“Inner Child”

Another intriguing episode in a series that is starting to get more consistent in it’s delivery. It’s lows aren’t quite as low but their highs are still pretty high.

The Fringe Event of the week turns up in a little boy discovered to have been living underground in a sealed warehouse sized room for nearly a decade. He’s emaciated, doesn’t talk, but he’s smart and he turns out to be an empath. He can read people’s emotions very well. So well in fact that he can make a connection – positive and negative.

In the meantime, an old nemesis of Dunham’s resurfaces…The Artist. The man is a serial killer who kidnaps women and then alter’s them in the form of art. He leaves calling cards letting the FBI know where the “art” is.

The child, who does not talk, does in fact write and writes out the name Sam Gilmore, which the FBI believes must be his name. In fact it’s the name of The Artist’s next victim.

The rest of the episode is classic CSI – Fringed style as Dunham uses the boy to find and put the Artist out of commission.

The intersting portions really though deal with the child specifically. First the NSA gets involved and wants to take custody of the child, something child has a very negative reaction towards and is very grateful when Dunham tricks them out of getting their hands on him.

Second as the boy is being driven away, they pass by the Observer who looks at the boy…in an obvious connection. My personal belief? The kid IS the observer. But that’s yet to be determined…I just wanted to get my theory out there now before it gets proven. The first time through I had another theory that came through about Peter, that I’ll save until the actual episode.

Overall a fun episode, with a little mystery to add to the mythos, but even without it, it kept the viewer engaged.

B

OBSERVER MOMENT: The Obserever is seen observing the child as he is driven away to his foster family

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