Enemy of My Enemy

"Enemy of My Enemy"
Fringe episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 9
Directed by	Joe Chappelle
Written by	Monica Owusu-Breen Alison Schapker
Production code	3X7009
Original air date	January 20, 2012
Guest actors
Orla Brady as Elizabeth Bishop Jared Harris as David Robert Jones Michelle Krusiec as Nadine Park

"Enemy of My Enemy" is the ninth episode of the fourth season of the Fox science-fiction drama television series Fringe, and the series' 74th episode overall.

The episode was co-written by Monica Owusu-Breen and Alison Schapker, while being directed by Joe Chappelle.

Plot

Following from "Back to Where You've Never Been", the alternate universe's Olivia (Anna Torv) and Lincoln (Seth Gabel) track down David Robert Jones (Jared Harris) to a warehouse, unaware that Colonel Broyles (Lance Reddick) had alerted Jones to their arrival. Jones waits until Olivia and Lincoln arrive before destroying one of his beloved shapeshifters, warning that if he's willing to destroy someone he loves, they should fear what he would do to anyone else. He asks to be taken to Fringe headquarters.

There, Peter (Joshua Jackson) and the prime universe's Lincoln (Gabel), having been cleared to return to the prime universe, are present when Jones is escorted to an interrogation room. Peter recognizes Jones, whom Peter has killed in his original timeline, and offers to interrogate him; Peter is able to throw Jones off guard, revealing that he knows Jones had crossed over from the prime universe and that his scars showed he'd suffered injuries as a result of being teleported out of prison. Jones makes a demand for a hard drive, containing satellite tracking data, to be returned to him and to let him go or else his agents will launch terrorist attacks; this is demonstrated when one agent sets off a biochemical agent in a hospital ward, killing all inside.

They let Jones go after secretly fitting him with a tracking device. However, due to Broyles' interference, Jones is able to elude the tracking system, leaving the prime version of Lincoln suspicious of a mole within Fringe division. Peter and Astrid (Jasika Nicole) study the data from the hard drive, and identify that Jones appears to be looking in a nearby quarry for amphilicite, a mineral in appreciable quantities that when processed correctly can create a hole in the universes. Peter realizes too late that the maps are those of the prime universe; Jones has crossed back over with help of his shapeshifter agents there to access the quarry. Peter and Lincoln return to the prime universe to catch up to Jones, but arrive too late as Jones takes a load of the mineral back to the alternate universe. The two Fringe teams meet and agree they must work together to defeat Jones, even though they know that Jones has been ahead of them. Peter recognizes that he knows Jones from the alternate timeline and is a variable that Jones has not accounted for. Later, the viewer is shown that Jones is communicating with Nina Sharp (Blair Brown), who is preparing an unnamed woman for "Phase Two" of their plan.

Meanwhile, Walternate (John Noble) and his wife Elizabeth (Orla Brady) discuss helping Peter. Elizabeth crosses to the prime universe to meet with Walter (Noble) and to gain his help to assist Peter, which he has been reluctant to do, believing he has been given no sign of absolution for taking Peter from her. Elizabeth assures him that she had forgiven him long ago. Walter returns to Peter that evening and offers Peter his help to return home.

Production

"Enemy of My Enemy" was co-written by co-executive producers Alison Schapker and Monica Owusu-Breen. Executive producer Joe Chappelle served as episode director.

Reception

Ratings

This episode saw an increase in viewership from the lowest ratings of the series. "Enemy of My Enemy" was watched by an estimated 3.19 million viewers,^[1] while the previous two episodes (returning from a winter hiatus) were watched by 2.8 million viewers each.^[2]^[3]

Reviews

Zach Handlen of The A.V. Club graded the episode with a B+. He began his review by calling the season's Peter storyline a "bold move," but added that the decision had "turned off a lot of critics and fans, and it’s not hard to see why. One of the reasons we watch a television show (or get invested in any sort of long-form storytelling) is because it’s fun to care about fictional people... The fourth season of Fringe has, so far as we can tell, left nearly everyone we know behind."^[4] Despite this observation, Handlen clarified that "the fourth season has actually by and large worked for me," and that he believed "Enemy of My Enemy" to be a "fun, thrilling piece of work, with plenty of solid emotional scenes to help ground the action sequences."^[4] The reviewer also enjoyed seeing Harris' return, especially as it added a "non-Walternate villain [to] help keep the current story arc from" repeating past universe conflicts.^[4]

References

↑ Seidman, Robert (January 23, 2012). "Friday Final TV Ratings: 'Kitchen Nightmares,' 'Supernatural' Repeat Adjusted Up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
↑ Gorman, Bill (November 21, 2011). "Friday Final TV Ratings: 'CSI:NY,' 'Dateline: NBC' Adjusted Up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 21, 2011.
↑ Gorman, Bill (January 17, 2012). "Friday Final TV Ratings: 'Supernatural' Adjusted Up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved January 18, 2012.
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Handlen, Zack (2012-01-20). "Enemy of My Enemy". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2012-01-20.

External links

"Enemy of My Enemy" at Fox.com
"Enemy of My Enemy" at the Internet Movie Database
"Enemy of My Enemy" at TV.com

Fringe episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "The Same Old Story" "The Ghost Network" "The Arrival" "Power Hungry" "The Cure" "In Which We Meet Mr. Jones" "The Equation" "The Dreamscape" "Safe" "Bound" "The No-Brainer" "The Transformation" "Ability" "Inner Child" "Unleashed" "Bad Dreams" "Midnight" "The Road Not Taken" "There's More Than One of Everything"

Season 2	"A New Day in the Old Town" "Night of Desirable Objects" "Fracture" "Momentum Deferred" "Dream Logic" "Earthling" "Of Human Action" "August" "Snakehead" "Grey Matters" "Unearthed" "Johari Window" "What Lies Below" "The Bishop Revival" "Jacksonville" "Peter" "Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver." "White Tulip" "The Man from the Other Side" "Brown Betty" "Northwest Passage" "Over There (Parts 1 & 2)"

Season 3	"Olivia" "The Box" "The Plateau" "Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?" "Amber 31422" "6955 kHz" "The Abducted" "Entrada" "Marionette" "The Firefly" "Reciprocity" "Concentrate and Ask Again" "Immortality" "6B" "Subject 13" "Os" "Stowaway" "Bloodline" "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide" "6:02 AM EST" "The Last Sam Weiss" "The Day We Died"

Season 4	"Neither Here Nor There" "One Night in October" "Alone in the World" "Subject 9" "Novation" "And Those We've Left Behind" "Wallflower" "Back to Where You've Never Been" "Enemy of My Enemy" "Forced Perspective" "Making Angels" "Welcome to Westfield" "A Better Human Being" "The End of All Things" "A Short Story About Love" "Nothing As It Seems" "Everything in Its Right Place" "The Consultant" "Letters of Transit" "Worlds Apart" "Brave New World (Parts 1 & 2)"

Season 5	"Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11" "In Absentia" "The Recordist" "The Bullet That Saved the World" "An Origin Story" "Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There" "Five-Twenty-Ten" "The Human Kind" "Black Blotter" "Anomaly XB-6783746" "The Boy Must Live" "Liberty" "An Enemy of Fate"