Tonight on
Fringe, Peter must help his old friends discover the reason behind these "time warp events." Will we learn more about where Peter was all that time? Will Walter and company finally remember who this stranger is? Wait, what am I thinking? This is
Fringe! Of course it won't be that easy.
Always a Dream ... The show opens with Peter dreaming of having a lovey-dovey time with Olivia at a child's park. Walter is busy swinging with kids. "You're the problem," says Olivia, before it all disappears. Fun while it lasted, I guess. Olivia pops in Peter's cell with an assignment they head to.
Cut to a woman in the kitchen with her young daughter. Everything is fine and dandy until the woman realizes that the entire kitchen has fallen to a raging fire. Yet, she's untouched. A baby is crying in her daughter's room. She scoops up the infant, runs outside and finds her apartment building somewhat destroyed and somewhat not. Then, all of a sudden, the baby morphs back into her older, speaking young girl. Weird!
Let's Do the Time Slip AgainWalter refuses to work any cases involving "the subject," otherwise known as Peter. So, Peter is taking things into his own hands. He figures there must be some sort of time discontinuation after being tossed back into their reality. The time slips are continuing to happen and are happening more and more frequently. On the other hand, Peter realizes that Walter and Olivia were having visions of him for weeks. How can he not know this?
Alright, so all these time slips are adding up. The fire and a train incident both happened four years ago. Oh, and Peter is having time jumps that look a lot like deja vu or that horrible movie
Groundhog Day. Somebody is playing around.
"I am ready to present my theory," Walter jumps up. After another two occurrences, he suggests that the source is located within a 3-mile radius of the initial two happenings. This brings us to Raymond and Kate. This guy is voluntarily taking his wife back in time in order for her to finish this formula. What a swell guy!
Time Maestro Raymond shows his wife his underground lair of "time chamber greatness" that she helped build by using her genius formulas. Inside their house it is 2007, but outside it's 2011. The Fringe Division finds out the hard way. An officer attempts to walk up to the front door and enters a time bubble, if you will. After some muffled yelling, he poofs into thin air. Oopsy!
Early-onset Alzheimer's is Raymond's reason for creating a time chamber. Very sad, I know, but you can't go around altering time. Peter is prepared to suit up into a funky-looking belt that should hopefully keep him in tact while crossing the threshold. As Walter sits at home watching everything on his television and eating Twizzlers, Peter makes it through unharmed. Well, until Raymond hits him over the head.
Disengage the Time Chamber!Peter wakes up and gets the couple to agree to turn it off under the condition that Raymond is spared. He had no idea that there were repercussions by creating time bubbles. Of course, no one in their right mind would think of consequences. Kate knows the final piece of the formulaic puzzle. In her last moments, she writes it down. Raymond says he'll make it all over again for her. Time is running out and Lee is stuck in a tunnel that will cease to exist soon. The time chamber must be shut down.
Grab the box of tissue, people ... Raymond reaches for the notebook with the formula only to find that Kate has scribbled through it all. All that is left is a request that she be loved and he live his life. Heartbreaking!
Next week on
Fringe, there's an invisible murderer. He seems to be killing people in order to make himself seen. Don't you just love this show? Check back in with us next week for more
Fringe-y fun!