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| Wednesday, May 12, 2010 07:44 PM |
| On the Viewer - Fringe (Season 2, Episode 21 - "Northwest Passage") |
 by Fëanor |
Beware spoilers!
Damn, Peter is a ladies man. Too bad his very presence seems to have condemned the nice waitress to an evening of unnecessary surgery.
Oh shit! Newton's in the crowd!
Is this really going to be a solo Peter adventure? I already thought it was a little unbelievable what he could get away with as a "civilian consultant" to the FBI; how is he going to talk his way into helping the police now that he's just some guy - and a guy who's even a little suspicious, at that?
Not sure whether the fact that he knows what part of the victim's brain is missing is going to make it worse or better for him.
Huh. I guess Peter is technically still a civilian consultant. Good for him.
Peter: "I know how that sounds. But believe me, if you can imagine it, it's possible."
Mathis, the sheriff, has a pen that says "Find the Crack." She explains: "In the darkness, there's always a crack. That's how the light gets in."
Peter: "They may have found me, but now that I know they're here for sure, I've found them, too. And now we're gonna catch them." Bad-ass.
Ferguson: "I think that you want to believe."
Yeah! X-Files, baby!
Peter's not kidding around; he just bought himself a shotgun.
I'm kind of with the cops on this one - it does seem a little ridiculous that the bad guys would kidnap people and perform complex brain surgery on them just to figure out where Peter is staying. I mean, this looks like a small town. It can't be that hard to check all the hotels. Or even just ask around.
Ah, so we are going to get to see Walter and the others in this episode. I was beginning to think they were going to be out of it entirely. Oh man, the poor old guy is really losing it now. It is really hard to watch him like this - mostly because John Noble is such a good actor.
Peter finds a Bazooka Joe comic on the ground - "You can't get there from here!" it says. Indeed.
Peter hears the weird noises again that he's been hearing on the phone, follows them into the forest, sees Newton and another man. They fire something at him that sticks in a tree. When he turns around to fire back at them, they're gone. Are they getting into his head? Did he really get those calls at all?
Oh man, now he's pointing a gun at Mathis and telling her about the shape-shifters. He's sounding more and more like a crackpot.
Peter's still determined to make this about him, but it's looking more and more like it's not at all. Still, people really are getting their brain's cut out...
Walter just realized he can build a Peter-detector. Nice.
Now Peter's doing Walter-style mad science - using people's adrenaline levels to determine where they were killed, and scaring the crap out of Mathis so he can take some of her tissue for a control sample. He's a chip off the old block!
Gotta say, Peter's adrenaline spike theory of murder location determination is a little hard to swallow.
Wow. Peter finds the CD the girl ripped for him right before the guy runs back in swinging a hammer at him. Thrilling reveal.
Looks like the killings aren't really about Newton at all. It's just some crazy dude who likes yanking women's brains out of their skulls.
Mathis: "I think you're looking for meaning in things that have no meaning."
Peter: "I don't know who I am anymore."
Mathis: "I was alone for a long time. But I found my place. You will, too."
Aww. She gave him the pen.
Peter listens to the CD the dead girl ripped for him. She's got good taste! I like this track. But then Newton arrives, with the mysterious Secretary - and, as I suspected, it's Peter's real father: Walternate. Holy crap!!!
What a great ending. A pretty effective episode. I can't wait to see what happens next. |
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