Preview:

The Fringe team has already lost three of their five members, and no contact with Peter yet. Is William Bell an ally or a traitor? Can they find Peter and convince him to come back with them without any super-powers and the resources of a police state arrayed against them?

Key Points in this week’s mystery:

• Peter gets the grand blimp-tour of a-Manhattan. Areas have been quarantined due to leaks from another (our) World.
• Walternate is informed that he’s been admitted to a hospital downtown, even as he sits at his Department of Defense Secretary’s desk. Peter enters and expresses dazzlement over his new-old world.
• a-Broyles is equally a slave driver in any dimension as he wakes a-Olivia with a job on her day off. She reluctantly disentangles herself from Frank.
• As William Bell and Olivia search hospitals for Walter, he fills her in Walternate’s status, including being head of the Fringe teams in this world. William Bell is apparently a big cheese in this world, as he flashes a card in a hospital lobby and instantly turns a surly intake nurse into an obsequious sycophant.
• Bell sends Olivia to look for Walter while he tries to slow down a-Olivia and a-Charlie who’ve just walked in and demanded the nurse erase all records of Walter’s presence. He apparently provides weaponry to Fringe and comments on the sidearms they’re carrying, an older obsolete model of one he designed.
• a-Olivia and a-Charlie finally manage to disengage from this garrulous old gaffer and make their way to Walter’s bed to find him gone. They ask for the surveillance tapes of the area.
• Walter and Olivia make their way to Bell’s car and a cat fight breaks out, Walter’s jealousy and insecurity coming out in his remarks to Bell and Bell giving as good as he receives.
• Walternate briefs Peter on the changes the dimensional tanglings have wreaked on his world. He says the equipment he had Peter look at diagrams of doesn’t work, needs a power source and he’d like Peter to tackle the problem. They’re interrupted by agent a-Olivia reporting.
• Walternate tells a-Olivia that their doubles are monsters in human skin who would do anything to gain their trust, but can’t be trusted.
• Walter, Bell, and Olivia hide out in a KGC – Kentucky Grilled Chicken. Walter says that they can’t cross back without the other three members of team Cortexiphan to hold the ‘door’ open. Bell says Walter can build a ‘doorstop’ to hold it once opened. Bell and Walter take off to build it while Olivia searches for Peter. They agree not to use cell phones (all under surveillance) and to meet back at the theater where they entered this world at 8PM.
• A-Olivia takes Peter to an apartment. She’s curious about her double.
• Walter and Bell drive through devastated landscapes heading for Walternate’s old lab at Harvard. Walter asks if he’s responsible for all the destruction he’s seeing, and Bell says he is.
• Boston is almost totally buried in ‘amber’ - the treatment for dimensional instability.
• Walter expresses his resentment over the 17 years he spent in a mental institution and the missing memories and abilities, stolen with portions of his brain. He bitterly demands to know why Bell did that to him, but the conversation is interrupted when Walter uncovers the piece of piece of equipment they need to make the ‘doorstop’.
• Walter worries that Olivia will not be strong enough to ‘open the door’, but Bell says not to worry and leave that to him. They only have four hours to get back to NY, and Bell says they have to go.
• Olivia invades a-Olivia’s apartment (Frank is gone for a week) and gets the drop on her, asking her to take her to Peter. They exchange life stories and it almost looks like a-Olivia is becoming sympathetic. A-Olivia senses Peter and Olivia are a couple (only potential).
• It’s all been a ruse, a-Olivia gets her gun out. Olivia manages to knock it away and a fight ensues, the participants equally matched. A-Olivia gets a chokehold on Olivia, and the fight is about to end when Olivia gets a hold of a heavy object and knocks a-Olivia unconscious. Olivia ties up a-Olivia, dyes her own blonde hair red, (does the fact that there’s red dye available mean a-Olivia is a natural blonde as well?) and takes a-Olivia’s purse and ID. She’s almost discovered by a-Charlie Francis, but spins him a yarn that the Secretary wants them to move Peter – a-Charlie wasn’t even aware they had Peter.
• Peter struggles with the diagrams and detects that he equipment he’s studying is not purely mechanical, that is has a biomechanical interface – in fact it can interface only with one specific person – HIM!
• Olivia (as a-Olivia) shows up at Peter’s apartment with a-Charlie, whom she promptly knocks out and reveals herself to Peter. Peter tells her his father (Walternate) has been deceiving him – that he was brought back not to save this universe but to destroy hers. Olivia tells him he belongs back in that universe – because he belongs with her. Then we finally get a kiss between Olivia and Peter.
• A-Olivia gets free and reports the events to Walternate, and the extensive a-world surveillance capabilities locate Olivia and Peter almost immediately and a-Fringe swings into action.
• Walter and Bell wait impatiently for Olivia and Peter at the opera house. They screech up in an SUV, but the sirens of a-Fringe follow them closely. Bell and Olivia prepare to stand off a-Fringe while Peter and Walter set up the equipment inside. Bell has his newer model sidearm and phosphorus grenades as well. A firefight takes place in the street. Bell turns around to see two Olivia’s pointing guns in his general direction. An explosion takes place, and when he awakens, Olivia tells him she used the grenades. They rush inside.
• Bell says his own body is energized from all the trips he’s made back and forth, and he can keep the machine energized for the period to time it will take Walter, Peter, and Olivia to transition back to their universe. He also tells Walter that he took out part of Walter’s brain because Walter asked him to – he was afraid of what he was becoming. Walter, touched, thanks his old friend and watches as reality ripples around him. Bell is captured by Fringe even as they slip between worlds.
• Broyles welcomes them back to their side.
• Olivia returns to her apartment
• Peter goes back to the lab, where Agent Astrid fills him full of multiple pieces of pie.
• Peter asks Agent Astrid to give Walter a ride home. Walter is afraid Peter’s planning to leave again, but Peter reassures him.
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• In a shabby typewriter shop, a smiling Olivia asks for a Selectric Model 251. The seedy proprietor points her to the back room where the interdimensional communications device is located. She types out a report: “INFILTRATION ACHIEVED / AWAITING ORDERS”. The machine begins to type back to her.
• Walternate strides to a cell and lifts a shade over a window and turns on a light. Our Olivia screams to be let out, but Walternate turns away silently, extinguishing the light and lowering the shade.
• BAD ROBOT

Key points in the ongoing story arc:

• William Bell says to keep tabs on Walternate, he has to remain valuable to him, which means working on equipment for the a-DOD.

Key points in Personal Stories:

• Walter is troubled when he sees the devastation his meddling with time and space has wrought on the alternate world.
• There is no a-William Bell. He was killed in an auto accident as a young man.
• Walter resents William Bell’s success in both worlds.
• A-Olivia’s mom is still alive, unlike Olivia’s, but a-Olivia’s sister died in childbirth, thus no cute niece like the one Olivia tells her about.

Tonight’s Secret Glyph Code: WEISS

An interesting choice, since Sam Weiss doesn’t appear in this episode. Will he somehow be the key to saving Olivia, or will his teachings enable her to escape?

