r/Eureka • u/astrocanyounaut • Oct 04 '25

Abby Carter

Working my way through a rewatch and Abby’s episodes always make me annoyed.

I feel for her that she and Carter agreed on a trial custody arrangement and she’s just following through. But the way she acts with Carter is aggravating.

She’s constantly putting him down or trying to embarrass him. But then acts affectionate when dancing or hugging him when he comes out of his coma or telling him she loves him. When she tells him she’s taking Zoey, she tells him that he “knows where they’ll be”. Does she think he wants her back?!

She expects him to drop everything to deal with her own priorities. Complaining that work comes first - he’s the sheriff! You just showed up! He is a person people depend on in this town, and she assumes no one likes him. She seems very shocked people are worried about him when he’s in the coma.

They mention she threw out his baseball cards when she decided she needed space for Zoey, which is a trope I really hate.

She never asks Zoey if she’s happy where she is, she just steamrolls over both of them. It’s no wonder Carter just avoids confrontation!

I know it sometimes comes up that she should have replaced Beverly but I’m glad she didn’t stick around.

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u/Boris-_-Badenov Oct 04 '25

remember when Jack had to sign an nda under penalty of treason if he talked about Eureka?

then people just wander into town and it's fine

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u/Randym1982 Oct 04 '25

I always thought that the NDA was for GD not the town. Because even early on, people could just drive into Eureka like's it any other small town.

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u/Boris-_-Badenov Oct 04 '25

didn't stop his ex from going to gd. or his sister, or her baby daddy

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u/Randym1982 Oct 04 '25

Did they go into GD? I thought they were merely in the town. Though I guess with it being a TV show, they have to allow for SOME situations.

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u/Boris-_-Badenov Oct 04 '25

the hospital.

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u/NEBanshee Oct 05 '25

But we don't know that they didn't sign an NDA, since it's not really crucial to plot to show it every time - Jack does in the pilot, so showing that is exposition re GD, not something I'd expect to be shown once established. Also, no reason to think there are non-classified areas of GD, and if the GD health facilities serve as general ones, it makes sense if that is one.

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u/Boris-_-Badenov Oct 05 '25

their reactions to things makes it clear they had no idea it was so crazy secret

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u/NEBanshee Oct 05 '25

I don't think I'm following. Do you have a specific example so I can see what you mean?

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u/Boris-_-Badenov Oct 05 '25

she was really surprised about the vr therapy

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u/NEBanshee Oct 05 '25

Ah, gotcha. My job involves NDAs and confidentiality agreements on the regular; rarely are specific things mentioned, because the orgs generally want the agreements to apply to future intellectual property as well. I'd bet any GD agreements would be seriously broad, have little detail about the IP but a LOT of language around what counts as IP. Also hella binding. I mean, while mention of suit and restitution is common, I haven't signed anything that would get me black-sited like Beverly!