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* SuperOCD: Arithmomania is an obsession with counting things, not an obsession with a specific number.
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** Creator/PeterLorre who often appeared with Sydney Greenstreet as ThoseTwoBadGuys.
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** Creator/PeterLorre who often appeared as part of a villainous duo with Sydney Greenstreet as ThoseTwoBadGuys.Greenstreet.
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* ChekhovsGun: Subverted. The TrackingDevice Walter implanted in himself [[Recap/FringeS02E09Snakehead last episode]] is found and removed almost immediately by Newton.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Once Walter's missing brain pieces are reactivated, his manner becomes colder and more arrogant, much like the man he once was. We've just caught our first glimpse of [[spoiler: Walternate]].
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While viewing security footage, Olivia recognizes Newton, the leader of the shapeshifters who was re-animated from a cryogenically frozen head in [[FringeS02E04MomentumDeferred "Momentum Deferred."]] Astrid and Walter research the patient's physician, Dr. Paris, and learn he set up an indefinite prescription fourteen years ago for Slater as well as two other patients in the same week. Peter and Olivia interview one of these other patients, who constantly thought about the number 28, but was recently cured of her obsessive compulsive disorder by Newton. She tells them she was originally sent to the hospital by Dr Paris for mild postpartum depression, and that her obsessive compulsive disorder started soon after. Peter and Olivia also hear of a third patient who was mysteriously cured two days ago. Walter realizes that all the patients were given constant doses of organ transplant medication, and that foreign brain tissue was stored in each of their brains.
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While viewing security footage, Olivia recognizes Newton, the leader of the shapeshifters who was re-animated from a cryogenically frozen head in [[FringeS02E04MomentumDeferred [[Recap/FringeS02E04MomentumDeferred "Momentum Deferred."]] Astrid and Walter research the patient's physician, Dr. Paris, and learn he set up an indefinite prescription fourteen years ago for Slater as well as two other patients in the same week. Peter and Olivia interview one of these other patients, who constantly thought about the number 28, but was recently cured of her obsessive compulsive disorder by Newton. She tells them she was originally sent to the hospital by Dr Paris for mild postpartum depression, and that her obsessive compulsive disorder started soon after. Peter and Olivia also hear of a third patient who was mysteriously cured two days ago. Walter realizes that all the patients were given constant doses of organ transplant medication, and that foreign brain tissue was stored in each of their brains.
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** [[Film/ReAnimator Dr. West]] and [[Literature/TheDunwichHorror Dunwich Mental Health Facility]] seem to reference Creator/HPLovecraft.
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** [[Film/ReAnimator [[Literature/HerbertWestReanimator Dr. West]] and [[Literature/TheDunwichHorror Dunwich Mental Health Facility]] seem to reference Creator/HPLovecraft.
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-->'''Peter:''' Apparently Mister Gordon thought he was the actor Sydney Greenstreet -- and walked around quoting {{Casablanca}}.
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-->'''Peter:''' Apparently Mister Gordon thought he was the actor Sydney Greenstreet -- and walked around quoting {{Casablanca}}.''Film/{{Casablanca}}''.
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A group of Shapeshifters, led by Thomas Jerome Newton, break into a mental asylum and perform a brain operation on one of the patients that restores him to perfect sanity. The Fringe team investigates and discover two similar cases, and that each patient was cured by the removal of ''foreign'' brain tissue. Walter theorises that the tissue was added to the people's brains in order to preserve it (the tissue cannot survive more than a few hours outside a living organism), and that the pieces of tissue hold specific memories.
Olivia investigates the doctor who worked with each of the mental patients, the seemingly-fictional Dr. Paris, and discovers that he also visited one more mental patient: Walter, during his time in St. Claires. The team realises that the pieces of brain tissue came from Walter, and that if Newton is taking them, the pieces likely contain Walter's memories on how to create a door to the alternate universe. Just as Olivia and Peter are working this out, along with the fact that only Walter himself would be able to process the information stored in the tissue, Newton and the Shapeshifters kidnap Walter. They take him to the Bishops' old house in Cambridge and hook Walter up to a machine that temporarily reintegrates the removed brain tissue. [[ADarkerMe A more aggressive and serious Walter]] refuses to answer Newton's questions on creating a doorway, but Newton forces him to talk.
