I kind of thought Jo saw right through his blithering façade. Enough that she let her guard down and talked shop with him on the bracelets.

Maybe she walked by Café Deum and just smelled the chicken.

Is this guy going to be a regular. If so, I suspect that they added this character to skew the demographic younger?

Jumping the shark with a Cousin Oliver before the second season is even over? God, I hope not!

I thought it was funny, after finding out it was the chicken that made everyone dumb, that their response to "How are you feeling?" was uniformly "Hungry!"

Bad cloned chicken. Not only does it make you dumb, it also doesn't fill you up. (Okay, so maybe it was the next day, still. Funny.)

I really liked the vet--I think she's been on some of the Stargates. She's not Samantha Mulder, though. I think she might have been a scientist on a season 1 episode of SGA, though--the one where Carson got to work closely with her.

I admit to never being all that interested in Jack/Alison, and liking Stark/Alison a great deal the way it's being played, despite the queasy-making nature of Stark's involvement with her son. Whose name I've forgotten.

Jack went over the top with the protective fatherhood a little, but then Zoe should have known better than to leap right into a weekend at the lake house.

I do wonder about the legal controls in Eureka, though: the zapping with the bracelet was really beyond the pale for treatment of a prisoner who is not in immediate risk of escape.

t takes lawyer hat off and shoves it under couch

I liked the vet, and I think she and Jack had chemistry - they should bring her back! She played the doctor that Beckett fell for on MumblePlanet with the plague or somesuch. She was also on Another World many moons ago, I think.

I just don't see Jack and Allison. I completely see Stark and Allison (swear to god, I started to write Jack and Stark). But my most favoritest thing ever is the Jack and Stark Show.

ETA: Hee! That was totally an x-post, Consuela.

Give me back my brain, Jen! So unfair!

Oh! She was Dr. Beckett's sweet love interest as well?! I liked that character! I guess I'm just liking that actress.

I do like that Jo's so proficient with her law enforcement knowledge that she knows all the specs of the highly advanced bracelets. Legal ramifications not-withstanding, I do understand the two-fold import of them: funny, and, saves the day.

I just loved the final scene with Carter and Zoe where he slaps the braclet on her and says "I'm watching you." Just the posture and the delivery, and Zoe's all "is he serious? OMG, he's serious."

I also loved the fact that Carter just had to go back and tell those guys how to play Marco Polo. He just couldn't resist. LOVE it.

Give me back my brain, Jen! So unfair!

No way, man! It's an awesome, shiny brain, and I will have much use for it. Muwah-ha-ha.

Hee! Totally agree with Suela about the abuse. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

And Juliebird,then they were all "Polo!" "Polo!" Heh!

Also agree with the general consensus liking the vet. She totally seemed like a character with a backstory and with a life and opinions and abilities and all that stuff, and since none of that is actually apparent, I'm guessing it was all just excellently done by the actress.

I also loved the fact that Carter just had to go back and tell those guys how to play Marco Polo. He just couldn't resist. LOVE it.

That may have been my favorite bit of the whole ep. Well, that and Henry's moments of re-connecting with Jack.

Yeah, and Jack tormenting Zoe with the overprotective father bit. Played that but good. I have always enjoyed observing parents make the protective noises about their teenagers, even when I was a teenager. I kinda love the "I'm embarrassing you by setting this limit because I have to; I'm enjoying your embarrassment because I can," attitude.