Fringe: The Abducted

Olivia is an awesome FBI agent and an even more impressive human being. She was able to draw out key information from Chris while no one else in the Fringe division had the spine to even ask Broyles for permission to talk to him. She knew that the old man, plus young man, plus spinal tap equaled an anti aging concoction and even managed to impress Lincoln with her grasp of medical knowledge. On a side note, she memorized the path the patrols take around the harbor while she was fleeing for her life.

What is up with that crazy cab driver? He was totally fine with taxing the woman who cab napped him out into the middle of the Hudson River on a boat he had no knowledge of how to sail. He better be acting on behalf of William Bell’s estate. If he truly is an independent figure doing this out of the goodness of his heart, his character makes absolutely no sense to me.

When Olivia told the little boy that she was with the FBI it sounded odd to me and I did not know why. Her conversation with him in the hospital was a nice resolution for my tired brain.

My favorite parts about the alternate universe are the subtle distinctions between their world and ours. This week they quietly let it slip that in their United States of America there are three major political parties. I wonder which party President Obama belongs to in Walternate’s world.

Olivia made contact with Peter, but she was not able to will herself permanently home. It was similar to when William Bell brought her out of her car accident on what was seemingly borrowed time. Of course when she went back to our world after that experience she was placed back into the same space, at the same velocity, and only time moved without her. Of course Bell was doing the heavy lifting then and I am guessing that somewhat different rules govern her own transitions between worlds.

Broyles is a good man no matter which dimension he inhabits. Olivia helped his son and he helped her by turning a blind eye to her obvious awakening. Of course, you could argue that Broyles’ discretion could bring about the end of his world at the hands of the woman he let walk away. However, I prefer to think that he realized Olivia was not the threat he was led to believe and he was able to recognize the goodness in her.

Peter you dumb love sick puppy. You never put the pieces together. Folivia confused Carey Grant for Ronald Fraking Reagan and you did not take that as a hint that something was amiss. The woman you actually love is trapped in an alternate dimension and you did not even notice until she had a janitor call to inform you. Minus 10 character points!