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Nikita- Wasn't expecting that! So, Percy (whom the team did not realize was back in Division!) breaks out an international arms smuggler Nikita put away back when she was still working for Division. Percy wants the plutonium the guy supposedly had and that the CIA tortured him for 5 years to try and find, but were never able to get out of him. In exchange for the radioactive material, Percy will give the guy info on Nikita so he can get his revenge on her.
Percy tells the guy, Brent, that Senator Madeline Pierce is helping them. Unfortunately, Percy does not realize how crazy that guy is, and that he'd use that info to draw Nikki out by BLOWING UP THE SENATOR! Needless to say, Sean is pissed. They stake out the funeral, but the guy gets the drop on Nikita and captures and tortures her.
But she won't break. So, Percy makes another deal with the guy, since he won't give up the plutonium because he's not getting the revenge he's been craving since Nikita's not succumbing. Percy says the way to Nikita's heart is through those she loves. So he has Sonia ring up Birkhoff, so he can tell Michael he could prolly find Nikita by turning himself over to Brent.
So he does, and man is Nikki pissed when she finds out Mikey turned himself in, and didn't get captured or ambushed or anything. She really rails into him, calling him an idiot, because at least when it was just her, she was fine with it. She may die, but at least no one else was getting hurt. And then Michael goes and gives himself over. She gets on to him about always being so selfless. And he fires back this was actually the most selfish thing he's done. Because turning himself over was pretty dumb, when he could be out there fighting the good fight, but instead, the good guys would be losing two people, because he just wanted to see her again.
In any case, Brent breaks up the little pow wow, but at this point, Nikita has managed to break through her restraints. She and a tied up Michael manage to fight back, but its not enough. Lucky for them, Alex and Sean managed to find them, and Sean gets his revenge, killing the guy who blew up his mom.
In the end, Nikita apologizes, and she can't see how Michael can love her because she thinks she has evil in her, and if Michael knew the real her, he wouldn't. Michael insists he does. Percy also gives Nikki a call, asking to call a truce. He'll let them go, walk away and live happily ever after if they stop coming after him. She of course refuses.
Fringe- So this week's ep is a look into the future. (complete with different credits!) In this future, the Observers took over the world in 2015. Which is interesting, because in the other future from last season where Liv got killed and caused Peter to link the universes, obviously there were nothing of the sort. Given their aloofness, its weird to see them as dickish overlords. Walter will later say the Observers apparently effed up the planet beyond repair, and they traveled to the past to live there. Which is curious, like was the planet always going to be effed up, and the Observers were always going to travel to the past, but in the new universes they became more aggressive? Or did all the craziness that's been going on these past few seasons change the future, leading to the aforementioned event, and causing the Observers to invade?
So we follow a cute blond Fringe agent Etta, who seems very much like Olivia junior and has mysterious special powers (like being able to hide her thoughts from the Observers), and her fellow agent, Simon, played by Desmond. As we learn from the beginning tag, the original Fringe team tried to stop the Observer invasion and failed. For some reason, the Observer kept Fringe division around, albeit in a reduced capacity. Broyes is still head of it, but the rest of the team were supposedly killed. The truth is that they were encased in amber and hidden.
A contact of Etta was able to recover Walter, but is unfortunately killed by a loyalist before he could reveal where the others were. They manage to get Walter out of the amber, but he's his usual addled self, so he's not much help in figuring out where the others are.
Nina is also still alive, in a wheel chair, and Etta and Simon go to her to try and figure out how to fix Walter. She says they can try and use those pieces of his brain he had removed to "inspire" his brain to fix itself. Unfortunately, its at MD's old facility, in the middle of the city, which is crawling with Observers.
They get passes into the city, claiming Walter is Etta's crazy grandfather, and she and Simon checked him out of the home to visit his wife's grave in the city. That seems to fool the loyalist guards (Walter even makes a Star Wars joke, repeating the iconic Obi Wan lines). Unfortunately, they accidentally trip an alarm when they break into Massive Dynamic, alerting Fringe division. Broyles ends up calling big cheese Observer.
As Simon and Etta wait, Simon tells Etta a story about when he was in college, when the Observers invaded. It was the day of something called the "purge", where Observers were dragging people out of their homes and killing them in the middle of the streets. Simon's parents were among those killed, and it was then he realized they had been part of the resistance, and they sent him far away to college to protect them. It was at that point that he vowed he would never give up the fight against the Observers.
Etta mentions the last time she saw her parents were when she was 4, which was confusing, because right from the very start I was sure she was Peter and Olivia's daughter. (plus, she had such a hard on for finding the rest of the team, they had to be her parents) I mean, her mannerisms were so much like Olivia it was uncanny. But I guess I was thinking the Fringe team disappeared in 2015, so I was thinking, 2015-4= 2011, which can't be right since they're already past that. But I guess 2015 was when the Observers invaded, and they could've disappeared after that. And indeed, Simon later asks Etta if she's going to tell Walter what that was all about. But since he's a total nutcase, she doesn't feel like bothering.
