Line #22 Recap/FringeS02E14TheBishopRevival


1	'''Season 2, Episode 14''':
2	!The Bishop Revival
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4	15 people suffocate at a Jewish wedding, appearing to have asphyxiated from the inside out. When the Fringe team arrives, Olivia identifies all the victims as being from the groom's side, whose grandmother was a Holocaust survivor - and Walter surmises that they were all killed via their shared genetic traits. Later, a similar mass death occurs at a coffee shop, in which Walter recognizes the victims all had brown eyes, another common genetic trait. From fingerprints found at the scene, they discover the culprit is Alfred Hoffman, a Nazi scientist apparently somehow over 100 years old. Walter realizes that the man likely worked with his own father, Robert Bishoff (a German scientist who defected to the US in 1943 and anglicised his name), to creating a chemical agent that, once heated as a gas, could be used to target any specific trait using DNA from the target subject - especially those not of the master race. Though Walter originally had his father's files on the subject, Peter had sold them ten years earlier; Peter tries to recover the files but finds some have been used by an artist to create sensationalism art, causing Walter to become distraught.
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6	They trace Hoffman to his home, finding his equipment used to create the chemical agent downstairs but no sign of Hoffman. Walter nearly suffocates from an agent left by Hoffman, but Olivia and Peter are able to save him in time. As the FBI search the premises, they find evidence that points to a convention being held to promote world equality. Olivia and Peter depart to try to find Hoffman, while Walter remains behind, examining Hoffman's equipment.
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8	At the convention, Hoffman has replaced the heating elements for the chafing-dishes with his own. Olivia and Peter struggle with locating Hoffman before Walter and Astrid arrive. Walter uses a fogger to distribute his own chemical agent, this time specific to Hoffman, and soon the man is found dying. As the team regroups, Walter fully admits to killing Hoffman, a crime in itself, but Broyles decides to let it go. Later, Peter has been able to recover the rest of his grandfather's work and returns it to Walter; Walter then goes through the files, finding an old photo of his father and Hoffman working together.
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10	!!Tropes found in this episode:
11	* TheAgeless: The German scientist.
12	* AllGermansAreNazis
13	* ArtisticLicenseChemistry:
14	** Creating the seahorse signature is quite implausible with today's technology, and was certainly impossible in 1943.
15	*** The idea is that the German scientist spent the last 70 years or so developing the toxin, and made it as his twisted fuck you to Walter's dad. Even without that, considering Massive Dynamic, Walter and ZFT, making a chemical weapon with a carbon structure that looks like a seahorse is the least improbable thing.
16	* ArtisticLicenseHistory
17	** DNA was actually discovered by Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher in 1869, well before Nazi Germany.
18	*** The theory of DNA containing a cell's genetic information, however, was first proposed by Oswald Avery in 1944 and was generally accepted only after Francis' and Crick's discovery of the now-famous double-helix structure (with its implications for DNA's duplication mechanism) in 1953. So a Nazi scientist doing DNA-based genetics would indeed have been ahead of his time.
19	* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Someone poisoned by cyanide actually has cherry red blood, not blue blood.
20	** The groom in the early part of the episode thinks he's having an asthma attack (he's not) and uses an inhaler. To anyone who has used - or seen them properly used - you do not depress the canister for every breath. You inhale the first spray, then hold breath for a few seconds before breathing normally. Three rapid-fire inhalations would simply cause immediate coughing, and expel the medication back out of the lungs.
21	* BitterAlmonds: Averted. The toxin smells of cinnamon.
22	* CoolOldLady: Eva Staller. From what little we saw of her, she was nice and cool for someone who survived the holocaust. And she was about to bust the German scientist right before she choked to death (In RealLife, one woman who did recognize Josef Mengele in a crowd after WWII fainted, so it's a testament to how cool ''this'' old lady is).
23	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Walter. Peter lampshades this by telling him, "Maybe I should drive."
24	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Walter telling Olivia that family is very important to him and that there's nothing he wouldn't do.
25	* HoistByHisOwnPetard / KarmicDeath: Hoffman gets killed by his own chemical weapon by Walter, the son of the guy who worked against him, after he tried using the chemical weapon on Walter himself.
26	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Hoffman who created a chemical weapon that targets people according to pre-programmed genetic traits, and he tests at the wedding of one of his Jewish victims. His next plan was to unleash it on a human rights conference, where he and anyone else who was blonde and blue eyed would be the only ones left standing. Needless to say, it's satisfying when Walter kills him with his own weapon.
27	* ShipperOnDeck: Walter for Olivia and Peter.
28	-->'''Walter:''' Do you think she'll call me 'Dad'?
29	--> '''Peter:''' Who?

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