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* NightmareFuelColoringBook: After seeing Walter's "ghost" while Brian Perkins is staying over, nonverbal Kevin draws what he saw, providing a vital clue.
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* CloningBlues: Averted, since clone!Sue Perkins is already dead by the time it is discovered she was a clone.
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What appears to be a ghost begins terrorizing people and disrupting equipment shortly after a funeral, and even more surprising, one of the recently dead reappears alive.

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What Former Marshall Jack Carter faces an eventful first week at his new job when the town of scientists appears to be a ghost begins terrorizing people and disrupting equipment shortly after a funeral, and even more surprising, one beset by ghosts. Reports of the recently dead reappears alive.a phantom circulate while an angry Sue Perkins appears in Jack's office, demanding to know why she's been declared dead.



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* SpoiledByTheCastList: The fact that Walter will be resurrected is kinda given away by Rob LaBelle's name being in the credits.
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* {{Irony}}: The episode starts with a double funeral for Walter and Susan Perkins. By the end of the episode, they're both alive; Walter by being rescued from spacetime, Susan because it was her clone that died.
* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: Walter didn't die, but was pushed into a different timestream by his attempt to undo the damage caused by his experiment.


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-->'''Carter:''' If this house is so great, why is it standing here vacant?\\
'''Fargo:''' Okay, bye!
* SpoiledByTheCastList: The fact that Walter will be resurrected is kinda given away by Rob LaBelle's name being in the credits.
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* MandatoryMotherhood: Your wife doesn't want to leave her career or have kids? Just clone a new wife who will be more compliant! The man responsible received an appropriate comeuppance.
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* DangerousWorkplace: Eureka boasts 5 times the average death toll for a town its size and twice the national average.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Eureka doesn't believe in ghosts.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Allison says of Susan's apparent suicide, "When you have kids you don't get to just check out," Carter quips that Zoe said the same thing to him. At the end, Zoe arrives on Carter's doorstep.

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->'''Carter:''' Tell me Henry, you're a scientist, do you believe in ghosts?\\
'''Henry:''' Well, I believe in energy. When somebody dies, that energy has to go somewhere. So, theoretically I suppose it's possible.



'''Carter:''' Tell me you're kidding.

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'''Carter:''' Tell me you're kidding.\\
'''Jo:''' 924/B. In triplicate.
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Stark insists that he never said he saw a ghost, despite describing that very thing.
-->'''Stark:''' There was an electrical problem with the computers, and then I saw something. A figure.\\
'''Carter:''' Are you saying someone was in your office?\\
'''Stark:''' Not someone. Something. It wasn't entirely corporeal.\\
'''Carter:''' Corporeal?\\
'''Stark:''' Physical. There and not there at the same time.\\
'''Carter:''' Are you saying you saw a ghost?\\
'''Stark:''' Sheriff. Director of Research of the most advanced scientific facility in the world doesn't see ghosts.



-->'''Carter:''' You two have a history.\\
'''Allison:''' You could say that.\\
'''Carter:''' Old boyfriend?\\
'''Allison:''' Not exactly.\\
'''Carter:''' Then, what exactly?\\
'''Allison:''' He's my husband.



* ShoutOut: S.A.R.A.H.'s voice is temporary, while Fargo waits to hear back from Creator/SarahMichelleGellar's people.
* SmartHouse: Carter gets to live in one.

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S.A.R.A.H.'s voice is temporary, while Fargo waits to hear back from Creator/SarahMichelleGellar's people.
** While ghost hunting, Henry says, [[Film/{{Jaws}} "We're gonna need a bigger battery."]]
* SmartHouse: Carter gets to live in one.one, repurposed from an old bomb shelter.
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* CrazyPrepared: When the real Sue Perkins turns up alive and demanding to know why she's been declared legally dead.
-->'''Carter:''' It's not like we have a form to [[BuffySpeak "undead"]] you.\\
'''Jo:''' [''Clears throat'']\\
'''Carter:''' Tell me you're kidding.


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* ShoutOut: S.A.R.A.H.'s voice is temporary, while Fargo waits to hear back from Creator/SarahMichelleGellar's people.
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* SmartHouse: Carter gets to live in one.

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* SmartHouse: Carter gets to live in one.one.
* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: The real Susan Perkins, to her clone's child.
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What appears to be a ghost begins terrorizing people and disrupting equipment shortly after a funeral, and even more surprising, one of the recently dead reappears alive.
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* CloningBlues: Averted, since clone!Sue Perkins is already dead by the time it is discovered she was a clone.
* LoveTriangle: Set up between Carter, Allison, and Nathan.
* TheRunaway: Zoe ran away from home ''again'', though this time to Carter.
* SmartHouse: Carter gets to live in one.

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