Episode 5 Promo Pictures & Discription - "Power Hungry"

[MrsB108]

Amid the red-and-blue flashing light of squad cars, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham strides purposefully through the Boston parking garage with companions Peter Bishop and his father, eccentric scientist Walter Bishop, toward the crime scene. Greeted by a building supervisor, she is told that the elevator simply dropped several floors, crashing violently into the garage. "That's impossible," Peter says as they examine the wreckage. Walter and Olivia draw closer, peering inside the wrecked elevator car, where several people died. Or so it seems.

Cut!

The scene is actually part of Fox's upcoming SF TV series Fringe. Dunham is actually Australian actress Anna Torv; Peter is Joshua Jackson, and Walter is fellow Aussie John Noble. The garage is real, but it's in New York City, where Fringe is filming on a breezy Aug. 26, which doubles for the show's Boston setting. And SCI FI Wire was able to get an exclusive glimpse behind the scenes of the much-anticipated show and talk with the principals. The garage has been transformed into a crime scene, complete with emergency vehicles (Massachusetts state trooper units, a coroner's van), emergency personnel (extras in FBI windbreakers and cop uniforms), lights, gurneys and yellow police tape.





The wrecked elevator is actually a facade built into the garage. The episode is titled "Power Hungry" and is the fifth of the first season. And all three stars are on set this day, joking easily among themselves between takes before blocking out their movements with episode director Chris Misiano. Ask them what Fringe is about, however, and you're more likely to get a look of amused exasperation. "I'm really excited for the show to premiere so then I stop getting asked the question, because ... I never know which way to go," Torv said with a smile. "It's kind of got a bit of everything, I don't think it's genre-specific. I think that it is very science fiction, but more emphasis on the science as opposed to the fiction. There's drama, because your characters are all real, but they're dealing with these ... horrific [scenarios]. So I think there's elements of horror; there's elements of action. There's investigative [stories], there's crime-solving. I mean, it's just all consuming and far-reaching."





From J.J. Abrams and his Star Trek writing team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, Fringe centers on FBI agent Olivia Dunham, who finds herself drawn into an investigation of a mysterious aircraft disaster in Boston. Olivia's desperate search for help to save her gravely injured partner leads to brilliant scientist Walter Bishop, who has been institutionalized for the last 17 years. And the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son, Peter, in to help.





The investigation gets weirder and weirder as Olivia discovers that things--and science--are not what they seem. Torv agreed with Orci's description of the show's theme being "the family you choose." "I do, absolutely," she said. "And I think that as the show progresses, they will need each other more and more and more." But, she added, "The power of three's a fun little number, because ... the dynamic is always going to shift, and you're always going to need one person more than the other. ... I was brought up in a family of three, and there's always two people against one."





The show is currently filming the fifth of its initial 13 episodes. "Power Hungry" deals with the trio's investigation of an elevator crash that was caused by some kind of mysterious power surge. Their investigation leads to a young man, Joseph (guest star Ebon Moss-Bachrach), who appears to give off some kind of odd electrical charge. As is typical in Fringe, the pursuit uncovers a sinister plot involving "fringe science" and the nefarious motives of another scientist (guest star Max Baker). And the race is on to find Joseph and uncover the plot. In another shot, the camera dollies into the wrecked elevator, where Joseph is lying unconscious atop a pile of bodies, including the office girl on whom he has a crush. Joseph awakes, looks around in horror, then spies the girl lying beside him. She's clearly dead, and he's horrified.





"Oh, God ..." he utters before clambering out of the dusty death carriage. The episode promises Fringe's mix of humor, science, horror and mystery, as well as the interpersonal drama among the three principal characters. "There's some fairly gruesome things that have happened, to be honest with you, and some fairly bizarre things, and I'm not going to tell you any more, because that's to be revealed," Noble said, with a grin. "But I think everyone will find them interesting and just close enough to [reality to] possibly go, 'Oh, my goodness, that's weird.' And I don't want to tell you. I'm not going to tell you any more."





