Fringe baldness

This show creeps me out. This week's eppy, though, somehow took a creepy kid and made him quite endearing. Even made my eyes tear up a little.

A kid (alien?) baldy was found living in an underground facility that had been sealed off for a century, with no evidence of how he'd gotten there and little of how he'd survived. He can't speak, but can write, and has some hyper-intuition that may be mistaken by WebMD as psychic ability. Kid A somehow makes strong connections with certain people and can tell what they are thinking and feeling from miles away, like a shark (this show is so educational). Luckily for the gang, this kid has love at first sighted Olivia and also has some special bond with The Artist, a serial killer who Olivia has been after for a long time and is back making ugly ladies dead and pretty. He senses Olivia's need to find this man and catch him and kill him and eat him, and so he gives her the venues for the Artist's next exhibitions and saves the day.

The CIA is also interested in the boy, and an officer who is excited to have "found another one" poses as social services and tries to take him. "WhytheCIAwannawatchus?" asks the boy, and Olivia arranges to have him sent to live with a nice family while Agent Broyles lies to the CIA that he disappeared, as one would expect an alien baldy to do.

Considering Peter's ability to put clues together and Walter's understanding of things abnormal, it is a surprise to me that no one even mentioned the kid's likeness to the alien baldy Observer. The Observer himself noticed and even made the trip from playing Where's Waldo on American Idol to somewhere on Fringe where he stood watching as the kid was driven to his new fam. Also, what is the point of a cliffhanger if you act like it didn't happen when you return from hiatus? There was no mention of the Germ or Walter's novella or Olivia's energy-saving powers. Though, perhaps the reason Olivia inspires divinations from baldy Trelawny is because she has some GC161 powers herself?

Next week doesn't seem like it will address either of those things, but maybe it will add more to the mystery. I could do without the eye-opening intro again, though, thanks JJ. And more Joshy next time, please!