Eureka

Ahem. Morning, S.A.R.A.H.

Good morning, sheriff. Coffee?

Yeah, two.

Um, one black and one with milk and...

Three teaspoons of sugar. Yes, I know.

Good memory, S.A.R.A.H.

I locked it into the system preferences

after the third night.

Yeah, but not that you're counting, right?

Oh, I could do that all day.

Call in sick.

I can write a note to your boss.

Oh, you are the boss.

Yeah, temporarily.

And as tempting as that sounds,

we're testing this new supercollider at G.D today,

and if all goes well, we actually could prove

The existence of dark energy.

Oh, that old bag.

Yeah, that old bag is the key to understanding

the laws of the universe.

You should come.

It's gonna be, ooh, quite a show.

It's not the kind of show I care for.

Okay, we can save that show for later.

Hey. Hands where I can see 'em.

Good morning, Zoe.

Um, okay, I should probably go.

I'll see you later?

- See you later. - Okay.

Have a good day.

Bye.

Go ahead. I know it's killing you.

No, she's adorable.

And plus now you can't give me grief about Lucas.

Yes, I can.

It's not the same thing.

What's with the sweats?

Dive meet at 1:00 for Pilar's biotech final.

Since when do you dive?

Since I stupidly agreed to be her guinea pig.

Uh, novice divers controlled by neural-muscle remote.

- Wow. - You don't have to come.

Are you kidding? I wouldn't miss it.

Oh, my God.

What's wrong?

I got offered early admission

to an undergrad pre-med program at Harvard.

You... that's fantas...

but that's not for, like, two years.

Well, I told you everyone at Tesla applies early,

and they only accept a few people for admission,

and they picked me.

But, I mean, you have a B average.

Yeah, which is like an a+ in the real world.

And it's not all about GPA.

It says someone wrote a letter on my behalf.

They did?

It starts next semester.

Can you believe it?

Um, no.

It's soon.

Are you okay, sheriff?

I'm picking up a spike in your blood pressure.

No, I'm excited. I mean, I'm freaked out.

- I'm excited. - Oh, thanks, dad.

Yeah.

- Oh, I have to go call Lucas. - Sure.

- It's amazing, right? - Yeah.

- Oh, my God. - Yeah, it's... it's...

Huge.

It's devastating.

We were going to apply to the same schools.

She is a special candidate,

and there was only one spot.

- I'm special. - Yes, you are.

But it's not just about I.Qs Lucas

and, besides, you know, you can join her next year.

This just wasn't part of the plan.

Well, life rarely goes according to plan.

I mean, take Kim's ship. I lose it 20 years ago.

And it returns with enough data

to unlock the secrets of the universe,

and I get to share it with one of my best students.

I appreciate the opportunity, Dr. Deacon,

but all the data in the world can't take the place

of the woman you love.

I'm sorry. I meant Zoe and me and...

It's okay.

Really.

Whoa, Henry. Check out the scan of our solar system

from Kim's data.

Look at the distortion

on the northern edge of the heliosphere.

Could that be what I think it is?

Nemesis.

It's not like it's the end of the world, Carter.

Easy for you to say.

This is an amazing opportunity.

You should be proud of her.

I am proud. I just got blindsided.

I mean, I thought we had another year together.

Hey, guys. Fresh muffins. Get 'em while they're hot.

- I love muffin Monday. - I can't.

S.A.R.A.H. said that I have to watch my blood pressure.

The end of the world is coming.

The people have a right to know.

- Mm... - Hmm, and with you around,

it'll end sooner than later.

And that doesn't help.

You can't do this, Fargo. It's putting us all at risk.

Stop. Who did what?

It's what they're about to do.

Ignore him.

It's not us this time. It's nemesis.

Nemesis?

Is that real, or is that like a supervillain

from your fantasy justice league?

Oh, it's real.

And that is an awesome name.

Nemesis is a neutron star that's been theorized

to be in binary orbit with our sun.

It crosses earth's orbit every 65 million years,

causing an extinction-Level event.

Like a killer asteroid?

Oh, that's not even the half of it.

The tidal stresses from the star's gravitational

pull could cause a sudden reversal

of Earth's magnetic poles and unleash earthquakes,

tsunamis, total global chaos.

- The world could literally be turned upside... - Down.

All right, um, I'll check with Henry.

How much time do we have?

If we're lucky, maybe 2,000 years.

2,000.

See, that's not so much a problem,

so next time, don't bury the lead.

Exactly, kids.

Sheriff, the real problem here

is the supercollider these guys are about to test.

It'll wipe us out long before nemesis gets the chance.

Oh, histrionic much, Larry.

That thing makes the hadron collider at Cern

look like a slingshot.

Mark my words, some things should not be messed with.

Like the laws of physics.

For once, Larry makes a fair point.

So the laws of physics are in peril,

my daughter's moving out,

and the world's coming to an end?

I say, have the muffin.

I'll have the muffin.

Easy, Fargo,

that's a $10 billion piece of equipment.

You break it, you buy it.

All right, that's it. Radio isotopes are in place.

Ready to smash some unstable atoms together

at nearly the speed of light?

You know, when he says it like that,

it doesn't sound like a good idea.

Okay, kids.

Here we go.

Isn't this exciting?

I mean, if we find dark energy,

we could prove the existence of the higgs boson,

discover the nature of quark-gluon interaction,

maybe even find a true unification theory.

I love it when you talk nerdy to me.

Particle velocity is at 0.50c.

.70.

.80.

Should we be wearing safety goggles?

Oh, don't worry about it. I'll protect you.

.90.

- What's happening? - I don't know.

- The field sensors are off-scale. - Whoa.

Power surge in the delivery arm.

Damping rings are destabilizing.

Get down!

Eureka

You okay?

Yeah.

Everyone okay?

Yeah.

Why are we talking

like chip and dale?

Liquid helium cools the magnets

surrounding the collider tunnel.

The ring hit the supply line. You think?

I'll shut off the line and open the surface vents.

I knew we should have worn safety goggles.

Safety goggles are good.

Now what the hell happened?

Fargo happened.

Hey, my part went flawlessly.

You must have screwed up the containment field calibration.

I checked them a dozen times.

They were spot on.

Well, they're not now.

Yeah, take a look at that.