This episode of Fringe reminds me yet again of a couple of X-Files episodes. Realizing that Rusk is seeking revenge, they head to the house of the person who paid the killer off lives and sure enough, Rusk/Lisa is there.
The agents soon figure out that Rusk, while staring down the barrel of a gun, was told by his killer the reason why he was being killed by a hired assassin. However, upon further analysis of the data, Walter comes to realise that not only have they not managed to get Rusk out of Lisa’s body, but that Rusk has actually taken control of Lisa’s body and fooled them all by pretending to be her. In an attempt to rid Lisa of Rusk’s presence, Walter Bishop runs an experiment that seems at first successful. Lisa’s physical health has been deteriorating since she started channeling Rusk, and it seems that the latter had a condition that the military had stricken from his official records. Lisa brings the agents to an old car junkyard where the agents find the body of Rusk in the trunk of a car.īut the link between Lisa and Rusk seems to be more than a sharing of memories or a matter of seeking justice from beyond the grave. It soon becomes evident that Lisa has become something of a conduit for Andrew Rusk, one of the very few military men who knew that code. It’s a great standalone episode, well thought out, well written, and very well acted.Ī brain aneurysm kills 17-year-old Lisa, but just as her organs are about to be harvested for organ donation, she comes back to life, uttering an alphanumeric sequence that ends up being a top secret, classified military launch code.
However, after watching this episode twice, I have to admit I still don’t understand why it wasn’t aired last season. You might think there are negative reasons which explain why this episode wasn’t aired last season: bad writing, bad acting, stupid plot, etc. Apparently they hadn’t done their homework, for most of them didn’t know that this was an unaired episode from Fringe’s season one, rather than a new episode from season two – which explains why Charlie makes a couple of appearances in this episode. It was rather amusing, watching this episode of Fringe and simultaneously reading the reactions of viewers on online forums and in chat rooms.
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