- Olivia is in a car accident, an unusual person is looking for a member of the team, and Walter makes plans for celebrating Peter's birthday.
- Coming back from the alternate Universe is not a pleasant experience for Olivia, who ends up in the hospital. The FBI wish to close the Fringe Division but Broyles fights them. Peter and Walter are helped in their investigation into Olivia by a junior FBI agent. Olivia has trouble remembering the conversation she had with Belly in the alternate Universe. A shapeshifter takes the place of on of the major characters.—Andreea D
- In Manhattan, a man crashes with a black SUV and flees to an apartment building, where he kills a resident and takes his appearance. The Junior FBI Agent Amy Jessup is investigating the case when Peter and Dr. Bishop arrive. She questions Peter about the mystery since the SUV is locked without a driver, while Dr. Bishop searches inside the car. Out of the blue, Olivia is ejected through the windshield and carried to a hospital with severe brain damage. Meanwhile Broyles travels to Washington since the senate wants to shut down the Fringe Division. The snoopy Jessup hacks the FBI system to disclose information about the Fringe Division. Miraculously, Olivia awakes and later Peter and Jessup head to Dr. Bishop's laboratory in Harvard, where he is performing an autopsy on the man killed by the shapeshifter. In the hospital, the shapeshifter attacks Olivia's nurse and takes her appearance. However Jessup arrives and shoots the shapeshifter when he runs to the basement, but Francis kills him. But is the man really dead?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- We open on a man in a car accident. He's in Manhattan. He runs. He pushes every button at an apartment. He's buzzed in. He's bloody. He accosts a tenant. He cleans himself up in a mirror. Then he starts rearranging his face with his hands. It's a crumpled shell when he puts a device in his mouth and the other end in the mouth of the man he accosted and pushes a button. His faces fleshes out again, like inflating a really ugly tire. But when he's done, he looks like the man he accosted.
On the scene of his car accident, the FBI tries to figure out what happened. They have a report Olivia (Anna Torv) was driving.
Meanwhile, back in Boston, Peter (Joshua Jackson) and his dad grocery shop. Walter (John Noble) insists on making custard for Peter's upcoming birthday, which he says Peter loved as a child. Peter thinks he never liked it. Peter gets a distressing phone call.
Walter and Peter arrive on the scene of the car accident where an Agent Jessup (Meghan Markle) meets them. Peter asks where Charlie (Kirk Acevedo) is. Jessup doesn't know. Walter messes with the crashed SUV. No one saw it crash. Jessup wants to know what Peter and Olivia do. Walter messes with the SUV and is bothered. He sets the alarm off. It revs then is quiet. And then, Olivia's body comes shooting through the windshield onto the street in front of them.
Paramedics wheel Olivia into surgery. She's nonresponsive, with possible brain hemorrhage.
Outside New York General Hospital, Broyles intercepts (Lance Reddick) Jessup and says they need to talk. She'll be reporting a random traffic accident. Case closed. Jessup argues, but Broyles explains that's the way it is.
Inside, a doctor tell Peter they are unable to restore brain function in Olivia. Walter thinks the situation is relative. He refuses to believe she's dead. He busts into the surgery suite to examine her. Olivia is alive, but on machines. Walter apologizes to her.
Later, Peter consoles himself with a drink. Then another. Broyles joins him. Walter's off on a lot of meds. Broyles has been called to DC. He's been informed that failure to deliver any usable results is unacceptable. They're shutting down the Fringe Division. Peter wonders what they were doing in the first place. He thinks they were too late for everything. Broyles says that's not entirely true. They toast Olivia.
New York Federal Building Jessup tries to access the Fringe file. She uses someone's classified ID. She looks at the files.
Back the the hospital, Peter finds Olivia's sister grieving. Olivia is still hooked up to machines, but Rachel (Ari Graynor) is prepared to execute her living will.
Peter sits at Olivia's bedside. He says good bye. Then she sits bolt upright in bed and starts speaking a foreign language.
Her brain functions are back, she knows who she is. She asks for Peter and tells him she went somewhere. She says she was trying to get somewhere and someone was trying to stop her, but she went anyway. She says there's something very important she has to do and she thinks their lives may depend on it. She tells Peter she needs her gun, someone did this to her.
Federal Building, Boston Peter asks for Broyles. He's in DC. Then he asks for Charlie Francis. The woman at the desk asks for his ID. Then she shreds it.
Security comes to take him out, then Agent Jessup. In her car, she explains the skid marks in Olivia's accident are off. The driver was speeding up. The driver was George Reed, from Lexington. She wants to know about the Fringe Division.