Best Quotes
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a-Olivia: What's she like?
Peter: Who?
a-Olivia: Me.
Peter: She's a lot like you. Darker in the eyes, maybe. She's always trying to make up for something. Right some imaginary wrong. Haunted, I guess. (pauses) Maybe she's nothing like you at all.
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Walternate: Hello, Son. I've imagined this moment so many times. I can't imagine how strange it must be for you.
Peter: I've seen the strange. But this... this is something else.
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Olivia: Walter, can you walk?
Walter: I can dance if you like. They have absolutely fabulous drugs here, Olivia.
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Walternate: When our universes first mingled it caused soft spots on the other side. But it was much worse here. The laws of physics were turned into mere suggestions. But I'm hoping you can change all that.
Peter: I don't know what you heard about me. But.. changing the laws of physics might be slightly above my abilities.
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Olivia: Peter... you don't belong here.
Peter: No, I don't belong here. But I don't belong there, either.
Olivia: Yes, you do. I have thought of a hundred reasons... why you should come back. To--to fight the shapeshifters, to take care of Walter, to--to save the world. But in the end... you have to come back. Because you belong with me.
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Bell: Hello, Peter. I'm William Bell. Haven't seen you in many years. You're holding up better than I would have thought.
Peter: What's a little universe hoping between friends?
Bell: That's not what I meant.
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Walter: I never should have doubted you.
Bell: It's okay, Walter. You always were as stubborn as a donkey with a nail in its head.
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Peter: You trying to kill me? (Starting on his third piece of pie.)
Astrid: I’m sorry. When I’m nervous I cook, and I’ve been making pies for about a week. Pies and muffins and cakes, and I’ve been eating them all, too, so don’t be surprised when I send you a bill for my Lap-Band.
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Walter: Peter? You are… back, now, aren’t you? You’re not leaving again.
Peter: I’m trying to see this your way, Walter. I can’t… but, you did cross universes twice to save my life. That’s gotta count for something, right?
Walter: Thank you, Peter. [Peter leaves] (softly) …son.

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Analysis:

When did a-Olivia get the briefing that allowed her to infiltrate the alternate world, which 24 hours before she hadn’t even known existed, that allows her to find typewriter shop message drops, and for that matter, how to get to Olivia’s apartment?

And since the a-Fringe team’s mission would appear to have been recapture of the invaders, why did they prepare for an infiltration in the first place, and what do they think she can achieve that all Newton’s shape shifters couldn’t have done?

Why does captured Olivia appear to have broken down so easily? Is it an act? We thought she was tougher than this.

Remains to be answered:

1. Peter appears to, in fact, be key to the mysterious weapon. Why was it designed specifically to be operated by him? Especially in his absence? Was Walternate breeding him from birth for this purpose?

Next Episode: Next fall - TBA

Fringe Polls:

Regular Cast:

Anna Torv _________ Agent Olivia Dunham (also a-Fringe)
Joshua Jackson _____ Peter Bishop
John Noble ________ Dr. Walter Bishop (also a-DOD Secretary)
Lance Reddick ______ Agent Phillip Broyles (also a-Fringe)
Jasika Nicole _______ Agent Astrid Farnsworth (also a-Fringe)

Guest cast:

Kirk Acevedo ______ Charlie Francis
Stefan Arngrim ____ Store Owner
Kaaren de Zilva ____ Attendant
Heather Doerksen __ Assistant
Diana Pavlovska ___ Nurse
B.J. Harrison ______ Nurse 2
Marilyn Norry _____ Nurse 3

Preview:

Peter's on the lam - well, from Walter anyway - and encounters mysteries in a small town in Washington. Do these things follow him?

Key Points in this week’s mystery:

• Peter’s drive has taken him to a highway diner in Yoyo County, Washington, where he flirts with a waitress, Krista, asking for a special CD song mix like she makes for her regulars. She agrees to bring it to his motel after work, but Peter waits all night in the motel lobby and she never shows up.
• Krista never shows up because she’s abducted and tortured. Someone removes a piece of her brain.
• Peter receives a phone call in the motel that’s nothing but meaningless noise – except the meaningless noise sounds a lot like the transmission from the other world we heard two weeks ago in “The Man from the Other Side”.
• Thinking he’s been stood up Peter heads out for Portland, but stops when he sees crime scene tape at the diner. He quickly becomes a suspect to female Sheriff Mathis and her friend, male Deputy Ferguson, especially when they find he was staying at the motel under a false name, but he has a perfect alibi from the motel clerk who spent the entire night in the lobby with him. He spots evil shape-changer Newton in the crowd but is stopped from pursuing by the suspicious sheriff.
• As they drive to the station, a call comes in – Krista’s body has been found in a remote location. Sitting in the back seat Peter hears that the victims skull has been opened and he asks the sheriff to find out if a piece of her temporal lobe is missing. It has been and the cops’ suspicions go into overdrive.
• Back at the station, Peter produces his FBI consultant’s identification, which they confirm with a call to Broyles, and he tells them he’s seen other similar cases and suspects that the ‘suspects’ in those cases are looking for him, and used the information in Krista’s brain to find out where he was. Broyles’ agrees to keep the information secret from Walter.
• Peter reasons from the unusual pinkness of Krista’s brain tissue that she was having an adrenalin spike when she died. Yeah, I reckon kidnapping, torture and death will do that to you.
• Peter tells the Sheriff and deputy he’s checking into a different motel under a different assumed name and that, together, they’re going to catch these killers.
• Peter arms himself with the assistance of a gun shop owner who’s willing to bypass all those boring FBI checks for sufficient cash, and as he sits in his new motel under his new name making dum-dums of his bullets, receives another suspicious telephone call. A second call comes in from the sheriff, and Peter demands to know who she told where he is. She says she hasn’t told anyone, but deputy Ferguson has disappeared.
• The sheriff is really worried about Ferguson, and Peter realizes their relationship is more than just professional.
• The sheriff and Peter investigate opposite ends of a remote highway bridge, the last place Ferguson was known to be. Peter sees a flash in the woods and hears more other-worldly transmission noises, then sees Newton and anther shapeshifter. Newton raises a gun and fires some sort of syringe full of green fluid into an innocent pine tree. I’m sure if the pine tree had a central nervous system it would be unconscious now. Peter replies with a few of his new dum-dum bullets, but the shapeshifters disappear.
• The sheriff comes running as Peter pursues noises in the woods. She never saw the suspects though Peter says they must have run right past her. When Peter sees blood on her sleeve, paranoia sets in and he points his gun at her, and she raises hers at him. Is she a shapeshifter? He gives her a trivia test that convinces him she’s herself, especially when she can show that the blood is hers and is red, not silver.
• A call comes in that a body has been found and the sheriff’s heart drops, but it turns out to be a female that Peter doesn’t recognize, another waitress at a different cafe. She’s had her brain picked as well. Peter questions the sister of the deceased aggressively – a little too aggressively for the more compassionate sheriff, who backs him off the grief-stricken woman.
• Peter worries over the fact he can find no connection to the second murdered waitress. As Mathis drives him back to his motel, the find the waitress’s truck, which looks as if it’s been pulled over by a cop – or a shapeshifter pretending to be a cop. Mathis worries that it could be Ferguson being imitated.
• Peter comes up with an idea – measuring the amount of adrenaline buildup in the bodies of the two waitresses, which will tell them how long there was between their abduction and their deaths, and triangulating from the places of their abduction to find where the central lab where their brain surgery took place is.
• Peter’s calculations indicate the kill zone of the victims must lie in a particular area. The sheriff says there’s an abandoned dairy farm in that area. She drives Peter there and interviews Craig, the farmer, about the dairy complex. He says nobody goes around there anymore, and shows them a map. Mathis plays a little trivia with Craig, to assure themselves he’s not a shapeshifter, then goes to radio for help with the search while Peter studies the map in Craig’s farmhouse.
• Crag volunteers to help search, but Peter warns him off. Craig says he’ll go get the keys. Peter noodles around in the living room and finds a CD – the one Krista burned for him the night she was abducted (marked “for Peter from Boston” in Sharpie). Craig attacks him with a hammer. Peter fights back and subdues him. Craig pleads that he ‘just wanted to be close to’ the girls.
• With Craig in custody, Peter and Sheriff Mathis search the dairy and find restraints, bottle full of body tissue floating in liquid, weird instruments… and deputy Ferguson tied up and in a neck brace, but still alive in a back room.

