Opening up with a high octane opening Mitchell Loeb leads a SWAT team to a mysterious black van, supposedly carrying some sort of cargo. Once they open the back door, they see nothing but stuffed animals. Loeb tells Broyles about the mission and how they didn't find anything, but then Loeb goes into panic and starts coughing up blood. Broyles calls in help and Loeb is taken to a hospital. There they cut into his body to find some sort of large parasite wrapped around his heart. The Fringe team is called in, and Dr. Bishop demands that Loeb be taken to his lab at Harvard University, just because he feels he needs more tools which the hospital cannot provide at the moment. As they study Olivia meets Mitchell Leob's wife Jessica, concerned but Olivia assures her that he'll be fine very soon, she promises that. Broyles tells Olivia more about the parasite and who could've caused it, David Robert Jones, problem is that he isn't in the states, he's in Germany. Olivia takes off to Germany and goes to a prison where she meets an old friend of hers, Lucas, used to be in the military. It will be hard to speak to Mr. Jones at the moment, but Lucas is happy enough to invite Olivia to his house for a drink. There they catch up, and then Olivia is tempted to become more familiar with Ian, though her boyfriend is gone she then realizes that she has to move on, so they make out. Meanwehile at Dr. Bishop's lab the tests are not going well, the parasite is even starting to grow at a rapid rate. Broyles learns about a rumor going on about who could've given Loeb this parasite, since Jones is locked up in Germany. John Scott tells him they have a possible lead, Joseph Smith, who Loeb was telling Broyles about before he collapsed. Both Dr. Bishop and Jones needs him alive, but Broyles has already called in a SWAT team to hunt him down. Peter is informed by Olivia and derives off to Smith's home, where he informs Broyles, but he is too late, Smith has been shot in the head. There is a chance of him helping them out still, by Dr. Bishop's theory. Now they try to sort of redo the experiment that Olivia was apart of in the pilot episode, except they are shocking Smith until Peter( strapped to a chair) can hear his thoughts. It doesn't work for a few times, but it does work well the last few times. The final shock has Peter hear something so fast he needs to write it out, so he is handed a black marker and a small plastic board by Agent Astrid, he can't even make it out, but in the end they come up with "Little hill." Olivia also has a discussion with Jones which results into the curiosity of them both. There is also a very nice twist at the end, won't give that away.
I don't think this was the best upside of the season so far but it does develop the character of Olivia, and shows aside to Broyles that we haven't seen yet. And of course Peter's dialog is getting even more witty. This episode also felt like in the lines of the pilot in terms of essence.
If I am to criticize this upside then my only complaint would be that the parasite inside of Loeb's chest looked a little too fake and nothing special, it looked like some kind of Chinese dragon toy, nothing scaly or interesting to look at.
All in all, a good episode.
7/10.
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