Bound
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| Season | 1 |
| Episode | 11 |
| Air Date | January 20, 2009 |
| Written by | J.J. Abrams Jeff Pinkner Alex Kurtzman Roberto Orci |
| Directed by | Frederick E.O. Toye |
| Starring | Main Characters |
| Guest Cast | Michael Gaston as Sanford Harris Ari Graynor as Rachel Chance Kelly as Mitchell Loeb Trini Alvarado as Samantha Loeb Lily Pilblad as Ella Brian Slaten as Man #3 Peter Fernandez as Russell Simon Sarah Wilson as Tara Coleman Stephen Schnetzer as Miles Kinberg Chinasa Ogbuagu as Lloyd Chad Gittens as CDC Agent |
| Previous Episode | Safe |
| Next Episode | The No-Brainer |
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Bound is the eleventh episode of the first season of FRINGE. It first aired on January 20, 2009. Olivia manages to escape her captors, only to discover that an old adversary has descended on her team to conduct a formal review of Fringe Division. Meanwhile, the team investigates the strange death of an epidemiologist that may be linked to Olivia's abduction. Olivia's sister Rachel and niece Ella visit with issues of their own.
Synopsis
When Peter walks into the lab, he sees Walter dosing a caterpillar with LSD. Peter comments that this has become the new normal. Astrid enters and asks if anyone has heard from Olivia, as she is missing.
At a remote warehouse, Olivia is strapped to a gurney being wheeled down a corridor by two men. When they arrive at a lab, someone wearing a rubber mask over his entire head approaches. She asks who he is and what he wants, but he ignores her. He tells her that this won't hurt in a voice that is obviously distorted. On his instruction, his assistants rotate the gurney bed and Olivia is suspended, face down.
Back at the Boston Federal Building, Broyles briefs the agents that Olivia has been abducted, her abandoned vehicle has been found, he wants all checks to be performed, and announces that Agent Charlie Francis will be his second in command.
While Olivia is held face down on the gurney by the restraining straps, she notices that the right moccasin-style shoe of the masked man has a white spot on it. She is told to lie still while a spinal tap is performed, a procedure that obviously causes her pain. The masked man walks into an adjoining room and removes his mask, revealing that it is FBI Agent Mitchell Loeb. He tells everyone that he has to return to the office.
The gurney is rotated again and Olivia is lying on her back. She pleads for water and one of the assistants gets her a beaker of water. She pleads to sit up and the agent raises her head and right hand. Olivia sips some of the water; then smashes the beaker against the assistant's head, picks up a scalpel, and throws it into the other's back. She releases her bound hand, grabs the stainless steel tray, and knocks both unconscious.
Back at the Fringe Division, during the frantic action to find Olivia, Broyles receives a phone call from an old friend, Sanford Harris. Harris says that he has been tasked with conducting a formal review of the Fringe Division.
Meanwhile, Olivia makes her way through the warehouse. She sneaks up on a man working at a desk and knocks him out. She grabs a gun lying on a table. As she continues, she notices many glass jars containing odd items. When she sees a rack of test tubes labeled sample, she grabs a handful and puts them in a stainless steel thermos to take with her. She dawns a leather coat lying about, grabs a set of car keys on a key-less fob along with a cell phone, and continues. A guard challenges her and she shoots him. Once outside, she uses the key-less fob to find the vehicle and drive off.
On the road, Olivia calls Broyles. She tells him she has escaped, she is in Watertown (west of Boston) and she wants him to send twenty agents to meet her at the end of Talbot street to raid the warehouse. Before her rendezvous with the requested agents, she pulls pulls into a vacant lot and buries the thermos in a pile of dirt.
When the FBI agents arrive, Olivia is shocked when they draw weapons to arrest her. When she tries to flee, one of the agents shoots her with a tranquilizer. When she comes to in a hospital room, she finds Sanford Harris sitting in a chair next to her bed. She is handcuffed to the bed. As Harris discusses Olivia's situation, we learn that he is the former Marine officer Olivia helped prosecute for sexual harassment (Pilot). His conviction has been overturned. He is now a consultant with Homeland Security and they have assigned him to review Fringe Division. He cites Olivia's history of questionable judgments: romantic involvement with John Scott, a traitor; recruitment of Peter Bishop, arrested 7 times; and Walter Bishop, declared unfit to stand trial for manslaughter. When she asks if she is under arrest, Harris forbids Olivia to investigate her own abduction and tosses a handcuff key to her prior to leaving the room.
