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* BeliefMakesYouStupid: {{Zigzagged}}. As a town full of brilliant scientists, Eureka is shown to have very low church attendance.
** However, church members include Henry and Alison, two of Eureka's smartest people. When incidents that resemble biblical plagues start happening all over town, Henry is the first to assume they are supernatural in origin and he is eventually proven wrong.
** However, church members include Henry and Alison, two of Eureka's smartest people. When incidents that resemble biblical plagues start happening all over town, Henry is the first to assume they are supernatural in origin and he is eventually proven wrong.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Reverend Harper. It may come as a surprise that Eureka has a reverend, given that all functions that would usually be carried out by a reverend have been conducted by Henry instead, for example the Perkins' eulogy in [[Recap/EurekaManyHappyReturns Many Happy Returns]].
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->'''Carter:''' Let's not shoot the crazy end-of-the-world machine just yet.
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* BeliefMakesYouStupid: {{Zigzagged}}. As a town full of brilliant scientists, Eureka is shown to have very low church attendance. attendance.
** However, church members include Henry and Alison, two of Eureka's smartest people. When incidents that resemble biblical plagues start happening all over town, Henry is the first to assume they are supernatural in origin and he is eventually provenwrong. wrong.
** During the "plagues" the church becomes packed with Eurekans seeking refuge. While the plagues eventually get a scientific explanation, church attendance remains high at the end of theepisode.episode.
** Jo calls Zane out for talking as if anyone with religious beliefs is dumb.
* BioluminescenceIsCool: PlayedWith. Allison's glow is certainly pretty, but it's basically acting as a neurotoxin and slowly killing her.
-->'''Stark:''' Apparently, your inner glow has become your outer glow.
* CallBack: When Carter investigates people researching bioluminescence, he's sent to Seth, the botanist from [[Recap/EurekaPurpleHaze Purple Haze]], who holds a grudge against Carter for burning his plants.
** However, church members include Henry and Alison, two of Eureka's smartest people. When incidents that resemble biblical plagues start happening all over town, Henry is the first to assume they are supernatural in origin and he is eventually proven
** During the "plagues" the church becomes packed with Eurekans seeking refuge. While the plagues eventually get a scientific explanation, church attendance remains high at the end of the
** Jo calls Zane out for talking as if anyone with religious beliefs is dumb.
* BioluminescenceIsCool: PlayedWith. Allison's glow is certainly pretty, but it's basically acting as a neurotoxin and slowly killing her.
-->'''Stark:''' Apparently, your inner glow has become your outer glow.
* CallBack: When Carter investigates people researching bioluminescence, he's sent to Seth, the botanist from [[Recap/EurekaPurpleHaze Purple Haze]], who holds a grudge against Carter for burning his plants.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Carter admits he overreacted to Zoe apparently getting a tattoo (it's a press-on), Zoe's response is to ask if she's dying.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Jo wears a white sundress and her hair down for her date with Zane, having come straight from church. He comments that he might give church another chance.
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* WhatTheHellHero: It's clear that Jack is becoming increasingly distrustful towards Henry, what with all the half-truths and memories that make no sense.
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* UnequalPairing: Jo and Zane go on their first date, which ends abruptly when Zane accidentally emphasises the gap between his intellect and Jo's, making her feel dumb.
-->'''Jo:''' Zane is brilliant, and I'm... not. Story of my life in this place.
* WhatTheHellHero: It's clear that Jack is becoming increasingly distrustful towards Henry, what with all the half-truths and memories that make nosense.sense.
* WorkingTheSameCase: Carter realises there's a connection when he notices crystalline glass with an unexplained hole at Seth's lab, just like in his living room. This prompts him to check Allison's bathroom again and find a similar hole in her window, telling him all the "Biblical" anomalies have the same cause.
-->'''Jo:''' Zane is brilliant, and I'm... not. Story of my life in this place.
* WhatTheHellHero: It's clear that Jack is becoming increasingly distrustful towards Henry, what with all the half-truths and memories that make no
* WorkingTheSameCase: Carter realises there's a connection when he notices crystalline glass with an unexplained hole at Seth's lab, just like in his living room. This prompts him to check Allison's bathroom again and find a similar hole in her window, telling him all the "Biblical" anomalies have the same cause.
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* GoodShepherd: The pastor of the First Church of Eureka, who offers solace to frightened Eurekans during a series of seemingly supernatural events. She's even completely non-judgmental towards Carter's "fair-weather" Christian tendencies.
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* BeliefMakesYouStupid: {{Zigzagged}}. As a town full of brilliant scientists, Eureka is shown to have very low church attendance. However, church members include Henry and Alison, two of Eureka's smartest people. When incidents that resemble biblical plagues start happening all over town, Henry is the first to assume they are supernatural in origin and he is eventually proven wrong. During the "plagues" the church becomes packed with Eurekans seeking refuge. While the plagues eventually get a scientific explanation, church attendance remains high at the end of the episode.
