Fringe – Recap & Review – Night of Desirable Objects

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Fringe
Night of Desirable Objects

Original Air Date: Sept 24, 2009

Rachel – Sr. Managing Editor
rachel@thetwocentscorp.com

It’s a monster-of-the-week episode, people! And if you enjoyed Decent, or the first 20 minutes of Jeepers Creepers, or (dare I say it?) The X-Files episode “Home,” then you’re in for a treat… and a little nausea!

There have been a slew of missing persons in a small Pennsylvania town as of late. Peter thinks that any case involving sudden disappearances might help Fringe Division figure out Olivia’s own sudden disappearance. Needle in a haystack, my boy. Against my advice, Peter drags Walter and a newly-hospital-discharged-and-still-quite-skittish Oliva to the great PA to snoop around.

One man, a former doctor by the name of Hughes, likes to visit those who have missing loved ones. Peter and Olivia pick up on this and go to the man’s farm to question him. This is when Olivia’s super-spidey-hearing kicks in. What? You heard me. Seems Olivia is getting flashes of hearing everything within a mile or two, including flies walking on wallpaper on the other side of the house, and someone else breathing. Who IS that? They learn that Hughes had a wife that died in childbirth and a baby son that only lived for five minutes 17 years ago. It would be sad if Hughes wasn’t so creepy, what with all the old medical equipment and shovels lying around the house.

FD decides to exhume the bodies of the mother and child and find something quite interesting. The baby’s coffin is empty and under it is evidence of burrowing. Yep. Burrowing. Baby crawled out and down, underneath the town. Apparently, the wife had Lupus and, being the devoted husband that he was, Hughes mutated the child in-utero so he could survive his mother’s disease. In doing so, Hughes created a monster, a’la Decent, who is now a 17-year-old Gollum with a taste for Soylent Green (that’s people). Hughes has been burying the bodies to cover up his “sins of the past.” When Olivia goes in to question him, he has hung himself. So, after some good scares in the caverns under town and a cop car falling through a giant sink hole crushing our little Precious, the case is solved.

But then there is the whole super-hearing/Charlie-is-a-Pod-Person thing to deal with. Charlie2 is, under instructions from that mirror typewriter, staying close to Olivia and trying to help her remember whatever it is he thinks she should remember. And the hearing? Well, Nina Sharp in all her overweight Scully glory gives Olivia the name of a man to see to “help put her back together.” The guy, Sam Weiss (hmm… Samwise Gamgee?), asks Olivia if the headaches have started yet… cause they will.

Man, I love this show.

What do YOU think? Did the continuity of the scarecrow’s arms bug you as much as it did me? Did Walter not remember the night fishing story because it was Other Walter who experienced it? Give us your Two Cents in the comment section below!

Next Week: Fracture