*Originally published on 11/8/10
Continuing the pattern established this season, this show takes place in the parallel universe, where Olivia-Prime has been brainwashed to believe that she is where she belongs.
The process doesn't seem to have worked completely as images of Peter continue to haunt Olivia and hint at what is really going on.
She writes this off as a hallucination and tries to bury it in pills, but as Peter points out, this isn't a lingering symptom of a mental breakdown, so the drugs have no effect. He goes on to say that he represents who she really is. To be honest, I kind of like her better here. She's far more chipper on this side. In her universe, she was pretty grim and no nonsense, here she's smiles a lot more and cracks jokes with her partners. It gives her a much more realistic personality and gives us a better glimpse of Torv's acting ability.
The case of the week involves a bank robber who is freed from his amber prison. It's revealed that the amber is used to contain any sort of dimensional rifts. It became a versatile substance as they use it to encase prisoners as well. One such prisoner was a bank robber, who was recently freed by his twin brother.
While both Ashmore twins were featured in Smallville, no mention was made of their resemblance. Here, they are playing twins, so they get to not only share the screen at the same time, but mention their relationship and reason for resemblance.
In an interesting twist, it turns out that the brother who was encased in amber was "the good twin" who went to try and talk his brother out of it.
Bank robber brother was so grief stricken that he dedicated the last few years to finding a way to get his brother out.
The brothers' story bears a resemblance to Olivia's own situation, at least according to Phantom Peter. It is because of this, that she lets them go.
A B-plot involves Walter using Olivia to try and travel to the other world. Walter covers this up by saying that since it is still Olivia, regardless of dimension of origin, she should still carry the same ability. The experiment works, but Walter pulls her back after only a few seconds.
Olivia tries the experiment again and it works, only this time when Walter questions her, she says it doesn't work.
The episode was pretty enjoyable. It seems like we're getting close to the point where Olivia will be able to return home and confront her doppelganger. This alternating pattern has been an interesting experiment, and I haven't disliked it, but it will be nice to return to a single universe so that we can focus on the main characters as we know them.
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