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I totally agree w/Steve. And what was up w/her being the only agent coming from the other side? Shouldn't they have split up evenly to go after these people?! I loved the scene when Olivia was talking to the widow and didn't even have a clue that it wasn't her memory. Plus, the scene where Peter asks his dad - "if you were going to rent a safe deposit box..." That was totally brilliant!!!

Not just a time machine. As Walter said, and the review pointed out, "In theory, it could retrieve *anyone* from *anywhere*" (my emphasis)

I agree in a sense with your sentiment that this is the first show that really seemed like it was trying to tell a coherent story and pull a few things together. I found this to be the most interesting show so far, but it is still so full of holes that make me go Holy Sh%t! This is a stupid show. Case in point:

(1) We learned that Peter nearly died when he was a boy, from a rare type of bird flu. (2) There was a doctor with a cure who had died years earlier. (3) So Walter built a time machine to go back and get the doctor, but he didn't need it because Peter recovered. "In theory," said Walter, "it could retrieve anyone from anywhere."

(1) Isn't bird flu new? Isn't that kind of a topical thing that doesn't make a lot of sense to have happened many years before. But whatever, it isn't ridiculous, like...

(2) Since when do cures die with the doctor's that discovered them? Plus, flus are viruses and viruses don't have cures--they have vaccines, and even then they are stored somewhere. The idea that a medical cure would only be known by one doctor is preposterous, but not as preposterous as...

(3) Well, I needed this dead guy so I built a time machine. Of course he did. I was baking a cake the other day and needed some eggs, so I went to the store. Duh! We both just obviously do what anyone would do in the situation. Plain and simple. Seriously...I am so sick of every ridiculous absurd thing originating from something Walter (or as I like to call him "100 Einsteins") created before his trip to the funny farm, I'm still rooting for cancellation. Somehow.

I HATE this show for ripping off X-Files, but this was the first show that I thought maybe showed a glimmer that it could be something else. And that something else has to be in more of the comic book superhero-type vain, because its edge-of-reality based fringe science thing is just too stupid and absurd to be believed. I don't buy any of this in the real universe (like you could with the X-Files), but if you start to sell me an alternate universe explanation, I'd maybe go along. I don't buy Walter as a looney Kip Thorne, but as mild-mannered Lex Luthor, sure. Just don't expect me to buy what your selling if you want me to go with the former rather than the latter. Don't treat me like I'm stupid.

But I doubt that's where the show is going. Comic book heroes don't seem to be doing so well (see Heroes*). This was the first week that this show was interesting on a few levels and I WANTED to appreciate it. The teleportation, walking through walls, etc. I wish they could fix this thing up and keep the roof from caving in on it each week.

*Which I do not watch but can't escape reading about its many failings.

I agree that the episode was a very good and that overall all Fringe is an excellent TV series. As to comments about the bird flu, it could have been developed as a biological warfare agent, since Walter worked for the Military. Anyway the show is science fiction, it doesn't have to be real but it may be in the future. I can't wait to buy the first season on DVD. May the Fringe be with you.
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Of course she wouldn't realize that she wasn't in the marines. Because she thought John's memory was her own. Just like when she though she knew Raul. She remembered that like it was her own memory, so she did the same with the memory of being in the Marines.

I think that's why she's freaking out and why Walter wants to look into it further. It's no longer "oh haha it's John's memory" but "oh crap I'm losing track of my own memories with John's."

Hallelujah!