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18 November 2008
(Season 1, Episode 8)
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A young musical genius is kidnapped and Walter recalls a patient at St Clair's who might have been kidnapped by the same people and forced to try and figure out the solution to an equation. | full synopsis
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Most intriguing episode yet.
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(Episode Cast overview, first billed only)| Anna Torv | ... | Agent Olivia Dunham | |
| Joshua Jackson | ... | Peter Bishop | |
| Lance Reddick | ... | Agent Phillip Broyles | |
| Kirk Acevedo | ... | Agent Charlie Francis | |
| Blair Brown | ... | Nina Sharp (credit only) | |
| Jasika Nicole | ... | Astrid Farnsworth | |
| Mark Valley | ... | John Scott (credit only) | |
| John Noble | ... | Dr. Walter Bishop | |
| William Sadler | ... | Doctor Sumner | |
| Randall Duk Kim | ... | Dashiell Kim | |
| Gillian Jacobs | ... | Joanne Ostler | |
| Charlie Tahan | ... | Ben Stockton | |
| Adam Grupper | ... | Andrew Stockton | |
| Chance Kelly | ... | Mitchell Loeb | |
| Kate Hodge | ... | Abby Stockton |
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Germany:47 min (uncut)
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The location where the child prodigy is held captive as well as many exterior shots for various episodes were filmed at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York.
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*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
The Equation has a great opening in a very stormy and rainy night where we are brought into the car of a father and his son, the young composer. The father stops in front of a woman who needs help with her car, the father inspects the car and suddenly a green and red light flickers before him, when he turns around to see the woman, she's gone. When she turns back to her car, it's gone. And when he goes to check up on his son in the back of the car, he's gone. After the Fringe team checks out the scene of the crime and Oliviai has completed her sketch of what the woman was described to be Agent John Scott informs her that the woman she int he sketch is Joanne Ostler, who died ten years ago, but for some reasons she is behind the disappearances of many people within the last few years, all have connection somehow. Things become supernatural now as the boy wakes up in a dark room, rather similar to the room seen in the first Saw film where he he is greeted by Joanne and taken to his dead mother, who makes a fuss about him having top finish his musical note, if not, she may not go with him. So he thinks( could go far with this spoiler, but I won't). Dr. Bishop is familiar with stories of this woman and her methods, through an old friend of his back at the mental institution where he was held at for years. Olivia thinks it would be bets if he paid a visit to the old mental house, but Peter has nothing but criticism for the sheer thought. But can Dr. Bishop get the job done despite his symptoms and can his friend come through and tell him what he knows before it's too late? Only you can find out, and yes, there is a huge twist at the end that you won't see coming, but I'll never tell...
I really liked this episode, it's such a good mystery/thriller. Not only does it have an excellent story arc to it but it take son the supernatural and mixes with with Fringe science. It also shows more of Dr. Bishop's character and shows his determination and his rebellion against his son's attitude towards him and that he has a bit of a split personality at times( as if we didn't already know...).
One thing that's ironic about this episode is that there is a small clip of Superman on TV( I believe footage taken from The Batman), series co-creator J.J. Abrams wrote two drafts of Superman before it got handed to Bryan Singer and it was changed into a Returns story. I know, not so much of a review, but I like to point out irony. I'm such a geek.
Overall, a great episode. Next weeks looks even better and even more thrilling than this one!
9/10.