“Dr. Nobel” is episode six of season one of Eureka.
Carter’s daughter, Zoe, is doing community service at a care home. She meets a couple of people there whom you just know are going to be significant later in the episode – and they are.
Fargo is being given his own office. This is an old storeroom in the Global Dynamics facility that needs clearing out. Henry and Spencer help him. When Fargo discovers what looks like a 60s-era computer console, he and Spencer turn it on. Bad idea. Old, but still operational, computer consoles never do good things.
A 24 hour countdown starts and what look like missiles come to the surface around the town. This is actually a second-strike weapon, which Carter describes as a death ray. Attempts to shut it down fail, and actually manage to reduce the countdown (naturally). The inventor of the ‘death ray’ is completely out of it (Zoe met him earlier in the care home – see, he was important), so they need to get him back to reality.