10 December 2009

Fringe Rules My Life

Freak of the Week: A dude recalls memories whilst simultaneously having bits of his brain removed. It looks like shrimp. I'm never eating shrimp again. There are exposed brains and the general nastiness one has come to expect with Fringe.

The dude is in a mental hospital, and the Team heads there to investigate. This of course means more cuteness from Walter, who tells the security guard "I'm sane." Of course you are, Walter. Of course you are.

When reviewing the security tapes, Olivia recognizes the guy who had broken in to perform the shrimp surgery. He's one of those frozen heads that were stolen from earlier this season, all thawed out and attached to a body.

Now that the shrimpy part of his brain is missing, the insane patient is no longer insane. The Team tracks down similar patients - people crazy for like 14 years and then magically cured. Turns out they had had bits of transplanted brain tissue, which is what Mr. Head was removing. He's basically trying to reassemble someone's brain, which had been broken down into pieces and stored in other people's brains. That's awesome!!

Peter finds a surgical scar on Walter's head, and they think he once had a piece of foreign brain removed from him. Walter goes in for an MRI - and requires a lot of Valium (because he has a high tolerance, natch). AND IT TURNS OUT IT WAS PIECES OF WALTER'S BRAIN THAT WERE IMPLANTED IN THE OTHER PEOPLE!!! AWESOME!

The brain pieces removed were memories. Mr. Head kidnaps a recovering Walter so that he can recreate the memories in their original brain. Of course. Pacey is going to be bitter!!!

Luckily, after getting lost last week, Walter had implanted a tracking device in his neck, and so Peter and Olivia follow it. Unluckily, Mr. Head must have found it, because they find it in a bloody public restroom sink. This is the part where Pacey gets bitter, kicking in a bathroom door like the manly man he is.

Mr. Head needs Walter to remember how he built the door to the Other Universe. We got some cool hints about the Other Universe too - something called "the blight" that killed grass and trees. Mr. Head gets the information he needs (off-screen) just before Olivia and Peter come storming in. As they're escaping, Olivia gets two nice head shots on Mr. Head's henchmen. Nice kills, girl! (She's working a fierce braid tonight too.)

Olivia nabs Mr. Head, but he has a failsafe to ensure his escape - he injected something into Walter and if he doesn't get the antidote in 4 minutes, Walter will die. Olivia has a choice - Mr. Head or Walter Bishop. YOU HAD BETTER PICK WALTER BISHOP, HARLOT!! She does. Because she is awesome.

So Mr. Head saves Walter's life, but then gets away in the process. That son of a bitch.

In the end, Walter recalls that his memories were taken by William Bell - for safekeeping, so he would be the only one who would know how to open the door to the Other Universe.

Walter's Food Thing of the Week: Chicken wings! When he awakens from his near-death state, he has a massive headache... and a sudden craving for chicken wings. That's my Walter.

This Week's Code: PORTAL.

3 comments:

JayBah said...

We saw a double reference to pudding too. Walter was eating pudding at the mental hospital and was also shown pudding by Mr. Head, which reminded him of Pacey.

We're having KFC boneless chicken wings and butterscotch pudding next week! (We think it was butterscotch based on color).

Juju said...

Yeah I was all set to go with the butterscotch pudding food reference until he said chicken wings! :) Combining them sounds good. That butterscotch pudding must have been better than the kind at St. Claire's... which of course was "dreadful" and served on Mondays.

Oh god, I'm such a Fringe nerd. :)

jayemarr said...

I noticed last night that there isn't going to be another episode until January 7th. That's a whole month! What are they THINKING??

I was kind of psyched about pudding next week, too. I might have to get some. I'm less excited about chicken wings.