- In 2036 the Observers have begun terraforming the earth. Walter has a plan to defeat them but his capture by the Observers may be problematic. Peter searches for Olivia who is encased in amber to reunite his family
- Walter discloses to Peter, Astrid and Etta that September had created a plan to defeat The Observers in the future, but he partitioned Walter's memory to protect the information from The Observers. They look for Olivia and find the possible location covered with amber but cut for the removal of the trapped people. Etta explains that there is a black-market where amber gypsies use to sell people encased in amber. They find that the buyer of Olivia is the librarian Edward Markham that has a crush on her. They head to his apartment to rescue Olivia, but the black market dealer warns The Observers about the group. They head to the building but Peter, Astrid and Etta flee with the encased Olivia in a van. But Walter is captured and taken to Captain Windmark for interrogation. What will happen to Walter?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- A hazy dream of Peter and Olivia in a park watching their daughter Henrietta play with dandelions. There's a loud noise. Something is wrong. A building disappears from the skyline and Observers walk out of thin air toward them. Henrietta is between her parents and the Observers. There's a white light.
Later, in a triage center, Peter frantically looks around for his daughter. Olivia is being tended to. Peter wakes up in his house.
Walter is asleep on the couch, Peter checks on Henrietta in the bedroom. She calls him dad. She holds onto a bullet fragment she wears on a necklace. Walter looks out the window at the world as it is now, light reflects off something and dances on the wall.
Astrid gives Peter some "egg sticks" she found in the fridge and welcomes him to 2036. She argues with electronic scrabble that naugahyde is in fact a word, a very quality premium pleather.
Walter is ready to look for Olivia. The last time she spoke to her she called him from Columbus Circle in 2015. Then she disappeared. He sent her to find something that was part of the plan to defeat the Observers.
He and September worked on the plan and after they completed each component the information was scrambled in Walter's mind, a precaution against being read.
He had to retrieve something from Grand Central station for the plan to be clear, that's what Olivia was getting when she disappeared. Two days later, Walter ambered them.
Peter promises Henrietta that if Olivia's still alive, they'll find her.
They head out in a van to the dirty, dystopian future. Columbus Circle is a graffiti, junk filled mess, surrounded by barbed wire. Central Park is gone. They paved it to build a machine that pumps carbon monoxide into the air, there's one on every continent. The environment is too oxygen-rich for Observers, in a few more years the effects will be irreversible and the average non-Observer lifespan will be reduced to around 45 years.
Walter remembers Olivia was running when she called him. Astrid points out the amber down the block, they had discussed using it to hide in as a last resort. They check out the amber and find four people-sized holes removed. Amber gypsies.
Henrietta takes them to a black market and points Peter toward the gypsies. They might recognize her from Fringe. She gives Peter and Astrid cash, and walnuts, to close the deal. The amber dealer points them toward the "freshest cuts" but doesn't like something about them and presses a red button.
Walter talks to Henrietta. For him it was just two months ago that he took her to a carousel as a little girl.
Peter and Astrid check out the ambered bodies, looking for Olivia. They go back to the guy at counter and Peter shows his walnuts, describing Olivia. She was sold.
Cut to Edward Markham the rare book dealer at home, watching "Maverick" on TV. He's using Olivia in amber as a table. His doorbell rings. Someone asks for Markham, he grabs a gun and Peter, Henrietta, Walter and Henrietta bust down the door. Peter easily grabs the gun. He sees Olivia. Markham loves her and says he wasn't going to hurt her. She's supposed to fall in love with him when she wakes up.
Back at the black market, the amber gypsy calls in "level 4" intel. He holds a card that says "Future in Order" and demands vouchers for his "loyalty."
Back at Markham's, Walter is transfixed by the old stuff. An Observer appears in the doorway. "Resistance is futile," he says, aiming a gun at Walter. Henrietta shoots the Observer. "I feel like I've heard that before," she says. The Observer knocks her door, but she shoots again. Outside, soldiers appear. Walter's still inside but Astrid, Henrietta and Peter have to leave him to get away.
Safely away, Peter gets Olivia out of the amber. She ambered herself. Peter introduces her to Etta. The last time Olivia saw her she was three years old.
