Fringe – Recap & Review – Of Human Action

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Fringe
Of Human Action

Original Air Date: Nov 12, 2009

Rachel – Sr. Managing Editor
rachel@thetwocentscorp.com

We have a hostage situation, people. A 15 year-old kid and a couple of greasy looking guys are stopped by the cops. After checking that the kid is OK, Cop #1 decides to jump off the parking garage to his death and Cop #2 thinks it’d be a good idea to shoot Cops 3 and 4 and then herself. Hmm… And here’s the clincher: Tyler (this hostage) is the son of a Dr. Carson who just so happens to work in the aerospace division of Massive Dynamics. Well that’s just all kinds of fishy.

Fringe Division discovers that the kidnappers are used car salesmen with no criminal record. After they knock off a convenience store, FD gets video of some more weirdness. Why doesn’t Tyler run? Why are they not being sneaky, like, at all? Then, when a ransom call comes in, Olivia knows something is up. Why do they just want money? Massive Dynamics is involved. There MUST be something more.

Meanwhile, Walter figures out that there is mind control at work. The autopsy of Cop #2 confirms that massive amounts of outside mind control actually caused brain damage. He theorizes that the control is done through sound and devises a way for FBI agents to get near enough to rescue the boy without getting told to stick a ball point pen in their eye or something.

At the drop off, all the agents and members of FD are wearing sound dampeners. The baddie shows up, grabs the money, and the feds move in, only to discover that the two baddies were the ones being held hostage and the kid is the mind controller. Peter finds this out the hard way when he runs into Tyler… and the earphones don’t work. So now Peter is the hostage.

Through a bit of investigating, Olivia learns that MD has been working on unmanned flight project where pilots are injected with a drug to enable them to fly the planes remotely through only their thoughts. Dr. Carson (whose wife died when Tyler was little) thinks that Tyler swiped some samples of the drug and, combined with ADD medications, has become a very bad super hero. But that’s not all: FD also learns (as Tyler had a few weeks ago) that his mother didn’t die when he was little, she left. Olivia believes that he is on his way to meet his very-much-alive mother and they will only have this one chance to get Peter back.

Walter devises a plan that will basically short-circuit Tyler’s brain for a few seconds, but they have to get really close to him to do it. FBI swarms the mother’s home to find Peter holding a gun to her husbands head. Apparently, Tyler isn’t too happy that his mom abandoned him. Peter turns and shoots Broyles in the shoulder and Peter and Tyler escape. In pursuit, Astrid gets close enough to allow Walter to flip the switch. In that split second, Peter, back in control, drives the car into a telephone pole. The crash knocks Tyler unconscious and they put him under heavy sedation so the drugs can wear off.

Case closed, right? Wrong. We end with a letter Nina is typing to William Bell about the Penrose-Carson experiment. Guess what, kids? There are several Tylers, all borne through surrogates and assigned to different doctor-guardians who all employees of MD. In the last shot we see an unconscious Tyler being wheeled into Tyler storage. Nice. Yep, it’s the Eves all over again.

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