Wednesday, November 24, 2010

FRINGE: The Plateau (S3E3)

In the alternate world, a man who has been turned from a human vegetable into a calculation genius through clinical experiment tries to resist regression of his newfound intelligence by killing anyone who sabotages this plan. Statistical anomaly has suddenly turned into probable reality that results in fatal outcome.

Under the watchful eyes of Broyles and Walternate (alternate, more powerful and sane Walter in the other world), Olivia is sent to the field with agent Francis and agent Lee, and her sharp observation puts her in the top of the genius' NEXT-TO-KILL list. rahhhh. Danger danger.


Olivia feels at home and in charge and no one knows better about who she really is except for Walternate and Broyles. She feels empowered in the field. hallelujah. And we discovers that in this new world, ballpoint pens are sort of a novelty. Nobody uses them anymore except for a handful of hospitals which uses the pens as a tool to help patients with severe cognitive disability. This detail helps them find leads to the murderer but put their lives in danger as the genius plans his murder.


However, Milo - that's the name of the murderer/genius, doesn't know that Olivia is not from this world and thus fails to factor in that she might not act as predicted and that's her saving grace, really. She manages to dodge her calculated death because she doesn't follow the protocols but the reason she doesn't follow protocols is that she doesn't know these protocols. Genius is caught and now only talks to computers because mere humans can no longer keep up with his complex thoughts. Bummer for his sister :(

In this episode, Olivia obviously lost her original identity already and thinks that she has been in this world all her life BUT she also starts to hallucinate - seeing Peter in the field and Walter at the hospital. She knows these images are in her mind, they are not real, but they keep on recurring so something must be amiss. She knows it.

The image of Peter reminds her again why she did not die earlier that day and he tells her that she can't forget who she is, where she comes from and she can't forget Peter's kiss. whoa. way to charm a woman.  This is all Olivia's original mind's doing, of course, but I can't wait till she 'wakes' up and finds a way back to the real Peter!


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