Eureka Recap:What About Bob?

We begin at Cafe Diem where Zoe almost shares a kiss with her boyfriend. Carter, a dedicated daddy, thinks that’s a great time to order a refill. Elsewhere, The Fixer is reminding everyone that she’s in charge of Eureka, whether anyone likes it or not. She announces Zane as the director of the new consumer products lab, another initiative to make Eureka profitable. Dr. Stark considers it one of The Fixer’s worst ideas yet.

Carter decides to go visit Henry in lockup, and he’s doing about as well as can be expected. Henry tells Carter he’d give anything to see a sunset. Before Carter can answer, he gets a 911 call from Allison. She explains that a scientist has gone missing from Lab 27, a biosphere that no once has entered or exited in 11 years. Derek, who monitors the project, applied but failed to get in. He explains to Carter science used in the biosphere project is used for the Mars missions. Carter says surely he means “potential” Mars missions. Yeah, sure, that’s what he meant. Welcome to Eureka.

And the missing scientist’s name is Bob Nobb. Hmmm, maybe he went to go have a word with his parents. Carter and Allison go in and meet Terry, a young girl who’s lived her entire life in the biosphere. As they interview the others, nobody will admit to liking or missing Bob.

Later, Terry is attacked and whatever did it leaves some sort of slime behind which they send for analysis. Meanwhile, one of Zoe’s friends at Cafe Diem has hacked into Lab 27′s security cameras and it becomes Eureka’s biggest reality hit. Stark wants to evacuate the lab, but tells them it will take a while to set that up because there could be immune system problems for the residents.

As Carter continues his investigation, he finds out Bob is quite the hit with the ladies, including the married ones apparently. Carter finds out that Allison’s keeping an eye on him and the pair argue. She explains she’s trying to protect him from The Fixer, who’s concerned about all the strange happenings since Carter came to town.

Stark explains the substance they found at Terry’s attack is human – sort of. Carter hears something unusual and finds Bob, who is having a very reptilian moment. He’s able to utter “Help Me.”

Stark explains something is causing Bob’s latent reptilian DNA to become dominant. The Fixer wants the entire place locked down, while Stark of course wants to get his fiance Allison out. After some discussion, they decide Henry is the only scientist in Eureka who could help them out of this. They figure out how to make Henry an interactive hologram.

Terry comes back and shows Carter that she and the rest of the Lab 27 residents are de -evolving too. Allison asks how long she and Carter have, and Henry tells them not very long. Carter figures out Derek is responsible for the environmental changes because he has a crush on Terry. He only meant to affect Bob, who was interested in Terry. The denizens of Cafe Diem declare this the best season of Lab 27 ever!

Outside the biosphere, The Fixer has asked Deputy Jo to make some changes while Carter’s busy. Among them are closing Eureka’s museum. Bob, who took a liking to Allison, has kidnapped her. That’s it, against rational advice Stark is going in. They develop a modified gun that should cause re-evolution once they hit Bob with it. But they’ve got to lure him out, and a hologram of Terry, who Bob apparently likes even more than Allison, does the trick.

Carter nails the shot and frees Allison to run into the waiting arms of – Stark. There is some good news for Carter though, as The Fixer pardons Henry. All part of her diabolical plan, I’m sure. We end with her going through the museum’s old footage, which seems to include an atom bomb blast in Eureka. Curiouser and curiouser…