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A baby shower gone very, very wrong.

Allison: Is there something wrong?
Carter: No, I'm... yeah. Yeah, I'm... my back hurts, my ankles are swollen, my organs feel like they're up in my lungs. I don't know if I can do it.
Allison: Well, you just do it. Come on, Henry wants us in there.
Carter: Let's go for ice cream after.
Allison: Two scoops.

Women who attended Allison's baby shower are turning up drowned and there was no apparent source for the water. There doesn't seem to be any way to extract the data stored in Kim's body without destroying her. Jack develops a severe case of sympathetic pregnancy.

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  • Artistic License – Medicine: Giving Tess CPR shouldn't work without removing the water from her lungs first.
  • Chekhov's Gun: The baby monitor Allison was given at the baby shower, which allows her to feel what the baby's feeling. Carter somehow got connected to it, explaining his sympathetic pregnancy symptoms.
  • CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Played With. When Jack gives Tess CPR, it's clean and pretty, but it doesn't fix Tess. Jack only keeps her alive long enough for medical personnel to arrive and she's put in the infirmary.
  • Drinking Contest: A mimosa-drinking contest apparently broke out at Allison's baby shower. Jack won, because he felt his manhood was at stake.
  • First Kiss: Jack and Tess kiss for the first time.
  • Freudian Slip: Tess introduces Jack to Dr. Manly. . . er, Manlius.
  • "It" Is Dehumanizing: Dr. Manlius refers to Kim as "it," indicating he doesn't see her as anything other than a problem to be solved an exciting piece of technology. This does not sit well with Henry.
  • Living Macguffin: Kim 2.0 contains the data from Columbia's mission, but her systems are shutting down due to exposure to Earth's environment, to which she has no immunity. This means the data has to be extracted as soon as possible, by any means necessary.
  • Meaningful Name: Dr Rivers creates artificial water that is used throughout the town.
  • Wham Shot: Dr Monroe is found drowned in her car, which is full of water from nowhere.
  • What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Dr Manlius views Kim 2.0 as a device he needs to extract data from. Henry cares more about preserving her than getting the data. Dr Manlius views Henry's view as a symptom of grief for the real Kim and is sympathetic but will only go so far to accommodate him.

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