Episode Report Card Angel Cohn: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Water, Water Everywhere
By Angel Cohn | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 08.21.2009
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Because the NewKim situation is just plain old weird and Henry is way too irrationally connected to her, they’ve brought in a new doctor to help with the whole situation. Dr. Manly (a very foxy looking Billy Campbell) is the person in charge. He's got a past with Tess (he was her TA and she clearly has a crush on him) which makes Carter a little uncomfortable, given their recent "date" during the meteor shower. Dr. Manly is trying to "extract" info from NewKim, but he seems gung-ho on treating NewKim as a lab rat, which doesn't fly with Henry. Tess tries to gently explain that NewKim is decaying. Dr. Manly wants to dissolve NewKim in a pool of acid to get the data out of her cells. And basically Henry has to watch Kim die all over again.
Also in Eureka, Zoe somehow finds herself opening up SARAH for Tess's baby shower and all of the brown-nosing employees have invented fancy gadgets. Such as a baby monitor that allows the mom to feel what the baby is feeling, a diaper that is basically bottomless and eco-friendly self-cleaning bottles. Which would sell like gangbusters to desperate parents, if they actually existed. Carter and his old school (real world) gifts feels inadequate, and he ends up over-indulging in mimosas.
In the murder mystery of the week, GD scientist/baby monitor inventor ends up dead, drowned in an SUV on the highway. Fargo's the new ME, since Henry is basically attached at the hip to NewKim. Absorbent baby diaper lady basically claims she's not at fault. Then Zoe finds her dead in the bathroom of the restaurant. She also drowned, which is peculiar, even by Eureka standards. Another doctor, who has crazy eyes and is obsessed with synthetic water (perfect with no chemicals or PHs), is the next suspect, but she's too obsessed with H20 to actually pay attention to people. Then Carter starts having to pee a lot and feeling bloated, which makes him thin he's going to drown, but it turns out he's just having sympathetic pregnancy symptoms. Then he keeps plugging along on the case until he finds out that there was some radioactive water in a shared steam room, and Tess also got exposed. He makes out with her to keep her alive, and then she's rushed to the health facility where Fargo explains that it could take months for her system to flush out the bad fluids, but her organs could die by then. Cheerful! Carter and Fargo get Dr. Manly and crazy syn water girl to come up with a plan to do some molecule dispersion, which involves basically drowning her to save her. She survives and makes out with Carter some more.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!At GD, Carter walks in and sees Tess and compliments her hair. He actually calls it "gooder." Oh, Carter, you know how to woo those genius girls. She follows this up by claiming that the curling iron is the greatest invention of the 20th century. I'm pretty sure it's not, but I'm probably biased, since I've got naturally curly hair that I abhor. She's called Carter over because NewKim is missing. She's not though, Carter just saw NewKim having a chat at Café Diem with Henry. Tess says that NewKim hasn't been properly downloaded, and she should be considered like a stolen laptop. Carter tries to shrug this off, since people take things from GD all the time. It's true. A fancy place like this has the WORST security. You'd think those geniuses could come up with better ways to protect their property than having to call in the local sheriff every time something gets lifted. Carter thinks that the NewKim field trip could help with the downloading process, but Tess informs him that they've got big guns on the way in, in the form of a specialist from Bethesda. Basically, she wants Carter to break the news to Henry. They banter about how much Original Kim's death sucked for Henry, since he didn't get to have the happily ever after with his true love. Carter takes this opportunity to tell Tess how much fun he had at the "meteor thing" the other night.
But as he's trying to swing another date, a sexy looking Billy Campbell walks in calling her "Tess the Mess." She's apparently ditched the clunky glasses and oversized sweatshirts that she was so fond of in college. She tries to introduce Jack to the neural-networking specialist she was telling him about. Dr. Manly. Allison corrects her, that it is Dr. Manlius. He's on hand to help with the downloading of NewKim. Carter gets all jealous that Dr. Manly has previous knowledge of Tess and Allison. He's known them both since he was their TA since grad school. He wants to invite them to dinner, Allison declines since she's big as a house and goes to bed early, but Tess readily agrees. He says it will be a celebration of downloading the organic computer. Dude, she has a name. And she's sitting at Café Diem.
Henry is putting various foods (from bacon to apple pie) under NewKim's nose, to test her olfactory glands. He gives a smile when NewKim says she prefers cherry pie. Carter walks in, and before he can reach Henry and NewKim, Zoe stops to yell at him for telling Tess she could have Allison's baby shower at SARAH. Now the harpies (Monroe, Draper and Bell... the ladies in charge of infant development) that work at GD are driving her crazy with all the planning and whatnot. They're sitting at the bar and grilling Zoe about why she missed yesterday's meeting, and they tell her that she needs to take planning the shower a lot more seriously. She tells them off as Carter strolls over to Henry and NewKim.