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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-19 (Monday)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 04:30:42 -0400
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Ubiquitous wrote:
In article <100j8gr$2g7u8$2@dont-email.me>, dtravel@sonic.net wrote:

>> What did you watch?
>
>Fringe S2E18 'White Tulip'.
>
>IMDb sez: "The Fringe team investigate a train full of people who died 
>in a mysterious way. Olivia and the others then meet the astrophysicist 
>who was responsible for the "experiment" and who can reset the time."
>Well, that planes and trains now they just need a mass casualty 
>automobile event.  As well as a credit to 'Groundhog Day'.
>
>The glyphs in this episode spell "Secret".
>
>Dr. Walter Bishop: [to Alistair Peck] I, too, attempted the 
>unimaginable, and I succeeded. I crossed into another universe, and took 
>a son that wasn't mine. And since then, not a day has passed without me 
>feeling the burden of that act. I'm going to tell you something that I 
>have never told another soul. Until I took my son from the other side, I 
>had never believed in God. But it occurred to me... that my actions had 
>betrayed him and that everything that had happened to me since was God 
>punishing me. So now I'm looking for a sign of forgiveness. I've asked 
>God for a sign of forgiveness. A specific one, a white tulip.  (I think 
>that explains the episode title.)

Yes, that was it exactly, as well as the ending.

>Guest star Peter Weller plays a scientist who has implanted mechanical 
>and electrical devices in his body that give him special abilities - the 
>dictionary definition of a "cyborg." Weller is most famous for playing 
>the lead role in the RoboCop movies, in which his character is a cyborg 
>police officer.

I like the continuing theme that "science is dangerous!".
Sure, you can time travel, but you kill everything withing a radius of where 
you arrive, depending on how far back you travel.