Is your dad a terrorist?

Because, baby, you're the bomb!

That is my favorite pick-up line of all time, and a contributing reason's to R's mail being held for weeks and her father being put on the CIA watch-list.  My bad.

Last night's Fringe got back on the bigger-picture track, revealing a little more about the fight we're in against an unknown enemy and the side-effects of traveling between realities, and our favorite character of all!  But I will save that for the dramatic ending.

Police Officer Dizzy Gillespie gets a call from KFC telling him to go to the train station and find a trenched man and take his briefcase.  When the briefcase walks into the station, all of the cool Euro flippy train scheds start to flip out (ha) and when Dizzy touches the briefcase, he starts to crystallize and suddenly esplodes.

When the gang arrives at the train station, after Astrid greads about the esplosion, they learn that none of the millions of anti-terrorist butt-bomb detectors detected anything and so what even esploded?  Walter finds the Sorceror's Stone and licks it, discovering that it's not a semi-precious stone or an immortality rock, but Dizzy's crystalline ear.  After questioning Dizzy's wifey, and getting a flashback headache (as Lebowski warned would happen), Liv voms in the bathroom and discovers a secret hiding place under the sink where Dizzy stored some needles and serum.  The team analyzes the serum and quickly realizes Dizzy's drug shooting turned him into a human bomb, waiting for the right frequency radio station to set him off.

While stationed in Iraq, Dizzy, along with The Colonel, was a part of Project Tin Man, clearly related to the human bomb business.  Asalam Alakum-ing some peeps from his shady past in Iraq, Peter is able to find one of the Tin Man doctors and learn all about the bomb business.  Everyone on the team was exposed to some cyan cerulean chemical and the injections were the anecdote, but then Tin Man got a heart and the project was over.  But The Colonel did not want it to be over, and started setting off human bombs all over.  His next bomb is a lady, who is on her way to the train station now.

The team spots her on the way and sets up snipers at the station. Even though they only have 30 seconds after the radio is turned on before she kabooms, they don't jam it immediately so they can have a chance of finding and apprehending The Colonel.  Except the radio station garbles their triangles and jam, so they can neither find Colonel or stop the signal.  But Peter rides in on his white horse and finds The Colonel with his eyes.  He beats him up like heroes do and Olivia takes his Walkman and stomps it with her cane that she can't bowl without.

Meanwhilst all this saving the world is happening, Lebowski fixes Liv's limp and Betty Draper hand-shakes by angering it out of her.  Miracle worker!

Back at the FBI, The Colonel swears he was just trying to destroy the contents of the briefcase with his bombs, the dead people was just an unfortunate side-effect.  He talks about "them", "they" who are collecting information - ALIEN BALDIES who are paparazzi-ing Walt!  Is he good?  Is he bad?  Is he just a huge Joshua Jackson fan?  (Watch it, Baldy.)

The end. Spock and the WTC next week!

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Honey, I mutated the Baby

Things were really picking up on this show, and then they gave us this throw-away episode. But in case any of this matters later, here is my throw-away recap:

Apparently it's been three weeks since last week, and Olivia is now ready to be released from the hospital.  How is it your face scratches still look so fresh after three whole weeks?  Voldy Charlie - remember he was pronged by Voldy and is not really the Charlie we love, but at least he's being given a couple episodes before being totally fired - is keeping close to Liv so she'll tell him about her alter-universe encounter with Bell if/when she remembers.

There's a dead construction worker, who happens to be the latest in a string of similar engulfed-by-the-earth-and-left-for-dead-underground deaths.  And so the team investigates!  Walter finds some blue goo, which is partly humanly DNAey and a paralyzer goo.  There is one man, Dr. Dre, about town whose house all the deaths seem to land under and he is taken into custody.  He sobs a story about how his wife died during childbirth and so he would never hurt anyone because he knows how sad death makes people, but then he refuses to give up a goo-matching DNA sample all suspect-like.  He is put into a holding cell where he Macgyvers a noose and hangs himself.

The team pushes daisies and pulls up wife and kid's coffins, only to find baby's coffin empty and a tunnel where he burrowed his way out.  Upon poking and bringing back to life and questioning and poking again, Walter finds that wifey had super Lupus, meaning she couldn't possibly have given birth. But she did.  Because Dr. Dre stemmed the fetus with scorpion cells to make it more resilient, thusly creating a Scorpion Baby that kills people.

