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It was revealed at Thursday’s PaleyFest “Fringe” event that Anna Torv will be the only regular to share a scene in the season finale with Leonard Nimoy, who plays Massive Dynamic founder (and Walter Bishop’s old lab partner) William Bell. (Nimoy’s voice was heard interacting with a very young Olivia Dunham in last week’s memorable episode, which saw Dunham learning about her bizarre and forgotten youth in Florida.) Series co-creator J.J. Abrams confirmed that Nimoy would be back for season two. Abrams also revealed that Massive Dynamics became Massive Dynamic because someone poached a website domain. Another revelation was that Fox wanted to plant The Observer at the Obama inauguration but couldn’t quite work it out. Find IGN’s write-up of the PaleyFest event here. Last week’s rooftop scene was quite striking. One wonders if Olivia’s sister, who has been hanging around quite a few episodes now alongside Olivia’s niece, remembers anything of the Massive Dynamic experimentation to which she was subjected. I sense impending death for the sister and impending kidnapping for the niece. Fox says of tonight’s episode, titled “Midnight”:

Fringe Division is on the case when severely mutilated bodies drained of spinal cord fluid begin to pile up. After their investigation leads them to a scientist (guest star Jefferson Mays) with possible ties to the Z.F.T. bioterrorist cell, they are shocked to discover the identity and motive of the killer. When the kills occur with increasing frequency, Olivia (Anna Torv), Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Walter (John Noble) go to desperate lengths to stop them.

Fox says of next week’s episode, titled “The Road Not Taken”:

First her bad dreams became reality, and now Olivia is “dreaming” while awake, seeing elaborate bleak visions of things not really there. While investigating the disturbing case of a woman who apparently spontaneously combusted, Olivia throws caution to the wind and mines her unexplained visions for clues. Meanwhile, Walter comes clean about his prior knowledge of the Z.F.T. manifesto, and Peter’s secret project is revealed and yields surprising help in unraveling the mystery.

Fox says of the May 12 season finale, “There’s More Than One of Everything,” which introduces Leonard Nimoy as William Bell:

The sudden and unexpected attack on someone with close ties to Fringe Division, the return of bioterrorist David Robert Jones (guest star Jared Harris) and the inexplicable disappearance of Walter set the stage for a non-stop, nail-biting season finale of FRINGE. Questions will be answered, observations made, loyalties tested and truths and identities revealed.

9 p.m. Tuesday. Fox.

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