Our favorite remorseful lunatic , Walter Bishop , almost completely stole last night ’s instalment of Fringe — except that some very poignant Peter / Olivia moment call for our attention as well . Here are the 10 great Walter Bishop moments from last night ’s Fringe .
The 10 time above , in order , are :
1 ) Walter make breakfast for Peter and Olivia . And apparently he cerebrate bacon is call “ pig ’s bum . ” Or that ’s just what fits in with the Sung he ’s attempting to make up about breakfast .
2 ) Breakfast is the most authoritative repast of the day — Walter proved this in 1973 ! How did he essay it ? What sort of experiment did he do , and how much LSD was there in the orange succus ? What was the control mathematical group ?
3 ) Walter sneakily skirt out of the house while Peter and Olivia are making bunglesome small talk of the town , so those youngster can have some real “ trapped with pancakes ” clip together .
4 ) When Walter get a line how his match - qualification turned out , his prompt reaction is , “ Should have made a frittata . ” Because no adept - crossed lovers ( universe - thwart lover ? ) can reject a frittata .
5 ) Like a flash mob of suicide .
6 ) Walter flip a coin over and over again , and the look of growing repulsion on his brass as he drive heads each fourth dimension . You do n’t even call for to make love how the coin is coming up — I guessed what was going on just from the way Walter was staring .
7 ) Walter , freaking out that his macrocosm might be take up to start the way the other universe has , does n’t quite have time to say “ give thanks you . ” When Olivia suggests he should think the wizard word , he ’s like “ I ’ll say ‘ hocus pocus ’ if it means you ’ll do your freakin jobs . ”
- or else of explain why he want some honest-to-goodness typeface file to Astrid ( the way a ripe insane scientist is supposed to ) , he gets even scratchy . I love “ is it 2nd - shot - everything - I - do day ? ” And I know that guilt and anxiety do n’t make Walter more wide-eyed as you ’d have ask — instead , they make him kind of obnoxious .
9 ) And this is the crux of the installment — face with the prospect of a crack in his existence that could change by reversal into a vortex , Walter is being drawn towards making the same decision that Walternate made : varnish the breach using amber . That choice will eat away what little claim Walter has to being less ruthless than Walternate . ( And he ca n’t love that last week , Walternate face the same pick as Walter — whether to test cortexiphan on small children — and made the less - evil choice . ) More than ever , we ca n’t really be sure which is the “ proficient ” Walter , and this realization is dawning on our Walter . It ’s almost as painful as the prospect of reality falling aside .
10 ) At the end of the episode , the prospect of a ruinous swirl has been averted , but Walter knows he ’s just delay the inevitable . He does n’t sleep together how to prevent the go from appear , or what to do about them . And then Nina , who ’s been in peril of turn into just a shoulder joint for Walter to squall on lately , articulate something really interesting : “ Well then , I think you need to learn . ” And Walter snuff it through about five different expressions on hearing this . Including a news bulletin of elation at the idea of acquire something he does n’t know . And something curiously akin to humility at the realization that there ’s stuff he does n’t know , that there are solvent he does n’t have yet . And that , right there , is why we bonk this Walter , and why he may be the “ good ” Walter after all . Because he ’s done some terrible thing , but he ’s come up out of it with a bit more humility . Unlike Walternate , whose main machine characteristic seems to be a need to appear to be in control all the fourth dimension , Walter has accepted that he ’s often at the mercifulness of the population . Which is why Walter may be more able to find out than Walternate . It ’s funny how much that idiomatic expression seems to solace Walter .
So yeah , this was the first sign that our universe of discourse is not as stable as we ’d hoped — and fitly , the realisation came during a big Tom Stoppard tribute . The building where the severance in the paries between universes occurred is the Rosenkrantz building , named for Stoppard ’s play Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead . Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are two nonaged characters in Shakespeare ’s Hamlet , and Tom Stoppard plays with the estimation that they ’re pitiable dupe of the large story they ’re stuck in . He also play with causality by having them flip a coin that rick up heads each time — just as Walter ’s coin does .
You have to inquire if this means that there ’s a larger storyline taking place that we ’re only seeing glimpse of , much as Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern only see coup d’oeil of the floor of Hamlet ? maybe it ’s a story write long ago by the First People , or possibly it refer a champion we ’ve scarce even met ? Or maybe the Stoppard extension are supposed to convey that the universe is capricious and drives us towards a particular remnant , even while we cling to the illusion of liberal will ? possibly there ’s a disaster in Walter ’s future that he ca n’t change , any more than he can make one of those coin tosses amount up tail coat ?
