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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Major Shaw doesn't actually have a shred of evidence that Zane deleted any files, and is forced to let him go.
** The NPC doppelganger incident was one massive breach of security too far, and the DOD has decided to defund and shutter Eureka.
** Major Shaw doesn't actually have a shred of evidence that Zane deleted any files, and is forced to let him go.
** The NPC doppelganger incident was one massive breach of security too far, and the DOD has decided to defund and shutter Eureka.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: The AI control system from Virtual Eureka, having escaped from the mainframe computer that once contained it, systematically kidnaps and replaces nearly the entire town with bioprinted duplicates, under the reasoning that it's protecting them from themselves.
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-->'''Holly:''' They're making me do things.\\
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'''Holly:''' The NPC's from Matrix Eureka. It's like they made me walk in my sleep, but instead of raiding the fridge, I'm spitting out bodies like the Queen Alien on LV-426.
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* HypocriticalHumor: {{Lampshaded}} when Evil!Carter finds Holly unconscious in the woods after her failed attempt to trap Fargo.
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* HypocriticalHumor: {{Lampshaded}} when Evil!Carter finds Holly Evil!Holly unconscious in the woods after her failed attempt to trap Fargo.
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'''Holly:''' [''Irritable''] And where's Allison?\\
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* RunningGag: Carter's Jeep is crashed into a police barricade.
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** Fargo refers to Holly as ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate''.
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** Fargo refers to Holly Evil!Holly as ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate''.
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** Holly refers to the queen in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. She also tells Fargo, [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration "Resistance is futile."]]
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** Holly Evil!Holly refers to the queen in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. She also tells Fargo, [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration "Resistance is futile."]]
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* ToiletHumor: During the fight at the cabin, Carter at one point grabs a dislodged toilet seat to use as an ImprovisedWeapon against his evil counterpart.
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* HypocriticalHumor: {{Lampshaded}} when Evil!Carter finds Holly unconscious in the woods after her failed attempt to trap Fargo.
-->'''Evil!Carter:''' Wake up, UsefulNotes/MataHari.\\
'''Holly:''' [''Irritable''] And where's Allison?\\
'''Evil!Carter:''' Okay, fair.
-->'''Evil!Carter:''' Wake up, UsefulNotes/MataHari.\\
'''Holly:''' [''Irritable''] And where's Allison?\\
'''Evil!Carter:''' Okay, fair.
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** Various zombie-movie tropes are employed, especially when (real) Carter and Allison are at the cabin, surrounded by doppelgangers trying to break in.
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** Various zombie-movie tropes are employed, especially when (real) Carter and Allison are at the cabin, surrounded by doppelgangers trying to break in. In particular the part where Carter forces shut a door with arms being shoved through the gap.
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** Major Shaw doesn't actually have a shred of evidence that Zane deleted any evidence, and is forced to let him go.
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** Major Shaw doesn't actually have a shred of evidence that Zane deleted any evidence, files, and is forced to let him go.
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-->'''Dr. Parrish:''' [''Spattered in his double's remains']] [[TastesLikeChicken I taste like chicken...]]
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-->'''Dr. Parrish:''' [''Spattered in his double's remains']] remains''] [[TastesLikeChicken I taste like chicken...]]
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'''Holly:''' The NPCs from Matrix Eureka. It's like they made me walk in my sleep, but instead of raiding the fridge, I'm spitting out bodies like the Queen Alien on LV-426.
* BigDamnHeroes: When Allison sneaks into the NPCs' lair to retrieve the EMP bomb from Zane's jacket, she comes across the ''real'' Carter and begins the process of waking him, but is forced to leave before he revives. She's soon captured by Evil!Carter and about to be put in the matrix, when Carter comes up and decks himself.
* BigDamnHeroes: When Allison sneaks into the NPCs' lair to retrieve the EMP bomb from Zane's jacket, she comes across the ''real'' Carter and begins the process of waking him, but is forced to leave before he revives. She's soon captured by Evil!Carter and about to be put in the matrix, when Carter comes up and decks himself.
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'''Holly:''' The NPCs NPC's from Matrix Eureka. It's like they made me walk in my sleep, but instead of raiding the fridge, I'm spitting out bodies like the Queen Alien on LV-426.
* BigDamnHeroes: When Allison sneaks into theNPCs' NPC's lair to retrieve the EMP bomb from Zane's jacket, she comes across the ''real'' Carter and begins the process of waking him, but is forced to leave before he revives. She's soon captured by Evil!Carter and about to be put in the matrix, when Carter comes up and decks himself.
