I am – Hercules!!
Last week’s installment ended with the finding of very old machines apparently belonging to some folks who were building machines before dinosaurs walked Earth One.
Fox says of 3.7, “The Abducted”:
When a serial kidnapper "over there" strikes again, the emotional and familiar case hits home for Colonel Broyles, sending a determined Olivia to uncover additional details about the abductions. In the meantime, Olivia fights on and reunites with Henry (guest star Andre Royo) to enlist his services on an intense and covert mission to return home.
"The Abducted" is a decent episode, but you’ll want to check in with it regardless – if only because it's very much a companion to one of the best “Fringe” episodes yet, the post-Thanksgiving installment “Entrada.”
Invisotext cloaks what Fox is not telling you.
* In-head Peter has the week off.
* Royo gets less screen time than virtually every other guest star. So I’m guessing we maybe haven’t seen the last of him?
* We learn Fauxlivia saved a bus full of kids from a class-three vortex last year. And that the FBI ceased to exist a decade ago. And Ronald Reagan played Rick Blaine.
* Teaser dialogue: “Looks like your room is officially monster-free tonight, kiddo.”
* Act one dialogue: “It’s the Candyman.”
* Broyles’ boy was kidnapped four years earlier. The child was not murdered, but the Earth Two media never mentioned the violation of young Christopher Broyles did not end at kidnapping.
* With sorrow comes exultation, apparently.
* How does it end? With “***’* ******* ** *** ***** ********.” A cliffhanger so substantial you’re going to have to wait till Dec. 2 to see it resolved. (Tellingly, 3.8 begins with the same scene.)
9 p.m. Thursday. Fox.
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