Key points in the ongoing story arc:

• Walter, grieving for Peter comes up with the idea of inventing a device to detect the energy vibrations given off by other-worldly objects and use it to find Peter.
• Peter listens to the mix-CD Krista made him in his motel room. As he lies back, Newton walks into the room, a gun covering Peter. Newton calls “Mr. Secretary” and into the room walks - OK, we all knew this was coming - Walternate. “Hello, son.” BAM – Bad Robot.

Key points in Personal Stories:

• Back in Boston, Walter tries to shop for himself, incompetently. He frightens the staff and other shoppers with his reactions to the contents of the packages he reads.
• Agent Astrid bails Walter out. Olivia is there when they come home. Walter worries that - without Peter - he’ll get sent back to the loony bin, but Olivia says she won’t let that happen.
• The sheriff takes the news about shapeshifters amazingly well, saying she reads books about UFOs.
• Another duty the FBI never told Astrid about: Agent Astrid helps Walter with cleanup chores, cautioning him not to use laundry detergent in the dishwasher.
• Broyles questions Olivia about Walter’s ability to function if Peter doesn’t come back.
• When Sheriff Mathis sympathizes with Peter’s search for meaning in things that have no meaning, Peter says “I don’t know who I am anymore.” She tells him her family was murdered when she was in college and she still fantasizes about finding the killer, but she’s ‘found her place’ and hopes someday he will too.

 

• Walter tests his glimmer-detecting device, but Agent Astrid tells him she knows he’s put in the wrong numbers but she knows that he knows that. Walter confesses he worries about what happens if he finds Peter and Peter still won’t forgive him. Olivia walks in to tell Walter that she’s found Peter in Washington State, and invites Walter to go with her. Walter goes.

Tonight’s Secret Word: RETURN

Whose? No one is returning in this episode. Speaking of Peter in the future?

Best Quotes:

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Walter: The Hadron Super Collider is less complicated than that infernal dishwater.
Astrid: Next time, don't use laundry detergent, and the dishwasher will work fine.
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Sheriff Mathis: You're FBI, huh? What exactly is a civilian consultant?
Peter: Sometimes people with certain areas of expertise can offer them to the Bureau on a consulting basis. My area of expertise is weird.
Deputy Ferguson: You mean difficult to explain?
Peter: No, I mean the strange, the inexplicable.
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Walter: You know what you're putting into our bodies? Death! Delicious strawberry-flavored death!
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Analysis:

I have to congratulate the director of this episode on getting a superb performance from Martha Plimpton as Sheriff Mathis, an actress I usually can’t stand, especially in her former juvenile roles.

OK, I’m sensing some disconnect here. Was Craig operating completely alone, a crazed psycho killer who just happened to harvest temporal lobe samples from his victims. If so, did Newton track Peter by means having nothing to do with the victims?

Or was Craig providing the bodies (living or dead) to Newton, then taking seconds?

Why kidnap Deputy Ferguson – was Ferguson on to him?

Why all that effort (two weeks ago) to get one man over to our side – Walternate’s obsession with his missing son? Has the whole schmear just been a quest for one family’s reunification with no ulterior designs on our world? Or is Peter somehow the key to invasion?

Next Episode: "Over There, Part 1"

Olivia asks an Observer to ‘help us cross over’. Walter worries “My son is going to be responsible for the end of the world.” Today is the day to cross over to the other side. Walternate briefs some shapeshifters - “Today is the day for which you were created. These invaders must be found quickly.” Shots are fired. Alternate mom hugs Peter. “I’ve missed you so much.”

Two episodes left – next week is part one of a two-part finale.

New Feature: Fringe Polls

Regular Cast:

Anna Torv _________ Agent Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson _____ Peter Bishop
John Noble ________ Dr. Walter Bishop
Lance Reddick ______ Agent Phillip Broyles
Jasika Nicole _______ Agent Astrid Farnsworth
Blair Brown ________ Nina Sharp

Guest cast:

Christine Chatelain __ Krista
Martha Plimpton ____ Sheriff Tracy Mathis
Patrick Gilmore _____ Deputy Ferguson
Sebastian Roché ____ Thomas Jerome Newton
Hamza Adam _______ Deputy
Paul Herbert (II) _____ Tom
Darren Moore ______ Gun Store Owner
Scott Patey ________ Stock Boy
Juan Riedinger _____ Craig
Christian Tessier ____ Shapeshifter
Marie West ________ Heather

Preview:

Peter's on the lam - well, from Walter anyway - and encounters mysteries in a small town in Washington. Do these things follow him?

Preview:

Put the inter-dimensional war on hold while we enjoy this musical interlude.

We'll depart from the usual format tonight - the entire show is a fantasy tale spun by Walter for the amusement of Ella, Olivia's niece. Olivia's watching Ella for her sister Rachel, but has to leave briefly and asks Agent Astrid to babysit (one more duty the FBI never told her about). But Ella wants Walter to tell her a story - despite Walter having no practice at it - he never told Peter stories when Peter was a boy. But, he says, his mother was a great story teller and so he launches into it. Oh, by the way, Brown Betty is Walter's name for his special dynamite hash blend, which he was smoking though a bubble pipe at the beginning of the episode.

Key Points in this week’s story:

