Seriously. All I can say about this show is what the flip is going on? I mean, thanks to the gang behind Fringe for answering one of my questions from last week but now you’ve given me 5 more and this rate, I think I’m going to be as wacky as Walter by the time I know all the answers. Yes, I am sadly and completely addicted to not necessarily the best new drama but definitely the most intriguing. J.J. is a T.V. genius.
Starting with the main focus of this week’s episode: A guy is telling his priest about this thing he saw that was going to happen on a bus. Cut to the bus and there are happy couples and singles all sitting like they don’t have a care in the world. Then a guy gets on and sits and you just know there’s something not right about him. He’s staring at everyone and finally his gaze lands on a woman carrying a backpack. As soon as she sets the pack down, he opens his ominous briefcase and releases a gas onto the bus, after putting on a gas mask of course. So, a bus load of people is petrified in this amber-like goo so who gets the call? Is that really even a question? Olivia, Walter, and Peter arrive on the scene and for once, Walter doesn’t have all the answers right away. In fact, he doesn’t have any. They take a sample back to the lab and the rest of F.B.I. dig out the bodies and their personal effects.
After working on the sample for a while, Walter finally discovers what’s in the gas compound once he got Peter to play some classical music on a newly acquired piano. Yup, apparently the genius son can also play the piano beautifully. Oh, and let’s not forget the only company who makes 3 of the chemicals found in the compound is Massive Dynamic. Back to Olivia…she’s been at the site where all of the bodies and the effects are being held. And lucky thing she’s around because she’s the only agent that notices there’s a camera on one of the victims. And then she notices on the video that the woman with the back pack did, indeed, have a backpack. Only now, no one can seem to find this particular bag. Turns out the woman was a special DEA agent working on some intense Nicaraguan drug cartel, at least per her former partner. She called some time ago to see if she could get out of the undercover job because she was scared. As she should be if they turn out to be behind this whole amber-goo incident.
But do you really believe the Nicaraguan drug cartel is behind some very advanced scientific attack? Me neither. Unfortunately for Olivia and the team, there aren’t any other leads. Until, that is, Charlie calls from her old team to tell her about a guy who drew a picture of the bus attack and then confessed this image to his priest. Yup, it all comes full circle. Olivia chases the guy down and Walter has an explanation as to why this guy seems to be psychically linked to whoever is planning these events. He not only saw the bus attack, he also had things pointing to the plane crash that put Olivia on her new course, as well as a slew of other pattern like occurrences. He has metal in his blood and this links him to a kind of telephone network which causes him to see the conversations instead of hearing them. This network is known as the "Ghost Network" and it's a project that Walter was working on for the government forever ago. Guess some one perfected it. I know it sounds crazy but part of the fun of the show is to just go with it.
In the going with it theme, Walter needs a brain surgery tool he created in order to transmit the “psychic’s” visions to sound. Of course it works and they’re able to hear a conversation about a drop off and that the woman had the item on her person the whole time. When Olivia went to check on the woman’s body, she saw that something had been cut out of her hand. Only the single person who had access and time was the one who identified her body. You guessed it, her partner. So now we know who the bad guy is and where the drop off will take place. Of course they’re able to retrieve what was cut out of the DEA agent’s hand but only after the person who made the switch jumped in front of a bus. I know. Olivia passes this little disc like object to Agent Broyles. He then ends up at…Massive Dynamic, where he hands off the disc to Nina. What? I mean, it was kind of obvious that something was happening there but does this mean Massive Dynamic isn’t really evil? Or is Broyles a traitor?
Bring on the millions of questions. I did say that one was answered, though. We saw that one of the three men in the tubes that were flashed at the end of last week’s episode was Agent Scott. He was hooked up to some sort of computer that was downloading information from him. Seriously, so confusing. How are we ever to trust anyone? Broyles could be bad. Peter has both some strange medical mystery past and people following him now who say he was to report in as soon as he was back in Boston. I mean, how much more addictive can you get than I need to know these answers right now and you can bet I’ll be watching every stinking week until I get them.
Yup, J.J. is a genius.
