A lion-snake named Harriet

Tonight's Fringe involved a hybrid animal monster - think Montauk Monster meets Scorpion King - that goes around impregnating menz with its stinger (that's what he does?) and killing those unworthy of carrying its larvlets.


A group of MIT <3s PETA members break into one student's father's animal testing facility to let all the mascara-tested bunnies go and accidentally unleash Harriet from her red-light district holding cell. (Imagine with me that it was Joshy's idea to start this eppy with Revlon rabbits, as a shout out to MB and, probably mostly, moi.) Needless to say, these students are killed by the monster, who liked getting makeovers and does not appreciate their meddling. Nancy Drew and crew notice from the fang and claw marks on the bodies that this is a case of the fringe, but it's from a stinger extracted from one victim that Walter realizes the creature is actually the mutt of Darwin's dreams, curiously similar to one he tried to create many years back. Best to keep that to yourself, Walt.

It's only after our dear Charlie gets stung by Harriet and one of the victims pulls an Alien, birthing a bucket... make that two buckets, Peter... of larv guys, that Walter decides to share his pet (ha) project with the class. Tsk on you for keeping such a secret, Walter. Still with dunce-cap on head, Walter proposes that the only way to abort Charlie's babies is by injecting him with baby mama's blood. And so they pack their picnic baskets full of larvae for bait and Scooby Snacks for, well, snacks, and head to the sewer where the monster roams. Walter, feeling the dunce-cap was not enough to rid him of his unnecessary guilt (turns out this monster is unrelated to his fail monster of yore), puts himself up as bait and goes looking for danger. How good you are at hide-and-seek-roulette, Walter, you both found and shot the monster!

And Charlie's saved! Thank gawd, because Charlie might be the only likable character on this show, being funny and sweet and married, like he is.

In addition to the Observer apparently being in all the episodes and these sublyminal images that I think are supposed to intrigue us into conspiracy-theorizing, I think the writers are trying to tell us something about Olivia's maternal clock. Bald kid, her niece, and larvae - it's all just more than she can handle right now! AND Joshy is totes macking on her sister. Poor gal. SWF-ing Patricia Arquette with her Medium skills next week should take her mind off things, though.