* BigDamnHeroes: When Allison sneaks into the
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* GilliganCut: When Zane and Dr. Parrish are caught in the GD lockdown, Dr. Parrish says that the NPCs think he's one of them, so he and Zane can just walk out by pretending Zane is his prisoner, just like in Star Wars! When Zane is skeptical, Parrish insists he can do this, it's his ''destiny''! Cut to the NPCs' lair.
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* GilliganCut: When Zane and Dr. Parrish are caught in the GD lockdown, Dr. Parrish says that the NPCs NPC's think he's one of them, so he and Zane can just walk out by pretending Zane is his prisoner, just like in Star Wars! When Zane is skeptical, Parrish insists he can do this, it's his ''destiny''! Cut to the NPCs' NPC's lair.
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-->'''Allison:''' The NPCs have human brainwave patterns that were downloaded into bio-printed bodies. There are ethical considerations to how we deal with them.\\
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-->'''Allison:''' The NPCs NPC's have human brainwave patterns that were downloaded into bio-printed bodies. There are ethical considerations to how we deal with them.\\
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The NPC doppelganger incident was one massive breach of security too far, and the DOD has decided to defund and shutter Eureka.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Major Shaw doesn't actually have a shred of evidence that Zane deleted any evidence, and is forced to let him go.
** The NPC doppelganger incident was one massive breach of security too far, and the DOD has decided to defund and shutter Eureka.
** Major Shaw doesn't actually have a shred of evidence that Zane deleted any evidence, and is forced to let him go.
** The NPC doppelganger incident was one massive breach of security too far, and the DOD has decided to defund and shutter Eureka.
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** Sneaks into the NPCs' lair to sync up his PDA with the Smart Dust. He's caught and surrounded sneaking out, but uses the PDA to block out the sunlight and escape.
* WhamLine: The EMP bomb knocks out the NPCs, but also puts Holly into a coma. She wakes up and introduces herself to Fargo as if they're just meeting.
* ZerothLawRebellion: The NPCs believe they're doing people a favour, shutting them in a virtual world where they can experiment in safety.
* WhamLine: The EMP bomb knocks out the NPCs, but also puts Holly into a coma. She wakes up and introduces herself to Fargo as if they're just meeting.
* ZerothLawRebellion: The NPCs believe they're doing people a favour, shutting them in a virtual world where they can experiment in safety.
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** Sneaks into the NPCs' NPC's lair to sync up his PDA with the Smart Dust. He's caught and surrounded sneaking out, but uses the PDA to block out the sunlight and escape.
* WhamLine: The EMP bomb knocks out theNPCs, NPC's, but also puts Holly into a coma. She wakes up and introduces herself to Fargo as if they're just meeting.
* ZerothLawRebellion: TheNPCs NPC's believe they're doing people a favour, shutting them in a virtual world where they can experiment in safety.
* WhamLine: The EMP bomb knocks out the
* ZerothLawRebellion: The
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People in Eureka are being replaced with evil doppelgangers, leaving the few remaining holdouts to band together to find a solution.
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* LudicrousGibs:
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* LudicrousGibs: Evil!Dr. Parrish, when Zane shoots him with one of Real!Dr. Parrish's prototype weapons.
-->'''Dr. Parrish:''' You dematerialized me!\\
'''Zane:''' What happen to non-lethal weapons?\\
'''Dr. Parrish:''' That one's a work in progress.
-->'''Dr. Parrish:''' You dematerialized me!\\
'''Zane:''' What happen to non-lethal weapons?\\
'''Dr. Parrish:''' That one's a work in progress.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The NPC doppelganger incident was one massive breach of security too far, and the DOD has decided to defund and shutter Eureka.
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* WhamLine: The EMP bomb knocks out the NPCs, but also puts Holly into a coma. She wakes up and introduces herself to Fargo as if they're just meeting.
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* AndIMustScream: Evil!Holly's take on being overwritten by the matrix's programming. It's a lie; she's just trying to lure Fargo into a trap.
-->'''Holly:''' They're making me do things.\\
'''Fargo:''' Who?\\
'''Holly:''' The NPCs from Matrix Eureka. It's like they made me walk in my sleep, but instead of raiding the fridge, I'm spitting out bodies like the Queen Alien on LV-426.