When Fringe Division arrives at the Cambridge house, correctly guessing that Newton will try to use familiar surroundings to help Walter reaccept the memories, Newton injects Walter with a poison before fleeing. Olivia gives chase and captures Newton, but he forces her to let him go in exchange for information on how to save Walter's life. Newton escapes and Walter survives, but the removed pieces of brain tissue die and the memories they stored are lost forever. During a follow-up MRI, Walter has a flashback to being put under for the operation that will remove parts of his brain by Dr. Paris -- who is really William Bell.
Olivia investigates the doctor who worked with each of the mental patients, the seemingly-fictional Dr. Paris, and discovers that he also visited one more mental patient: Walter, during his time in St. Claires. The team realises that the pieces of brain tissue came from Walter, and that if Newton is taking them, the pieces likely contain Walter's memories on how to create a door to the alternate universe. Just as Olivia and Peter are working this out, along with the fact that only Walter himself would be able to process the information stored in the tissue, Newton and the Shapeshifters kidnap Walter. They take him to the Bishops' old house in Cambridge and hook Walter up to a machine that temporarily reintegrates the removed brain tissue. [[ADarkerMe A more aggressive and serious Walter]] refuses to answer Newton's questions on creating a doorway, but Newton forces him to talk.
When Fringe Division arrives at the Cambridge house, correctly guessing that Newton will try to use familiar surroundings to help Walter reaccept the memories, Newton injects Walter with a poison before fleeing. Olivia gives chase and captures Newton, but he forces her to let him go in exchange for information on how to save Walter's life. Newton escapes and Walter survives, but the removed pieces of brain tissue die and the memories they stored are lost forever. During a follow-up MRI, Walter has a flashback to being put under for the operation that will remove parts of his brain by Dr. Paris -- who is really William Bell.
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* TechnicolorScience: Blue, yellow, red antidote.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Sebastian Roche who plays Thomas Newton played the angel [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Balthazar on Supernatural]], who also knew a thing or two about alternate worlds [[ScrewDestiny creating one]] when he kept the ''[[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic Titanic]]'' from sinking because [[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} he hated the movie]].
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Sebastian Roche who plays Thomas Newton played the angel [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Balthazar on Supernatural]], who also knew a thing or two about alternate worlds [[ScrewDestiny creating one]] when he kept the {{Titanic}} from sinking because he hated the movie.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Sebastian Roche who plays Thomas Newton played the angel [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Balthazar on Supernatural]], who also knew a thing or two about alternate worlds [[ScrewDestiny creating one]] when he kept the {{Titanic}} ''[[UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic Titanic]]'' from sinking because [[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} he hated the movie.movie]].
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* ActorAllusion: Dr. Paris as an allusion to Leonard Nimoy's character on MissionImpossible.
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** [[ReAnimator Dr. West]] and [[TheDunwichHorror Dunwich Mental Health Facility]] seem to reference Creator/HPLovecraft.
** PeterLorre who often appeared with Sydney Greenstreet as ThoseTwoBadGuys.
** PeterLorre who often appeared with Sydney Greenstreet as ThoseTwoBadGuys.
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** [[ReAnimator [[Film/ReAnimator Dr. West]] and [[TheDunwichHorror [[Literature/TheDunwichHorror Dunwich Mental Health Facility]] seem to reference Creator/HPLovecraft.
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'''Season 2, Episode 10''':
!Grey Matters
A group of Shapeshifters, led by Thomas Jerome Newton, break into a mental asylum and perform a brain operation on one of the patients that restores him to perfect sanity. The Fringe team investigates and discover two similar cases, and that each patient was cured by the removal of ''foreign'' brain tissue. Walter theorises that the tissue was added to the people's brains in order to preserve it (the tissue cannot survive more than a few hours outside a living organism), and that the pieces of tissue hold specific memories.
Olivia investigates the doctor who worked with each of the mental patients, the seemingly-fictional Dr. Paris, and discovers that he also visited one more mental patient: Walter, during his time in St. Claires. The team realises that the pieces of brain tissue came from Walter, and that if Newton is taking them, the pieces likely contain Walter's memories on how to create a door to the alternate universe. Just as Olivia and Peter are working this out, along with the fact that only Walter himself would be able to process the information stored in the tissue, Newton and the Shapeshifters kidnap Walter. They take him to the Bishops' old house in Cambridge and hook Walter up to a machine that temporarily reintegrates the removed brain tissue. [[ADarkerMe A more aggressive and serious Walter]] refuses to answer Newton's questions on creating a doorway, but Newton forces him to talk.
