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Score: 95/100

Fringe takes its winter hiatus on a very strong note. Agent Loeb has gathered a team of ex-military men to rob specific banks around the north east. Using the wall phasing science cracked from episode 8 (the Equation), the men are stealing a specific safety deposit box from each bank. In their latest attempt, one of the men gets stuck in the wall while phasing through. Agent Loeb shoots the man half stuck in the wall and retreat. This puts our team on the job. Olivia happens know the suspect from the Marine academy so she goes to see his wife for questioning while Peter and Walter bond while sawing limbs off the man in the wall. During Olivia’s conversation with Raul Lugo’s wife, she finds out and that she doesn’t know Raul and that her memories of Raul are the property of John Scott and that Raul has a friend that works at a bar.

Olivia and Peter go to the bar where Raul’s friend works to find out more about Mr. Lugo. They find out that he stayed at a VA hospital in Washington. Peter and Olivia bond at the bar after they were done working and Peter find out that Olivia has a knack for remembering numbers most notably the numbers of the safe from the previous three robberies… 233, 377, 610. Peter recognizes these numbers as Walter recited them in his sleep. So the two book it to Peter’s apartment and wake Walter (best line ever in this scene by the way) and tell him the safe numbers and what they were. Walter is surprised that Peter doesn’t know that it is the Fibonacci numbers but is more shocked when he realizes that the safes being knocked off are his very own.

Olivia investigates the VA while Peter tries to jog Walter’s memory of the location of the final safe deposit box. During this time, we find Nina Brown is having trouble with her experiment Agent Scott. It seems that they can not access part of his memories and the scientist find out it is because of the shared brain wave echoes of Agent Dunham. Back at the lab Peter finds out the location of the next bank after Olivia finds out that one of the suspects has just landed in Providence. Dunham and Agent Francis give chase to the escaping criminals and apprehends one of them. Peter wants to interrogate the suspect in custody because he realizes that the suspect is suffering from radiation poisoning. He gets that the plan leads to a map of Westford, Massachusetts. Little Hill field is in Westford, Massachusetts.

Mr. Jones back in Germany, has been having his lawyer run errands for him one of which is to acquire one Olivia Dunham. On they’re last visit, Jones snaps the lawyer’s neck, takes his suit, and stands in the corner of the room. Agent Loeb and his two remaining recruits are setting up the equipment found in the deposit boxes. Agent Francis leads a fleet of agents toward Little Hill with Olivia intercepting from the other side. Olivia gets cut off by unknown assailants and kidnapped. Mr. Jones is being beamed Star Trek style from the jail in Germany to the field in Westford, Massachusetts which happens to be the Fringe science of the day: Teleportation

This was the best episode so far of Fringe and by far the best in a long time. When Mr. Jones was first introduced, he was a very intriguing character that I hoped that they would use more in the future and I was not disappointed. He is a seedy, intelligent villain that has unknown intentions that I can’t what to find out. The main characters were written better than in any of the previous episodes. Walter is great comic relief while still maintaining the fact the he is a genius, Peter is fast becoming a great character, Broyles is always strong, and Olivia still needs work but she is getting better as a likable character. I like how this episode intertwined with previous episodes and what a find at the end with the teleporter.

Star of the Show: Mr. Jones

I know that he is a Hannibal Lecter doppelganger but last I checked, there is nothing wrong with that. He is an enigma, his intentions unknown and his past concealed. He killed his employee with one twist of the neck and stole his suit so he could look good on his grand arrival. Hardcore