Fringe (TV Series) Northwest Passage (2010) User Reviews

The Secretary

[claudio_carvalho · 9/10 · 6 March 2017]

Peter stops in a diner and befriends the waitress Krista Manning that promises to record a CD special for him. Peter waits for her in the lobby but Krista does not appear. On the next morning, while driving aimless, Peter sees a crowd, the police and a corpse. He stops his car, contacts Sheriff Ann Mathis and Deputy Bill Ferguson and learns that the victim is Krista. Further, he glances at Newton in the crowd and teams up with Mathis and Ferguson to help in the autopsy. He finds that part of the brain has been removed from Krista. Soon there are other victims with part of the brain removed and he concludes that the shapeshifter are chasing him. When Ferguson disappears, Peter helps Mathis to search for her partner. Meanwhile Dr. Bishop misses his son Peter.

"Northwest Passage" is another great episode of "Fringe". It is impressive the regularity of this series where most of the episodes are intriguing and well developed. Now the identity of the man that came from the other side and called "The Secretary" is disclosed and may surprise many viewers. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Northwest Passage"

The show finally start some diversity

[nicofreezer · 9/10 · 27 May 2021]

A very X files type of episode, in the Woods , the conspirasy the mystery. Even a woman Reading about aliens and Roswell .

Solid episode about Peter, I love that the show separate Walter Peter and Olivia for a bit.

My vote 8.5/10.

Run Away, Run Away

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 3 November 2023]

Peter has taken off for Washington state. He is continuing his search though he is being a self centered jerk again. The death of a waitress whom he meets one night shows him that the shape shifters are in fu full action mode. He meets a female sheriff and they develop a bond. Her motivation is to find a missing guy, her deputy, the guy she is secretly in love with. Walter is on the skids. He has an incident in a supermarket where he ends up on the floor crying. Things turn ugly in Washington and the solution is a more conventional one. But there is bit of a cheap appearance by "the secretary." Well, there are a couple episodes left.

I want to Believe in Twin Peaks

[XweAponX · 10/10 · 9 June 2012]

This episode looks and feels like an episode of "The Former X-Designation" and in fact, is direct homage to both X-Files and another show, "Twin Peaks"-Which was originally to be called "Northwest Passage" hence the title of this ep.

Reading the plot summary of Twin Peaks, I now see how that show was homaged. This episode has some similar events.

Peter has run away, and he's in the Northwest States, in Washington. He meets an interesting girl in a pie shop, and makes plans to meet later. She is going to burn him a special CD based "on his aura"-Which she does by burning the CD upside-down! But she is deflected from the goal of delivering it by being kidnapped, next thing we see, she's got her skull opened up and someone is removing a piece of her brain.

Immediately we assume that Newton is doing this, to read her mind so that he can locate Peter. This however, is pure misdirection.

Peter gets caught up in a murder investigation, he has to call Broyles to let him know he'll be getting a call from Sheriff Mathis (Carradine offspring Martha Plimpton). She has a motto printed on a pen: "Find the Crack"-"It's how the light gets in to a dark room," which is her form of saying "I Want to Believe" and in fact her partner Bill tells her that very thing.

But meanwhile, Peter figures that if Newton is chasing him down, then he can also find Newton: "And then we're gonna catch him."

It never really is revealed if the person who had set up a place to remove Brains, was in fact doing this for Newton, this is clouded over.

When Mathis' partner goes missing, Mathis becomes desperate, but Peter finds a way of getting a location by measuring the absorption rate of Adrenaline in two of the victim's brains. This pinpoints the location on a map, and they go catch a bad guy. But there is no trace of Newton, it seems like the guy was working alone: Peter finds the CD the girl had made for him.

When he gets back to his Hotel, Peter pulls out an old "Discman" and starts listening to the CD: But right then, Newton shows up and has brought: The Secretary.

The only thing missing from this Ep was a Poster with "I Want to Believe," but with the sheer amount of X-Files-Isms, it really wasn't necessary.