Fringe: Evil Twins
The Wall of Weird
There is a Wall of Weird on Fringe.
I haven't spotted Chloe yet. But then why would I? Chloe has moved on to a Digital Wall of Weird. In Fringe, the Wall of Weird is still analog. Am I supposed to infer something from that? Perhaps.
The Fringe Wall of Weird follows the US Government's odd activities over the years. Chloe's Wall of Weird followed the after effects of a Meteor Shower in Smallville, Kansas. In both instances, something catastrophic happened and the after shocks are felt 20 odd years after the great calamity. I am not sure what Fringe's great trauma was. Was it Experimentation on Children?
Was it hallucinogens in the water supply of major cities in the US?
Did the Earth shift on its axis?
Fringe explores the after effects of whatever happened.
And Walter is feeling guilt after killing the monster. He wants another monster to replace it. And Walter is coveting that two headed goat.
I think that Walter better consult with Gene the Cow before he starts bringing in other animals in the Lab. Everybody should consent to these multiple partner relationships or feelings will be hurt and heads will be lost. Walter, you can only milk one relationship at a time.
The FDA and Cortexifan
As it is turning out quite frequently in Fringe, whatever after shocks develop prove to be a result of something that Walter Bishop, in his heyday when he wasn't bonkers, and William Bell dreamed up during their drug orgies and executed in their Harvard Lab. This just goes to show that the World can only handle one mad scientist at a time. Once you start creating more mad scientists, the Madness increases exponentially. And the World gets really screwed over.
Walter and William Bell created a drug called Cortexifan and then decided to use it in the real world. But let's let Walter explain that.
Walter: Where is the Fire? I've always loved that expression which is curious since my lab assistant was killed in a fire.
Olivia: What can you tell me about Cortexifan?
Walter: That takes me back. I can remember whipping up a peyote mash.... Cortexifan was a highly experimental drug. William thought that it might enhance certain abilities of predisposed children.
It worked on perception. Carlos Casteneda, Aldous Huxley, Vern Heisenberg. All focused on one single elementary truth. Perception is the key to transformation.
Peter: Reality is both subjective and malleable. If you can dream a better world, you can make a better world.
Walter: Or perhaps, travel between them.
If William had followed the usual procedures...Often when we experimented on children...we would put them in pairs like the buddy system in summer camp. This pairing kept them from becoming frightened or isolated. Sometimes a bond would form which could be greatly amplified with a drug like Cortexifan.
Olivia is upset with Walter and understandably so. When Olivia was a child in Jacksonville, Florida, she was one of Walter's and William Bell's test subjects. She was a Child Lab Rat for a Couple of Mad Scientists. Madam Sharp of William Bell's Massive Dynamics confirmed this.
My viewing companion, brijeana , and I began to speculate on why Olivia was chosen to be a Lab Rat for the W2s.
Was Olivia chosen after she put a bullet in her bad step dad who beat her mother? Olivia would naturally be put in some sort of Juvenile Detention or Foster Homes while the courts figured that out.
Was Olivia's dad who was in the Navy still alive? Was she on a military base and the military required its sailors to subject their children to these tests? This is sort of like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and very ugly to think anyone would let this happen to children.
We came to no conclusions, but we were very disturbed by this.
Daddies should nurture and protect their children. "Should" is the operative word. Fringe is about bad dads. Walter experimented on his son Peter. Olivia's dad died? disappeared? abandoned her? All those children in the W2s experiments were given to bodily harm.
Then my viewing companion and I began to speculate on the name of the drug, Cortexifan.
"Cortex" is for the brain and where the drug works its magic. The Cortex is also known as the Cerebrum where thought and action take place. It contains all those lobes of the brain. Walter has had his frontal lobes altered, probably by his massive drug intake in his youth. And maybe that is where the Massive in Massive Dynamic comes from.
I decided that "Ifan" was for "When the shit hits the fan" as it does so frequently in Fringe.
My viewing companion thought that "ifan" was for the airing and ventilation of just what experiments the W2s were doing in their Lab.
Olivia and Her Evil Twin
Thanks to Cortexifan, Olivia had an evil twin. He was a fraternal twin named Nick Lane. But Olivia and Nick were very alike.
They exercised early in the morning.
They wore the same clothing.
They had the same coloring and features. They used the same type of gun. But you could tell them apart by the scar that Nick had on his left temple.
It was in the shape of a number 2.
Olivia Kills People
Olivia is a woman who uses her gun when she pulls it. But Olivia shoots Bad People.
Olivia was acting out of character. She was killing Good People.
She pushed them in front of trains.
She knifed them with the Cheese Knife in restaurants.
She picked them up in Stripper Joints and she slit their throats with broken glass after she used them sexually.
My viewing companion said, "I don't like this Olivia." I didn't like her either. But it wasn't Olivia. It was her Evil Twin Nick (Devil reference) who was doing it. Olivia was just in his brain as she was in her lover John's brain. But Olivia was not in the Tank. She was on some hypnosis table. Why drop a good thing? Olivia was getting good results in the Tank. Why wasn't she in the Tank?
Did the Tank get tanked?
But Olivia felt the weight of guilt of her Evil Twin Nick's actions.
She woke up in the night with his victims' blood on her hands.
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red."
Macbeth, Act II, Scene 2
Olivia stops her Cortexifan Evil Twin Nick. He is left in an induced coma.
Notice the red over his right shoulder. This show makes a great deal of green and red colors.
This is a video tape of Olivia's experimentation trial that Walter found in his things. Notice the red light at her feet. Something went wrong during the drug trials according to this tape. We don't know what. Or if it was the Big Bad that started it all.
The Bald Guy Appears
A Lot of Bridges Are Crossed
The last bridge is to the building is where Olivia's Cortexifan Evil Twin Nick lies in his induced coma.
And this was on the Wall of Weird that Nick made.
Who will correct all this Evil?
Screen Caps by Me