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"This Week... Walter (John Noble) takes a trip to the alternate universe, while a mole at the heart of Fringe division is finally exposed... Observing Fringe... In the aftermath of Captain Lee&amp;#039;s death, Lincoln (Seth Gabel) has remained behind in the alternate universe to assist Fauxlivia (Anna Torv) and her team. Colonel Broyles (Lance Reddick) meanwhile is guilt-ridden over his part in alt-Lincoln&amp;#039;s death - but why exactly has the fearless leader turned to the dark side? Having previously been introduced to the family unit of alt-Broyles in season three&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;The Abducted&amp;#039;, this writer had predicted that they would somehow be tied into the character&amp;#039;s newly traitorous behaviour. But it&amp;#039;s still a pleasure to see the Fringe chief&amp;#039;s home life explored in more detail - it helps to flesh out Broyles a little more and gives Lance Reddick more to do than simply bark orders. The warm interactions between Broyles, his wife Diane (Karen Holness) and their revived son Chris (the energetic and likeable Curtis Harris) are highlights of &amp;#039;The Consultant&amp;#039;. The mole&amp;#039;s final surrender is another fantastic moment, as he&amp;#039;s confronted by &amp;#039;our&amp;#039; Agent Broyles - a truly pulse-pounding scene. You can&amp;#039;t help but feel sympathy for alt-Broyles as he&amp;#039;s locked away alongside the spiteful alt-Nina (Blair Brown). Elsewhere this week, Walter is out of his comfort zone and it&amp;#039;s intriguing to see him spiffily-attired and working with the agents on the other side. He even softens to Fauxlivia, ending his long-standing resentment of the &amp;quot;prostitute&amp;quot; and her &amp;quot;vagenda&amp;quot;.  Speaking of Fauxliva, &amp;#039;The Consultant&amp;#039; showcases a new side of that character too. In an attempt to contrast the character with our fragile, troubled Olivia, the writers of Fringe have occasionally made Fauxlivia a little too perfect - unflinchingly confident and in control. But we get a peak behind that facade this week as Walter catches her awake in the middle of the night, haunted by Lincoln&amp;#039;s death and her hunt for a mole. A bottle of booze in hand, she admits, &amp;quot;I thought this would give me some courage, but all it&amp;#039;s done is just make me feel a little bit sick&amp;quot; - it&amp;#039;s a wonderfully vulnerable moment, fantastically played by Anna Torv. Among all this character development and plot movement, there&amp;#039;s some good ol&amp;#039; fashioned freaky Fringe antics too. Creepy cretin David Robert Jones (Jared Harris) has a device that can link the two universes... When a woman&amp;#039;s alt-universe counterpart is involved in a car crash, she finds herself mysteriously sustaining the same injuries, and so forth. This leads to some brilliantly bizarre scenes as Jones&amp;#039;s victims are flung about, dismembered and more by some invisible force. &amp;#039;The Consultant&amp;#039; delivers pretty much everything you could want from a Fringe episode - wonderfully weird sci-fi moments, decent character and plot development, interaction between our heroes and their doubles (the reunion of the two Astrids is a nice touch) and even some hilarious Walter scenes - &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s my son and his girlfriend!&amp;quot; he beams proudly at Peter and Olivia.  A few slight criticisms - following last week&amp;#039;s Lincoln-centric instalment, Peter (Joshua Jackson) is AGAIN rather sidelined, but the character&amp;#039;s been central to the show of late, so it&amp;#039;s not necessarily a bad thing that he steps aside to allow the likes of Lincoln and Broyles some more screen-time. We&amp;#039;re left with the revelation that Jones plans to collapse both universes - does anyone else get the feeling that his plan might succeed on some level, with this season culminating with the two universes completely fusing into a single world? If Fringe does come to an end this year, that would make for as fitting an ending to the dual-universe story arc as any. But before all that, there&amp;#039;s next week&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Letters of Transit&amp;#039; - a future world, an Observer invasion, a mysterious blonde woman, Walter in mortal peril and Desmond from Lost - what the heck is going on?! \u2022 This week&amp;#039;s Fringe glyphs spell out the word S I M O N - but there&amp;#039;s no-one called &amp;#039;Simon&amp;#039; in this episode. Anyone want to speculate on what this could mean? \u2022 Spotting the Observer - He briefly appears behind Jones when Broyles meets him to collect the device - did you catch our follically-challenged chum? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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