The Matrix, Inception, Day of the Dead... All are homaged here in season 3's "Novelty 19th" episode.
Bellivia is strapped to an electric chair, waiting to be transferred into a body that would give new dimension to the nickname "Belly" - The Jiggling Mass Wobbles but Belly is not shunted into this "Host." No time to try again.
Like Season 2's "Brown Betty," this is another peep into the Mind of Walter, one in which we get to go on an LSD trip with him and Peter and Belly. But in order to see it they must enter Olivia's mind.
We enter a NYC that is populated by people garbed in the Blacks and Grays which Olivia usually wears. As with "Inception," the populace immediately starts chasing Walter and Peter who run into one of the WTC Towers, where they are greeted by Nina, who tries to get them into an elevator with an empty shaft, but they shove "Nina" down instead.
Meanwhile, the lab is visited by Broyles who gets a dose of LSD by touching one of the sugar-cubes that have the mega-dose. Needless to say, Broyles has never done LSD before, so Astrid has to babysit him as well as monitor Walter, Peter and Bellivia, who are strapped-down "Matrix" fashion.
When Walter and Peter enter Belly's office in the WTC tower, they become animated, and Olivia is not there and they have to figure out that Olivia must be hiding, and in that nightmare landscape, "where" is a good question.
After escaping from Brandon-Nerd Zombies, (which Peter gets to dispose of like a roach down a garbage disposal) they take a Dirigible ride to Jacksonville, where they meet "Mr X" (Ulrich Thomsen) who shoots a hole in the Dirigible and jumps out, sucking Walter out with him. Walter wakes up back in the lab, Where Astrid is assembling a Massive Dynamics computer with the most memory chips I have ever seen in my life.
But the stoned Broyles sees a bird landing on Walter's shoulder, causing Walter to drop an important irreplaceable Vacuum Tube, shattering it. He has to cannibalize his beloved turntable to fix it.
So it is up to Peter and Belly to get Olivia to come out from where she is hiding.
This episode has some of the best Television Animation ever done. We assumed this would be the last of Belly, at least in that time-line. In the end, the computer project he set Walter on was a red herring, as he knew "the dog wouldn't hunt."
And we still have the mystery of "Mr X" which to date still has not been revisited (unless you account for the appearance of the symbol on Mr X's chest appearing in the Season 4 Finale Episodes). But maybe Walter is right: some secrets, are not for us to know.
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