* BigDamnHeroes: When Allison sneaks into the NPCs' lair to retrieve the EMP bomb from Zane's jacket, she comes across the ''real'' Carter and begins the process of waking him, but is forced to leave before he revives. She's soon captured by Evil!Carter and about to be put in the matrix, when Carter comes up and decks himself.
-->'''Holly:''' They're making me do things.\\
'''Fargo:''' Who?\\
'''Holly:''' The NPCs from Matrix Eureka. It's like they made me walk in my sleep, but instead of raiding the fridge, I'm spitting out bodies like the Queen Alien on LV-426.
* BigDamnHeroes: When Allison sneaks into the NPCs' lair to retrieve the EMP bomb from Zane's jacket, she comes across the ''real'' Carter and begins the process of waking him, but is forced to leave before he revives. She's soon captured by Evil!Carter and about to be put in the matrix, when Carter comes up and decks himself.
* CrazyPrepared: Fargo has a night vision setting in his glasses, which comes in handy when he blocks out the sunlight to escape the doppelgangers. Unfortunately, Andy has night vision too...
* GilliganCut: When Zane and Dr. Parrish are caught in the GD lockdown, Dr. Parrish says that the NPCs think he's one of them, so he and Zane can just walk out by pretending Zane is his prisoner, just like in Star Wars! When Zane is skeptical, Parrish insists he can do this, it's his ''destiny''! Cut to the NPCs' lair.
-->'''Dr. Parrish:''' I can't ''believe'' that didn't work!
-->'''Dr. Parrish:''' I can't ''believe'' that didn't work!
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* TookALevelInBadass:
* ZerothLawRebellion:
* ZerothLawRebellion:
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* TookALevelInBadass:
TookALevelInBadass: Fargo, of all people, is the only person besides Allison to avoid assimilation altogether (though narrowly).
** He successfully outmaneuvers Evil!Holly when she tries to lure him into a trap, pickpocketing her stun gun and using it on her.
** Sneaks into the NPCs' lair to sync up his PDA with the Smart Dust. He's caught and surrounded sneaking out, but uses the PDA to block out the sunlight and escape.
*ZerothLawRebellion:ZerothLawRebellion: The NPCs believe they're doing people a favour, shutting them in a virtual world where they can experiment in safety.
** He successfully outmaneuvers Evil!Holly when she tries to lure him into a trap, pickpocketing her stun gun and using it on her.
** Sneaks into the NPCs' lair to sync up his PDA with the Smart Dust. He's caught and surrounded sneaking out, but uses the PDA to block out the sunlight and escape.
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[[caption-width-right:320:One of these Parrishes is an evil duplicate. Choose wisely.]]
[[caption-width-right:320:One of these Parrishes is an evil duplicate. Choose wisely.]]
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* InstantlyProvenWrong:
* MacGuffin: The EMP bomb Zane and Dr. Parrish made to target the zeta waves used by the doppelgangers. It's in Zane's jacket when he's captured, Allison retrieves it and uses it to
* SequelHook:
* MacGuffin: The EMP bomb Zane and Dr. Parrish made to target the zeta waves used by the doppelgangers. It's in Zane's jacket when he's captured, Allison retrieves it and uses it to
* SequelHook:
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* InstantlyProvenWrong:
InstantlyProvenWrong: Dr. Parrish is highly skeptical of Zane's wild story of evil duplicates, only to enter his lab and be confronted by his own duplicate.
* MacGuffin: The EMP bomb Zane and Dr. Parrish made to target the zeta waves used by the doppelgangers. It's in Zane's jacket when he's captured, Allison retrieves it and uses itto
to disable all the doppelgangers by wiring it into the satellite dish at the cabin.
* MirrorMatch: Carter fights Evil!Carter at the cabin to keep him away from Allison as she works. He holds out pretty well, but Evil!Carter has him in a strangle hold when the EMP goes off.
-->'''Carter:''' I gotta kick my ass.
* SequelHook: The disabled doppelgangers are frozen rather than destroyed.
-->'''Allison:''' The NPCs have human brainwave patterns that were downloaded into bio-printed bodies. There are ethical considerations to how we deal with them.\\
'''Carter:''' Yeah, I think you're just keeping a spare around in case I don't work out.\\
'''Allison:''' No comment.
* MacGuffin: The EMP bomb Zane and Dr. Parrish made to target the zeta waves used by the doppelgangers. It's in Zane's jacket when he's captured, Allison retrieves it and uses it
* MirrorMatch: Carter fights Evil!Carter at the cabin to keep him away from Allison as she works. He holds out pretty well, but Evil!Carter has him in a strangle hold when the EMP goes off.