* ChurchOfSaintGenericus: The church has a moderately Protestant interior and a female pastor in a nice, albeit black, pant-suit with no clerical collar, but with a somewhat Anglican/Catholic tippet (preaching scarf), though without any other vestments. It's the First Church of Eureka, no denomination given.
* ChurchOfSaintGenericus: The church has a moderately Protestant interior and a female pastor in a nice, albeit black, pant-suit with no clerical collar, but with a somewhat Anglican/Catholic tippet (preaching scarf), though without any other vestments. It's the First Church of Eureka, no denomination given.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Religion meets science, Eureka-style]]
->'''Carter:''' Let's not shoot the crazy end-of-the-world machine just yet.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Diane tells Jack that after losing her husband, she [[DeadlyEuphamism "wanted to join him,"]] but Reverend Harper and Henry helped her through it. Turns out she only reconsidered the method of joining him.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Diane tells Jack that after losing her husband, she [[DeadlyEuphamism [[DeadlyEuphemism "wanted to join him,"]] but Reverend Harper and Henry helped her through it. Turns out she only reconsidered the method of joining him.
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* {{Flashback}}: InUniverse. Jack has a flashback to Henry, before he wiped Jack's memories.
* TurnToReligion: The reaction of many people in Eureka.
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* ActorAllusion: Guest star Creator/TerylRothery plays Diane Lancaster, a Eureka resident who is mourning her husband Daniel. Daniel is a main character in Rothery's previous series ''Series/StargateSG1'', where he tended to die a lot.
* DrivenToSuicide: Diane tells Jack that after losing her husband, she [[DeadlyEuphamism "wanted to join him,"]] but Reverend Harper and Henry helped her through it. Turns out she only reconsidered the method of joining him.
* {{Flashback}}: InUniverse. Jack has a flashback to Henry, before he wiped Jack'smemories.
memories. Specifically, he remembers Henry telling him he blames him for Kim's death and that that's what he thinks about when he sees him. This is more than a little strange for Jack, since in his understanding of what happened he had no involvement in Kim's death.
*TurnToReligion: ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The reaction reverend is pretty reasonable when Jack considers her a suspect in the latest strange goings-on; she does have motive, after all (low church attendance) and means (a physics background). Her congregation, on the other hand...
* RedHerring: That Reverend Harper created fake miracles to drum up church attendance. In fact, it was a side effect ofmany people in Eureka.Diane Lancaster's attempts to science a portal to Heaven so she can reunite with her husband.
* DrivenToSuicide: Diane tells Jack that after losing her husband, she [[DeadlyEuphamism "wanted to join him,"]] but Reverend Harper and Henry helped her through it. Turns out she only reconsidered the method of joining him.
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* TemptingFate: Henry is sceptical that Reverend Harper is responsible for what's happening.
-->'''Carter:''' Okay, bottom line: If Reverend Harper is responsible, we're in for a lot more.\\
'''Henry:''' [[SarcasmMode Yeah, like a plague of locust, or a fiery hail ... or... or... or... total darkness.]]\\
[''Lights go out'']\\
'''Carter:''' You had to say it.
* TurnToReligion: The reaction of many people in Eureka, so much so that Jack temporarily thinks the reverend might be manufacturing disasters to drum up attendance at church.
* WhatTheHellHero: It's clear that Jack is becoming increasingly distrustful towards Henry, what with all the half-truths and memories that make no sense.
* TemptingFate: Henry is sceptical that Reverend Harper is responsible for what's happening.
-->'''Carter:''' Okay, bottom line: If Reverend Harper is responsible, we're in for a lot more.\\
'''Henry:''' [[SarcasmMode Yeah, like a plague of locust, or a fiery hail ... or... or... or... total darkness.]]\\
[''Lights go out'']\\
'''Carter:''' You had to say it.
* TurnToReligion: The reaction of many people in Eureka, so much so that Jack temporarily thinks the reverend might be manufacturing disasters to drum up attendance at church.
* WhatTheHellHero: It's clear that Jack is becoming increasingly distrustful towards Henry, what with all the half-truths and memories that make no sense.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', when someone floats the idea of Eureka being built on a Hellmouth.
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!Synopsis
Sudden muteness, human bioluminescence and faucets running blood cause many of Eureka's citizens to believe that they are the victims of a Biblical plague.
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* {{Flashback}}: InUniverse. Jack has a flashback to Henry, before he wiped Jack's memories.
* TurnToReligion: The reaction of many people in Eureka.
* TheSpeechless: Zoe and her friends, temporarily.
Sudden muteness, human bioluminescence and faucets running blood cause many of Eureka's citizens to believe that they are the victims of a Biblical plague.
!Tropes
* {{Flashback}}: InUniverse. Jack has a flashback to Henry, before he wiped Jack's memories.
* TurnToReligion: The reaction of many people in Eureka.
* TheSpeechless: Zoe and her friends, temporarily.
