- Warren Hughes makes an unexpected visits to evaluate the Astraeus crew. Unfortunately his evaluations coincide with crew members' tendencies to swap minds with Jack. And some of the swaps happen during amorous activities that further stress the relationships of the crew's lovers.—David Foss
- Carter drops by the diner and sees Jo canoodling with Zane. They're working on getting back together. Carter and Jo's significant others are still having problems with their matrix relationship.
Warren Hughes (Wallace Shawn) is coming by to interview the Astraeus crew members to make sure they're fit to return to work at GD.
Jo checks with Carter. No more wierdness between them? He assures her there isn't. She leaves. "That was weird," he says.
At GD, Fargo orders the Matrix shut down. Zane's restoring the program code to analyze it. Fargo's angry at it for killing Dr. Martin and doesn't care to analyze it. He orders it shut down. Zane ignores him.
At GD, Warren (Wallace Shawn) bear hugs Carter and Allison. He promises to keep his evals as casual as possible. "In case things don't go well, sheriff, I'll need you to handle the redactions," Warren tells Carter. He begins his rounds.
They visit, Dr. Fowler, the Astraeus crew's particle physicist. He applied a virtual breakthrough to his work here. It involves a hunk of meat. He teleports it three feet away, but there are issues. The meat explodes all over Carter.
Warren thinks Fowler rushed his work to impress him and orders him redacted.
For Fargo's review, they go play laser tag -- "recreation therapy."
As they blast away at each other, Warren asks about Fargo's health.
Allison checks out Carter's meat pulverized eardrums.
In laser tag, Fargo narrows his sights on Warren, but suddenly, he seems to be in Carter. Carter draws his gun and blasts away at the lab.
Carter freaks out. He's Fargo.
In laser tag, Carter is in Fargo and is losing at laser tag. Fargo/Carter checks his reflection. "This is my worst nightmare," Carter says.
He stalks Warren, with Carter's aim, zapping away. Warren congratulates him on passing the first phase of his review.
Fargo and Carter confront each other. "We've had a kind of neural swap," Carter-as-Fargo says. (For the purposes of this, we'll use the regular character name, just insert the swap for yourself.)
"We were just making out in the infirmary," Fargo says to Allison, to prove it to her.
They realize if Warren finds out, they can kiss their jobs good-bye. Warren comes for phase 2 of Fargo's eval.
Carter visits Henry, suggesting Dr. Fowler's teleporter might have played a role.
Warren does a version of a Rorschach on Fargo, and finds his answers aren't typical of a person with an IQ of 163. Zane interrupts, saying he found something promising about the project they discussed shutting down earlier. Fargo tells him to carry on.
They run a CAT scan on Carter (Fargo), who suggests Allison might have to date him in Fargo's body.
They get a neural spike on the CAT scan and Fargo is back in himself, passing Warren's Rorschach. Warren pronounces him fit for duty.
Allison is happy to have Carter back.
At the diner, Henry says he tested the teleporter and it had nothing to do with this.
They hope the worst is over.
In bed at night, the lights go on in Allison and Jack's place and she suggests they celebrate. Suddenly, Carter is in Zane's body and Jo is in the shower with him.
In Carter's bed, Zane isn't so chivalrous and says nothing to Allison. He thinks it's the weirdest dream ever.
In the shower, Zane resists naked Jo and says he's late for work. He runs out of the shower and calls Carter. They swear each other of the other's woman and make plans to meet at the lab.
Carter nearly gets in an accident when a car tears past him and decides to give chase.
Carter comes to the lab in Zane's body, complaining he feels "bulky." Warren comes for Zane's evaluation with a special activity planned.
Out on the road, Carter pulls over a woman who says she was testing a hybrid turbine engine. He hits on her shamelessly and is sure to give Carter's name often. Henry calls, telling him Zane is with Warren and he has to come in.
At GD, Warren has Zane up a rock climbing wall. Fargo comes to check Zane has his project done. Martha zooms in way too close to comfort. Zane falls off the wall.
Jo comes to GD and learns what's going on. Warren and Zane race by, running from Martha gone haywire.
Warren has an implanted defibrillator and is having issues. Allison resets it.
Zane gives Carter grief for showering with his girlfriend. He tells Carter (Zane) to back off or he'll pound another bacon cheese scone.
Zane (Carter) suggests the accidents might be related to what's going on, the teleporter, Martha and woman in a runaway hybrid.
In the neurology lab, they find Jack has an unusual concentration of high-speed electrical impulses in his brain. The entire crew was sharing Z waves and his brain is acting as a transmitter. They suggest surgery.
Allison says they have to tell Warren what's going on.
Warren says after they fix Carter, they're all redacted.
Jo talks to Carter (Zane) who feels really weird about her being in the shower with Carter's brain. She tells him he doesn't care who he's in. He kisses her. Carter zaps back in himself at that moment, in time for Zane and Allison to come in the room.
Allison preps for surgery on Jack's brain, using high tech gloves and imaging. There's a spike in the part of his brain going nuts. Suddenly, he's in Allison and she has his hands in his brain.
Carter tries to talk Allison through getting out of his brain. He says it's like video game and she imagines Operation, she just has to pull out the probe without touching the sides. She succeeds. Warren watches.
Jo tells Zane it's crazy for him to be jealous of something that never happened. Zane says he's been digging into the programming and what happened in there is based on their own psych profiles, so it's possible. She says part of it was him being dead, so as long as he doesn't make her kill him, they're fine.
Carter gets test results. His brain is acting as an antennae, but each swap is causing damage that could hurt his central nervous system.
Henry reports the other malfunctioning devices were all on the same Z-wave frequency. Allison realizes it could be the same project he's been telling Zane to shut down. Allison takes off.
Zane shows Fargo what he's found, the mainframe has been trying to track the Z waves of the Astraeus crew and there's one still active -- Holly.
Henry and Allison come in and tell them to shut it down.
Jo visits Carter, not knowing he's Allison. She wants things to be normal again and suggests they be honest with each other. Jo says of course she's thought about being with him, why wouldn't she? He's attractive and her best friend. "It's not that I want to pursue it, why act like it's never crossed our minds?" she says. She asks if he's ever thought about it. Carter (Allison) says no.
They think Jack's still connected to the mainframe because he was connected wirelessly. Zane points out if they shut down now they might lose all stored data, including Holly. Fargo tells him to do it. Zane pulls the plug.
Allison zaps back into herself but gets an urgent message. She races to find Carter collapsed in the infirmary.
His synapses are misfiring and his EEG is all over the place. Warren suggests they reboot him, like his heart implant does. Henry plans to insert a nanoprobe. Allison sticks her hands back in Carter's brain and delivers a charge.
They all wait for him to regain consciousness. He does.
Warren is impressed with things turning out OK. He's reconsidered his decision to redact the crew -- everyone but Fowler.
Grace (Tembi Locke) tells him she needs to get away alone for awhile.
Allison and Jack go out to dinner and wince when Jo and Zane come in.
Carter tells her he only thought about her and the kids during the brain zapping. He wants to start building memories for forever, starting now. He gets down on one knee, even though he knows it's the wrong place and the wrong time. He slips an onion ring on her finger and proposes.
She says yes.
Jo seems maybe a tiny bit upset, but everyone else celebrates.
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