New “Fringe” plot details

I don’t mind repeating myself: Fox is going to be a BLAST to watch this year. We’re getting some cool new shows, like Fringe, Dollhouse, Virtuality and Boldly Going Nowhere.

Add in good staples like Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Prison Break and 24, my DVR is going to be set to overdrive.

We’ve gotten a few basic details about the plot of J.J. Abrams’ Fringe in the past, but now we have a deeper look at what the heck the show is all about.

From Zap2It:

When something disturbing, unexplainable and just a bit icky happens to the passengers on an international flight, FBI Agent Olivia Warren (Torv) begins an investigation that leads her to Dr. Walter Bishop (Noble), a renegade scientist whose unorthodox experiments into fringe phenomena led to arrests and eventually institutionalization. Warren can only get Bishop out with the help of his estranged son Peter (Jackson), a young man with a genius IQ, but questionable morals and motivation. The son isn’t ready to reconcile with his father, the father isn’t ready to be reintegrated into the outside world and Olivia isn’t ready to serve as babysitter, but they form an unlikely team. How does the airplane tragedy relate to The Pattern, a spate of unexplained occurrences sweeping the world? And what does any of this have to do with the mysterious Prometheus Corporation, one of the world’s most forward-thinking companies? And what do we make of Broyles (Reddick), the head of the Homeland Security’s newly formed Fringe Division?

The script Zap2It had was a very rough draft and will likely undergo massive re-writes, but I can’t imagine the above outline will change a whole lot.

No surprise that the idea sounds awesome to me, being a science fiction nut, so I’m waitined anxiously to see the pilot in the fall.

Word is that we could see Fringe on Monday nights paired up with Sarah Connor. Wow, now that could be a sweet two-hour fun-fest.