By Daniel
The Fringe team -- with William Bell still in Olivia's body -- tracks a woman who doesn't seem to be able to die, no matter how hard she tries. And she is trying, by working with a suicide hotline so she can attach herself to the most hopeless cases and die with them. Bell -- and Olivia does a great job with the head movements, stiff walk and eyebrow-raising of Leonard Nimoy -- and Walter have a great time working together, no matter how much it's creeping Peter out. Bell's enjoying himself too -- hitting on Astrid, speculating about having his consciousness transferred to Gene, for God's sake.
The Fringers solve the case with the help of one Lincoln Lee, an FBI agent out of Hartford who's been tracking the woman, who was supposed to have died when her family was murdered. So the idea is she just wants to rejoin her family but she can't because she was struck by lightning twice science science science can't die. Until she can, thanks to a bomb on a train. She thinks she's supposed to die on the train, but doesn't die until she takes the bomb off the train, saving everyone, because that's her destiny, of course.
As far as getting out of Olivia's body, Bell's not worried about it -- at least until a church bell rings, bringing Olivia back momentarily and giving Bell cause for concern that maybe, just maybe, his consciousness inhabiting the body of someone half a century younger might not be really simple.
Daniel is a writer in Newfoundland with a wife and a daughter. He hopes that the soooooul magnets subplot doesn't leave him sexually attracted to Leonard Nimoy. Follow him on Twitter (@DanMacEachern) or email him at danieljdaniel@gmail.com.