“Fringe”: The Cure
Posted by SH
A woman is dumped out of a van into the street by two people wearing HAZMAT suits. She stumbles into a local diner, and her disheveled, disoriented state causes her waiter to call the local lawman. The woman gets distressed, then everyone’s eyes start bleeding and her head explodes. Just another day at the office for Olivia, Walter and Peter.
The incident is traced back to the unbelievably high amount of radiation emanating from the woman’s body. Peter likens it to everyone who was in its path being cooked in a microwave. You know, like that scene in Gremlins. Adding to the grisly scene, Olivia is in a foul mood, refusing to engage in the typical TV-show banter with Peter. Charlie ironically wishes her a happy birthday, but we’re left believing there’s more to her irritability than the idea of adding another candle to the cake. We find out just how much more later.
The deceased woman, named Emily Kramer, is found to have had a rare, fatal blood disease that has no cure. But apparently she was cured, and Walter is driven to find out how. Well, after Peter gets back with that cotton candy he asked him for. But what they have figured out is that Emily was experimented upon in order to turn her into some kind of weapon. Meanwhile, another woman with the same disease goes missing. After questioning the husband and crashing a wake, Olivia and Peter discover that Emily and missing woman, Claire Williams, knew each other and were part of a circle of people suffering from the disease who decided to try to find a cure. Which they did.
Olivia confronts the Emily’s doctor, who previously had denied giving her any special treatment. He is so flustered by what has been uncovered, and how it relates to a huge drug company that he warns Olivia to back off. It’s the whole “you don’t know who you’re dealing with” spiel. But that’s not enough to illustrate his point. He whips out a gun, gives Olivia the name “David Esterbrook,” then blows his own brains out. [Read more →]