• Once upon a time there was this detective named Olivia. She had a broken heart.
• Olivia is approached by a woman Rachel, who wants help finding her boyfriend, Peter Bishop, who's hiding because he's in trouble with a gambler - Big Eddie.
• Peter is in hiding because he's stolen a special item - a glass heart.
• Olivia looks for help from a cop, Lt. Broyles, whom she finds singing in a speakeasy. She wants him to identify a symbol she found on a piece of paper Peter's apartment.
• Broyles identifies the symbol as the logo of a shadowy corporation, Massive Dynamic.
• Olivia goes to Massive Dynamic and meets Nina Sharp who tells her Peter Bishop is a con man, and dangerous.
• After Olivia leaves Massive Dynamic she gets a call from Rachel, who is attacked as she makes the call. Olivia goes to Rachel's apartment and finds her dead - her heart ripped out (quite a story to tell a young girl about a character who is her mother!)
• Broyles tips Olivia that Peter Bishop worked for Dr. Walter Bishop, and she goes to see him.
• Walter tells Olivia that despite the same last names they were not related, though Walter had come to view Peter as if he were his own son. But, he says, Peter stole something from him. His heart. His glass heart. Walter opens his shirt and opens a door in his chest to reveal a hollow cavity within with mechanical components, and an empty area where a heart should be. He says he's existing temporarily on batteries but will die without the heart.
• Walter proudly shows off his latest invention, "singing corpses", who rise from tables in the lab and sing a chorus before sinking back down. Should liven up funerals.
• Agent Astrid, known in the story as Ester Figglesworth, Olivia's long-unpaid assistant is currently making a singing audition for a job in a mental hospital.
• As Olivia leaves the lab, she's assaulted in the parking lot by a mysterious bald man who cuts her and warns her to not let her heart go where it doesn't belong.
• Ester returns to Olivia's employ and advises her to draw the object the bald man cut her with and take it to the patent office to be identified. The Patent Office clerk is Brandon and identifies the object as a laser, recently patented by - who else? - Massive Dynamic.
• At Massive Dynamic, Nina Sharp tells Olivia that the laser was intended as a surgical tool and the one that cut her was stolen by a mysterious association of bald guys they call "The Watchers".
• Back at the office Ester tells Olivia that Massive Dynamic is run by a shadowy person named William Bell who hasn't been seen for years.
• Olivia, sneaking in to Massive Dynamic, overhears a conversation (on a picture phone!) between Sharp and Bell that seems to imply that they are lovers, have been separated, but may be together again soon. Olivia is attacked and captured by 'Watchers'. She awakens in a warehouse, where she is interviewed by Nina Sharp, then stuffed in a box, carried somewhere, and thrown into a body of water. The box begins to fill and Olivia panics.
• The trunk is opened by none other than Peter Bishop, who says he'd heard she was looking for him and so was following her.
• He takes her to his hideout and after a shower and breakfast she's feeling much better. He asks her if she likes jazz and dancing. He thinks she'd be a good dancer. She's suspicious at first and asks why he stole Walter's heart. "Is that what he told you?" he asks and leads her to a map. It has 147 pins in it, each one representing a child injured by Walter's experiments, he says. "His ideas come from the dreams of children - he turns them into nightmares."
• Peter opens his shirt and displays a panel just like Walter's. He opens it and shows he has a glass heart - it's his, he says, and Walter wants it.
• Watchers have found Peter's hideout and invade the house. Olivia fights them off, but when she finds Peter he's lying against a wall, his chest cavity open and his glass heart gone. He coaches Olivia into placing batteries in his chest to allow him to live for a while without the heart.
• As she works they have a conversation. "Why did you become detective?" "To care for people. "Then who cares for you?"
• Later Peter tells her "I thought I knew who I was but I was wrong."
• Together they confront Walter. Walter begs for forgiveness, "I can change. I can make up for all the harm I've done." Peter tells him, "Too late. Walter, there are just some things you can't change." They leave him, a broken dying man in a wheel chair.
• Ella breaks in and says that's the wrong ending - fairy tales always start "Once Upon a Time", and end "Happily Ever After" She spins he own ending.
• Walter begs "Give me another chance." Peter looks in his eyes and sees there's still some good in them. So Peter says OK and gives his heart to Walter and Peter and Olivia dance and live happily ever after.
• Walter agrees Ella's ending is much better.
• Olivia returns and tells Walter they've still been unable to locate Peter, but says they will, eventually. Agent Astrid takes Walter home and they enter the lonely house.
• Across the street, an Observer, September, reports by phone that "The boy has not returned, and I don't think Dr. Bishop remembers my warning."

Tonight’s Secret Word: HEART

Walter's. Peter’s. Ours?

Analysis:

A lot revealed in the story about Walter's feelings. The imagery of a missing heart is dramatic, and notice Walter's story makes it equally his own and Peter's.

Next Episode: "Northwest Passage" - 05/06/2010

Regular Cast:

Anna Torv _________ Agent Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson _____ Peter Bishop
John Noble ________ Dr. Walter Bishop
Lance Reddick ______ Agent Phillip Broyles
Jasika Nicole _______ Agent Astrid Farnsworth
Blair Brown ________ Nina Sharp

Guest cast:

Lilly Pilyblad _______ Ella
Ari Graynor _______ Rachel Dunham
Ryan McDonald ____ Brandon
Michael Cerveris ___ September (Observer)

Preview:

Put the inter-dimensional war on hold while we enjoy this musical interlude.

Preview:

Shapeshifters are killing teenagers on our side of the world-line. How is Massive Dynamic involved? (Best guess: deeply.) Peter tells Olivia some family truths. Walter struggles to recover the memories Newton stole from him.

Key Points in this week’s mystery:

• Somehow a couple of randy teenagers in Worcester (that's pronounced "Wooster"), Mass, think a spooky vacant building would be a great place to get stoned and make out. A light and a bursting window causes the male half of the pair to go investigate. Have these kids never seen ONE horror movie? Don't they know there's only one ending to (a) teen sex, in (b) spooky abandoned places, and (c) going off alone? We're not breaking any stereotypes here. He finds three blobs of protoplasm growing on the factory floor and pokes one of them with a shovel, only to have another blob grow arms and legs behind his back and poke him in turn, then plug into the roof of his mouth and it's shape stealin' Time! Then blob one returns to the car as him and assists blob 2 in stealing his gf's shape.
• When the team finds the other teen's body in the building , they also find one protoplasmic blob that never got a chance to be a people. Walter performs some field autopsy.
• Shapeshifters 1 and 2 meet with Newton.
• Walter theorizes that the shapeshifters come over in embryonic form.
• The FBI discovers there was interference on local television about the time the teens were being murdered. Walter theorizes this was from the transmission into our dimension. Slowed down, it sounds like a language. Off they go to the chief geek at Massive Dynamic, who says the transmission is not a language but trigonometric equations. He says the waves of the transmission are like, but out of synch with, waves his lab has detected from our sun. But they will be in synch tomorrow at 3:31 PM.
• Newton makes arrangements to meet the other two shapeshifters at a location tomorrow at 3:20 PM. They raise the possibility of aborting 'the operation' since they're short one man, but Newton says they won't have another opportunity for seven months.
• As bank manager McAlister comes out to his car, female shapeshifter asks him for directions.
• Agent Astrid tells Peter Walter is working on mundane tasks to aid in jogging his memory, trying to recover what he told Newton, so he can anticipate how Newton will try to breach the dimensions.
• Walter announces he's figured out a way to find out what the shapeshifters are up to, with six car batteries, 10 gauge wire, a voltage changer, and, oh, a fresh corpse.
• Newton comes to the bank to meet McAllister, (who is now shapeshifter #2). They go to the safe deposit vault and set up a device in the vault.
• Walter's plan is to help the shapeshifter blob complete a shape-shift - using the body for a template. The power goes off when they begin, but the blob begins to metamorph. The process doesn't finish, but they manage to get the name "Daniel Verona" from the blob before it dies. As he dies, the shapeshifter apologizes to Walter.
• The FBI take Daniel Verona into custody. He is not a shapeshifter. He's a very puzzled medical examiner from Boston General.
• Newton phones 911 to report a man having a heart attack - but the man is himself (with help from a pill.) After his "death", the "body" is delivered to the morgue. As soon as it's alone, the body bag is unzipped from the inside, and Newton crawls out and sets up another device in the morgue.
• Walter figures out that Newton is attempting another transference between worlds, using devices set up in a triangle to harmonize the vibrations between the worlds.
• A telephone lineman (who is now shapeshifter #1) places a device in junction box on a pole.
• Boston PD has found the body of the branch manager. Taking his bank as one point on an equilateral triangle, and Verona's lab as another, the Fringe team now figures they have two points of the triangle. The third point would then be on one side or the other. And the centers would lie equidistant between the three points giving them two possible locations for the nexus of Newton's operation. One is in Hyde park, the other in the middle of the Charles River. So obviously Hyde Park, Peter says. Olivia points out that there's an abandoned railroad bridge over the Charles at that point and the water would help carry away excess heat the procedure would generate.
• Newton is setting up equipment at the bridge, accompanied by shapeshifters 1 & 2 now appearing as bank manager and lineman. The bridge has a missing section in the middle. A police car pulls up on the bridge (on the other side of the missing section from them), and Newton orders them to "go deal with it".
• Walter has worked up a “world vibration harmonizer disrupter” to interrupt the process, but it’s got to be taken onto the bridge. Walter warns that the vibrations set up by the devices could literally tear a human being apart. He and Peter and Olivia rush to the location where they’re stopped by two policemen (shapeshifters 1&2). Olivia figures them out when one of them uses a cell phone to ‘call his sergeant’ and she plugs one in the head, which bleeds mercury. The other one engages Peter and Olivia in a gunfight.
• Walter seeing the middle of the river beginning to vibrate, takes the car and drives it to the end of the bridge. Peter rushes out to help him set up his equipment. Olivia finally kills the second shapeshifter as Broyles drives up with more FBI. The vibration canceller isn’t working and Peter diagnoses it as a software problem which he can fix, and urges Olivia and Broyles to take Walter off the bridge and clear everyone else away. One agent stays with Peter.
• As Peter frantically works with the equipment, the ‘missing’ portion of the bridge begins to phase in and out of reality. Peter sees a dark figure casually strolling down that segment. The vibrations build up and the agent who isn’t ‘literally’ wearing a red shirt, shatters into tiny bits. Peter is only knocked on his kiester. The strolling figure continues strolling – in the direction away from Peter and toward Newton. Peter’s display now reads “Cancellation Frequency Locked” and the other-worldly portion of the bridge wobbles and shatters into tiny bits as well, and Peter takes another trip to kiester-land, and this time unconscious-land as well.
• Peter wakes in the hospital. Olivia is there, hovering. It’s 36 hours later. Peter says he’s fine and asks to see Walter – alone. Peter has a strange look on his face. He says he saw the other man on the bridge and what the vibrations did to the FBI agent, but they didn’t kill the man from the other side – or Peter. “I’m not from here, am I? You didn’t just open up a hole to the other side – you went through to the other side, and brought me back. That’s why I survived Newton’s device, why I can’t remember my childhood, why my mother committed suicide, isn’t it? She knew, didn’t she? And when I left, the guilt was too much for her to live with. The lie.” Peter talks coldly, and won’t listen to any explanation Walter tries to give. “I am not. Your. Son. I’d like to be alone now.”
• Newton is talking to the man who ‘came over’ he tells him to sleep for a while and hopefully he’ll be stabilized when he wakes. They shake hands, but we never hear him speak or see his face.
• Walter asks Agent Astrid to drive him to the hospital, but Olivia arrives to tell him Peter checked himself out and disappeared, and doesn’t answer his cell. “He’s gone.”

