A troubled boy, who we later find out is named Roy, goes to a priest to make a confession.  He actually has done nothing worth confessing about, but he is seeing things and he desperately wants it to stop.  The priest presses him for further information and Roy runs for it, leaving behind a chilling sketch of his vision, the contents of which, I'll reveal in a later paragraph.  That's called hooking the reader!

 

 

The Funeral for Agent Scott celebrates him as a hero, much to the dismay of jilted girlfriend Agent Dunham.  Her friend Agent Francis succeeds in making her feel better by telling her that Agent Scott told him he loved him too.  Is a funeral any place for gay jokes Francis?  Also, why was Scott's Mom giving Dunham the stink-eye all the way through the burial?  Questions Questions.

 

In a diner somewhere in town, Dr. Bishop and Peter are having breakfast.  We discover that Dr. Bishop is making and prescribing psychotics to himself, he has spent 13 years in a mental hospital after all, he might need them.  Peter confronts someone whose been following him and taking pictures.  He roughs him up and takes the memory card out of his camera and threatens him he better not tell anyone he's in town.  Now, is this guy linked to that gambling money that he owes, or is this something different.  He told Peter that he was supposed to "Check in" when he got back to the states.  Check in with whom exactly?  Dr. Bishop sees this and knows somethings up, but he lets it slide as they have a new case to work on!

 

 

 

The vision that Roy drew depicted a bus full of people frozen solid and suffocated.  This was accomplished by one man on board who put on a gas mask and threw a smoking canister that bonded with the particles in the air and became solid.  Why did he do this?  To steal a backpack.  It seems like there would be easier ways to steal a backpack, but who am I to judge.  I'm not a mad scientist.

 

 

 

Who do you think?  Maker of the melty-plague: Our friends at Massive Dynamic.  Dunham goes to check them out and Nina gives her a list of all the labs who have made it.  She also lets Dunham in on this piece of information, this is not the first time an attack of this nature has occurred.  This means Broyles is not being 100 percent forthcoming on all the information and Dunham is rightfully ticked about this.

 

 

 

Our good friend Roy the artsy Psychic is brought in.  In his apartment they find a ton of creepy drawings of future events before they took place, including the flight of the metly-plague.  Roy has had this "gift" for 9 months, this is the same amount of time Broyles' group has been aware of the existence of the pattern.  Not only that but all of Roy's drawings depict pattern related events.  Coincidence?  I think not!

 

 

 

That would have been the title of this episode if it wasn't already copywrighted by Dione Warwick.  Roy was, long ago, a test subject of Dr. Bishops.  He injected Roy with a metallic compound in his blood that seems to have multiplied over time, as evident by his bad reaction to the CAT scan.  Dr. Bishop hypothesized that there was an unknown series of waves out side of the human spectrum that could be used and interpreted by the brain to transmit information.  A scientific explanation for telepathy.  Roy, over the years, has become a receiver for this signal, hearing people talk about pattern related crimes they were about to commit.

 

 

 

All the psychic patterns in Roy's brain were in the visual cortex of his brain, but never fear!  Dr. Bishop can do a simple minor brain surgery to move the patterns to the audio.  It works and sends Dunham on a lead to a trade taking place.

 

 

 

What was being traded was a small, round, contact lens-like chip that was inside the skin of the backpack lady's hand.  She was a DEA agent who wanted to be pulled out from undercover, but the agent doing the pulling was the one who wanted the chip.  So when he was called in to ID her body, he cut her hand open and took it for himself!

 

 

 

Earlier in the episode when Peter and Dunham are illegally searching the house the Bishops used to live in for the A/V brain surgery device, Dunham asks Peter what happened to his Mother.  That's a story for another time, he says.  Let the theories start now.  My guess is that Dr. Bishop planted a hypnotic suggestion in her long ago to do a certain task when she heard a specific trigger phrase.  Dr. Bishop used the trigger phrase by phone after being institutionalized, and the task killed her.  Peter will think she committed suicide.  Do I have any evidence, no.  But that is what makes theories so fun!

 

 

 

The trade for that chip does not go as planned, since everything they say is being overheard in the head of Roy.  They guy who gave it away was shot in the chest with an extremely silent silencer, and the guy who took it tried to run, was caught, and then stepped in front of a bus.  Irony!  What starts with a bus ends with a bus.  The chip was taken in by the good guys.

 

 

 

Dunham is sad because they didn't capture anyone behind it to question.  Broyles is happy though, and he compliments her and starts to let her into the secret files he was keeping from her on the pattern cases.  This makes Dunham feel happy.

 

 

 

A B-plot to this episode is that a piano was brought into the lab so Peter could play some Bach and help Dr. Bishop think.  In the end he plays some Jazz (so he says, but it sounded more like easy listening) for Dunham and his father seems to melt listening to it.

 

 

 

In the end Broyles hands the Chip over to Nina Sharp.  Who is working for who?!  They have a conversation about how they both think a lot of Dunham, and want the best for her.  I'm not so sure Nina means it.  Nina gives the chip to a lab guy and says, "Here's another one."  How many of these things are there?  Lab guy says that this one may help him break the encryption.  They also were working on what looked like downloading the entire contents of Agent Scott's Corpse's brain onto a computer.  I thought they only had six hours after the time of death to do that kind of stuff!  What's the deal there?

 

Okay, no real numbers or hidden things in this episode, that I saw anyway, but I would like to log a theory.  I think that Massive Dynamic is not the bad guys in this series.  Think about it, we've known about them from episode 1.  I think they are not 100 percent honest, but I think they are working on our side to find out who the real bad guys are.  It's a theory consistent with Lost: we thought that the Others were the bad guys for a long time, but it turns out that wasn't true.  We have yet to see hide nor hair of the real evildoers involved.  That is what I think.  What do you think?  Please leave a comment and let me know!  Until next week, my Fringe-Drinkers!

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