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Our services. Our Members. Beverly Barlowe's virtual reality program is almost perfect, but the unexpected addition of Allison to the program means the servers are overtaxed, and glitches are starting to pile up - not the least of which is a dragon flying around town. The real and fake townspeople must track down the dragon and get rid of it before the Astraeus crew works out something is wrong, which would force the Consortium to terminate them to protect its secrets.
I was a big fan of last week's episode, but I knew coming out of it that the follow-up would need to answer some key questions to keep this arc chugging on.
Chief of these was making sure Beverly Barlowe and the Consortium's plot actually made any sense, which would pretty much be a first for this show. The show presents some nice explanations for just why the time-jump was necessary — it's an easy way to fill in for inevitable inconsistencies in the characters' actions — and why the crew was kidnapped in the first place — to invent amazing new technology for the Consortium.
You can certainly quibble about some of the finer points of the plan, particularly whether these innovations will justify the sheer elaborateness of the virtual reality program, but it more than passes an initial inspection, so it's good enough for me. The episode also pulled off a neat trick in subtly expanding the ideas seen in last week's AI police state. While the previous week showed all the humans, real and fake alike, banding together to take down Andy and S.
It's a neat progression as the show expands the dangers of malevolent computer to the crew's entire reality. It makes for a nice sense of dread whenever the crew members start asking dangerous questions, particularly in the scenes between Grace and a suddenly intellectually incurious Henry.
Of course, that all builds up to the episode's big final twist, in which Felicia Day's Holly realizes the strange things she is seeing are glitches in a computer simulation, and she happily shares her latest amazing breakthrough with Carter. Colin Ferguson does some nice acting in this scene, his stony expression suggesting a mix of murderous determination and computer-simulated anguish at what he has to do. The other major plotline, in which Zane and Henry try to bring Holly back to life while Jo runs interference on Parrish and Fargo, also ties into the question of the responsibilities that come with great intelligence.
If any two people can pull off the greatest advance in computer science and bioengineering in human history, then clearly it's Zane and Henry. But do they have the right to steal equipment from GD to do it, particularly when they are going against Fargo's orders?
And for that matter, does Fargo have the right to overrule Holly's wishes? As Jo says to the pair, they are officially joining the mad scientists' club with this one, and it does feel as though they've never played God quite as brazenly as they are prepared to do here.
Fargo accuses them and Carter of "playing Frankenstein", and though their intentions might be more noble than Carter's, that's no guarantee the results won't be any less monstrous. Indeed, based on the promo for next week's episode, I'd advise holding onto that thought. Of course, Fargo ultimately comes around and realizes Holly should decide what's best for her, but he takes a long path to get there.
Indeed, I don't know if you could ever call Fargo intimidating under really any circumstances, but the moment where an enraged Fargo raids Henry's garage with full armed backup is probably the closest he's ever going to get.
In the midst of all this, we get the always welcome return of Wil Wheaton as Dr. Parrish, who continues to be a complete bastard in that perversely lovable way of his. Way back at the outset of season 4. Well, he was certainly right about that, but the show has mostly sidestepped turning him into a caricature, if only because they keep finding multiple layers in his assholishness. While it could be said the Consortium was successful in keeping the Artifact out of the hands of Global Dynamics, Beverly's actions seem to suggest they wanted it for themselves - something they failed to achieve.
In the altered timeline, the Consortium made contact with Trevor Grant and sent Beverly Barlowe to speak with him. She tells him that the organization Trevor made in concert with Adam Barlowe is still active and has plans for Eureka "Stoned". Beverly informs Grant of the D. D, a weapon in development at Global Dynamics that has the power to destroy all technology in a targeted area. She told Grant that he was in the ideal position to help the Consortium destroy the device and gives him an access code to Global Dynamics mainframe.
When the D. D begins to overload as a result of being targeted by a frequency emitting device, Zane Donovan and Douglas Fargo surround it with a forcefield to block the signal. Grant uses the access code given to him to disable the forcefield and allow the process to continue.
Fearing the destruction of the device and the potential loss of all technology in the town, General Mansfield ordered the D. D moved out of Eureka. This was part of the Consortium's plan all along and they ambushed the convoy to steal the D. The Consortium used a plasma device found within the D. D to power a new and improved Bridge Device.
Beverly convinced Grant to return to his proper time to prevent her father's arrest and to utilize his knowledge of the future to alter the past in the Consortium's vision.
The energy pulse given off by the activation of the Bridge Device caused Allison Blake's death when her car was thrown. As a reaction to her death, Jack Carter attacks Grant and is pulled back into along with him. After each explains their situation they resolve to stop the Consortium from building the second Bridge Device and thus prevent Allison's death.
Carter left himself a warning on a recording he knew he listened to in the present which allowed them to stop the Bridge Device's activation. With these events, the Consortium lost the D. Beverly Barlowe and a number of other Consortium agents intercepted Allison Blake on her way to a health conference and injected neuro-implants into her brain " Reprise ".
These implants were later activated to allow Beverly to personally control Allison " Up in the Air ".
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