Key points in the ongoing story arc:

• Walter tries to tell Peter the story of his origin, but is interrupted by a call from Olivia, summoning Peter and Walter to the site of the shape-changers' murders.
• Peter has found a family picture in Walter's lab journal, and tells Olivia that he thinks Walter's acting so funny because he's trying to work up the courage to tell Peter that his mother committed suicide rather than dying in an auto accident as Walter had told him. Peter already knows the truth. Olivia reminds Peter that Walter loves him very much.
• It would have been really embarrassing for Olivia if that policeman had bled blood instead of mercury.

Key points in Personal Stories:

• In the beginning of the episode, Walter is rearranging family pictures, looking for the perfect arrangement.
• Walter's favorite pie is pecan.
• Walter grows and rolls his own doobies.
• Walter is a Trekkie.
• Agent Astrid is becoming so simpatico with Walter that they often speak in unison.
• Walter is touched when Peter calls him "Dad".
• Guess Walter should have found a way to break the truth to Peter and explain his side of the story, because as it is, Peter’s taken about as bad a slant on it as he could have – and worse than Walter deserves.

Tonight’s Secret Word: BRIDGE

Both the literal one, and the bridge between worlds.

Best Quotes:

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Walter: As the Laplanders say…

Walter and Agent Astrid together: There’s more than one way to roast a reindeer.
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Analysis:

A lot of trouble gone to and resources expended to bring one man over. Is it a personal vendetta by alt-Walter? Does he have the pull in the other world to arrange this? Why didn’t Walter track alt-Walter’s career after stealing (however unintentionally) his son.

How will Peter feel when (if) he discovers it was his mother who couldn’t give him back up when Walter wanted to?

Fans at TV.Com voted this the best episode of Fringe, ever, displacing White Tulip after one week. In fact the last four episodes in a row have been voted ‘best ever’ in their turn.

Remains to be answered:

1. Why didn't the third shapeshifter make it? The poke with the shovel? Couldn't find a body to copy?
2. How did the two shapeshifters get to the other side of the bridge to intercept the policemen?
3. Well it seems to be Newton 2 – Fringe 0, now.
4. Why all that effort to bring one man over? Earlier there was speculation on a machine, or an army as the object of the transfer.
5. Who is the mysterious man brought over? The recognition and apology by shapeshifter #3 would seem to indicate he recognized Walter. Was it alt-Walter? The previews seem to suggest this, as well.

Next Episode: "Brown Betty"

The previews suggest next week’s episode is being done as a 50’s style film-noir detective story, with alt-Walter being the shamus looking for ‘something that was stolen from me’. And possibly it’s a musical as well! But it may be all a fantasy tale told by Walter. (“Prisoner” fans will recognize the motif.)

Regular Cast:

Anna Torv _________ Agent Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson _____ Peter Bishop
John Noble ________ Dr. Walter Bishop
Lance Reddick ______ Agent Phillip Broyles
Jasika Nicole _______ Agent Astrid Farnsworth
Blair Brown ________ Nina Sharp

Guest cast:

Ryan McDonald _______ Brandon/Shapeshifter #1
Katie Findlay _________ Jill/Shapeshifter #2
Sebastian Roché ______ Thomas Jerome Newton/Shapeshifter chief
Peter Bryant _________ Ben McAlister / Shapeshifter #2
James Pizzinato ______ Dave
James Tsai __________ David Wu /Lineman/Shapeshifter #1
Shawn MacDonald ___ Daniel Verona/saved by the FBI

Preview:

Shapeshifters are killing teenagers on our side of the world-line. How is Massive Dynamic involved? (Best guess: deeply.) Peter tells Olivia some family truths. Walter struggles to recover the memories Newton stole from him.

Preview:

Another mysterious killer. And this one may be time travelling.

Key Points in this week’s mystery:

