Massive Dynamic Risk Assessment, or a lack thereof (Review: 'Fringe' 1.15, "Inner Child")

Stop me if you've heard this one before...

So, a blonde FBI Agent is pursing a serial killer and follows him into a cemetery at night... where of course, he ambushes her. Sorry, Agent Dunham, did they not teach the idea of dynamic risk assessments at Quantico back then? Mind you, at least she doesn't do a spin-kick - that's the preserve of Sydney Bristow, thank you very much.

This is one of the somewhat cliched moments in an episode where several of the beats are eminently predictable - I actually made predictions in my notes in advance.

A bunch of construction workers find a mute boy in the basement of a building that has been sealed for 70 years... at the same time as a serial killer decides to start another round of murders. Of course, the cases are connected and the mute boy has powers that can help solve it.

Some comments here:

• I spotted the serial killer from first glance myself - there's a certain type of them in fiction that isn't very "attractive", probably gets rejected by women regularly and decides to take it out on them as a form of revenge against the entire sex. Or as we might call it today, an incel.
• Anyway, it's a decent enough central mystery that isn't fully resolved by the end, with a closing scene that indicates there is definitely something more to follow in that department.
• We also get some great Walter Bishop moments. The man is clearly very neurodivergent, with some general lack of social graces, a penchant for odd mnemonics and problems writing key information down. There's one moment involving a gadget where he's really cringe, but for a good reason and it actually works. To misquote Shakespeare, it may be method, but there's madness in it. 
• Olivia seems to be a great aunt too - it's nice that we get these family moments to remind us that she's a human being, not just a super cop.
• The mystery kid is well played, but watching this in HD on a computer screen, the bald cap is obvious.
• The CIA turn up and of course, they're up to shady stuff, wanting the kid for their own ends. Naturally, Olivia and the Bishops do not let this happen. I predicted that, but not the exact method.

Conclusion

Entertaining, but rather predictable.

7/10

PS Massive Dynamic aren't actually in this one, but the pun was too good to pass up.