time, lights, computers, electronics start going down throughout Global Dynamics. Parrish tells Jo that he is following up on his own lead and heads off. While Jo follows up with a phone call telling her that Global Dynamics off-site communications has been affected.
Next were back with Henry, Holly and Zane – they have been checking all the processors and things are just running too hot to complete the copying of Holly’s DNA. Parrish bursts through the door yelling 'Donovan, Your So Busted'! Starts naming off all the missing equipment, Zane’s trying to explain and getting nowhere fast. But then Parrish sees Holly.
Jo drives up as she sees Andy ripping Power Cells off the power grid. Andy is having a mainframe malfunction as we see him speeding off after Jo said 'She would drive'.
Marcus is reeling from the scientific breakthroughs that Jack has in developments and they are making BIG plans. Just then Allison streams in announcing that Jack’s Z-Waves are off the charts and he’s getting smarter by the minute. She’s trying to make a serum that will counteract what Kevin gave him. Then Jack says 'it's the first time he felt like he fit in', and that he doesn’t want to go back to being the dumb Sheriff. Allison says that the dumb Sheriff is the man she married. Then her phone rings.
Back to Zane, Henry, Holly and Parrish – Just when Parrish has Holly convinced that she could have trusted him – Fargo busts into Henry’s shop with armed guards, tells them to confiscate everything and shuts down the 'Copying'.
Meanwhile, Andy is stealing Energy Cells from anywhere he can find. That’s what Allison’s phone call was about – Allison and Marcus convince Jack that they must go find him now, before he burns out.
Holly’s mad, she’s just protons and sound waves and wants more. Fargo thinks she is safe but she tells him, if she’s not happy with who she is, how can he be?
As Zane and Jo pull up to Café Diem, it seems Andy is exiting, almost running over them as well as Vincent. Andy has stolen the Energy Cells from the freezer. They must stop him. Allison figures out where Andy would go and that's to Jacks House and SARAH with her Energy Cells. Andy interrupted SARAH’s book club meeting. And just like a Smart house, SARAH shut Andy down, with help from Jo and some convincing from Allison. Marcus and Jack removed the processor that made Andy 'Power Cell' hungry, he’s back to normal – slower but normal as he immediately wants to go to SARAH to apologize.
When Allison explains to 'Smarter Carter' that he might think he’s better, but he’s really lost his Heart – he finally get’s it.
Fargo returns to Henry’s shop, looking for Holly. She materializes as he explains that they can try the 'Bio-printing' and that he will find a way.
It takes all 3 of them, Marcus, Allison and Jack, but they come up with the serum to bring him back to normal. Marcus, Kevin, Andy and SARAH all were present as Jack and Allison signed their marriage license.
- Original summary from https://wormholeriders.net/eureka/?p=29614