*** This review may contain spoilers ***
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| A Spoonful of Sugar helps the Medicine go Down- In the most delightful way |
Peter is watching an Observer. His new abilities are now accessible, but he is still changing. Into what? Olivia already knows he is hiding something, but Peter always has "Reasonable Explanations" for his odd comings and goings.
The Next Tape finally brings us to the reason why Walter lopped off Belly's right hand. "Fire up the Laser, Agnes, let's get that hand out of Amber!"
The Objective is a set of Observer Beacons which are in one of Belly's Secret Kelvin Genetics Labs. But the building is buried under Rubble - So they seek help: from Nina Sharp at the "Ministry of Science" - Enter Blair Brown for the first time this season unless you count S4E19.
Meanwhile, Peter seems to have a personal agenda. He had concocted a plan using Anil (Shaun Smyth), but it backfires and needs his personal attention. At first, we think the purpose is strictly revenge, but a second more useful purpose becomes evident later.
While gathering the tech Nina offers them, Nina and Walter discuss how Walter may have changed "back into the man he was" since the pieces of his brain have been put back in via Simon's "Operation" - Nina says she cannot see much difference, but then tells Walter that he would know if it has been happening. In fact, Walter blames himself for collateral damage that occurred in his "Pocket Universe" from the previous episode. In that episode, Peter had assured Walter that he would be there for him. Nina challenges this, asking, "Is it enough?" and that Walter should not depend only on Peter helping him through. But Walter has confidence in Peter. But he also tells Nina that she could not hold on to William Bell, because Bell never loved her.
But where is Peter? He is not there - He is in a "Baldy Bar" setting up his plan, which this time works. He tells Anil to be at a certain "Baldy Precinct" at a specific time and to call him when he gets there.
So Peter arrives back at the Kelvin Genetics lab just in time to get Anil's call, that indeed, something had happened. The tech gets them past the rubble, but Nina had warned them that Observers would notice and show up. Belly's Hand gets them in and Walter finds his old "Man who Sold the World" album by Bowie, cursing Belly as a thief. Peter finds a safe, and Walter suddenly can't remember the combination which William Bell had always used. Peter helps him remember, and the safe opens: Five - Twenty - Ten." The first thing Walter finds is evidence that his statement to Nina about Bell was wrong. And an Observer-Looking Gadget, which Peter is able to activate, but denies to Olivia that he knew how he did it.
When they leave the facility, the expected observers are not present. But Peter suggests they split up again, and this time, Olivia gives him a very penetrating look, a look that says how well she knows him.
Walter meets with Nina to say he was wrong about Bell and by implication, he may have also been wrong about putting his faith in only Peter: He makes a request of Nina in order to hold on to the man he is, and it is not clear if she will agree.
Olivia goes to Etta's Apartment, where Peter has set up his ObserveRevenge control center. What ensues is one of the most difficult scenes between Peter and Olivia of the whole series. He finally comes clean about the implant and she realizes he had planned the whole thing so they could get the Beacons unmolested. But she is far from happy about it, and in the act of leaving him says more than any words can say about it.
Peter in fact is starting to talk and move and act like September used to: He just goes back to what he is doing: Marking the Origin Point of his next target.
Walter and Astrid are back in the Lab, she assures him they did good. And we have a nice collection of artifacts: The Transilience-Thought Unifier, some Rocks, a Transistor radio, two Observer Beacons, and (not shown) a small Holographic projector which has the design of a machine inside. Walter takes the radio out and turns it on, leaving it up high, and then puts Bowie's "The Man who Sold the World" on the turntable, cranking it up loud.
Walter's grief is evident as he lay in the chair he has used for so many experiments. There is a clear sense of Loss.
And then there is Anil, who has been helping Fringe Division since the start of this season. It must be clear to him now that Peter has used the implant.
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