I liked the revrerse empath angle. Very cool. Might have been a cool ange if Olivuia eally was uncomnssciously kiling people, but this woorked for the larger set up. I also like that the guy wasn't deliberatelt malicious, just unabe to control his own emotions or his power. I also liked the idea of a hidden war, being the real motivation for Massive Dynamic, and the paralell reality invasion sounds intruging. Anna Torv delivers her guilt ansdd uncertainty well, and it;'s great to see her doing some comedy too. I loved the orgasm scene even more for the other's reactions than ers, Astrid, Bishop Jr. and Finally Bishop whe they eac realized wat was actually happening.

John Nobel is brillaint as always, Astrid always delivers good reactions, doing grea work with minimal diaalogue. Bishop Jr. always gives good shock and audience perspectve. "Uh, can we examine that sentence for a minute?"

And I love the final revealation about Bishop and Olivia.

Wonder if she'll start reverse empathing at some point too.

I loved this episode.  My question is about every review I've read so far about it, which have been all good, and even some of the commenters on said reviews.  How are people, and these are guys, complaining about the kiss and/or the orgasm scene?  One it was pretty hot and two I doubt it was "fan service" as said here or even just to get more viewers or whatever was said in other reviews.  They were trying to show all sides of ability she or the other guy has. It didn't happen just to happen but played as an essential part of the plot.  It's crazy people,  It's just plain crazy.

I agree that this is possibly one of the weaker episodes... and yet it was still greatly enjoyable. Perhaps the writers were a little too intent on delivering this new part of Olivia's background than the story iteslf, but it was about time that we learned a little more about our protagonist.  I loved how the ending yanked away any notion of comfort that settled toward the end of the episode.

On network TV, this is easily my favorite drama; only a couple comedies might exceed it as overall favorite but as total opposites it's not really worth comparing. Fringe is a fun ride for me and I hope it keeps rollin'.

Man! How funny where the Bishop sceens? To counter that how creapy was some of that Bishop dialog??? This was a very good episode. Yeah, not as crazy as last week, but definitely more freaky. It sets up for some cool future stories!

Walter's comic relief is indeed one of the best aspects of the show.  His obsession with food at the wrong time always cracks me up... somethink like...

"This disembowlment is so fascinating! It reminds me of two things. First, an experiment where we tried to splice miniature wormholes to test a theory of space and time."  Dr. Bishop pauses as if in deep thought to which Peter interrupts while obviously revolted by the bloody mess on the exam table, "And the other thing?"  "Hmm... oh what?" "You said it reminded you of two things. What was the second?" "Oh, oh yes. I could go for a large bowl of Thai noodles right now." "Walter!"