Obvious 1st Season Episode: Mainly because it is clear that this episode was filmed in New York, especially with the Times Square location at the end.
Lisa Donovan (Alice Kremelberg, "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3) is on full life support. Her mother Maureen (Amy Carlson from "Blue Bloods") tortuously has her taken off so they can use the organs for transplants. As the transplant doctor makes his first incision, Lisa wakes up and starts screaming numbers.
The numbers are secret launch codes for a specific Submarine: and only one man in the world would know these codes: Andrew Rusk (stuntee Chazz Menendez). So why is Lisa Donovan spouting them? This is a question not only for the Department of the Navy, but for Fringe Division as well.
But approaching Lisa's mother is a delicate matter: She is highly religious. She thinks Fringe Division's influence is causing Lisa to Hallucinate seeing Andrew Rusk in a Mirror. But that does not explain why Lisa is showing signs of an illness she never had. So she forbids Walter from having a look at Lisa.
Until Lisa is drawn to an Auto Wrecking yard, she calls Agent Dunham and when they get there, they find Rusk's body stuffed in the trunk of a car. At the Hospital, Walter is challenged by Maureen's Priest (Sean Dugan) which irritates Walter, who sites Bible Chapter and Verse to support incidents of demonic possession, which the Catholic Church believes is now "superstitious nonsense" - But Walter's willingness to explore this avenue turns Maureen to Walter who promises to fix Lisa - Even though he doesn't really know how at that point.
Walter originally thought Lisa was "Psychically Connected" to Rusk somehow, but his being dead would prevent that from being the case. When they determine that the time of her "resurrection" coincided with the exact time Rusk was killed, he has to come up with a different theory. So he has Peter read "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" to try to find clues as to why this happened.
But Olivia finds a reason why Lisa is sick: Because Rusk was sick, and the "official" Navy Medical Record omitted that little thing. Peter says, "You know me, if you say the government is covering up something, I'll say it must be Tuesday."
Rusk in fact had been irradiated for 16 hours due to being trapped in a reactor accident on the Sub, and the Navy used an experimental treatment on him. One which gave him the ability for his "Dispersed Energy" to inhabit Lisa Donovan's body at the moment she was taken off Life Support.
If the Navy is keeping secrets, then Rusk is as well: And he has an Agenda with his wife Theresa (Annie Parisse who is to be in "The Amazing Spider Man"). She hired a guy to kill him (Robert Duncan MacNiel from Star Trek: Voyager*). In fact, he told Rusk as much before he shot him: Bad Move: Never tell a guy who can come back from the dead WHO wanted him that way!
Rusk, pretending to be Lisa, escapes and returns to his house and gets his gun out of a locked box: And is apparently going to burn his wife with gasoline: But Peter shows up and keeps addressing Him/Her as "Lisa" which distracts "Rusk" long enough for Agent Charlie, who was in this originally 1st-Season Episode, to shoot her in the buttocks with a knock-out dart.
A very well thought out and respectful Episode which should have been shown in Season 1: Although if you consider the time-line of Season 1, where did this happen, certainly not during the time of the Sanfordizing of Olivia? Possibly before Loeb helped JonesJonesJones use Walter's Trek- Porter.
As I've said: Fringe treats Religious subject with great care and respect. And Walter himself tells Maureen: "As a scientist, sometimes I have to rely on Faith" which was a very comforting thing to say to Maureen.
*My Bad, it's really Scott William Winters as Jake Selleg - The two actors look a lot alike.
Lisa Donovan (Alice Kremelberg, "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3) is on full life support. Her mother Maureen (Amy Carlson from "Blue Bloods") tortuously has her taken off so they can use the organs for transplants. As the transplant doctor makes his first incision, Lisa wakes up and starts screaming numbers.
The numbers are secret launch codes for a specific Submarine: and only one man in the world would know these codes: Andrew Rusk (stuntee Chazz Menendez). So why is Lisa Donovan spouting them? This is a question not only for the Department of the Navy, but for Fringe Division as well.
But approaching Lisa's mother is a delicate matter: She is highly religious. She thinks Fringe Division's influence is causing Lisa to Hallucinate seeing Andrew Rusk in a Mirror. But that does not explain why Lisa is showing signs of an illness she never had. So she forbids Walter from having a look at Lisa.
Until Lisa is drawn to an Auto Wrecking yard, she calls Agent Dunham and when they get there, they find Rusk's body stuffed in the trunk of a car. At the Hospital, Walter is challenged by Maureen's Priest (Sean Dugan) which irritates Walter, who sites Bible Chapter and Verse to support incidents of demonic possession, which the Catholic Church believes is now "superstitious nonsense" - But Walter's willingness to explore this avenue turns Maureen to Walter who promises to fix Lisa - Even though he doesn't really know how at that point.
Walter originally thought Lisa was "Psychically Connected" to Rusk somehow, but his being dead would prevent that from being the case. When they determine that the time of her "resurrection" coincided with the exact time Rusk was killed, he has to come up with a different theory. So he has Peter read "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" to try to find clues as to why this happened.
But Olivia finds a reason why Lisa is sick: Because Rusk was sick, and the "official" Navy Medical Record omitted that little thing. Peter says, "You know me, if you say the government is covering up something, I'll say it must be Tuesday."
Rusk in fact had been irradiated for 16 hours due to being trapped in a reactor accident on the Sub, and the Navy used an experimental treatment on him. One which gave him the ability for his "Dispersed Energy" to inhabit Lisa Donovan's body at the moment she was taken off Life Support.
If the Navy is keeping secrets, then Rusk is as well: And he has an Agenda with his wife Theresa (Annie Parisse who is to be in "The Amazing Spider Man"). She hired a guy to kill him (Robert Duncan MacNiel from Star Trek: Voyager*). In fact, he told Rusk as much before he shot him: Bad Move: Never tell a guy who can come back from the dead WHO wanted him that way!
Rusk, pretending to be Lisa, escapes and returns to his house and gets his gun out of a locked box: And is apparently going to burn his wife with gasoline: But Peter shows up and keeps addressing Him/Her as "Lisa" which distracts "Rusk" long enough for Agent Charlie, who was in this originally 1st-Season Episode, to shoot her in the buttocks with a knock-out dart.
A very well thought out and respectful Episode which should have been shown in Season 1: Although if you consider the time-line of Season 1, where did this happen, certainly not during the time of the Sanfordizing of Olivia? Possibly before Loeb helped JonesJonesJones use Walter's Trek- Porter.
As I've said: Fringe treats Religious subject with great care and respect. And Walter himself tells Maureen: "As a scientist, sometimes I have to rely on Faith" which was a very comforting thing to say to Maureen.
*My Bad, it's really Scott William Winters as Jake Selleg - The two actors look a lot alike.