I think that Charlie had to roll the dice here, even though he knew that the trip would be bad. He knew that Sarah's priority was protecting John, and he couldn't count on her sending someone back for them. She might forget, get killed, be on the run, etc.

How was Guinevere?

Is that the ex-bosses niece? I'm afraid I thought she was a bit nondescript, to be honest. Pleasant enough, but not the great beauty and consort of legend. Not yet, anyway.

I kinda gave Charlie a bit of slack. Okay he's an EMT but the killer androids from the future and the whole kidnapping thing has got to make one flustered.

So, I'm convinced that tonight's "Fringe" ep came before last week's in terms of chronology.

I'm watching Eureka first. So far: enjoyable.

It's going to end in a cliffhanger, isn't it?

I guessed at the Allison news, but I was not expecting what happened to Carter. That's a nastier cliffhanger than "will they live?" IMO.

I thought it was a great episode. I'm glad the Thorne mystery ended the way it did.

Ack!

I wasn't very invested in this ep, neither good nor bad, but when I could see the Pregnant Allison bomb coming, I thought that would be the cap to the episode, and groaned, because what we need is more pregnant characters (especially for a character who already can't be bothered to parent her already existing child).

But Jack getting fired made me sit up and shout. !!! Losing the job (beyond the obvious of losing the formula of the show) means losing the stable place where he was finally able to be a good dad to Zoe, where he is able to be Allison's friend and... birthing coach *chokes on a baby*.

I won't include the stability he provides for Lexi, since she can rot in hell, and if anything good comes out of this, it's that she runs back to her W.H.O. doctor and is lost in the jungles of Timbuktu and the twins can be raised by monkeys.*

I did enjoy Eva's story, and almost wish that this final act had been extended another episode, as the resolution came all too quickly and easily.

* That said, I hope they don't fix this too quickly. We can get fresh new stories with a new sheriff, or the complete lack of one, mayhaps even some cross-country marshalling stories. I like it! Fresh dynamics!

I know we're all "Oh Noes, how can they take Carter's job? How will there be a show?" But honestly, for a guy working in a super-dangerous town where people are dying left and right, who just had to face the prospect of his daughter dying of old age in a month? Getting kicked out and relocating to a safer town probably wouldn't seem like all that horrible a price for saving his daughter and letting one of the people responsible for her cure escape arrest.

Jo/Zane: for a minute or two there I really thought they were caving to the Season 2 Zane hate and breaking them up, which I thought was just awful since I've come to kinda like him, but once they got back together, I hated him again, already missing the idea of Jo as a free woman. I really did enjoy them fighting though, because it meant that Jo wasn't being all season 2 on us, except that in the end she totally was. le sigh.

At least this time Zane wasn't a total slimeball.