Liv's adventure in the other world left her with Sookie's (Suh keh...) powers of hearing every sound and thought in the world at once.  Among these sounds was breathing in Dre's house, which was clearly Scorp hanging out in the walls.  Liv and Peter find a tunnel in the basement similar to the baby grave one, and while sticking her face where it doesn't belong, Liv was attacked by Scorp and pulled underground.  Like the perfy he is, Joshy followed her and smashed Scorp who was then further smashed by Sheriff Holly Golightly's cop car that fell through the earth onto his head.   The cleanup crew finds bear traps all over the yard to suggest Dr. Dre knew about his killer baby, but who cares because it has no obvious connection to anything else going on on this show.

Nina Sharp visits Liv and gives her a bowling card with one stamp left until a free game and tells her to go see the Big Lebowski for her psychological pains.  Which she does, and he is the always-the-bridesmaid-never-the-bride actor from all those Boston gangster movies and shows (The Departed, The Black Donnellys, Grounded For Life...).

Charlie goes to Borgin and Burkes and types on the writer, which mirrors him to "do something to help Olivia remember what happened."  Dun-dun-dun (in monotone).

Good on you if you read that whole thing, but you didn't have to because none of it mattered.  Sorry.

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Fringe and Harry and Potter

Like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies... you get it. 

First, a quick recapulet of last season('s finale): 
Every time you do or don't do something, an alternate universe is created in which you didn't or did do that something, respectively.  On Fringe, because JJ can barely keep his shows separate, we will pretend there are only two such universities.  The Peter we know and love is actually from "over there", as the show will call it, and was brought over here by our Walter after his Peter died.  Germy Jones (or, Dumbly #1's real-life son) tried to go through Platform 9-3/4 but Peter closed off the barrier between the two worlds and sliced him in half.  William Bell, head of Big Brother organization Massive Dynamic, resides over there. Nina Sharp told Olivia to meet her at a hotel, Olivia nearly got in a monster truck rally but didn't, the elevator flickered and she apparated to "over there", had a nice chat with Bell and the end.

Now, a montague of last night's season premiere:
A man hits-and-runs to an apartment in NYC pretending to be a Ming Gardens delivery boy.  He manages his way into a man's apartment and kills him.  Then he smashes his own face in to look like Quirrell-Voldy, sticks one end of a double-headed three-sharply pronged plug up into roof of dead guy's mouth and the other into his own, and re-inflates his face to look like dead guy.  Painful, but faster than Polyjuice for sure.



Back at the scene of the crime, new character, Enough's Agent Jessup learns that while there is no driver in either car, the one that didn't run but was actually never there is our very own Olivia.  Walter arrives, changes Liv's station from Z100 to Hot97 and she apparates straight through the car's windshield.  At the hospital, the doc says Liv's injuries are so serious that she'll probs never regain her conscience and so DNR.  Straight to the bar to have a scotch (whiskey? bourbon?) neat - seriously, after Jon Hamm and Joshy, this is apparently the trick to having me love you - Peter gets more bad news from Broyles that the Fringe Division has been laid off.  Damn, economy.

Joshy goes to say goodbye to Liv when she wakes up and Trelawneys him some Prophecy, which we later learn is Greek for "be a better man than your father", coincidentally what his mom used to tell him as a child.  In a somewhat refreshing moment of non-stoicitude, Liv freaks out about last night's party and some dude telling her she had to do something but she couldn't remember who he or what it was.  We've all had those nights, Liv. 

Joshy goes to the FBI but the Fat Lady tells him his password has expired.  Little Miss Jessup to the rescue, ugh.  How quickly you let her into your life, Peter.  Peter and Ketchup use Marauder to find the dead guy in the apartment and take him back to Walter to autopsy.  Of course, Walter knows all about the three-pronger because of one time this girl did lines off a Ouji board; cue video of Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty talking to mice, except in this case it's shape shifters.

Speaking of Capri-sun, Voldy goes to Borgin and Burkes and requests a Nimbus 251 typewriter which wasn't made in our world but sits in the Room of Requirement.  It functions like Tom Riddle's diary and informs him that Liv is still alive and he needs to make that stop.  And so he Padfoots and Prongs a nurse to gain access into the Gryffindor common room, pries a bed-ridden Liv for where someone (Bell) said something (dunno) was hidden, and starts to choke her when she doesn't remember.  Ketchup to the rescue again, ugh again, but still Voldy escapes to the hospital Chamber of Secrets. 

Peter, Charlie, and Ketchup go looking for Voldy.  Charlie finds and shoots her and is left to hang out with her merely stupefied self (while Peter and Ketchup go to his birthday party), only to be pronged and turned into meat pie (HP, Sweens, same diff...).  Peter really should've checked Facebook before telling Liv all was well. But at least he had the smarts to steal Voldy's prongy Horcrux to prove to the Ministry that there is real work to be done and that The Order should be reinstated.  The show must go on, after all.

And Nina Sharp kissed Broyley on the lippies, ewwww!

My divinations: 
That time Peter drowned as a baby, he actually died, but Alien Baldy brought Walter "over there" Peter as a replacement, which understandably really pissed "over there" Walter off.  Other Walter (again with "The Others", JJ!) is still bffls with William Bell and has started up this army of Shape Shifters to try and get Peter back.  And just so they can't date in this world or any other, Olivia is actually Peter's mom somehow.

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A Brief History of Time

I have just learned so much from JJ Abrams these past couple weeks about time travel and alternate realities and hot men. Trying to find answers to mysteries on shows from clues given in a movie is brain-hurting...but let's try anyway!

First, quickly, Fringe. The Germ is who shot Nina Sharp. He didn't kill her, but he did steal a powerful energy chip that was for some reason stored in her robot arm. The Germ is dying from his teleportating, so is using the energy chip to power his alternate reality hole making machine so he can go over to the other world and kick Bell's ass. You see, the Germ used to work for Will but got fired, so has been using all of Bell's fringy thoughts and discoveries to show him what's up. And all of these incidents have been happening where they have because those are the soft spots in the world through which it is easier to travel to the other side. The side that Bell is on. No wonder Nina is such a good personal assistant, her bossy can't ever make his this world meetings!

The reason Alien Baldy came to Walt was to remind him to look for something at his old beach house. When Walt went missing, Peter went to find him, and by reminiscing about whale-shaped pancakes, helped him remember what he was looking for. A plug to close the hole between worlds. Once upon a time, Walt lost something very special in this world (*coughPETERcough*) and wanted it back so badly that he went and took the still alive one from through the looking glass. After finding the plug, Pete and Walt go to the world's softest spot to close the hole and cut off the Germ - litrally - while he is half-way through. Icky.

Nina Sharp calls Olivia to meet her in NYC alone, and after hours of waiting, Liv gets into the elevator to leave, but flashing lights are everywhere, and she is vertically transported to the alternate world where Mr. Spock Leonard Nimoy William Bell is officed, in the still-standing Twin Towers.



To review: From Lost, we've learned that this already happened but we don't remember it because it hasn't happened for the right-now us yet. From Star Trek, we've learned that if for some reason you don't die when you are sucked into a black hole, you will be placed sometime in the past where you will wait to kill your nemesis before he kills your planet. And now, both of these ideas can be applied to Fringe, where things happen to us, and another us is created where those things didn't happen, and we can travel through black hole -esque holes to kill our nemesis in that other world which has its own time history that branched off from ours.

All set? There will be a test last Tuesday.

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This one goes out to the nerds...

Sooo much happened in this week's Fringe and it is definitely a better watch than it will be read, but here:

Now half the FBI is on the case to figure out what connection Alexander Graham Bell has to ZFT, which does not make Agent Harris happy. Harris is a meanie mean face who I think sexyly harrissed (ha) Olivia once and now is out to get her because he got detention for it. And because he is a part of ZFT and is trying to "activate" all the Cortexophan kids to see if they can take the heat (HA). See, that one is punny because those who cannot [use pyrokinesis to set others on fire], end up self-combusting.

One lady set herself on fire and died, and Olivia's double vision - a helpful side-effect to "the tests" and apparently related to Ezra's (read: Daniel Faraday's) time-space continuum theory from Lost - told her the lady was a long-lost twin. After her major fail, her twin was kidnapped by a Dr. Winters for activation by an Agent Harris. Harris locks Olivia and the twinny in a room so they will both esplode too when this twin combusts, but Olivia encourages her to control her powers and pyrotechnic Harris instead.

Awww, Joshyyy!! I'm kvelling! Joshy got lots of lines this eppy. Most were wasted on him pretending to be a Trekkie for the sake of JJ's "it's not product placement, I just like it" scheme. Aw but Clint Howard played the crazy that thought he was Spock, but also accurately described William Bell's child testing and war preparing. Awww, and Joshy invented this kewl electron microscope turntable for his paps, which he used to do stuff to learn stuff we already talked about.

Abaddon confronts Nina Sharp, seemingly the only person who works at Massive Dynamic, about Alex Graham Cracker. Nina was defensive at first, but then she got a phone call about something (Alien Baldy?) and went to Abaddon's house to dish. Thank you, Nina, and now we will no longer be in need of your services. When she went back to work, she was shot (and killed?) by some gaiz.

Walt shows Joshy the typewriter that typed the ZFT manifesto and says it was Bell's. He also says he doesn't think Bell would've intended bad things to be done with the manifesto and desperately tries to find the referenced Code of Ethics chapter. He finds it among his old records, but has no time to read it because Alien Baldy comes to take him away!

Now go watch so you can actually appreciate this eppy. Next week's the finale, but yay, it got picked up for another season!

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Forget swine flu, spinal syphilis is the new "it" illness

Fringe last night combined two sexy things: vampyrres and STDs. Doctor Scientist Boone (aside: it's not that Boone, but wouldn't it be great if Fringe and Lost did some cross-over thing? Just me? 'Kay.) Doctor Scientist Boone used to work for the ZFT making orifice sealing powders and reviving extinct species of syphilis, until he decided the gang life was not for him and he tried to leave. That ain't how it do on the skreets, Boone. So ZFT snatched his wifey and infected her with the syph (not as ringy as "the clap" but you'll take it) and maybe some Rob Patty blood, which turned her into a spinal fluid sucking lady of the nightclub.

Once cute men started showing up dead with serious hickies and their spines sapped, the gang got to tracking down the guy who ordered the dead strain of syph found on the victims' napes. Paging Doctor Scientist Boone, you're under arrest. Boone agrees to tell Olivia all he knows about the ZFT if she brings back his wife alive so he can anecdote (again, I know) her.

Sideplot: Olivia's sister's hubs is divorcing her and tryna take her baby. Shoulda signed a prenup! Are children included in prenups? Anywhooo, Joshy's reaction was more "friend who cares" than "dude who crushes" so I have decided they're not doing it. Good, because she is married! What is this sister's deal, anyway, why is she on this show? Good question.

Back to the action: While Pacey's cute face goes to bait the laydee at the Dirty Wrench industrial cloob, Boone and Walt (Gawd, JJ, stop confusing me with these Losty names!) are getting along swimmingly, sharing regrets and fixin' up an anti-syph cocktail. Boone, who had been feeding his wifey his own spinal fluid and is now chair-ridden, convinces Walter to take his last little bit to make the potion. La dee da, they catch the vampyrre and treat her, but not before Boone has a stroke and dies. Damn, now we'll never know about ZFT.

Psych! He videoed (EIEIEOed?) all the secrets he knew about ZFT and left it for Liv. Shocking twist that we knew all along: William Bell, head of evil corporation Massive Dynamic and Walt's old lab partner, is somehow involved. What a waste of a VHS. So next week we will learn about what receptionist extraordinaire Nina Sharp is hiding about Alexander Graham Drake William Saved by the. And and and! ALIEN BALDY IS BACK! Now if only Joshy could get more than three (bad) lines total in an eppy...

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Sweet dreams are made of this

This, being insight into a crazy's powers of suicide/murder persuasion. Y'know, the yooj. Oscar-winning Akiva Goldsman, whose most acclaimed work includes Lost in Space, wrote and directed this episode of Fringe, and it was fantastic.

We begin with Olivia pushing a lady in front of a subway train. Don't worry, it was just a dream. Orrr was it? It wasn't. I mean, it was, but it also actually happened. Just Olivia wasn't there and it was seen as a suicide. Olivia tells the gang about her dream to kill, and while Walter humours her with questions, Peter, as if he has not been around for the freakshow all season, is convinced it was just a nightmare. As if! Olivia jets off to NYC to investigate. And to kill someone else with her mind! A few looks through a magnifying glass and the gang notices a blondie scarface is common to both dream sequence crime scenes.

Nick Lane is a former mental facility patient who had checked himself out after being visited by a bespectacled man (probably important for later). The gang learns that Nick thought he was being prepared as a soldier for a war, and sees on his wall newspaper clippings about fringy tests on children. Walter shares that when he used to experiment on kids back in the day, the Tryptophan drug (the same drug that enables in them the Brite Lite abilities), allowed travel between realities. Annddd, they would pair kids off so they could have a friend at human-testing camp, and these pairs would sometimes develop very strong bonds. Strong enough to travel between each other's realities? Hmmmm, Walter?

Yes. In fact, that's exactly it. Olivia and Nick were BFFLs once upon a time, which is why she can dream what he is feeling and doing, as if it's her reality. While she got Brite Lite powers, Nick got the ability of being a hyper emoticon - his feelings are contagious to those around him, and since he is a sadface and wants to be an X-for-eyes, the people near him have been killing themselves and others.

To catch a killer, one must BE the killer. Ommm. Olivia goes under some techno-disco-strobe light hypnotism while she dreams Nick's meeting, sexing, and killing of a stripper lady. Everyone enjoyed witnessing this wet dream and all was good with the world again! They found Nick atop a building, but instead of killing him like he politely asked, they took him back to the CIA and put him in a coma, probably for more tests.

So now it's confirmed that Olivia was one of the ZFT mascara bunnies and Walter a ZFT researcher. And Peter a skeptic, still. Come now, Joshy, just take off your pants and believe!

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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.

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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!

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Zerstörung durch Fortschritte der Technologie, duh

Firstly, for it is bound to come up again, let me tell you straight up that I am a big, big, since he was Charlie Conway and I was a slumdog baby, fan of Joshua Jackson. I love him. As for the picture, I'm just keeping with the theme of the last post, that's all, okay?

Nextly, because Fringe has actually developed into a true JJ Abrams show where plotlines intertwine and mysterious secrets lurk, I will give you the haps til now so that you can be in the know for when it comes back next week.

Definition: Fringe science, as it sounds, is fringe-ly science; crazy shit that has some scientific plausibility, but not so much probability in our world of skeptical realists.

So in the first eppy, FBI agent Olivia Dunham and her partner, both in the worky and twerky sense, John Scott, get called to investigate a plane of people who died in a gross manner. John gets too close to the suspect's garage of chemicals which blows up and turns his skin clear, and the only way to save him is with an anecdote (yes, I know, it's antidote) for which they need THE fringe scientist, Walter Bishop. Enter the love of my life. Peter Bishop is just a smart, good-looking guy with a shady past and the only one who can sign his father out of the mental institute of technology he's been attending since he killed a young lady in a fringy experiment. While Pete and his pops are trying to cure John, Olivia is trying to solve the case, so she goes into a water tank and gets hooked up to John's brain so she can read his memories and see what the bad guy looks like. Eventually, they cure Liv's love but he turns around and tries to kill her, so she kills him. Sad, but she still has his memories. (HIS memories, did you catch that?)

Liv's boss, Matthew Abaddon, or Agent Broyles as he is called on this JJ show, is impressed and puts her and the rest of the gang on a task force to follow "the Pattern", a string of fringe occurrences. So for the next lots of episodes, all the incidents seem confined to one episode, blah blah. What you need to know: the guy that used to work with Walt on fringy stuff is now the head of an evil corporation, Massive Dynamic, which is somehow connected to all the incidents. John and his memories have been infiltrating Olivia's mind, helping her to solve mysteries and also scaring her and making her sad. Also, there is this alien baldy Observer who has been present at all the incidents (to observe) and long ago saved a drowning baby Peter so Walter owed him one getaway. He seems aight.

As these incidents are all part of a "Pattern" it made sense that things would begin to come together eventually. A group of bad guys walked-through-walls to break into Walter's bank vault and steal a gadget that he invented. They then kidnapped some geniuses to fix the kink in said gadget so they could use it toooo... TELEPORT a scary Germ from his high security prison cell in Deutschland to a field in the States! The head bad guy, Michael Loeb, was actually pretending to be a CIA agent and helped kidnap Olivia, but she figured him out because of a dot on his shoe and then she killed his wife. Upon hearing the news, he said to her, "Oh no you di'n't! We was tryna to save you but now look what you've done. Germ was just doing what's written in the ZFT manifesto. Go look it up, biatch." Then, Olivia goes hottubbing in the tank where she shares John's hopes and dreams and learns that he wasn't a bad guy at all, that he was part of a secret task force too, and that he really did love her. This was just the closure she needed to rid her brain of his.

Meanwhilst, the Germ is decompressing in a chamber, and the gang has learned of his prison break. Peter uses his connections from his times living on the edge to find the ZFT manifesto to understand where Germ is coming from and to figure out why people's orifices are sealing in the latest fringe science craze. Papa Walt then steals the ZFT for some light reading and is just tickled by the Courier New floating y's. After recovering from his jetlag, the Germ goes to the CIA headquarters to speak with Olivia. He whispers some sweet nothings about how everyone has the potential to use their left brain to turn off lights but society is so unaccepting that only kids who had an extra booster shot back in the 80s can do it anymore. And Olivia is one of those kids. So Germ set up a bomb with a Brite-Lite code on a building downtown and only Olivia's brain (sans John's brain, remember) can turn off the lights, and thusly turn off the bomb. So she goes and stares with all her eyes, and die-die-der-der-poof! the lights and bomb turn off. Olivia is convinced he planned it that way to mess with her pretty head but the Germ seems really excited so methinks not.

Last scene before the hiatus: Walter pulls down a rusty typewriter and types A-b-i-l-i-t-floating y. Ohhh scheisse!

And now you are caught up and excited to keep up.

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