![]() ![]() This raises the question (which is never actually answered): if Hoffman didn’t get the formula from Robert Bishop’s books, where did he get it? However, appearances are deceiving: the man is an artist and uses the pieces as part of a contemporary collection. Olivia and Peter break into the person’s apartment who bought the books, only to find it strewn with Nazi paraphernalia. Olivia and Peter manage to track down the books through the rather amusing man who Peter seems to use for all his odd book dealings: we first met Markham (played by Clark Middleton) in Season 1 – he was the one who procured the ZFT manual. Walter, understandably, is furious with Peter, and is upset that due to his perceived inability to prevent it, his father’s work is killing people. Once Walter is unable to find the books, Peter reveals that he sold the books 10 years before – ostensibly because he needed money. Walter realizes that he recognized the toxin from formulas in his father’s old books in which Robert Bishop had smuggled the information out of Germany. Walter tells Peter that Robert Bishop came to America in 1943, and had worked in Berlin prior to that. Robert Bishop the Seahorse because he was such a great swimmer. This leads to Walter’s revelation that his father – Peter’s grandfather – worked with the Nazis on science developments, but sabotaged their efforts while passing information along to the Allies they called Dr. (played by Sierra Pitkin and Alberta Mayne)īack at the lab, it’s time for show-and-tell with Walter, and, while discussing a model of the toxin, they realize that the inert carbon chain – a signature of sorts – on the molecule looks rather like a seahorse. ![]() The Observer – behind the daughter and mother When Fringe Division was at the coffee shop investigating, we see that Hoffman was watching from afar, and recognized Walter, stating that he looks just like his father this was the first hint about something curious with Hoffman (aside from the fact that he was rather creepy) given that he should in no way be old enough to have known Walter’s father. Walter reasoned that these were analogous to trials in an experiment, and that there would likely be more. This was where the Nazi storyline comes into play: the guests at the wedding who had been killed were all Jewish, and at the second site of the toxin’s deployment – a coffee shop – all the people who were killed had brown eyes. That is, the toxin can be made to select people out of a crowd so that certain genetic or physical characteristics can be selected. Walter and Peter discover that the toxin is a mixture of hydrogen cyanide and chromium trioxide, along with a part which can be changed in order to select victims based on traits. Peter finds cinnamon-scented candles that are out of place at the wedding, and they determine that that is the method which Hoffman used to deliver the toxin – airborne, and released by heat. This woman’s daughter in law was able to identify Hoffman on a wedding video, giving Fringe Division a face for their suspect.Īfter getting the bodies back to the lab, Walter makes the rather startling discovery that the victims’ blood has turned blue, likely from something binding to the hemoglobin. Right before the wedding she had noticed a man (named Alfred Hoffman, played by Craig Robert Young) whom she appeared to recognize – and was horrified at doing so. It turns out that the 15 people who died were all direct descendants of one woman who was herself a Holocaust survivor. Fringe Division is called in due to the fact that numerous people suffocating to death all at once in a room full of air is not exactly a usual occurrence. The episode starts off with the deaths of 15 guests at a wedding. Of course, after having seen the episode I find this humourously ironic. We ended up in a rather involved discussion about some of the biochemistry I’d been studying, and the intricacies of the protein hemoglobin, which is probably my favourite protein (and yes, I’m aware it’s a bit odd to actually have a favourite). Staller in this episode (one of the wedding guests who dies at the beginning). ![]() This day I spent quite a while chatting with one of the guest actors on this episode: a man by the name of Leonard Tenisci who played Mr. As you may or may not know, Fringe is one of the many shows which films up in Vancouver and several times this season they have been near my school – the filming of this episode was one such occasion.Įach time I get the opportunity to chat with anyone working on the production, they are incredibly friendly and more than willing to chat about the ins and outs of production on a major television show. I was really looking forward to this episode (more so than usual) because I watched them film a bit of it. ![]()
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