"Fringe" Ability (2009)

Director:

Norberto Barba

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"Fringe" (2008)

Original Air Date:

10 February 2009 (Season 1, Episode 14)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

The team investigates a number of people who died faceless after their orifices are sealed while German agents investigating David Robert Jones' escape question Olivia. |

Plot Keywords:

Suffocation | Parallel Universe | Time Bomb | Drug Trials | Two Dollar Bill

Cast

Anna Torv	...	Agent Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson	...	Peter Bishop
Lance Reddick	...	Agent Phillip Broyles
Kirk Acevedo	...	Agent Charlie Francis
Blair Brown	...	Nina Sharp
Jasika Nicole	...	Astrid Farnsworth
John Noble	...	Dr. Walter Bishop
Jared Harris	...	David Robert Jones
Michael Gaston	...	Sanford Harris
Noah Bean	...	FBI Agent
Chance Kelly	...	Mitchel Loeb
Kenneth Tigar	...	Warden Johan Lennox
Philip LeStrange	...	Tommie
Chinasa Ogbuagu	...	NID Agent #1
John Wu	...	Paramedic

Country:

USA

Language:

English | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Netherlands:12

Company:

Bad Robot

Trivia:

Noah Bean plays an unnamed agent that calls in a favor from an old college girlfriend that breaks lawyer/client privilege to provide leading information on the current FBI case at hand. He also plays David Connor on "Damages" (2007), in which his fiancée works in a law office for a boss that is known to break several rules to get what she wants.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Besides the fact that the German guards speak the language extremely poor, some words and/or articulations are not commonly used in German language and sound extremely cliché (i.e. the translation of 'Sir' to 'Mein Herr').

Movie Connections:

References "Star Trek" (1966)

I take it back, this is the real mind bender here.

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Goodness, it has been quite a while since I wrote a review for a Fringe episode, now, where do I begin? ...Ah yes...

After a portion of people have died with a disease leaving them faceless and no where to breath the fringe team's investigations take them to the mysterious escape of Dr. David Robetr Jones, who may be on their side, especially Olivia's.

Very engaging story arc here, though it felt a tad disjointed in some areas, things did work out in the end.

I won't say much on it but the monologue read on the note in one scene really expands this show's universe and questions a lot.

Also a nice character development moment for Olivia and her relationship with both Jones and Peter.

7/10.