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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: More like Complain, Complain, Oh Crap when Henry is about to do an experiment, with Spencer's "help."
-->'''Spencer:''' "Answer the phone, Spencer!" "Close the window, Spencer!" \\
'''Henry:''' Here goes nothing. [''Turns on large gadget''] Yeah. Yeah. Yes, yes, yes! [''The gadget starts to levitate'']\\
'''Spencer:''' [[RuleOfThree "Refill the liquid nitrogen, Spencer..."]] [''{{Beat}}''] [[OhCrap Henry!]]\\
[''Kaboom'']
-->'''Spencer:''' "Answer the phone, Spencer!" "Close the window, Spencer!" \\
'''Henry:''' Here goes nothing. [''Turns on large gadget''] Yeah. Yeah. Yes, yes, yes! [''The gadget starts to levitate'']\\
'''Spencer:''' [[RuleOfThree "Refill the liquid nitrogen, Spencer..."]] [''{{Beat}}''] [[OhCrap Henry!]]\\
[''Kaboom'']
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** Jo's comes when Carter arrives at the Sheriff's office with Zoe. He reaches for his badge to prove he's a Marshall, and before he can blink he's on the floor in a half-nelson.
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** Jo's comes when Carter arrives at the Sheriff's office with Zoe. He reaches for his badge to prove he's a Marshall, barely reveals his gun in the process, and before he can blink he's on the floor in a half-nelson.half-nelson as Jo yells "gun!"
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Meanwhile, stranger things are afoot than usual in the
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/ColinFerguson [[Series/TheXFiles has played a US Marshall before.]]
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* ActorAllusion: ActorAllusion:
** Creator/ColinFerguson [[Series/TheXFiles has played a US Marshall before.]]]]
** Rob [=LaBelle=] has played a GeniusDitz GadgeteerGenius [[Series/FirstWave before]].
** Creator/ColinFerguson [[Series/TheXFiles has played a US Marshall before.
** Rob [=LaBelle=] has played a GeniusDitz GadgeteerGenius [[Series/FirstWave before]].
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* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: Walter's experiment is a tachyon accelerator. When it starts misfiring, it does strange things to time; parts of the RV are removed from time and dumped at a location determined by the turning of the Earth.
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* The town layout and the GD building are also different than in later episodes.
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* CallForward: Carter finds Zoe reading a science magazine. She claims it's the only thing available, but she was absorbed enough to not notice who she was talking to, foreshadowing her turning out to have a genius I.Q.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Carter finishes with all that craziness in that weird little town and returns to L.A., only for a pair of D.O.D. agents to appear with a new assignment. In the final scene, he's the new Sheriff of Eureka.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Carter finishes with all that craziness in that weird little town and returns to L.A., only for a pair of D.O.D. agents to appear with a new assignment. In the final scene, he's the new Sheriff of Eureka.
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** It's ''strongly'' implied that Carter and Zoe will be executed if they can't find a use for him, [[FridgeHorror which makes you wonder how many people that's happened to]].
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* The town layout and the GD building are also different than in later episodes.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Jo's comes when Carter arrives at the Sheriff's office with Zoe. He reaches for his badge to prove he's a Marshall, and before he can blink he's on the floor in a half-nelson.
** Carter's comes a little later, when a search party is assembling to find Brian Perkins. Confronted with a ''very'' strange crime scene and harried by Allison, who wants him to quit looking at classified stuff, Carter points out that, although the science stuff is beyond him, he has been a Marshall for a while. He then calmly follows the trail of a chocolate handprint and a Hershey's wrapper to where Brian is hiding in the trailer.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** Jo's comes when Carter arrives at the Sheriff's office with Zoe. He reaches for his badge to prove he's a Marshall, and before he can blink he's on the floor in a half-nelson.
** Carter's comes a little later, when a search party is assembling to find Brian Perkins. Confronted with a ''very'' strange crime scene and harried by Allison, who wants him to quit looking at classified stuff, Carter points out that, although the science stuff is beyond him, he has been a Marshall for a while. He then calmly follows the trail of a chocolate handprint and a Hershey's wrapper to where Brian is hiding in the trailer.
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* HereWeGoAgain: With Carter having just arrived back in Eureka as its new Sheriff, he hears a distant explosion, followed by an enormous crash as a large piece of machinery ploughs through the office's roof.
