Cuckoo

"Cuckoo" is the sixth Season 2 episode of Shadow Unit, with production number 2x06. It was written by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear and Leah Bobet and originally aired on August 2, 2009.

Basic Statistics
Location: Washington, DC, Albuquerque, NM, Prescott, AZ, Atlanta, GA, Dahlgren, VA

Point of View Characters: Hope Mitchell, Stephen Reyes, Esther Falkner, Solomon Todd, Daphne Worth, Daniel Brady, Hafidha Gates, Nicolette Lau, Chaz Villette

Away Team: Todd, Lau (rest of team, other than Reyes, works from DC)

Timeline: January 2009

Unsub: Hope Mitchell

Major backstory revealed: Reyes' full name, the name of his first and second wives and some other details on the first, and why he is no longer in academia

Easter Eggs

 * "League"

No playlist was posted at airtime; however, several tunes by the Doors figure in the plot and are listed at the end of the episode.

Writing Credit
"Cuckoo" was originally planned to be written by Will Shetterly and Emma Bull. However, Will resigned from Shadow Unit on March 3, 2009. Until the actual air date, the writing assignment was uncertain. 

Elizabeth Bear's announcement of the episode airing on her LiveJournal gave Emma Bull the writing credit, noting that she and Leah Bobet did "a little incidental cleanup work". 

The episode "Cuckoo" bears an extremely strong resemblance to the X-Files "spec script" Cuckoo, written by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly.