Fringe“Power Hungry”
Original Airdate: Oct 14, 2008
Tameca - TwoCents Reviewer
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After two weeks Fringe is back with the most consistent episode thus far, and the most likeable test subject. So without further ado, lets……
Meet Joe.
Joe is late for work. Joe listens to REO Speed wagon’s ‘Cant Fight This Feeling’ on his ancient portable cassette player. Joe is constantly frying out his work equipment. Joe has a bunch of pictures of his coworker (Bethany) on his cell phone. Joe is not a stalker, his is in love.
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Original Airdate: Oct 14, 2008
Tameca - TwoCents Reviewer
tameca@thetwocentscorp.com
After two weeks Fringe is back with the most consistent episode thus far, and the most likeable test subject. So without further ado, lets……
Meet Joe.
Joe is late for work. Joe listens to REO Speed wagon’s ‘Cant Fight This Feeling’ on his ancient portable cassette player. Joe is constantly frying out his work equipment. Joe has a bunch of pictures of his coworker (Bethany) on his cell phone. Joe is not a stalker, his is in love. Joe realizes Bethany Is dating the office tool. Joe passes the Observer as he and Bethany get in an elevator. Joe drops his phone and Bethany picks it up, she sees her picture and is sufficiently creeped out by Joe. The elevator goes into a freefall, crashing at the parking level. Joe is the only survivor.
Bigletters!Boston Mass. Olivia tells Charlie about seeing John and he reassures her of her sanity. Its normal after all she’s been through.
Sexydarkagent Broyles calls the team together and tells them of a power surge in Tokyo that caused a train derailment. He believes that there is a connection to the elevator accident.
Olivia and her team arrive at the site and Walter discovers thermo electric burns on the victims bodies. There is a electromagnetic field remaining in the elevator.
Back at the lab Walter removes the heart from one of the bodies (this weeks gross out moment) and tells them of a project he worked on that would allow properly altered homing pigeons to track a humans electromagnetic signature. He hooks it up to a battery and the residual energy left from Joe jump started it, leaving him to conclude that they are looking for a human with the edibility to control machines and the like. Peter states the obvious and we cut to Joe.
For some reason beyond my comprehension Joe decided to go back to work. He still has blood on him and looks like hell. His boss is pissed off and fires him, to which Joe responds by switching on a dormant machine the guy was working with and skewering his arm.
SexydarkAgent Broyles reveals that the get-thin-quick and self help infomercials that come on at 3 in the morning are actually covers for underground clinics that experiment on people and it is likely Joe is the victim of one such scheme. Olivia stays at work late and the lights go out. Being a fearless agent she goes to investigate and despite the creepy noises keeps her cool until John appears. He attempts to reassure her of his love and faithfulness but says there will be a time for that later. She needs to get to Joe before Fischer does . He boards the elevator and Olivia runs to the bottom floor to catch him but when the doors open there is no one in it. Fortunately this encounter causes her to notice the maximum weight plaque and check the weight of the elevator that crashed. The team realizes that there is a weight discrepancy and whoever walked away from the crash is their target.
Joes goes home and begs for help from his mother, she has unkind words for him and In his upset state he screws with her pacemaker and gives dear mummy a heart attack. He decides to run but doesn’t get very far as the man that John warned Olivia about, Fischer, is waiting for him outside. The bad guys promise that all they want to do is adjust his medication.
Olivia and Charlie are too late, when they get to his house Joe is gone. She performs an inventory of his electronics as Walters request and when she checks of an old boom box he realizes that the portable cassette player found amidst the elevator rubble belonged to Joe, and the tape would contain an imprint of Joes pulse. With that pulse they can track him with only two dozen pigeons.
Olivia is worried Walter will blow up one of the birds and he doesn’t ease her fears. She goes to get a soda and John appears to her. She says he’s not real and he kisses her. Peter interrupts and john vanishes.
Walter and superjuniorAgent Astrid release the birds and guide Olivia and Peter to Joes location.
Joe is being tortured/tested on All he wants is to go back to his semi-pathetic life but the Fischer says its too late, he went to them to develop confidence in himself and now he has it and special abilities - all thanks to science.
Charlie and Olivia do the FBI thing and capture the Fischer, Joe had escaped but didn’t get far as Peter clocked him with a crow bar.
Walter has milked Jean the Cow and is drinking it from a beaker. He remarks on Olivia’s strange behavior and guesses that she has been seeing John. He says that a part of his conciseness crossed over into hers when they mind-melded and her brain is exercising his thoughts, expelling him from her mind because there is only room for one voice.
As she drives home she sees him walking down the street and she pulls over and follows him down into a dingy hole of an office that is stacked high with files. The files are related to the pattern and chronicle all the cases he worked on but not whom he worked for. Also in the room was a safe with some personal items, pictures, some notes and a wedding ring with the inscription - Always.
COMMENTARY
I enjoyed Power Hungry, it wasn’t great but undoubtedly the most even episode we‘ve had so far. I really liked seeing the Observer in a split second scene and the elevator crash was awesome.
I simply love Astrid and Walters banter, its too cute.
I felt strangely disconnected from Anna Torv’s character this week, don’t know what it is but as I re-watch it, I feel like something is off.
QUOTES:
Did you just make that thing come back to life? - Astrid when the heart started beating again
No………not in this particular instant. - Walter Bishop
I know we’ve only been together a short time, but I’m going to miss them, such majestic creatures. - Walter as they prepare to release the pigeons.
They’re rats with wings, you’ll get over it. - Astrid
I wonder if this episode was out of order with the rest... When we last saw Astrid and Dr. Bishop together, she was none to happy with him for sticking her in the neck with a syringe. I don't think she would have gotten over that so fast.
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