- Following a strange apparent terrorist attack on a bus, Olivia, Peter and Walter find a man who foresees future disasters before they happen.
- The team investigates a young man, Roy McComb, who seems to have the ability to predict major incidents before they happen. When they search his apartment, they find drawings and models of a variety of attacks, including the flight from Germany. In the most recent incident, a bus load of people are gassed and a bag stolen from an undercover narcotics agent. Dr. Bishop recalls working on experiments with his old friend, the founder of Massive Dynamics, that could explain what is happening with McComb. When Agent Dunham visits Nina Sharp to get more information on Massive Dynamics' possible role in these experiments, she realizes that she has not been fully briefed on what is going on.—garykmcd
- A man called Roy McComb gores to the church and confess to the priest that he can talk to the devil and foresees accidents. Meanwhile a man releases a lethal gas in a bus and steals the backpack of a woman. Agent Dunham is assigned to investigate the case and soon she discovers that the woman was an undercover narcotics agent. Meanwhile the FBI is informed by the priest about Roy and finds drawings, sketches and models of several attacks in his apartment, some of them not released to the press. Roy explains that he overhears voices and Dr. Bishop recalls an unfinished experiment of communication he had worked with his former friend and founder of the Massive Dynamics. Dr. Bishop and his son decide to proceed the experiment with Roy while Dunham learns that she is not informed of all necessary information. Further, they find that the man did not find what he was looking for in the backpack and has visited the agent in the hospital. What is he searching for?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- A man goes to confession at St. Anne's Cathedral. He asks the priest if he believes God and the devil can speak to him. The man says he tries to be good, but he sees things. Cut to a bus. A man in a business suit gets on with a briefcase he's closely guarding.
Confession man says, "It's happening again." Back on the bus a woman puts down her backpack. Confession man says he's scared of what's going to happen on the bus.
On the bus, briefcase man takes out a gas mask and puts it on. He rolls a gas canister down the aisle and takes the woman's backpack.
Confession man says he just wants it to stop.
Briefcase man gets off the bus with the backpack.
Confession man gets up and leaves. The priest follows him. He knows it's Roy. Roy drops a drawing of people screaming on the bus.
A police officer finds the bus. The passengers appear frozen in some sort of liquid.
Mount Briar Cemetery
At a graveside, a priest conducts a funeral for Agent John Scott (Mark Valley). Agents Charlie Francis (Kirk Acevedo) and Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) stand. Scott's mom appears to be giving Dunham the stink eye.
Storming away from the grave, Dunham tells Francis they shouldn't be burying a man who gave away government secrets like he was some sort of hero. Dunham wonders why Mom Scott was eyeballing her. Enter Broyles (Lance Reddick), requesting Dunham.
In a diner, the Bishops dine. Walter (John Noble) mixes his medication into his tea and Peter (Joshua Jackson) points out Walter's not on medication. But that's where he's wrong - Walter made himself some homemade anti-psychotics. Peter gets up and Walter answers his cell phone.
Peter accosts a guy at the counter. He's got a camera full of pictures of Peter. The guy tells Peter he was supposed to check in when he came out. Peter threatens him, saying if he tells anyone, he'll come after him. Walter takes his time, but eventually passes on the bus message.
At the bus, Broyles says the attack wasn't biological. Fringe-y. Walter says they look like mosquitoes trapped in amber.
The man from the bus and the man who picked him up go through the items from the backpack. They don't find what they're looking for. One man makes a call on what looks like a satellite phone.
Roy sits in a cubicle and sees scary things. He starts drawing. As he's finishing up the drops of blood a coworker comes over and asks him what it is. It's looks like a someone with stigmata, bloody palms.
Walter examines the gunk from the bus. He forgets Astrid's name again. Walter asks Peter who the man in the restaurant was. Peter lies.
In a warehouse, teams sort through the items from the bus. Dunham finds a video camera. They play the tape. Dunham notices the woman gripping her backpack. She notices the backpack isn't among the remaining items. She's Evelina Mendoza, she's undercover DEA.
Dunham brings in Mendoza's handler. He says she was ready to get out. She heard them discussing "the Pattern."
He IDs her body. He goes in to say good-bye, with his back to Olivia he seems to be caressing Mendoza's hand.
Walter plays piano in the lab. It helps him think. They've figured out what the gunk is. Guess what company makes the compounds: Massive Dynamic. Charlie Francis calls. They got a tip about Roy and go to his apartment. He doesn't seem to fit the profile of a mass murderer. But in his bedroom they find drawings of attacks that have happened in the last year. They're all dated before the incidents took place. There's a model recreation of the flight from Hamburg.
