In Which We Meet Mr. Jones (11 Nov. 2008)

An FBI agent experiencing huge pain is brought to a hospital where it is discovered that there is a strange parasite wrapped around his heart.

Director:

Brad Anderson

Writers:

J.J. Abrams (creator), Alex Kurtzman (creator),

Stars:

Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Anna Torv	...	Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson	...	Peter Bishop
Lance Reddick	...	Phillip Broyles
Kirk Acevedo	...	Charlie Francis
Blair Brown	...	Nina Sharp (credit only)
Jasika Nicole	...	Astrid Farnsworth
Mark Valley	...	John Scott (credit only)
John Noble	...	Dr. Walter Bishop
Billy Burke	...	Lucas Vogel
Jared Harris	...	David Robert Jones
Kenneth Tigar	...	Warden Johan Lennox
Trini Alvarado	...	Samantha Loeb
Chance Kelly	...	Mitchell Loeb
Lars Gerhard	...	Prison Guard
Paul Urcioli	...	Doctor #1

Storyline

When FBI Agent Mitchell Loeb collapses in Philip Broyles office, he is rushed to hospital. The doctors there open his chest only to find a creature of some type wrapped around the man's heart. Dr. Bishop believes the creature to be a parasite of some type, but one that is man made. Olivia Dunham learns that the pattern is made up of several quasi-independent cells and that Agent Loeb may have been on to one of them. Dunham travels to Germany to follow-up on Loeb's investigation However, to get the information they want, Dr. Bishop has to get information from a dead man.

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Plot Keywords:

parasite | police boat | polaroid camera | glove box | cow | 

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English German

Release Date:

11 November 2008 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bad Robot, Warner Bros. Television, Fringe Element Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The prison which Agent Dunham goes to in Germany is called Wissenschaft Prison. Wissenschaft is the German word for science.

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Goofs

When the doctor positions the retractor and cranks Loeb's chest open, we can see that the top of it is parallel to Loeb's body, but then when he steps back to look down on it, the retractor has turned 45 degrees.

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Quotes

Dr. Walter Bishop: [on the phone with Peter Bishop] Hello Peter, this is me, your father, Walter Bishop.
Peter Bishop: Thank you Walter. I know who you are.
Dr. Walter Bishop: Excellent...

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Soundtracks

"Fringe Main Title Theme"
(uncredited)
Written by J.J. Abrams

User Reviews

Getting better!

A good episode IMO, the show is getting better, I was hooked from the first episode, but after three episodes, it started to go down hill, the same repetitive stuff, less attention to the big story and more like an episodic show, but in this episode I felt like its building up, like the silence before a storm, the saying (from the movie The Prestige) "the secret impresses nobody, its what you use it for.." If they told us the big story just like that, it wouldn't be that intriguing, but giving us bits to work on makes it really interesting! I love the show and I hope it stays long enough to tell the tale to the full!