A young girl is kidnapped in Boston by what appears to be the Observer that the team have encountered before. It becomes clear, however, that this is a different Observer, meaning that there is a whole team and there is evidence that they have the power to catch bullets. Their tenet of interference has been broken, however, with the kidnapping of the girl and it seems that the FBI Fringe team aren’t the only ones wondering why.

Though this episode casts a little more light onto the strange bald creatures known as the Observers, there aren’t any answers on offer as to their purpose. They are there to watch and document and occasionally do step in to correct mistakes of their own making, one of which apparently involved Peter when he was a child, but nothing more is learned beyond their bullet catching capabilities and the fact that they do have the ability to love, something that comes as a surprise to them.

The focus is firmly on the Observers with the Fringe team almost taking a back seat other than to point out the mystery behind Walter’s previous involvement with them. There is little in the way of investigation with the enforcement teams catching up with their prey through ‘sightings’ rather than any sort of police work. Still, the change of emphasis makes this more interesting than some other episodes have been whilst not disguising the fact that we know nothing more at the end of it than we did at the start.