This week on
Fringe, the FBI investigates the murder of a reporter after learning a patient at a mental hospital described the events while they are happening.
Seeing ThingsThis week's episode picks up right where last week's episode left off: Olivia kisses Peter, thinking she is the Olivia from his timeline, and Peter worries that she is experiencing side effects from their day in Westfield. Olivia assures Peter she's fine, but her headaches seem to be triggering flashes of memories from Olivia's life.
Meanwhile, at a mental hospital, a patient appears to be having a schizophrenic episode, but to him, he is having a vision of three young men breaking into a house and attacking the owner. The next day, Olivia and Lincoln are called to the hospital after a nurse sees the story of the home invasion and murder on the news and informs the police that her patient, Sean, described the events while they were happening.
The Other MeSean tells Walter that he hears voices, but they don't speak directly to him. Walter believes Sean has been misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and is hearing the thoughts of real people. He asks Sean if he would be willing to go off his medication in order to help with the investigation. Meanwhile, Olivia has visions of the first time Peter's Olivia met Walter at the St. Mary's, and later, Olivia visits Peter at his house and tells him she remembers everything from the other Olivia's life.
Walter runs tests on Olivia, asking her about the first time they met. She recalls the events from Peter's timeline clearly, but is unable to clearly recall her own. Walter takes some of her hair for testing. Lincoln is able to track one of the killers, using information Sean told them about the crime, and finds blood in a bathroom where the killer treated a knife wound. Walter finds that the killer and Sean have similar genetic profiles, and suggests that they, and the other two killers, may all be related.
We Are Legion
Olivia and Lincoln interview Sean's mother and learn that Sean was conceived through in vitro fertilization at a clinic run by Dr. Owen Frank, and that the victim, a reporter, had contacted her a few days before his death asking for her help with a story. Astrid is with Sean when he begins to hear the voices again, but he says there are too many to understand what they are saying. Walter theorizes that, like bees, the killers have formed a collective mind.
Olivia finds Dr. Frank in an assisted living facility, and he tells her that the work he was doing at his clinic was a stepping stone for his experiments in genetic manipulation. Dr. Frank altered the DNA of all the babies he helped conceive, and when he reveals that there are over 200 of these children, all with the same donor father, Peter guesses that Dr. Frank used his own DNA.
Drugs Are Bad
Astrid and Sean begin to track the voices, trying to decipher where they are and what they are doing. At the lab, Walter tests Olivia's hair, and thinks he knows what's happening to Olivia. He asks Lincoln to take him to the bridge to see Nina Sharp, where Walter tells her that he believes Olivia has been dosed with Cortexiphan recently. Olivia and Peter find the doctor's storage facility containing all his work, but it's already unlocked.
Sean hears the voices and realizes they are going to kill Olivia, and Astrid is able to warn Olivia and Peter just in time. Walter and Lincoln accompany Nina to a Massive Dynamic vault where the Cortexiphan is stored, and Walter discovers that the Cortexiphan has been replaced by fake vials. Olivia and Peter stop at a gas station, but when Olivia goes to the restroom she never returns. She wakes up in a room, tied to a chair and sitting across from Nina Sharp, who is also tied up and looks like she's been there for a while.
I'm really excited about where this storyline is headed. With the reintroduction of David Robert Jones and the Observers, things have the potential to get really cool. It looks like next week we'll find out a little bit more about what Jones is up to and what the deal is with the Observers. I have to say, I'm totally psyched; how about you?
Samuel AlarconContributing Writer(Image courtesy of FOX)