Sep 24 2008
Review: Fringe Episode 1-3
TV.com: The Ghost Network - A man who has visions of the future is introduced. He sees a pattern-related terror attack and the team, led by Dr. Bishop, tries to prevent this event from occurring.
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Review: On this week’s episode of Fringe, we see a man who is capable of seeing things before they happen. The events he sees are terrorists attacks. The first event he sees is an attack on a bus. A man sets off a gas container, killing all those on the busy while he walks off with the bag of a woman on the bus. The team has its own issues including the funeral of Dunham’s lover, and the fact that Dr. Bishop is self medicating himself. The team is called in to investigate the bus attack. As it turns out, the man killed a bus full of people, and he didn’t find what he was looking for.
While the investigation begins, the team learns the one woman who had her bag taken was a Federal employee that was working undercover. When Olivia returns to the lab, Walter has recreated the compound that killed the people on the bus. The components of the compound are made by Massive Dynamic. A call comes in, and Olivia learns of the man that saw the incident on the bus before it happened. They go to his home, and they find that this isn’t the first incident he has seen before it actually happened.
The man is brought in for questioning, but the team leader doesn’t believe the man is a psychic. Walter has an idea to prove that he is. When he sends the man in for a scan, the man has some kind of attack. It is discovered that he has metal in his blood for some reason. That reason becomes clear as the younger Bishop figures out the man was once a part of one of Walter’s experiments with the owner of Massive Dynamic. This is something Walter had forgotten, and it nearly cost the man his life.
Walter tells Olivia and Peter that Roy is listening into a special ghost network, and with a simple brain surgery they can see what he sees. However, he needs a special tool that is hidden in his old home. Olivia and Peter go to retrieve it, and they break into the house to do so. Once they find it, they return to the lab, and the procedure moves forward. They find out that another attack or something to do with it will be happening within the hour. They also learn that the item the men were looking for was inside the woman the whole time.
Olivia goes to the meeting point, and Roy once again picks up what is happening. Using him, they find the meeting. However, the man involved has been shot before Olivia arrives. They do find the shooter, but he kills himself. They find what he was looking for as well, and after a meeting with her boss, he takes the item to his contact at Massive Dynamic. We also learn that John Scott isn’t dead.
This episode was a bit better than the previous two for me, but I am still not fully invested in this series yet. There is too much going on with Dunham, and it confuses me. I’m going to keep on though, and see where this series takes us in the weeks ahead. What did you think of this week’s episode?
