History Recap / FringeS01E11Bound

Following Olivia's kidnapping in the previous episode, [[FringeS01E10Safe "Safe"]], the Fringe team works to find her. Unbeknownst to her, one of Olivia's captors is Agent Mitchell Loeb. He gives her a spinal tap and returns to help with the investigation. Olivia fights off the remaining men and escapes, taking several medical samples with her. She hides the samples right before being arrested by Sanford Harris, who was hired to audit Fringe Division. Years before, Olivia exposed and prosecuted Harris for sexually assaulting three female Marine privates, and he now wants revenge. Now recovering in Boston Hospital, Olivia's judgment is questioned by Harris for working with the mentally unstable scientist Walter Bishop and his law-breaking son Peter Bishop. Harris tells her she cannot investigate her own abduction.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Ladies and gentlemen, I present you Sandford Harris! Bonus points for being a convicted rapist and JerkWithAHeartOfJerk! Later revealed to be [[spoiler: TheMole for ZFT]]!
* TheWormThatWalks: The super-sized cold virus. You ingest it, minutes later, ta da! [[{{Squick}} A giant, spiky worm crawls out of your throat]], choking and suffocating you to death while doing so!
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Olivia escapes with only one scrape on her forehead
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: subverted

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Loeb flips out when Olivia reveals she killed his wife.
* KnightTemplar: Loeb believes he's in the right, killing people with a SyntheticPlague and blaming Olivia for killing his wife, despite the fact he told his wife to try and kill Olivia, and breaks down to mocking Olivia for not [[VaguenessIsComing "knowing the sides, what is coming"]], but offers no useful information. As Walter points out, he's clearly unhinged.
* SyntheticPlague

* VaguenessIsComing: It's the first time a ZFT agent claims they're fighting for something other than killing people with MadScience ForTheEvulz. This being Fringe, however, he offers no clear explanation.

Following Olivia kidnapping in the previous episode, [[FringeS01E10Safe "Safe"]], the Fringe team works to find her location. Unbeknownst to her, one of Olivia's captors is Agent Mitchell Loeb. He gives her a spinal tap and returns to help with the investigation. Olivia fights off the remaining men and escapes, taking several medical samples with her. She hides the samples right before being arrested by Sanford Harris, who was hired to audit Fringe Division. Years before, Olivia exposed and prosecuted Harris for sexually assaulting three female Marine privates, and he now wants revenge. Now recovering in Boston Hospital, Olivia's judgment is questioned by Harris for working with the mentally unstable scientist Walter Bishop and his law-breaking son Peter Bishop. Harris tells her she cannot investigate her own abduction.

The ZFT scientists extract some spinal fluid from Olivia, but before they can do anything else, she escapes and makes contact with the FBI. However, when agents come to collect her, they use tranquilliser guns to sedate Olivia before bringing her to see Sanford Harris, an internal affairs investigator with a grudge against Olivia who has been brought in to check Fringe Division's conduct. Meanwhile, an epidemiologist is killed when something slug-like grows inside him and slithers out of his mouth. When the team investigates, Walter discovers the slug is actually a single giant cell of the common cold virus. They take another epidemiologist into protective custody, but Mitchell Loeb slips another parasite into his drink.

During the investigation, Olivia spots a clue that makes her realise Loeb was one of her abductors. She goes to his house to try and gather evidence and is discovered by Loeb's wife. In a shootout, the wife is killed and Olivia discovers evidence that links Loeb to the death of the epidemiologists. Loeb is arrested and Olivia coerces him into confessing to the kidnapping and the murders: Loeb claims that Olivia's abduction was for her own benefit, and the ZFT was trying to help her.

* VaguenessIsComing: It's the first time a ZFT agent claims they're fighting for something other than killing people with MadScience ForTheEvulz. This being Fringe, however, he offers no clear explanation.
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** The paarasitic slug is identifed as the common cold virus but:

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Ladies and gentlemen, I present you Sandford Harries! Bonus points for being a convicted rapist and JerkWithAHeartOfJerk! Later revealed to be [[spoiler: TheMole for ZFT]]!

** Miles Kinberg is initially identified as an immunologist (someone who studies the immune system), but through the rest of the episode the characters talk about killing off epidemiologists (people who look at patterns of disease and public health). It is possible he had expertise in both areas or TheyJustDidntCare.