Somewhere over the ocean, in mid-flight through a turbulent thunderstorm, a passenger in obvious distress takes out what appears to be some sort of device to give himself an injection. Could it be a drug to help him relax? Could it be for an allergy?I guess not. After he takes it not only him, but all the people on the plane dissolve into a horrific pile of goo leaving only their skeletal remains behind.
After isolating the plane on the ground the lovely ( pic to the left ) Agent Olivia Dunham ( Anna Torv ) is the FBI agent tasked to solve the crime - well, she and her lover, John Scott. They track down the source of the plot to a storage facility where John is contaminated by an explosion and left in a comatose and gooey, translucent state.
Meanwhile, back at FBI HQ, the fearless Agent Dunham, through a grueling process of search queries uncovers the fact that an imprisoned scientist, Dr. William Bishop ( John Noble ) was doing research in exactly this area. Translucent skin, liquefied human bodies, the kind of stuff the CIA masturbates to, you know. Since the good doctor can only be accessed if an immediate family member accompanies a visitor, the agent enlists Peter Bishop ( Joshua Jackson ), the doctor's reluctant son.
After a quick flight to Iraq to pick him up it's back to the good ol' USA to set up the lab in Harvard, get a cow, drop some acid, isolate Agent Dunham in a sensory deprivation chamber in her underwear ( yeah baby ) so she can get into John's dreams and see the face of the bad guy and solve the mystery - thereby saving John Scott and the world in one fell swipe. Well, strike that - John has to die because he turns out to be a bad guy and it's one great big conspiracy to destroy the whole world. Therefore, the mad scientist, his son and Agent Dunham must team up to save the world from utter destruction under the guidance of Agent Dunham's foe Phillip Broyles ( Lance Reddick ).
Sound a little far fetched? Well aside from Agent Dunham in her underwear, that is. She really did - and it was cool, and she was hot.
Yes it did kind of require that the viewer go ahead and just believe. But here's the thing . . . as a person who loved the X-Files, I'm okay with letting these little leaps of faith get in the way of giant, gaping logic holes. I'll let them slide with a simple request:
More scenes with Anna Torv in her underwear and a little more focus on making the story just a tad bit more believable. We need a good replacement for the X-Files and this could be it.
The chemistry between the characters is pretty good and the premise of the series could keep me watching - as long as the writers can create more compelling storylines with a little more attention to detail.
Will this one last? Let me know how you feel about Fringe . . .
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