Fringe premieres Sept. 9 and will air Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT"





Source: Scifi.com

[D-Roc]

Juicy stuff, cheers for the heads-up MB

[silverdragon892003]

Anyone else see this pic of Peter from ****************************************** (it's in the spoiler section)? The site says it's a pic from episode five, and it has an episode summary too.

Looks pretty interesting! Wonder what happened to his wrists?


There's also more pics from the website - screenshots from episode 5 if you wanna check it out.

[D-Roc]

Here are all of the official promo images for 1.05 Power Hungry (click to enlarge):





Here's the episode description courtesy of FringeBloggers.com:

DR. WALTER BISHOP AND BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER WHEN MANKIND’S ENERGY HAS DRASTIC, DEADLY EFFECTS ON “FRINGE” TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, ON FOX
When it’s discovered that a rather simple man has the ability to harness electricity, dangerous and deadly occurrences follow, and our unlikely trio investigates this super-charged oddity. Meanwhile, Olivia has a high-voltage encounter of a different kind when she is rocked by a blast from her past, and Dr. Bishop turns to his feathered friends and enlists homing pigeons to help him break the case in the “Power Hungry” episode of FRINGE airing Tuesday, Oct. 14 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (FR-105) (TV-14 L, V)
Cast: Anna Torv as Olivia Dunham; Joshua Jackson as Peter Bishop; John Noble as Walter Bishop; Lance Reddick as Phillip Broyles; Kirk Acevedo as Charlie Francis; Mark Valley as John Scott; Blair Brown as Nina Sharp; Jasika Nicole as Astrid Farnsworth
Guest Cast: Ebon Moss Bachrach as Joseph Meegar; Max Baker as Fischer; Mary Louise Burke as Flora Meegar; Diane Davis as Bethany

[drianimeboi]

just wondering, why there wont be any episode air on the 7th of october, instead they skip that week. dont tell me its like on hiatus or sumthing. its one of the best series on tv now.

im sorry, but i just cant get enough of fringe.

thanks. guys.

[Rocky]

Originally Posted by drianimeboi

just wondering, why there wont be any episode air on the 7th of october, instead they skip that week. dont tell me its like on hiatus or sumthing. its one of the best series on tv now.

im sorry, but i just cant get enough of fringe.

thanks. guys.

Unfortunately, there is not episode on the 7th of October as far as I have heard. Watching the preview for next week last night the announcer said "two weeks" for the next new episode of fringe. There might be some other kind of event going on that evening like a presidential debate or important sports game going on.

[Sander]

Why?!

[D-Roc]

We should organize a marathon episode 1.04 re-watch (maybe spread out over a few days) to keep us all going Although I guess many of us will be going back through the previous episodes anyway. I know I will!

[Daisy]

Oct 7th is one of the Presidential Debates

[Wondermind]

"Power Hungry" deals with the trio's investigation of an elevator crash that was caused by some kind of mysterious power surge. Their investigation leads to a young man, Joseph (guest star Ebon Moss-Bachrach), who appears to give off some kind of odd electrical charge. As is typical in Fringe, the pursuit uncovers a sinister plot involving "fringe science" and the nefarious motives of another scientist (guest star Max Baker). And the race is on to find Joseph and uncover the plot.
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Sound like our friend Joseph has the power of "Electrokinesis".

Electrokinesis: the purported ability to manipulate electricity and electrical phenomena via conscious will alone. Self-proclaimed electrokinetics claim to have the ability to interfere with various electronics, such as television reception, radio reception, and random interference with various light sources, such as a streetlight. Some electrokinetics claim to have to ability to produce electricity through their hands, although most "electrokinetics" claim to be able to only manipulate existing electrical fields, rather than create them. Electrokinesis usually requires physical contact between the electrokinetic and its target, although some accomplished electrokinetics claim to be able to create an arc up to three inches in length, which is very surprising considering the immense ammount of power required to create an electrical arc.