Fringe: Now With 200% More Broyles

Thanks, Yankees. Love you.

Freak of the Week: Guy is attacked by a shadowy figure. Like, literally, a person made out of a shadow. And then he disintegrates into ash. Awesome.

The Team examines what's left of the body - he fell apart like a burned log, part of him still sitting in a chair. It's one of the cooler-looking deaths, and that's saying a lot on this show. Walter has the rest of the body transported in a DustBuster. Broyles has seen this 4 years ago - in DC. Back then, the deaths were all linked to a hospital worker who Broyles tried to catch. The killer would call Broyles and try to get him to solve a formula, but it was unsolvable.

As they investigate, it happens again at a hospital - half of a woman's head disintegrates into her pillow. The suspect is a Russian night nurse who used to work in DC, and is wanted by the CIA.

OK so. Here's the deal on this one - the Russian Dude's brother was a cosmonaut, who came back from space in a coma -- and apparently with some shadow thing inside of him. And ever since, The Russian Dude has been taking his comatose brother to different hospitals, where the shadow escapes his body and kills people who were treated with radiation - it feeds off of the radiation. Walter discovers all of this through liberal usage of Tinker Toys.

Unfortunately, the shadow kills the Russian Dude. The Team tracks it down and then Broyles does the badass thing and shoots the comatose guy right in the head! Awesome! That makes the shadow disappear. Later, when Broyles asks the CIA what they did with the body, the guy says, "When he started breathing again..." and looks up into space.

This episode was highly Broyles-centric, which is awesome. This case was the one that broke up his marriage when he became too obsessed with it. And he has kids too, but this is the first we've heard. How sad. No wonder he just wanted to shoot the guy in the head and get it over with!

Walter's Food Thing of the Week: Licorice. That reminds me! I got a great comment on my last recap -- the person said that they have a Fringe viewing party every week where they eat Walter's food craving of the previous episode. That. Is. Awesome. If I were you, I'd do red licorice, not black. They never specified.

This Week's Code: D (that's where I yelled, "Dees nuts!!" But it didn't end there - DEJA VU.