Fringe: Same Old Story

Nina offered Olivia a job. She explicitly stated that Olivia’s quest for answers could be made simpler by the resources of Massive Dynamic. Nina then went on to flaunt the obvious power of the company in the U.S.A. and abroad. It is absolutely amazing that Walter Bishop is now the man in charge of such a powerful company. It is also somewhat mind blowing that Massive Dynamic has been so impotent in the face of the threat posed by Walternate.

Who expunged Peter’s medical records? One would think that a death certificate would be a fairly easy document for the FBI to obtain. Massive Dynamic would have the juice to hide something like that and considering the fact that Bell basically mutilated Walter’s brain maybe he felt he owed Walter one.

Broyles was more Broyles this episode. Thankfully there were no ridiculous “liaison” references. That said, he still does not know Olivia yet, he was surprised she turned down Nina’s job offer. Walter has seemed a bit off, yelling at Olivia and referring to her as a silly little girl. Maybe John Nobel was still trying to find Walter’s crazy sweet spot, or maybe Walter was flashing back to Olivia’s time as Olive at the daycare center in Jacksonville. Either way I’m glad they moved away from Walter as mostly irreverent and occasionally mean to mostly irreverent and occasionally inappropriately morbid.

I am so impressed that Fringe knew that Peter came from an alternate universe all the way back in episode two of the first season. That kind of foresight is extremely impressive for a series that many consider to be J.J. Abrams tiniest success.

Odd that the evil scientist in this episode worked with Walter. I’m glad they did not make a habit out of this type of storyline for the rest of the series. It would have been interesting to see Walter meet up with him so they could have a moment to get caught up. Of course now that I’ve written the last sentence I remember that the scientist was not captured and therefore the aforementioned meeting may have occurred later in season one.

No sign of August or the other observers as of yet. I’m sure they will show up shortly.