Really nice episode “over there”. I almost like Fauxlivia cause she smiles so much!

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Since the moment that Olivia stepped into William Bell’s office at the end of season one, and toward the alternate universe, the Twin Towers looming on the cityscape, I have been smitten with that alternate universe on Fringe.

Needless to say, “Immortality” definitely blew my skirt up.

I feel almost guilty saying this, but I love Fauxlivia. Her openness, ability to express emotion, laugh and feel is so much richer than Olivia’s that I can’t help but fall under her spell. As Olivia said last week, she really is (to me) a better version of herself.

I can’t help but wonder if Anna Torv auditioned for both roles. During the first season, the one thing that kept me from being head over heels in love with Fringe was how droll a character was our Olivia. The difference in the characters is so complete that they must have known just how well she could pull this off, or she would never have been cast.

With alternate Broyles lost and considered dead, Lincoln Lee is promoted in his place.

That the promotion was from within such a tight knit group brings them even closer, as if there is nothing they can’t accomplish together. I’m wondering if Lincoln was promoted because he doesn’t have an alternate in our universe, and if this promotion means we might be running into him some time soon as I would love to see what he is up to over here.

Now that I think of it, I wonder if Olivia has had any desire to look up the names of the people she met over there to see their “over here” counterparts. I would, but maybe she’s trying so hard not to be reminded of her ordeal it hasn’t crossed her mind.
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Back in the alternate universe, Fauxlivia reunites with her boyfriend Frank at the airport. Meanwhile, a grey-haired scientist, Dr Anton Silva, sits at the airport bar and switches his drink with a fellow patron. Having ingested Silva’s concoction, the seriously-ill patron stumbles to the toilet, but is eaten from the inside-out by flesh-eating bugs. Meanwhile, as she arrives home with Frank, Fauxlivia explains that Lincoln has been placed in charge of Fringe division in Colonel Broyles’s absence.

The next day, the Fringe team discover the airport victim’s corpse and recover one of the bugs. Fauxlivia and Charlie visit Foster, a female scientist with a crush on Charlie, and she identifies the bug as a skelter beetle, a parasitic creature that lives exclusively in sheep. Since sheep died out ten years ago in the alternate world, the beetles were believed to have died out with them. Elsewhere, Dr Silva conducts an experiment on one of the beetles he recovered from the airport victim’s corpse and is frustrated when he cannot synthesise a particular enzyme from the bug.

At Fringe headquarters, Lincoln recruits Frank to help out with the case. Frank confesses in confidence that he is planning to propose to Fauxlivia, but the loud-mouthed Lincoln instantly relays the news to her. Meanwhile, Fringe division puts out a public appeal for information on the bugs and receives a tip from an old colleague of Dr Silva, who reveals that the scientist was an expert on skelter beetles and has conducted experiments on them in the past. At a local café, Silva infects another innocent victim with the parasites and later collects the bugs from his corpse. When the Fringe team examine the remaining bugs sometime later, they notice that the beetles look different and have become larger.
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Fringe spent this week in the Other Universe, in various ways trying to achieve, as the episode title had it, “Immortality.” It was a non-stop Faulivia-fest, and not one for anyone suffering from entomophobia. The hour confirmed — or perhaps I should say seemed to confirm — a few things many of you readers have been commenting upon. One thing’s for sure: Those Twin Peaks references you’ve been picking up on were certainly validated this week.

For the purposes of this recap, I’m going to refer to the Other Universe Olivia not as Faux-, Bo- or Alt- but just “Olivia,” since that what she is in this episode’s world. Her boyfriend’s back, she greeted him, home from Texas, at the Empire Docking Station. Pretty soon, the two of them, plus Lincoln Lee (put in charge because of the “missing” [we know "dead"] Broyles) and Charlie Francis, were plunged into a case involving corpses from which swarms of beetles had emerged. Yet another in the long line of Fringe‘s many dedicated but doomed scientists, this one Dr. Anton Silva (Alon Aboutboul) turned innocent citizens into hosts that would provide samples of the beetles he needed to complete an experiment that would bring him the glory he sought. Too bad that the human hosts died dreadful deaths (“spontaneous bug eruptions,” as Lincoln put it). Fringe Division had to figure out what was going on, as Charlie pulled a nice juicy beetle from the nostril of a corpse.
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FRINGE: WHY YOU CAN’T MISS TONIGHT’S EPISODE

