Episode 205 review

Fringe division travel to Seattle after becoming aware of an incident involving a deranged man who attacked his boss because he believed it was an evil creature with ram's horns. Like other mysterious events continue, the team continuously explores the links related to weird dreams. In pursuit of more information, Agent Broyles has a disturbing encounter with the enigmatic director of Massive Dynamic, Nina Sharp, who leads the investigation in an unthinkable direction.

For this last episode before the hiatus, creators of Fringe have definitely the gift of making us want more and more. An ending with Peter who dreams he is kidnapped by his father is a prelude to a revelation that will be so heartbreaking. John Noble and Joshua Jackson were able to show us a relationship between a man and his son who little by little loves him dearly. Their relationship grew over the episodes and we saw Peter trusting gradually Walter. The betrayal will be so huge!

I loved the first scene of the episode it finally reconciled me with the character of Sam Weiss. Before I found this character stereotypical, unoriginal and his methods were theoretical and vague. This week he tried to talk to Olivia to make her laughs and help unravel some problems in her life. I finally found this useful for a change.

The case of the week focuses on dreams and, for the occasion, we travel in Seattle. The investigation soon leads Olivia and Peter to Dr. Nayak (Ravi Kapoor) after a little help from Nina Sharp. The scene where she is present does not seem very natural, which reinforces the impression of shortened screenplay tricks.

Dr. Nayak is working on dreams with patients participating in a highly rewarding experience, but someone seized his equipment and files to divert the project based on a chip implanted in the brain. As usual, Walter will take his experiences and eventually found the key issue leading Olivia to what is necessary to complete the picture. This is those rather interesting ideas that allow the end of the episode to have a nice twist that brings a more well-paced investigation, but not necessarily exciting. Admittedly, the machinations of Walter provide good entertainment, but when we reach the half-story, the investigation stalled a bit.

Olivia's mourning the death of her friend and former partner that she eliminated. Charlie was an important moral support for Olivia and his departure leaves a great void in her life. I was caught in this sense of loss when she deposited a wreath on the grave of Charlie.

References this week are not very numerous and / or I have not seen.

• The medical examiner is named Shayne Wilson. It is also the name of the assistant production coordinator on Fringe, Shayne A. Wilson.


• The assistant of Dr. Nayak, Zach Miller, is named after two new writers for Fringe, Zack Stentz and Ashley Edward Miller, who wrote the episode of the previous week and the film adaptation of Marvel’s Thor.


• Dr. Nayak hosting and interacts with the FBI look like Dr. Jekyll, while his alter-ego, the dreams junky look like Mr. Hyde. (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)


• The poster in the bedroom of young Peter is the "Challenger mission 11". In our world, his last mission (# 10) took place on the January first 1986 when it exploded in midair.

The secret word of the week is BETRAY. I am not sure if the word applies for Charlie (to Olivia), Dr. Nayak (to himself) or Walter (to Peter). The Observer is seen walking down the steps of the laboratory of Dr. Nayak while Olivia responds to a call from Sam Weiss.