Review of The Firefly

Fringe: The Firefly (2011)
Season 3, Episode 10
10/10
Causality
21 May 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Some months after Walter had taken Peter from the other side, Peter captured a firefly, causing a little girl to not catch it. Her father went out looking for her in the rain, and accidentally killed a teenager. This teenager was the son of the leader of Walter's favorite band "Violet Sedan Chair."

We could say "firefly" or we could say "McFly!" - Because the leader of Violet Sedan Chair, Roscoe Joyce, is none other than the great Christopher Lloyd.

Walter is preparing to inject some goop into his buttocks, trying to make himself smarter so "he can be Walternate's Equal." Fortunately Peter stops him.

But Roscoe Joyce is in an old folks home for Rock Stars, he is a sleepwalker. While Roscoe is on his nightly Sleepwalk, The Night Nurse sees a teenager approach Joyce in the hallway and says something to him.

The Teenager is identified by camera as being Joyce's son, dead for all these years. After which, the boy goes outside where September is waiting for him, who "takes him home" - Once again, "Back to 1985" but unfortunately not the future: To the night of his death.

This is all about cause and effect. Because of something Peter did which was not part of the natural course of events, the death of someone else occurred. And as usual, it all comes back to Walter. It not only affected Walter, it was caused by him.

Obviously September is performing some experiments on Walter. As part of that agenda, he becomes a "super hero" and stops a robbery in a jewelry store, saving a woman with asthma. But or some reason, he pockets her inhaler and walks off.

This episode is a forum for John Noble to interact with Christopher Lloyd, and the two masters work famously well together. Two Nutball Professors, Doc Emmet Brown and Walter Bishop.

But what September needs to know is how is if Walter is willing to let Peter get into "The Machine": So it is a simple test, "give Peter the keys and save the girl," this time Walter passes the test: September has caused an accident involving the girl from the robbery, and he has her inhaler. Its up to Walter, who has to let Peter go after September, and he saves the girl by using a pop bottle to force air into her lungs.

But Walter has left his bottle of Milk with "Brain Juice" in the refrigerator, Peter guzzles it, causing him to have a reaction to the Brain Juice. Walter has to remember where he left an item, in time to save Peter. This was also part of September's test.

Walter gets Joyce hooked on his strawberry Milkshakes. But Joyce is forever grateful for the opportunity to remember his son once more.
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