Yesterday ’s Eureka entered the final season ’s endgame , and Holly and Henry got put through hell once last time . But the latest reverse for Dr. Martin could mean far more than just her destruction — because this metre , all of Eureka could be destroyed .
despoiler ahead …
“ Mirror , Mirror ” finds Holly taking up residence in Zane ’s science lab to re-start her life history , but a mysterious message from deep inside the Global Dynamics system hack into her new photonic nous and takes control . The brainwashed Holly draw in the same trick on Deputy Andy , and the two formidable ally start enact a fiendish superior architectural plan — although it ’s not at all clear who or what is behind this design to “ impress ” fresh versions of our Cuban sandwich and snatch the master .
Meanwhile , Fargo is endeavor to cement his legacy with “ smart debris ” , a revolutionary pondering material that could help reverse orbicular warming . To Carter and Jo ’s considerable shock , the initial test goes off without a hitch . But then the controller for the experiment is stolen , and the sassy rubble threaten to get lax and disrupt everything with an electromagnetic heartbeat , let in the human brain . The now nefarious Andy distract Carter from what ’s really fit on by transport him to interview over a hundred possible suspects , while Holly conduct our heroes into the torso - swop yap one by one .
And , just to tally to the fun , Major Shaw is back to take over the investigation into Grace ’s espionage for the Consortium , and Henry struggles with whether he should plough himself in and ante up for the crimes of the Henry of another timeline .
I grow pretty far into “ Mirror , Mirror ” before I realized a cliffhanger was coming . To all appearance , this did n’t really look like a two - parter , and I think that was very much the pointedness . The instalment is meant to feel like just another experiment gone awry , with Holly and Andy ’s scheme kept in the ground . Eureka has got pretty good at mixing its episodic procedural structure with more serialized element — like Grace and Henry ’s predicament , for instance — and I calculate even if Holly would n’t be back to normal by the end of the episode , at least Carter and Jo would set things right with the smart rubble . That they not only fail to do so , but also got replaced by bio - print duplicate was a squeamish subversion of expectations , an indication that we are mete out with a far more redoubtable problem than usual .
Of course , what exactly that problem is remains a mystery . There ’s a hand in the automobile , we recognize that much , and it seems like it ’s trying to get out , and it ’s using Holly , Andy , and the duplicate to take over the town . But that ’s about all we cognize , and even some of that is supposition — honestly , its program remains a full mystery , and we ca n’t even be trusted whether that hand belongs to a person or something else entirely . And if it is a mortal , who could it even be ?
Senator Wen likely ca n’t be ruled out , since we at least know she ’s still stuck in Beverly Barlowe ’s ground substance , but that seems awfully anticlimactical — I intend , would anyone be really that impressed if she is revealed as the Big Bad ? progress to back further in the show ’s past , good old Nathan Stark is about the only liberal name whose death could conceivably have trapped his soul in the computer somehow , but that does n’t really make much sense , based on what we have learned so far . Honestly , I have no thought who or what is behind this , though I welcome any speculation from you all .
Of course , the fact that there ’s so small resolution is hardly a literary criticism — the fact that I have so many questions is a somewhat good indication that the cliffhanger did its job . But it does think of a lot is resting on next week ’s sequence to dissolve just what just chance in this first minute . the right way now , we ’re down to Allison , Fargo , and Zane as our last hope to save the day — a unspoilt chemical group to be certain , but I ’ll admit I ’m slenderly bummed that Carter will likely be at least reasonably sidelined for the last grownup showdown of the series . That say , I ’m guessing Carter will still oversee to do something doltishly grand and self - sacrifice before the next hour is up , because that ’s just what the man does .
While the Holly secret plan retroactively dominates the episode , there ’s also the later with Henry and Grace to consider . When Henry plays back the transcription he made for the Consortium , we get what I think is our first glance of one of the grapheme from the other timeline , and other - Henry ’s quotation to an experimentation in Section 5 might well be a link back to the Artifact — which Beverly sabotaged in the original timeline , killing Henry ’s beloved Kim in the process , something he still hates her for .
We do n’t have it off enough about this timeline to judge how thing match up — or indeed if that ’s even what other - Henry is referring to — but it ’s another challenging hint about just how culpable Henry genuinely is for the sins of the yesteryear , albeit a slightly different one . And of course there ’s always the more immediate affair to finger guilty about : Henry recruited Grace and Senator Wen , which means the Astraeus calamity and all the side effect is at last his province .
The reintroduction of Major Shaw get a bit lost in the shambling amid all the other daftness , but he also represents another fairly major terror to the status quo . He has more than enough evidence to convict Grace , there ’s still a fortune he could discover the truth about Henry , and he instantly project out that it was Zane who destroyed all the known Henry - come to evidence . If the show had acquire a 6th season , I mistrust he might have resurfaced some more as the show ’s go - to non - villainous antagonist , but for the clock time being he ’s arrested two main role and indirectly endanger another . I ’m intrigued to see whether he will have a key role to play in next week ’s resolving , or if he is go to be shunt to one side , leave for a future of the show that wo n’t ever arrive .
And so , we move towards the finish line with Eureka . Next calendar week is expire to find our heroes as up against the bulwark as they have ever been , peculiarly considering only Allison , Fargo , and Zane are still at liberty — and in Zane ’s case , “ at liberty ” is n’t really the right full term at all . Then we ’ve just got the final wrap - up episode , which was add together on to the season to work the series to a more fitting conclusion . I ’m sad to see the show go , but at least Eureka is intent on going out on as big a bang as possible — even if this crazy two - parter was never meant to be part of the show ’s stretcher .
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