When Fringe Division arrives at the Cambridge house, correctly guessing that Newton will try to use familiar surroundings to help Walter reaccept the memories, Newton injects Walter with a poison before fleeing. Olivia gives chase and captures Newton, but he forces her to let him go in exchange for information on how to save Walter's life. Newton escapes and Walter survives, but the removed pieces of brain tissue die and the memories they stored are lost forever. During a follow-up MRI, Walter has a flashback to being put under for the operation that will remove parts of his brain by Dr. Paris -- who is really William Bell.
!! Tropes found in this episode:
* ActorAllusion: Dr. Paris as an allusion to Leonard Nimoy's character on MissionImpossible.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine
** Many physicians do not belong to the AMA, which is a professional society. Searching state medical licenses would make more sense.
** If you assume the "RX number" referred to by Walter is the DEA number, it does not have enough digits. The number Astrid types in is 39345-48. DEA numbers typically consist of 2 letters and 7 numbers.
** You would not be able to access prescription records or any patient information from the AMA website.
** Prescriptions can not be unlimited. The longest period refills can be ordered for is 1 year, and for some medications the period is shorter.
** Dr. Paris prescribed these drugs in 1995, but Sirolimus was not FDA approved until 1999, and Basiliximab was not FDA approved until 1998.
** All of the drugs prescribed require very careful monitoring as they can cause low white blood cell counts putting an individual at risk for infection. They also have other life threatening side effects such as liver failure. It is difficult to conceive how someone would remain on these medications if they were not known to have a transplanted organ.
** Also, [=Muromonab-CD3=] is an injection which is only given for steroid resistant acute rejection of a transplant, and is not used to prevent organ rejection.
** The abnormality pointed out by Walter on the MRI looks nothing like an artifact or "machine error", although there is another prominent artifact on the MRI image in the lower left corner.
** The MRI abnormality has a signal of the same intensity as the CSF fluid and appears to be a cyst (fluid filled hole) in the brain, not abnormal/transplanted brain tissue. There may have been a thin outline of abnormal signal around the cyst on the images, so maybe we were supposed to assume most of the transplanted tissue died leaving a hole, but a thin rim of the transplanted tissue did survive around the cyst.
** The MRI image on the lower right side shows T2 signal change in both temporal poles. Without more images it is difficult to say, but this may very well be the MRI of an individual with [[http://radiology.rsna.org/content/229/3/683.full CADASIL]] and the abnormality pointed out by Walter is an old lacunar infarct.
** The craniotomy exposed the left and right occipital lobes, but the abnormal tissue was shown to be in the lateral left temporal lobe.
** 50 mg of Valium is 10 times the standard dose and out of line, even if someone has tolerance.
** Diaphoresis and nausea would not occur from a one time higher then normal dose of Valium, but from withdrawal from long term use of benzodiazepines. It is not clear why Walter tries to explain his symptoms as being from miscalculating the Valium dose.
** The abnormalities noted in Walter's brain are not in the hippocampus, but in the lateral temporal lobe.
** There may be cells in the hippocampus that respond to [[http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Single-Cell-Recognition-Research-6260.aspx very specific stimuli]], but removing the hippocampus would not remove these memories as this cell in part of a large population responding to the specific stimuli. The hippocampus is important for consolidating short term memories into long term memories, but the memories are stored elsewhere.
** When Walter becomes more coherent and confident after the brain tissue is integrated back into his brain, it implies that the resection of his hippocampus resulted in his current mental disorder. This is doing a disservice to [[http://www.nytimes.com/ref/health/healthguide/esn-epilepsy-expert.html?pagewanted=all individuals with medically refractory epilepsy, who may be offered surgical resection]] of the hippocampus as a cure for their seizures. This procedure actually has [[ThisAintRocketSurgery a low rate of complications]].
* BrainInAJar: {{Reconstruction}} where the tissue samples are briefly seen in a suspension, but Walter says that brain tissue can not survive longer periods in a nutrient suspension as they die without electrical stimulation. This need for electrical stimulation is not explained, but may keep the brain from dying because of [[SenseLossSadness lack of sensory impulses]] or [[GoMadFromTheIsolation loneliness]].