-->'''Carter:''' I gotta kick my ass.
* SequelHook: The disabled doppelgangers are frozen rather than destroyed.
-->'''Allison:''' The NPCs have human brainwave patterns that were downloaded into bio-printed bodies. There are ethical considerations to how we deal with them.\\
'''Carter:''' Yeah, I think you're just keeping a spare around in case I don't work out.\\
'''Allison:''' No comment.
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* SpotTheImpostor:
SpotTheImpostor: Zane correctly identifies and shoots the doppelganger of Dr. Parrish when he says, "I trust you, Zane."
-->'''Dr. Parrish:''' [''Spattered in his double's remains']] [[TastesLikeChicken I taste like chicken...]]
*SpottingTheThread: SpottingTheThread: SARAH stuns Evil!Carter to protect Allison, having realised that although "Carter's" DNA is correct, it's only a day old.
-->'''Dr. Parrish:''' [''Spattered in his double's remains']] [[TastesLikeChicken I taste like chicken...]]
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->'''Zane:''' You're telling me Carter, Henry and Jo are evil clones made by Holly?\\
'''Fargo:''' Well, technically, VR-programmed intelligences in bio-printed bodies, but yeah, evil clones.
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* ActorAllusion: Dr. Parrish says, "You dematerialised me!", referring to Creator/WilWheaton's time on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
* CallBack:
** Evil!Carter is essentially [[Recap/EurekaTheRealThing his matrix NPC in the flesh]]. [[Recap/EurekaForceQuit Allison even clobbers him with a branch just like Zane did]].
** The matrix's programming is still trying to [[Recap/EurekaJackIfAllTrades locate its escaped inmates and force them back in]].
* EvilDoppelganger: Most of the main cast, but especially Carter.
* InstantlyProvenWrong:
* MacGuffin: The EMP bomb Zane and Dr. Parrish made to target the zeta waves used by the doppelgangers. It's in Zane's jacket when he's captured, Allison retrieves it and uses it to
* SequelHook:
* ShoutOut:
** Fargo refers to Holly as ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate''.
** Dr. Parrish and Zane try to sneak out of the locked-down GD with a TrojanPrisoner gambit, explicitly from ''Film/StarWarsANewHope''.
** Fargo says, "I suppose we can't talk this out, man to [[Film/BladeRunner replicant]]?
** Holly refers to the queen in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. She also tells Fargo, [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration "Resistance is futile."]]
** Various zombie-movie tropes are employed, especially when (real) Carter and Allison are at the cabin, surrounded by doppelgangers trying to break in.
* SpotTheImpostor:
* SpottingTheThread:
* TookALevelInBadass:
* ZerothLawRebellion:
'''Fargo:''' Well, technically, VR-programmed intelligences in bio-printed bodies, but yeah, evil clones.
!Tropes
* ActorAllusion: Dr. Parrish says, "You dematerialised me!", referring to Creator/WilWheaton's time on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''.
* CallBack:
** Evil!Carter is essentially [[Recap/EurekaTheRealThing his matrix NPC in the flesh]]. [[Recap/EurekaForceQuit Allison even clobbers him with a branch just like Zane did]].
** The matrix's programming is still trying to [[Recap/EurekaJackIfAllTrades locate its escaped inmates and force them back in]].
* EvilDoppelganger: Most of the main cast, but especially Carter.
* InstantlyProvenWrong:
* MacGuffin: The EMP bomb Zane and Dr. Parrish made to target the zeta waves used by the doppelgangers. It's in Zane's jacket when he's captured, Allison retrieves it and uses it to
* SequelHook:
* ShoutOut:
** Fargo refers to Holly as ''Film/TheManchurianCandidate''.
** Dr. Parrish and Zane try to sneak out of the locked-down GD with a TrojanPrisoner gambit, explicitly from ''Film/StarWarsANewHope''.
** Fargo says, "I suppose we can't talk this out, man to [[Film/BladeRunner replicant]]?
** Holly refers to the queen in ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. She also tells Fargo, [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration "Resistance is futile."]]
** Various zombie-movie tropes are employed, especially when (real) Carter and Allison are at the cabin, surrounded by doppelgangers trying to break in.
* SpotTheImpostor:
* SpottingTheThread:
* TookALevelInBadass:
* ZerothLawRebellion:
