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« on: February 05, 2010, 09:41:34 PM » |
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This 'Winter Finale' episode started off in a Manhattan office where a man was gently walking with his coffee. A co-worker asked him if it was 'real' (strange already, I mean New York without coffee? It would probably implode!). The two experience a small quake and the lights flicker. The female informs him that she is from California so she is used to these 'miniquakes'. She leaves him alone with his building plans when a larger quake erupts and the ceiling falls in. He awakes (after appearing to pass out) to find a large beam in his shoulder and looking down sees extra arms and legs attached to his body.
Olivia, Broyles, Peter, and Walter arrive in New York at the scene of the tremors. They look at the building and it appears that it broke and then was put back together. They learn that there are no survivors in the building and go to investigate. All of the dead bodies are mismatched and deformed. Walter has a theory that there was a quantum tectonic event that caused the molecules in everything at the scene to split apart then reassamble, causing the mismatching. FBI agents find the man from the beginning who is still alive. They ask him questions about what happened. He explained about the tremors which causes the FBI agents to pause because they did not hear of any tremors in NYC in the news. Walter has a theory and asks the man a series of questions that he answers correctly except for when asked what buldings were attached during 9/11, the man answeres the Pentagon and the White House. The man dies and a movement from his torso urges Walter to take a closer look. Under his shirt is another head of the man. Walter explains that they are standing in two buildings, one from each dimension.
Outside the crime scene building Olivia discovers that this event is exactly what William Bell described when she was in the other dimension. Newton was behind this incident and they had proof in a surveillance camera that has him and his crew posed as a work crew two hours before the incident. Back at the lab, Astrid and Walter are working on the double man body. Astrid cannot take working on the body so Walter has her look in his personal things to find objects that don't belong. She finds Nixon's face on a silver dollar and a figure of a double decker car. Walter realizes what will happen next. He calls Olivia and Peter back to explain that he and William tried experiments sending objects to the other universe and someone with the equal mass was sent back. He tells them that when something comes from the other universe there is an energy that is given to it and that energy will show right before an equal object is sent to the alternate one. He tells Olivia that she will be able to see this energy because she has seen it before.
Walter tells Olivia that she was the strongest as a child in his and William Bell's experiments with cortexiphan. He said they needed to go to Jacksonville to where they performed these experiments to help Olivia identify the uilding that would be thrown into the alternate universe in approximately 35 hours. The trio arrive in Jacksonville at the daycare that Walter and William Bell worked at. Walter asks Olivia if she sees the glimmer and she says no. He regretfully sets her up to a machine along with cortexiphan. He tells her she will need to overcome and obstacle while she is 'under' and once she has done that she will then see the glimmer. Olivia wakes up in a forest to find a little girl who is afraid of something in the sky. Olivia helps and soothes her. She asks the girls name and it is Olive. All of a sudden the girl is gone, Olivia turns around to see the girl there with glowing eyes. She awakens. She is disgusted by Walter for doing this to children.
Olivia wandered around the room where Peter and Walter waited for her to indicate objects from the alternate world were glimmering, and she did not see anything. Back in Manhattan we see Nina Sharp entering a building then calling Broyles, he in turn calls Olivia to tell her that 'it started'. Olivia finds Walter watching a video of Olive during the experiment where she saw the alternate universe as a child. Walter figured out that Olivia needed to feel fear like she did when she was a kid to be able to help the people in Manhattan before it was too late. Olivia went into her old room in the center to try and channel Olive. Peter finds her there and she shares that she cannot do it because she doesn't feel fear anymore.
Back in Manhattan, Peter, Olivia, and Walter meet Nina Sharp and Broyles at Massive Dynamic. They are calculating the tremors in the city and they are getting increasingly worse. Peter and Walter go to the lab to help with figuring out the correct building. Walter tells them once again it has to be the same mass. They narrow the list down to 147 buildings, but time has run out. Olivia meets Peter and is freaking out that she cannot help these people. Peter comforts her and goes in to kiss her but she pulls back and realizes that she is genuinely scared. She runs out of the room and looks from a balcony onto the city. She sees a building in the distance flickering.
Olivia tracks down the building and Broyles orders an evacuation. Everyone is safely out when the building appears to implode and disappear. In Broyles' office, he and Olivia are watching the news and the anchor says the buildings disappearance was blamed on an unplanned demolition project. Later that night, Peter is getting ready to go out with Olivia; when she arrives she looks at him strangely because he is glimmering. Peter goes upstairs for a moment while Walter tells Olivia not to tell Peter what she sees.
This episode was what I've been anticipating since last season finale. The alternate universe was finally explained and the "war of the worlds" has begun to see which universe will survive. And we now have some movement in the Peter and Olivia relationship! And also the confirmation that Peter is not from this universe! I also enjoyed seeing more of the experimentation that took place on Olive and the other children in Jacksonville, and how Walter is now experiencing the consequences of his actions.
The preview for the rest of the season (starting April 1st) showed more on how Walter brought Peter from the alternate universe to their own. So stick around for more Fringe Recaps & Reviews in April!
What did you think of this week's Fringe Recap & Review?
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