They interrogate Roy. No one thinks he's involved, but they want to know how he knew. Broyles says several of the incidents were never made public. Charlie asks him about the bus drawing.
Olivia talks with Nina Sharp (Blair Brown) about the compounds used to make the gunk. She wants a list of the labs they sell the chemicals to. Olivia notes how often she keeps running into Massive Dynamic in her investigations. Nina notes how often Olivia seems to be near the incidents. Then Nina mentions the gunk was used before in Prague and says if Olivia had clearance she might know they'd already turned over the list of labs.
Broyles watches Charlie talk to Roy. Roy knows he sounds crazy. He describes the feelings he gets and that the only way to get rid of them is to try to draw or build what he sees. This has been happening for nine months.
Broyles tells the Bishops that that's about when they became aware of "the pattern." Peter doesn't think Roy's lying. Walter suggests Ockham's razor, everything being equal the obvious is true. The man's psychic, but has no control over his ability. Broyles doesn't buy it, so Walter prepares to prove it.
Olivia intercepts Broyles. She wants to know why she's not in the know. Broyles gives her it's-for-her-protection bit. He says she'll know when she's ready.
The Bishops observe Roy going into an MRI. Walter thinks he might be able to intercept the thoughts. Something weird happens to Roy's face, his veins start bulging. He has metal in his blood which, Astrid (Jasika Nicole) clarifies, is not normal.
The Bishops look through Walter's files. Walter finds that he and William Bell worked on this same issue, theorizing there was a "ghost network," a spectrum for thought waves. Peter finds a file showing Roy was a test subject and was injected with whatever caused the problem. Peter isn't impressed his dad used the man as a guinea pig. Walter figures out Roy is just overhearing what other people are saying on the "ghost network."
Walter tries to catch the team up to speed on his research. He thinks they might be able to redirect the transmissions from Roy's brain. Minor brain surgery. Walter needs a specific piece of equipment. Luckily, he hid it in a wall in their old house.
No one's home at the house. Peter breaks in.
At the lab, Astrid straps Roy in for brain surgery.
At his old house, Peter removes an air vent and finds nothing. He has another idea. He pops open a hidden dumbwaiter and finds papers and stuff.
Walter preps Roy for surgery. He has to remain awake. Roy thinks Walter looks familiar.
Olivia and Peter return with the device. They strap it on Roy, it's like a head brace. Just as Walter is about to drill into Roy's brain some lost students knock on the door. They plug the machine into Roy's noggin. Walter tells Roy to tell him what he feels as he looks at some pictures. Peter holds up the pictures. No reaction to a horse, but then a car and Roy tastes dirt and gasoline. Nothing happens for the next picture but then Roy starts speaking Latin. Astrid translates. She happens to have majored in linguistics in college. There's an exchange being made at South Station in an hour. Then something that works out to "she had it on her the whole time." Dunham looks at the stigmata-like pictures and realizes it's Mendoza. She remembers her handler seeming to caress her hand. She goes to the morgue and takes out the woman's palm and finds that instead he sliced into it.
Olivia briefs Broyles and they converge on the station.
At the lab, Walter discovers with the proper tweaking, Roy could receive satellite TV. They're about to unhook him when Roy starts talking again. English this time. They checked to make sure the handler wasn't followed.
Olivia boards a train, looking for him. At the lab, they stare at Roy, waiting for him to talk. Roy gets a call, the handler's on the move. Back in the station, Olivia spots him. She pulls her gun but it's too late, the handler made the exchange and has been shot.
Olivia runs after the dude with the case. She and Charlie catch him. He's putting his hands in the air as they command when he suddenly takes a step backward - right into the path of an on-coming bus.
Back at the office, some lab folks open the case. There's a tiny clear object about the size of a quarter inside. They have no idea what it is.
They ID'd the shooter, who was involved in several other pattern events. Broyles shows her a file of Pattern cases.
Back at the lab, Roy's bandaged up and OK. Walter even gave him some homemade Vicodin. Peter's sitting at the piano and asks for requests. He plays "Someone to Watch Over Me."
Broyles meets with Nina Sharp and passes her the mystery object. They discuss Dunham. Nina says she wants nothing but the best for her. "Of course you do," Broyles says.
Back to the mystery white lab. Men on tables. Nina gives the object to a man, who examines it under a microscope. He says it's not damaged and might be what they need to break the encryption. He's also made progress on something else. A computer screen shows a download labeled "John Scott" and, lo, there he lies, hooked up to the machine.
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