Fringe: Concentrate and Ask Again (2011)
Season 3, Episode 12
10/10
"...Because Ice Cream has No Bones"
11 February 2013
Warning: Spoilers
...Is the answer to the question: "If you are paddling your canoe down the street and the wheel falls off, how many pancakes does a Dump-truck Hold?

"12 - Because Ice Cream has No Bones"

Just like scientist Warren Blake (Paul Jarrett) - Who at his office Birthday party, receives a Doll from an unknown "benefactor" named "Madison" - Which has a pull-string on the back that when pulled, spouts a blue power that causes his bones to violently disintegrate. The man is a boneless rag doll himself at the end of the process.

Walter eats a whole Bucket of KFC playing with the stuff, he determines that the source of the powder is Military in Nature. Olivia tracks down the sender of the package via UPS security tapes- Leading Fringe Division to a suspect- Who unceremoniously gets splattered by a car and put into a Coma.

How to get Information out of a man in a coma? They could have used the same method used to connect Olivia to Agent Scott in S1E1, but Walter finds an easier way to do it, he just has to find a man named "Simon Phillips" (Omid Abtahi from "Argo")- Who has a Cortexiphan Talent Walter was afraid of - He can reads minds. But in doing so it causes him great stress, so Simon lives in a secluded house away from people.

One of the common phrases from Fringe is "Another Way" - It is used in almost every episode - And Olivia has "Another Way" for Simon to read the suspect - She clears out a Hospital.

Using clues from Simon's Jean-Gray act, they find the location where two other ex-military cutouts were planning revenge on the General who exposed them to the Blue Stuff - They became Immune to it, but as it affects them on a genetic level, the Blue Gunk was transferred to their Kids, whose skeletons all disintegrated before being born.

But Fringe Division is too late - The remaining perps are on their way to a Fund-Collection Ball where a lot of innocent people will be exposed to Blue Bone-Removing Powder. Simon Phillips does not have to read Olivia's Mind that he's not going to be able to go home yet.

So he helps Fringe Division stop a calamity, but in the process he has read Peter's Mind - And Peter still has feelings for Fauxlivia. So it's just more bad Luck for Peter, and Olivia always wants to jump to conclusions anyway.

Meanwhile Nina Sharp Fringes out that Sam Weiss is the author of the books about "The First People" and that he has special Knowledge about "The Vacuum" - The Machine which Peter will have to get into later.

And so our Fringe Mythos is blended in with a Monster of the Week Fringe Division Case. And we also get to see, that Olivia has retained some of the abilities of Fauxlivia - In this case, Fauxlivia's Olympic-Quality Sharpshooting Ability.
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