* ContinuityNod: Walter and Astrid are listening to Thelonious Monk in the lab. A picture of Monk was prominently diplayed on the wall of William Bell's WTC office in 'Momentum Deferred'.
* DrugsAreBad: InvertedTrope, Walter's drug use is consistently treated as a [[StonersAreFunny laughing matter]]. [[http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerCauses/OtherCarcinogens/IntheWorkplace/benzene Inhaling benzene]] is presented as a fond memory.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Sebastian Roche who plays Thomas Newton played the angel [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Balthazar on Supernatural]], who also knew a thing or two about alternate worlds [[ScrewDestiny creating one]] when he kept the {{Titanic}} from sinking because he hated the movie.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia
* LosingYourHead: While brains can not survive without electrical stimulation, there does not seem to be any problem with the brain if you take the whole head and freeze it, as evidenced by Thomas Newton.
* NapoleonDelusion:
-->'''Peter:''' Apparently Mister Gordon thought he was the actor Sydney Greenstreet -- and walked around quoting {{Casablanca}}.
* NeuroVault
* PerfectPoison
* ShoutOut:
** [[ReAnimator Dr. West]] and [[TheDunwichHorror Dunwich Mental Health Facility]] seem to reference Creator/HPLovecraft.
** PeterLorre who often appeared with Sydney Greenstreet as ThoseTwoBadGuys.
* SuperOCD: Arithmomania is an obsession with counting things, not an obsession with a specific number.
* TechnicolorScience: Blue, yellow, red antidote.
<<|Recap/{{Fringe}}|>>
!Grey Matters
A group of Shapeshifters, led by Thomas Jerome Newton, break into a mental asylum and perform a brain operation on one of the patients that restores him to perfect sanity. The Fringe team investigates and discover two similar cases, and that each patient was cured by the removal of ''foreign'' brain tissue. Walter theorises that the tissue was added to the people's brains in order to preserve it (the tissue cannot survive more than a few hours outside a living organism), and that the pieces of tissue hold specific memories.
Olivia investigates the doctor who worked with each of the mental patients, the seemingly-fictional Dr. Paris, and discovers that he also visited one more mental patient: Walter, during his time in St. Claires. The team realises that the pieces of brain tissue came from Walter, and that if Newton is taking them, the pieces likely contain Walter's memories on how to create a door to the alternate universe. Just as Olivia and Peter are working this out, along with the fact that only Walter himself would be able to process the information stored in the tissue, Newton and the Shapeshifters kidnap Walter. They take him to the Bishops' old house in Cambridge and hook Walter up to a machine that temporarily reintegrates the removed brain tissue. [[ADarkerMe A more aggressive and serious Walter]] refuses to answer Newton's questions on creating a doorway, but Newton forces him to talk.
When Fringe Division arrives at the Cambridge house, correctly guessing that Newton will try to use familiar surroundings to help Walter reaccept the memories, Newton injects Walter with a poison before fleeing. Olivia gives chase and captures Newton, but he forces her to let him go in exchange for information on how to save Walter's life. Newton escapes and Walter survives, but the removed pieces of brain tissue die and the memories they stored are lost forever. During a follow-up MRI, Walter has a flashback to being put under for the operation that will remove parts of his brain by Dr. Paris -- who is really William Bell.
!! Tropes found in this episode:
* ActorAllusion: Dr. Paris as an allusion to Leonard Nimoy's character on MissionImpossible.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine
** Many physicians do not belong to the AMA, which is a professional society. Searching state medical licenses would make more sense.
** If you assume the "RX number" referred to by Walter is the DEA number, it does not have enough digits. The number Astrid types in is 39345-48. DEA numbers typically consist of 2 letters and 7 numbers.
** You would not be able to access prescription records or any patient information from the AMA website.
** Prescriptions can not be unlimited. The longest period refills can be ordered for is 1 year, and for some medications the period is shorter.
** Dr. Paris prescribed these drugs in 1995, but Sirolimus was not FDA approved until 1999, and Basiliximab was not FDA approved until 1998.
** All of the drugs prescribed require very careful monitoring as they can cause low white blood cell counts putting an individual at risk for infection. They also have other life threatening side effects such as liver failure. It is difficult to conceive how someone would remain on these medications if they were not known to have a transplanted organ.
