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The final episode of the penultimate season of Fringe. The universes are safe (again).
The Plot: Peter and Olivia head back to Walter’s lab only to find Walter and Astrid missing. Soon after they arrive, Olivia receives a phone call from one of the victims she saved last week from the nanite attack. She tells Olivia she thinks she is being watched. Olivia agrees to head right over. It turns out that she is being watched, by September the Observer, but he falls prey to a second level cleric spell and is trapped.
Olivia and Peter arrive to find an empty house and a strange hole in the floor. Broyles calls and tells them Astrid is in the hospital, recovering from a gunshot wound. They rush to the hospital and learn about the warehouse where Walter was last seen. Peter and Olivia head to the warehouse and find September, still trapped. The woman Olivia helped last episode steps out of the shadows, holding a pistol. She makes it clear that is working for William Bell and her job is to get Olivia riled up. She shoots September, but due to his “super Observer speed,” he is able to catch the bullets. She then pulls out a special pistol, designed by Bell, which can shoot so fast the Observer can’t catch the bullets. She fires a shot, and sure enough, September is hit in the chest. She fires three more shots but Olivia catches them and throws them back at her, killing her. Of course, in the Fringe universe, no one stays dead forever, especially when they hold the clue to Walter’s location, so she is brought back to the Harvard lab, hooked up to a machine, and dragged back to life, temporarily at least.
The Fringe team learns that William and Walter Bell are on barge, presumably heading for the safe zone where the two universes will collide. They find the boat, but only Peter (and the satellites, apparently) can actually see it, because it is out of sync with our universe. Peter and Olivia (acting on their own, again), jump to the barge and confront William Bell. He tells them that Olivia’s powers are energizing the collision of the universes, and once begun, there is no way to stop it. Walter disagrees, then pulls out a pistol and shoots Olivia right in the brain, killing her. Without the required power, the universes immediately return to normal. Bell disappears (literally).
Walter rushes to Olivia, reminding Peter of what we only learned last episode, that Cortexiphan has healing powers. Using improvised surgical tools, he pushes the bullet out of Olivia’s brain, and miraculously, her wound heals.
As the episode ends, Congress increases Fringe’s funding, allowing them to add their own science department – a department which the now “General” Broyles asks Nina Sharp to head. Olivia is released from the hospital, but not before telling Peter that she’s pregnant. Meanwhile, September appears to Walter, telling him to warn the others about what is coming.
1. I’ve Heard Of Soft Spots, But This Is Ridiculous
Skulls must be softer in the Fringe universe, because there’s no way a syringe, let along a letter opener, would be able to break through the skull that easily – if at all.
2. Just Ask Penn & Teller
The trick to catching a bullet is not just being fast enough to intercept it, but somehow arresting all its momentum without taking any damage. Super speed may solve problem number one, but not number two.
3. In A Case, Just In Case
That was one of the more blatant examples of Chekov’s Gun I’ve seen in recent memory.
4. Khaaaan!
I couldn’t help flashing back to Start Trek II and the Genesis device in the beginning of this episode, when William Bell was talking about how God created the universe in seven days but it took him [Bell] considerably longer. There is a similar quote in Star Trek II (only it takes them seven hours, not seven days).
5. ParadoxodaraP
A nice time paradox. When September told Olivia that in every universe she has to die, where did he learn this? From Olivia.
Another good episode, but I have the feeling it could have been better. This two-part finale would have worked better a three-episode arc, so some of the key points wouldn’t feel quite so shoe-horned. Still, a good season overall, even if Charlie is still AWOL. The Fringe Doomsday Clock creeps back to 11:55.
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