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Score – 94/100

It keeps getting better and better. This is the most intriguing episode yet. It starts off with a bang when a guy with no hair devours the most delicious roast beef, pepper, jalapeno, Tabasco sandwich ever. All of a sudden, something comes from underground and creates tons of chaos for a construction site and a neighboring building. The bald guy confirms the mysterious object from the ground with an unknown colleague that turns out to be a vibrating cylinder. Our hero trio is of course put on the case. This cylinder is indeed very important because an unnamed killer is trying to recover the cylinder while Walter is keeping his fellow cohorts in the dark about what this cylinder is and what it can do, something he hasn’t done before. Walter even assaults Agent Farnsworth and hides the cylinder where no one can find it. Peter is especially upset with this and right as he is leaving for good, he is captured by the unnamed cylinder hunter and asked a few questions. This brings us to this weeks Fringe science, Mental Osmosis. The antagonist uses electric currents to hear his captive’s thoughts. The machine is able to read deeper than the conscious thoughts of the captives as long as the line of questioning is on track with the information he needs. Our antagonist gets the info he needs from Peter and tracks down the cylinder. Olivia comes to the rescue and subdues the beanie wearing baddie and the cylinder disappeared into the ground where it came from.

I enjoyed this episode more than the others, however I think that the characters of Walter and Peter changed their personalities pretty drastically. Walter in the first three episodes is the crazy, kooky scientist that never raised his voice to his son. Then all of a sudden he is defiant and aggressive, maybe for good reason, but outside of Walter’s character in my opinion. Peter’s case is worse because it happens twice in the same episode. He seems to enjoy Agent Dunham’s company and running down bad guys with her in most of the first three episodes then all of a sudden he wants out. Then a bump on the head makes him want to stay and uncover all of the unexplained events in the world with his father that he has thrown under the bus the whole episode before this point. The intrigue level is sky high however, with the Observer and what seems to be his mysterious cylinder. Agent Scott’s cameo was also something that I didn’t expect so soon. Thanks for leaving me 2 weeks to think about that Abrams.

Star of the Show – The Observer

“Apples, bananas, rhinoceroses…I want to hold your hand.” He is some sort of weird. No hair, no eyebrows, always there, but no one ever sees him. He can read thoughts with only a blank stare and he doesn’t age. What is he, what other powers does he have, and can he eat my world famous fire chili?

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