ghost network episode season american science fiction drama television series fringe episode written executive producer supervising producer directed episode follows fringe team investigation bus filled amber people inside discover man named roy predicted similar events walter realizes roy connections past experiment years ago called episode important evolution writers noted roy guest character audience emotionally invested ghost network included quest explain seemingly impossible weird phenomenon real scientific explanation walter past research aired fox network united_states september estimated million viewers watched episode broadcast received mixed reviews believing finally finding legs worried ongoing formulaic storylines featured episode plot man named confesses priest sees visions bad things including bus going die simultaneously scene man enters bus steals quickly getting fringe team arrives soon find hardened amber like substance trapping killing inside walter studies substance concludes started gas solidified passengers looking victim video footage olivia discovers missing traces victims federal employee undercover connections drug interview comes identify body fringe team finds roy search apartment believing bus pattern related terror attacks soon realize drawings dated incidents took place despite fact public interrogation roy tells charlie receiving visions months roughly began seeing pattern related attacks trace substance massive dynamic olivia interviews massive dynamic executive tells substance seen attack walter suspects roy psychic runs tests realizing roy kind magnetic compound blood leads walter recall old lab partner conducted research creating ghost network secretly communicate messages person frequency range research roy past test subjects walter perfected research roy secret messages people terrorist attacks olivia peter arrive old house find equipment needed tap roy mind equipment able intercept messages latin detailing upcoming exchange hour realize removed small disk federal agent hand identified body going exchange olivia man killed talk chases man involved exchange commits suicide bus giving containing disc secretly gives disc analysis roy sent home believe longer visions compromised production writing executive producer decided wanted fellow executive producer supervising producer collaborate writing episode wrote half wrote rest episode later worked episode equation directed episode worked previously writers alias writers idea couple weeks olivia walking apartment discovering walls covered drawings events man possibly known wanted urban myths legends strange events come fringe science equivalent led creating story roy man seemingly psychic abilities expanded offering real scientific explanation form walter past research early development producers unsure aspects developed character peter instance ghost network debated peter break childhood home finally let came peter explanation olivia live wasn breaking casting character played actor roy inspired character close encounters kind writers noted audio commentary roy guest character audience emotionally invested wanted actor head preparation experimentation scene walter lab successfully change minds casting grant writers looked man similar appearance previous character wanted play olivia feelings betrayed john won filming came idea start episode church scene bus originally scripted place subway writers felt bus let city early creation writers trying figure fringe ultimately chose big crazy event start episode catapult plot drive characters felt bus scene essentially achieved creating scene bus gas released crew sat bus driving streets new_york_city director called shooting student film style run gun shoot scenes bus tunnel crew looked variety locations choosing tunnel near united_nations headquarters east manhattan busy area shoot night attempt appear daytime scenes set day limited schedule shoot scenes despite having seen tunnel production crews hours quickly set massive set leave time shoot scenes dawn approached simulate amber actors pretend frozen episode marked time composer worked assistant fringe episode continue score rest season half character briefly plays piano scene near end episode jackson playing writers noted audio commentary jackson actually play piano receives musical scenes learns piece able play scene reception ratings ghost network aired united_states september episode broadcast watched estimated million viewers reviews episode received mixed reviews graded episode explaining thought fun previous week episode enjoyed peter expanded presence growing slightly hint dropping peter past murray thought climax exciting willing forgive fact week row walter big idea involved kind communication unconscious compared negatively pilot thought ghost network struggled aspects needed prove problems villains logic needing kill bus people person confront later understood needed weird headline ign rated writing thought solid episode characters coming nicely story better week hitting formula expressed fringe eventually formulaic like season concluded review calling fringe solid exceptional critics praise consistent performance calling writing thought episode wasn perfect fringe finally hit stride mix humor darker storytelling starting come nicely concluded review expressing excitement watching fringe better better thought best new series year continued improve episode writer compared ghost network similarly plotted x-files film files want believe wrote man x-files movie good fringe wins
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