Let me start by saying this whole episode reminds me of an excellent movie from 1987 called
No Way Out. Have you seen it? Basically, Kevin Costner is a naval officer who gets promoted to work under the Secretary of Defense in the Department of Defense. He is assigned to investigate the death of a young woman who had ties to officials in that department. We find out Costner's character had been having a happy affair with the deceased, and had fallen in love with her. He finds out her 'sugar daddy' and killer was his boss and seeks revenge. Unfortunately, the key piece of evidence is an old Polaroid negative which, eventually when re-constructed, shows Costner in the woman's company and hence the lead suspect. Costner tries desperately to find evidence to name his boss as the poor woman's keeper and killer. And he does. The boss says a KGB operative killed her. By the time the Polaroid's reconstructed, Costner has escaped. In an excellent twist at the end his 'landlord' speaks to him in Russian, revealing there really
was a KGB operative in the DOD that no one knew about. Costner had been assigned to have the affair to gather Intel on the Secretary of Defense and the DOD. Costner's told to go back to the Soviet Union but he refuses. Surprisingly they don't kill him for refusing, his Soviet handler says "Where is he going to go?"
So how does the movie
No Way Out relate to Fringe episode 304? First off, Newton had no way out. He had to be terminated in the holding facility so they couldn't get his Intel.(But seriously, couldn't he have just run way?) Secondly, that poor shapeshifter(yes, the executive producers made me have sympathy for this shapeshifter who had grown to love his current 'life.' Reminiscent again of 'Blade Runner,'yes?)had no way out. He disobeyed orders by not shifting. But he knew even if he had he was supposed to get 'rid of all traces' ie., his beloved family, and he said he couldn't do that. Thirdly, FauxLivia had no way out, so she thought. In order to complete her mission she needs Peter Bishop's unwavering trust. She thinks she's going to get that by sleeping with him. Ah, but let's examine the bigger picture here.
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