I'm always worried someone will drag out that term 'magical negro' in reference to Holt, just because he's accomplished and smart.
Which would be stupid because he's MAGICAL NATIONAL TREASURE ANDRE BRAUGHER.

It felt very much like a place-holder episode to me. Still great, still funny, but didn't do much to move any plot or character development along.

I feel like adding in another perspective, but having it turn out to not
be based in any reality, is getting a little too sci-fi for a Showtime
drama.

The Law of Economy of Characters would suggest so, I'd say.

Well it's unlikely that Cole and Helen will share much overlap in their time (until we get to trial, anyway). So I imagine it will be a bit of Noah's life by way of Noah, Helen, and Allison; and a bit of Allison's life by way of Allison, Noah, and Cole, with small amounts of Cole and Helen's life mixed in, as it…

Wasn't Gabriel's toy box at Cherry's house? At the ranch? Meaning Allison and Cole can't even bear to have it in their house, but can't get rid of it.

I kind of wonder if it was Helen who did it.

And in hers, she's still sweaty and dishevelled from the walk home. In his, she's covered up with hair styled. Before offering to make him lunch.

Anyone think - maybe just maybe - Allison's baby could be Cole's? Or just not Noah's?

Both actors were brilliant in that scene.

Well, she lost a child, her mother's a loon, the woman who raised her died, she gave up a career she seemed to like… I have some sympathy for her.
And Cole is probably a bit of a jerk, but loves her.
The character of Helen is written in a somewhat sympathetic manner, and also has the luck of being played by a really…

But that's confusing, too.
The toilet was broken, and Cole fixed it. Right? I mean it's not a knife's edge on which it all balances, but we kind of have to assume that's what happened. It seems unlikely Allison would create that moment out of whole cloth. It was broken, she was meant to call the landlord, she didn't,…

It's Cole's memory that shows Allison as quite angelic, actually. Whatever has happened, it does look like he loves her deeply and misses her greatly.

Exactly. Noah seems to be the kind of guy who would rather punch the guy in the face, and then see him prosecuted. Not run him down in the middle of the night.

Yes! They're pretty much the only normal, sane people on the show.

Unless that song is 'Killing in the Name Of'.

Oh Mustache_Cat. I feel the same way and, to get slightly emotional for a moment, I've always felt somehow guilty about it and now I don't feel so bad about it. Thank you.

I think the poor handling of that point stands out even more since Annaliese is presented as a bisexual woman - and not just in the normal TV/film way of being heavily oriented one way, and experimenting another during sweeps week. She dates men, she dates women.

I know I SHOULD just watch to get the answer to this but… couldn't she just, like, encrypt whatever important info is tattooed on her skin, and put it in a book or something, and give someone trusted the decryption key?

Fox holding on to Fringe after several low-rated, expensive seasons and allowing them to put together a proper series finale puts them in my eternal good books.