By Couch Baron
...while upstairs, the couple has apparently survived the elevator ride without incident, and after the hostess greets them, the man thrusts a bottle in her face and asks, "California bubbly?" simultaneously placing himself into my Trying Too Hard and Dead To Me categories. Given the nature of this show, that second one could work out. The women send the dude out to the balcony, where many of the guests are apparently chillaxing, while they head into the kitchen to get drinks. What is not significant is all the discussion of relationship particulars, since we won't be seeing the couple past this scene; what is significant is that at some point the blender powers on of its own accord, prompting the hostess to complain that the stove did the same thing the day before. Well, if you'd stop with all the boring couples talk, your appliances wouldn't feel the need to editorialize. Also significant is when the guest takes a bite of a chicken skewer and immediately starts going into anaphylactic shock, like, I'm sorry for her but if you had that severe a peanut allergy wouldn't you be a LITTLE MORE DILIGENT (i.e., at all) about checking into what you stick in your mouth? Anyway, the woman manages to gasp that her medication is in her purse, so the male host rushes to get the new boyfriend, who had taken her purse and coat. He rushes to grab it...
...while down in the street, the doorman is just putting Mrs. Marcelo into that cab when a body falls to the ground mere feet from her. Well, it's not a party until someone gets broken. Mrs. Marcelo and Jimmy gape in shock as more people, and some furniture to boot, hit the deck, but when we look up, nothing strange is readily apparent. Of course, tell that to the corpses lying on the sidewalk, of which we get an aerial view and also hear distant screams from above before going to opening credits.
Walter is wearing the cutest little apron and sashaying around the kitchen putting the finishing touches on a pancake breakfast while singing about same to the tune of "Camptown Races" (you know, as you do) when Peter enters and asks what the occasion is. Peter, don't you realize you could be eating instead of asking stupid questions? Instead of taking my answer, though, Walter says it's been super-quiet on the Fringe front, which has resulted in him not seeing Olivia for some time, and he misses her. Aw. Peter tells him that it's not his business what happens "between Olivia and I," and minus a million points for not knowing that's incorrect usage, Peter. Lucky you're pretty. (By the way, I can't believe after almost nine years at TWoP, I'm recapping Josh Jackson. If I ever get to tackle The Beek, especially now that he's become awesome, my recapping life will truly be complete.) Peter makes some further attempts to impress upon Walter the value in butting out, but just then Olivia turns up and asks what's so important, and Walter replies that breakfast is. "The most important meal of the day, and I proved it in 1973." Heh. I can already tell that Walter's going to be my favorite, even if the lit candles on the breakfast table sort of suggest Peter has a point about Walter over-involving himself here. Walter exits the room, and soon, some music my captioning describes as "romantic" starts playing from elsewhere, prompting a terrifically understated eye-roll from Peter; hilariously, Walter then rushes out the front door despite Peter sharply calling his name.
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