German prisons are actually much nicer than this (no, never been in one, just seen on TV). But you figured that, right? :)
They look even nicer than the american ones (again, TV). But maybe these "Wissenschaft" prisons look like this ("Wissenschaft" is german for "science"). Is that a prison just for scientists, or what? Probably somebody just needed a name and had a german-english dictionary at hand.

A bit sad there was no really really bad german in it. I remember one scene in an episode of Alias, setted in Germany, where there was "Bediener" written on a surveillance monitor, I couldn't figure out, what it was supposed to mean, but then I remembered, they wanted to break into the "server-room". You could translate the word "server" with "Bediener", but it would be very strange. On top of that, the computers called "server" are called "server" too in german, so there should have been "Server" written on that screen :)

I liked seeing "Godfather" appear on another show (The actor who played Loeb played Godfather on Generation Kill) and good to see him sticking around. He played a bit part on GK very well and I was pleasantly surprised to see him pop up on Fringe, but was expecting him to be gone before the end of the sow.

I had the Mario Brothers/Piranha Plant flash as well with the parasite, with a little bit of Little Shop of Horrors sprinkled on top :)

Thanks for the German translation - much appreciated!

I watched this episode twice and picked up a lot of stuff the second time around. As Gabi said, there's so much going on, it's hard to get everything the first time. Thank goodness I did, though, because my son text'd me from school to ask if I'd seen The Observer. Fringe is a hot topic for 14-year-old boys.

My son theorizes that "the gentleman" is The Observer, and that maybe he's the one who lives in Little Hill, wherever or whatever that might be. Any thoughts on that?

I hate when shows translate conversations. Like "getchaos" said, nothing that the viewer couldn't figure out on their own. I also agree with Getchaos that the producers should hire people that speak their native tongue. That said I totally dug last nights episode. I liked the girl from the Frighteners being in the show, but that made her a Red Herring in my opinion.

Fringe = Alias? Nah, On fringe they haven't once captured a bad guy and locked them up, only to have a mission the following week where they "had" to bring the bad guy with them only to watch him escape when all the good guys leave the prisoner handcuffed to a pole in order to chase another bad guy.

On fringe they kill the bad guy then use some weird science to recover something from their brains.

I hope fringe doesn't go the alias route because Alias became incredibly frustrating to watch as every plot point only moved forward due to the stupidity of the good guys.

I'm not sure where the show is going, but it's starting to feel a lot like Alias, in that it's trying to build up to something but I feel by the time it gets to that point I'll have already lost interest.

Olivia's romantic side-track in the episode felt really forced and didn't flow very well, as the scene before she was driven to keep her promise to the wife to save the husband who was dying - then in the next she's in this new guys's hotel room in an awkward romantic tension scene. I understand she had to stay in Germany overnight, but it just didn't work for me.

Maybe it's because I stuck with Alias for all five seasons, and I don't see Fringe as being that different. It's like the JJ Abrams mad lib, just switch around the characters names and organizations. Take away the fringe science part of the show and it pretty much is Alias.

did anyone else think the parasite was just one of those pirahna plants from super mario bros? that thing looked awesome!

....Whoops....after sending this, i saw a lot of bad english grammar....sorry ;-).... i will try harder next time....

Only the first german conversation between Lucas and the warden where interesting.

At first Lucas told the german prison warden:
Lucas: "There may be things, you can use (you want to have) and i would be ready to talk about them."
Warden: "With what i need, you can't help me."

And then after Olivia says "I would be willing to sign anything....." she continues in german:
"...for example, something that would prove, i was'nt here"


The rest wasn't that interesting....in the cell scene with the guards, the guard just tells Olivia that her time is up and she has to leave. She tells him, that she only needs 60 seconds and he answers:"No. You must go now. You have no time left"

Next scene the guard says: "You do no have permission to be here anymore. I will use force if you do not leave emediatly"
Olivia: "I'm almost ready"

Next scene
Guard:"I will no longer ask you for this. Your time is up now"

Next scene
Guards coming in: "Come with me or we will take you with us."

...so, except the conversation Lucas had with the warden, nothing the viewers could'nt figure out by themselves.
Again it was a bit of a pity that they did not use german actors for the german characters. As a german you recognise this emidiatly because they had the typical "english" german accent. Only the warden had a good accent but his lines were a bit unusual. His grammar was a bit bad. (Maybe like my english grammar ;-) )

Anywhay...there are only a few english spoken productions out there where they use german actors for german characters and sometimes it gets strange.
For example: In an episode of Scrubs they had a german patient but his german was very very bad. Elliot had a better german accent than the so called german patient ^^.

So i hope, i could help understanding the german lines ^^.

PS: From a german point, it was an episode with some cliches (dark, messy prison with angry soldiers, for example)....but it was nice to see the airport of Frankfurt.

I loved the little "Alias" reference when Loeb told Broyles to turn to "page 47."