Momentum Deferred
- Episode aired Oct 8, 2009
- TV-14
- 44m
IMDb RATING
8.6/10
2.4K
YOUR RATING
Walter analyzes the body of a shapeshifter and then reconnects with an old patient that has the ability to distinguish the people from the other world. Olivia finally recalls her encounter w... Read allWalter analyzes the body of a shapeshifter and then reconnects with an old patient that has the ability to distinguish the people from the other world. Olivia finally recalls her encounter with Belly.Walter analyzes the body of a shapeshifter and then reconnects with an old patient that has the ability to distinguish the people from the other world. Olivia finally recalls her encounter with Belly.
Roger Cross
- Hybrid
- (as Roger R. Cross)
Sebastian Roché
- Thomas Jerome Newton
- (as Sebastian Roche)
James Michalopolous
- Security Guard
- (as James Michalopoulos)
Tegan Moss
- Young Rebecca Kibner
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Agent Dunham walks out of Massive Dynamic and meets with shapeshifter Agent Francis, The Observer may be seen in the foreground.
- GoofsSince the shapeshifters have so much mercury in their blood, a simpler method of detection (although not nearly as 'Fringe Worthy' ) would be to use a standard mercury sniffer. These are used for cleaning up mercury spills and can detect mercury well into the part per million range. One of these detectors would peg out near any shapeshifter.
- Quotes
Phillip Broyles: Why are shape-shifting soldiers from another universe stealing frozen heads?
- ConnectionsReferenced in Fringe: Stowaway (2011)
Featured review
Walter's Closet
This pivotal Episode covers these four arcs: Olivia's trip to Belly's office on the other side, Shape-Shifters stealing Vacuum-Sealed Frozen Heads, Walter's secret relationship with Rebecca Kibner and *her* secret vision, and the Charlie Francis: Shapeshifter saga.
That they made us wait for this episode is a tribute the greatness and cleverness of Fringe: It wasn't just dumped on us in the first episode of Season 2, but rather they further developed the story with little hidden clues: Rebecca's Videotape in "A New Day in an Old Town," Olivia's "Flashbacks" where visions of the "other side" are always red - Images of William Bell (Leonard Nimoy) imposed over her view of Peter, and we see flashes of the note Bell wrote that has the name of the Cryonics firm on it - Plus the symbol which represents the "Leader of the First Wave" Thomas Jerome Newton. And once again, we have a Kudos to another series: Sci Fi Channel's excellent "First Wave" in which Shapeshifter Roger C Cross played a role very similar to the one he plays here: A Genetic Clone, Human/machine hybrid much like he was in First Wave as "Joshua."
The Shapeshifter activity in the teaser of this episode hands Walter, Peter and Massive Dynamic a working Shape-Shifter device: Which will reveal the body in which the shape-shifter is hiding. We already know it's Charlie, but can Olivia find out before it is too late?
What do Shapeshifters stealing Frozen Heads, Rebecca Kibner's ability to identify people from "The Other Side," Olivia's Flashbacks, and the Shapeshifter Charlie, guzzling down Mercury from Thermometers have in common? Lots: and You'll have to watch this to find out.
Walter thinks that by asking the older Rebecca (Played by Theresa Russell - Emma Marko from Spiderman 3, the younger version played by Tegan Moss) to repeat an experiment performed by him and Belly when she was 17 which involved massive Hallucinogenics, that they can have her identify who the Shapeshifters are: But even Timothy Leary called them crazy back then. Walter is clearly ashamed of having taken advantage of her. But Rebecca is more than willing to repeat the experience, is even excited about it. It becomes evident, that she and Walter were intimate, as she knows the location of every item in Walter's lab, including "his slippers."
Using Spacial Orientation, they speed up the experiment. At one point, she almost blurts out something about Peter that was being kept top secret from the other characters.
But in the middle of the process, Peter rings a "Bell" which causes Olivia to receive a flood of memories of her meeting with Bell.
Can Olivia get the information to Nina before Charlie can get it out of her? Olivia apparently makes mistakes after she is brought out of the trance, but she was just doing what Belly had told her to do.
In the end, Walter receives solace from Rebecca herself that she was a willing participant in the earlier experiment. And for a second time, she almost blurts out something about Peter that we know, but has not been revealed to the characters yet.
"The Other Side" as we came to know it was still being developed at this stage as it was in Season 1: So views of the other side have to take that into consideration, we see no Dirigibles in flight, and no strange buildings in the NYC skyline other than what ought not to be there in our universe. I always had questioned, was this other side the same as the one that we eventually became familiar with? As the show progressed, the "other side" was given a particular look and feel, which simply hadn't been thought about yet.
That they made us wait for this episode is a tribute the greatness and cleverness of Fringe: It wasn't just dumped on us in the first episode of Season 2, but rather they further developed the story with little hidden clues: Rebecca's Videotape in "A New Day in an Old Town," Olivia's "Flashbacks" where visions of the "other side" are always red - Images of William Bell (Leonard Nimoy) imposed over her view of Peter, and we see flashes of the note Bell wrote that has the name of the Cryonics firm on it - Plus the symbol which represents the "Leader of the First Wave" Thomas Jerome Newton. And once again, we have a Kudos to another series: Sci Fi Channel's excellent "First Wave" in which Shapeshifter Roger C Cross played a role very similar to the one he plays here: A Genetic Clone, Human/machine hybrid much like he was in First Wave as "Joshua."
The Shapeshifter activity in the teaser of this episode hands Walter, Peter and Massive Dynamic a working Shape-Shifter device: Which will reveal the body in which the shape-shifter is hiding. We already know it's Charlie, but can Olivia find out before it is too late?
What do Shapeshifters stealing Frozen Heads, Rebecca Kibner's ability to identify people from "The Other Side," Olivia's Flashbacks, and the Shapeshifter Charlie, guzzling down Mercury from Thermometers have in common? Lots: and You'll have to watch this to find out.
Walter thinks that by asking the older Rebecca (Played by Theresa Russell - Emma Marko from Spiderman 3, the younger version played by Tegan Moss) to repeat an experiment performed by him and Belly when she was 17 which involved massive Hallucinogenics, that they can have her identify who the Shapeshifters are: But even Timothy Leary called them crazy back then. Walter is clearly ashamed of having taken advantage of her. But Rebecca is more than willing to repeat the experience, is even excited about it. It becomes evident, that she and Walter were intimate, as she knows the location of every item in Walter's lab, including "his slippers."
Using Spacial Orientation, they speed up the experiment. At one point, she almost blurts out something about Peter that was being kept top secret from the other characters.
But in the middle of the process, Peter rings a "Bell" which causes Olivia to receive a flood of memories of her meeting with Bell.
Can Olivia get the information to Nina before Charlie can get it out of her? Olivia apparently makes mistakes after she is brought out of the trance, but she was just doing what Belly had told her to do.
In the end, Walter receives solace from Rebecca herself that she was a willing participant in the earlier experiment. And for a second time, she almost blurts out something about Peter that we know, but has not been revealed to the characters yet.
"The Other Side" as we came to know it was still being developed at this stage as it was in Season 1: So views of the other side have to take that into consideration, we see no Dirigibles in flight, and no strange buildings in the NYC skyline other than what ought not to be there in our universe. I always had questioned, was this other side the same as the one that we eventually became familiar with? As the show progressed, the "other side" was given a particular look and feel, which simply hadn't been thought about yet.
helpful•126
- XweAponX
- May 20, 2012
Details
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content