At the Boston Federal Building, Charlie wants to ensure Olivia knows that he had nothing to do with the way she was picked up. He tells her they raided the warehouse and it was empty, and the car and cell phone were clean. As Charlie leaves, he also tells her that there is a woman named Rachel waiting for her. Displeasure registers on Olivia's face, but she goes and greets Rachel and her daughter, Ella, cheerfully. Olivia has to rush off, but confirms to Rachel that she and Ella may stay at her home.
Olivia, Peter, and Walter go to the vacant lot where Olivia hid the thermos. Walter has set up a field laboratory in the back of Olivia's vehicle. While he is examining the specimen with a microscope, Olivia asks what it is. He responds that he can identify it.
In a lecture hall at Boston College; a biology professor gives a lecture about viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi -- the "four musketeers" of the pathogenic world. He suddenly begins to choke and falls over. His teaching assistant yells for someone to call for an ambulance, and tries to administer artificial respiration. Shortly after she gives up, we see a lump moving along his throat, and a massive slug crawls out of his open mouth. As the slimy creature slithers across the floor, students flee the hall in mass panic.
ACT I
← Back in the lab, Walter takes a tissue sample from the slug and confirms that it is connected to the material that Olivia stole from her kidnappers' warehouse.
Back in the Federal Building, Broyles confronts Harris about the manner in which he brought in agent Dunham. He had only agreed to let Harris question her. Harris replies that she is not an exemplary agent. Broyles accuses Harris of conducting a vendetta. Harris informs Broyles that Fringe Division is under active investigation based on Pentagon concerns. He encourages Broyles to do his job.
Olivia questions the professor's teaching assistant, Tara. From her guarded answers, Olivia deduces that Tara was having an affair with Kinberg. When she is confronted, Tara reveals that Kinberg was going to take a job at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta on a task force to assess the nations readiness to address an epidemic.
Olivia briefs Broyles on Kinberg's CDC offer. Another scientist, Dr. Russell Simon of Cambridge, was slated join the task force with Kinberg. Olivia believes that, based on Walter's evidence, Russell may also be a target and that the people who kidnapped her are behind the latest attack. When Broyles wonders why kill them, Olivia responds, "Why kill an epidemiologist unless you want to start an epidemic?"
On her way out of the office to retrieve Simon, Olivia talks to Mitchell Loeb, who says that he will be heading up the investigation into her abduction.
ACT II
Harris notices Olivia and Charlie escorting Dr. Simon in. He interrupts their questioning of Dr. Simon and asks them to leave the interrogation room with him. He is upset that he was not informed about, nor approve Olivia's decision to place Simon in protective custody. When asked, Olivia tells Harris that Broyles did not approve this action. Olivia appeals to Harris to set aside his feelings about her and do the right thing, and he grudgingly assents.
Peter calls to report Walter's progress. The powder that Olivia stole from the warehouse is like eggs, which are activated by water and stomach acid, and grow very fast. During this explanation, we see someone pour yellow powder into a glass of water, then deliver the water to Dr. Simon. Simon thanks Loeb and takes a long drink. Shortly after Charlie returns to the room, Simon begins to convulse and collapses to the floor. Another slug emerges from his mouth, and Charlie pulls his gun and shoots it before it can escape, but Simon is already dead.
Magic 8-Ball Style
In the lab, Walter has made another breakthrough. The slug is viral, in fact a gigantic single cell specimen of the cold virus. Peter comments that someone is killing epidemiologists with the common cold. Peter wonders what they wanted from Olivia. Olivia responds "Who cares about me?", to which Peter immediately replies "I care about you." If they can figure out why they wanted Olivia, the may be able to determine who will be next.
At Olivia's apartment while preparing supper, Olivia and her sister catch up over a glass of wine. Rachel and Greg have recently separated, so Olivia tells Rachel that she has Olivia's support and can stay as long as they want.
The next day in the office, after chatting with Olivia, Loeb tosses her the magic 8-ball. She drops it and as she retrieves it, she notices that Loeb's shoes exactly match those of her masked abductor. She tells Charlie and asks for his help because Harris is watching her every move.
ACT III
We see Olivia ring the doorbell and look through windows at the Loeb's house but no-one is home. At the lab, Walter is experimenting on the slug with a decongestant. Charlie arrives and ask Peter for a favor, something an FBI agent can't do. He wants Peter to arrange for a wire tap on FBI agent Mitchel Loeb. Just as Olivia is about to pick the lock of the front door, Loeb's wife, Samantha, arrives. Olivia says she was in the area, hadn't seen Samantha since Mitchel's surgery, and wanted to check on how she was doing. Samantha invites Olivia in for tea.
