# Fringe 2.02 "Night of Desirable Objects" - 9/24/09 \*open spoilers\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2009, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-2-02-night-of-desirable-objects-9-24-09-open-spoilers/511470 "2009-09-25T03:06:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-2-02-night-of-desirable-objects-9-24-09-open-spoilers/511470/21 "2009-09-27T05:13:59Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > But **Omniscient** , _which_ X-Files episode? Early ones like “Squeeze” and “Tooms” (about the same liver-eating mutant who nests in basements) or late ones like “Alone” (venomous mutant guy who blinds people underground)? For some reason I find the, uh, borrowing, charming unlike Smallville which did likewise and annoyed me. Hmm, good point. My X-Files knowledge is no longer encyclopedic but this one seemed to go past simple borrowing, though I imagine X-Files didn’t invent the concept. Wasn’t there an X-Files were a father was protecting and concealing his mutant baby that was feeding on innocent bystanders? > [@](#): > > And was anyone else expecting Sam Weiss to be a lot…shorter? 🙂 Heh, great catch. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-2-02-night-of-desirable-objects-9-24-09-open-spoilers/511470/22 "2009-09-27T05:23:30Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Wasn’t there an X-Files were a father was protecting and concealing his mutant baby that was feeding on innocent bystanders? Nope. They thought that might be the case in “Alone” but it turned out that the person they thought was protecting the monster _was_ the monster. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-2-02-night-of-desirable-objects-9-24-09-open-spoilers/511470/23 "2009-09-28T02:32:49Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I continue to love Fringe. > > Sadly, my reception sometimes sucks and I missed about half the dialog in the show. > > Why did they decide they needed to exhume the bodies of the sheriff’s wife and son? > > How did the sheriff’s research end up with mutant baby? It wasn’t the sheriff’s wife and son. The guy that owns the land that the field was on was some kind of mad scientist at one time, it was his wife and son. The agents found lab equipment in the farm house and Olive heard sounds with her new super hearing. They found a bible with a news article in it that lead them to the theory that the farmer killed his family. So they dug the bodies up. The sheriff just ended up being ate later. Since you have internet you can view the whole episode on [hulu.com](http://hulu.com), if you are in the US. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-2-02-night-of-desirable-objects-9-24-09-open-spoilers/511470/24 "2009-09-28T13:26:26Z")
> [@Skara\_Brae](#): > > There was no Observer this episode, was there? I guess this case is not part of the pattern… The Observer was in the distance standing outside the farmhouse just before Jessup finds the Bible. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-2-02-night-of-desirable-objects-9-24-09-open-spoilers/511470/25 "2009-09-28T23:01:16Z")
> [@ghardester](#): > > I Since you have internet you can view the whole episode on [hulu.com](http://hulu.com), if you are in the US. Actually, I can’t. I’m on dial-up. That’s why I asked here. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fringe-2-02-night-of-desirable-objects-9-24-09-open-spoilers/511470.md?page=1)