Anyhoo, after "fixing" Walter (who's kinda a dick now that he's more "there"), they hear some observers and loyalists approaches, he chastises them for not disabling the alarms before they broke in. Luckily, he knows of a secret passage. They escape, but not before setting off a device that makes the building disappear.
Walter takes them to where the team is, but unfortunately, unbeknown to them, Fringe has activated Simon's tracker. They manage to get Astrid out, and shocker, one of the people encased in the amber is Bell. Now, is this an alternate reality, or was Bell not actually dead in the new universes and somehow hooked up with the Fringe team at some point?
In any case, Simon figures out his tracker is activated and that their colleagues are quickly coming to get them. So, he sacrifices himself to push Peter out of the amber, effectively trapping himself. They're long gone by the time Broyles and his men arrive. They see Simon in the amber, but he also sees a piece of half eaten licorice. The look he gives though has me curious, like at that point does he realize that he was chasing Walter, and had he known, he wouldn't have been trying to catch his agents?
In the end, they're all on a train. Astrid asks Walter how they could leave Bell there, but Walter seems to think he deserves it, for "what he did to Olivia"? What did he do to Olivia? Does it have to do with the bullet Etta wears around her neck? We also get confirmation that Peter is indeed her dad, and the impression I got was Liv wasn't actually in the amber, so the thing Bell did perhaps involves her death? (heh, and I just realized, the story they cooked up earlier, I guess Walter actually is her crazy grandfather, that wasn't a lie!) In any case, while I think this ep was an interesting diversion, are they going to follow this future? Or is the show just being all, "Oh here's something that may happen in the future!" and not address it again?! Because that would kinda annoy me.
And weird, for Henrietta, did they hire another Aussie actress to pretend to be American so she'd sound more like Olivia? Oh, and something I just realized, I guess Fauxlivia and Peter's son in the original timeline is named Henry. Since Fauxlivia picked that name, I assume Olivia was responsible for naming her Henrietta in this world. I forget, is there a reason Fauxlivia picked Henry? If they both picked variations of the name, I assume that's some person important to them.
Nikita- Wasn't expecting that! So, Percy (whom the team did not realize was back in Division!) breaks out an international arms smuggler Nikita put away back when she was still working for Division. Percy wants the plutonium the guy supposedly had and that the CIA tortured him for 5 years to try and find, but were never able to get out of him. In exchange for the radioactive material, Percy will give the guy info on Nikita so he can get his revenge on her.
Percy tells the guy, Brent, that Senator Madeline Pierce is helping them. Unfortunately, Percy does not realize how crazy that guy is, and that he'd use that info to draw Nikki out by BLOWING UP THE SENATOR! Needless to say, Sean is pissed. They stake out the funeral, but the guy gets the drop on Nikita and captures and tortures her.
But she won't break. So, Percy makes another deal with the guy, since he won't give up the plutonium because he's not getting the revenge he's been craving since Nikita's not succumbing. Percy says the way to Nikita's heart is through those she loves. So he has Sonia ring up Birkhoff, so he can tell Michael he could prolly find Nikita by turning himself over to Brent.
So he does, and man is Nikki pissed when she finds out Mikey turned himself in, and didn't get captured or ambushed or anything. She really rails into him, calling him an idiot, because at least when it was just her, she was fine with it. She may die, but at least no one else was getting hurt. And then Michael goes and gives himself over. She gets on to him about always being so selfless. And he fires back this was actually the most selfish thing he's done. Because turning himself over was pretty dumb, when he could be out there fighting the good fight, but instead, the good guys would be losing two people, because he just wanted to see her again.
In any case, Brent breaks up the little pow wow, but at this point, Nikita has managed to break through her restraints. She and a tied up Michael manage to fight back, but its not enough. Lucky for them, Alex and Sean managed to find them, and Sean gets his revenge, killing the guy who blew up his mom.
In the end, Nikita apologizes, and she can't see how Michael can love her because she thinks she has evil in her, and if Michael knew the real her, he wouldn't. Michael insists he does. Percy also gives Nikki a call, asking to call a truce. He'll let them go, walk away and live happily ever after if they stop coming after him. She of course refuses.
