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As ‘Jacksonville’ opens, the Fringe team heads to NYC after a building seems to merge with another after an earthquake. They find no survivors in the building except for a man who has four legs, four arms and a head growing out of his chest. (Where do they come up with this stuff?).
Olivia and Walter try to question him but he dies. Walter begins to think that the two buildings (one from this world and one from the alternate world) have merged. Olivia thinks Newton has to do with it too.
Walter thinks that a similar building went to the other universe too so things will be balanced. In order to save everyone inside, they need to figure out what building is going to move to the other side. Walter tells Olivia only she will be able to see which building it will be.
This week’s Fringe was one of best of the season (so far). As the episode opens, an cinnamon-scented airborne toxin causes people to die by being “suffocated from the inside-out,” as Walter puts it. We also learn more about the Bishop family tree.
Right away, Olivia realizes that one of the victims at a wedding party was a Holocaust survivor. The villain of the episode, a Nazi sympathizer, had developed a lethal formula that could pinpoint specific victims based on their DNA. All it needed was a heat-source dispersed into the air to be effective.
Much of the information the bad guy was using for his research came from an experiment conducted by Walter’s father. Peter’s grandfather was Dr. Robert Bishoff, a U.S. spy who worked in Germany in the World War II era.
Last night on Fringe, as the show opens, a man gets off an elevator when his nose begins to bleed and within moments he passes out. Then, a bike courier tries to give him CPR but his veins begin to bulge and break, spraying blood everywhere.
Olivia and Peter start the investigation while they wait for the rest of the team to arrive. While they are upstairs questioning witnesses, Walter and Broyles stand outside when suddenly the bike courier dies in the front lobby. They quickly realize what caused both deaths is a deadly virus which is contagious, and looking for a host.
In last night’s episode of Fringe, a young boy with a monstrous face accidentally leads to the death of three police officers. The fringe team is called to a remote town in New York State to investigate where Walter, who is still traumatized by his recent abduction, decides the boy is a metamorph which causes his physical appearance to switch from normal to grotesque. They quickly realize the boy isn’t the only one who is effected by this metamorph phenomenon.
These mutants aren’t just ugly, they can be very violent too. They try and kill Peter, Olivia and Walter by running them off the road and shooting at them. Later Peter has a shoot out with one in the woods but when he finds the body, its a man with no deformities.
On Monday night, Fox sneaked in an unaired episode of Fringe about a teenage girl who is taken off life support after being declared brain dead. The girl didn’t stay dead for long though. While surgeons were harvesting her organs she wakes up, screaming out a an alphanumeric code, in Russian.
Come to find out, Lisa has developed some kind of psychic bond with Rusk (a dead soldier) to the extent that she sees him behind her when she looks into mirrors. But, this ability does help her show the police where Rusk’s body is, in the trunk of a car at a dump site.
As the show opened last week, a mental patient was undergoing brain surgery by someone from the other side. While undergoing the surgery, he is discovered and leaves the man with his brain exposed.
The Fringe team comes in and learns that before this apparent surgery, the patient was crazy, but has become completely sane since having his brain opened up. After doing some research, the team finds out that this has happened several times to different patients at different mental facilities, including Walter.
Last week’s episode began with a Chinese man crying out in pain as a tentacle begins to emerge from one of his nostrils followed by several more and then another man pulls the creature out of his mouth as he dies.
Meanwhile the fringe team arrives at the shore where a Chinese merchant ship has run ashore, several people were washed ashore with the same large worm-like creatures in their mouths. Walter takes one of the creatures back to the lab, while the rest of the team rushes a woman who is still breathing to the hospital. The woman, Mei Lin, tells Olivia that the others took a seasickness medication but she didn’t take it. She told them her daughter and husband were scheduled to arrive on another boat in two days.
Finally, in “August”, we learn a little more about The Observer. Though we still don’t much. We know there a lot of them, that they observe people throughout history that they aren’t suppose to get involved.
As the episode opens, one of these Observers is kidnapping a young woman, Christine. The Fringe unit begins investigating and realizes that this Observer was able to stop a bullet with his bare hand. They also talk to someone at Massive Dynamics who explains they’ve been around for thousands of years, observing major historical events. Then, they find a notebook left behind by the Observer that confuses everyone but Walter who sees the secret message meant for him.
Now that you know what happened last week on Fringe, here’s a little about what’s coming up this week.
Fox must be pretty confident the next episode because they’ve created a special viral marketing campaign just for this week. They are dispatching a dozen Observers who will be popping up in cities around the country. To track them, visit www.facebook.com/theobserver. The bald-headed character has been one of the most intriguing elements of Fringe and was notable for appearing in the background of many episodes. The Observer also appeared in the crowd at several sporting events broadcast on Fox last year.
This episode opens with the police surrounding a car on the top of a parking garage. Suddenly, Officer Williams begins to walk backwards, right off the edge of the building! Then one officer turns her gun on two fellow officers and shoots two of them before killing herself.
The Fringe team arrives at the garage and Broyles reports that the kidnappers (in the car) didn’t have a gun. They also figure Tyler Carson who was in the car with them, as he was reported missing 36 hours ago, and his father works at Massive Dynamic. Walter believes the officers were victims of hypnosis.
