Fringe: Season 1, Episode 6

The Cure (21 Oct. 2008)

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A number of people in a diner die of radiation exposure and Olivia and the Bishops believe a woman who disappeared two weeks earlier was the source.

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Agent Dunham and the Bishops investigate the deaths of a group of people who died from radiation poisoning in a diner. They believe the source of the radiation was Emily Kramer, a young woman who had vanished two weeks previously and was probably being held against her will. When another young woman, Claire Williams, disappears the investigators believe someone may be conducting experiments. Dr. Bishop believes the emanations from Kramer were microwaves and she may in fact have been developed as a walking weapon. They trace the research to the head of a pharmaceutical firm David Esterbrook, who has a history of promoting off the wall ideas. Nina Sharp has information and strikes a bargain with Peter Bishop. Written by garykmcd

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This is the first episode featuring the running joke where Walter can't quite correctly recall Astrid's name. Here he calls her 'Asterisk'. See more »

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The skyscraper used to establish the teams HQ is the Bank of America building in downtown Miami. The Miami-Dade county courthouse can be seen in the background. There are other establishing shots of this building in prior episodes but do not appear in any episodes following. See more »

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Olivia Dunham: I guess by now you're heard.
Phillip Broyles: That you frog-marched a senior officer of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate out of his office? Yeah, I heard. Quite a few cameras there.
Olivia Dunham: [shrugs] The press. They always get their pound of flesh. I understand that you think I acted too emotionally. Putting aside the fact that men always say that about women they work with, I'll get straight to the point: I am emotional. I do bring it into my work. It's what motivates me. It's what helps me get into the headspace of ...
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Maybe not the best but definitely the strongest episode so far
17 May 2009 | by (New York) – See all my reviews

I didn't quite favor the plot and story of this episode of 'Fringe' but even with keeping that in mind i liked this episode more than some of the previous episodes of this show. Because it contains fair amount of personality, character study, personal facts that haven't been revealed yet until now, and that comes from basically two main characters of this show, Olivia Dunham and Peter Bishop. Although some of those facts and happenings didn't have any impact on the main plot of this episode, they still gave much personality and personal stuff to the episode and that is always much appreciated (when it comes in moderate measures of course, because exaggerating with that stuff can sometimes lead to pointless episode that won't be favored by people who prefer "monster of the week" kind of episodes). So when i mean that this episode isn't the best but the strongest, i mean that this episode doesn't contain the amount of action or investigation which is so important and it has to be interesting, and episode has to have also interesting "monster of the week" to be great as a single episode and 'The Cure' definitely didn't have that, but on the other hand it's strong episode because of the facts i mentioned earlier, character study and revealing the dark past of the personal life. Acting is still on a level that's below the level which i expect for this show and even after six episodes i still believe that there are many things that are yet to be improved, and when they do improve those things 'Fringe' could be the first show of its genre that shines on TV in a way that 'X-Files' did.

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