Fringe: FINALLY

Part of my suspicious ass was afraid that the return of Fringe would be an April Fool's Joke. I hate April Fool's Day. But no worries -- it's ba-ack -- FINALLY!

It's 1985, and Walter is briefing the military on his window that allows him to look into an alternate universe and copy their very futuristic cell phones. When they cut to the opening credits and they were in a total 80s style, I flipped out!!!! It's Hot Tub Time Machine meets Fringe!!!!!!!!!!!! Not only were the graphic awesomely old school, but the "fringe science" was totally stuff that we have, but 25 years ago would have been unimaginable. Freaking. Epic.

In the present day, Walter brings his alternate universe window to Olivia and explains what happened....

Our Walter would totally watch Other Universe Walter (as he calls him, Walternate - LOL!) in the lab all day, working hard to find a cure for Peter, in the hopes that he could copy it and manufacture a cure for his own sick Peter. He wasn't able to find a cure, obviously, and Peter dies in Walter's arms. SADNESS!!!

Walter brings the Other Universe Window into Peter's room and watches him from the other side. OK, that's a little painful, dude! He even shows his wife! He's trying to comfort them, saying that Peter exists elsewhere and will live on, but of course he fixates on the Other Peter. He watches as Walternate finds a cure, but Walternate is distracted by an Observer in the lab and doesn't realize it's actually a cure. The Observer meets with his bald pals and is all, "My bad" because in trying to observe the moment that Walternate found the cure, he actually disrupted it and prevented it from occurring. So he has to fix this.

Walter's original purpose in going over to the Other Universe was just to cure him - not to kidnap him and make him his own. Walter's partner doesn't want him to do it, and she's all, "For the sake of one life, you will destroy the world." EPIIIIIC LINE!

Although Nina and Walter's partner try to stop him, Walter manufactures the cure and opens up the wormhole (on top of an icy lake) to the Other Universe. When he crosses over, Nina tries to grab him and her arm catches between the worlds, ending up all fuzzy and warpy - the arm that of course she has since lost.

Unfortunately, Walter crosses over only to find that the cure didn't go with him. I don't know, liquid can't travel through the wormhole or something? So now the only way to save Peter is to kidnap him. I like that they did it this way, and not just have Walter specifically plotting to kidnap him. I mean, what else could he do once he saw Sick Peter?

As Walter takes Peter across into our world, the ice breaks and they plunge into the lake. This is the point at which (as we have seen before), The Observer pulls Walter and Peter out and saves their lives. That was his way of fixing the interruption of Peter's cure - making sure he's saved (because he's important), even if it's on this side.

Walter saves Peter, and claims that he'll be returning him to Walternate just as soon as he's stabilized. And that appears to be his actual intention, but once Peter's mother sees Peter alive, it's all over. Gotta keep him now - momma's gonna want him back!

So obviously Peter wasn't returned. Yep, I totally love how they did that. It wasn't Evil Walter plotting to find a way to steal a new son - he was well-intentioned. But of course the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Cliché alert!

There was a lot of backstory packed into this episode and it was amazing. But no food cravings or crazy/funny Walter this week.

This Week's Code: PETERS. With an S! LOVE IT!