FringeIn Which we Meet Mr. Jones
Original Air Date: Nov 11, 2008
Brittany – TwoCents Reviewer
Brittany@thetwocentscorp.com
After a nice hiatus we’re back, and I’m taking over for Tameca. I currently review Heroes and I’m glad to be able to recap one of the new and successful fall shows this season. We have a lot to recap, so let’s get to it.
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ReplyDeleteIn Which we Meet Mr. Jones
Original Air Date: Nov 11, 2008
Brittany – TwoCents Reviewer
Brittany@thetwocentscorp.com
After a nice hiatus we’re back, and I’m taking over for Tameca. I currently review Heroes and I’m glad to be able to recap one of the new and successful fall shows this season. We have a lot to recap, so let’s get to it.
After a failed recon mission by the FBI to put a smuggling operation to an end, Broyles is talking with a man named Mitchell, trying to figure out what weighs only seven pounds that would be worth smuggling. Mitchell collapses in the middle of their meeting, and after being rushed to the ER, the doctors open his chest. Inside and wrapped around his heart is something that looks like it has teeth. When prodded, it squeezes around the heart which is definitely not good. Broyles calls Olivia, Peter and Walter; the latter states that though he’s never seen anything like this before, he needs to study it back at his lab. Mitchell is taken back to Harvard, and upon further examination of the organism, Walter declares that it’s a parasite of human design. A DNA test shows that its DNA pattern is too perfect and organized to be natural. Astrid says that it looks like something called a Cesar shift which is a code that takes one letter of a word and replaces it with another, but in alphabetical order.
All of this triggers a memory for Olivia, and she tells Broyles that she remembers John Scott working on a case called ‘ZFT’. Broyles tells her that a man in Germany named David Robert Jones has been a prisoner there for being a part of a terrorist group involved with genetic weaponry. The terrorist groups work out of at least 83 different countries and may or may not be relevant to the Pattern. Broyles believes that they are though; conducting mass experiments on an unsuspecting public (like the plane in the very first episode). Olivia decides she’s going to hop a flight to Germany to see if she can talk to Jones, even though he’s been denied visitors and extradition.
Mitchell, meanwhile, is getting worse as the parasite now has roots that are spreading through his body and up the IV in his arm. Walter declares that the man only has a day to live at best. Broyles tries to thank Walter for all of his hard work which gets him a lovely story about a fruit cocktail. When he tries to confront Peter about Walter, he’s met with ambivalence. Peter knows his father is crazy and it’s what he’s been trying to tell people from the beginning. Charlie calls and tells Broyles that Mitchell may have been targeted with the parasite because he was close to finding out the FBI had a mole and was leaking information to the ZFT group. He also says that John Scott may or may not have been that mole, or at least an accomplice. A man from outside of the FBI, Joseph Smith, has been linked to ZFT, so Broyles sends a SWAT team to get him.
Meanwhile, in Germany, Jones says that the only way he’ll talk to Olivia is if he can talk to an old colleague of his: Joseph Smith. Olivia calls Peter who then tries to get to the SWAT team to relay the message, but it’s already too late. When Smith tried to bolt and pulled a gun, he got shot in the head. All is not lost though, because Walter says that he can try to read the dead man’s brain by hooking Peter and Smith up to an electrical machine. Astrid will read a question out loud, Walter will shock both Smith and Peter, and Peter will be the conduit. Sounds safe (not really), but they need time to prep.
Olivia takes this opportunity to have dinner and wine with an ex-flame named Lucas who gets her to open up about John. He tells her that he still has feelings for her and they make out for a while before Peter calls and says they can start getting information from Smith. Hopefully. Once she makes it back to the prison, Olivia only has 14 minutes to speak with Jones. Unfortunately, Peter isn’t getting anything from Smith, and Jones starts to smell B.S. He asks his question though: “Where does the German Live?” About that time, Broyles and Mitchell’s wife Samantha show up and Mitchell starts losing his heart beat. Walter shocks Peter, but the only thing Peter gets are tally marks. He writes them on paper and no one knows what they could possibly mean. Walter says that when Smith was killed, his brain was destroyed because he took a bullet to the head, so they’ll have to fill in the blanks. Finally, Peter gets the words ‘Little Hill’, and when Olivia gives the answer to Jones, he responds by telling Olivia how to kill the parasite. Once it starts to die, Mitchell is taken back to the hospital, and Olivia heads back to the states.
Broyles goes to see Mitchell and tells him that he thinks he was targeted with the parasite because he was close to finding out who the mole was within the FBI. Mitchell has no idea who might have felt threatened though, as he thought he was onto John and no one else. Olivia asks Broyles privately what Little Hill means and he avoids her question by giving her praise and talking a lot until she nods and walks away. She finds Peter, and the two of them head off for drinks. Once alone, Samantha drops the concerned wife act and Mitchell asks if she got what he needed. Leaning over, she whispers the words ‘Little Hill’ into his ear.
So, what did you think? Were you surprised by the twist at the end like I was? What do you think ‘Little Hill’ could possibly mean? Email me or leave your TwoCents in the comments! (Now taking conspiracy theories.)