Black Blotter
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In a hallucination by drugs, Walter imagines himself in a Terry Gilliam/Monty Python-inspired cartoon, here riding Gene the cow and seeing a frog (one of the Fringe glyphs), dog, and a seahorse (another of the Fringe glyphs).
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 9 |
| Directed by | Tommy Gormley |
| Written by | Kristin Cantrell |
| Production code | 3X7509 |
| Original air date | December 14, 2012 |
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"Black Blotter" is the ninth episode of the fifth season of the Fox science-fiction/drama television series Fringe, and the show's 96th episode overall.
The episode was written by Kristin Cantrell, while being directed by Tommy Gormley.
The radio previously collected by the Fringe team from the pocket universe (as seen in "Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There") starts to receive a strange signal, but when they look for Walter (John Noble) to decode, they find that he has taken a dose of the hallucinatory drug "black blotter". When Peter asks him why he took LSD, Walter explains that he was desperate to remember the plan and implies that he thought this would help, but that he did not know they would be getting a message on the radio. He then confesses to Peter that he asked Nina Sharp (Blair Brown) to remove the pieces of brain that they had to restore to repair his brain after being in amber for so long; he asked for this because he felt he was becoming his old self who was a much crueler man.
As Walter suffers from visions of his old lab assistant, Carla Warren (Jenni Blong) and images relating to his first passage to the parallel universe (as seen in "Peter"), the rest of the team work with Anil (Shaun Smyth) to triangulate the signal from the radio. Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Olivia (Anna Torv) travel to the site in a nearby forest, and find the decades-old remains of Observers and members of the human resistance, including one with Sam Weiss's identification. The two recognize that Sam and his allies were defending a makeshift transmitter tower that was relaying the radio signal, and find where the signal is broadcasting from.
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