The Man from the Other Side

Season 2, Episode 19, Aired
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The murder of two teenagers by shapeshifters puts the team on the trail of Newton and his people, a trail that leads to Massive Dynamic. Meanwhile, Peter tells Olivia about his family, and Walter tries to remember what memories Newton took from him.
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  • The Truth Comes Out

    9.5
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    By dreamgoat, Jan 30, 2012
    OK??? Did anyone felt is was stupid and unrealistic that a person like the person in the beginning of the show. That broken glass got thrown on his car by a broken window would you A) Get out and checkout whats going on and walk inside a dark spooky warehouse with no type of protection or B) GET THE HECK OUT OF THEIR AND DRIVE AWAY LIKE THE FEMALE IN THE CAR TOLD YOU TO DO. And not only that he started laughing and poking with the shovel at the glob before the shapeshifter snap his neck, I smoked pot before and believe me I don't do stupid stuff like that plus pot makes you paranoid why would go in a dark warehouse LOL. Peter, Olivia and Walter try to stop the shapeshifters from sending something over from the otherside. Walter and Peter were on the bridge trying to send off a wave of vibration to disrupt the waves, it was working and Peter said there was something wrong with your software and told Walter to get off the bridge to fix it. Who was left on the bridge was another fbi agent and Peter, I think he got the machine to work but not in time he started seeing someone walk on the bridge from the other side, in that time a huge shockwave came at their way and blew the fbi to dust but not Peter. Thats when he knew something wasn't right, later he awoke in the hospital and told Olivia he would like to speak to Walter alone. As Walter came in he told him what happen on the bridge about the fbi agent and the guy from the other side walking on the bridge. Only one that died was the fbi agent and him and the guy from the other side was still alive meaning that he was also from the other side. Walter tried to explain but Peter didn't want to hear none of it told Walter to leave and told him your not my father. Next day Peter checked out of the hospital without telling anyone.moreless

  • Hmm..

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    By jared85, Dec 04, 2011
    The review before mine alludes to the fact (predictable one, mind you..) that the mysterious man is actually alter Walter.

    It would be a decent hunch. The guy is furious and would want his revenge on the other Walter. I just don't think Peter recognized the guy. I believe he just put the clues together, especially the FBI dude desintegrating before his eyes, and figured it out by himself..

    Anyways, I'm just curious to see what happens next. The "monster of the week" episodes are almost like x-files and all but we got used to season story arc.

    Gotta keep watching then, I guess...

    Cheers!moreless

  • Wow, just wow! Warning, spoilers contained below.

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    By Dark_Davis, Dec 04, 2011
    Finally, an episode of Fringe that continues the main story arc!! Early on some of the stuff we see in this episode was pretty sick, but finally we see what the shape shifters actually look like. Pretty damn gross in their natural form if you ask me, probably one of the nastiest things I have seen this episode, especially the one Walter manages to revive for a short time and talk to. I don't know what is worse, Peter finding out about what Walter did and taking it really bad, or the Newton bringing someone from the other side over successfully (so it seems at least). Who is the man on the bridge?? Time will only tell.moreless

  • for the first time I didn't understand something. SPOILERS

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    By protonefrid, May 30, 2011
    so, why being from another dimension keeps you alive? I mean I get the man from the other side (he was actually in that other dimension) but peter was in this world and still lived. Aside from that the story was intriguing and from the moment that shape shifter said that he was sorry I started to have this nagging feeling that the man who created them, all this mayhem and who was on the bridge is actually the other Walter fighting to get his real son back. i felt sorry for Walter missing his chance to come clean to Peter, the end broke my heart, but the show is written this way so we just have to wait and see the outcome.

    wait. it just occurred to me that if all these horrid events created by the other side were preparations to get Peter, than this whole war between the worlds was caused by the watchers/observers. that one guy that had to observe up close and personal and disturbed the other world Walter is responsible for all of this. Come to think of it, right now the words of the other bold guy in the flashback episode (the child has to live) get a whole new other meaning...moreless

  • White Tulip ...crushed.

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    By ionee24, Mar 19, 2011
    The revealation of Peter's true identity begins not by Walter, not by Newton or even Olivia but by a threat as pure as it was powerful: Peter's own intellect. Pinned behind the enemy lines as a portal opens between Newton's side and our side, Peter risks his own life trying to close it down until the portal disintegrates along with the bridge and everything it contained, except for the two people that didn't belong: the man from the other side and Peter himself.

    Looking at Walter for the first time as the stranger he's been all along, Peter asks to be left alone. As Newton tends the man from the other side, Walter Bishop is informed that the man he called his son has left the Hospital and perhaps his side, for good.moreless
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    • Trivia: Among the images seen on the alternate world's transmission are a U.S. flag with 48 stars, a White House with a glass dome, and what appears to be a scene from Lost showing Emilie de Ravin and Greg Grunberg at an airport lounge with a photo of a kangaroo.

    • While attempting to reanimate the shapechanger embryo, Peter sends 80 amps through the creature. When the attempt seemed to be unsuccessful, Walter says that they did not use enough "power". A scientist of Walter Bishop's caliber would have said that they did not use enough current, not power. Power is a function of work done by the electrical current, not the current itself.

    • Trivia: The Observer appears in the bank, his back to the camera, as Newton comes in and talks to the teller.

    • Trivia: The glyph code for this episode is BRIDGE.

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    • Walter: A well-ordered house is--is the sign of a well-ordered mind. Peter: Yeah, but staying up all night to find the perfect place for your laundry hamper is the sign of something else, in my books.

    • Walter: Every living thing dies. As a scientist, that's one of the hardest things to accept, that--that we try to understand the mechanisms of life, but inevitably, we can't defeat death, no matter how much we--we may want to.

    • Olivia: (about the embryo) Walter, have you seen anything like this before? Walter: I think I may have. It's awfully familiar. Ah, yes. It reminds me of a beanbag chair I once owned... 1974.

    • Peter: Shapeshifter embryo. Adorable.

    • Olivia: You remember what you told Newton? Walter: No, but as they say in Finland... Walter, Peter, and Astrid: ...there's more than one way to roast a reindeer.

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    • Blair Brown is credited but doesn't appear.

    • Injoke: Expanding upon a gag from the first season, the producers slip in references to R2-D2 and C-3PO in the license plate numbers on Olivia''s and Broyles' SUVs, respectively.

    • Music: Tom Sawyer (Rush)

    • International Airdates: Canada: April 22, 2010 on ATV Australia: April 28, 2010 on GO! UK: May 4, 2010 on Sky1 Latin America: May 11, 2010 on Warner Channel Sweden: July 15, 2010 on Kanal 5 Germany: September 27, 2010 on ProSieben Poland: January 13, 2011 on TVN Finland: January 26, 2011 on MTV3 Czech Republic: February 18, 2011 on Nova Cinema Israel: June 1, 2011 on HOT3

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