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Etta is Dead - Even though Olivia hopes it is just "Bad Dreams"
Walter had inadvertently set up a booby trap, because he wanted Bratwurst. So he had left flammable material next to the ambered Hibachi, which is unfortunately where the next tape is. So no tape today.
Meanwhile, the Observers are shown moving objects from the future through a wormhole, but the resistance was able to capture one of them. They also got one of their books. So Astrid puts on her cryptology hat to figure out what it says. It runs out to be a shipping manifest, and Astrid has an insight as to how to decrypt their language. There is also another prize: The resistance had also appropriated the device the Observers used to open the wormhole.
But Peter wants revenge. "I've made up my mind" and we know when Peter makes up his mind, sometimes that is not good. Walter of course, has the same objections as he did when Peter was secretly working on "The Vacuum" - He warns Peter that it is dangerous, but he can turn an Observer wormhole into a Black Hole.
He is warned that if he is going on a journey of revenge, to dig two graves. So he interviews the observer who picks this up, who then uses it to play with Peter's mind.
Meanwhile, Walter had found a tape of Etta when very young during happier times and he wants Olivia to watch it with Peter to bring them back into perspective. But even Olivia cannot do it right away, and Peter is bent on what he wants to do.
So Peter assembles the device, while the Observer tells him "You don't even know what you don't know." This is one imperious Observer, likening humans to insects, who think that "Darkness is nightfall rather than a descending Observer boot." This Observer claims he has no interest in why one Human is angry at another, as he has no interest in the politics of an ant colony. This observer is especially appropriate for the date this episode was shown, being a few days before the presidential election. Although Peter sets up an elaborate device to try to read The Observer's lack of emotions, It is actually Peter's own ingenuity that allows him to assemble the device- And the Observer was simply letting him do it.
Who knows what goes on in the labyrinth of an Observer's mind? But Peter meets Olivia to try to stop the Observer time tunnel. They open the "generator" before the Observers do - One of the Observers looks very much like John Pyper-Ferguson, but it is difficult to tell. The head Observer is David Stuart who has a face you want to despise. One of the Observers moves himself to where Peter and Olivia are, and that Observer reads Peter and picks up on the "Boot" thing, and actually starts to do it - Thank God for William Bell's Fast Guns. Peter shoots the antimatter into the wormhole and there is a spectacular scene where a brand new Ford Mustang (New for now, classic for 20 years from now) gets sucked into the wormhole. The head observer tilts his head like September always used to, and Fringe gets away in the Resistance van - Only to stop as they see that the Observer shipment still comes through.
But as Olivia is in the Alley, she sees Posters of Etta all down the street, with the words "Resist" - Which reminds me of another popular poster circulating recently, with the word "Hope."
Walter of course is baffled by the failure of his idea, but since it was not part of the actual plan set up by himself and September, we can hardly be surprised that it had no effect on the Observer 'Shipping Lane." This whole episode plays out like a tangent down a wrong-way street, and even the Observer Peter is torturing tells us this.
But Olivia's "run-in" with Etta's Picture in the alley was enough to get her to watch Walter's Beta Tape. But Peter needed to be there too - But he is too busy, making a huge mistake. We get to see the device implanted in the Observer's Brain Stem, which allows them to do the things that they can do. And now that we see it, we finally get what Rebecca Mader said before Olivia killed her - "It's just Tech"
Tech that without an understanding of, Peter should have brought to Walter first. But instead, we see as usual Peter going his own way. So as we see Olivia embracing her Humanity and reaching out to Peter, Peter decides that he'll be "Ten Times the Man an Observer is - If he had that tech in his head."
So the question is "What happens Now?" - Will Peter be able to understand what he is up against better - But at the loss of what makes him Human? This is the same Peter who was killing the Mercury Shape- Shifters and taking their Hard Drives out-A Peter that Walter referred to as "Weaponized."
So the question is "What happens Now?" - Will Peter be able to understand what he is up against better - But at the loss of what makes him Human? This is the same Peter who was killing the Mercury Shape- Shifters and taking their Hard Drives out-A Peter that Walter referred to as "Weaponized."
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