Diz-Re

1.14 “Ability” – Clues & Easteregg Round-Up

by Roco on February 19, 2009 · 14 comments

Here’s the FringeBloggers clues and eastereggs round-up for episode 1.14 “Ability“:

Belly’s Handy Work?

1.14 ABILITY - Clues/EE's

There’s something up with the hands in this episode. David Jones’ right hand is trembling throughout much of it – the initial consequence of his teleporting using Walter’s Diz-Rey. But Nina’s right hand (her bionic one) also has a “glitch”. To my mind, this parallel either alludes to the idea that Nina has also been Diz-Reying about the place (how did she get to London so fast at the end of “Safe” anyways?). Or, perhaps there’s more to this than meets the eye – seeing as we know that Nina’s right arm is bionic, could it be that Jones also has a bionic arm? Does using the Diz-Ray initially affect bionic parts? Is that why both of their right hands were in spasm mode? Do Jones and Nina share the same model of bionic arm, made by William Bell himself? Perhaps Jones IS William Bell. Um, I’ve run out of wild suggestions..carry on..

Actually, here’s some further speculation – seeing as Nina’s hand goes “back to normal” towards the end of the episode (I’m sure Olivia was waiting up for that very news), does that mean that Bell showed up to fix it for her? We didn’t see him do it of course, but as I inferred above..we do know that David Jones made an escape that night. We also know that both Jones and Bell were apparently in Germany near the beginning of the series.

Whatever the deal is, there’s SOMETHING being implied here.

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Theory: What Became of Mr. Jones

by Roco on February 15, 2009 · 3 comments

The hole in the wall

A lot has been speculated on what happened to David Jones towards the end of “Ability”. We know that he somehow escaped from his hospital room, leaving a gigantic hole in the wall and a ‘congratulatory’ message  for Olivia.

Several fans have speculated that the “Diz-Re” after-effects turned him into a Hulk of some sort, allowing him to smash through the wall of the hospital and escape into the night. Coming off the back of “The Transformation”, I don’t really blame people for jumping to this conclusion. However, I think that there are two more likely possibilities..

Possibility 1 - I’ll call this the logical outcome. We can assume that Jones has various “warriors”, “soldiers” and “recruits”. Do some of them have the abilitY to rip a hole in a hospital wall using only their mind? Does Jones himself have such an ability? Possibly, but a more likely answer is that the wall was detonated from the outside by one of his people – explaining why there is rubble inside of the hospital room (look closely at the picture above) – before airlifting Jones away via a helicopter. Not before he left a little note for Olivia, of course. However, this idea doesn’t solve Jones’ ailment.

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