Nov 26 2008
Fringe Episode 1-9
TV.com: The Dreamscape - A Massive Dynamic employee leaps to his death after hallucinating a butterfly attack. Agent Scott proves useful in investigating the case, but a frustrated Olivia wants to remove him from her consciousness once and for all. Meanwhile, Peter deals with some enemies from his past.
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Recap & Review: Fringe is really starting to win me over. I never thought I would say that after the first few episodes, but I stuck with the series to see what was next. It comes from the brain of JJ Abrams, and I have loved everything he has done over the years since Felicity. My main problems with this series have to do with Olivia, but this week’s episode showed us a passionate Olivia, and that is something new. Perhaps they need to make her crazy more often.
This week, a man employed by Massive Dynamics dies after seeing a swarm of butterflies and feeling them attack him. When they come at him, he ends up crashing through a window and to his death. Olivia and her team are brought in, and Walter goes to work on his body. Apparently, the wounds covering his body appear to have come from the inside out and not from some outside force. Walter thinks some drug has been given to him that made him hallucinate everything.
As for Olivia, she keeps seeing John Scott, and she feels close to losing her mind. He leads her to a shed full of frogs, and she is wondering if she needs time off in order to clear her head. However, she doesn’t get her wish. Walter calls her and he thinks frogs are connected to the man’s death. This leads her to tell him what lead her to finding the frogs. He thinks somehow she still has John’s memories in her head, and she pushes him to put her back under in the tank. She wants to find out the connection between John and the man that died.
Once she goes under, she first sees her first date with John, and there is a moment where she thinks John sees her. Walter tells her that this is impossible. Next, she sees a meeting with four men. One of them being John, and the other being the man that died. She watches John kill the third, and the fourth leaves. She knows he is still alive. When she is brought out, her mission is to find this man. After an extensive search, they do, and they are able to stop him from being killed.
In the hospital, he tells her all about Massive Dynamic, and how it is one big hoax. It is a front for the company and those involved to do whatever they want. There is no pattern. He says he will give her proof and tell her more for protection. However, when she leaves he suffers a similar fate as John slices his throat open in a hallucation. Their witness is gone. When Olivia asks Walter to put her under again, he will not do it. There is too much of a risk to her. When she checks her email though, there is another from John. Despite what Walter says, John’s email says he did see her in the restaurant in that dream world.
A minor subplot of this episode surrounded Peter and a woman from his past. He is hiding from someone, and she tells him if he stays in Boston they will find him. He discovers she is being abused though, and this is something he handles with a confrontation with the man responsible. This was a decent episode for Fringe. Olivia was lively this week, and I’d like to see more of this. Walter and Peter took a smaller role this week as the focus was on her. This would normally bore me with how lifeless her character usually is, but that wasn’t the case this week. What did you think of this week’s episode? For your daily listings, check here .
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