• A commuter train is pulling into a station. The lights blink on and off and a man appears in the aisle from nowhere. (It’s Peter ‘Robocop’ Weller!)
• A young panhandler/pickpocket works a train platform as the commuter train pulls in. Seeking more mark he steps onto the train brushing past Weller. Inside he finds all the passengers dead. The doors close and he screams to be let out.
• The dead passengers almost appear asleep. No signs of violence – some lividity. Olivia notices all the lights are out. Peter notices all electronic devices have dead batteries. The team has a description of the killer from the pickpocket and are searching surveillance cameras for him.
• Autopsy indicates that all cell mitochondria are drained of energy, just like the batteries.
• The team traces the killer to a restaurant but finds no record of him leaving. A waitress recognizes the killer, and a credit card receipt gives him a name – Alistair Peck. Fringe searches his house – he’s not home and the walls are covered with mathematical flourishes. They find he’s a professor at MIT – in astrophysics. Walter says the math is far beyond his comprehension but it appears Peck has turned Einstein’s theories upside down. In the middle of the search the suspect walks right in past a dozen FBI agents to ask them what they’re doing with his things. He’s instantly surrounded by drawn guns. Among his things are lattices of wire and bloody bandages and surgical instruments.
• Olivia asks Peck what he did to the “twelve innocent people on that train.” Pecks replay is “Those people aren’t dead, miss. Not permanently. At least they soon won’t be, while others, unfortunately, will be.”
• The skin of Peck’s body is pierced by hundreds of wires. Walter calls it a “Faraday shield” – a temporal isolation capsule. Pecks body shimmers and disappears. He reappears on the same train and is confronted by the same pickpocket. But details differ and the tells the young man “I’m sorry you have to go through this again.
• Next we repeat the first fifteen minutes of the program, but with some variations. This time they get a fingerprint and trace Peck that way. This time the walls to the house are bare. Olivia thinks she senses having been through this before. They find a photo of Peck and a woman.
• Peter finds templates for machine parts. Somewhere in a dingy machine shop, Peck works on those very parts which he’s blending into his own body.
• They interview his MIT department head who sais Peck quit and disappeared a year ago. She telsl them the woman in the photo is Alistair peck’s fiancé, Arlette. She gives them some manuscripts peck left behind.
• Walter says it would take him 20 years and the assistance of great minds to understand the manuscripts. But he thinks they mean Peck has discovered how to travel through time
• Agent Astrid discovers the fiancée’s name is Arlette Turley, and she died in a car accident on May 18, 2009. Olivia says she thinks this explains why Peck is attempting to time travel. He wants to save her.
• Walter says the energy absorbed this morning is indicative of only a 12 hour jump – a 10 month jump would absorb a great deal more – possibly killing hundreds. They find Arlette’s cell phone is still active and broadcasting from near the MIT campus, where they think Peck may be working in his old lab. FBI tactical squads spring into action, but w begs to be allowed to go in alone – he thinks he can persuade Peck to give up his quest. Broyles agrees as long as Walter wears a wire.
• Peck is turning himself into more cyber-machine as Walter enters. Peck knows who his is. Walter begs for time to talk. Peck says each jump clears the previous one. But, Walter says the last jump will kill many and he won’t jump again. Peck says he plans to jump t a large field where only plant energy will be drawn, no one will be killed, and he can save Arlette. He feels guilty because they argued about the impending wedding pans and he spent the day in the field perfecting his time travel theories.
• Walter pulls the plug on his wire and explains he’s found a flaw in Peck’s calculations that explains why he hasn’t been able to jump back to May 18. But he explains his own experiences with Peter, and how Peck will never be able to live with the consequences. He tells Peck after his episode, he now believes in God and has asked for a specific sign of God’s forgiveness, a white tulip. He begs Peck not to try, and Peck is appearing to be persuaded, but the FBI paranoid about their wire, assaults the building. Peck time-jumps away in reaction.
• This time the street near Peck’s is littered with bodies. The FBI springs into action again. Peck watches them approach. He’s been recalculating with Walter’s information. He pens a letter to his MIT department head, then dodges the FBI’s shots and time jumps.
• Peck appears in the field, the grass dying instantly. He runs to where Arlette is parked, jumps into her car just in time for them both to be hit and killed by a truck.
• It’s ten months later, and the MIT department head unseals the letter, finding another letter to Walter Bishop. It’s delivered to him as he finishes his letter to Peter, then drops it in the fireplace. Walter open the letter from peck and finds inside – a drawing of a white tulip.

Key points in the ongoing story arc:

• The FBI has lousy search site security.

Key points in Personal Stories:

• As the story begins Walter is writing a letter to Peter telling the whole story of his abduction from the other world. The phone rings and it’s Peter’s voice on the answering machine, giving Walter instructions as to how to answer the phone.
• Peter says Walter will enjoy this incident because he loves trains.
• Peter tells Olivia he’s noticed Walter is avoiding him and seems sad.
• Walter asks if he can ride home with Olivia, because he can’t bear being alone with Peter. He tells her of the letter, but he hasn’t worked up the courage to deliver it to Peter.

Tonight’s Secret Word: SECRET

Walter’s? Peck’s?

Best Quotes:
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Walter: I, too, attempted the unimaginable, and I succeeded. I crossed into another universe, and took a son that wasn't mine. And since then, not a day has passed without me feeling the burden of that act. I'm going to tell you something that I have never told another soul. Until I took my son from the other side, I had never believed in God. But it occurred to me... that my actions had betrayed Him and that everything that had happened to me since was God punishing me. So now I'm looking for a sign of forgiveness. I've asked God for a sign of forgiveness. A specific one: a white tulip.
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Walter: And if God can forgive me for my acts, then maybe... it's in the realm of possibility that my son, possibly, may be able to forgive me too.
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Peter: (to Walter) I just got off the phone with Olivia, she said there was an incident on a train. And I know how much you like trains. Thought it might cheer you up.
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Peter: Have you noticed anything weird?

Olivia: Not yet, but give it ten minutes.
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Walter: Take samples of this man's lung, brain, and skin. Something's not right here.

Astrid: Yup, I think it's my paycheck.

Walter: Hmm?
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Peter: Yeah, I read that deja vu is Fate's way of telling you that you're exactly where you're supposed to be. That's why you feel like you've been there before. You are right in line with your own destiny.

Olivia: Well, do you believe that?

Peter: Mm.. no. It's a bit mystical for my taste. I never get them, myself. Maybe that's because I'm not on track with my own destiny.
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Carol Bryce: Alistair sent me these about six months ago to proofread. He had hopes of seeing them published.

Olivia: Uh, can we take them?

Carol Bryce: They're only gathering dust here. But they are pretty dense. Most would say it's gobbledygook.

Olivia: Well, I happen to know someone who is fluent in gobbledygook.
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Alistair Peck: Walter, God is science. God is polio and flu vaccines and MRI machines, and artificial hearts. If you are a man of science, then that's the only faith we need.
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Analysis:

The more I watch of this show, the more everything looks like a weapon for out earth against the other. Wil the FBI train Chrononauts? Attack the enemy before the battle begins. Kill them merely by showing up in their midst? But then you can’t jump again or the come back to life. One_use weapon?

Remains to be answered:

1. If time travel is possible, can this be used as a weapon against the other dimension?

Next Episode: "The Man from the Other Side"

Our shape-changing villain, Newton, is back. And Peter appears to have learned the truth.

Regular Cast:

Anna Torv _________ Agent Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson _____ Peter Bishop
John Noble ________ Dr. Walter Bishop
Lance Reddick ______ Agent Phillip Broyles
Jasika Nicole _______ Agent Astrid Farnsworth
Blair Brown ________ Nina Sharp

Guest cast:

Peter Weller _________ Alistair Peck
Laara Sadiq _________ Carol Bryce
Marie Avgeropoulos __ Waitress
Zoltan Buday ________ Worker
Robert Gauvin _______ Uniform Cop
Richard Harmon ______ Teenager
Jennifer Kitchen ______ Female CSI
Tariq Leslie __________ Assistant M.E.
Andrew McIlroy ______ Professor Lime
C. Douglas Quan ______ M.E. Tech
Kristen Ross _________ Arlette Turling
Duncan Spencer ______ NID Tactical Agent/Sniper
Jackson Berlin _______ NID Agent/Agent #2
Michael Vairo ________ Commuter

Preview:

Another mysterious killer. And this one may be time travelling.

Preview:

A mysterious stranger is killing people with a touch. Olivia struggles with the decision to reveal what she knows about Peter to Boyles or Peter himself. Walter despairs. I Haven’t got a CLUE what this title means.

