"Just when you thought things couldn't get any weirder."Oh boy, we get some Philadelphia Experiment type action this week! Evil Agent Loeb is back in force and the head of a group of mercenaries who don't even know why they are doing what they're doing...cuz Loeb would have to kill them if he told them, even though he says that they just wouldn't understand. Suuuure. For some reason there is a time limit on the grid, and according to Walter later, that cloth (netting, as Walter calls it) is very important to the operation of the effect. I wonder why Loeb has such a vested personal interest in the release of Jones? It looked like he was just beside himself [to put it politely] to see Jones materialize! Is it the mere attraction of world domination? I guess whatever that answer is, is the key to the whole Pattern of anomalies that's happening. Something tells me that Mr. Observer will not be happy with his escape.
I found myself wondering if TPTB might be trying to tell us something with Peter's obsession with people not having spleens or best friends. Probably means nothing, but the questions were odd. We get the usual gory human pieces-parts this ep, and we see a close up of the probes in Scott's head, which look painful! When Dunham said that she knew the perp stuck in the wall from the Marines I wondered, "She was a marine? Did we know that?" But no, we didn't, and she wasn't. And when we were shown that Dunham's reality was blending with Scott's, it became pretty clear that Nina would be wanting her head too if she ever found that out. And at this point, I believe that Nina didn't kidnap Dunham, she seemed shocked...but when Dunham got nabbed I shouted, "Lost2010 called it first !" :-)
Some mysteries began to gel this week. Jones gets out (didn't you just know that the lawyer was dead man walking?!) and he's in line with Loeb and maybe other FBI agents; Little Hill comes into play; and we learn that one of Walter's most serious projects was the study of time travel. I really like how TPTB "let" Walter teach us a little bit about the fringe-osity every week, this ep being the disruption of molecules, via the toy soldier standing on the rice. Nice touch, Mr. Wizard would be proud. I'm wondering if this might be the mechanism by which that sliver bullet travels through the earth.It wasn't too difficult to sense some things before they happened (why Jones needed a suit, sunscreen, and Dramamine, Nina wanting Dunham's brain, etc.) but it was still a great episode. And not too much on the "miraculous solving" side this time. But Mr. Constipated Agent, you do not get to yell at Walter anymore, got it? Walter's already forgotten more knowledge than you will ever know in your entire lifetime, so you give him some respect! :-p And speaking of Walter's knowledge, why doesn't Peter just hook up Walter's brain to some electronics and a TV monitor to figure out what he knows and what's going on? Oh well, I guess that would be too easy.
