FRINGE "Unearthed"

Lisa, a high school junior, collapses during gym class and slips into a coma. Her mother decides to take her off life support. As the doctors are harvesting her organs, she wakes up on the table and starts shouting alpha numeric numbers that turn out to be the i.d. information for a petty officer, Andrew Rusk, and the launch codes for the missiles on an Navy aircraft carrier. The petty officer has been missing for several days. When they start asking Lisa questions, she starts speaking in Russian. Lisa can also see Rusk in reflections n the mirror.

Walter wants to test Lisa's brain. He believes there a possibility that an aneurism did something to her brain and caused her to have psychic abilities and somehow she's connected to Rusk. Lisa calls Olivia and tells her that she keeps seeing a junkyard and had to go there. Lisa tells them that Rusk was killed by someone and they find his body in the trunk of one of the cars in the junkyard.

Walter realizes that Rusk's memories and energies have moved into Lisa, which leads Olivia to believe that his illness has transfered to her also. Rusk had radiation poisoning which is why Lisa is having seizures.

Turns out that Rusk's wife had him killed. She told a guy at the bar where she works that he had been beating her. Rusk takes over Lisa's body and goes after his wife.

I'm extremely confused. Charlie (Kirk Acevedo) is in this episode. Is this an episode out of order? Wasn't he killed by the shapeshifter from the other dimension in the episode entitled "Momentum Deferred"? What is going on?

Although I love this show, this stand alone, out of context of the rest of the series is very odd. It's like it was a throw away episode.


FOX
Monday, Jan. 11, 2010
9:00 PM PST