With just 4 episodes left in the
fourth season of Fringe, we get a first look at the World in 2036…and it is
indeed a shocker. This is NOT the world that Peter envisioned when he stepped
into the Machine at the end of Season 3. That was the future Peter saw if he
had decided to save the prime universe and sacrifice the alternate one. But Peter
decided to build a bridge between both the universes that would help them
resolve their differences and co-exist peacefully.
The Observers have taken over the world
The grim episode, aptly titled "Letters of Transit", starts with a gloomy news flash down the screen. It recounts the story of how the Observers successfully attempted to take over our Universe in 2015. Despite resistance from the Fringe Team, the Observers are still running the affairs of the Earth in 2036. In the video below you can watch the news flash, along with the new title sequence which we can now expect to see throughout the Season 5 of Fringe (and the remaining run of the series, since the 13 episode Season 5 is supposed to be its last).
The grim episode, aptly titled "Letters of Transit", starts with a gloomy news flash down the screen. It recounts the story of how the Observers successfully attempted to take over our Universe in 2015. Despite resistance from the Fringe Team, the Observers are still running the affairs of the Earth in 2036. In the video below you can watch the news flash, along with the new title sequence which we can now expect to see throughout the Season 5 of Fringe (and the remaining run of the series, since the 13 episode Season 5 is supposed to be its last).
There are new faces at the Fringe Division
We meet the new members of the Fringe Division, that it is still being run by Colonel Broyles. The world seems like ours, but the insignia on the Fringe Division's uniform is similar to that of the opposite side (the two back-to-back letter F's) and this is where I wonder if this is the Prime Universe or the Alternate one? Or like the world of 2026 we saw from Peter's point of view in Season 3, this is yet another possibility? Could it be a hybrid world which came to exist after David Robert Jones attempted to collide them? Maybe he didn't want to wipe them off? Maybe he just wanted to create one universe joining the two?
Also, we meet an Agent Etta (or Henrietta) played by Georgina Haig, who looks freakishly similar to Agent Olivia Dunham. Apparently, like her mother (as we discover at the end of the episode that she is indeed Peter's daughter), Etta has special abilities. She can mask her thoughts from the Observers (Twilight's Bella, anyone?) unlike everyone around her. Turns out that the Observers will punish the natives even if someone thinks about mutiny (remember the Observers could read minds and say the sentences you were about to say next as they also know about the future). She discovers Dr. Walter Bishop trapped inside amber. Along with her supervisor Agent Simon Foster (Henry Ian Cusick), she gets him out of amber.
Olivia is missing...could she be dead?
There is no sign of Olivia just like September once predicted that she is fated to die in all possible timelines. We can presume that she has died, perhaps resisting the Observers takeover of the world. And we know that the death of a lead is possible in this show. After all Peter also vanished at the end of season 3, only to be re-inducted in the world that he had ceased to exist for. The alt-universe Col. Broyles died too, only to be brought back as the story lines were re-written after Peter got into the machine. They will find a way to bring her back to the universe, alive and kicking. Or maybe she too is trapped inside amber like the rest of the Fringe team members.
There is no sign of Olivia just like September once predicted that she is fated to die in all possible timelines. We can presume that she has died, perhaps resisting the Observers takeover of the world. And we know that the death of a lead is possible in this show. After all Peter also vanished at the end of season 3, only to be re-inducted in the world that he had ceased to exist for. The alt-universe Col. Broyles died too, only to be brought back as the story lines were re-written after Peter got into the machine. They will find a way to bring her back to the universe, alive and kicking. Or maybe she too is trapped inside amber like the rest of the Fringe team members.
Nina Sharpe is still at Massive Dynamics
And we see a very old Nina Sharpe now on a wheel chair but still running Massive Dynamics from its new headquarters. The old building is now been abandoned. Also, this is the episode where Walter finally gets the missing pieces of his brain back, the ones he asked William Bell to cut out and preserve. Turns out the missing parts of his brain are in the locker room at the old Massive Dynamic building. The same room, where they had stored the leftover vaccine from the Cortexephan trials.
Bell is alive but amber-ed
As I had previously predicted possible, William Bell is indeed alive in this timeline and buried alive with the Fringe team in amber. But Walter is not too happy with his best friend and leaves him in the amber, saying to Astrid that he cannot forgive Belly for what he did to Olivia. He does, however, cut off his hand first because he needs it to fight off against the observers. Maybe he needs it to gain access to some place, but not the old Massive Dynamic building since Walter blows that up using Anti-matter in the earlier part of the episode. Walter also recalls in this episode that not all Observers are bad in nature. Some, like his friend September, are kind too. He tells the new Fringe team the story of how the Observers are actually from the future. They came to the past after they destroyed their own planet in the year 2609.
As I had previously predicted possible, William Bell is indeed alive in this timeline and buried alive with the Fringe team in amber. But Walter is not too happy with his best friend and leaves him in the amber, saying to Astrid that he cannot forgive Belly for what he did to Olivia. He does, however, cut off his hand first because he needs it to fight off against the observers. Maybe he needs it to gain access to some place, but not the old Massive Dynamic building since Walter blows that up using Anti-matter in the earlier part of the episode. Walter also recalls in this episode that not all Observers are bad in nature. Some, like his friend September, are kind too. He tells the new Fringe team the story of how the Observers are actually from the future. They came to the past after they destroyed their own planet in the year 2609.
The father daughter re-union
Etta, as we discover at the end of the episode is actually Peter's daughter and we see a tearful re-union of the father and the daughter.
Etta, as we discover at the end of the episode is actually Peter's daughter and we see a tearful re-union of the father and the daughter.
To conclude, this episode was as unconventional as all 19th episodes of every Fringe Season are. We finally discover the reason for the presence of the Observers on earth. If this is the way that Season 5 will go to conclude the story, then I'm quite happy indeed.
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