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.

The team heads to Jacksonville because Walter believes in order for Olivia to see the glimmer that she needs to see to know which building will move, she has to be tested where the original Cortexiphan trials were done. After going under, Olivia is reminded of what happened to her as a child. She remembers how awful it was but still can’t see the glimmer when she wakes up. Walter explains that Olivia needs to be afraid to be able to see the glimmer but she turns her fear into anger.

Left with unsuccessful results in Jacksonville, they all fly back to New York to see if they can figure out what building will disappear based on mass and weight.

They quickly realize that they won’t be able to figure out which building it is in time. Olivia is upset and as Peter tries to comfort her, they almost kiss. Olivia realizes she is suddenly afraid and runs to see the skyline and does see the glimmer. The team rushes to find the building and they evacuate it right before it is pulled over to the other side.

Later, Olivia and Peter are on their way out the door for drinks. Olivia realizes that Peter is glimmering too, meaning he is from the other side. When Peter runs upstairs to get his coat, Walter asks Olivia to keep the secret.

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.

The highlight of the hour was the tension between Walter and Peter. Walter wanted to see his father’s research notes, but Peter told him he’d sold them 10 years ago (while Walter was committed to St. Claire’s). Peter’s says that he needed the cash but did admit there was more to it. Witnessing how far Walter and Peter have come as father and son, it is easy to forget that Peter resented Walter for his upbringing and Walter’s abandonment. Its clear selling those books, at that time, was a way of acting out against those feelings.

In the end, Walter saves the day by killing the villain in a very public place, no doubt out of guilt as much as anything else.

At the end of the episode, Walter tells Olivia, “Family is very important to me; there’s nothing I wouldn’t do.” A fact that will surely be proven more and more as the story of Peter and the alternate word continues to unfold.

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.

They have to quarantine the building with Peter and Olivia still inside. As the day goes on, the virus keeps contaminating people and causes violent reactions among the victims before they eventually die.

Walter and a team of CDC agents finally enter the building in hazmat suits to try to get the uninfected people out. Olivia and Peter are cleared, but as they are about to leave, CDC agents realize Peter is infected too so he has to stay in the building with the others whoa re infected.

Knowing that Peter’s life is at stake, Walter works frantically until he discovers the antidote to the virus which is made up of household items. Walter figures out a solution to kill the virus, but they can’t get close to the infected people because they have become unruly.  As a last resort, Olivia goes back into the building and activates the ventilation system with  fentanyl gas that knocks the victims out. They are then able to give them all the antidote and everyone, including Peter, is saved.

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.

The FBI brings the body back to the lab and they find out the mutants have something to do with Project Elephant which was carried out in this town years ago. Walter initially does not recall working on the project, but after Astrid mentions the law library that Walter went to, they are able to return and find information on Project Elephant. The pictures they find show deformed people who were involved in the project.

It appears that a pulse was developed by the military and helps camouflage the townspeople. But, the camouflage causes genetic deformities. Walter and Astrid investigate the source of this pulse and it leads them to a house with a large antennae which belongs to the daughter of the lead scientist on the project, Edward Cobb.

The local sheriff tells everyone in town not to worry because he will take care of everything. He attempts to get rid of Olivia and Peter again but is unsuccessful. When Broyles shows up, Walter begs him to just leave the people there alone and he agrees. They all leave and the people of this small town are left to live their lives in peace.

Next week, an infectious foe that has waited 75,000 years to kill everything on Earth is on its way and it’s infected Peter!

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.

The worst part, for Lisa, is that she is in very bad health. With Walter’s help, the team realizes that the soldier had suffered from radiation sickness and Lisa has contracted his illness, which is why she is so sick. Walter concludes that the radiation allowed the officer to transport his soul into Lisa’s body at the moment of her death, in effect “jump-starting” her system and bringing her back to life.

Walter, of course, knows how to cure this, get rid of Rusk, and get Lisa back to high school but before he is able to perform the procedure, Lisa/Rusk goes after Rusk’s wife who had hired someone to kill him. Olivia gets to Lisa just in time and they bring her back to the lab, get rid of the radiation, while Rusk downloads his consciousness into a car accident victim.

What was more bizarre than the plot of this episode was the fact that was actually left over from last season. So Charlie is still alive, the alternate world is hardly known and Astrid is barely visible. What’s even stranger is that Fox does in deed consider this the 11th episode of the second season. Maybe they’ve entered an alternate universe where they think no one will realize this ep doesn’t fit with the rest?

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.

The team comes to understand that all the patients had a piece of brain tissue removed, pieces of tissue that belong to Walter and were being stored in their brains. By the time they figure it out, Walter is drugged and taken by the man from the other side (Newton) and his team. Newton brings Walter to his old home, reinserts the tissue and asks him to remember how he opened the door between the two worlds.

Newton takes off leaving a dying Walter behind. Olivia catches Newton, but she is left with two choices: She could have arrested Newton and gotten answers to all her questions, or she’ll have to let him go to save Walter. Olivia lets Newton go free and runs back to save Walter right in the nick of time.

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.

At the lab, Walter believes that humans were used as incubators for the worms. Olivia finds out that they have someone in custody after finding a manifest in a sunken ship.

Peter recognizes the tattoos on the man’s  body and realizes that he was a member of a gang known for transporting drugs. The man kills himself with a razor blade before they can talk to him. After an investigation,  they discover a woman, Elizabeth Jarvis, who transferred $500,000 to one of  the shell companies for this organization, Beijing Executive Construction.