-->'''Carter:''' Jo? Call Henry.
-->'''Carter:''' Jo? Call Henry.
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* OhCrap:
** Sheriff Cobb, Jo and Allison, when they learn a U.S. Marshall is in town and may end up seeing classified things.
** When Carter is cornered in the Sheriff's office by Jo, Allison and Taggart, whose dog cage he just escaped from, he demands to know what's going on in the town, threatens to call a team of Marshalls if he doesn't get answers and sarcastically asks what they're going to do about it. Allison looks to Jo, who cricks her neck. Carter, who's already had a taste of Jo's combat prowess, suddenly looks scared. He's next seen in the jail cell.
** Sheriff Cobb, Jo and Allison, when they learn a U.S. Marshall is in town and may end up seeing classified things.
** When Carter is cornered in the Sheriff's office by Jo, Allison and Taggart, whose dog cage he just escaped from, he demands to know what's going on in the town, threatens to call a team of Marshalls if he doesn't get answers and sarcastically asks what they're going to do about it. Allison looks to Jo, who cricks her neck. Carter, who's already had a taste of Jo's combat prowess, suddenly looks scared. He's next seen in the jail cell.
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* TheKetchupTest: Carter and Alison find a handprint smeared in some dark substance on a destroyed RV while a young boy is missing. Carter tastes the stuff.
-->'''Allison:''' What are you doing!?\\
'''Carter:''' Don't worry, it's not blood.\\
'''Allison:''' Well then, what is it?\\
'''Carter:''' [''Looking pensive''] Chocolate. [''{{Beat}}''] Hershey's Big Block. [''Smiles smugly''] With almonds.\\
'''Allison:''' How could you possibly know that?\\
'''Carter:''' [''Picks candy bar wrapper up off the floor'']
-->'''Allison:''' What are you doing!?\\
'''Carter:''' Don't worry, it's not blood.\\
'''Allison:''' Well then, what is it?\\
'''Carter:''' [''Looking pensive''] Chocolate. [''{{Beat}}''] Hershey's Big Block. [''Smiles smugly''] With almonds.\\
'''Allison:''' How could you possibly know that?\\
'''Carter:''' [''Picks candy bar wrapper up off the floor'']
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-->'''Briggs:'' Wake up the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Gather everybody in the sitroom, tell them the topic of the discussion will be "I Told You So!"
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* IWarnedYou: Colonel Briggs called a meeting when informed of the wormhole situation.
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-->'''Briggs:'' Wake up the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Gather everybody in the sitroom, tell them the topic of the discussion will be "I Told You So!"
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** It's ''strongly'' implied that Carter and Zoe will be executed if they can't find a use for him, [[FridgeHorror which makes you wonder how many people that's happened to]].
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Head of GD is Professor Warren King, former mentor of Allison's. He's replaced next episode by Nathan Stark, Nobel prizewinner and Allison's estranged husband.
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** Eureka's sign states that it's in Washington, rather than Oregon as in the rest of the series.
** Head of GD is Professor Warren King, former mentor of Allison's. He's replaced next episode by Nathan Stark, Nobel prizewinner and Allison's estranged husband.
** Eureka's sign states that it's in Washington, rather than Oregon as in the rest of the series.
** Head of GD is Professor Warren King, former mentor of Allison's. He's replaced next episode by Nathan Stark, Nobel prizewinner and Allison's estranged husband.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/ColinFerguson [[Series/TheXFiles has played a US Marshall before.]]
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Head of GD is Professor Warren King, former mentor of Allison's. He's replaced next episode by Nathan Stark, Nobel prizewinner and Allison's estranged husband.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Head of GD is Professor Warren King, former mentor of Allison's. He's replaced next episode by Nathan Stark, Nobel prizewinner and Allison's estranged husband.
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* RunningGag: Carter's habit of getting his car totaled starts early when he crashes his car and needs help from a nearby small town.
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* GunNut: Jo. Assembling guns again the clock seems to be a hobby of hers. Also, Sheriff Cobb has to remind her not to bring guns to a call.
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** Eureka itself is compared to both ''Film/TheBridgesOfMadisonCounty'' and ''Film/{{Deliverance}}''.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Invoked by Jo.
