- Our Astrid gets an unexpected visit from her Alternate, while Peter and Olivia track a killer using a toxin that has yet to be invented. Both universes collide in a case that pushes the boundaries of what is possible.
- In the parallel universe, the alternate Astrid crosses the portal and visits Astrid since she has difficulties in social interaction and communication, and Olivia comes after her. Meanwhile a man kills people with a strange device but the Fringe Division has no clue to follow. When one victim survives, he explains that the man said that wanted to put him out of misery since he would become paraplegic. Soon alternate Astrid helps the fringe Division to identify the man.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- A man gets a skin cancer diagnosis, but it has a 95% cure rate. The doctor is very optimistic, but the man is deeply upset. He sits at a bus stop and a man sits down and tells him the radiation won't work and he'll experience pain, then renal failure, then he'll be incontinent, then go into respiratory failure. The stranger tells him he's the other 5 %. A bus passes and the stranger is gone and the cancer man is lying dead on the bench.
Someone goes through the security procedures to cross to the other side. It's Other Astrid.
Back on the Other Side, Broyles tells Fauxlivia and Linclone what Astrid has done. Broyles wants to get her back, but Fauxlivia has a hunch where she's headed "after the day she's had." Fauxlivia volunteers to go get her.
Harvard Peter and Walter try to work on the machine, but Walter is put out that Peter won't let him take snack breaks. Other Astrid comes in. "You're not you, are you?" Walter asks.
Olivia and Astrid come in. Other Astrid explains she came here to meet Astrid. She says she didn't know where else to go. She describes going to a funeral. Astrid guesses that her father died.
Olivia gets a call that her double is on the way and they have a case. Walter volunteers to stay with Astrid -- and he even gets her name right.
At the scene, Broyles explains Chet Williams was diagnosed with stage 1 melanoma. There appear to be tears of blood on his face.
Watching on his Astrid-cam, Walter can't guess what might have caused it. Other Astrid watches and thinks the way Walter talks through Astrid must be nice.
At the scene, they take the body away and an Observer steps out of thin air. He radios someone, "I think we have located it." Then he disappears again.
At the lab, Walter performs an autopsy. He sees something weird under the microscope, an interaction of a chemical compound that shouldn't be possible. Fauxlivia joins them. "Mata Hari, deceived and betrayed anyone yet today?" Walter asks.
Other Astrid says it's not possible to predict the chemicals would be combined, so it must have been done by someone who saw it done before, which isn't possible. She attributes it to "deus ex machina". Walter loves the idea.
A young professional woman buys a fifth of gin then walks outside and throws it away. The stranger predictor from before tells her she's not going to win her battle and her boyfriend will be killed in an accident with her behind the wheel and her brother will ruin his own life trying to save her. He takes out a remote control-sized device and zaps her in the eyes with it, Men in Black-style.
Walter gives Fauxlivia a bag of her stuff back. She points out how hung up he is on her and tries to get him to admit he liked her.
At the scene, the ME says it's one of the weirdest deaths she's seen. She's also bleeding from her eyes. Via Astrid-cam Walter suggests they swab for DNA, but Peter beats him to the punch. Peter suggests they take the body to the lab before Walter can. "Does he always do all the jobs?" Other Astrid asks.
Back at the lab, Walter is irked to find Peter already started on the autopsy. Astrid observes and wonders if Walter is angry with Peter because he feels love for him. Walter says Peter is just a reminder of the son he lost. Astrid suggests that he choose to love Peter as if he was his son and be happy.
The Olivias try to find a connection between the victims, but see none.
At the airport, the Stranger predictor works as a TSA agent, scanning people's tickets and ID. A man talks on his phone as he goes through security. He writes down the name Jared Collins.
In a parking garage, Jared talks on his phone, explaining his missed his flight. Both the killer and an Observer watch him in.
The killer approaches him and tells him making his next call will ruin his life when he drives distracted and is paralyzed in an accident. He'll die of neglect in a group home. The killer says he's going to spare him from all that. But before he can zap him, Jared takes off running. Unfortunately, he runs right into a passing car.
Olivia and Peter visit Jared in the hospital. He's paralyzed. Jared tells them he wasn't even supposed to be in town, he was flying to Dallas to sell his company and get free of his scumbag partner. But he had a water bottle in his carry on and when TSA was done with him, he missed his flight.
He tells them what the man predicted. Olivia shows him the other victim's pictures. He tells them the man acted like he was doing a good deed. He wishes he'd succeeded.
Astrid offers Other Astrid some coffee, which is very rare Over There.
Walter is interested in the idea they might have a compassionate killer. Other Astrid finds that all three victims traveled through Logan airport in recent weeks and were screened by the same TSA person.
At Logan, the TSA Killer scans boarding passes. His death wand sits nearby. Olivia and Peter approach but he sees them and runs off. The other TSA won't let them through to follow.
Olivia and Peter go to MIT, where the suspect used to be a professor in Advanced Mathematics. A fellow professor says Neil thought math was the secret to unlocking the key to the secrets of the universe. One summer he came back from his lake house obsessed with high level differential equations.
He had a theory that if he could solve the equations then you could see all elements of time.
The house was on Reiden Lake -- the lake where Peter first appeared in this timeline.
Peter explains that what Neil is trying to do, see past, present and future all at once, is what the Observers do. And in his timeline, an Observer saved his life at Reiden Lake.
At the lab, Other Astrid asks her counterpart if she loves Walter like a father. She worries that her own father didn't love her because of the way that she is.
Olivia and Peter reach Neil's house at Reiden Lake. There are papers with equations posted on the wall. There's an article about Neil's twin brother and father being killed in an accident. There are also images of Gandhi and Joan of Arc, all saviors. There's a picture of Neil with his mother.
Neil puts his magic wand in a wall safe and takes out a gun. His mother asks what he means when he says he's here to say good bye. He says he's going "where I belong."
He tells her she heard him the night his brother died. She said God took the wrong one. He tells her God gave him a way to see the future, and proves it by saying everything as his mother does. "God gave me a way to see the future so I could give people mercy," he says.
His mom apologizes, but Neil says it only made him work harder. Neil says Jesus knew the Romans were coming for him. He looks out the window and sees Olivia and Peter pull up. Olivia busts in.
Neil talks to his mother, saying angels don't belong on earth. He tells his mother he'll see her in heaven, then stands with his gun and fires near Olivia. She shoots and kills him.
Later, Olivia sees that Neil wasn't aiming for her. She thinks he knew they were coming and wanted them to kill him, so he could go to heaven. Olivia tells Peter he makes a good partner.
In the lab, Other Astrid says good bye to Walter. He hugs her. Fauxlivia shows Walter a small metal box from her stuff that he couldn't figure out. She opens it and shows him it just has mints in it. He gives her some licorice for the road, warming to her.
Astrid says good bye to her double. She tells her she's not close with her father either and he doesn't really show emotion. She tells her not to regret being more to her father, it wasn't her fault.
Astrid goes home, where her warm and loving father is cooking her dinner. He gives her a hug and tells her he loves her.
Neil's mother dozes in her chair and Observers come into her home and take Neil's magic wand from the safe.
The senior one looks at it and says it belongs to September. "He must have lost it in 1985, the night he didn't save the boy. He'll be interested to know what happened to it," the other one says. Then he says September didn't follow the senior Observer's instructions. "Peter Bishop. The boy is back," he says.
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