Key Points in this week’s mystery:

• Providence, R.I. Two old classmates meet in a coffee shop. The man is sick with a mysterious illness. The woman is a liability lawyer, but that’s not why he’s talking to her. He’s trying to locate other classmates, to find clues to the origin of his illness. She and only give him one name, Lloyd Becker. He touches her lightly on the on the wrist and thinks her for her time.
• The lawyer drives back to the office and calls her secretary for the name of an oncologist. At a stop light she notices pustules growing on her wrist and feels excruciating pain. Another motorist approaches her car to see she isn’t moving when the light turns green and her whole body is now covered with pustules.
• Olivia is having trouble sleeping and goes to visit bowling alley guru Sam Weiss. She tells him she’s agonizing over a decision whether to tell a secret she agreed to keep. Sam assures her that she’s a good person and if she hasn’t told, she has a good reason.
• The Fringe team converges on the Providence morgue. The lawyer, Miranda green, as dead by the time paramedics arrived. The coroner is an old student of Walter’s and very happy to see him. The body is totally covered with pustules. Walter says the pustule look more like sarcoma – cancer. With a black light he locates the point of origin of the sarcoma, and is shows as a handprint, from which Walter says they may be able to get a print.
• Astrid assists in the lab with the autopsy which to me looks a lot grosser than the mingled body in “Jacksonville, two weeks ago.
• Olivia interviews the employer and secures the lawyer’s files, working on the theory that a company facing a lawsuit assassinated her.
• At the end of the day Peter invites Olivia in to think about the case some more, but she begs off.
• Miranda was meeting with a “Neal Wilson” whose phone number was a now deactivated throw-away cell phone.
• Olivia tells Walter she has to tell Peter the truth. Walter is afraid Peter will never forgive him, and begs for more time to prepare.
• They locate the restaurant through Miranda Green’s credit card, and Peter and Olivia go off to investigate, giving Walter misgivings. The barista tells them her companion looked like someone fighting cancer.
• ”Neal Wilson” looking much better, shops for produce but gets sick while he’s there and runs from the stand.
• ”Neal Wilson” makes multiple calls looking for Lloyd Becker.
• Walter tells the group that along with Chinese ‘chi’ beliefs is the belief that energy can be transferred by touch. He speculates that “Wilson” somehow exchanged his disease for Ms Green’s health – with a touch.
• Hartford Conn:”Neil Wilson”, now calling himself “Alex Taylor” shows up at Neal Becker’s door. Soon Becker is th next corpse Fringe is examining. Olivia is now looking for connection between Becker and Green.
• As they ride back from Harford, Peter tries to apologize for the almost-kiss two weeks ago, which he thinks is the reason Olivia is uncomfortable around him, and says he wants to keep their little ‘family unit’ intact.
• Agent Astrid has located more cases, and Olivia thinks she recognizes one of the names. Later at home she pores over case files, and as she does Sam Weiss shows up asking to play a game of Clue. Sam analyses the feng shui of Olivia’s apartment. In an aha moment, Olivia recognizes that the victims are all former classmates of hers at the Jacksonville preschool where Walter and William Bell experimented on children.
• Informed of this, Walter theorizes that cortexifan, the drug used on the children, makes them susceptible to the ‘cancer infection.’ They recall that Nina Sharp told them there were no records on the children in the school at Massive Dynamic.
• Olivia confronts Nina Sharp with her doubts about Nina’s truthfulness and motivations. She tells Nina she knows all about Peter and intends to tell him. Nina says she’s seen the way Olivia looks at Peter and in her estimation, Olivia wants to be talked out of telling Peter.
• The killer now calling himself “John McCue” shows up at the door of a Mrs. Lane looking for her son Nick. She says Nick is her nephew, not her son, and she’s lost contact with him. But she remembers the name of another Jacksonville classmate who’s been looking for Nick.
• With advanced imaging techniques, Walter produces a fingerprint of the killer. But they get no hits in the FBI database.
• By elimination Olivia finds that the killer is probably James Heath, brother of the first victim, Julie Heath. As Olivia rushes to get to the office, Heath shows up in her hallway, introducing himself as “Nate Reed”. Olivia invites him in, but attempts to slam the door in his face. He gets an arm in and forces his way into the room. She loses her gun and he kicks it away, She runs away and calls Peter that Heath is in her house. They struggle and she brains him with a lamp, then tell him to stay down. He complies and remorsefully confesses the whole story. “A man” came to him and told him he’d gotten cancer from the experiments. His sister nursed in and eventually contacted the disease from him. He went searching for classmates to find “the man” and in the process killed another classmate – not until then understanding what was happening.
• Peter shows up hurriedly but by them the fight is gone from Heath. Olivia thanks him.
• Olivia shows up at Walter’s door to tell him she’s decided not to tell Peter. Walter tells her that he’s decided he must tell Peter.

Key points in the ongoing story arc:

• At the end of the action, Broyles and Sharp discuss the case. Heath is stabilized in a coma. They appear to have some knowledge of the mysterious “man” who approached Heath. They say he sounds like the same man who “Sanford Harris hired to activate Nancy Lewis and Nick Lane”. They speculate on the powers latent in a dozen more of Olivia’s classmates who haven’t been found yet. Plus thirty more from some ‘drug trials in Worchester.” They say “we need to find them first.”

Tonight’s Secret Word: ENERGY

Of the cortexifan recipients?

Best Quotes:
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Peter: How come you didn't call Broyles?

Olivia: I've got you on speed dial.

Peter: Really? I'm number one on Olivia Dunham's speed dial?

Olivia: Well, no, but I didn't think that Rachel or Mr. Iyer from the Indian takeout would be much use.
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Walter: It was a nude ski run. By time you got to the bottom, your testicles would be in your mouth.

Peter: I'm sure Agent Dunham is very thankful for that image.
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Walter: Could you get a sample of this pus please, Peter?

Peter: I always get the good jobs.
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Walter: It seems you've forgot my very first lesson, doctor. When you open your mind to the impossible, sometimes you find the truth.
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Olivia: You thinking what I'm thinking?

Peter: Well, I'm thinking that cancer isn't contagious.

Olivia: Well, it wouldn't be the strangest thing we've seen. But it would be close.
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Analysis:

Remains to be answered:

1. Who is th mysterious man ‘activating’ experimental subjects, and to what end?
2. Why are Broyles and Sharp not sharing, and what else aren’t they sharing?

Next Episode: "White Tulip"

A mysterious man is killing, and possibly time travelling to do it.

Regular Cast:

Anna Torv _________ Agent Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson _____ Peter Bishop
John Noble ________ Dr. Walter Bishop
Lance Reddick ______ Agent Phillip Broyles
Jasika Nicole _______ Agent Astrid Farnsworth
Blair Brown ________ Nina Sharp

Guest cast:

Kevin Corrigan _____ Sam Weiss
Omar Metwally ____ Neil
Catherine Barroll ___ Mrs. Lane
Curtis Caravaggio ___ Ken Messing
Lossen Chambers ___ Cashier
Peter Ciuffa ________ Driver
Michael Scholar Jr. __ Waiter
John Shaw _________ Medical Examiner
Jamie Switch _______ Lloyd Becker

Preview:

A mysterious stranger is killing people with a touch. Olivia struggles with the decision to reveal what she knows about Peter to Boyles or Peter himself. Walter despairs. I Haven’t got a CLUE what this title means.

Preview:

Walter tells all to Olivia. We get the whole story of Peter and the alternate world.

