Fringe: It's Back!

While still basking in the afterglow of FOX ordering a full 22 episode third season of Fringe, I geared myself up for the start of the second half of season two. For the uninitiated, Fringe is an ultra-cool, trippy, sci-fi television show created by the team from Bad Robot Production Company headed by J.J. Abrams. Abrams is the excellent director who brought the Star Trek franchise back from the dead.

The plot of Fringe revolves around strange occurrences related to a phenomenon called "The Pattern." A special FBI task force, or Fringe Division, was hastily thrown together to investigate pattern-related cases. The lead investigator is Special Agent Olivia Dunham, played by the lovely and talented Australian actress Anna Torv. Dunham assembled her own group to assist her. That group is comprised of Walter Bishop, a brilliant mad scientist who was committed to a mental institution for 20 years, his son Peter Bishop, a genius-level repeat offender, and Astrid Farnsworth, a junior FBI agent who aids Walter as a laboratory assistant.

I cannot encapsulate the complete first season nor totally bring up to speed anyone who has never seen the show. What I can do is recommend that you pick up season one on Blu-ray; I got a wonderful price on Amazon.

In a recent episode, we saw Dunham go back to Jacksonville, to the army base she lived on as a child, and confront her darkest memories. She endured this in the hopes of being able to unlock her ability to connect with the alternate universe and avert a catastrophic event. Walter told her that the only way this was going to happen was for her to feel fear. Olivia Dunham does not know fear so mankind had a big problem.

The rules state that for everything that crosses over from the alternate universe, something from this universe must go over there. In that episode a building in New York City was the target and everyone who inhabited that building would be zapped over. Finally, Olivia accepts that she is scared and she notices a building in the distance glimmering… the target. Our heroine springs into action and disaster is averted. The tease at the end of the episode was when Olivia meets Peter for dinner and she can see him glowing. He is from the alternate universe. The episode ended with Walter begging Olivia not to tell Peter the truth.

Article Author: Lazaro Cooks

Lazaro Cooks is a personal chef living and working in the magic city of Miami, Florida. The son of Cuban immigrants, he weaves his Caribbean roots into his cuisine. When he is not working, or maintaining his blog, he finds time to contribute to the taste section of BC.
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