Blink (Eureka episode)

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Eureka episode
“Blink”
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 7
Guest star(s)	Tom Tames
Writer(s)	Andrew Cosby Jaime Paglia
Director	Jeffery Levy
Production no.	103
Original airdate	August 29, 2006
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"Blink" is the seventh episode of Season 1 of the American science fiction television series Eureka.

[edit] Plot synopsis

Sheriff Carter investigates an unusual car accident. Meanwhile, two competing Section 5 research groups are pushed by Nathan Stark to produce fast results on a valuable project.

To help them beat a deadline, researchers in Section 5 accelerate their bodies with a modified form of Ritalin, allowing them to move faster than the eye can see, but with tragic consequences for one of the group. Sheriff Carter is called to a strange accident on the road, involving a car and "something going 500+ miles per hour." When he tries to investigate, Stark shuts him down and takes the evidence back to Global Dynamics. But with the aid of Henry and Taggart, he is able to discover the truth. Zoe Carter is seen at school where the cheerleaders speak in multisyllablic words, and the "nerds" bully the "jocks." "My God," she says, "it's nerd-vana." She is attracted to Dylan (Tom Tames), because he seems normal, unlike her other genius classmates in Eureka. Jack is attacked, and given a warning to "Back Off!" on his wall at home. He thinks he has found a clue back at the Global Dynamics when in the cafeteria he sees some of the researchers consuming large amounts of high-carb foods. He quarantines the researchers, and waits for them to break down. When one of them literally does, in a slow-motioned confession. Jack is kidnapped (while driving his patrol car), and taken to a deserted place. It turns out that Dylan, the son of two well-known scientists, created the drug to keep up with everyone else. Carter tries to reason with him, but the young man takes his gun and threatens to stop him. As Dylan rushes Jack, Carter takes a baseball from his pocket and beans him.

[edit] Trivia

• At the beginning of the episode, Carter is in town giving a citation to a resident with a floating device, a sign in the background reads: "Hover Boarding Prohibited." It is a reference to "Back to the Future II" where a similar device is first used.
• The two baseball teams are called the "Protons" and the "Neutrons." They are named after the sub-atomic particles that make up the nucleus of an atom. The baseball game also takes place in Quantum Field.
• The chemical name for the drug is abbreviated "MPH", which also stands for Miles Per Hour.

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