Freak of the Week: Super sweaty guy in an office elevator gets a nosebleed and keels over dead. But then things get really freaky when all his veins pop out and rupture. Nice.
Olivia and Peter head to the office to start investigating when another person in the office comes down with the same blood-spray disease. It's contagious. QUARANTINE TIME!
But Peter and Olivia are in there, dammit! It's like my favorite part of Season 3 of 24 when Michelle was trapped in the hotel with the infection and Tony had to work on the outside. Fabulous stuff. And this of course makes Walter very upset and he works furiously to determine the nature of the infection.
He determines that the virus is trying to get out of the building - any time it is in a host, that person tries to go outside... or just jumps through a window. Olivia isn't infected, but Peter is - and he makes a frantic attempt to leave the building.
The government decides that killing the dozen people infected inside of the building is the only means of containing the virus. Well, do you really think Walter's going to let Peter die (again)? HELL NO!
Walter determines that sulfur is the way to kill the virus - and horseradish from the office refrigerator contains sulfur. I guess this makes horseradish Walter's (Lifesaving) Food Thing of the Week. While the CDC synthesizes a cure, the infected still have to be dealt with - they're trying to break out of the building. In order to save them (and, well, Peter), Olivia goes inside to set off a gas that will put them to sleep for a bit. Peter gets to her first, and they have a bit of a kick-ass fight, but luckily Olivia gets the ventilation system going and everyone passes the F out.
Astrid totally caught Walter when he said, "I can't let Peter die again." Oops. She's gonna be suspicious!
The Walter-ness was off the charts in this episode, between all the Peter drama and lecturing kids at the Boston Children's Museum in the kind of terrifying fashion that only Walter would.
This episode was good - and I'm a sucker for a good infection/people doing things against their will story - but we haven't had a nice mythology episode is a while. Weird, no? Lately they've been self-contained episodes.
This Week's Code: WINDOW.
Next week: Nazis!
2 comments:
The last 3 minutes of the show I said "Walter had better be looking for some food craving now". Horseradish? Really? Hmm...
Freaking horseradish. I can't believe it. I think Fox finally noticed our website and instead of sending us a nasty letter about copyright infringement they're going to make Walter talk about really revolting food until we stop.
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