She busts down Reed's door. They find him dead inside.
Peter calls for Walter. He diagnoses a virus. He wants the body in his lab. Jessup agrees. She nervously asks Peter if Walter's crazy. "Oh, yea," Peter says.
Jessup enjoys the Bishop show.
The man whose face was reinflated (Luke Goss) visits an electronics shop. He makes the special request for a typewriter and is given a key for the back.
On the special typewriter, he types a report about a target being terminated. He requests extraction. A mirror sits next to the typewriter and we see keys depressed by an invisible hand. On the paper in front of him, we see his mission was a failure, "meeting occurred" and "target still alive." He requests new orders. Interrogate target.
The mirror replies: "Then kill her."
Peter walks into the lab with Jessup, trying to brief her, saying only Walter used to work there and on some government projects.
Charlie meets with Olivia in the hospital. She says she's fine. But Charlie tells a haunting story about answering a domestic disturbance call with his partner who was killed by the woman, who also shot Charlie. "You can fool the doctors, kiddo," he tells her, "you can't fool me."
She says she doesn't know what happened to her, she can't even load her gun.
Walter performs an autopsy on Reed as he directs Astrid (Jasika Nicole) on how to make custard. Walter's delighted by the fact that he loves custard, but hates flan.
He shows Peter inside Reed's mouth. They find three markings, like stab wounds.
Peter tells Jessup about Walter's habit of checking to make sure Peter's still breathing.
He shows them a tape of an experiment, in which a woman saw a man with a machine with three nails in the mouth. She says he's from another universe. She describes seeing a man do what we saw the man do in the opening scenes, changing to look like someone else. "They can look like any of us," she says.
Peter alerts the database to be on the lookout.
In the hospital, Olivia tries futilely to load her gun.
Broyles sits in front of a government hearing committee, who calls the Fringe Division "indulgences" in the budget. Broyles gets testy with the panel, telling them sometimes the threat is "unimaginable" and they're there. They want something usable.
Outside the hearing, Broyles meets with Nina (Blair Brown). She doesn't want Fringe shut down. She kisses him gently (!!) and tells him to do what he always used to do, "save the day."
Peter and Jessup follow up on a body found with three holes in its mouth. He was found two blocks from the accident site. They think whatever it is is still trying to accomplish its goal.
Peter heads for Olivia.
Outside the hospital, the shape shifter waits. He startles a nurse.
Cut to that nurse, checking in on Olivia. She asks how Olivia's memory is. Olivia only remembers fragments. The nurse tells her to keep trying. Olivia knows she was on her way to meet someone. "It's as if I went somewhere and talked to someone, then came back to the accident," Olivia says. But she doesn't remember who.
She remembers something is hidden. The nurse asks, a little too insistently, where it is. She accepts that's all Olivia knows. Then she jumps on her and starts to strangle her.
Olivia fights back as outside, Charlie, Peter and Jessup run up the stairs. They reach the room. Jessup shoots the nurse twice in the back. The nurse jumps out a third story window and lands like Spider-Man, running into the basement below.
They chase after her. Charlie walks down the corridor, gun drawn. He passes under the nurse/shapeshifter, who is hanging from the ceiling. She drops down behind him. He fires. Peter and Jessup run toward him. They find him standing over the nurse's body. Peter picks up the shapeshifting device beside her.
Later, cut to Peter bringing Olivia a whole mess of flowers. He explains Walter thinks the nurse was a "shape changing soldier from another universe" and he thinks that's where Olivia went. Peter pauses. "Do you think it's a bad thing I can say that out loud and neither one of us thinks I'm crazy?" he asks.
Olivia tells Peter about whatever was hidden. Peter says no matter what, Walter will figure it out. Peter wants to ask her about the Greek she spoke when she woke up. He repeats it to her. It's what his mother used to say to him every night before he went to bed. It means "be a better man than your father." He says it was like a code between them, to keep the people he cares about close. It's good to see you again, Olivia Dunham, he tells her.
As he leaves, she asks if it's true they're shutting them down. No, he says.
Peter meets with Broyles. He gives him the broken shape shifting device as proof and says they're calling the shots now.
At home, Jessup types notes into a computer, examining the Bible.
Peter visits the lab and finds Astrid and Walter (and the cow) with birthday custard.
In the hospital, Olivia loads her gun.
In a basement, Charlie pushes a load of laundry toward an incinerator. Then he lifts the laundry off the top of the bin and we see who's inside. It's Charlie. Shapeshifter Charlie tosses Charlie's body in the furnace.
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