To say that tonight’s episode of Fringe contains game-changing developments would be an offending understatement. The Peter-less episode, which takes place entirely “over there,” will show the alt-team working to crack a rather disgusting case about bugs; Walternate taking a major step in his campaign to be the most evil person in the world; a spark of a possible new romance; a proposal; and (most importantly) tonight’s episode directly addresses a major rumored plot twist that’s been floating around the fandom. All I can say is that what transpires will rock your world here and “over there.” (P.S. Please don’t cancel this show, TV Gods.)

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Attention Fringe fans: The glyphs are not just B.S.! The glyphs are not just B.S.!

Tonight’s episode of Fringe features what may be the show’s biggest turn since Walter’s flashback Peternapping, and right after the big reveal at the end of the hour, one of Fringe’s famous glyph codes flashes on the screen. Suddenly, with your newfound knowledge about where the episode is going, in addition to being part of an alphabetic cipher, one of the show’s iconic visuals is revealed to symbolize something damn significant to the show.

So without explicitly spoiling the shocker, here’s what Fringe executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman were willing to tease to us fans about tonight’s “Immortality” episode, which is set in Fauxlivia’s world Over There:

Show runner Pinkner teases, “There are at least two different kinds of parasites in the episode, only one of which is a bug.”

Hmmm…

As for the consequences of the big reveal, Pinkner tells us fans, “Based on the information revealed at the end of this episode, there will be consequences Over There, for Bolivia (Anna Torv), and certainly Walternate (John Noble), escalating the storytelling on that side…the two universes are kind of in disharmony. They’re in a fractured balance, so anything that happens on one side, certainly for the duration of the season…by design, will affect the other side, so the short answer to your question is that the information about what is happening Over There will get to our side relatively soon and will absolutely affect what’s going on Over Here.” Wyman adds, “[But] it will not unfold in a way that is traditional.”

(The Fringe writers are always so tricksy!)

Pinkner adds, “The next time we tell a story on the other side this season, it will be very much a character-centric episode, and the threat will be specific to our characters. So it won’t be the same [type of] independently acting bad guy; it will be more of a story that is driven by and affecting our characters, but within that there will be a very fascinating and eye-opening slash troubling matter of biology…which is a well we go back to all the time.”

Excited? You should be!

Fringe airs Friday at 9 p.m. on Fox.

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***SPOILERS***

FRINGE “Immortality” Season 3 Episode 13 Advance Review – We’ve seen how Olivia has been handling her return to our universe, but what’s been happening with Bolivia since she went back to the alter-verse? We find out in tonight’s episode of FRINGE, “Immortality”, and, after seeing an early screener from FOX, you will be sorry if you miss this great episode.

For tonight’s episode we are back in the alter-verse, and the Fringe team investigates a series of deaths involving bugs (yech!). With help from a close friend of Bolivia and enthusiastic fan of Agent Charlie Francis the team gets a lead on the bad guy. Unfortunately, when Bolivia and Lincoln check in on the bad guy’s lair, they may not check out.

We also get to see what Walternate and his team have been up to with the synthetic cortexiphan they created after experimenting on Olivia. The results of their experiments are surprising, but not as surpising as how Walternate decides to proceed and who he discusses his secrets with.

It is great to revisit Bolivia and the Fringe division from the alter-verse, as it’s a wonderful contrast to the characters from our universe. While I always enjoy Anna Torv, Seth Gabel (Lincoln Lee) is excellent tonight as we see how his character deals with new job responsibilities. The two of them have some great scenes in this episode, and you get a real sense of the friendship between them.

Can the Fringe team solve the case before it’s too late? Will Walternate try and take his experiments to the next level? Make sure that you stay for the whole episode; something happens that will change everything about the two universes.

Watch Fringe tonight at 9 PM on FOX, then come back here and let me know what you thought of “Immortality” in the comments section.

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Stills from the episode that airs on February 11th:

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