The other gravid reference I caught is that the adult female at the start of the installment is leaving the Rosenkrantz edifice forever , and moving into the Schrodinger Motel . Presumably this is a station where all the rooms are in a quantum state , and the beds are both made and unmade , until you get to the door . More to the point , though , Schrodingercoined the term “ entanglement,”in which two particles can be in a relationship despite being far asunder . And last night ’s instalment contain the 2nd prompting that things could be mat between the two universes — the first being that typewriter that Fauxlivia and Newton used to communicate with the other side .
This time around , it was a sorrow widow on this side and a grieve widowman on the other side who became entangled . A couple months earlier , a fuse tout in their flat in both universes . And they tossed a coin to see who would go exchange it . ( The coin cast aside again ! ) In this universe , the husband went , and was electrocuted . In the other universe , the wife got microwave . Because the wife “ over here ” and the hubby “ over there ” were both grieving , their bodies made a sort of rude equivalent to cortexiphan , and they were able-bodied to see each other — thinking they were seeing ghosts .
And in the end of the episode , the falling out between universe is only contain when the wife agnise that ’s not really the ghost of her husband , and she needs to allow go of him once and for all . It ’s a fleck of a flimsy plot , to be honest , and the last scene of Olivia and Peter telling the widow to rent go was pretty much the only light scene in the whole episode . But like so many other episode latterly , it ’s only there as a kind of grace note and impulsion to the stories of our independent characters . ( Really , Fringe need to take out out a good solid “ A ” plot one of these hebdomad , just to prove they can still do it . )
The “ entangled widow / widowman ” plot swear out to kickstart the “ cracks in the universe ” storyline — but its main function was to shed light on the Peter / Olivia relationship . Like I said , there were some really neat , poignant moments between Peter and Olivia last dark , which made their relationship feel real , and quite unlike from the Peter / Fauxlivia affair .
Olivia confronts Peter about the fact that he has n’t been honest with her about Fauxlivia . And in response , Peter is slightly less dishonest than before . Yes , he still thinks about her , but only because he get to have this beautiful matter with her , and he jazz it could be beautiful with Olivia too . For a con - human beings , Peter is kind of a mediocre prevaricator , and Olivia seems doubtful — but then he throws it back onto her : Fauxlivia is n’t there to issue forth between them any more , so who ’s really stopping them from being together ?
Later , Walter create a more successful attempt at drive those Thomas Kid together than his bomb flapcake ploy . He ready them instal seismograph equipment at the construction in Brooklyn , and then wait on site , in the freezing common cold , in suit he has any calibration . ( A side note : Is it a augury of the universe unraveling that Cambridge , Mass. and Brooklyn are apparently right next to each other now ? masses keep popping back and forth . Or was it actually Brookline , and I just misread ? ) Peter and Olivia wind up waitress in a bar , where Peter commit on some Stevie Wonder .
And Olivia ’s almost convinced to essay again with Peter — but when she kiss him , he begin gleam . Because whenever Olivia feel fear , she can see a kind of glow emanating from thing from the other universe . And Peter ’s from the other existence . So Olivia ’s still feeling afraid , and maybe it ’s on-key that she ’s preserve them asunder because she ’s too screwed up to make it puzzle out .
There ’s some marvellously subtle acting from Anna Torv — as well as the unappreciated Joshua Jackson — in this episode .
And in the final moments , Olivia incur over her fears because of the thing that Peter told old Mrs. Entangled about how most multitude do n’t get to have a whole lifespan with the person they love . So she conduct him up the stairs to his bedroom — where I ’m guessing they ’ll be woken by Walter bust in with a frittata in the morning . ( I know , Walter ’s in New York . But see above for the protein folding of time and distance , or the way - faster Acela trains , in the bang - poesy . )
So the episode leave alone us with some shoes still to deteriorate — like how things will interchange when Peter finds out about the bun in Fauxlivia ’s oven . And just what Walter will do the next meter there ’s a maw in reality .
But first , we get another flashback sequence , this time show that Peter and Olivia actually met when they were Kyd . This could be one soap - operatic saltation too far , or it could be a dandy deepening of the fictional character and the mythos . Let ’s desire for the latter . Here ’s the first sneak peep from next week ’s installment :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV0ze8HYK90
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