Pilot (Eureka episode)
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1 |
| Guest star(s) | Maury Chaykin Rob Labelle Garry Chalk |
| Writer(s) | Andrew Cosby Jaime Paglia |
| Director | Peter O'Fallon |
| Production no. | 101 |
| Original airdate | July 18, 2006 |
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"Pilot" is the premiere episode of the American science fiction drama Eureka. Although originally broadcast as one 2-hour episode, it functions as the first and second episodes of Season 1.
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[edit] Plot syopsis
A freak car accident brings U.S. Marshal Jack Carter into the not-so quiet town of Eureka.
While transporting a fugitive (his daughter, Zoë) back to Los Angeles, U.S. Marshal Jack Carter crashes his car near the remote town of Eureka, where the country's greatest minds live and work on the next great scientific advancements. Jack is a fish out of water among the gifted inhabitants. As he comes to realize just what the town is, he gets caught up in the investigation of an experiment gone wrong. Walter Perkins, one of the brightest minds in town, has created a tachyon accelerator that threatens to tear apart reality itself. Before Walter can fix it, however, he is apparently absorbed by his own machine. Even with a town full of geniuses, it seems as if Jack is the only one capable of saving the town. He gets a young autistic savant he befriended earlier to complete Walter's equations, partially destroyed by the antimatter sphere created by Walter's machine. Then town mechanic and resident jack-of-all-trades Henry Deacon and other scientists at the Eureka Advanced Research Facility initiate a reversal to the impending cataclysm before the town — and entire world — are absorbed in the vortex. With the local sheriff injured in the incident, Allison Blake, the D.O.D. government liaison, requests Jack be reassigned as the new sheriff of Eureka.
[edit] Trivia
- "Groom Lake" is a reference to Area 51, Nevada, where unusual and unearthly things seem to happen.
- The laws of physics states that nothing can accelerate up til and then beyond the speed of light, but in theory it is possible to have something moving faster than light if it did that without accelerating. This is not a break from the laws of physics which the episode states.
[edit] Significance
- The main characters are introduced.
- Beverly Barlowe poisons Walter Perkins' wife, Susan, and reveals that she's working for a covert organization that doesn't seem to have Eureka's best interests in mind.
[edit] Ratings
The series' premiere performed well, with more than 4.4 million people watching. Eureka was also the Number 1 cable program for that Tuesday night, and was the highest-rated series launch in SciFi's fourteen-year history.[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ SciFi press release hosted by TheFutonCritic.com URL accessed July 21, 2006
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| Characters | Beverly Barlowe | Allison Blake | Colonel Briggs | Jack Carter | Zoe Carter | Henry Deacon | Douglas Fargo | Jo Lupo | Nathan Stark | Jim Taggart |
| Other | Episode list | Eureka (Town) | Global Dynamics | Artifact |
