Inner Child - Rewatch/Speculation & Analysis
Glyph Code: WALTER (I think that this glyph code is telling us that Walter is who September made a connection with, just as the boy made an emotional connection to Olivia.)
Yellow
Yellow is a common color in this episode. The wires for the demolition explosives are yellow, Olivia and her sister tell Ella that they like the yellow shirt better. Olivia does not like the yellow M&M's, and "That Artist's" pine tree air freshener is yellow.
This prompted me to do some research on the color yellow. I'm not expert on color symbolism, so basically this is a direct paraphrasing from the source in which I did the research.
Yellow can symbolize several different things including happiness and joy. At the same time it can stand for deceit. One of it's common uses is to show danger, but not as severe a danger as the color red often signifies. If can also stand for hope and cowardice. A fairly interesting thing that I learned in looking this up is that in Egyptian culture, yellow represents the dead.
For this particular episode, I believe that the yellow is possibly signifying deceit in that the killer is fooling woman into believing he is a nice guy when in fact he is a killer. In my opinion, it is most possibly signifying the dead seeing as people were murdered in this episode.
Another thing to note is that in Season 3, Olivia, under the influence of Fauxlivia's memories states that she wanted to paint the room yellow because it was more cheerful. So Fauxlivia likes the color yellow.
What is the Child doing underground?
There is a theory that I have seen on these boards that theorizes that the building that is set to be demolished is the same area where the beacon arrived and burrowed under the ground. This theory states that the boy was brought with the beacon. This is one possible theory, although, I don't think this building was the same location.
Also note that the meat packing plant was called "Beacon Hill." Is this another hint that the child, the beacon, and the Observers are connected?
It is possibly that "The Observers" sent him there for some purpose from the future. Perhaps his paleness and baldness were not caused from being underground but because of the negative conditions in The Observers polluted future. It could be possible that the child was not under there for decades, but was sent to that location for some purpose that I have yet to figure out. Unless the ideal future the Observers want involves Olivia catching "The Artist." Then again, September seemed utterly perplexed to see the boy drive past as he stood there.
"We found another one."
This totally suggests that the CIA has found other children like this. Why would they be interested in empaths. Well for one, that could use it to get information from enemy countries without torturing anyone. It could be very useful in extracting information from people. Something that would benefit the CIA quite a bit.
The Observer's and the Child
This episode for me was a way for the writers to explain a bit about the Observers without directly telling us.
Walter: "He may also be sensitive to people's emotions. A raw nerve able to intuit the inner feelings and intentions of others."
Walter(In "The Arrival"):"... And as he set us down in the snow, I recalled his stare, standing there in his suit soaking wet, seemingly indifferent to the cold. It was as if he knew my thoughts before I did. As if he were inside my head."
I have always stood behind the theory that September felt the emotions of Walter when he and Peter where drowning in the lake. He developed a connection with Walter, similar to the connection that the child developed with Olivia. I also believe that the same thing happened with August and Christine Hollace, he felt the emotions that Christine felt about the death of her family in the car accident and he developed an emotional connection with her.
The boy is bald and has no eye brows, just like the Observers. It is my belief that in their future, the sun has been blocked out by something, maybe nuclear war, maybe something else. Radiation poisoned their water supply so they don't have much access to fresh water. Anyways, no sun, means no vitamin D, which would be responsibly for the baldness and the pale skin.
Walter's Apparatus
Walter's device has the ability to translate people's thoughts into an audible voice. If you recall in "The Arrival", John Mosley used a similar device to extract information from the former marine and from Peter.
The Scar
Peter: "It's funny, I always remember the scar being on the other side."
I think he says this because he had the same version of that action figure in the alt-verse, but the scar was on the other side of it's face over there.
Last edited by MassivelyDynamic; 06-30-2012 at 06:24 PM.
I remember the old theory that yellow could be a third Universe, and I still stand by it - IMO the Observers are coming from an alternate Universe's future, given they can mess with the past of our (two) Universes without it rewriting their future. The yellow signifies Observer-land-verse.
That's interesting. Maybe the child's parents sent him into the past to escape from some disaster (a la Superman? ).There is a theory that I have seen on these boards that theorizes that the building that is set to be demolished is the same area where the beacon arrived and burrowed under the ground. This theory states that the boy was brought with the beacon. This is one possible theory, although, I don't think this building was the same location
Hey, thats one of my lines!
I really do hope they resolve this about where and how the child got there in season 5, well assuming there still is one considering that apparently Pinkner jumped ship recently.
I wonder how the different time line changed this event or maybe the difference in this event, like Peter nonexistence changed the time line
If the child in this time line went with Eliot Michaels how would that effect things ?
I really think the child may be September. It would go a long way towards explaining exactly why he is connected to our group, and the lengths he is willing to go to help them.
Olivia's dialogue to the child concerning if you don't like a situation, if things just don't feel right, if you don't agree with whats going on, then you can change them, can be seen in a whole new light, for sure. If I'm right, this particular observer was taught about human compassion and free will very early in life, and it could make all the difference, considering he chooses that group of humans and their world, over his his future and race, apparently?
It also makes a bit of sense that an empath, someone attuned to read emotions, would then have trouble expressing and understanding the concept of emotions themselves. He's definitely an observer child. I wonder if "the others" the CIA found are the rest of the science team?
Is this how the Observers originally got into our universe themselves?
did the Beacon a few episodes ago call these children to our world?
Was he holed up down there because it was similar in conditions to the future he comes from?
This what not surprise especially with the heavy yellow themes of season 5 and the Observers being able to not be overwritten from there futures well despite other things that make them tick.Originally Posted by phx219
The CO in this ep and TTLGAWWFT- the same person?
The Child has breathing difficulties when he's in the hospital, until Walter suggests reducing his oxygen intake. This ties in with the Child Observer's room
in 5:06 having a CO2 machine to help him survive in the oxygen-rich atmosphere.
Peter seemed to insist that the Child of 5.06 was the same as the one from 1.15. Perhaps they brought in a new actor due to the old one having outgrown the role, but 5.06 wasn't conclusive enough to say either way; what would settle the matter is if the Child shows signs that he remembers having dealt with the Fringe team in the 1.15 case.
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