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Fringe Season 4 Episode 1

Neither Here Nor There

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AIRED: 9/23/11

The teams on the two worlds work together to solve the case of a shapeshifter, and Agent Lincoln Lee joins his world's team when no one remembers the existence of Peter Bishop.

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Fringe: Pondering Purpose Post-Peter

Everything is different now, with the universes moving on and Peter petering out; but was Friday's series "relaunch" too slow for longtime fans?

By Tim Surette, Sep 24, 2011

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Human shapeshifters, Peter, and the cow.

8.0

By wendegen, Feb 25, 2012

Wow. I was excited for this season premiere for a long time. After this stunning cliffhanger from Season 3, I was eager to find out how exactly theshow-runnerswere going to explain this one. Was the episode disappointing? Not exactly.

For the Season Four Premiere, we went back to Fringe's basic monster-of-the-weekstory line. This week, we were introduced to these new human shapeshifters (I call them Translucents), who are basically killing people with some sort of material in their bodies (I think it's metal? Don't remember.) and draining their bodies. As usual, the FBI tracks down these shapeshifters and Olivia shows off her butt-kicking action (albeit getting a bit brutalized).

Predictable? A little bit. But that wasn't the part of the episode I particularly liked. The Fringe show-runners integrated some more mythology and "Where Is Peter?" info into this episode. Usually Walter is the show-stealer; however, this week, September the Observer gets that title. Basically, he is recruited by his elder Observer, December, to permanently erase the "traces" of Peter that still bleed through. The episode followed him as he collected pieces to build his device to erase Peter. But the decision he ultimately makes in the end...well, I don't want to spoil it.

All in all, a mostly satisfying premiere to what looks like a great season of Fringe. I wish we would have seen more of the Other Side (Walternate!), and that opening scene between the two Olivias felt a little forced to me, but all in all, it was a great episode. Looking forward to next week!moreless
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Well I dont know

6.0

By dreamgoat, Feb 04, 2012

I really hate to do this, I really love Fringe a lot. I'm confused on what happen here, its like all the elements were thrown out and it's like I don't know the characters again. This was really dry I'm sorry it was something in the air and it's missing, nothing was funny no good times solving cases like teamwork. And Peter is gone, its like taking Walter out. Its bland, I don't get why Walter is even there if Peter never made it to adulthood. Walter would never help the FBI, Peter was that stability till Walter got use to things. The purpose of taking out Peter should have caused a huge ripple effect just like any of the main characters didn't exist. I got know answers and even the new mutants running around sucking material from other people blood and that's pretty much it. No real case solving no well nothing. I don't know if Lincoln is suppose to be a substitute Peter or something, but if you all don't think that something is missing isn't Peter your dead wrong. I think the show is all over the place and were back to season 1 learning the characters again. Every new season they keep erasing what we gained, last season Olivia was everywhere but we didn't see much of her role but we seen fauxlivia a lot. Just when a real relationship was about to kick bam that happens, than a relationship starts again than bam Peters gone. It's like were never moving forward just stuck in one place and sometimes moving back just to end up where we left off. This show is on its 4th season this show had enough time to mature its time to make some stability.moreless
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More like a pilot than a premiere.

8.5

By RationalEgoist, Nov 11, 2011

This episode felt strange to me and given the long introduction of Lincoln Lee it seemed like a TV show pilot. If I hadn't seen the first 3 seasons this episode wouldn't have made any sense, but even so I'm a little confused as to where the show is going.
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pretty weak start for the season

7.0

By BrunoBernier, Nov 11, 2011

i watched the show and i thought it was decent, not good, not bad, just in the middle. we are again served with a plot about the shapeshifters which is starting to be a tired plot device in the series. there are many plot holes in this show and i thought Olivia was just dry and plain bad, her lines were awfull, she became a boring character all of a sudden.

the fact that peter is gone creates a big huge hole, until he comes back. and i do not get the fact that the creators insists on putting the actor with the glasses ( cant recall his name, that how boring it was )up front in the limelight. the show is on 50% neutral gear then every 3 or 4 episodes it shifts in high gear then falls back in neutral.

if they dont generate better interest and get rid of the tired plots, i fear that the show wont come back after this season. there is so much a fan can take before getting bored. there is like a gazillion story possibilities with the show but the writers seems to be stuck in some sort of ditch and cannot get out of it.

i love the show but sometimes i am just wondering why i am watching it....moreless
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Mirror mirror on the Wall, Who's the Fringest of them all?

