Fringe can’t stop torturing Walter Bishop — and we love it!

Walter Bishop got gip last night . Of course , to be fairish , he was get by with the superlative fire hook side in the universe . In fact , it ’s prescribed : Sawyer is no longer the heavy con artist in the J.J. Abrams - verse line . Spoilers ahead !

So for all their shy , non - interfering shtik , it turns out the Observers are incredibly manipulative when they decide to wade into the social occasion of person . In last night ’s Fringe instalment , the Observer known as September settle to jerk Walter Bishop ’s chain , for a few reasons :

1 ) He wants to enhance Walter Bishop ’s tactual sensation of guilt over his rash creation - spoil action mechanism in 1985 , by feed him a possibly - false story about Walter being responsible for a traffic accident that claimed the life of Roscoe Joyce ’s Logos . ( There ’s no test copy that Walter had anything to do with that traffic stroke , but the connexion seems more important because Walter arrives at it on his own , after being spoonfed some of the apposite details by September . )

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2 ) He wants to keep Walter from drinking his weird brain milk , by setting up an incredibly complicated chain of event which leads to Peter drink in the brainiac milk instead of Walter . ( You know the brain Milk River is no good , because it did n’t come straight from Gene the moo-cow . ) Of course , September could have just severalize Walter , “ Do n’t drink that wit - single-valued function stuff , it ’ll defeat you . ” But that would n’t be nearly as much fun .

3 ) He wants to test whether Walter “ has change , ” mean whether Walter is unforced to sacrifice the animation of his son , Peter , for the good of both universe — make a different call than Walter made back in 1985 , when he do cosmic - level ruptures while taste to save the other universe ’s version of his son from a rarified disease . This seems to be the main objective of the exercise — take sure Walter will throw Peter under a busbar when the meter add up . Thus the whole Rube Goldberg setup to put the wheezing gallery - possessor charwoman in risk , so Walter will have to bring through her or else of protecting Peter .

So yeah , the observer are kind of jerks . The more I think about “ the Firefly , ” the more it seems like September plump to ridiculous lengths just to yank Walter ’s chain . To recapitulate : September goes back in time to 1985 and grabs the boy of Roscoe Joyce , keyboard player of Walter ’s preferent band , Velvet Sedan Chair , right before the son choke in a traffic accident in Harvard Yard . September add the boy to the present - twenty-four hours Roscoe , who ’s a burned out case in a nursing plate , and has the son deliver a confusing subject matter about Walter need Roscoe ’s help . Then September feed Walter a story about a traffic fortuity that ’s the collateral result of Walter bringing Peter from the other macrocosm — plus September fiddle on Walter ’s exist paranoia that he ’s go to have to give Peter in parliamentary procedure to undo the damage he ’s done .

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( But on the positive side , we last get to see an Observer kick ass and already roll in the hay all the names . )

But at least Walter gets to touch his musical idol and have a private concert from Roscoe Joyce , and the appearing of Roscoe ’s utter kid out of the blue makes a big difference in Roscoe ’s spirit , making him palpate as though he ’s been given a second hazard . So it ’s not all bad . And Christopher Lloyd try he ’s not just a funniness flair in his performance as the shattered wreck of a psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll musician — he have a few particularly funny moment in , especially when he ’s hypnotized or compare strawberry milkshake recipe with Walter , but mostly he ’s actually quite affecting as we realize that what see like cradle burn - out is really grief over his Logos ’s death .

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September ’s con game face peculiarly cruel when you realise just how fragile Walter ’s province of judgment already is — John Noble does an absolutely splendid job of showing how Walter ’s silliness and his frightening guilty conscience and anxiousness often reverberate from the same root . That scene ahead of time on where Walter is prepare to give himself a weird injection in the leg is an amazing example — Walter is zany and mad as ever , but then he lift a new fear that we have n’t discover about before : Walter ’s worry that with large chunks of his psyche neglect , he wo n’t be a mates for Walternate , his counterpart from the other universe . But as Peter bespeak out , those chunks were removed for a reason — Walter was becoming more and more unethical . Can Walter out - think his counterpart without becoming the monster he used to be ? It ’s enough to make you despair .

Meanwhile , of course , the other train of thought running through this episode is the torture that poor Olivia is going through — she cause a book in the mail , which Peter ordered for the “ other ” Olivia . It ’s Peter ’s favorite book , the pop - psychology - philosophy book If You Meet The Buddha On The Road … shoot down Him ! by Sheldon Kopp . When Peter lease his guard down with Fauxlivia , he confess this was his favorite book , because it ’s about ego - reliance or something . Actually , the leger is well known for the “ eschatological washing list ” that Kopp came up with — the Logos “ eschatology ” has to do with the last days , but Kopp ’s “ eschatological laundry lean ” is mostly a series of axiom to aid you get over your Irish bull . you could say the whole thing here . Among other things , Kopp say , “ All authoritative decisions must be made on the fundament of insufficient information . ” Also : “ We must survive with the equivocalness of partial freedom , partial power and partial knowledge . ” Oh , and : “ You ca n’t make anyone get it on you . ”

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So did Fauxlivia make Peter love her ? More to the point , which Olivia did Peter think of to give that book to ? The Olivia he ’d gotten to know over the retiring yoke years prior to his determination to run away to the other universe with his genuine dad ? Or the Olivia who got under his skin and make him into her seam ? ( Probably , the real answer is , both . But Peter is close enough to the Sojourner Truth when he narrate Olivia that she was the person he always need to share his preferred book with . )

The pain in the ass and confusion on Olivia ’s face as she deals with all of the signs that Peter open up to the other Olivia in a fashion he still has n’t opened up to her is just incredible , and candidly Anna Torv retain to establish that she ’s the adequate of her two costars in the acting department .

And then there ’s the final thunderbolt from September — that Peter is a father . ( And no degree if you’re able to infer whom he ’s ping up . ) How is Olivia going to deal with realizing that not only did her counterpart get to partake all of these secret and beautiful moments with Peter alternatively of her — but she ’s also carrying the third contemporaries of damaged Bishops ? ( I ’m just think . ) Oh , and how is Fauxlivia going to explain it to Frank ? This is go to be insane .

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