The official title has been announced for the second episode in the fifth and final season of Fringe.
Showrunner J.H. Wyman has confirmed that Fringe 5.02 will called:
“In Absentia“
“In Absentia” is Latin for “In The Absence”.
FRINGE: Official 5.02 Title Confirmed
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that’s creepy, I was thinking about the phrase/the porcupine tree album last night right before I went to bed…
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i hope the episode has something to do with hive mind lol
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I really think that means this episode has to do with what was happening between present day and 2036. A.K.A. what happened in the show’s absence. It could also be about what happened in Olivia’s absence.
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They’re really not giving anything away with these titles, are they?
That’s one thing I’ve always liked about Fringe – it consistently has good episode titles. Interesting ones.
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This is a legal term in latin; meaning that a defendant has been tried without being present to defend himself. “He was tried En (in) Absentia.”
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If the defendant is convicted of the crime in absentia, is it because they
got ambered ?
Ambered without termination, and keep them in a cryonic state for the future.
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I see it as a Trial against September, perhaps “they” decide his fate without him present. I think we’ll find out a good bit about our beloved Observer in this particular episode. I hope the Inner Child will play into it, since I believe the child was in fact another iteration of September.
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which kinda begs the question, if they can travel through time/space via simply stepping in and out through portals as we’ve now seen multiple times, what was a child observer doing locked in an old cage in a secret basement facility and what did the agent mean when he said we’ve found another one? another child (since the adults could just teleport away)? in another secret cage facility? which also begs the question how did they get there and/or who put him/them there?
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I think it was said that the Observers use tech. Tech of which we have no knowledge of. So to me a nude baby observer is without his tech to quantum leap. He was put there by other Observers. I theorize that this was a way of trapping him in a certain timeline so that he would not be able to harm their future existence.
In other words: Lets say September mucked it all up for the future of the Observers by interfering while Observing the past. He made a mistake (saving Red Peter), and this mistake ruined the 2609 future of the Observers (causing them to have to jump ship on that timeline). So first the Badsevers went back into ole Sept’s past to abduct him as a child (creating a separate timeline for that September, and the future Observers at that point on), meanwhile Adult September ( from his original timeline) is still jumping around in time trying to right his mistake. The Badservers take little Sept and lock him down underground trying to rewrite their timeline.
At the end of Inner Child we see adult September Observing Child September being carted off to somewhere He seems pretty surprised to see this. It is at this point he realizes that something is off, and makes it his purpose to follow the Fringe team to find out what is going on.
December and the other months are all from the original Observer timeline they are also trying to salvage their future, they are keeping tabs on Adult September. John Mosley is from the future of the amber Timeline probably 2036, he is a rouge agent from the side of the Badservers he was trying to locate the beacon to prevent The science team Observers ( the months) from accessing the Blue timeline anymore. His mission was to put a halt to any more meddling that they would do. We know that Mosley failed, so point went to the science team Observers, but the timeline was still showing a dismal future for the race of Observers as a whole, so December continued to have September to try to fix his mistake.
This in turn led to the whole Peter/machine plot. The Months needed Peter to go into the machine and choose balance so that the universes would bridge and Peter would re-write the timeline into the amber timeline, thus ceasing to exist, and giving the race of Observers a second chance at a future.
Adult September must have looked into the future and seen the trouble (Badservers) realizing that without Peter he cannot Prevent the inevitable, so he allowed Peter to re-materialize into the Amber timeline wherein he was not supposed to exist anymore. This led to Amber-Olivia realizing her purpose and powers whilst getting a full download of the Blue Olivia’s memories to save the universe as we saw in the season 4 finale. This in turn led to the conception of Etta who is probably going to be a huge problem for the Badservers.
Charlotte from LOST AKA Wacky-Eyes McGee was like John Mosley, she was sent back to try to capture September again after the beacon again didn’t hold him thanks to Peter.
I believe we will see what happens to September (that was so terrible) in this season very early on (I think this episode). I think we will see the Badservers abduct the young September imprison him in the past of the blue timeline, and then charge him with some crime and put him to death as an adult in the amber timeline sometime around 2015. I also believe the child Version will have grown up to be the second iteration of September we saw in the stasis runes. He was clueless to what was going on at that point remember.
So In Absentia Little September is found guilty of sedition, thus Adult original September will be put to death in his place.
What do you all think?
Hot debate. What do you think?
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I like your idea about John Mosley, too. He seems very much like he could be a human collaborator of Windmark’s. Donald Long had the same kinds of toys, so he could be sent from that timeline as well.
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I had forgotten Donald Long. Yep I think he’s from 2036 too.
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I wish I could like this post more than once.
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Awe shucks! Thank you! Just a little bit of crazy released from my mind.
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It does seem like the Observers aren’t real big on civil liberties when they take over. I could definitely see September being tried, convicted and harshly punished while he’s not there.
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cooky, very interesting! I like the fact that this explanation includes John Mosley and ol’ crazy eyes and I really like the whole double september.
I am very curious to how they actually explain why he was out of synch at the end of season 4 (not knowing he’d been tot alk with olivia/been shot) and hopefully how they explain mosley and the child observer.
also, I still can’t stop myself from getting excited when I read anything about crazy eyes or stasis ruins because I cant wait to see how they explain Bell having built anti-observer weapons/defenses and how they incorporate stasis ruins/what the heck they actually are! so stoked! I cant believe it’s almost here, I feel like season 4 just ended and I stepped into now observer stylie
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I was thinking it had something to do with Peter and Olivia being absent while Etta grew up.
Well whatever it indicates I’m sure it is going to be a fantastic episode.
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I hope most of this last season will happen in the present. Will we ever get closure on Olivia’s abusive step father? What about the cartoon guy who is going to kill her?
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Well they already said the season will take place in 2036, maybe with some flashbacks to the present. Also, Olivia’s stepfather is dead in this TL, she killed him when she was 9. And the cartoon guy who was going to kill her was a representation of Bell, the one who indirectly killed her.
So all these questions are answered
Hot debate. What do you think?
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there is a “porcupine tree” album that is called in absentia…but I doubt it has any significance because I don’t think this music is wymans coup of tea
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coup de grace … coup d’etat
LOL!
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what?
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You misspelled Cup with coup. Betty made the best of your mistake. Hint Pinkner’s termination was a Coup d’etat in Wyman’s favor. Well in my opinion.
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thank you! I didn’t realise that I wrote “coup”
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ya never know, he may did prog
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That’s what we call a Freudian Slip.
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Rick, how about it’s when you say one thing, but mean your mother.
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Well played.
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Ha, ha, ha this thread, very funny.
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Betty is on a roll!
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