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When the sheriff of a small town nearby Edina City gives a ride to a boy that is fleeing home, he finds at the police station that the boy has changed to a deformed child. Out of the blue, a group of deformed man slaughter the sheriff and two marshals and bring the boy with them. The Fringe Division is assigned to investigate the case and they head to Edina, here they are received by the local sheriff. They overhear a humming and the sheriff explains that it comes from a military base. Soon Olivia and Peter are attacked by a local in a truck but Peter succeeds to kill him. They bring the corpse to Dr. Bishop that catches a rare butterfly to Astrid that collects the insect. But when he deliver the pot with the butterfly to her, she has turned into a moth. Astrid and Dr. Bishop drive to Edina City and when the moth becomes a butterfly again, Dr. Bishop discovers the secret of Alina City.

"Johari Window" is another great episode of "Fringe" in the style of "The X-Files". The mysterious story is entertaining and well-resolved by Dr. Bishop. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Johari Window"

It is interesting name of this episode "Johari Window" if you know about the idea behind of this theory. There are always four areas of matters that you know or you don't know:

1. Something you know and other people know (Open Area) 2. Something you know and other people don't know (Hidden Area) 3. Something you don't know but other people know (Blind Area) 4. Something you don't know and other people don't know (Unknown Area)

Any human being like any one of us are deemed to have hidden area and blind area though sometimes there are also unknown area, it is not really a matter of concern! Are we really want to move our Hidden Area to the Open Area, it is really a matter of our openness to our personal "public" relationship. Exposing something that we don't really want other people to know can be hard and shameful sometimes. However, when this hidden area is more and more transformed to an Open Area, we should have easier time to build up long time relationships with friends and family members. Along the similar thought, if we can ask for advice more often from our friends and family members, effectively we will shrink the Blind Area to the Open Area.

It is really a matter of Integrity we are talking about here. It is really hard to uphold Integrity if you keep your Hidden Area and Blind Area as big part of you life!

The challenging point of this episode is that do you really want to expose something that is not beautiful to you to people you care? On the other hand, do you really want to face the "ugly" side of fact of someone you care even you know the fact?

A very X files style episode, a copy of " The Great mutato" and " our town" . An episode in a small us town with a group of people keeping a dark secret. Thats TV ! Thats an interesting story, not like those kinda boring episodes all about science. The dark atmosphere the fear, those are things that should be there more often. Because " Johari Window" was by very far the best standalone episode of Fringe.

9/10.

The whole idea of a "Johari Window" is to try to bust into that 4th Window - The one that has stuff that you don't know and others don't know. The more stuff in the 1st Three windows, the better you can guess what's in the "Unknown Area"

And that's what Edina is: An Unknown Area, and the people who live there want to keep it that way.

This is another expert Fringe episode of Misdirection, and it had Walter chasing a huge Macguffin: Until he finally remembered: "Hard Artichokes Rarely Keep: Norwegian Elephants, Singapore Sleep"

Walter is recovering from being Kidnapped by Thomas Jerome Newton. So he's afraid to go out in public anymore. This is affecting not only his relationship with Peter, but his work ethic as well: But it is this particular Pattern Event that breaks him out of that. The idea of finding a "Werewolf" gets him excited. Apparently, there are people near Edina who can change their appearance!

But Walter does not find any evidence of Lycanthropy: Instead, he finds a beautiful butterfly, which he catches to bring to Astrid.

But when they get a body and the butterfly back to the lab, the butterfly has reverted to an ugly, deformed MOTH - And so has the body! Which gives Astrid a scare when she zips open the body bag. The man, who was normal in Edina, is now deformed.

Walter uncovers a secret: A secret which he was involved with for a short time for some Army experiments. It is up to Walter now, to either let the secret out, or to continue keeping it - For the safety and peace of mind of the people of Edina. But which? Walter has to choose.

Sometimes the plot is as creative as its execution. Here, a boy is picked up by a cop, and brought to the polices station. While there he turns from a cute little guy to an ugly deformed person. Before anyone can deal with it, men come into the station and waste everyone, taking the boy with them. The key to the entire episode has to do with a sound generated, which causes the optic nerves of observers to not see what is in front of the eye. It is about as far fetched as anything can be, but remember what the bottom line is in this series. They are only brought in on cases like this. It wouldn't be a big deal if it weren't for the silencing of people.