A New Day in the Old Town

That's right. Never saw it. So this is all new to me. So many reviewers feel this show was produced in order to be a new X-Files. Perhaps it was produced to be a new show with different characters and new plots. Anyway, my score reflects the frustration with the whole shape-shifter thing, where the characters can't know who is the real person or someone who has sucked the essence out of them. I knew Olivia couldn't be dead. She's the star. The second season will show us whether the show can sustain itself. I suspect it will do just fine on its own. I agree that not checking bodies (such as the nurse's) was pretty shabby. My hope is that confusion doesn't run rampant.

And its just too big of a challenge, because X files is the best show of all Time. But I really enjoy all the easter eggs in this episode, 3 x files easter eggs first one Mulder appear on TV, then the commition talk about closing the X files and finally there is a Fringe version of the Bounty hunter Solid start to the second Season 8/10.

In Manhattan, a man crashes with a black SUV and flees to an apartment building, where he kills a resident and takes his appearance. The Junior FBI Agent Amy Jessup is investigating the case when Peter and Dr. Bishop arrive. She questions Peter about the mystery since the SUV is locked without a driver while Dr. Bishop searches inside the car. Out of the blue, Olivia is ejected through the windshield and carried to a hospital with severe brain damages. Meanwhile Broyles travels to Washington since the senate wants to shut down the Fringe Division. The snoopy Jessup hacks the FBI system to disclose information about the Fringe Division. Out of the blue, Olivia awakes and later Peter and Jessup head to Dr. Bishop's laboratory in Harvard where he is carrying out an autopsy of the man killed by the shapeshifter. In the hospital, the shapeshifter attacks Olivia's nurse and takes her appearance. However Jessup arrives and shoots the shapeshifter that runs to the basement, but Francis kills him. But would be the man really dead?

"A New Day in the Old Town" is an engaging but flawed episode of "Fringe". The mystery of the shapeshifter is intriguing, but there are two great plot holes. The first one is why Peter discloses information of the Fringe Division to Jessup, who is a completely stranger. The second is why Dr. Bishop does not receive the body of the nurse, who is supposed to be the shapeshifter, for autopsy? The fate of Charlie is a sad moment of this show. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "A New Day in the Old Town"