Peter's friend Kyle, has set up the wire tap on Loeb's home. When Samantha asks Olivia why she is in Marlboro, Olivia replies that she is investigating suspicion of a double agent. Samantha excuses herself to get the tea and Olivia asks to use the washroom. Peter phones Kyle back to say the tap didn't work. Samantha calls Mitchel to report that a suspicious Olivia Dunham is in their home. Loeb tells her that she needs to kill Olivia.
ACT IV
Olivia picks the lock of a desk in Loeb's study and finds photos of the super sized cold bug. Just as Loeb tells Samantha where there is a gun to use to kill Olivia, Peter's phone tap kicks in. He calls Olivia and tells her of the danger and to get out of the house.
Samantha and Olivia play a game of cat and mouse, until finally Olivia gets the drop on her. Mitchel Loeb is seen leaving the office. Samantha plays on Olivia's hesitation to shoot, to get close and knock the gun away. A brutal physical fight follows that ends when Olivia shoots Samantha in the head while just being missed by Samantha's shot.
At the Federal Building, Broyles and the team try and figure out how to track down Loeb, who has disappeared. Peter realizes that Loeb doesn't know his wife is dead, so they use her cell to text Loeb a rendezvous location. Loeb arrives and is confronted by the Broyles lead team. When he doesn't drop his weapon, Olivia shoots him in the arm. When Loeb smirks, Olivia punches him in the face.
ACT V
Charlie and Olivia interrogate Mitchell Loeb while Broyles, Peter, Harris, and Walter watch from the observation room. Olivia asks who Loeb is working for. Loeb is giving up nothing, just asking to see his wife. Harris comments that they need a confession and Olivia won't get it. Olivia asks Charlie to leave and pulls out a photo showing Samantha dead. She emphasizes that she was the one who pulled the trigger. At last Loeb loses his cool, admitting to killing Kinberg and Simon. And then he starts raving about a plan that Olivia has ruined, that there is conflict with two sides, that they were going to let Olivia go, that they were saving her, and that she has no idea what she is up against or what she has done.
After getting the confession, Olivia still tries to make sense of what Loeb was talking about. Peter surmises that Loeb was just playing head games, trying to confuse her. Olivia's not so sure. Back at home, Olivia falls asleep reading a book to Ella as Rachel turns out the light and tucks them in.
Quotes
- "Look. Simian hemorrhagic fever. The infected cells have a definitive spiderweb look. Makes HIV look like a common cold by comparison." - Walter (marvels at the lecture slides of the dead professor)
- "Suffice it to say that sometimes a problem with being in law enforcement is that you gotta obey the law yourself. - Charlie (asking Peter for a significant favor)
Walter's Lab Notes
- Walter writes that he lied to the others about the nature of the creatures that emerged from the two educators' mouths.
- "Snorri and the Serpent" is a likely reference to the Icelandic historian and mythographer - Snorri Sturluson - who was remarkable for proposing the theory that mythological gods begin as human war leaders and kings, circa 1230 AD.
- "In class - mammalia, order - rodentia, the rise of the ROUS's?" - The mention of the ROUS (Rodents of Unusual Size) is a clear reference to the movie "The Princess Bride", in which a ROUS makes an appearance in the Fire Swamps.
- A large, partially-eaten, steak sandwich is included with the notes. This may be the super-sizing he refers to in the notes, but is more likely the "fabulous crusty cheese steak from Philadelphia" (Beach and Palmer), that he writes about in the previous set of notes.
Trivia
General
- The Observer walks just behind Olivia as she parks outside of Walter's Lab.
- Screenwriters. Dr. Russell Simon and Dr. Miles Kinberg combined, reference Simon Kinberg, a screenwriter of American films.
Previously
| As Olivia and Peter wait for further instructions in the bar, after they interviewed the bartender (Safe) - a sign above and behind says The Colds. This foreshadowed the killer Cold Virus used to kill the epidemiologists. |
Music
• Just Like Heaven by The Watson Twins 
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Unanswered Questions
| Theories about these unanswered questions should be placed and read at Bound/Theories |
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- What is the point of supersizing the common cold virus?
Loeb
- Was he being truthful with what he told Olivia during his interrogation?
- How did he know to target Kinberg and Simon?
- If he was trying to save Olivia, why order his wife to kill her?