Key Points in this week’s mystery:

• 1985. US Army Research Headquarters. Downtown Manhattan? Walter briefs the brass. He shows them a cell phone, which he says he copied from what he sees in another, alternate world. He tells them it’s theoretically impossible to go to this other universe. He shows them his viewer into another world. Set up on the rooftop balcony, he focuses on the Empire State Building – with a zeppelin currently docking at it.
• Present Day. Walter appears at Olivia’s apartment and begs to be let in to explain – she has been ignoring his telephone calls and messages. He has a large package – the viewer into the other world. Walter says he was a different man when he invented it – out to change the world – but all that changed when Peter got sick with a genetic illness.
• 1985 – Walter and Carla view alt-Walter working in his lab to see if his other self can find the cure our Walter is unable to.
• Walter’s wife, Elizabeth, summonses him to home, saying Peter wants to talk with him, fearing he hasn’t much longer to live. Elizabeth is hurt at Walter’s absences, but he reminds her he’s working 24-7 for a cure.
• Walter and Peter exchange a few words, and Walter shows Peter how to do the coin-in-the-knuckles trick, when, in the midst of a hug, Peter dies.
• Walter brings Elizabeth to Peter’s bedroom, where he’s set up the window, in which she can see that Peter lives - in another world. When he turns it off she begs him to turn it on again. He hopes she can take comfort that another Peter lives.
• Walter drinks as he watches alt-Walter continue searching for a cure. At some point he realizes with a start that the compounds alt-Water are using in his systematic search are not random, as he had thought, but very cleverly chosen. Walter sees the compound that alt-Walter is working on turn color to a bright blue indicating he’s found the right compound. But as he does so an Observer appears in the lab, and alt-Walter’s attention is diverted. Before he can return to the experiment the compound changes color again, making alt-Walter think it’s another failure, as our Walter rails “All you had to do was stabilize it!”
• As a blimp cruises overhead, a committee of Observers convenes on a street in front a movie marquee proclaiming “Back to the Future – Staring Eric Stolz.” They chastise the observer who appeared in the lab for interfering and changing history. He says it was an important moment, but they tell him it was the boy, not the experiment that was important. They tell him he must take action to restore balance, and he will have an opportunity to do so.
• Walter tells Carla he’s duplicated alt-Walter’s cure to save alt-Peter. Carla thinks he might destroy both universes opening a wormhole, which is why they told the Army it was impossible. Carla argues there has to be a line they can’t cross. Walter dismisses this as religious claptrap. Walter plans to make the crossover on a frozen lake near his holiday retreat west of Albany.
• Carla rats Walter out to Nina Sharp. She immediately calls William Bell.
• Walter arrives at the lake and sets up his apparatus, embedding parts of I In the ice. It’s night and he has a portable generator and lights. Carla shows up with Nina Sharp to try and talk Walter out of his ‘madness’. Walter says William Bell would applaud him if he were there.
• Walter ignores Nina Sharp’s blandishments, creates his portal and starts to cross. Nina tries to tackle him, causing him to fall to the ground. He scrambles through, Nina clutching at him, as the portal closes, her right arm is in the and appears to be vibrating in and out of reality.
• Walter picks himself up on the other side and discovers the fall has broken his vial of the vital serum. He resolutely trudges on over the frozen lake.
• Walter arrives at the vacation cottage and tells alt-Elizabeth he’s discovered a cure and must take Peter to the lab. He asks her to trust him that it’s better if she remains in the cottage. Walter carries Peter from the cottage, promising alt-Elizabeth to bring him back.
• Peter is suspicious when they don’t take a car, and accuses Walter of not being his father. Walter uses a remote to trigger the portal and they walk back through it, only to fall though the ice surface which has been weakened by the device. Walter and Peter are drifting to the bottom when a figure dives in and saves them both.
• Walter awakens in a car being driven by the Observer who saved them. The Observer tells Walter that Nina and Carla left to seek medical attention. The Observer leaves Walter to get the boy to the cure, telling him he saved them because “The boy is important – he has to live.”
• A blue i/v drips into Peter’s arm in the lab. Carla, assisting, asks Walter if he’s going to return Peter. Walter says “Of course.”
• Elizabeth comes to the lab and sees Peter on the table. Walter explains he had to bring him back to save him. Elizabeth touches the boy as if to see if he is real, then picks him up and holds him, and after looking into her eyes, Walter realizes he can never take Peter back.
• Present day: Walter finishes explaining all this to Olivia. “It was the first crack in the pattern of cracked spaces between the worlds, and it’s my fault.”

Key points in the ongoing story arc:

• At the beginning in 1985, Nina Sharp’s arm is normal.
• Walter’s diatribe at the lake gives us a very unflattering portrait of William Bell and his motives.
• We know now why Nina Sharp has an artificial arm.

Key points in personal stories:

• It’s a very small funeral, with only Walter, Elizabeth, a priest, Carla, and Nina Sharp in attendance. Nina apologizes for William Bell’s absence – he’s fund raising in Europe.
• Nina’s uses a strange argument in attempting to stop Walter from crossing over, it’s that she knows why he’s doing this – because she know he knows how much Peter means to her.
• Walter has a beautiful lab assistant Dr. Carla Warren. She has three degrees in theoretical physics, which doesn’t stop Walter from dismissing her as a ‘religious nut’ over her ethical issues with Walter’s actions.

Cecil

Tonight’s Secret Word: PETERS

Note the plural.-

Best Quotes:
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Walter: [about keeping the other Peter] It was the first hole, Olivia. The first breach. The first crack in a pattern of cracks, spaces between the worlds. And it's my fault.
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Walter: I've given him a name, Carla. [His other-world self.]

Carla: Hmm?

Walter: "Walternate."
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Walter: The Casimir Effect should produce a thinner, more porous region of space-time. I only need to affect the area for long enough to cross over to the other side with the vial of the cure. And... and then, of course, recreate the effect to cross back again.

Carla: Walter, you're trying to create a wormhole into another universe?

Walter: Yes! I think I just said that.
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Analysis:

If you’re a parent, this episode is very difficult to watch. It is also the number one fan-rated episode of Fringe, ever, and last week’s ep, Jacksonville, is number 2.

Interestingly, alt-Walter has no alt-Carla.

Could that beautiful assistant, Carla, be the source of Elizabeth’s worries over Walter’s long hours at the lab. Could there be any history there?

We get our first indication that Peter (or at least alt-Peter, who is the only one we know), is somehow historically important enough to draw Observer interest.

In Walter’s diatribe at the lake, there’s a statement that William Bell has been pushing him to develop a portal, but Walter has not been sufficiently motivated to create one up until now. Could this possibly be a subtle hint that Bell is behind Peter’s illness and death? (If so he’d have to be operating on both sides of the universes, since both Peters have the same illness.) Not a pleasant speculation. Leonard Nimoy has been playing Bell as a good guy, but fans of another major JJ Abrams production, “Lost”, know how he enjoys ambiguity in his characters.

Could Nina’s expression of affection for Peter be another subtle hint of a past emotional relationship between Walter and Nina? This ep is full of subtleties.

A little net research reveals that Eric Stolz was originally cast in “Back to the Future.” Talk about your alternate worlds. For that matter, Jack Warner wanted Ronald Reagan for Rhett Butler.

Carla argues that the enormous amount of energy required to bridge the gulf between the two worlds will damage both of them. Apparently the “enormous amount of energy” can be supplied by a ca-1985 hand-carried portable generator.

Remains to be answered:

1. What happened to Elizabeth? Have we ever been told?
2. What happened to Carla? Have we seen her before?

Next Episode: "Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver."

A killer can kill with a touch. Can Fringe stop him? What connects all his victims?

Regular Cast:

Anna Torv _________ Agent Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson _____ Peter Bishop
John Noble ________ Dr. Walter Bishop
Lance Reddick ______ Agent Phillip Broyles
Blair Brown ________ Nina Sharp

Guest cast:

Quinn Lord _________ Young Peter
Orla Brady __________ Elizabeth Bishop
Jenni Blong _________ Dr. Carla Warren
Serge Houde ________ General Hames
Julian Christopher ____ General Tonks
Peter Woodward ____ August
Michael Cerveris _____ September
Eugene Lipinski ______ December

Preview:

Walter tells all - well maybe not all - about Peter's origins.

Note: The full review may be delayed as I am having a heart catheterization the same day and don't know how I'll be feeling by show time.