Drivel. The scenes between Peter and Mathis are premised on him being wrong. Suddenly making him right so they can set up the next story, about his rescue, falsifies the story. Which is bad writing. There is no way to justify Newton lurking in the woods doing pointless voodoo and magically escaping. The plot is BS. Which is, again, bad writing.
Metaphorically speaking, misuse of Ockham's razor cuts your own throat.
I believe Newton took the first girl to gain some sort of insight into why Peter was on his own for Walternate.
Walternate knows better than anyone else why Peter might suddenly feel alienated from Walter. And he knows that telling Peter himself might be a successful recruiting tactic. Why ever would he need Newton second hand scraps of insight from a chance met waitress?
The Dairy Farmer then either took and killed the first girl after Newton was done with her,
Again, Newton's carelessness about letting his closest neighbor watch is inexplicable.
dumped the body for Newton
Wasn't it supposed to be the case that Newton didn't kill his victims, and even apologized for the inconvenience? He certainly didn't kill Ferguson. Why he would hire a freak who killed his brain tap subjects, thereby bringing down a police manhunt? The freak doesn't talk about Newton which implicitly contradicts any hypothesis about him working for Newton. When arrested he woud have every incentive to spread the blame.
or went to the first drop site because he's a freak and a girl he was stalking was dumped there.
Again, wasn't the thing supposed to be that Newton didn't kill his victims? Since the freak was killing them by taking brain trophies (seen in his home, by the way, like the Peter from Boston CD,) the guy had to be doing his amateur brain surgery
somewhere! Applying Ockham's razor, the simplest explanation involving the fewest assumptions is that the amateur OR on the freak's property was
his kill site, and Newton was never there to question, then apologize to anybody. If the waitress was murdered on the site, it wasn't the dump site but the crime scene. The dialogue explicitly contradicts this hypothesis.
He bumps into the deputy, who went there without calling it in, surprises the freak and gets taken prisoner.
In this context, "there" would be the first dump site, which is contradicted by the sequence of events. Ferguson didn't disappear until later, either when he arrived at the first dump site, or on the way. There is no reason to think the freak returned to the dump site to have some confrontation with Ferguson. Ockham's razor says not to make such assumptions unless necessary. Also, here certainly is no reason to suppose Ferguson had a stroke of genius and went to the dairy without telling anyone where he was going, even if he didn't always bother reporting his arrival.
You could hypothesize that Ferguson arrived at the dump site where Newton and miscellaneous thug were doing whatever nonsense they were up to. Then Newton and said nondescript muscle captured Ferguson and stored him at their OR. This would be astonishingly bad writing since it assumes Ferguson wouldn't bother to say, "There's more of them!" Or if he was braintapped, that no one noticed that he had brain surgery that, unlike the women, he survived. Also, it assumes that the freaky neighbor would cop to kidnapping the cop, when he didn't. Even for a psycho freak, this seems like pretty unlikely behavior, since there doesn't seem to be any perverted sexual thrill to it.
The farmer then assumes his identity and uses it to pull over the second victim, upon whom he performs sicko-surgery with no connection to Newton.
Again, using Ockham's razor properly, the simplest explanation is that Ferguson had stopped the vehicle and was checking the girl's papers, when the freak somehow got the drop on him. The girl then gets the fun treatment, while Ferguson is stowed and forgotten.
Newton and Bald Henchman meanwhile have been broadcasting something at Peter over the phone and in the woods using alternatech.
Perhaps preparing him for a crossover,
The assumption that Peter needs some strange preparation to go back to his original world is the type of unwarranted assumption that Ockham's razor counsels against!
perhaps giving him insomnia, perhaps just to fuck with him cause Newton's a dick.
The need for insomnia is again an unwarranted assumption, as well as also being just an example of Newton's dickery. The notion that Newton would want to dick around with "Mr. Secretary"'s kidnapped son is a peculiar idea in itself, however. Dicks still have a sense of political expediency. In fact, self serving political expediency is a prime ingredient in dickery.
Mathis could have easily missed the alternates in the fog-shrouded forest.
Mathis
wanted to believe, but she knew better. Implicitly, so did Peter because he didn't argue the point.
Maybe they have cloaking tech
Again, the proper use of Ockham's razor rules out such special assumptions in support of a preconceived thesis.
They can
run sneaky?!
Then Newton shows up at the end, proving Peter wasn't hallucinating and Walternate reveals himself because Newton's work has given him confidence that Peter is ready to see him and be convinced to cross back over.
Why ever would Mr. Secretary think Peter would need convincing? He would think of him a kidnapping victim who was effectively brainwashed by his kidnapper. If he wanted to convince Peter, telling Peter the truth is the start. He seems to have assumed that Peter knew the truth. If he was trying to pose as Walter, instead of presenting himself as the Walternate he is, he sure wouldn't want Newton around. Newton's presence would fighten Peter, as it did. That sort of thing is not calculated to convince anyone of anything.
Newton showing up does make the case for Peter not hallucinating but it also shows the episode was written with complete disregard for internal logic and thematic integrity. The emotional thrust of the Peter/Mathis interaction hinges on Peter being wrong, which means hallucinating the key events. But if he's not hallucinating, then the entire episode was tiresome nonsense about Peter being an idiot.
I didn't take time before to demonstrate how this is wrong. But it is.
How ever is that possible? You're say, among other things, Newton would hang around the woods at a crime scene, with a dart gun, on the off chance that Peter would come there again, see the light show and hear the static
but any one with him wouldn't see said light show or hear the static, or even see them. Doesn't work for me.
