Discussion: Episode 8, The Equation Discussion Thread

"I have my doubts that Walter Bishop and William Bell are the same person:

* They physically worked together at Harvard in 1974. When they met, Bishop was a 28 year old professor there, and Bell was a 20 year old. They are almost a decade apart in age.

* It would be very easy to see Bishop as Bell -- too easy I think.
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"I figured it was because she knew too much.
(The gizmo worked so she was a loose end with that knowledge!)
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"So the green green green red lights pattern is used to control people's mind (freeze in time for the father and Olivia, hallucination for the child). Wich could be used by the bad guy with a beanie on episode "The arrival".

But I don't get the link with the observer. I thought he might have used a green/red pattern to match Peter's speach (like make him "think" he was matching his speech insted of actually doing it). But I watched the sequence and, no, no use of a pattern.

I really liked the episode, altough I thought the way they found the red castle was a bit too easy for me. I mean, seeing a red castle across the street at the same moment she hears about it on the phone... talk about beeing at the right place at the right moment.

Anybody else thought Charlie was gonna get shot dead at the end when they split up to search for the kid ?"

"I thought the the apple was transferred form 1 gizmo to another - am I nuts?"

"If you also read the notes he says:

"I have it now. The box is safe, but my secrets are not."

He may be referring to the end of the episode. He got equation and the safe was a tall box. Yes he wasn't there, but it could be hinting at other things cause it also says

"No more pearls in this oyster, he said"

He got what he wanted out of him. It could also be saying to start putting pieces together cause all the information is there."

"I could be way off - but I though he put the apple into 1 box & took it out of a different one"