Season 1, Episode 18
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In this episode, Fringe Division apprehend a scientist with ties to the terrorist group ZFT who will hand them everything he knows on ZFT in exchange for helping his wife who was infected with a contagion that makes her kill people for their spinal fluid.
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The Observer walks through the nightclub where Valerie Boone gets her victims.
Timestamp: 02:27
Nick Lane walked by a street vendor sign in 'Bad Dreams' that said "Night Stalker Energy Drink", foreshadowing the blue-eyed killer in 'Midnight' who hunted for victims at night and drank their spinal fluid.
Timestamp: 38:56
FRINGE DIVISION CASE FILE #118-42809
FRINGE EVENT: Syphilis bacteria-based contagion
CLASSIFIED CASE CONNECTION(S): David Robert Jones/ZFT/Pattern cases
AGENTS ASSIGNED: Dunham, Francis
SUPERVISING AGENT: Broyles
FILE ARCHIVED BY: Sirol Leo, Barbara Butler
WITNESSES/CONTACTS: Valerie Boone (suspect), Dr. Nicholas Boone (deceased)
LOCATION: Weymouth; the Cavern club, Boston, MA
VICTIM(S): Bob Dunn, John Doe
CASE REPORT SUMMARY:
Timestamp: 34:54
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Syphilis! Such a beautiful name for such an awful affliction. Reminds me of a girl named Phyllis whom I courted briefly in 1974. I took her to the annual crawfish boil. I'm sure I wasn't her only paramour; Harvard was a wild place back then. I suppose I'm lucky to have caught neither Phyllis nor syphilis.
Curiously, this altered strain has none of the usual external markers. No chancre, no rash on the palms; it seemingly progresses directly to the tertiary stage with a devastating attack upon the nervous system.
Dr. Boone is convinced that his wife contracted the disease through a deliberate dosage, not via sexual contact. I have no reason to doubt him. All her victims died during their liaisons, after all, with no chance to infect others.
Yet she did leave a residuum behind, on their exposed spines -- HAH! A venereal disease transmitted merely by necking! No prophylactic for that, I'll wager! Might this "ZFT" have an abstinence agenda? A cautionary tale for the youth, in the form of a syphilitic spinal vampire?
Mrs. Boone's need to refuel creates a hunger for cerebrospinal fluid, which she slakes by actually suckling the exposed spinal column. Much as a Cajun would! For as any true crawfish connoisseur knows, proper consumption of
Phyllis sometimes smelt of orange, too. A coincidence, I'm sure.
The crustacean should be followed by a cold fermented beverage, preferable a lager. The fermentation process -- oh! The penicillin's fermentation must be nearly complete. Killing a bacterium with a fungus! Pathogen vs. pathogen! Marvelous. Fleming, you accidental genius.
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