Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There
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Walter Bishop (Noble) "retraces" his steps in a complex sequence to access the pocket dimension he created.
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 6 |
| Directed by | Jon Cassar |
| Written by | David Fury |
| Production code | 3X7506 |
| Original air date | November 9, 2012 |
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"Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There" is the sixth episode of the fifth season of the Fox science-fiction/drama television series Fringe, and the 93rd episode overall.
The episode was written by David Fury and directed by Jon Cassar.
Peter (Joshua Jackson), after injecting the Observer implant in his own body, returns to Etta's safe-house to mourn her loss. Olivia (Anna Torv), worried about Peter becoming distant, finds Peter and reminds him they should deal with Etta's loss together.
Meanwhile, Walter (John Noble) continues to work at extracting video tapes from the ambered part of the lab. One tape directs him to an apartment building in Worcester, with one specific apartment being an entrance to a pocket universe he had created to hide this element of the plan to defeat the Observers. He decides to travel there alone, finding that the building and much of the surrounding area has been shelled by an Observer attack in the past. In the appropriate apartment, Walter follows instructions on the tape that let him enter the pocket universe where the normal rules of physics do not apply, with hallways running upside down or in vertical directions, as in a work of M.C. Escher. Walter tries to remember where to look, but while trying to come up with this, he encounters a man named Cecil (Zak Santiago) who happened into the pocket universe while taking shelter from the Observer bombing. Walter realizes that, to Cecil, only about 5 days have passed, but in reality he had been in the pocket universe for more than 20 years.
Meanwhile, Peter, Olivia, and Astrid (Jasika Nicole) discover the latest video tape - and Walter's absence. They are curious that the tape simply goes black after showing Walter crossing over. They travel together to Boston, and Peter and Olivia follow the tape's instructions to cross over, finding that in the pocket universe the tape now shows additional instructions directing the viewer to a specific room. They meet up with Walter and Cecil, Walter agonizing over forgetting what he left here. Peter realizes someone else had helped Walter record the video in the past, which Walter identifies as "Donald", the man previously captured by the Observers as he tried to recover rocks from a mine (as seen in "The Recordist"). Continuing to review the tape, they find that in the past, Walter had recovered the young Observer-like boy (as seen in "Inner Child"), and used the pocket universe to stow the child away in the designated room. The group finds the room, but it is empty, save a radio that is fused to a certain frequency, something that Walter had not given the boy in the past. Walter fears that the Observers had found this pocket universe and have the child. Peter notes that only Walter and Donald appeared to know about this pocket universe.
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