After speaking to the woman, Peter realizes something is up because the woman has hand sanitizer everywhere. He goes back later and talks to her son Matt alone,who admits he suffers from a rare immune deficiency disorder and the  powder from a gland in the worm is the only thing keeping him alive. His next treatment is scheduled in 2 days, the  same day as the next boat’s arrival from China.

This makes sense because back at the lab Walter is inadvertently bitten by one of the worms and he discovers that his white blood cell count is  high and he has new antibodies meaning the worm is medicine.

The boat carrying Mae Lin’s family finally arrives but the FBI istoo late and everyone if off the boat. Peter tracks them down in Chinatown. He goes in first alone and they try to feed him one of the worms but he is able to fight them off until the rest of the team gets there, saving the immigrants and shutting down their organization.

Peter found the location after picking up Walter who was lost in Chinatown and couldn’t remember Peter’s number. When he realizes he can’t be on his own, Walter implants a tracking device into his neck so Peter can always find him.

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.

Apparently,  The Observer kidnapped the girl to save her. The plane she was suppose to be on crashed. He gags her in a motel in order to meet with three other Observers. They discuss the irregularity of the woman and agree to hire a friend to correct it.

The Observer meets with Walter to discuss the situation. Walter asks him not to take his son but the Observer expalins that is looking to Walter to come up with a resolution but he can not, he tells The Observer, “I just missed my son.”

August (the Observer) then decides to anonymously call the FBI for help and tries to sacrifice his own life to save Christine when an assassin comes to the hotel room where he left her. As August is riding home, we learn that he saw her when she was a girl and was in love with her. His plan did work though and for now, she is safe.

At the end of the episode, two Observers are watching Olivia and her niece on a roller coaster and they comment on how happy she looks but that things would become more difficult for her (or her niece) in the future.

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.

The campaign is fitting since this week’s show will feature the character front and center for the first time. The official press release from the episode, entitled, “August”, says: “When a peculiar abduction occurs in Boston, the Fringe team uncovers details of the mysterious man known as The Observer. While the bizarre case takes center stage, Walter, Peter and Astrid hit the lab to analyze unusual evidence and deal with Walter’s insatiable appetite for a milkshake in the all-new “August” episode of FRINGE airing Thursday, Nov. 19 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.”

You can see new photos from the episode at Fringe Television and EW has the first three minutes of the episode up on their site too!

What do you think about the marketing campaign? Are you excited to learn more about the Observer?

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.

The team meets with Tyler’s father, Dr. Carson, and Nina at Massive Dynamics, Nina thinks the kidnappers are trying to extort secrets from Massive Dynamic.

In the meantime, Tyler and the two men arrive at a convenience store. One of the men tries to rob the store and when the store clerk pulls a gun on him, he suddenly puts the gun down and electrocutes himself.

Back at the lab, Walter examines one of the officer’s brain and determines she was a victim of mind control, not just hypnosis. He believes the mind control happens through the cochlea, because hearing is the most affective path of the senses.

Tyler calls Massive Dynamic begging his father to listen to his kidnappers’ demands. The kidnappers tell Dr. Carson to meet them with two million dollars but Olivia thinks it is just a trap and they are after secrets, not money.

Walter creates headphones equipped with white noise so the task force can capture the kidnappers and save Tyler without having their minds controlled. The team chases the kidnappers at the hand-off and one of them tells Olivia that he is actually the one who has been kidnapped, by Taylor!

Olivia realizes Tyler has taken Peter hostage and talks to Nina who reveals Dr. Carson was working with the pharmaceutical division to develop a hands free navigation system where electrodes were placed in the pilot’s helmet to pick up thought patterns and the pilots were to be given drugs to amplify brain waves. Dr. Carson had taken some home to test. Tyler was  taking medications for ADD. Walter explained that combined with his hormones, the ADD meds and the experimental drugs would cause Tyler’s mind control capabilities to be even greater.

Tyler pops a pill as Peter drives. Peter tries to reason with him, explaining that they know he is the real kidnapper. Tyler tells Peter he is doing this because he found out that his father had been lying to him his entire life about his mother. He was told his mom died in a car crash but he found out she is actually alive. He had planned to use the ransom money to fly him and his mom to Costa Rica.

At the lab, Walter develops a device that will interfere with brain waves and stop Tyler’s mind control abilities. It will wipe his mind of all thoughts and cause him to become disoriented.

Peter and Tyler arrive at Tyler’s mother’s house. She is shocked to see them. Tyler tells her that it is okay that she left and knows that it was his dad’s fault, but now they can be together. She tells him she can’t run away with him.  Her husband comes in and Tyler immediately blames him for her not wanting to go with him. He begins to take control of Peter forcing him to pick up a gun and point it at his mom’s husband. Broyles busts into the house and shoots Tyler with his taser. Tyler is still in control though and Peter turns the gun towards Broyles and fires! Broyles collapses as he is hit in the arm. Peter and Tyler run out the front door.

Olivia and Walter follow Tyler and Peter and Walter uses a device to cancel out Tyler’s mind control ability. Peter sees Tyler is in a trance and veers the car into a lamppost.

Tyler is given a sedative to stay unconscious until the drugs can wear off.

Nina sends a message to William Bell updating him on the experiment. She informs him that one of ‘the Tylers” displayed a dramatic ability for mind control, but there were unintended consequences when Tyler located one of his surrogate members so she is ending the experiment.

We see Dr. Carson flipping through a file with boys who all look exactly like Tyler but with different scientists as guardians then h rolls Tyler into a room with 12 other identically looking Tyler’s lying sound asleep.