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When we were provided the explanation of teenage Tyler combining the following:

to create a cocktail of massive mind control abilities, we swallowed that hook, line, and sinker. Seemed plausible to us! There were some holes in that story, like why were the drugs taken home when the dad is so committed to his work at the lab that he didn't even realize the boy was missing, why he then would have left the drugs at home later, and so forth, but we decided that it's just a show and we should really just relax. 

When Tyler kidnapped Peter, poor Walter sort of fell apart, and we were heartbroken for him. We're also worried about the inevitable lesions on Peter's brain after all that time with the psycho mind warper. If Miss Lady Cop had terrible lesions after one mind control incident that lasted less than a minute, what must Peter's brain be like?

We thought that Tyler was being offered to the audience as the younger version of a very popular bad guy from season 3 of that 90s show of which Fringe is the obvious heir.  We were sort of X-Static that another person who could push their will onto someone else was introduced because it's such an even match for the talents of our FBI team, and his being young and a victim of the conspiracy at large makes it just that much juicier.  If he can get Peter to take him to a strip club to grab a bit of lunch surely that's evidence that his will reigns supreme.

The case being wrapped up so neatly gave us a sense of completion.  Tyler was disarmed and sedated, and the abilities were reported to wear off once he was off of the drugs.  He even avoided jail time. 

So how delightful to find out that Tyler is just one of "The Tylers", conceived and kept in the lab for exactly the purpose for which he performed so beautifully!  And that William Bell was a part of that experiment. Ohhhh, we love it when there's hidden nefariousness.  

What did you think of the episode?  Tell us in the comments!