Everything was just going swimmingly, aside from the almost-daily disasters that were inevitable when your town is filled with brilliant minds that were more focused on making the next great discovery and ignored most mundane things, like safety and common sense.

So the Defense Department hired Jack Carter, a former US Marshal, to be the town’s new sheriff and take care of these... situations.

Jack was just an every-man kind of sheriff, and everyday was a struggle for him to just keep up with the geniuses of the town, the futuristic technology that everyone else just took for granted, and the near-impossible emergencies and disasters that he had to deal with everyday as their sheriff.

But he managed, and even had time to fall in love with Dr. Allison Blake, the brilliant director of Global Dynamics. Global Dynamics, or GD as everyone who knew called it, was the town’s biggest company and industry, which managed, developed and curated all of the inventions and discoveries of the town’s scientist-citizens.

Jack, and his daughter Zoe, eventually came to think of the town as their home, and the town came to love and depend on their sheriff, and he became the most vital and indispensible citizen of Eureka.

But, after decades of making incredible discoveries and leaps in science, the government nevertheless tired of all of the town’s shenanigans, and found Eureka too much trouble and too costly to keep on running. It made the decision to give up on the grand experiment. However, instead of allowing GD and the town to be shut down, Eureka’s citizens, with the help of a very, very, very rich friend, “bought” them from the government, and now the people run both themselves.

And this is where we come in.

So Global Dynamics and the town of Eureka are now learning to take care of themselves instead of relying on the government for everything, and they are managing. Jack, too.

However, nothing really had changed after the government left, insofar as Jack was concerned: still the same sorts of accidents and emergencies and disasters. But, to him, that was okay - Jack was an old hand at this now, and almost nothing ever surprised him anymore. So even with the things that happen in town, it was just another day to Jack. But the latest thing that happened to him threw him for a loop. Who could have even anticipated something that would change someone to the opposite sex?

At least nothing worse can happen, right?

But, as Allison’s son, Kevin, liked to say a lot, “the day’s not over, yet.”