** Also, [=Muromonab-CD3=] is an injection which is only given for steroid resistant acute rejection of a transplant, and is not used to prevent organ rejection.
** The abnormality pointed out by Walter on the MRI looks nothing like an artifact or "machine error", although there is another prominent artifact on the MRI image in the lower left corner.
** The MRI abnormality has a signal of the same intensity as the CSF fluid and appears to be a cyst (fluid filled hole) in the brain, not abnormal/transplanted brain tissue. There may have been a thin outline of abnormal signal around the cyst on the images, so maybe we were supposed to assume most of the transplanted tissue died leaving a hole, but a thin rim of the transplanted tissue did survive around the cyst.
** The MRI image on the lower right side shows T2 signal change in both temporal poles. Without more images it is difficult to say, but this may very well be the MRI of an individual with [[http://radiology.rsna.org/content/229/3/683.full CADASIL]] and the abnormality pointed out by Walter is an old lacunar infarct.
** The craniotomy exposed the left and right occipital lobes, but the abnormal tissue was shown to be in the lateral left temporal lobe.
** 50 mg of Valium is 10 times the standard dose and out of line, even if someone has tolerance.
** Diaphoresis and nausea would not occur from a one time higher then normal dose of Valium, but from withdrawal from long term use of benzodiazepines. It is not clear why Walter tries to explain his symptoms as being from miscalculating the Valium dose.
** The abnormalities noted in Walter's brain are not in the hippocampus, but in the lateral temporal lobe.
** There may be cells in the hippocampus that respond to [[http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Single-Cell-Recognition-Research-6260.aspx very specific stimuli]], but removing the hippocampus would not remove these memories as this cell in part of a large population responding to the specific stimuli. The hippocampus is important for consolidating short term memories into long term memories, but the memories are stored elsewhere.
** When Walter becomes more coherent and confident after the brain tissue is integrated back into his brain, it implies that the resection of his hippocampus resulted in his current mental disorder. This is doing a disservice to [[http://www.nytimes.com/ref/health/healthguide/esn-epilepsy-expert.html?pagewanted=all individuals with medically refractory epilepsy, who may be offered surgical resection]] of the hippocampus as a cure for their seizures. This procedure actually has [[ThisAintRocketSurgery a low rate of complications]].
* BrainInAJar: {{Reconstruction}} where the tissue samples are briefly seen in a suspension, but Walter says that brain tissue can not survive longer periods in a nutrient suspension as they die without electrical stimulation. This need for electrical stimulation is not explained, but may keep the brain from dying because of [[SenseLossSadness lack of sensory impulses]] or [[GoMadFromTheIsolation loneliness]].
* ContinuityNod: Walter and Astrid are listening to Thelonious Monk in the lab. A picture of Monk was prominently diplayed on the wall of William Bell's WTC office in 'Momentum Deferred'.
* DrugsAreBad: InvertedTrope, Walter's drug use is consistently treated as a [[StonersAreFunny laughing matter]]. [[http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerCauses/OtherCarcinogens/IntheWorkplace/benzene Inhaling benzene]] is presented as a fond memory.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Sebastian Roche who plays Thomas Newton played the angel [[Series/{{Supernatural}} Balthazar on Supernatural]], who also knew a thing or two about alternate worlds [[ScrewDestiny creating one]] when he kept the {{Titanic}} from sinking because he hated the movie.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia
* LosingYourHead: While brains can not survive without electrical stimulation, there does not seem to be any problem with the brain if you take the whole head and freeze it, as evidenced by Thomas Newton.
* NapoleonDelusion:
-->'''Peter:''' Apparently Mister Gordon thought he was the actor Sydney Greenstreet -- and walked around quoting {{Casablanca}}.
* NeuroVault
* PerfectPoison
* ShoutOut:
** [[ReAnimator Dr. West]] and [[TheDunwichHorror Dunwich Mental Health Facility]] seem to reference Creator/HPLovecraft.
** PeterLorre who often appeared with Sydney Greenstreet as ThoseTwoBadGuys.
* SuperOCD: Arithmomania is an obsession with counting things, not an obsession with a specific number.
* TechnicolorScience: Blue, yellow, red antidote.
<<|Recap/{{Fringe}}|>>