After their reunion, Olivia turns over the item she got for Walter at Grand Central Station.
Captain Windmark, the head Observer, comes to talk to Walter, who is handcuffed to a chair.
"I'm very interested in you, I don't know why you're alive," Windmark tells him. Walter thinks of music, which the Observer doesn't understand. "You seem much more interesting as a human being, than as a vegetable but, quite frankly, all things being equal, I don't mind which way you end up. The choice is yours," Windmark tells him.
Bronx, New York Etta passes a retinal scan and tells everyone to wait as she goes inside. There's a computer filled control room, with one of her fellow resisters dead inside, the other two mourning. She needs their help.
Waiting outside with Peter, Olivia realizes they didn't save the world. Etta is still trying.
Peter knows what she thought of him when he wouldn't leave Boston and go to New York with her after Etta disappeared. "Peter, we lost our child and in our grief we were just incapable or unable of being what we needed to be for each other, that's all it was," she tells him.
Olivia went to save the world, but he couldn't stop looking for Etta.
Etta introduces her parents to Anil, a resistance fighter. He identifies the equipment Olivia has a "Transilience Thought Unifer Model 11." It retrieves specifically marked thoughts in your mind and unifies them, it was how Walter would know his plan with September. But it won't turn on.
Someone announces they've found Walter. They follow him on traffic camera footage. They worry what Walter might have already disclosed to the Observers.
Cut to Walter trying to keep the Observer from hearing his thoughts. Windmark realizes Walter is "partitioned" with information out of sequence. He begins probing into Walter's mind, and Walter twitches violently. Blood vessels burst in his eye.
Windmark thinks one of them helped Walter partition his thoughts. He demands Walter put them together. Walter tries to resist. His noise begins bleeding as he fights. Windmark could unify them with a Unifer but he would have to break Walter's biologically specific key. Windmark sees young Etta and wonders how a small child could be helping Walter. Walter passes out.
Etta tracks Walter to a building that no one has ever successfully broken into. Anil mentions tech they've been developing that would make them appear dead so they can get in, like a Trojan Horse.
Etta drives up to Fringe HQ with bodies in the back of her van -- the resistance fighters and Peter. Astrid hides in the van. A Fringe agent who's a little sweet on Etta scans them, showing they're dead. He tells her he was raised to level 6, then conspiratorially tells her that her boss Agent Foster was a double agent and was found in amber with someone named William Bell. He doesn't know what happened to him.
Back in the torture/interrogation room, Windmark won't let up on Walter, asking about his plan to defeat to them.
The bodies are brought into a room, Etta shoots the guard and wakes up Peter and the fighter. Peter and Etta sneak through the halls and let Olivia in a side entrance. They go to the control room that's pumping carbon monoxide for the Observers to breathe. Peter cuts the wires to the machine.
Back with Walter, Windmark says they're done there and Walter's brain will make an excellent specimen. When the carbon monoxide machine cuts out, Windmark leaves and Peter and Etta bust in. Walter is wiped out and can barely stand. They help him out, shooting their way out of the building. They get back in the van and speed away.
Walter wakes up enough to ask "Afro" if she has any music.
Windmark watches the security footage and recognizes Etta. "Hello little girl," he says.
Back to safety, Walter is happy to see Olivia. Peter shows Walter the Thought Unifer. It turns on as soon as Walter touches it, but he doesn't know what it's for or what the plan was. Astrid shows him William Bell's severed hand in amber, which Walter said they needed to access one of his storage facilities. Walter doesn't remember any of it. "I've failed myself, I've failed the world! What is wrong with me?" he starts shouting.
They realize it's like the parts of the plan were taken. Etta says it's more like they were destroyed when Walter was fighting it. He won't heal. "The plan is gone," she says.
Walter sleeps fitfully in the other room. He wakes up and sees flashing sunlight on the wall. He goes outside , in his bathrobe and boxers, to find the source of the reflecting light. Someone has hung CDs up on twine and the sun is bouncing off them. Walter picks up a bag nearby, it has a CD in it labeled "Trip Mix." He puts it in an abandoned taxi and listens to a synthed out "Only You" by Yaz. He notices a dandelion growing tall through the cracks of the dirty, broken concrete.
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