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TV.com: The Equation - Walter’s former bunkmate at the mental institute is linked to the abduction of a young musical prodigy by a serial kidnapper. Peter is concerned when Walter insists on going back to the mental institute to solve the case.

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Recap & Review: Fringe is one of those series this season that I happen to be on the fence on still. It has been winning me over slowly, and we know that Fox has confidence in it. American Idol will preceded it on Tuesday nights when that series returns for its eighth season in January. Something just feels off to me. The main reason I continue to tune in every week is the character of Walter. You never really know what he might do next. Olivia is a dry character to me. They need her to do more with her because I don’t feel much for her a character. They have started to do more though, but they still have a long way to go.

This week’s episode starts with a young boy being kidnapped. Ben is a musical prodigy, and one night while he is out with his father during a rainstorm, his father helps to stop a woman stranded on the side of the road. When he tries to check her car, he is mesmerized by these flashing green and red lights. When he comes to the lights have stopped flashing, the rain has stopped and his son is gone. Olivia is brought onto the case with Walter and Peter.

They try to find the boy, and Walter feels some connection to the case. Before they are even mentioned, he knows about the lights, but he isn’t sure why they are important. He begins to work on this, and he figures out the lights can put people in some kind of hypnotic state. As for the boy, and why he was kidnapped. It appears he is connected to others that were also kidnapped in the past. Some type of mathematical equation is involved. Someone needs those kidnapped to try to solve the complete equation.

Walter finally figures out why he remembered the lights. Someone he knew in the mental institution had also been kidnapped. Olivia wants to question him, but he is a special case. He knows government secrets, so a court order to see him would take weeks. Her boss tries to work around this, and the only way she can ask anything of the man is if Walter is the one to go in to do it. Peter thinks it is a bad idea, and Walter doesn’t really want to go back inside the institution either. However, for the boy he will do it.

He goes in, and he meets with his former friends. Things do end up going wrong though. The man that runs the place drugs Walter, and locks him back up. He won’t even free him without a court order. Olivia goes to get this, but it will take until the morning. This does give Walter some more time with his friend, but all he can talk about is a red castle. This does become useful though. The woman who kidnapped the boy has been found, even though she is supposedly dead. With a little work, Peter finds out the name she would be living under and a city.

This narrows it down, and the team goes in. After she talks to Peter and he tells her about the red castle. She finds a house that might fit the bill. She goes in, and while looking through the home she finds the boy. The woman is still there though, and she attacks Olivia. The two fight, but the woman pulls the lights out on Olivia, and when she comes to the woman is gone. The boy is saved though. However, we do have a problem here. The man that runs the institution is threatening to keep Walter or get him institutionalised. This is something we’ll have to keep an eye on in the weeks ahead.

A good episode this week. I still feel Olivia needs more. I don’t connect with her as well as I do Peter and Walter. They are both stronger characters to me. The series is getting stronger though. Slowly but surely. What did you think of this week’s episode of Fringe? For daily television listings, check here .

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