Fargo becomes wall art.
- How in the bejesus did you make a new North Pole!?-Jack Carter
Carter deals with a new magnetic force tearing apart the town, Zoe gets unexpected news about her college application and Tess drops a bombshell about a job offer.
Tropes
- Artistic License – Chemistry: Hydrogen burns with a blue to invisible flame, so the fire at the diving pool shouldn't be orange.
- Butt-Monkey: Fargo keeps being clobbered by the electromagnetic disturbances. First he's pinned to the ceiling of his lab by the iron supplements he takes, then he's pinned to the wall of Café Diem and pelted with every metal object in the place.
- Call-Back:
- Covert Pervert: Why is Martha hanging around in the room while Fargo and Julia have sex?
- Engineered Heroics: Downplayed example. Lucas manufactured the problem of the week so he could solve it and get Henry's recommendation so he could leave for college early with Zoe. However, his plan is complicated by a supercollider experiment, causing electromagnetic emergencies all over Eureka even though he never turned his device on.
- Helium Speech: When the supercollider blows, liquid helium tanks rupture. The liquid helium returns to gaseous form, resulting in everyone speaking in high-pitched voices until the valve is shut off and the escaped gas dissipates.
- Negative Space Wedgie: Kim 2.0's data reveals Nemesis, a dwarf neutron star that will cause Earth's magnetic poles to flip, causing apocalyptic chaos... in two thousand years.
- People Puppets: A rare benevolent version. In Eureka, high diving can be done via real people being controlled by others. The controlled people do it voluntarily as the diving competition is actually for those controlling them, who are showcasing the technology. At the end, Carter does it so he can Reverse the Polarity of Lucas' equipment even after the electromagnetism screws up his motor functions.
- Put on a Bus: Zoe gets early admission to Harvard, and leaves at the end of the episode. Tess receives a job offer in Australia. After much deliberation she takes it.
- Running Gag: Carter trying to solve the Problem Of The Week and walking in on people gettin' it on. First it's Fargo and Julia, then Zoe and Lucas (who luckily haven't got very far).
- Shout-Out:
- Fargo falls from the ceiling to the floor next to the crash mat Julia left out for him.
Fargo: Missed it by that much.- Jo is in her car at a crossroads when mailboxes and a stop sign start moving, referencing Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
- The solution involves a lot of reversing the polarity.
- Tempting Fate: A usual, Tess can't seem to pass up an opportunity to declare something under control.
- Written-In Absence: Allison (and her actress) is still on maternity leave. She calls Jack at the end of the episode, but we only see and hear his side of the conversation.