Fringe- So this week's ep is a look into the future. (complete with different credits!) In this future, the Observers took over the world in 2015. Which is interesting, because in the other future from last season where Liv got killed and caused Peter to link the universes, obviously there were nothing of the sort. Given their aloofness, its weird to see them as dickish overlords. Walter will later say the Observers apparently effed up the planet beyond repair, and they traveled to the past to live there. Which is curious, like was the planet always going to be effed up, and the Observers were always going to travel to the past, but in the new universes they became more aggressive? Or did all the craziness that's been going on these past few seasons change the future, leading to the aforementioned event, and causing the Observers to invade?
So we follow a cute blond Fringe agent Etta, who seems very much like Olivia junior and has mysterious special powers (like being able to hide her thoughts from the Observers), and her fellow agent, Simon, played by Desmond. As we learn from the beginning tag, the original Fringe team tried to stop the Observer invasion and failed. For some reason, the Observer kept Fringe division around, albeit in a reduced capacity. Broyes is still head of it, but the rest of the team were supposedly killed. The truth is that they were encased in amber and hidden.
A contact of Etta was able to recover Walter, but is unfortunately killed by a loyalist before he could reveal where the others were. They manage to get Walter out of the amber, but he's his usual addled self, so he's not much help in figuring out where the others are.
Nina is also still alive, in a wheel chair, and Etta and Simon go to her to try and figure out how to fix Walter. She says they can try and use those pieces of his brain he had removed to "inspire" his brain to fix itself. Unfortunately, its at MD's old facility, in the middle of the city, which is crawling with Observers.
They get passes into the city, claiming Walter is Etta's crazy grandfather, and she and Simon checked him out of the home to visit his wife's grave in the city. That seems to fool the loyalist guards (Walter even makes a Star Wars joke, repeating the iconic Obi Wan lines). Unfortunately, they accidentally trip an alarm when they break into Massive Dynamic, alerting Fringe division. Broyles ends up calling big cheese Observer.
As Simon and Etta wait, Simon tells Etta a story about when he was in college, when the Observers invaded. It was the day of something called the "purge", where Observers were dragging people out of their homes and killing them in the middle of the streets. Simon's parents were among those killed, and it was then he realized they had been part of the resistance, and they sent him far away to college to protect them. It was at that point that he vowed he would never give up the fight against the Observers.
Etta mentions the last time she saw her parents were when she was 4, which was confusing, because right from the very start I was sure she was Peter and Olivia's daughter. (plus, she had such a hard on for finding the rest of the team, they had to be her parents) I mean, her mannerisms were so much like Olivia it was uncanny. But I guess I was thinking the Fringe team disappeared in 2015, so I was thinking, 2015-4= 2011, which can't be right since they're already past that. But I guess 2015 was when the Observers invaded, and they could've disappeared after that. And indeed, Simon later asks Etta if she's going to tell Walter what that was all about. But since he's a total nutcase, she doesn't feel like bothering.
Anyhoo, after "fixing" Walter (who's kinda a dick now that he's more "there"), they hear some observers and loyalists approaches, he chastises them for not disabling the alarms before they broke in. Luckily, he knows of a secret passage. They escape, but not before setting off a device that makes the building disappear.
Walter takes them to where the team is, but unfortunately, unbeknown to them, Fringe has activated Simon's tracker. They manage to get Astrid out, and shocker, one of the people encased in the amber is Bell. Now, is this an alternate reality, or was Bell not actually dead in the new universes and somehow hooked up with the Fringe team at some point?
In any case, Simon figures out his tracker is activated and that their colleagues are quickly coming to get them. So, he sacrifices himself to push Peter out of the amber, effectively trapping himself. They're long gone by the time Broyles and his men arrive. They see Simon in the amber, but he also sees a piece of half eaten licorice. The look he gives though has me curious, like at that point does he realize that he was chasing Walter, and had he known, he wouldn't have been trying to catch his agents?
In the end, they're all on a train. Astrid asks Walter how they could leave Bell there, but Walter seems to think he deserves it, for "what he did to Olivia"? What did he do to Olivia? Does it have to do with the bullet Etta wears around her neck? We also get confirmation that Peter is indeed her dad, and the impression I got was Liv wasn't actually in the amber, so the thing Bell did perhaps involves her death? (heh, and I just realized, the story they cooked up earlier, I guess Walter actually is her crazy grandfather, that wasn't a lie!) In any case, while I think this ep was an interesting diversion, are they going to follow this future? Or is the show just being all, "Oh here's something that may happen in the future!" and not address it again?! Because that would kinda annoy me.
And weird, for Henrietta, did they hire another Aussie actress to pretend to be American so she'd sound more like Olivia? Oh, and something I just realized, I guess Fauxlivia and Peter's son in the original timeline is named Henry. Since Fauxlivia picked that name, I assume Olivia was responsible for naming her Henrietta in this world. I forget, is there a reason Fauxlivia picked Henry? If they both picked variations of the name, I assume that's some person important to them.
