EPISODE REVIEW: Eureka: "You Don't Know Jack" (Season 3, Episode 16)

Wow, I’m so disappointed in this last episode. I actually think that it might be the worst episode of Eureka I’ve ever seen. I know that part of that stems from the above average arc that just finished up but the other part of it is the fact that some genius decided to do a clip show (which I personally vehemently despise) which just wasn’t very good. Then you add the strangeness that my DVR was telling me that this was the season finale even though wikipedia lists two more episodes after this.

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We open with Tess handing out a “story catcher” to Zoe as a part of the Eureka Time capsule project. They are described as “memory recorders” that connect to your brain through your eyes and when you speak about the memory. Zoe is unsure of the memory she wants to record for posterity and when her arrival is mentioned Joe decides to record her memory of Zoe’s arrival which leads to the first of many clips that this episode has. Fargo shows up and asks for another memory recorder from Tess and is given a hard time by Carter and Joe about the fact that he is the center of many of the disasters the town has. We move to Carter at GD with Alison who has tried to contact him that the birthing class has been canceled because of an annual “sonic cleaning” scheduled for GD. We find that no organic matter can survive the sonic cleaning and that there are some stragglers so Alison asks Carter to accompany her in rounding them up. One of the stragglers is Fargo who wants to see what the various memories of him are. When he finds that the memories are in line with Joe and Carter’s taunts he decides to delete them from the system. Carter and Alison find one of the other scientists is dazed and confused about where he is and what he should be doing, at which point the lab explodes.

After putting out the fire Carter and Alison find that the scientist can’t remember that the lab that exploded happened to be his or what he was working on. Alison takes him to the offsite infirmary while Carter looks for his partner. Carter finds his partner and finds that she can’t remember her partner or where their lab is. We move back to Café Diem where Vincent gets a flashback clip. We then move back to GD where Alison says that the scientists seem to be suffering from selectivity memory that could turn into retrograde amnesia. The scientist in charge of the sonic cleaning mentions that he kicked Fargo out of Tess’s office. Carter and Alison head down there because Carter has a hunch that Tess’s memory system is behind the loss of memory phenomena. Carter is about to check out the recorded memories concerning Fargo when the building locks down on him and Alison for the sonic cleaning. And when Alison activates the fail safe, it fails; leaving them trapped in Section 5.

We return with Alison and Carter unable to get out of Section 5 or even communicate to the outside. Returning