-->'''Sheriff Cobb:''' That was Ned Carver. He claims that aliens have abducted some of his cattle again.\\
'''Jo:''' Call me when they move onto anal probes. [''{{Beat}}''] Wait, that didn't come out right.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Invoked by Jo.
-->'''Sheriff Cobb:''' That was Ned Carver. He claims that aliens have abducted some of his cattle again.\\
'''Jo:''' Call me when they move onto anal probes. [''{{Beat}}''] Wait, that didn't come out right.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Cheer up, you could be in ''Film/{{Deliverance}}''.]]
-->''A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.''
->--'''Albert Einstein''' ''(opening quote)''
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* HumiliationConga: The pilot establishes Carter's status as the ButtMonkey as unpleasant things happen to him when he threatens to get close to the town's secrets. Highlights include being shot with a trang dart and transported in a dog cage, punched out by Jo, and locked in a cell with his delinquent teenage daughter.
* ImplausibleDeniability: When Sheriff Cobb calls to ask about a large explosion that just happened at his garage, a soot-covered Henry's response is to grin like a maniac and say, "Huh, what explosion?"
* ImplausibleDeniability: When Sheriff Cobb calls to ask about a large explosion that just happened at his garage, a soot-covered Henry's response is to grin like a maniac and say, "Huh, what explosion?"
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* ShoutOut:
** Stuck in a crashed car, Zoe references ''Film/{{Alive}}''.
-->'''Zoe:''' What if you don't make it back? I'll be stuck in here like those guys in the plane who had to eat each other.\\
'''Carter:''' You're right. [''Tosses over some ketchup packets''] Here's some ketchup. Start at your feet, work your way up.
** Henry says at one point, [[Film/{{Jaws}} "We're gonna need a bigger battery."]]
** Jo refers to Zoe as [[Music/SpiceGirls "Felon Spice."]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: PlayedWith. It's implied for a while that Eureka ''may'' be one of these, as unpleasant things keep happening to Carter as he gets close to various secrets. But with Sheriff Cobb disabled by one of the anomalies, Carter is brought in to take his place, and shown the truth; Eureka is a research base full of world-class scientific geniuses, disguised as a small town.
** Stuck in a crashed car, Zoe references ''Film/{{Alive}}''.
-->'''Zoe:''' What if you don't make it back? I'll be stuck in here like those guys in the plane who had to eat each other.\\
'''Carter:''' You're right. [''Tosses over some ketchup packets''] Here's some ketchup. Start at your feet, work your way up.
** Henry says at one point, [[Film/{{Jaws}} "We're gonna need a bigger battery."]]
** Jo refers to Zoe as [[Music/SpiceGirls "Felon Spice."]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: PlayedWith. It's implied for a while that Eureka ''may'' be one of these, as unpleasant things keep happening to Carter as he gets close to various secrets. But with Sheriff Cobb disabled by one of the anomalies, Carter is brought in to take his place, and shown the truth; Eureka is a research base full of world-class scientific geniuses, disguised as a small town.
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!Synopsis
After a strange accident sidelines Eureka's sheriff, U.S. Marshal Jack Carter takes over the investigation into the mysterious phenomenon that led to the death of a resident.
!Tropes
* {{Badass}}: Jo takes Carter down ''in seconds''.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Jack and Allison
* GunNut: Jo. Assembling guns again the clock seems to be a hobby of hers. Also, Sheriff Cobb has to remind her not to bring guns to a call.
* TheHero: U.S. Marshal Jack Carter.
* LoveInterest: Allison is this to Carter.
* TroubledTeen: Zoe is a teen delinquent who ran away from home. Has somewhat of a FreudianExcuse with the divorce of her parents.
After a strange accident sidelines Eureka's sheriff, U.S. Marshal Jack Carter takes over the investigation into the mysterious phenomenon that led to the death of a resident.
!Tropes
* {{Badass}}: Jo takes Carter down ''in seconds''.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Jack and Allison
* GunNut: Jo. Assembling guns again the clock seems to be a hobby of hers. Also, Sheriff Cobb has to remind her not to bring guns to a call.
* TheHero: U.S. Marshal Jack Carter.
* LoveInterest: Allison is this to Carter.
* TroubledTeen: Zoe is a teen delinquent who ran away from home. Has somewhat of a FreudianExcuse with the divorce of her parents.