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By ionee24, Nov 11, 2011

Subtle hints to Fauxlivia and Walter tell us the emotional journey of these parents who lost their only son, Olivia retreats to a life of solitude that stuns her other Universe counterpart and, Walter retreats to the lab that costed him his only child.

The warning ensued by the man who wasn't there, throws both Fringe Divisions to join forces and fix the mess created by the collision of their Universes. The mess at large, being fixed by another kind of Division, an Observers one.

Using Lincoln as a gate between these breaches, it's Agent Lee the one who makes the connection between the case that killed his partner - Ironically, named after the grandfather of the friend he never met - and the phenomenon killing people. As Robert once told him, everything happens for a reason, even if that reason escapes him like the man in the mirror escapes them all. The closure Lee provides for his partner's family might be the start of the closure the Observers begin to provide for Peter's family.moreless
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Anna Torv	Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson	Peter Bishop
Lance Reddick	Phillip Broyles
Jasika Nicole	Astrid Farnsworth
Seth Gabel	Lincoln Lee
John Noble	Walter Bishop

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Joe Flanigan	Robert Danzig	Guest Star
Michelle Krusiec	Nadine/Shapeshifter	Guest Star
Michael Adamthwaite	ND Agent #2	Guest Star
Michael Cerveris	The Observer	Recurring Role
Eugene Lipinski	December	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (1)
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- Trivia: The glyph code for this episode is APPEAR.
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QUOTES (8)
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- Olivia: If you can't trust the people you're dealing with, what then?
  Bolivia: You know, maybe I'm not the problem. Maybe it's you. Maybe you are just incapable of trust.
  Olivia: Interesting. Coming from the person who kidnapped me and stole my life.
  Bolivia: You know, being you and living your life only made me more homesick for my universe.
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- Walter: The thing about playing Devil's advocate, my dear, is that your client is the Devil himself.
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- Walter: If you really want a story, you should look under the dome. I'm growing an ear.
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- Lincoln: I'm coming with you.
  Olivia: You keep going like this and you're gonna talk yourself out of the bureau.
  Lincoln: I was at the first crime scene. Maybe I saw something that I haven't told you yet. Maybe that's why I came here.
  Olivia: Okay, come. You can get fired later.
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- Walter: I need to check her anus. Have that large lady there help you lift here.
  Astrid: Umm. I'm going to, uh... I'm going to need to check her anus.
  CD Tech: Okay...
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- Walter: And yet, interestingly, they do all suffer from a variety of health problems. Gout, hair loss, kidney diseases. Which in themselves have something in common. I'm not wearing pants.
  Astrid: I'm on it.
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- Astrid: Listen to this. One of the victims' credit cards just registered a charge. Dead people do not use their credit cards.
  Walter: Of course they do. Certainly.
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- Lincoln: (about Walter) Is he all right?
  Olivia: Well, that depends on your definition of all right. He's functional. Except when he's not. But he is often quite brilliant. He just never had anything to tether him to the world.
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- Seth Gabel is now credited as a series regular.
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- The new opening background is amber-colored and has the following words: Existence, Quantum Entanglement, Philosopher's Stone, Psychometry, Viral Therapy, Ethereal Plane, Gravitons, Time Paradox, Psychogenesis, Bilocation, Psychic Surgery, and Transgenics
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- Blair Brown is credited but doesn't appear.
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- Music: California Dreamin' (The Mamas and the Papas), Rockin' Robin (Bobby Day)
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- International Airdates:
  
  Canada: September 23, 2011 on Citytv
  UK: September 28, 2011 on Sky1
  Sweden: January 6, 2012 on Kanal 5
  Germany: June 25, 2012 on ProSieben
  Finland: November 14, 2012 on MTV3
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- Lincoln: One of these things is not like the other.
  Referencing the song One of These Things, which has been used on several episodes of the television show Sesame Street to teach children to identify similarities and differences between items based on quantity, shape, whether they were letters or numbers, and a variety of other reasons.
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